Sentences with phrase «just over global warming»

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Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?

And the question of how science on the fringe should be dealt with remains open: some observers say that Meldrum, who has been lambasted by colleagues and passed over for promotion twice, should just be left alone to do his thing; others counter that in this era of creationism, global warming denial, and widespread antiscience sentiment and scientific illiteracy, it is particularly imperative that bad science be soundly scrutinized and exposed.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

And just as January began, so did the winter weather.Surprisingly, I'm not complaining one bit about it either (we're not getting into global warming over here).

Both have been chosen because of their hopes for a brighter future, but over the decades, Frank (now played by George Clooney) has become disillusioned, and it's up to Casey and Athena to bring him around and in the process save the world from... Well, I won't spoil it, but let's just say this is the sort of movie in which a discussion of global warming plays a supporting role and the senselessness of Hollywood movies and video games receives its obligatory culture - war spanking.

Much like the debate over global warming, these non-believers refuse to validate an unassailable fact: standardized testing does have positive — and predictive — value in education and in life, just as the Earth is, indeed, getting warmer.

Hadley Centre climate forecasts are for more high - intensity storms in Britain as global warming intensifies — Scotland has just had the strongest storm in living memory this January, which subsequently hit Scandinavia after increasing its wind - speeds over the North Sea (so it's not just us, it seems).

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

«The era of «equal time» for skeptics who argue that global warming is just a result of natural variation and not human intervention seems to be largely over — except on talk radio, cable, and local television,» she tells us.

But the sheer rate of increase over just the past 55 years shows how fast global warming could hit us in the future — and the present — and underscores how much we've failed as a planet to slow down carbon emissions.

«I just happen to be publishing an article by a scientist who lives on Tuvalu and who shows that the real problems already being experienced by people there (salination, sinking because of sand excavation) while ascribed by politicians seeking aid to global warming, are in fact due to over population, natural local causes and above (sic) development on what is little more than a floating patch of sand in the Pacific.»

In the spring of 2015, only 10 percent of Americans viewed global warming as a religious issue; 13 percent thought it was a spiritual issue, and just over a third (36 %) thought it was a moral issue.

The earth has had significant Global Warming for some 20,000 years now... The only real argument is to the degree that mans activity has augmented that... We just came out of one - point - five - million years of continuous glaciation with sheets of two mile thick ice down past the 44th parallel... I will cheerfully deal with warming issues over that, anyWarming for some 20,000 years now... The only real argument is to the degree that mans activity has augmented that... We just came out of one - point - five - million years of continuous glaciation with sheets of two mile thick ice down past the 44th parallel... I will cheerfully deal with warming issues over that, anywarming issues over that, any day...

Just that is enough to create about 0.08 K of warming; not much but over the sunspot cycle the global temperature varies by about 0.1 + K.

We can not expect the world to attempt to stop global warming (if it exists) & forego its use of fossil fuels just so big - heads can breed children each of whose Carbon footprint will, over their life, equal another 10,000 cars on the road.

Just a few weeks ago, more than 300 Oregonians gathered at the Natural Capital Center in Portland to hear best - selling author, environmentalist, and climate advocate Paul Hawken present Drawdown, his long - awaited new book that chronicles over 100 creative solutions for addressing global warming.

There's actually, Caltech scientists just came out in June of this year, and said more people, over population may save the earth from global warming.

Ironically, during the 1970s while some (including NASA's James Hansen) were hysterically promoting the schizoid fears of a new ice age hitting the world in a few decades, a new frenzy over Global Warming and Climate Change was just beginning at Scripps Ocenaographic Institute in San Diego, CA.

The public is likewise split on the cause of global warming, with just over half understanding that humans are primarily responsible.

NAS and RS are just two of the leading scientific organizations whose leadership has been taken over by the global warming movement.

Global warming not just changing Greenland, but it affects all over the world.

In reviewing more than 2,000 peer - reviewed publications, authored by over 9,000 authors between November 2012 and December 2013, geochemist James Powell found just one author who rejected global warming.

Extinction of plant and animal species and global warming are of great concern to just over a third of Americans.

Just over half in the survey, 51 percent, say there is «a lot of disagreement among scientists» over the existence of global warming, down 11 points from 2009 but still higher than the share who say scientists agree with one another on the issue, 43 percent.

If there is one thing we have learned, if you are to keep the global warming hoax alive, you must personalize the Global Climate scare - stories — e.g., first you give an ice shelf a name; then, when you hear that if calved - off Antarctica to just float away and silently die alone and forgotten, it's like hearing that a member of the family has been run over by a drunk driver in global warming hoax alive, you must personalize the Global Climate scare - stories — e.g., first you give an ice shelf a name; then, when you hear that if calved - off Antarctica to just float away and silently die alone and forgotten, it's like hearing that a member of the family has been run over by a drunk driver in Global Climate scare - stories — e.g., first you give an ice shelf a name; then, when you hear that if calved - off Antarctica to just float away and silently die alone and forgotten, it's like hearing that a member of the family has been run over by a drunk driver in a SUV.

