In
the case of anthropogenic global warming, there is a theory (first conceived over 100 years ago) based on well - established laws of physics.
In
the case of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis, they set out to prove that human CO2 was causing warming and climate change.
Not exact matches
Third, with our ∼ 1 °C scenario it is more likely that the biosphere and soil will be able to sequester a substantial portion
of the
anthropogenic fossil fuel CO2 carbon than in the
case of 2 °C or more
global warming.
So it extremely behooves us to reduce our GHG emissions very drastically very quickly... just in
case the solar output starts increasing, adding heat on top
of our
anthropogenic global warming.
Little do they realize that the basic thrust
of my criticism
of the I.P.C.C. draft was really to register a clear complaint that I.P.C.C. was being too wishy - washy and was not presenting its
case for
anthropogenic impact being the principal driver
of global warming as clearly and forcefully as they could, and should.
National Geographic, like other choristers in the
anthropogenic global warming (AGW) alarmist choir, is hyping the latest «climate research,» in this
case, the new computer modeling program
of a team at the University College
of London's (UCL) Institute for Sustainable Resources.
Is this just another
case of «extreme weather» caused by «catastrophic majority
anthropogenic global warming»?
The study
of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) long ago ceased to be a
case of scientific inquiry and has now become a cult.
Later that year, the debate turned nasty when the physicist Frederick Seitz took to the editorial pages
of the Wall Street Journal to accuse other climate researchers
of colluding to bolster the
case for
anthropogenic global warming in IPCC reports.
Vis.: [Coby]: «In the
case of the theory
of Anthropogenic Global Warming, what we do have is a theory (first conceived over 100 years ago) that is based on well established laws
of physics...».
In 2008 John W. Farley, a professor in the department
of physics and astronomy at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas, wrote an (almost) excellent paper «The Scientific
Case for Modern
Anthropogenic Global Warming» (http://monthlyreview.org/080728farley.php) which discussed the pros and cons
of the AGW science.
In the worst -
case scenario, this is cemented in the public mind as a refutation
of the connection between
anthropogenic carbon emissions and
global warming, and ongoing projects to eliminate carbon will be reversed.
In the
case of catastrophic
anthropogenic global warming, there's not even apparent
warming continuing in the system, let alone signs
of catastrophe.
That was one
of the reasons the «ocean acidification» scare was invented: as a fallback position in
case it were to become clear — as it increasingly has — that
anthropogenic global warming theory is a busted flush.
In an article published in 2008, Cohen wrote:»... at the time
of my retirement I was well convinced, as were most technically trained people, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's
case for
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is very tight.
In either
case, lack
of warming for 15 years is enough to conclude that greenhouse
warming does not exist and the hypothesis
of anthropogenic global warming by the greenhouse effect is false.
Climatologists might not think that is the
case in their filed, too, but nearly every part
of it is contended by some major part
of its adherents — regardless
of the claim to «consensus» on
anthropogenic global warming.
After all, the
case for
anthropogenic global warming reduces to 4 propositions: 1) There is a greenhouse effect — if there weren't, Earth would be a ball
of ice, 33 degrees cooler than its current temperature.
Just in
case it is not clear, this is the exact statement in the paper that I was basing my understanding on Explicit endorsements were divided into non-quantified (e.g., humans are contributing to
global warming without quantifying the contribution) and quantified (e.g., humans are contributing more than 50 %
of global warming, consistent with the 2007 IPCC statement that most
of the
global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in
anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations).