TY - JOUR
TI - Global warming and other climate change phenomena on the geological time scale
AU - Mesarović Miodrag
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2019
VL - 23
IS - 15
SP - 1435
EP - 1455
PT - Article
AB - Global warming and other climate change phenomena became a worldwide  exploited subject over recent decades. World science has made enormous  progress in understanding past climate change and its causes, and continues  to study current and potential impacts that will affect people in the  future. All scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing due to  natural phenomena, and most of them argue that human activities are  increasing the greenhouse effect, while some scientists attribute climate  changes exclusively to the natural causes. Though there still is, and always  will be, need for multiple lines of research on an extremely complex system  like Earth's climate is, an immediate consensus is crucial for  decision-makers to place climate change in the context of other large  challenges facing the world today. This paper discusses the existing body of  evidence on climate changes in the past, and uncertainties that prevent  scientists to reach full consensus on how climate might change in the  future. It extends the time scale of climate changes over the entire history  of Earth to help better understanding of hypothetical changes and their  consequences that could be expected both in the near and in a very distant  future.