Sentences with phrase «modest amount of warming»

It might sound from their arguments like their projections mean we're on course for only a modest amount of warming.

I know how much emotional investment you have in at least a modest amount of warming from aCO2,

[emphasis added] Bast: «We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem.

It is also clear that modest amounts of warming will have both positive and negative impacts, but above about 4 or 5 degrees Fahrenheit most impacts turn negative for many ecological systems, and for most nations.

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Most conservatives recognize a modest amount of «Anthropogenic Global Warming».

An obsessive friendship between two teenage girls unfolds with equal amounts of tenderness and terror in «Breathe,» a modest but acutely observed and affecting adolescent portrait that suggests a chaste «Blue Is a Warmest Color» by way of «Single White Female.»

The paper appears to conclude that if we wait 20 years to begin reducing GHG emissions, assuming a modest amount of mitigation in the short term, we will have to reduce emissions at a 3 to 7 times greater rate than if we start now in order to keep warming to a 3 degree C increase around 2100.

First, there is room for disussion regarding whether a modest amount of global warming is bad, but I don't believe there can be much debate that a large amount of global warming would be horrible — there is no easy work - around for the relocation of a third of the world's major cities due to sea - level rise.

«Forecast the Facts» feigns shock that I would call global warming a «scam» or suggest that a modest amount of global warming would be beneficial.

So while admitting, there probably is a very modest amount of AGW in the current warming cycle, it could just as easily have been caused by: i) the effects of the huge increase in global irrigation, ii) tiny changes in the sun's radiation, and / or iii) the knock on effects of changes in the intensity and direction of ocean currents.

Even modest amounts of global warming could trigger a carbon «time bomb» and release massive amounts of greenhouse gases from frozen Arctic soils, a new study has warned.

The alarmist must have it as a positive feedback because otherwise the only warming that's gonna happen is a modest welcome amount that is of great net benefit to the biosphere.

For years I have opposed steps like a Federal carbon tax or cap and trade system because I believe (and still believe) them to be unnecessary given the modest amount of man - made warming I expect over the next century.