Sentences with phrase «greenhouse warming call»

Ambiguities regarding projected greenhouse warming call in much the same way for clearer information regarding the role of the Sun, as a possibly important contributor to the current warming trend.

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During his campaign, Trump also called global warming a hoax and promised to quit a global accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions, though he has since softened his stance and said he is keeping an «open mind» about the deal.

Former Vice President Al Gore today lauded what he called «the best, most hopeful step» in years to contain global warming: 16 state prosecutors joining New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's crusade against energy giants that they assert have fraudulently fought caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

The so - called greenhouse gases — mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide — make the planet warm and habitable by trapping solar heat as it radiates back off the Earth.

Pokorny's work, coupled with a controversial new theory called the «biotic pump,» suggests that transforming landscapes from forest to field has at least as big an impact on regional climate as greenhouse gas — induced global warming.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

Climate modeler Christopher Bretherton of the University of Washington, Seattle, called the study «good, solid, important work... [suggesting] stratospheric aerosol injection is an approach to compensate greenhouse warming that is worthy of further study.»

A number of things might have affected people's attitudes, including Pope Francis» encyclical calling for climate action, a record - warm winter and media coverage around the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report.

The discovery of other, smaller magnitude, rapid greenhouse warming events (called hyperthermals) in the millions of years following the PETM provides further opportunities to examine the response of organisms to global climate change.

Another source of short - lifetime bias in the community probably comes from a calculation used to compare the greenhouse consequences of different gases, called the Global Warming Potential (GWP)[13].

Anyway, all that sulfate, once in the stratosphere, will certainly produce some cooling, partially masking the warming from excess global warming (so - called greenhouse) gases.

Investigating the cause of 20th Century warming is done in so - called detection and attribution studies, which analyze the various forcings (e.g., solar variations, greenhouse gases or volcanic activity) and the observed time and space patterns of climate change in detail.

The underlying physics of CO2 as a global warming (so - called greenhouse) gas has been known for over 150 years and is now thoroughly characterized:

In fact, in 1938 a British amateur climatologist Guy Callendar did suggest that the warming was caused by CO2, and at one time the greenhouse effect was called the Callendar effect!

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

The latest comes as basic flaws have been exposed in a panel finding on thawing Asian glaciers that, while buried in the back matter of the panel's 2007 report on impacts of warming, had become a prime talking point among campaigners calling for action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Last week, Jerry Taylor, who writes on economics and the environment for the libertarian Cato Institute, chided a group of climate scientists for issuing a call in Bali for sharp cuts in greenhouse gases, saying their expertise in climate science gave them no special standing to dictate how society should respond to warming.

spalding craft (2)-- Actually, there is an overwhelming abundance of evidence that the climate warmed to a maximum, so - called optimum, temperature at different times in different regions, but about 8 — 6 thousand years ago; it had been cooling, on average since until humans started added considerable quantities of global warming (so - called greenhouse) gases started in, say, 1850 CE.

Field is listed on the Global Warming Petition Project calling for the U.S. to reject international global warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's cWarming Petition Project calling for the U.S. to reject international global warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's cwarming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's climate.

In this part of the Arctic, which could be a bellwether for changes to come elsewhere with greenhouse - driven warming, what might be called pop - up forests are forming.

Like I say, you see a richness of behaviour in the models including in some occasions behaviour that at first sight looks not dissimilar to that highlighted in the observations by the Thompson paper and this on top of the «external control» as we called it in our 2000 paper in Science of the external forcings in a particular model which drives much of the multi-decadal hemispheric response in these models and which, in terms of the overall global warming response, is dominated by greenhouse gases.

In these, despite the various minor ups and downs, the general trend is down until about 1850 CE when anthropogenic effects really started lifting the temperature, following the excess global warming (so - called greenhouse) gases.

So how much of the ballyhooed 33C greenhouse warming is done by the transparent body called the global ocean with differential impedence to shortwave and thermal radiation, Chris?

AGW, also called «The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect» is simply the expectation from observation and theory that adding more of these gases will increase the «restiction» and that the Earth will warm as a consequence.

Since the early 1990's, at least, scientists, environmentalists and world leaders have called repeatedly for climate mitigation — that is, reductions in emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in order to stave off global warming.

There are many interesting comments from proponents of human caused climate change (AGW or anthropogenic global warming) and from sceptics which show an astonishing range of differing interpretations and understandings of the so called Greenhouse Effect none of which bear much relation to the actuality.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

In my second article (Earth's Atmosphere Is Warmed Primarily By Molecules That Are Not Greenhouse Gases) established that it is gases which are not so called greenhouse gases that contribute most to the warming effect both in absolute terms and proporGreenhouse Gases) established that it is gases which are not so called greenhouse gases that contribute most to the warming effect both in absolute terms and proporgreenhouse gases that contribute most to the warming effect both in absolute terms and proportionately.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

The region's highly energy - intensive economy emits a disproportionately large amount of the gases responsible for warming the climate (called greenhouse gases or heat - trapping gases).

This is the kind of climate science question that you have called a «side issue», though the answer is integral to answering one of your favorite questions: Granting that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, how much warming can result from and increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration?

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

Increased atmospheric CO2 tends to close this window and cause outgoing radiation to emerge from higher, colder levels, thus warming the surface and lower atmosphere by the so called greenhouse mechanism»

The fairy story that climate scepticism is largely the creation of Jastrow, Nierenberg and Seitz originates from a 2008 paper by Myanna Lahsen called Experiences of modernity in the greenhouse: A cultural analysis of a physicist «trio» supporting the backlash against global warming.

The so - called hotspot is not something a feature specific to greenhouse gas induced warming but of any global warming, whether its due to increased levels of greenhouse gases or increases in solar radiation.

This warming that did not happen because we are not using the Arrhenius theory any more would have been called greenhouse warming.

Water vapor is the major greenhouse gas and helps to warm the Earth if temperatures are below the «equilibrium» level (thermostat temperature)-- so called positive feedback.

One of the first worldwide calls to address global warming resulted in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that mandated greenhouse gas reductions.

Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy wrote.

Through advertisements, opeds, lobbying, and media attention, greenhouse doubters (they hate being called deniers) argued first that the world is not warming, measurements indicating otherwise are flawed, they said.

At the same time, independent research efforts are producing evidence that calls into question the fear of global warming from greenhouse gases.

... called for accelerated action to curb greenhouse gases, greater emphasis on research into technologies that will help wean the US from its fossil - fuel habit, and more focus on adaptation to global warming.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

The experts say their research DOES NOT UNDERMINE THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY DRIVE GLOBAL WARMING, BUT THEY CALL FOR A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE WAY CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS CONSIDER WATER VAPOUR.

In 1991, the large coal operation called Western Fuels was very candid in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»....

HFC - 23 is a so - called super greenhouse gas which has a global warming potential some 14,800 times higher than CO2 and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for new laws to destroy the gas which is produced as a by product from producing the refrigerant HCFC - 22.

Further, the probabilistic approach reveals a picture startling to even most global - warming pessimists: If we're to avoid precipitating what that U.N. Framework Convention genteelly calls «dangerous anthropogenic interference,» we're going to have to aim at an atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentration target that, by current trends, we'll reach in less than two decades.

For instance the ice ages are caused by orbital cycles called the Milankovitch cycles, which cause a slight warming which is amplified by greenhouse gases in the NH.

The Earth's surface temperature is 35 K warmer than its effective blackbody temperature, because of the presence of clouds and GHGs or called the natural greenhouse effect.

Whether this should be called greenhouse warming is debatable.