The issue focused on climate change has drawn global attention and intensified public political debate over scientific and scientific findings. With the recent Paris Agreement on climate change, global governments have pledged to keep the increase in greenhouse gases in check. Scientists have accepted that such actions will have a modest but significant impact on global climate change over the coming decades.


The Earth Sciences research group, which has 11 faculty members and 75 students, was established at the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1976. Study topics include carbon cycle in