지구 평균 기온은 계속 상승하고 있습니다. 하지만 최근 10년 간은 더 빠른 속도로 상승하고 있고 지난 몇 년 간은 정말 뜨거워져 본래 목표인 섭씨 1.5도 선에 거의 도달한 모습입니다. 오늘은 이에 대한 연구를 소개할까 합니다. 최근 온난화 가속에 대기오염 규제에 따른 예상치 못한 나비효과가 숨어 있을 수 있다는 점이 흥미롭습니다. 물론 어떤 연구이든 간에 후속 연구를 통해 뒤집힐 가능성이 있다는 점은 염두에 두고 봐주셨으면 합니다. 참고 문헌: Foster, G., & Rahmstorf, S. (2026). Global warming has accelerated significantly. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL118804. doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118804 Quaas, J., et al: Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 12221–12239, doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12221-2022, 2022.
( These images, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), show a planetary system being born around the young star WISPIT 2. The star is surrounded by a disc of gas and dust –– the raw material out of which planets form and grow. In 2025 a team of astronomers detected a young planet, called WISPIT 2b, carving out a gap in the disc around the star. Now the same team has confirmed the presence of a second planet, WISPIT 2c, orbiting even closer to the star, as shown in the inset. Both planets are gas giants, similar to Jupiter. WISPIT 2b is almost five times as massive as Jupiter, and orbits the star at a distance 60 times larger than the separation between Earth and the Sun. WISPIT 2c is twice as massive as 2b and orbits the star four times closer. The images shown here were taken with the SPHERE instrument at the VLT. SPHERE can correct the blur caused by atmospheric turbulence, as well as block the light of the central star, revealing the faint disc and planets around it in g...