An Australian wildfire has killed at least 135 people, and some experts are blaming
global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions for this and other recent blazes.
This type of warming is still a much smaller effect than
the global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
Solar geoengineering, the goal of which is to offset
the global warming caused by greenhouse gases, involves reflecting sunlight back into space.
Ironically, the food industry is at serious risk from
global warming caused by these greenhouse gases, through the disruption of the predictable climactic cycles on which agriculture depends.
Not exact matches
Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of
global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be
caused by increased concentrations of
greenhouse gasses produced
by human activity.
While a strong El Niño provided a boost to
global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the
warming caused by the buildup of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Since levels of
greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that
global warming in the industrial era has been
caused largely
by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
This year has already brought higher temperatures than normal nation - wide, and that trend is expected to continue, in part due to
global warming which is
caused by rising concentrations of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
«It is nearly certain that
global warming is
caused by greenhouse gases,» she says, and «the best way to convince people of this is to also explain what we do not yet know and why it is so difficult to get those answers.»
Global warming is the rise in temperatures
caused by an increase in the levels of
greenhouse gases due to human activity.
The key conclusions were that: It is «unequivocal» that
global warming is occurring; the probability that this is
caused by natural climatic processes is less than 5 %; and the probability that this is
caused by human emissions of
greenhouse gases is over 90 %.
The first report concludes that
global warming is happening, and is very likely
caused by human emissions of
greenhouse gases.
While a strong El Niño has given
global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely
warm months is the long - term
warming of the planet
caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.
The model study suggests that the
cause is
global warming by increased
greenhouse gases.
These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in
global warming —
caused by the continued release of heat - trapping
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.
Wicker also cited a publication
by the
Global Warming Petition Project, a document signed
by nearly 32,000 American scientists that disputes the international scientific consensus that man - made
greenhouse gas emissions are
causing the Earth's atmosphere to
warm, leading to potentially catastrophic changes in the climate.
The effects of
global warming are the ecological and social changes
caused (directly or indirectly)
by human emissions of
greenhouse gases.
«It is thus extremely likely (> 95 % probability) that the
greenhouse gas induced
warming since the mid-twentieth century was larger than the observed rise in
global average temperatures, and extremely likely that anthropogenic forcings were
by far the dominant
cause of
warming.
Global climate change will occur as a result of global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth caused by the concentration of gases of various
Global climate change will occur as a result of
global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth caused by the concentration of gases of various
global warming resulting from the
greenhouse effect
caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth
caused by the concentration of
gases of various kinds.
The WorldWatch Institute estimates that a staggering 51 percent of
global greenhouse gas emissions are
caused by animal agriculture, and the United Nations has also urged everyone to eat less meat to combat
global warming.
The now conventional view on
global warming, as stated
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is that most of the
warming recorded in the past 50 years has been
caused by emissions of manmade
greenhouse gases.
Specifically, do you believe current
global warming is
caused by GCR's and thereby
greenhouse gases are unimportant?
«A rapid cutback in
greenhouse gas emissions could speed up
global warming... because current
global warming is offset
by global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling
cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»
Natural, large - scale climate patterns like the PDO and El Niño - La Niña are superimposed on
global warming caused by increasing concentrations of
greenhouse gases and landscape changes like deforestation.
Because we understand the energy balance of our Earth, we also know that
global warming is
caused by greenhouse gases — which have
caused the largest imbalance in the radiative energy budget over the last century.
Item 8 could be confusing in having so many messages: «It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in
global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was
caused by the anthropogenic increase in
greenhouse gas... The best estimate of the human - induced contribution to
warming is similar to the observed
warming over this period....
And talk passionately about the basic facts in public: climate changes (expressed as the wacky and destructive weather that has become so common) are
caused by the
global warming produced
by having too much
greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere.
But President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions
by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro groups want, legitimizes their argument that
global warming is
caused by humans and an imminent threat to mankind.
Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional
warming anticipated for this environment
caused by the build - up of
greenhouse gases).
Because if it dose we might be stuck down the rabit whole for good because of runaway
global warming caused by more bushfires and more melting of the permafrost releasing
greenhouse gases and establishing a positive feedback loop.
The «Report» says that the US economy will grow to «$ 26 trillion
by 2030, but, with a cap on the
greenhouse gas emissions that
cause «
global warming», the economy will reach the same level two to seven months later.
The results lead the authors to conclude that * *** «this experimental data should effectively end the argument
by skeptics that no experimental evidence exists for the connection between
greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere and Climate Changes
caused by global warming.».
But if you open your mind, you will find it's quite true that billions have been spent to obscure the truth about climate change due to
global warming caused by heat - trapping
greenhouse gases.
«In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between
global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean
global temperature, and human - activity - induced
greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be
caused by the release of
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»
Thus a grand solar minimum would have to
cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued human -
caused global warming between 1 and 5 °C
by 2100, depending on how our
greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.
Like the climate scientists on RealClimate contend, Kolbert notes that no particular storm can be
caused by global warming, but that the long - term patterns don't look good... increased
greenhouse gases =
warmer oceans = more destructive hurricanes.
But it is true that some of the fossil - fuel funded groups that formerly argued that there is no
global warming have reacted to criticism
by changing their argument to «the climate is always changing,» as if that somehow disproves the scientific consensus that human
greenhouse -
gas emissions are
causing dangerous
warming.
«Currently, scientists estimate the oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the heat trapped
by greenhouse gases, and we attribute the
global warming to anthropogenic (human - produced)
causes.»
Posted in
Global Warming, Green House
Gas Emissions Comments Off on Australia Drying
Caused by Greenhouse Gases and Ozone
As reported
by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked
greenhouse gas emissions would
cause the
global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.
The value of measuring atmospheric temperatures globally becomes clear when we recall that the untested hypothesis behind
global warming projects that
greenhouse gas warming in the atmosphere will
cause the surface to
warm by 6 degrees Fahrenheit (with a probable error of plus or minus 3 degrees).
People obviously see though Jerry Brown's feeble attempt to quash this
by naming the initiative «Suspends Air Pollution Control Laws Requiring Major Polluters to Report and Reduce
Greenhouse Gas Emissions That
Cause Global Warming Until Unemployment Drops Below Specified Level for Full Year.»
Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is a naturally occurring
greenhouse gas that is also released into the atmosphere
by the burning of fossil fuels, for example in cars and power plants (
causes of
global warming).
It's very plausible that the
global warming we are seeing is not mainly
caused by greenhouse gases.
Much of the harm these events
cause in Europe comes from physical damage to its industrial life support system, as the
global average temperature continues to rise as a consequence of
warming driven
by ever higher
greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, in response to the profligate
global consumption of fossil fuels.
A linear
warming trend plus natural cycles can be mistaken for a step function, but physically the
global warming is
caused by an external radiative forcing (i.e. human
greenhouse gas emissions).
«It is thus extremely likely (> 95 % probability) that the
greenhouse gas induced
warming since the mid-twentieth century was larger than the observed rise in
global average temperatures, and extremely likely that anthropogenic forcings were
by far the dominant
cause of
warming.
Every qualified scientific body in the world, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science to the Royal Society, agrees unequivocally that
global warming is both a reality, and
caused by man - made
greenhouse gas emissions.
Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of
global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «
greenhouse»
gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.
While this does not prove that
global warming is
caused by greenhouse gas emissions, it does set the bar for alternative explanations.