Sentences with phrase «there for global warming»

What peer - reviewed references are there for global warming causing drought in continental interiors and violent weather on coastlines?

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«The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people's lives, that it would kill,» Schwarzenegger said in the podcast.
There are some ideas around for geoengineering mega-projects which might counter global warming.
So, the main answer to your query is «there's no logical reason for global warming denying to be associated with conservatives, if you are willing to bypass partisan soundbites».
Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected by the consequences of regulations to reduce global warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to deny global warming.
Carbon dioxide gets all the attention, but there are a host of compounds responsible for global warming
«There is at least a perception among at least some students,» Alley notes, «that the support for the search for solutions to energy and global warming is not yet reliable enough for those students to commit their future to it.»
«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.
But in order for that to work, there needs to be a way to show that an island hit by a typhoon, say, would probably have been spared if global warming hadn't been a factor.
In view of future global warming, it's vital for today's global population to know whether temperatures will rise steadily, or whether there will be sudden, major fluctuations.
The results show that even though there has been a slowdown in the warming of the global average temperatures on the surface of Earth, the warming has continued strongly throughout the troposphere except for a very thin layer at around 14 - 15 km above the surface of Earth where it has warmed slightly less.
There are countless examples of how global warming is affecting life, from plants flowering earlier in spring, to species spreading to areas that were once too cold for them to survive, to birds becoming smaller.
That said there should be no excuse for not taking immediate action on global warming on climate change or whatever you want to call it, which is probably the reason for a large part of the reaction to this article.
«In Singapore there is a growing realization of the importance of biodiversity and species [preservation] especially in relation to global warming, says Barry Halliwell, NUS's deputy president for research.
With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.
«There is evidence for global warming on a number of levels, and the planet has been warming, the oceans have been taking up heat, sea levels have been rising, land snow has been melting, glaciers are melting, and all these other things, so the reality of global warming is uncontroversial.»
«There are characteristic patterns of increase and decrease, for example, in response to an El Nino event,» which is a cyclical climate event marked by warming waters in the western Pacific Ocean that has global impacts, Zwiers says.
Even at the age of 55, the 4 - minute warning seems inadequate to get anything meaningful done on the horizontal front: at least with global warming there is time for a little indulgence before we go.
For every 100 people in the US, there will be six additional sleepless nights per year by 2050, if global warming continues at its current rate.
«There is no slowdown in global warming,» Russell Vose, the head of the climate science division at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), said.
Erik Conway, co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, noted that there's even a word (which he did not coin) for manufacturing of fake knowledge — «agnogenesis.»
He said he does think, however, that there will a broader shift to warmer ocean conditions that will last for several years and that means that global temperatures will hover around the level they have recently reached before moving upward again, like stairs on a staircase.
For another, there's global warming.
Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995 «Phil Jones said that for the past 15 years there has been no «statistically significant» warming.
Are there any web sites that provides the mathmatical model calculations for Global Warming predictions?
I participate in YA global warming forum and the deniers there always drop «statistically significant» but he went on to say the average warming for the period I think was 0.2 C yearly which is a slight warning
Despite the importance of the issue, there has been a media blackout on the dozens of scientific studies that point to increased drought across the southwest — for example, see the Jan 2 NYT article by Felicity Barringer, which carefully avoids mention of global warming links.
Dr. Benestad's reasoning is based on the erroneous assumption that if there are no significant trends in some proxies for the solar activity since 1950s the sun is not contributing to the global warming.
When looking for evidence of global warming, there are many different indicators that we should look for.
Furthermore there are signs, for parts of Europe, that global warming is making rare events more frequent.
My understanding is that there is no evidence for cosmic rays playing a role in the recent global warming.
For an example, once a week, the Idso's «CO2 Science» web site would cherry pick a single station in the US Historical Climatology Network that happened to show cooling, to «prove that there has been no global warming in the past 70 years.»
Speaking at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barnett said climate models based on air temperatures are weak because most of the evidence for global warming is not even there.
There's also plenty they don't know yet — how global warming might affect tornadoes, for example, or how quickly the massive ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica could slide into the oceans.
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We know that it is in the interest of the Democrats for there to be reports of global warming.
And just because a study couldn't find a clear link to global warming for an event or a particular aspect of an event, that doesn't mean there isn't one.
Climatologists reporting for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say we are seeing global warming caused by human activities and there are growing fears of feedbacks that will accelerate this warming.
In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.
And there just is too much research evidence pointing to global warming for me to ignore.
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It is now clear that, for thirty years, we have been in a strong global warming trend at a rate of about 0.2 Celsius per decade for the past 30 years, [meaning] there has been 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) global warming in the past 30 years.
Animal agriculture is responsible for a huge part of the global warming and there's no way we'll be able to reach the climate goals and save the planet without reducing our meat consumption.
For instance, there is direct evidence that meat and dairy products contribute to global warming.
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There's more doom and gloom - but also hope for meaningful change - to be found in Al Gore's followup to his Oscar - blessed 2006 doc that sounded the alarm about global warming.
Then there are the consequences of the federal voucher plan for global warming — I actually do have a story about that — but let me stop there...
There's a reason travelers are enamoured of destinations showcasing our planet's fragile state: Given global warming, industrial pollution, vanishing rainforests and climate change, green initiatives have never been more critical if we're to protect the environment for future generations.
Now, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes when pursuing an innovative observational method, but Spencer and Christy sat by for most of a decade allowing — indeed encouraging — the use of their data set as an icon for global warming skeptics.
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