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Surface Temperature Change Back in 1988, NASA's James Hansen made some of the first projections of future global warming with a global climate model (Hansen 1988).

Back in 1988, NASA's James Hansen made some of the first projections of future global warming with a global climate model (Hansen 1988).

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The risks associated with future toxic waste from the oil sands are, in some ways, more worrying than the much more widely known global warming ones.

Also, if we think of our economic wellbeing as having to do with the future as well as the present, then we must consider how present activities contribute to a global warming that will be extremely costly to us and to our descendants.

What with global warming looming in their children's future, most parents I know are trying to be more eco-friendly these days.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

«When confronted with the question whether or not global warming contributed to Sandy, many scientists would just throw their hands up and say, «We can not address the question of how hurricanes will behave in a future climate because the myriad factors affecting storm behaviors are too complex and impossible to simulate»,» Lau said.

The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.

«Future - focused women stand up to global warming with taxes, checkbook.»

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Connie Woodhouse, a professor at the University of Arizona specializing in the climatology of western North America, said the records indicate that a similar event could happen in the future, with the added exacerbation of human - induced global warming.

«The problem with predicting the future is that we have global warming on top of these natural cycles.»

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

Given those prospects, and the Trump administration's likely lack of action, perhaps in the future China will cooperate with the European Union — which also has a cap - and - trade carbon market — to impose carbon tariffs on U.S. goods produced from an economy that has no constraints on such global warming pollution.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

Isn't that comment in itself ironic, considering that the current «global warming» movement began in probably much similar fashion, with small amounts of data leading to further scrutiny of future recorded data.

«With the hydrological cycle projected to change under global warming, impacting upper - ocean stratification and mixing, the results from this study have potentially important implications for understanding future tropical cyclone activity.»

«The authors clearly demonstrate that a human influence on wildland fire as a consequence of global warming isn't just a prediction for the future — it's happening now,» said Kevin Anchukaitis, a University of Arizona scientist who was not involved with the study.

Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on future greenhouse gas emissions.

Without denying that the Human Age has triggered global warming and a terrifying mass extinction, Ackerman banks on our ability to address looming crises with creativity and determination in this precisely illuminating, witty, and resplendently expressive guide to the framework for a more positively human and humane future.

In most future global warming simulations with climate models no meltwater from Greenland is included so far.

Polar amplication is of global concern due to the potential effects of future warming on ice sheet stability and, therefore, global sea level (see Sections 5.6.1, 5.8.1 and Chapter 13) and carbon cycle feedbacks such as those linked with permafrost melting (see Chapter 6)... The magnitude of polar amplification depends on the relative strength and duration of different climate feedbacks, which determine the transient and equilibrium response to external forcings.

Since this goes along with an increasing greenhouse effect and a further global warming, a better understanding of the carbon cycle is of great importance for all future climate change predictions.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

But a quick summary of some of my thoughts: I think a case can be made for some combination of equal per - capita payback and tax reduction, but the rationale for this must be that this somehow compensates for the costs of global warming or adaptation to that; as much of this occurs in the future (with different people), this is private sector economic investment to boost the economy now so that it may make itself more robust in the future -LRB-?).

Case in point: Ted Turner just went public this week with some pointed remarks about global warming and future cannibalism in the USA, and the blogosphere immediately lit up with rightwing blogs mocking the dear man.

Isn't that comment in itself ironic, considering that the current «global warming» movement began in probably much similar fashion, with small amounts of data leading to further scrutiny of future recorded data.

And these newly - constituted Vaclav Klaus Climate Joke Awards will be given out through out the year, and through out the years, any day of the week will do, just send in your nominations and we will clear them with the awards committee, and these awards will be given out to people espouse very stupid notions about the very real reality of global warming and the possible impact it may have on future generations of Earthlings (include the human species).

Nobel Prize - winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote recently that «These calculations [on costs and benefits of slowing global warming] indicate that, even with higher discounting, The Stern Review's estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.»

Journalists dealing with global warming and similar issues would do well to focus on the points of deep consensus, generate stories containing voices that illuminate instead of confuse, convey the complex without putting readers (or editors) to sleep, and cast science in its role as a signpost pointing toward possible futures, not as a font of crystalline answers.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

I wrote a GLOBAL WARMING PROTEST SONG, not to enterain people but to help raise the alarm, and I hope some singer out there with much better vocals that the Texas warbler who recorded this for me can do a better version in the future.

It seems that those of us who think global warming is a threat to the future wellbeing of the earth often follow the scientific conversation with dedicated devotion.

No, it translates to climate models can not accurately represent natural climate variability, which is why they can't project future global temperature at even the 2 % confidence level: «we find that the continued warming stagnation of fifteen years, 1998 - 2012, is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2 % confidence level» — vonStorch (2013)

The uncertainty in the range of future warming is mostly due to differences in how models simulate changes in clouds with global warming.

It seems as though the magnitude of the model biases in global average temperature do have some relationship with the magnitude of modeled future warming.

With all the talk this week about future climate — the global warming imagined by IPCC crystal ball models, that is — the focus for many is rightly on the gulf between predictions and observations that have taken place so far.

Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on future greenhouse gas emissions.

Let's just say that global - warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.»

«Even today, with the global warming danger level at a critical phase, Defendants continue to engage in massive fossil fuel production and execute long - term business plans to continue and even expand their fossil fuel production for decades into the future.»

If one were to try and align with limiting global warming to below 2D, or apply a higher likelihood of the outcome then this would provide an even tighter constraint on future oil and gas supply and demand.

Through their statement on climate change, Buddhist leaders have crossed this boundary into an area in which, it seems to me, they lack knowledge both of the alleged problems of anthropogenic global warming and of the best policies that might be adopted to deal with an always uncertain future.

At the very moment President Obama is committing the U.S. to a leadership role in combating so - called «global warming» and «climate change,» scientists are breaking with the hypothesis that temperatures around the world are on a steady increase for the foreseeable future.

This collection of studies fails to make the case for any sort of problem with global warming, whilst ignoring that the policies they advocate will deprive the poorest on the earth the chance of a better future.

If global warming accelerates, Schneiderman's logic goes, then Exxon would be stuck with fossil fuel reserves rendered worthless by future regulations or a concomitant reduced demand for oil.

«Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.»

Screen shot 2015-07-07 at 2.51.21 PM.png «OUR COMMON FUTURE UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global waFUTURE UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE» Published 7 July 2015 A major scientific conference «Our Common Future under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global waFuture under Climate Change» opened on 7 July in Paris at the height of an intense, extensive and long - lasting European heatwave, which is consistent with the expected impacts of global warming.

By Paul Chesser With food and gas prices skyrocketing, several state climate commissions are ignoring the backlash against the suddenly antiquated policy of plant - enhanced petrol, as they hope to stop the alleged future global warming catastrophe.

We will likely experience periods of strong hurricanes in the future, but any attempt to attribute hurricanes to global warming should be looked at with a jaundiced eye.

Given the time period until new leases are required, and that new leases are only required in a scenario incompatible with the United States» commitment to taking actions consistent with limiting global warming to levels well below 2 °C while pursuing efforts to keep warming to no more than 1.5 °C, it makes sense to continue the moratorium for the foreseeable future.