Sentences with phrase «on global cooling»

I do not have any problem with Schneider, like Hubert lamb he changed his mind on global cooling when the facts showed otherwise in the early 1970's.
1974: Fortune Magazine: «Climatologists now blame those recurring droughts and floods on a global cooling trend»
To say that scaremongering on global cooling didn't happen is ridiculous.
You know that time when many scientists were blaming the cold weather on Global Cooling!
They have tried to erase the inconvenient history which ironically blamed extreme weather like tornadoes, droughts, record cold and blizzards on global cooling,» Climate Depot's Marc Morano told Seymour.
«On global cooling,» he writes, «there was never anything even remotely approaching the current scientific consensus that the world is growing warmer because of the emission of greenhouse gases.»
He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling.
Monbiot, unlike Kleiman, makes some attempt at a reasoned rebuttal of Wills, with four points (really three: on the global cooling hysteria, arctic ice disappearance, and the current absence of global warming).
Time Magazine Goes Both Ways On The Polar Vortex: «In 1974, Time Mag blamed the cold polar vortex on global cooling» — In 2014: «Time Magazine blames the cold polar vortex on global warming»
1974 CIA report on Global Cooling: «Embarrassing reading»: «All AGW scares are a search - and - replace job from «cooling» to «warming» — Dec. 3, 2009
See: 1974 CIA report on Global Cooling: «Embarrassing reading»: «All AGW scares are a search - and - replace job from «cooling» to «warming» — Dec. 3, 2009 & Climate Depot's Factsheet on 1970s Coming «Ice Age» Claims — Oct. 6, 2009
D'Aleo appears to have co-published one article on global cooling (with geologist Don Easterbrook) in the journal, Energy & Environment:
(Related: On Realclimate.org, there is a stinging critique of a Lou Dobbs report on global cooling featuring Mr. D'Aleo.)
Thirty years ago, the popular theory was that the Earth was heading into another ice age, and the same extreme weather events that some people are blaming on global warming were blamed on global COOLING!
I «m old enough to remember when there was a scientific consensus on global cooling, and this was in the 1970s with all kinds of alarmist data on that subject.
If, for example, Big CO2 Inc. wanted to put a billion dollars down on global cooling, 2 things would happen — the web would be full of «sign up and take some money from Big CO2 Inc.» emails, and, more importantly, some of the people who think it's a slam dunk for global warming might temper their predictions just a bit because some clown put so much money down on the opposite outcome.
Schneider says he gets «frustrated» by «all the false spin on my motives or advice» from the likes of conservative columnists George Will and Charles Krauthammer, who have trumpeted his 30 - year - old paper on global cooling to question his credibility on global warming.

Not exact matches

If you and I disagree on politics or global warming or whether Richard Branson is the most important entrepreneur of our generation, that's cool.
Well, hold on a moment: if China continues to grow at past rates, China becomes more than 90 percent of the entire global steel market — which is unlikely, and so it seems likely that the iron ore capacity may be rising just as slowing capital investments in China cools demand.»
On a global scale, the heating of atmospheric molecules causes the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, to expand and stretch higher during the day; it then settles back down as it cools at night.
Cool It, a documentary based on his 2007 book of the same name, continues Lomborg's cry to rethink the world's responses to global warming: Abandon toothless agreements about carbon cuts and instead invest in renewable energy, along with geoengineering as a fail - safe.
McCright's study, «Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States,» was published online in July and printed in the October 2011 issue of Global Environmental Change, which ranks first out of 77 journals on environmental studies.
But since 2001 there has been less water vapor in a narrow, lower band of the stratosphere thanks to cooler temperatures in the tropopause, and that may just be holding back global warming at ground level, according to new research published online in Science on January 28.
According to the study, soot from hydrocarbon - rich areas caused global cooling of 8 - 11 °C and cooling on land of 13 - 17 °C.
So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.
Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.
In 1815, the Indonesian volcano Tambora propelled more ash and volcanic gases into the atmosphere than any other eruption in history and resulted in significant atmospheric cooling on a global scale, much like Krakatau a few decades later.
The culprits in global cooling range from the operators of power stations in Europe to goat herders on the fringes of the Sahara; from farmers burning Amazon rainforests to the iron and steel manufacturers of the Far East.
La Niñas have a cooling effect on global temperatures.
The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.
On top of that, explorations occurred during a time of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age, which stretched from the 13th to early 20th centuries.
The deadliest volcanoes on earth are called supervolcanoes, capable of producing cataclysmic eruptions that devastate huge regions, and cause global cooling of the climate.
Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.
«I may want to get your cellphone number, Dr. Holdren,» said Representative Randy Weber (R — TX), «because, if we go through another few cycles of global warming and cooling, I may need to ask you when I should buy my long coat on sale.»
People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.
Predictions of global cooling in the short term are partly based on the idea that sea surface temperatures will fall in the northern Atlantic, due to slow, irregular swings in conditions known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.
El Niño is waning, and it could usher in a La Niña later in the year, which tends to have a cooling effect on global temperatures.
So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.
Covering nearly 5.5 million square miles, the frozen mass exerts an enormous influence on the global climate, reflecting sunlight back into space and cooling Earth's atmosphere and oceans.
The cooling effect of aerosols can partly offset global warming on a short - term basis, but many are made of organic material that comes from sources that scientists don't fully understand, said Joost de Gouw, a research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the studies.
Various aerosols also rise up in the atmosphere, but their net effect on global warming or cooling is still uncertain, as some aerosols reflect sunlight away from Earth, and others, in contrast, trap warmth in the atmosphere.
«The global spread of plants and their adaptations to life on land, led to an increase in continental weathering rates that ultimately resulted in a dramatic decrease the levels of the «greenhouse gas» carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global cooling,» said co-author Dr. Jennifer Morris, from the University of Bristol.
Of the other strand, aerosol cooling, Rasool and Schneider, Science, July 1971, p 138, «Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate» is the best exemplar.
As discussed elsewhere on this site, modeling studies indicate that the modest cooling of hemispheric or global mean temperatures during the 15th - 19th centuries (relative to the warmer temperatures of the 11th - 14th centuries) appears to have been associated with a combination of lowered solar irradiance and a particularly intense period of explosive volcanic activity.
See above for my comments on global warming vs global cooling which depend strongly on the period of data.
These can have a limited effect on ozone levels (by serving as hetrogeneous reaction sites) and can reflect enough of the sun's light back into space to cause a notable global cooling.
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Conflicting research on the heating and cooling of Earth has led to a global temperature conundrum, which climate scientists plan to address this fall.
Like Foster and Rahmstorf, Lean and Rind (2008) performed a multiple linear regression on the temperature data, and found that while solar activity can account for about 11 % of the global warming from 1889 to 2006, it can only account for 1.6 % of the warming from 1955 to 2005, and had a slight cooling effect -LRB--0.004 °C per decade) from 1979 to 2005.
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