The alternative view he advances sees
a less dramatic climate change that would allow the world to adapt without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Not exact matches
If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt
climate -
change events, it seems
less likely that such
dramatic abrupt
changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.
At first glance, the impacts of
climate change in the United States might seem
less dramatic than melting icebergs in the Arctic.
The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused
climate change may be
less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.
If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt
climate -
change events, it seems
less likely that such
dramatic abrupt
changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.
I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world =
less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological
changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link
dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on
climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.
-- reasonably well - informed people are actually
LESS interested in
dramatic interventionism to combat «
climate change»...
The most
dramatic climate extremes were
less associated with prolonged multiyear periods of cold than with year to year temperature
changes, or even particularly prominent individual cold spells, and these events were often quite specific to particular seasons.
In contrast, the risk of extinction without
climate change was calculated to be
less than 1 %, suggesting that
climate change will cause a
dramatic increase in extinction risk for these taxonomic groups over the next century.