They may prove to be at least as important as the mathematical models, from which adherents of
human caused warming tend to extract the worst case scenarios.
Not exact matches
There are a variety of reasons that the media
tend to pay outsize attention to research developments that support a «hot» conclusion (like the theory that hurricanes have already been intensified by
human -
caused global
warming) and glaze over on research of equivalent quality that does not.
In particular, the authors find fault with IPCC's conclusions relating to
human activities being the primary
cause of recent global
warming, claiming, contrary to significant evidence that they
tend to ignore, that the comparatively small influences of natural changes in solar radiation are dominating the influences of the much larger effects of changes in the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations on the global energy balance.
While most people accept the reality of
human -
caused global
warming, we
tend not to view it as an urgent issue or high priority.