Sentences with phrase «about runaway global warming»

I do agree that Earth is not Venus — some scientists have already told me how much they hate the label «Venus effect,» but I find it informative, simply because it gives some idea about the runaway global warming that did happen 5 times on Earth (which later, obviously, stabilized back to livable conditions).

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On a related note, is a «runaway greenhouse» effect impossible, given the current data and understanding about global warming?

(1) What proof do government bureaucrat «scientists» provide that they are right about predictions of runaway global warming?

In light of the recent IPCC report released this past week and stating essentially that global warming is a runaway train that can't be stopped for centuries, it may be tempting to give up hope for a brighter future... But like any patient who suffers from a chronic disease that is potentially fatal, not only is education about the condition itself essential, but also what we can do to help mitigate its impact.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

You probably guessed that if the goal is to instill incentives that will bring about big emission reductions fast enough to avoid runaway global warming, the answer is B, the marathon.

Such rapid warming is problem [mostly] because it tells something about global warming we don't already know - it's unexplained [or indicates that some kind runaway effect could be possible].

CC can provide a perfectly adequate backdrop for a story — there's some decent SF that happens to be set in a world stricken by runaway global warming — but if it's all about the message, then the tendency is towards something that's awkward, preachy, shrill, long - winded, unfunny (or unintentionally funny) or just plain dull.

For more than two decades, meteorologists and oceanographers have repeatedly warned that runaway global warming, as a consequence of ever - greater combustion of fossil fuels, could bring about an ice - free polar ocean by about 2050.

Positive feedback means runaway warming «One of the oft - cited predictions of potential warming is that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from pre-industrial levels — from 280 to 560 parts per million — would alone cause average global temperature to increase by about 1.2 °C.

This runaway effect that manmade climate change believers talk about comes from the hypothesis that climate change feedback mechanisms are positive and the small warming we have experienced will lead to drastic increases in global temperature.

Really, all this impotent oinking about status here has nothing to do with the fact that the AGW contingent has no empirical, testable evidence showing that CO2 will lead to runaway global warming.