Do we not deserve to hear that much of what we've been
told about global warming could be wrong?
The movie suggests that «everything you've been
told about global warming is a lie,» and appears focused on discrediting Al Gore.
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Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong.
What some of us may not know is most of what we were always
told about global warming and global temperatures by the IPCC and the media were based on computer models that were not accurate in relation to actual temperatures, yet they continue to report these short - term trends as being correct.
Everything I have read since I began my research in 2007 convinces me more and more that most of what we, the public, have been
told about global warming is misleading, exaggerated, or plain wrong, including the claim that the planet is warming (it hasn't since at least 1998).
(1) My almost - finished book, False Alarm: Why Almost Everything We've Been
Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated or Plain Wrong, documents many of these distortions of fact.
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David Tenenbaum # 8 (Gee, when we have a bunch of candidates that don't seem to «believe» in evolution, who don't care what happens to the planet because they discount what science
tells us about global warming, I can't think a «science debate» is such a bad idea.)
Gee, when we have a bunch of candidates that don't seem to «believe» in evolution, who don't care what happens to the planet because they discount what science
tells us about global warming, I can't think a «science debate» is such a bad idea.
Further to 13 (although I'm not so sure that George's message is a response to mine), a mode of explanation seen at What does the lag of CO2 behind temperature in ice cores
tell us about global warming?
I read your article «What does the lag of CO2 behind temperature in ice cores
tell us about global warming?»
So, what does the indisputable, factual science
tell us about the global warming impact of keeping incandescent light bulbs out of the hands of Americans?
The article, penned by Chris Mooney, is titled What the Massive Snowfall in Boston
Tells Us about Global Warming.
So go ahead, take their word for it when
they tell you about global warming.
It is important that policymakers understand the historical context of the global warming debate, what the data does — and does not —
tell us about global warming, where there is consensus in the scientific community and where there is not, and what impacts global warming regulations can realistically be expected to have on the environment.
He wrote a well - reviewed book called «The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't
Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducing them.
The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't
Tell You About Global Warming (Basic Books, 2010)
** [http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/co2-in-ice-cores/ What does the lag of CO2 behind temperature in ice cores
tell us about global warming?]
Thus, for instance, resistance to climate science in the United States seems to be linked to a libertarian economic outlook: People who resist what experts
tell them about global warming often appear, at heart, to be most worried about the consequences of increased government regulation of carbon emissions.
Not exact matches
Most of us do not trust the scientists employed by the cigarette companies to
tell us truthfully
about the consequences of smoking for health, nor the scientists who work for oil companies to give us accurate information
about global warming.
Then she fell into YouTube and social media posts
about veganism and «decided to become vegan because of the environment and animals,» she
told me, «The meat and dairy industries are very bad for the environment and contribute to
global warming.
Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought
about Washington on the issue of climate change,
telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on
global warming.
«Similarly, a number of studies have found that
telling people
about the 97 % scientific consensus on human - caused
global warming has a neutralizing rather than polarizing effect.»
Now we are
told to believe main stream scientists
about Global Warming?
The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly
told that three claims have widespread scientific support:
Global temperature has risen
about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by
about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future
warming.
He neglects to
tell us that the only part of anthropogenic
global warming that the IPCC has found to be «unequivocal» is
about 0.5 degC.
The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly
told that three claims have widespread scientific support:
Global temperature has risen
about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by
about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future
warming.
But unless the Bush gang has figured out some way to rig the vote, Al Gore should emerge victorious for
telling the truth
about global warming.
A student named Kelsea wrote her individual play
about global warming; the story is
told through newscasts
about rising temperatures.
That's what Eugene Linden
tells us in his formidably researched Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, a cautionary document that challenges public complacency
about global warming.
Tell about the causes of this phenomenon in this part of your persuasive essay on
global warming.
When the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto recycles his statistically bogus sarcasm hinging on the supposed irony of Vice President Gore's preaching
about global warming on a day with an outlier of a cold temperature, he should be
told a better way to go
about his business.
The influencing of policy in re
global warming faces a huge amount of inertia, but principles of risk mitigation
tell us that we should be aggressive
about shifting policy to avert possible threats, the opposite of what results from that inertia.
If we didn't know
about the CO2 - climate connection from physics, then no observation of a
warming trend, however accurate, would by itself
tell us that anthropogenic
global warming is «real,» or (more importantly) that it is going to persist and probably increase.
Why not
tell how the Catholic Church is addressing
global warming in the UN so religious people read
about that?
To veterans of the Climate Wars, the old 1970s
global cooling canard — «How can we believe climate scientists
about global warming today when back in the 1970s they
told us an ice age was imminent?»
I do agree that Earth is not Venus — some scientists have already
told me how much they hate the label «Venus effect,» but I find it informative, simply because it gives some idea
about the runaway
global warming that did happen 5 times on Earth (which later, obviously, stabilized back to livable conditions).
Well, apparently Mr. Revkin took offense that I suggested he may not care
about future generations because he emailed me to
tell me so, explaining that he wrote so many articles on
global warming, etc. etc..
Justin Gillis's news story from Berlin on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the one on the world's options for limiting
global warming —
tells you all you need to know
about the familiar contents.
It is true we should
tell people honest
about global warming, but like write articles for the public we should choose some words to make them understand deeply.
How Exxon responds to resolutions proposed for the company's annual meeting next May could add to scrutiny of the company, as New York State prosecutors probe what Exxon knew
about global warming and what it
told investors and the public.
Anthropogenic GHG
warming is
about the Earth's energy balance, and thus, looking at an average
global near - surface temperature, or the total ocean heat content can
tell us something useful
about that energy balance.
The most important thing is that
global warming should be seen — precisely — globally, because as it gets cold in a larger area around us, it does not
tell anything
about the
global temperature.
... People think something more like... «Oh look, people who talk
about global warming pick and choose the data which they
tell us
about, and omit that which does not support their view so as to make their own view sound more convincing».
Since 2006, the number of Americans
telling Gallup that the media was exaggerating
global warming grew to 42 percent today from
about 34 percent.
«We're actually looking at a situation where a select group of individuals — 7,125,985,886 of them, to be exact — are singlehandedly responsible for
global warming and are refusing to do anything
about it,» author and activist Dan Cregmann
told reporters, noting that these culprits have a horrible track record of following recommended environmental guidelines and disclosing their total energy consumption.
The fact (as amply evidenced in Dr. Curry's post above) that climate scientists (at least some of them) and climate activists are in a tizzy
tells us all we need to know
about how certain, how settled, man - made
global warming is.
-- Susan Solomon, Nature The Long Thaw is written for anyone who wishes to know what cutting - edge science
tells us
about the modern issue of
global warming and its effects on the pathways of atmospheric chemistry, as well as
global and regional temperatures, rainfall, sea level, Arctic sea - ice coverage, melting of the continental ice sheets, cyclonic storm frequency and intensity and ocean acidification.
He
told environmentalresearchweb that he believes there is a huge gap between what is understood
about human - made
global warming and its consequences, and what is known by the people who most need to know - the public and policymakers.