Sentences with phrase «in runaway global warming»

Because the endless alarmist predictions claimed that rising CO2 would result in runaway global warming.

If correlation is an indicator of potential causation, then one would need to look at an entirely different reason other than CO2 emissions for any attempt to justify a belief in the runaway global warming scenario.

It looks to me as if it is saying (once you connect the dots that other feedbacks will kick in / are kicking in) that we are already in a runaway global warming situation.

It claims that passive smoking is no more dangerous than «eating 50g of mushrooms a week», and attacks «politically correct» beliefs such as «passive smoking causes lung cancer» and «mankind's emissions of carbon dioxide will result in runaway global warming».

The Global Warming doomsayers say this increase in the CO2 in our atmosphere is producing a greenhouse effect that will result in runaway Global Warming, melting ice caps and glaciers, flooding the shorelines, destroying our crops and making our planet unlivable.

Leading climate scientists believe that maintaining carbon dioxide levels in excess of 350 ppm will result in runaway global warming with catastrophic impacts to humans, wildlife and ecosystems.

Siberian surface rock was loaded with carbon, resulting in runaway global warming as atmospheric CO2 levels more than doubled.

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Climate scientists tell us that to keep the rise of global temperature above the pre-industrial level at below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to avoid runaway global warming, the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent per year starting in 2020.

In a new paper, Hansen and colleagues warn that the current international plan to limit global warming isn't going to be nearly enough to avert disasters like runaway ice - sheet melting and consequent sea - level rise.

«Significant» reductions needed The U.N. Environment Programme's «Emissions Gap 2012» report cautions that even if nations meet their strictest pledges, the world will not be able to cut its output of greenhouse gases in time to prevent runaway global warming (ClimateWire, Nov. 21).

Signs of global warming are beginning to appear everywhere: from runaway ice melt in the Arctic to slowly drowning islands in the Pacific.

Climate forecasts have long noted that every increase in global temperature heightens the odds of runaway global warming, beyond any human control.

A compelling Climate Fiction trilogy set against a backdrop of runaway global warming... a love story in a hotter, more dangerous world

The left - wing focus on the fantasy of runaway global warming takes all their attention off the real pollution — air, water and land pollution in China, India and other parts of Asia, for one important example.

With an 80 % reduction in GHGs by 2050 we have a 50 % chance of dangerous climate change or runaway global warming.

In light of the recent IPCC report released this past week and stating essentially that global warming is a runaway train that can't be stopped for centuries, it may be tempting to give up hope for a brighter future... But like any patient who suffers from a chronic disease that is potentially fatal, not only is education about the condition itself essential, but also what we can do to help mitigate its impact.

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.

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.

Back in 2008 -» 09, I was perplexed that efforts to mitigate runaway global warming were occurring despite detailed opposition offered by skeptic climate scientists.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

Of course Ferdinand is right not to project catastrophism onto anthropogenic CO2 levels for as you likely know there is a inverse logarithmic relationship between changes in temperature and CO2 levels such that without the assumed positive feedback from water vapour there is no chance of runaway global warming, tipping points or whatever.

1) CO2 concentrations in the past have more than once been several thousands of ppm, there was NO runaway global warming.

What they are practicing is not science, it is propaganda based on an unsupportable catastrophic AGW agenda designed to convince the public that a rise in a tiny trace gas comprising only 0.00038 of the atmosphere will cause runaway global warming and climate catastrophe.

In contrast to the sophisticated climate model predictions of runaway («tipping point») global warming, in reality, real - world global warming, as measured by satellites, has disappeared for over 16 years despite the gargantuan increases in CO2 emissions... (Ramez Naam denies thiIn contrast to the sophisticated climate model predictions of runaway («tipping point») global warming, in reality, real - world global warming, as measured by satellites, has disappeared for over 16 years despite the gargantuan increases in CO2 emissions... (Ramez Naam denies thiin reality, real - world global warming, as measured by satellites, has disappeared for over 16 years despite the gargantuan increases in CO2 emissions... (Ramez Naam denies thiin CO2 emissions... (Ramez Naam denies this)

Atmospheric CO2 has been almost twenty times (20X) higher than now in the «historical record», without causing runaway global warming or any other problems.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should responIn a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should responin the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should responin the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

A new Ice Age could descend on us all, but Socrates would still be looking for ways to keep his alarmist faith in man - made runaway global warming alive.

