The
basics of global warming science remain robust — more greenhouse gases will continue to heat the planet, erode ice, raise seas and present challenges to many human and ecological communities.
The United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, this week to iron out the final details of a widely anticipated report on the current
state of global warming science.
Several recent studies have questioned many of the projections of climate change made by the IPCC reports and at present there is an emerging dissenting view
of the global warming science which is at odds with the IPCC view of the cause and consequence of global warming.
In 1998, Michaels blasted NASA scientist James Hansen, accusing the godfather
of global warming science of being way off on his key 1988 prediction of warming over the next 10 years.
The Keeling Curve, a famous graph named after scientist Charles David Keeling, measures the increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the air since 1958; it is considered the
bedrock of global warming science because it is generally believed that there is a direct correlation between increasing levels of carbon dioxide and global warming.
I think the main reason it is often difficult to convince a lot of
people of global warming science is because it is simply harder to present a tangible and irrefutable example of the science at work.
Now the foes of limits on greenhouse gases have the ball, proclaiming the
death of global warming science on the basis of flaws in the climate panel's report, recent fluctuations in temperature and the issues raised by the exposed e-mail messages and files of some climate scientists.
It's ironic because Nature, the «International weekly journal of science», has a troubling involvement in the false narrative and controlled
message of global warming science.
Many more flawed or misleading
presentations of Global Warming science exist in the book, including those on Arctic sea ice thinning, correction of land - based temperature measurements for the urban heat island effect, satellite vs. ground - based measurements of Earth's warming, and controversies over sea level rise estimates.
A 2007 report by the U.N. Climate Panel, which is a
snapshot of global warming science by the world's leading experts, said: «By mid-century, increases in temperature and associated decreases in soil water are projected to lead to gradual replacement of tropical forest by savannah in eastern Amazonia.»
Duffy suggested that the Goddard Institute deliberately tried to keep the change quiet because it undermined the case of what he calls «climate change orthodoxy», and claimed that «the discovery that it got one of the central data
sets of global warming science and debate wrong is embarrassing and disturbing».
Because of the
complexity of global warming science as well as the challenge of securing accurate estimations of emissions from these various sectors, this estimation is the best we can hope for.
Speaking at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi Wednesday, the IPCC chairman, Rajendra Pachauri admitted errors had been made but said it was not an excuse to question the
legitimacy of all global warming science.
explain how
much of the global warming science was funded by the U.S. military for purposes of national security --(AGW really wasn't hatched by a cabal of global communists) and it is time to use the information our military has paid for.
While the
basics of global warming science are now firmly established, climatologists immersed in «attribution» research, investigating the mix of factors shaping a particular heat wave, deluge or drought, are still arguing long and hard about whether there is a discernible contribution from human - driven warming.
How a tiny blog and a collective of climate enthusiasts broke the biggest story in the
history of global warming science — but not without a gatekeeper of the climate establishment trying to halt its proliferation.
Or is Paul defending against the charge by making a numbers argument — the scientists in question are on the same side as the consensus, so to challenge any
aspect of global warming science or politics is to make a statement about «the majority of scientists» (many of whom are in fact social scientists)?
Unfortunately, Crichton presents a error - filled and distorted
version of the Global Warming science, favoring views of the handful of contrarians that attack the consensus science of the IPCC.
I honestly think that I've got some of the most engaging treatments of the history
of global warming science to be found on the Web so far; I've structured them after some of the pivotal scientific papers published over the years.