Thickening ice in Antarctica has been
predicted by climate scientists for a long time, as a consequence of the greater moisture - carrying capacity of warmer air, so evidence for a thickening ice sheet would actually support, not negate, other evidence for global warming.
While few expect the pause to persist much longer, it has raised some questions about the growing divergence between observed temperatures and
those predicted by climate scientists.
As warming in the Arctic has been increasing as
predicted by the climate scientists, I presume the HadCRUT temperatures are getting less accurate.
In fact I have been crying GW for 15 years & attributing all sorts of harms to AGW (as
predicted by climate scientists & their models to happen or increase over time).
That is a pattern long
predicted by climate scientists using computer simulations.
Not exact matches
A new paper published
by scientists in the Northeast finds that long - term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately
predict and manage the effects of
climate change.
A new study
by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups
predicts that the effects of
climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.
The
scientists, part of a team headed
by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used
climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to
predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.
Climate scientists predict the oceans could rise three feet
by 2100, submerging Maldivian fishing villages and luxury resorts alike.
In cooperation with
scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the
predicted loss of area of tree species caused
by deforestation on the one hand and
by predicted forest losses in an extreme
climate change scenario on the other.
One possible source is a 1938 study
by pioneering
climate scientist Guy Callendar in which he
predicted that doubling the global concentration of carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels would result in around 2 °C of warming.
Up until now,
scientists have sought to quantify the risk of
climate change to different species
by mapping where those species occur today based on
climate and then
predicting where they may occur in the future.
The discovery of genes involved in the production of DMSP in phytoplankton, as well as bacteria, will allow
scientists to better evaluate which organisms make DMSP in the marine environment and
predict how the production of this influential molecule might be affected
by future environmental changes, such as the warming of the oceans due to
climate change.
The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios
predicted by the dominant
climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA
scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.
Tropical Pacific
climate variations and their global weather impacts may be
predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research
by an international team of
climate scientists from the USA, Australia, and Japan.
Scientists are trying to
predict this new, warmer state
by looking into the record of past eras of
climate change.
Fascinatingly, the book from the mid-70s said that there was one
climate scientist — Wally Broecker - who
predicted that the greenhouse warming was on the verge of overtaking the aerosol cooling effects and that
by the year 2000 the planet would be warmer than it had been in 1000 years.
The
scientists, part of a team headed
by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used
climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to
predict where caribou habitat would likely exist.
June 29, 2017 •
Scientists and economists
predict what parts of the U.S. may get hit hardest
by climate change.
Climate scientists predict that
by the end of this century, temperatures could rise 10 °F worldwide.
Scientists predict climate change will reduce the Colorado River's flow
by 10 to 30 percent
by 2050.»
Even if the study were right... (which it is not) mainstream
scientists use * three * methods to
predict a global warming trend... not just
climate computer models (which stand up extremely well for general projections
by the way) under world - wide scrutiny... and have for all intents and purposes already correctly
predicted the future -(Hansen 1988 in front of Congress and Pinatubo).
I'm no
climate scientist, but I know models in all fields are based on clusters of formulae, and these formulae are often derived from real world data partly
by trial and error, and adjusting terms until they can reliably
predict past and future data.
Time is not on our side and we are going to see the consequences of
climate change faster than
predicted by scientists at the cost of mankind.
Last summer, government
scientists predicted that, as a result of
climate change, polar bears may disappear from the U.S. and its waters entirely
by 2050 — and that estimate doesn't even take into account potential effects from new oil and gas activities.
The study comes as
scientists have
predicted proliferation of these blooms as the
climate changes, and amid increasing attention
by the news media and local politicians to the worst cases.
In 1971, the Washington Post reported that research based on
climate modeling developed
by NASA
scientist James Hansen
predicted that glaciers would cover much of the globe within 50 years —
by 2021 — because of mankind's fossil - fuel dust blotting out the sun.
It goes like this: The good
scientists agree that global warming is human induced and would be addressed if America ratified the Kyoto global warming pact, while bad heretical
scientists question
climate models that
predict Armageddon because they are venal and corrupted
by oil money.
