In addition, he discussed the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and the consequent
anthropogenic warming of the climate system, decrease in sea ice and increase in ocean acidity.
IPCC's conclusion that
Anthropogenic warming of the climate system can be detected in temperature observations taken at the surface, in the troposphere and in the oceans (AR4, Ch.
Not exact matches
«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 %
of heat and
anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global
warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub
of the ARC Centre
of Excellence for
Climate System Science.
This is an attitude that some sincere
climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth
system in the way that the theory
of anthropogenic global
warming describes.
This is an attitude that some sincere
climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth
system in the way that the theory
of anthropogenic global
warming describes.
Quoting directly
Climate change as a result
of human activities, or
anthropogenic global
warming, is now generally accepted as reality and includes a wide range
of climatic processes and impacts in the global
system that are affected by human activities.
Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's
Climate System in Science 2001 292: 267 - 270.
Anthropogenic climate change will mean an increased average temperature for the oceans and possible changes in current
systems that could locally amplify or reduce
warming and can alter nutrient cycling resulting in changes in the amount
of nutrients available for the growth
of phytoplankton, the plant plankton that are the base
of the food chain.
(3) From the supporting perspective article: «All this would be very bad news if avoiding dangerous
anthropogenic interference in the
climate system required us to specify today a stabilization concentration
of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) for which the risk
of dangerous
warming is acceptably low.
Recognizes that
warming of the
climate system is unequivocal and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations, as assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in its Fourth Assessment
climate system is unequivocal and that most
of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in
anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations, as assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel for
Climate Change in its Fourth Assessment
Climate Change in its Fourth Assessment Report;
... we strongly support Delworth and Knutson's (2000) contention that this high - latitude
warming event represents primarily natural variability within the
climate system, rather than being caused primarily by external forcings, whether solar forcing alone (Thejll and Lassen, 2000) or a combination
of increasing solar irradiance, increasing
anthropogenic trace gases, and decreasing volcanic aerosols.
The IPCC concluded that «the effects [
of greenhouse gases], together with those
of other
anthropogenic drivers, have been detected throughout the
climate system and are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause
of the observed
warming since the mid-20th century.»
So you answer that «the
climate system is profoundly complex with various feedbacks and time lags that come into play, and can not be explained in term's
of someone's simplistic expectations,» as an answer on the question why «this melting really was an indicator
of Anthropogenic Global
Warming»?
Understanding all the nuances
of the
climate system will take years (or more likely, is impossible for a single human brain), but
anthropogenic global
warming only needs three facts, two
of which are probably reasonable, and the other which is not.
Given the increased levels
of certainty regarding human - induced global
warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on sea - level rise and data on melting
of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable
of preventing dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the
climate system.
``...
warming of the
climate system is unequivocal... most
of the global average
warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to
anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases...» — Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman
of the IPCC, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 2007
As professional scientists, from students to senior professors, we uphold the findings
of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which concludes that «
Warming of the
climate system is unequivocal» and that «Most
of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in
anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations».
Hence, avoiding dangerous levels
of CO2 - induced
warming is a necessary, albeit not always sufficient, condition for avoiding potentially dangerous
anthropogenic interference in the
climate system.
In summary, because
of the effects
of natural internal
climate variability, we do not expect each year to be inexorably
warmer than the preceding year, or each decade to be
warmer than the last decade, even in the presence
of strong
anthropogenic forcing
of the
climate system.
While it is generally accepted that the observed reduction
of the Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover extent (SCE) is linked to
warming of the
climate system caused by human induced greenhouse gas emissions, it has been difficult to robustly quantify the
anthropogenic contribution to the observed change.
The main evidence for catastrophic
anthropogenic global
warming (CAGW), the principal alleged adverse effect
of human emissions
of carbon dioxide (CO2), is
climate models built by CAGW supporters in a field where models with real predictive power do not exist and can not be built with any demonstrable accuracy beyond a week or two because
climate and weather are coupled non-linear chaotic
systems.
[Rob P]- The
warming from 1910 - 1940, a time
of weak
anthropogenic (human - caused) forcing, matches the
warm (positive) phase
of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO)- the largest natural multidecadal oscillation in the
climate system.
Here is a key point made by R&F (I removed the reference numbers for clarify
of reading here — see the original paper for the links to the relevant peer - reviewed literature; GHG = greenhouse gases, CEWGA = committed equilibrium
warming from greenhouse gases and aerosols, Wm2 = watts per metre squared, DAI = dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the
climate system):
The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has
warmed the global
climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half
of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is
anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats
of further global
warming: increased scarcity
of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss
of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.
According to the IPCC (2013), 93 %
of the heat energy in the
climate system claimed to be due to
anthropogenic global
warming is found in the oceans (AR5, Chapter 3).
The scientific consensus is that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human agricultural and industrial activity are the principal cause
of this global
warming [1]--[3] and that such emissions must be severely curtailed to prevent further
anthropogenic disruption
of the
climate system [4].