Not exact matches
My research, (which amounts to amassing thousands of stories, websites, reports, and international meeing and treaty summaries, along with a close following of all international bodies concerned with
global warming, into a
huge,
huge, disorganized, bookmark list,) indicates, that, for the worst
effects of
global warming to be SOMEWHAT diminished, we would need to get under 300 ppm.
Britain's efforts to reduce the speed of
global warming will cost
huge sums of money and have a pitifully tiny
effect»
Now contrast this with a paper published in July in a fairly obscure journal by two other respected scholars — Peter Webster and Greg Holland — suggesting that
global warming has a
huge effect on hurricanes.
Environmentalists have been amongst the most outspoken campaigners against cooking on smoky fires, partly because of the health
effects, partly because they use
huge amounts of wood and partly because the black carbon they produce is a cause of
global warming.
So while admitting, there probably is a very modest amount of AGW in the current
warming cycle, it could just as easily have been caused by: i) the
effects of the
huge increase in
global irrigation, ii) tiny changes in the sun's radiation, and / or iii) the knock on
effects of changes in the intensity and direction of ocean currents.
It's also one of the reasons that I linked to Hoffman et al at Bart's in the first place... None of this changes the fact that
global warming is going to be a
huge hit on planetary biodiversity further into this century, and over coming centuries, both through direct
effects and through exacerbation of other non-climate-change impacts.
Given the
huge climate change in the NH, the net
effect is trivial and fully supports the contention that minor changes in OHT do not cause long term synchronous *
global *
warming or cooling because they are just * reorganisations * of the way energy moves around * inside * the climate system.
The data does suggest a plateau, he admitted, and without a major El Nino event — the sudden, dramatic
warming of the southern Pacific which takes place unpredictably and always has a
huge effect on
global weather — «it could go on for a while».
In particular, 1998 had a high temperature due to a
huge El Nino heating
effect superimposed on the
global warming trend.