Dr. Indur M. Goklany, a top
scientist on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), says the recent report by UN's World Health Organization (WHO) predicting 250,000 deaths annually caused by global warming utilized «willful exaggerations» to promote more climate al
Climate Change (IPCC), says the recent report
by UN's World Health Organization (WHO)
predicting 250,000 deaths annually caused
by global warming utilized «willful exaggerations» to promote more
climate al
climate alarmism.
From the abstract: «The emission scenarios used
by the IPCC and
by mainstream
climate scientists are largely derived from the
predicted demand for fossil fuels, and in our view take insufficient consideration of the constrained emissions that are likely due to the depletion of these fuels.
Even little Joey Jones is talking greenhouse gases — he learned at school that
scientists are
predicting a worldwide
climate catastrophe that will change the rest of his life, unless we stop the worst effects
by making big changes in the next ten years.
Global warming's crystal ball is clearing as
climate models improve, and
scientists now
predict that some regions will see a month's less rain and snow
by 2100.
If
climate change is so wrong, why do these deniers not line every shore that
scientists predict will be hit
by hurricanes?»
The report,
by University of Alabama
scientist Roy Spencer and published in the peer - reviewed journal Remote Sensing, argues that heat is actually escaping from Earth much more quickly than current
climate models
predicted.
These are among several possibilities that
scientists from all over the world grapple with as they attempt to develop a regional
climate model for Sunderbans that can
predict different scenarios at a time when the mangrove delta is being battered
by cyclones and getting inundated due to sea - level rise.
Climate Scientist Who Got It Right
Predicts 20 More Years of Global Cooling — «For the next 20 years, I
predict global cooling of about 3 / 10ths of a degree Fahrenheit, as opposed to the one - degree warming
predicted by the IPCC,» said [Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook, professor emeritus of geology at Western Washington University and author of 150 scientific journal articles and 10 books, including «Evidence Based
Climate Science,» which was published in 2011.
A significant and serious concern among mainstream
climate scientists in this regard is the inability of the models to
predict climate surprises, that is, rapid non-linear changes in the
climate system that have happened in the historical
climate record and that may be triggered
by current human activities.
For decades,
climate scientists have
predicted that rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases from the human combustion of fossil fuel could lead to global warming, and that warming would be accompanied
by more frequent or more violent storms.
Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much
climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing
climate change, f) whether we can trust the
scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity
by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to
predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?
Here's a prediction from 2007 where a
climate scientist predicts that Arctic sea ice may disappear
by 2013, saying that since his modelling didn't include the last couple of record lows in its training data,» you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.»
4 Core Case Study: Studying a Volcano to Understand
Climate Change NASA
scientists correctly
predicted that the 1991 Philippines explosion would cool the average temperature of the earth
by 0.5 C o over a 15 month period and then return to normal
by 1995.
This was not
predicted by any U.S.
climate scientist, nor
by NOAA, nor
by NASA and certainly not
by the political technocrats at the UN's IPCC.
Climate scientists predicted years ago that — at present rates of melting — the Arctic could be ice - free in September
by mid-century.
The red curve shows actual temperature cooling since 2003, which was not
predicted by a single crank «expert»
climate scientist.
Almost immediately, another «prestigious» group of
scientists waded in with a new «peer - reviewed» report
predicting that
climate change will cause a million deaths a year
by 2020, $ 157 billion in annual damages, and indescribable misery for the world's poorest countries.
Due to
climate change caused
by global warming and pollution,
scientists predict that winter will end three weeks earlier.
But to make things worse,
climate scientists predict that between 2080 and 2099, soil moisture will decrease
by between 5 % and 15 % worldwide.
Yet, when
scientists examine the empirical temperature measurement datasets, it becomes readily apparent that changes in CO2 levels are not generating the expected changes in global temperatures, as
predicted by the immensely powerful and sophisticated (and incredibly costly)
climate models.
Hang on... we've been told for years
by apparent top
climate scientists to expect less snowfalls,
climate models
predict warmer winters, ex-politicians claiming ice - free polar caps, hand - wringing news articles of children who would never experience snowfalls, on and on... but now we're expected to believe exactly the opposite because that's what's happening now.
If you are a
scientist or engineer and believe the AGW part of
climate change is well described
by the models, then I will ask you to explain how the hypothesis is calculated and how independnently validated
by others experiments, over the time periods
predicted ex ante, not ex post, how the forcing variable from CO2 to water vapour was hypothesisied and then proven.