Sentences with phrase «current warming predictions»

«In this sense yes [1970s cooling predictions were similar to current warming predictions], our ignorance about the climate system is just enormous»

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If the new results are correct, that means warming will come on faster, and be more intense, than many current predictions.
Bern: «And even then, I'd only consider calling Dr Hansen a «charlatan» if he stuck with his current predictions of imminent strong warming and never once changed his opinion, despite evidence to the contrary.»
Yet we know well that our current flooding predictions will be entirely obsolete in less than two decades, as thousands of miles of coastlines are slowly claimed by rising seas, due both to coastal subsidence and global warming.
So, Jacob, if you can show me a theory that makes as much sense of Earth's climate and makes as many verified predictions as the current consensus model and which doesn't imply serious problems due to warming, I'll be the first to pat you on the back.
Also, if we say we know what's causing current warming there's a lot of work to be done explaining model failure on predictions.
T 54: if we say we know what's causing current warming there's a lot of work to be done explaining model failure on predictions.
A significant aspect of the forecast is an exuberant prediction for strengthening of the current El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) warm phase and its accompanying interaction with the Pacific - North American mode at higher latitudes.
Kevin Hamilton, who co-authored the report, warns: «If our model results prove to be representative of the real global climate, then climate is actually more sensitive to perturbations by greenhouse gases than current global models predict, and even the highest warming predictions would underestimate the real change we could see.»
Current climate change predictions have been confirmed by an ancient warming event that surpasses today's warming world, according to a new study.
Too often the climate «debate» is reported in the media as equal between a few who challenge the science and a much larger number whose research supports current climate theory and predictions linking greenhouse warming with increasing emissions.
The most severe global warming predictions are more likely to be accurate than current predictions.
If the Earth warms in line with CO2 predictions, then confidence in the current representation of solar effects will increase.
What they are skeptical of is the prediction that not only is this current situation mostly man made unlike every other warm up in history, but that we will have a runaway warming devastating our ecosystem planet wide and causing unimaginable human suffering.
Until there is a firm prediction about when this human caused global warming will end the current global cooling of 0.2 °C / century as depicted on the HadCRUT3 global temperature dataset since 2002; the only ones who can be called deniers are those who deny the world of the truth about global temperatures.
Using temperature readings from the past 100 years, 1,000 computer simulations and the evidence left in ancient tree rings, Duke University scientists announced yesterday that «the magnitude of future global warming will likely fall well short of current highest predictions
He said scientists could say with total confidence that climate science was uncontroversial and the current predictions for warming were the best advice available.
But although that point has now been passed, he said that he hadn't changed his mind about the models» gloomy predictions: «I still think that the current decade which began in 2010 will be warmer by about 0.17 degrees than the previous one, which was warmer than the Nineties.»
If confirmed by further research, this newly discovered effect — which is not seen in current climate prediction models — could significantly reduce estimates of future climate warming.
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