However the basic question of runaway global warming seems countered by the fact that the planet has sustained life for 4.5 billion years, despite periods in the past when CO2 levels were many times higher than they are now.

And then, ignoring that the heat we feel from the Sun is thermal infrared so does reach us, say that carbon dioxide a trace gas, and already fully part and parcel of the cooling cycling of the Earth in the Water Cycle, is responsible for raising the temperature of the Earth from -18 °C to 15 °C, without ever giving any rational explanation as to how it actually does this, and, that doubling it will cause catastrophic runaway global warming, doubling a trace gas it still remains a trace gas.

The IPCC's climate science has long claimed that human CO2 emissions are producing an accelerated global warming, with a «runaway» warming trend, which is then being amplified in the north and south polar extremes.

Forty years in the global warming runaway global warming desert.

It should be self - evident that clouds have to provide a negative feedback, or there would be regular runaway «global warming» events in the geological record.

CC can provide a perfectly adequate backdrop for a story — there's some decent SF that happens to be set in a world stricken by runaway global warming — but if it's all about the message, then the tendency is towards something that's awkward, preachy, shrill, long - winded, unfunny (or unintentionally funny) or just plain dull.

Was there runaway global warming, and, if so, how did life forms manage to evolve in what AGW proponents argue should have been extremely hostile conditions?

Keep in mind that atmospheric CO2 has exceeded 7,000 ppmv in the past without ever resulting in «runaway global warming.»

There is no global harm identified due to the rise in CO2, which has been up to 20X higher in the past without ever triggering runaway global warming — the scare that started it all.

For those reasonable commenters here who wonder why the pro - AGW / Runaway Global Warming / Climate Catastrophe trolls argue incessantly, and nitpick every point ad nauseum,, the clear answer is given in this paper by a truly brave climate scientist, M.I.T.'s Prof. Richard Lindzen: click

There is no indication of any trend in that data - nor is there in the instrumental data for the past 150 years for that matter - of any runaway global warming actually happening or credibly projected.

As we reported here in August of last year («Desperate Dash of Global Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, oGlobal Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, oglobal controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, oglobal warming, warming, or AGW.

Her chain of reasoning is that i) flights cause CO2, ii) CO2 causes global warming, iii) which will cause runaway climate change, iv) which kills people — the WHO says so, v) these are mostly poor people in other countries.

Today, especially in light of the urgency to address runaway global warming, the rainforests of the sea have come to seen as vital carbon assets and biodiversity storehouses.

The claim that Earth is in the grips of runaway Global Warming took off with this chart.

Bottom Line Henry: I am on your side in that I do not think there is any kind of Global Warming «tipping point» or «runaway warming» crisis, nor has there beWarming «tipping point» or «runaway warming» crisis, nor has there bewarming» crisis, nor has there been one.

Does this paper not prove, in other words, that we have already crossed the tipping point into runaway global warming, that warming will continue even if we remove all of the initial «forcing» of all future human releases of carbon into the atmosphere?

This runaway effect that manmade climate change believers talk about comes from the hypothesis that climate change feedback mechanisms are positive and the small warming we have experienced will lead to drastic increases in global temperature.

In light of the consequences that runaway global warming poses to human civilization and life in all forms on the planet, this is unconscionablIn light of the consequences that runaway global warming poses to human civilization and life in all forms on the planet, this is unconscionablin all forms on the planet, this is unconscionable.

Perhaps the best we can hope for now is that natural limiting mechanisms will kick in so that aviod runaway global warming.

Climate scientists like James E. Hansen predict that methane clathrates in the permafrost regions will be released because of global warming, unleashing powerful feedback forces which may cause runaway climate change that can not be halted.

Yet, I'm being told constantly that this colder atmosphere radiates energy which adds to the heat of the Earth and only needs a tiny tiny extra bit more of CO2 and the whole Earth's temperature will go up several degrees and this will lead to runaway global warming, because in this is a net exchange of energy which includes from the colder to the hotter.

And the result will be ever - escalating wars for control of dwindling oil supplies, ever - escalating destruction of ecosystems, and irreversible, runaway catastrophic global warming, until the whole house of cards that constitutes the present - day «American way of life» collapses, in a very painful and ugly fashion.