To better determine the fate of the species in the face of climate change, the researchers analyzed a total of 34 different global climate models, taking into account atmospheric sensitivity to greenhouse gases and different
levels of human greenhouse gas emissions.
«Eighty percent
[of human greenhouse gas emissions] come from coal, oil and natural gas, which provide 80 percent of the world's energy supply,» observed White House Office of Science and Technology Policy advisor John Holdren during remarks at the ARPA - E summit.
That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a
result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.
I answered that adaptation measures are fine, but that the notion that the
influence of human greenhouse gas emissions is significant — to the point of having been responsible for the majority of the observed warming in the 20th century — is not controversial within the community of actual climate scientists.
One passage written by Heartland reads, «Scientists who study the issue say it is impossible to tell if the recent small warming trend is natural, a continuation of the planet's recovery from the more recent «Little Ice Age,» or unnatural, the result
of human greenhouse gas emissions.»
Climate modelers are scrambling to try to save their creations» reputations because the one thing that they do not want to have to admit is that they exaggerate the amount that the earth's average temperature will increase as a result
of human greenhouse gas emissions.
So we have a situation in which the latest science on two key issues: how much the earth will warm as a result
of human greenhouse gas emissions, and how well climate models perform in projecting the warming, is largely not incorporated into the new IPCC report.