Root Cause Of Berkeley Climate Giddiness Discovered

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide, which is a major greenhouse gas contributing to global climate change.

Climate scientists have assumed that the cause of the increased nitrous oxide was nitrogen-based fertilizer, which stimulates microbes in the soil to convert nitrogen to nitrous oxide at a faster rate than normal.

Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere

Radiative transfer models show that minute to minute variations in humidity completely overwhelm the total effect of nitrous oxide.