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Sign Of Future Climate Turmoil with significant effects on US weather.
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The indications
of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear
signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near
future.
It is a
sign of the times that the public debate among major players over Oregon's coal - free
future saw little contention regarding the reality
of climate change and focused mostly on the best way to address it.
Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear
signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that
climate change will take on a life
of its own independently
of what we do in the
future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such
climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).
Additionally, 32,000 American scientists have
signed onto a petition that states, «There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release
of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable
future, cause catastrophic heating
of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption
of the Earth's
climate...» http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html
We used new satellite records
of fire incidence to create fire models which we then drove with a broad range
of future climate model scenarios to get a sense
of where the
climate projections agreed on the
sign of the change in fire frequency and where they did not.
But Field has also not explained why he
signed a petition stating * that there was «no convincing scientific evidence that human release
of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable
future, cause catastrophic heating
of the earth's atmosphere and disruption
of the earth's
climate.»
Following the
signing of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, a targeted focus has emerged within the scientific community to better understand how changes to the global
climate system will evolve in response to specific thresholds
of future global mean warming, such as 1.5 ◦ C or 2 ◦ C above «pre-industrial levels».
The problems any
of these individual surveys can and do present are minuscule compared to the laughable counterpoints Bast and Spencer throw at them: a 2012 survey, for example, which found a strong showing
of climate denial among members
of the American Meteorological Society, and a petition,
signed by 31,000 scientists asserting that «there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release
of... carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable
future, cause catastrophic heating
of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption
of the Earth's
climate.»
The threat
of continued
climate change is so urgent, more than 170 world leaders have
signed the Paris
climate agreement to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the
future and transition towards a clean energy economy.
In the interview, Figueres discussed the need for the United States to finally
sign on to a global
climate treaty, the inevitability
of world economies making the transition to a low - carbon
future, and the need for politicians to feel the same urgency as
climate scientists about the threats posed by global warming.
Having nearly all parties to the Paris Agreement
sign it last Earth Day was a critical move that shows how countries are able to work together to reduce the impact
of climate change and achieve a sustainable
future for the next generation.
«Cape Verde minister appeals for EU support not to
sign their death warrants», tweeted Mark Lynas, author
of Six Degrees: Our
Future on a Hotter Planet, and
climate adviser to President Nasheed
of the Maldives.
I hope that today's forum is a
sign that the road transport industry is starting to understand that it is your children's
future at stake − it's your children who will get lung diseases and asthma if urban air pollution is not dramatically reduced; it's your children who will suffer the consequences
of climate change that the scientists are trying to warn us
of − more scorchers, more devastating cyclones, more Ross River Fever, more bushfires, degraded beaches, flooded houses, and the disappearance
of some
of Australia's unique wildlife.
We are beginning to sound like a broken record here, but again, it is impossible to present reliable
future projections for precipitations changes across the U.S. (seasonal or annual) from a collection
of climate models which largely can not even get the
sign (much less the magnitude)
of the observed changes correct.
And most recently, the White House announced that 81 companies representing more than $ 3 trillion in annual revenue
signed the American Business Act on
Climate Pledge «to demonstrate their support for action on climate change and the conclusion of a climate change agreement in Paris that takes a strong step forward toward a low - carbon, sustainable future.
Climate Pledge «to demonstrate their support for action on
climate change and the conclusion of a climate change agreement in Paris that takes a strong step forward toward a low - carbon, sustainable future.
climate change and the conclusion
of a
climate change agreement in Paris that takes a strong step forward toward a low - carbon, sustainable future.
climate change agreement in Paris that takes a strong step forward toward a low - carbon, sustainable
future.»
Since you keep referring to this letter
signed by these 49 ex-NASA folks, criticizing Jim Hansen's GISS»
climate modeling methodology used to claim dire
future predictions re global - warming - as «Naive & / or DisHonest, This seems to imply that some or most
of these 49 are [Naive??? 49 ex-NASA vets are naive about the inner - working
of NASA??
The difficulty
of predicting the
future of forests under a rapidly changing
climate means it is hard to know what to make
of the current
signs of distress.
``... the amplitude and even the
sign of cloud feedbacks was noted in the TAR as highly uncertain, and this uncertainty was cited as one
of the key factors explaining the spread in model simulations
of future climate for a given emission scenario.
Our Shared and Common
Future (screened at events in the lead up to the
signing of the 2015 Paris
Climate Change Agreement)