Unfortunately using global average surface air temperatures as a measure of
total warming ignores the fact that most of the heat (more than 93 %) goes into our oceans, which continue to warm without any sign of a pause, as you can see below.
Not exact matches
It
ignores two real physical constraints on human CO2 emissions (plus resulting
warming) in the future: — changes in human population growth rates —
total carbon contained in remaining fossil fuel reserves
If we keep
ignoring the IPCC's recommendations then, on average, the
total global
warming (from preindustrial levels) is headed toward 4 °C (7 °F).
As they told us 6 years ago (and 6 years before that), if we keep
ignoring their recommended course of treatment, then, on average,
total warming from preindustrial levels by 2100 is headed toward 4 °C (7 °F).
He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global
warming by
ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and
Total.
As far as I know all the calculations about the anticipated
warming effect of more CO2 in the air
ignore the massively greater resistor effect of the oceans so that the contribution of the CO2 to the
total resistor effect is grossly overstated.
Added on top of this exaggeration is an even worse misrepresentation of the impact of cloud changes with
warming (cloud feedback) and a
total ignoring of any naturally caused changes in clouds (cloud forcing).
The
total ignoring of these messes by all involved with global
warming and public health is beyond understanding.
gases (CFC's, etc.) 25 0 2 27 0.007 %
Total 289,158 69,109 12,217 370,484 100.00 % 1) the data has not been corrected for the actual Global
Warming Potential (GWP) of each gas, and 2) water vapor is
ignored.