55) The argument that climate change is a of
result of global warming caused by human activity is the argument of flat Earthers.
Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as
a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.
Not exact matches
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.
But it's not easy to demonstrate
cause and effect — for instance, that a particular storm is the
result of global warming.
Over the course
of coming decades, though, trade wind speed is expected to decrease from
global warming, Thunell says, and the
result will be less phytoplankton production at the surface and less oxygen utilization at depth,
causing a concomitant increase in the ocean's oxygen content.
Natural geochemical processes that
result in the slow buildup
of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have
caused past geologic intervals
of global warming through the greenhouse effect
Various press accounts reported odds anywhere from 1 - in - 27 million to 1 - in - 650 million that the observed run
of global temperature records (9
of the 10
warmest years and 13
of the 15
warmest years each having had occurred since 2000) might have
resulted from chance alone, i.e. without any assistance from human -
caused global warming.
Global warming is the
result of a greenhouse gas -
caused imbalance between incoming solar energy and heat that the Earth radiates away to space.
That order
of sea level rise would
result in the loss
of hundreds
of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds
of millions
of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely
cause major international conflicts.
Statistically, the pattern is too extreme to be considered a
result of chance, found a new study, which pointed a finger directly at
global warming as the underlying
cause of the recent spike in extra-hot summers.
Global warming causes ocean temperatures to rise,
resulting in an increased loss
of oxygen, which can then affect the nitrogen budget across the globe.
Global climate change will occur as a result of global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth caused by the concentration of gases of various
Global climate change will occur as a
result of global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth caused by the concentration of gases of various
global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect
caused by the retention
of heat in the lower atmosphere
of the Earth
caused by the concentration
of gases
of various kinds.
If the student types in «
global warming,» then it asks if you would also like
results that only focus on «
causes of global warming,» «effects
of global warming,» and so on.
Just as many
of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking
of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run
resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer
of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact
of human -
caused climate change and
global warming.
That's pretty much what the cp.net folks did, only instead
of interpreting their
results as casting doubt on the models» predictive capabilites, they interpreted their
results as
cause for greater alarm about
global warming.
This is a silly thing to say, since these cities were created before the world had to worry about rising sea levels being a
result of human -
caused global warming.
First, there's the number
of results overall, and second, all
of the stories are about Chevron admitting
global warming is man -
caused, and none contain vicious portrayals
of Garbow.
«In considering the question
of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between
global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean
global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse
warming, as may, for example, be
caused by the release
of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a
result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»
Was the director concerned that the
results would undermine the already extremely weak arguments that
global warming from roughly the middle
of the 1970s to near the end
of the 1990s (there has been none since) was almost entirely the
result of human -
caused processes?
Well since the upward trend was well established, and his whole «CO2
causes global warming» theory would be falsified by any other
result (constant or decreasing temperatures) it is hardly surprising that Hansen's models would produce predictions
of increasing temperature.
Many experts on the Arctic say that
global warming is
causing the ice to melt and that the
warming is at least partly the
result of the atmospheric buildup
of heat - trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks.
So, while it may be a mouthful, I'll use phrases like «Climate Change as a
result of human -
caused Global Warming.»
Rising sea levels are
caused by
global warming which
results from the production
of natural gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The
results clearly showed that those arguing that
global warming is not human
caused did not have any relevant amount
of credibility on their side.
In which case, a story reporting James Hansen's claim that
global warming will «
result in a rise in sea level measured in metres within a century» will be put in the AGW dominant / exclusive categories, while a story along the lines
of «
global warming unlikely to
cause significant problems to New York City in the near future» will find itself in one
of the sceptic categories — even though the latter is closer than the former to the IPCC position.
The
result of her survey was that not a single paper rejected the consensus position that
global warming is human
caused.
Ainley believed the DuDu colony had been unable to recover since 1980 because
global warming had
caused a thinning
of the sea ice
resulting in a premature loss
of sea ice that was drowning chicks.
