Sentences with phrase «reported unprecedented warming»

Not exact matches

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

In particular, in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic the summer of 1922 was (for the time) quite warm, and there were a number of reports that discussed some unprecedented (again, for the time) observations of open water.

Before interpreting the upward trend in the occurrence of weather - related disasters as «completely unprecedented» and «due to global warming», one has to take into account the complexities of disaster occurrence, human vulnerabilities and statistical reporting and registering.

As we showed in the second TDTH report in 2013, unprecedented heat extremes also become very significant in some regions around 1.5 C warming.

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

• There is much scientific and historical evidence that the reported recent warming in the Arctic is not unprecedented, for instance the 1920/30's are recorded to have been relatively warm as in this 2006 paper, and this newer paper is interesting if challenging, but there are still other similar papers and much widespread history of the Medieval Warm Perwarm as in this 2006 paper, and this newer paper is interesting if challenging, but there are still other similar papers and much widespread history of the Medieval Warm PerWarm Period.

Third IPCC report states baldly that global warming, unprecedented since end of last ice age, is «very likely,» with possible severe surprises.

A 2013 follow up report, which focused on impacts of climate change on Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia; tells us that if the world warms by 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years — there will be widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat - waves, and more intense storms.

Even if it has been warmer at times during the current and previous interglacials, showing that the forcing is unprecedented, rising and currently overwhelming natural variation can be seen of itself to be sufficient cause for alarm (that it be overwhelming is not quite what the IPCC report states but the more than half post 1950 claim is similar).

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

The magnitude and pace of the recent Arctic sea - ice decline and ocean warming is «unprecedented» in at least the past 1,500 years and likely much longer, according to a federal report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

UN draft report says missing 1.5 C warming target will multiply hunger, migration and conflict, but staying under will require unprecedented global cooperation

And of course there was the mother of all scandals, the «hockey stick» itself: a graph that purported to show the warming of the last three decades of the twentieth century as unprecedented in a millennium, a graph that the IPCC was so thrilled with that it published it six times in its third assessment report and displayed it behind the IPCC chairman at his press conference.

As the preponderance of scientific studies and reports have proven, our current modern warming is not unprecedented.

Breitbart reported, A global warming research study in Canada has been cancelled because of «unprecedented» thick summer ice.

Specifically, the report noted that «the numerous indications that recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia... supports the conclusion that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.»