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«A lively sense of urgency,» is what the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) called for in a 1977 report that contained a comprehensive survey of what was understood about global warming at that time.

I was recently asked to comment on Stefan Rahmsorf's post What ocean heating reveals about global warming at RealClimate.

Beyond the Times ad, Trump has supported climate causes and expressed concern about global warming at least twice before.

Indeed, from the first warnings about global warming at least 30 years ago, we have gone from year to year, decade to decade, with no coherent national or global plan of action.

Only Saudi Arabians were less concerned about global warming at 5.7 percent.

Well, when I contacted the distinguished OSU climatologist Ellen Mosley - Thompson (who with her husband Lonnie Thompson heads the prestigious Byrd Polar Research Center on main campus) and made her aware of what was being taught about global warming at Lima, her response was one of shock that such «errant nonsense» was being taught in an OSU classroom.

When asked about global warming at a primary debate in April, he said there was a lot of «fluff and theory that has been perpetrated as science to create the perception that somehow this global warming has been entirely man - made.»

However, this is just talking about global warming at present.

Not exact matches

The world has to take a look at itself and consider what it is going to do about the increasing effect of global warming.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

They can say «Hey look, one of you smart people decided to come back to our ideology of «ignorance is bliss» where we don't need to worry about global warming, or sharing what we have with the poor or any science and wellfare stuff at all because God will just take care of it...»

Sometimes kids worry about big stuff — like terrorism, war, or global warming — that they hear about at school or on the news.

The more I read about the connection between our industrial food system and global warming (See especially Anna Lappe's new book, Diet for a Hot Planet), the more I become convinced of the tremendous importance of changing the way we feed our children at school.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a speech Wednesday in New York City at the Flatiron Institute in New York City said he was worried about the complex world being left to the next generation, pointing to issues ranging from North Korea, to terrorism and eluding to global warming.

That said, in general - in the United States, at least - the issue isn't so much about denying global warming as much as it is about protecting and favoring the major fossil fuel industries:

Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the rally, according to organizers, at which many spoke about individual steps that could be taken to help thwart the cyclical event once known as global warming, now re-dubbed climate change.

Moderator's Remarks from Al Appleton, former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and Senior Fellow at the Cooper Union: When we talk about addressing global warming, we're talking about disentangling 21st century society from fossil fuel.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

Normally she spends her Julys at a beaver pond site that's millions of years old and 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle, looking for clues about past global warming.

«Now, the question has shifted from whether global warming is happening to what to do about it,» said Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at Harvard University, in an email.

If the scientists at CLOUD are able to prove that cosmic rays can change Earth's cloud cover, would that force climate scientists to reevaluate their ideas about global warming?

This approach also relieves pressure on politicians who want to do something about global warming but don't want to impose burdens on the public, a key consideration at a time when high fuel prices and the economy are explosive issues.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

«When we think about global warming, what we should really thinking about, to be honest, is ocean warming,» said Paul Durack, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on the scheme.

Researchers used data from the two countries because they «are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and responsible for about one - third of global warming to date,» said Longjian Liu, M.D., Ph.D., lead study author and an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The atmosphere in the polar regions has warmed at about twice the average rate of global warming with Arctic coasts experiencing a rise in the occurrence of storm surges.

At the very least, American voters deserve to know who is behind these efforts [to deny scientific findings about global warming].

«I've always thought that the phrase «global warming» was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it's all about temperature, and that it's gradual,» Holdren said yesterday at the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. (AAAS publishes ScienceInsider.)

He makes the point, for example, that when you are looking [talking] about global warming, when you're looking at the climate [and] the atmosphere, you are talking about in effect a good that belongs to all of us.

Professor Drijfhout said: «The planet earth recovers from the AMOC collapse in about 40 years when global warming continues at present - day rates, but near the eastern boundary of the North Atlantic (including the British Isles) it takes more than a century before temperature is back to normal.»

In the current analysis, Bohr wanted to find out if people's particular political orientations and beliefs about global warming changed at all during periods of so - called temperature anomalies, when temperatures above or beyond the normal are experienced.

Peter Singer was talking about the fact that we can often look at issues of global poverty or global warming, we can look at those as technological issues or such policy issues.

Global sea levels are rising at about 3 millimeters a year owing to warming waters and melting ice.

But the true battle consuming leaders from 198 governments at a U.N. global warming conference that concluded yesterday after two weeks of negotiations and 32 hours of overtime debating was really about just one thing: balancing responsibilities between poor, rich and richer nations.

Continued global warming would produce at least moderate public concern, thus limiting added forcing to about 1.5 W / m2 and realized warming to about 1 °C.

Above the surface, global observations since the late 1950s show that the troposphere (up to about 10 km) has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while the stratosphere (about 10 — 30 km) has cooled markedly since 1979.

In fact, we are, in about a billion years, at least according to Caldeira and Kasting («The life span of the biosphere revisited, Nature, 360, 721, 1992), because the increased solar luminosity and ensuing global warming will cause the silicates to start reacting with the atmospheric CO2.

Not only has Dr. Soon lied to us and our lawmakers about the seriousness of global warming — he even lied directly to Congress in 2003 about his sources of funding at a time when he was promoting his study funded by the American Petroleum Institute, the $ 200 million / year oil and gas lobbying group.

As mentioned in the introduction, the satellites which measure incoming and outgoing radiation at the top of Earth's atmosphere (TOA) can not measure the small planetary energy imbalance brought about by global warming.

Re: 98 Satellite data: Some weeks ago I had a discussion with my American «Deny - aleban» nephew about global warming, and I came across some points of interest, which I think somebody should take a closer look into: I wrote this to him: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9m66ktqf28mghs/Pil1.pdf?dl=0 and the point of interest starts at page 6, where I write about the 98 - thing.

At the time, global average temperatures were some 2.5 °F warmer than they were in industrial times, or about 1.5 ° warmer than they are today.

Visit the Science Museum at the National Academy of Sciences to learn more about global warming.

However, the big unknown remaining is whether corals can adapt to global warming, which is now occurring at an unprecedented rate — at about two orders of magnitude faster than occurred with the ending of the last Ice Age.

Cuccinelli cites the Kremlin organ RIA Novosti to «prove» that western climate scientists are LYING about global warming, but during the 2010 forest fires, Andrei Areshev, a lunatic attached to a Russian Foreign Ministry drunk tank, even claimed right in this same RIA Novosti that those sneaky U.S. climate scientists were CAUSING global warming by beaming secret climate weapons at Russia!

It is now clear that, for thirty years, we have been in a strong global warming trend at a rate of about 0.2 Celsius per decade for the past 30 years, [meaning] there has been 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) global warming in the past 30 years.

In episode 113, the first season finale, Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a close look at Greenpeace's activities.

Al Gore declared that this movie was at least an honest fiction about global warming — unlike the fictions about the subject emanating from the White House.

We know that our young people experience anxiety not only about doing well at school but also about an uncertain future in regard to employment and big world problems such as global warming.