I only found out about Ecotricity today, and am shocked (though I shouldn't be) that what's happening here clearly demonstrates that «global warming» can't be the real issue, or corporations like EDF would realise that what they are doing ultimately (when actual costs are counted), is increasing their carbon footprint (just think of all the people, documents, transportation that are needed over the course of a court - case).

Although global warming appears to have taken a breather over the past decade and a half, the leveling off of average global temperatures is likely just a temporary phenomenon that is due to other climate influences from the sun's radiance level to natural temperature oscillations in the Pacific ocean.

We should just as easily write off solar cycle # 23 after it's peak in 2002 from having much influence over global warming either.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

Just yesterday, a peer reviewed paper was published which shows that the positive feedbacks that global warming theory depends on to predict a climate catastrophe, have been up until now vastly over stated.

The standard rejoinder to skeptics is: «Just wait, once the pause is over, global warming will resume, and then your criticism that IPCC models are tuned too hot will collapse.»

So if you want to you can take the sea level as a proxy for global warming — all the fuss and fracas over the accuracy of weather stations can be discarded — just read the sea level, something that is now possible to the nearest millimetre thanks to the satellites.

We should just disband the IPCC since there no global warming anyway, and then immediateldy disband the EPA and turn over all environmental oversight (which would be minimal at best) to the more capable Koch Bros. and BP.

Skeptics, write Hoffman, think concern over global warming just a ruse to curtail personal liberties — by increasing the power of government to interfere in the market.

When I began my intensive search for anything showing the «reposition global warming» memo in its full context, what I found in just the first day was essentially wall - to - wall quotes about Ross Gelbspan's big revelation of it to the world — except for one lone exception, which was a March 13, 2008 US News & World Report article noting phrase was part of Kivalina v Exxon court case documents (more on that separate problem here) which themselves led me to the New York Times revelation of the phrase and the ICE campaign, over six years earlier than any accolades about Gelbspan's exposé.

The 84 - year old «grandfather of the global warming «skeptics»» shows just how over the edge he is in the following exchange:

Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers took a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1 % of which endorsed human - caused global warming.

Hysteria over global warming is now pervasive in the federal government, driving not just the Obama Administration's energy and environmental policies, but also those of nearly every federal department and agency.

The truth does not stop government scientists from simply declaring that looking back over the past 10,000 years the Sun is responsible for Earth's climate and of course, over the last 50 years it is just us that is causing global warming.

The only difference is that the attribution will be 90 % towards clouds and water vapour and since humans are in no way responsible for these factors AGW will be just about natural global warming which ended over a decade ago and replaced by the global cooling which started in 2002 and will likely continue nuntil at least the end of solar cycle 25 around 2032

Scientists have been urging the global community to avoid 2 C warming before 2100 (and 1.5 C if at all possible), but the current path brings us to that level of warming in just over 30 - 50 years, not over the 84 years remaining in this century.

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

Just that plus 0.8 C over that period - with several clearly distinct ups and down in the graph - including crucially the ongoing 16 year flat lining is not a reason to jump out the window screaming nor change the socio economic make up of the world to stop «catastrophic man - made global warming».

Results from an irreducibly simple climate model,» concluded that, once discrepancies in IPCC computer models are taken into account, the impact of CO2 - driven manmade global warming over the next century (and beyond) is likely to be «no more than one - third to one - half of the IPCC's current projections» — that is, just 1 - 2 degrees C (2 - 4 deg F) by 2100!

It is a challenge which has reduced dramatically over just the timespan of anthropogenic global warming.

If this shits you... well, petal, just get over yourself: global warming is a profoundly serious problem, and if the likes of you get your way and we don't address it post haste the planet will within decades be committed to a future where down the track it is screwed for human society and for a large chunk of life on Earth.

Kaboom — I agree about the six months: Obama will be the hope of the Western world, and Bush can be safely blamed for just about everything that has gone wrong with the planet over the last eight years (as can Global Warming, when you think about it.)

And I assume the Sierra Club would issue a public retraction if confronted with the facts that the data are precisely as I described that over the last 18 years there has been no significant warming and indeed that is why global warming alarmists invented the term «the pause» to explain what they called the pause in global warming because the data demonstrate what you just said, that the Earth is cooking and warming, is not back up by the data.

But if the weighty evidence of thousands of scientific papers over the last two decades is to be believed, global warming isn't just real and happening now - its negative consequences are being played out all around us, affecting the lives of millions.