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The Balance That Keeps Climate Stable Is Out of Whack, U.N. Report Finds

By Eric Niiler , The New York Times.  Excerpt: The Earth is out of balance. That’s the message from a United Nations report released late Sunday that looked at how much energy from the sun is absorbed by the Earth or reflected back into space. Researchers found the gap between the two is the biggest since measurements began in 1960, meaning more of the sun’s heat energy is now staying on Earth. And that energy imbalance is heating up the oceans, atmosphere, and frozen regions of the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s  State of the Global Climate report . ...said Dr. Deoras, who was not associated with the report... “...all these greenhouse gases, they are just trapping more and more heat. The planet is just not getting a chance to cool down.”...  Full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/climate/energy-imbalance-un-report.html .  See also Inside Climate News article Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit Ne...

Researchers Develop Mexico’s First Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Budget

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/researchers-develop-mexicos-first-comprehensive-greenhouse-gas-budget By Rachel Fritts , Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions are the second highest among Latin American countries, trailing only Brazil  according to the World Bank . But until now, no one had leveraged the full spectrum of available scientific data to make an estimate of sources (such as fossil fuel burning and agriculture) and sinks (such as healthy forests and soils) of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Calculating the country’s  greenhouse gas budget  could help policymakers develop effective emissions reduction strategies. Murray-Tortarolo et al.  calculate Mexico’s first comprehensive greenhouse gas budget based on estimates from multiple data sources of greenhouse gas fluxes in the country between 2000 and 2019. ...different sources of data broadly told the same story about anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions from sources incl...

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change and the greenhouse effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI Youtube.