Sentences with phrase «true runaway greenhouse effect»

As far as I can tell, Hansen's notion that if we really go to town using fossil fuels, we might trigger a true runaway greenhouse effect just seems rather vaguely - supported by any detailed argument or evidence at this point and does not seem to be the general belief within the climate science community.

It is therefore a mistake to imply that the four of us collectively wrote, or agreed with, the one answer you printed in the piece.Ray Pierrehumbert has responded well in the comments to the issue of the possibility of a true runaway greenhouse effect — that phrase is not appropriate for the likely range of future [greenhouse gas] concentrations in the next century.

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It's not true that a linear response would have led to a runaway greenhouse effect.

Heck, on this very website, I have noted before that I myself am quite skeptical of Jim Hansen's recent claims that if we really go to town burning fossil fuels then we could / likely would trigger a true Venus - like runaway greenhouse effect.

Joel Shore says, «Heck, on this very website, I have noted before that I myself am quite skeptical of Jim Hansen's recent claims that if we really go to town burning fossil fuels then we could / likely would trigger a true Venus - like runaway greenhouse effect.