Sentences with phrase «in global warming predictions»

There is not supposed to be an increase in snow covering a larger area of the earth (as he pointed out in a previous post) in global warming predictions.

When people wonder about the degree of certainty in global warming predictions versus next week's weather report, they are confusing climate and weather.

A: When people wonder about the degree of certainty in global warming predictions versus next week's weather report, they are confusing climate and weather.

These observations should be considered in the testing of cloud parameterizations in climate models, which remain sources of substantial uncertainty in global warming prediction.»

Studies of the Arctic and Antarctic play an important role in global warming prediction.

Not exact matches

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

He does point out that predictions of the impact of global warming made back in the 1970s named the Wordie and James Ross shelves as the first to go.

If carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubled from its pre-industrial level, the graph suggested, global warming would rise far above the widely accepted prediction of between 1.5 and 4.5 °C.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

These changes have been compounded by stronger waves in the North Sea in recent decades, and could be further exacerbated if predictions that storminess will increase with global warming prove accurate.

Global warming is expected in the future, but precipitation predictions are more variable.

In fact, if anything, I would say that the IPCC predictions underestimated the speed at which global warming is now progressing.

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) finds his dire predictions about global warming and the future of the world falling on deaf ears — until the forecasted weather changes begin happening in a matter of hours instead of the anticipated years or decades.

The fact that the hindcasts with their method perform worse than a standard IPCC scenario, the number of failed previous cooling predictions, the negative skill in the Gulf Stream and deep - water formation regions... should these not have cautioned them against going to the media to forecast a pause in global warming?

[Response: For the record, I think any reasonably educated person, whether with a technical degree or not, should be able to understand and critically evaluate the basic arguments involved in predictions of global warming.

But in no case should a reporter who wishes to portray with accuracy the debates about global warming, present a minority view unbacked by science and promoted by businesses with a small, old dog in a very tough dog fight, as equivalent to hard science from unbiased scientists with no economic interest in anything but getting the facts and predictions right.

The IPCC predictions of global warming imply that, at the very least, millions of people will die as a result of climate change, much like the casualty numbers in World Wars I and II.

When I look at reports in the media, and public perception in general, however, any evidence that global warming is real and is already making extreme weather and, hence, terrible suffering more likely today is far, far more powerful than the most terrifying prediction for 2100.

Three IPCC climate models, recent NASA Aqua satellite data, and a simple 3 - layer climate model are used together to demonstrate that the IPCC climate models are far too sensitive, resulting in their prediction of too much global warming in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Every now and again, the myth that «we shouldn't believe global warming predictions now, because in the 1970's they were predicting an ice age and / or cooling» surfaces.

In fact, if anything, I would say that the IPCC predictions underestimated the speed at which global warming is now progressing.

However, I don't agree that Al Gore is sensationalizing hurricanes — what Gore is saying is certainly in the realm of possibilities, and although Gore's general message is dead on (and I do think is being confirmed by events such as rapid arctic melting), I don't expect 100 % certainty in his predictions (especially since it seems that the lessening of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't due to global warming.

I have yet to find where any of our perfect extremist Republicans and Christians bothered to make any predictions concerning Dolly to prove any expertise in natural cycles, counting with fingers and toes, passing urine tests, use of a calendar, meteorology, climatology, ecology, or a million other loose ends within global warming.

if it's any consolation, the recent predictions discussed on this blog of a «pause» in northern hemisphere global warming — and, indeed, cooling in the u.s. — may signal the end of the line for the california wine growers.

Yet we know well that our current flooding predictions will be entirely obsolete in less than two decades, as thousands of miles of coastlines are slowly claimed by rising seas, due both to coastal subsidence and global warming.

This is in sharp contrast to the standard global warming predictions of events 80 + years from now.

In 2008, there was substantial coverage — including by me (print, blog)-- of a provocative paper in Nature attempting a short - term prediction that global warming would stop for awhile, driven mainly by cooling around the North AtlantiIn 2008, there was substantial coverage — including by me (print, blog)-- of a provocative paper in Nature attempting a short - term prediction that global warming would stop for awhile, driven mainly by cooling around the North Atlantiin Nature attempting a short - term prediction that global warming would stop for awhile, driven mainly by cooling around the North Atlantic.

In fact, I have yet to see a serious cause of global warming mentioned where this doesn't manage to fit the prediction.

Glad to see you admit that the global warming predictions of Svante Arrhenius made in 1896 have been confirmed.

* «Princeton physicist Will Happer's WSJ op - ed: «Global warming models are wrong again»: The former federal official calls climate's «observed response» to more CO2 «not in good agreement with model predictions.»»

