Exposing «Staggering» Ice Sheet Melt Deceptions In recent months, two new papers published in The Cryosphere have provided a condensed summary of the ice - melt and sea - level - rise
consequences of global warming for the Arctic region.
Putting a limit on heat - trapping emissions and encouraging the use of healthier, cleaner energy technologies, such as solar and wind power, would help us to avoid the worst
potential consequences of global warming.
But the new report sheds light on the broad
consequences of global warming on renewable freshwater resources, finding that each degree of warming will decrease renewable water resources by at least 20 % for an additional 7 % of the global population.
The likely loss of natural chemicals that might have life - saving value in advancing the development of new medicines should be added to the list
of consequences of global warming, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity.
This barrage of misinformation misleads and confuses the public about the
growing consequences of global warming — and makes it more difficult to implement the solutions we need to effectively reduce the man - made emissions that cause global warming.
This is a little
known consequence of global warming and is the reason energy companies and European governments are scrmbling to secure long term natural gas supplies into their countries.
To the long list of
predicted consequences of global warming — stronger storms, methane release, habitat changes, ice - sheet melting, rising seas, stronger El Niños, killer heat waves — we must now add abrupt, catastrophic coolings.
While St. Louis doesn't have to worry directly about sea levels or ice melt, stronger weather patterns including more droughts and floods are
likely consequences of global warming, they said.
The finding suggests that focusing exclusively on carbon dioxide is misguided, and that cutting soot could better prevent the short -
term consequences of global warming, Jacobson says.
Another
worldwide consequence of global warming is increased precipitation: warmer air will mean more evaporation of ocean water, more clouds, and an overall rise in rain and snow of between 5 and 7 percent.
Given the potential
adverse consequences of global warming and eventual loss of our biggest energy source, it obviously makes sense to put more effort into fuel conservation and pollution control, not to mention population control.
So basically you are arguing that because the economic losses and other
destructive consequences of global warming may result in demands for government action to deal with them, we should reject the scientific evidence that such consequences are already occurring and are likely to get worse.
That is because accumulating observations and analysis pointing to the causes and
consequences of global warming merely delineate the problem, including areas of persistent uncertainty, uneven exposure to risk and uneven responsibility for emissions of greenhouse gases.
Working Group II addressed the vulnerability of human and natural systems to climate change (i.e., the negative and
positive consequences of global warming) and options for adapting to the changes.
Whereas the
familiar consequences of global warming will simply force expensive but gradual adjustments, the abrupt cooling and drying promoted by human - enhanced warming looks like a particularly efficient means of committing mass suicide.
Last year, the usual suspects railed about how the outbreak was a
clear consequence of global warming > climate change > climate disruption, even going so far as saying such linkage was «required by ethics» (insert facepalm...
The two astrophysicists have turned one of the great questions in science into a way of examining the down - to -
earth consequences of global warming, the pollution of the oceans with indestructible polymers, and the wholesale destruction of species in the last 300 years.