It certainly appears as though «adaptation» will be the more useful step in the short run compared to anything tangible we can do or attempt to stop doing
regarding further warming.
Not exact matches
I am seeking a «mutually beneficial relationship» with a woman
far wiser, more experienced and affluent than I. I remain available for any
further inquiries and
warmest regards!
The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark
regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the
warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring
far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»
With
regard to solutions, you'll not easily see RealClimate going
further than a simple: «reduce CO2 emissions, and other
warming agents too.
The talk (about an hour on video) is the best talk I've heard, by
far,
regarding the history of the science of global
warming, going back decades and including some great information and quotes.
Several new studies support this human - caused boost of a natural pattern, though controversy still exists
regarding the mechanisms linking rapid Arctic
warming with weather patterns
farther south in the mid-latitudes.
The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely
regarded as the most
far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global
warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.
gbaikie As
regards the question as to how exactly the sun
warms the earth — shortwave, longwave, whatever — does it really matter as
far as agw is concerned?
«As
regards the question as to how exactly the sun
warms the earth — shortwave, longwave, whatever — does it really matter as
far as agw is concerned?»
The «unnatural»
warming so
far seen is however trended strongly to the alterations to the planetary surface by Humanity over the past 400 years and the rebalance towards greater kinetic induction (in its cumulative effect) is now producing observable alterations not only to the Land Surface median Temperature, but to the Ocean (vie conduction / convection) and a still unconfirmed claim of a small overall rise in Median Atmospheric Temperature, which if «true» would place the Planetary Biosphere on the «Human Population Plot» with
regard to «
warming».
The best way to envision the relation between ENSO and precipitation over East Africa is to
regard the Indian Ocean as a mirror of the Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies [much like the Western Hemisphere
Warm Pool creates such a SST mirror with the Atlantic Ocean too]: during a La Niña episode, waters in the eastern Pacific are relatively cool as strong trade winds blow the tropically Sun -
warmed waters
far towards the west.
Regarding everyone making claims as to definitive amounts of the
warming from man's CO2, they serve no actual scientific contribution at this time; the claims are instead just open commentary in the face of insufficient independent (skeptical) science so
far.
Further, the suits allege that these companies — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell — have known for decades that using fossil fuels drives global
warming, and yet they not only have continued to do so, but also have intentionally deceived the public
regarding the consequences.
It is worth noting that wildfire incidences like this one, which are occurring across the globe now more frequently, with greater severity, and causing more damage than ever, also function as yet another feedback loop in
regard to ACD: As the planet
warms, arid regions dry
further, causing more wildfires, which
warm the planet
further, and so the cycle amplifies itself.
The idea was that if an event is
far out of the ordinary but fits a global
warming model very closely, a degree of probability can be assigned
regarding the likelihood that the event was in fact due to global
warming.
What I am talking about is, that it seems to me that with
regard to climate science, this blog spends
far too much time responding to the phony, trumped - up «debate» fueled by denialist drivel, and not enough time addressing the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to prevent global
warming and climate change that will be catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.