Using the same method that I had used earlier for the same years on both data sets, I compared the total numbers
of sunspots in post-1975 years to the 200 years pre-1975, and discovered a surprising
result, given all the hype: the GSN reconstruction makes no discernable difference over the SIDC number post-1975 as pertaining to the solar
cause of global warming.
For example, referring to the 1979 Charney report's ECS range
of 1.5 to 4.5 K / doubling, they wrote: «
Results of most numerical model experiments suggest that a doubling
of C02, if maintained indefinitely, would
cause a
global surface air
warming of between 1.5 C and 4.5 C.
I believe that
global warming as a
result of desertification
caused by the Roman Empire in North Africa roughly two thousand years ago.
but that ENSO can still
cause natural cooling for periods
of a decade or more so that even though the man - made influence continues to
cause warming, it is cancelled by ENSO cooling and
results in a «hiatus»
of global temperature increase:»
On the attribution question, the
results of Gillett et al. are consistent with the many other attribution studies we've looked at (i.e. Lean and Rind 2008, Huber and Knutti 2011, and Foster and Rahmstorf 2011)- namely that humans have been the dominant
cause of the
global warming over the past 25 - 150 years (Figure 1).
We used to believe that it was «very likely» that human emissions
of CO2 might be
causing global warming, and that
warming might have catastrophic
results.
Global analyses show that the amount
of water vapor in the atmosphere has in fact increased due to human -
caused warming.8, 9,10,11 This extra moisture is available to storm systems,
resulting in heavier rainfalls.
Clouds are one
of the big unknowns about
global warming as they can have a range
of effects,
warmer temperatures
caused by
global warming will
result in higher rates
of evaporation and therefore will
result in higher cloud cover.
(5) explains the
cause of the slowdown in
global warming after around 2000 — cooling from increased Eastern SO2 emissions offset the
warming caused by Western Clean Air efforts,
resulting in a net slowdown in the rate
of decreasing
global SO2 emissions.
NCSE isn't composed
of scientists or science teachers; it's an activist group devoted, in part, to expounding
global warming alarmists» dogma: Humans are
causing climate change; the
results will be catastrophic; and governments must force people to use less energy and live simpler to prevent future disasters.
This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes
of our oceans, also
results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment
of inertia and
causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history
of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this
warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a
global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).
This
result is broadly consistent with the survey performed by Doran & Zimmerman in 2009, which found that 97 %
of climate scientists agreed that humans are
causing significant
global warming.
Climate change skeptics claimed the IPCC 2007 report — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are
causing climate change — was based on an alleged bias for positive
results by editors and peer reviewers
of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused
of suppressing research that did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced
global warming.
Given the importance
of the scientific consensus on human -
caused global warming in peoples» decisions whether to support action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the public lack
of awareness
of the consensus, we need to make people aware
of these
results.
Our
results are also consistent with several previous surveys finding a 97 % consensus amongst climate experts on the human
cause of global warming.
Whatever
caused the extreme climate events
of 535 - 6 AD, they didn't
result from any
global warming.
They have told the public, politicians, and the press that «
global warming» (alias «climate change») is primarily due to human -
caused emissions
of carbon dioxide, and that if this continues at current levels that this will
result in catastrophic
global warming.
The UN's IPCC and associated climate alarmist scientists predicted that severe weather would increase globally as a
result of human -
caused global warming.
«
Global warming is expected to
cause extreme weather events, which may, in turn,
result in large day - to - day fluctuations in temperature,» said Hedvig Andersson, a cardiology researcher at the University
of Michigan.
Our
results are also consistent with previous research finding a 97 % consensus amongst climate experts on the human
cause of global warming.
Most climate scientists agree the main
cause of the current
global warming trend is human expansion
of the «greenhouse effect «1 —
warming that
results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
Now imagine the kind
of extra volcanic activity that could
result from 1, 6, or 250 feet
of global sea level rise under the raging rate
of human -
caused warming and you begin to understand the concern.
10 Most past changes in world climates were
caused by natural factors Volcanic activity Motion
of the continents Recently scientists have observed climate changes that are the
result of HUMAN ACTIVITIES
GLOBAL WARMING