We won't ever by able to effectively change anything with scary doomsday predictions, politically driven actions or half baked solutions... If we could just for a moment pull all of our hands out of proverbial the cookie jar stop with the politics and the anti-industry, global warming and end - of - the - world speak, and realize that our need is to focus on the things we ourselves can do to change our own shade of green, we would be taking one small step in the right direction.

And you might recall that his March 27 Wall Street Journal op - ed «Global warming models are wrong again» called the climate's «observed response» to more CO2 «not in good agreement with model predictions.»

'' -LSB-...][T] here is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons,» Lindzen told a gathering at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change.

It is the reversal of the global warming trend that would appear to be being called for within the 10 - year window, the «prediction'that «entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels» (and note the «could» in there) isn't within that timespan.

Even if human - caused global warming could be proven, such dire predictions ignore the marvelous historic adaptability of humans, who have thrived in climates ranging from the Arctic to the Sahara.

In light of this prediction and global climate model forecasts for continued high - latitude warming, the ice sheet mass budget deficit is likely to continue to grow in the coming decadeIn light of this prediction and global climate model forecasts for continued high - latitude warming, the ice sheet mass budget deficit is likely to continue to grow in the coming decadein the coming decades.

In reality, when we compare apples to apples — El Niño years to El Niño years — we've seen more than 0.3 °C global surface warming over the past 18 years, which is in line with climate model predictionIn reality, when we compare apples to apples — El Niño years to El Niño years — we've seen more than 0.3 °C global surface warming over the past 18 years, which is in line with climate model predictionin line with climate model predictions.

They start from the premise that global mean sea level rise will continue beyond 2100, and from the prediction that for every 1 °C of climate warming, humans should expect an eventual 2.3 metre rise in sea levels.

After 25 years of close to a trillion dollars of treasure being expended, thousands of avoidable deaths from hypothermia related health problems amongst the elderly, the destruction of entire industries and large parts of some national economies, science, very expensive science at that has been sent down an innumerable number of dead end paths and rabbit holes in pursuit of the unpredictable non existent global warming and it's totally failed predictions of catastrophes always still to come but which never do.

After all, nobody had in fact published a firm prediction of an imminent ice age or runaway global warming in a peer - reviewed scientific journal.

If you think global warming is outside predictions, perhaps you would note that we have had a long string of La Nina / neutral phase in ENSO.

The Global Warming Speedometer for January 2001 to June 2016 shows observed warming on the HadCRUT4 and NCEI surface temperature datasets as below IPCC's least prediction in 1990 and somewhat on the low side of its 1995 and 2001 predictions, while the satellite datasets show less warming than all IPCC predictions from 1990 tWarming Speedometer for January 2001 to June 2016 shows observed warming on the HadCRUT4 and NCEI surface temperature datasets as below IPCC's least prediction in 1990 and somewhat on the low side of its 1995 and 2001 predictions, while the satellite datasets show less warming than all IPCC predictions from 1990 twarming on the HadCRUT4 and NCEI surface temperature datasets as below IPCC's least prediction in 1990 and somewhat on the low side of its 1995 and 2001 predictions, while the satellite datasets show less warming than all IPCC predictions from 1990 twarming than all IPCC predictions from 1990 to 2001.

I note that Hansen's 1988 predictions are a true test of the most important question in the global warming question — that of what is the climate / temperature sensitivity to increases / doubling of CO2 and other GHGs.

They also need to take an aggressive role in calling out other scientists who make dire predictions but don't really understand the science of global warming or the uncertainties.

Writing up their findings in the Journal of Climate, the scientists have noted that the «greatest weakness» of most climate prediction models, namely their comprehension of the significance of clouds, may be in «the one aspect that is most crucial for predicting the magnitude of global warming».

If you were a nerdy scientist and could a great salary for playing computer games in an air - conditioned office, get in the media by making a scary climate prediction, and possibly become famous — maybe even getting to fly to an overseas global warming conference in Al Gore's private jet, and while doing all of this you can tell everyone you are working» hard» (9 am to 5 pm heh heh) «to save the Earth»....

The East Coast elites, aging yuppies and metrosexual deadenders who bitterly cling to the CO2 - caused «global warming» religion are having a tough time... over the last 20 years, winters in the Northeast region of the U.S. have become more harsh and severe... that's opposite of their climate - doomsday cult leaders» predictions... instead of getting climate news from the likes of Al Gore and Brian Williams, Northeast denizens of elite enclaves might want to finally introduce themselves to what is called empirical evidence...

Just as a hypothetical example: If climate scientist will tell me that recent pause in global warming is due to the effect of an inactive sun (which is the reality as reported by following) http://www.spaceweather.com and that they will go back and improve their models to account for this, then I would be more inclined to believe their other claims... Instead the IPCC doubles down on their predictions and claim the future effects will be worst than they originally thought?