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Fires, floods and drought: Scenes of extreme weather from space
If you’re looking to gain a holistic perspective on a problem, it can help to step back for a wider view. Satellite imagery — showing scenes of extreme weather from space — reveals a superheated planet that’s ablaze, desiccated and swamped in different areas all at the same time.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
State of Play
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.