The only thing that appears to be really true about climate change and climate scientists is that increased CO2 will arm the world but what the implications are
of this warming scientists leave to other people.
The new report, for example, slightly reduces the lower end of the estimated uncertainty range for the amount
of warming scientists expect in response to a doubling of CO2 concentrations compared to preindustrial levels.
even in the best case scenario, business as usual fossil fuel burning will almost certainly commit us to more than 2C (3.6 F) warming, an amount
of warming that scientists who study climate change impacts tell us will lead to truly dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change.
Yet the potential carbon emissions from oil, gas, and coal in the world's currently operating fields and mines would take us beyond levels
of warming that scientists have determined to be safe.
The summary says that in the near term, at levels
of warming that scientists say we are already committed to, there is a very high risk to Arctic sea ice and coral reefs.
(To see an interesting graphic representation of the kind
of warming scientists expect, check out this cartoon.)
Not exact matches
Sumner said Trump is too quick to dismiss the evidence
of global
warming compiled by climate
scientists.
He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities
of federal climate
scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global
warming was going through a «hiatus».
A team
of top
scientists explores the fastest
warming place on Earth, as they examine the rapidly melting ice sheet
of the West Antarctic Peninsula.
Trump and several
of his cabinet members deny the consensus among climate
scientists that carbon dioxide from human activity is the primary cause
of global
warming.
Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate - change
scientists who base their doomsday forecasts
of man - made global
warming on extrapolation
of historical data.
Scientists have found that the amount
of rain dished out by heavy rainstorms has gone up 10 percent since 1900 due to global
warming.
In a recent analysis
of climate events from last year, 2016,
scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob»
of unusually
warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.
We must reckon with the likelihood
of even worse storms, heat waves, fires, and droughts as the Earth
warms — because
scientists expect even this «new normal» to get worse.
United Nations
scientists state that raising animals for food is «one
of the major causes
of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global
warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss
of biodiversity.»
These are the types
of storms climate
scientists to expect to see more
of in a
warmer world.
In fact, there are thousands
of well - credentialed
scientists who dissent in whole or in part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous global
warming.
He was harrassed because he bucked the prevailing opinions
of the day, much as, say, a
scientist who is anti-global
warming is today.
In the current wars over global
warming we are seeing an example
of scientists behaving badly.
Unfortunately, there are examples
of at least one study, which claims 97 percent
of climate
scientists agree global
warming is happening and is manmade, which may have done a not - so - great job
of reaching such a conclusion.
On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation
of policy intended to protect
scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global
warming.
Most
of us do not trust the
scientists employed by the cigarette companies to tell us truthfully about the consequences
of smoking for health, nor the
scientists who work for oil companies to give us accurate information about global
warming.
The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average
of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth
warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our
warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a
warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a
scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.
Climatologists are always looking for good junk
scientists to support their phony liberal Global
Warming theory, and you're a liberal junk
scientist of the first order.
You'll make a lot
of money being the champion Global
Warming Junk
Scientist.
United Nations
scientists state that raising animals for food is «one
of the major causes
of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global
warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss
of biodiversity.»
Most
scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result
of global
warming — a steady increase in the average temperature
of the surface
of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations
of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.
Not much is mentioned again about the technique until the 1960's when a Russian
scientist, Igor Charcovsky, began experimenting with the use
of warm water immersion for women in labor to see how it affected their labor, the birth, and newborn behavior.
Maeve Vallely Bartlett; State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, vice chair
of the Senate Committee on Global
Warming and Climate Change; Wayne Klockner, state director
of The Nature Conservancy; and Ken Kimmell, president
of the Union
of Concerned
Scientists.
Nor would you get information on global
warming from a climate
scientist because they are «bias» in favor
of anthropic global
warming.
Next up, take a look at this exposé
of a global
warming skeptic's site that not only makes up fake scientific studies, it also fabricates the
scientists and research institutions behind them.
But you see, the Met office never predicted a «barbecue summer», firstly because as
scientists, the term «barbecue summer» is hardly scientific, but also because they predicted something along the lines
of «there's a 60 % chance the summer will be
warmer than average», which the media duly turned into «THEREZ GON NA B A BARBEE SUMA LOLZORZ!!!! 111» As someone on the internet said about Simon Jenkins recently, and could now so easily say about Hannan, he doesn't understand what a stochastic process is.
Fifth, the right wing websites, who would never be caught dead reading a hostile left wing website and who would never read anything written by actual
scientists (who they consider to either be part
of the liberal elite or part
of an ill - defined conspiracy), never hear about what poor science the study they're celebrating actually is, and go right on believing that their anti-global
warming position is so obviously correct that everyone else must either be fools or conspirators.I believe the link pfft posted is step three.
Climate
scientists tell us that to keep the rise
of global temperature above the pre-industrial level at below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to avoid runaway global
warming, the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent per year starting in 2020.
«I think we all need to be assured about the credibility and motivation
of scientists onboard the global
warming wagon.»
In a video posted on his official Assembly website, Hanna is seen debating a bill on the floor and decrying a «conspiracy» by
scientists who engage in climate research to «suppress» research conducted by those who challenge the existence
of global
warming.
Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not believing in global
warming, but when faced by such an overwhelming majority
of scientist who believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to deny it.
Rising sea levels caused by a
warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths
of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team
of climate
scientists.
Now,
scientists are trying to get a better handle on peatlands and the effects
of agriculture, development and a climate that's shifting toward
warmer and drier.
The drones can't come too soon for
scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set
of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by
warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.
While more than 95 percent
of the world's climate
scientists attribute global
warming to human causes, only about half
of U.S. adults agree.
«Our results indicate that a wide range
of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result
of climate change, confirming that Arctic
warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the
scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Scientists may also become able to distinguish between different scenarios sooner by studying the physics
of local ice - sheet changes and refining reconstructions
of changes during
warm periods in geological history.
The
scientists» work, published in September in Current Biology, reveals the impact
of the
warming predicted to occur over the next 50 years.
«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition
of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts
of climate change and reach a goal
of net - zero global
warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer
of the Union
of Concerned
Scientists.
Despite all these variables,
scientists from Svante Arrhenius to those on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have noted that doubling preindustrial concentrations
of CO2 in the atmosphere from 280 parts per million (ppm) would likely result in a world with average temperatures roughly 3 degrees C
warmer.
New research could explain why the Arctic was much
warmer during a period millions
of years ago that
scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate today
«We're glad the governor went to global
warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director
of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate
scientists.
With Arctic temperatures
warming twice as fast as the global average,
scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts
of carbon into the atmosphere through the end
of the century with significant climate impacts.
KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric
scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts
of global
warming.