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If the actual data to be plotted does not show rapid and unprecedented warming in the late 20th century, then why would the statistical science of climate model prediction give us high CO2 sensitivity and doomsday predictions for the middle / end of this century?

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says: «Dramatic and unprecedented warming in the Arctic is driving sea level rise, affecting weather patterns around the world and may trigger even more changes in the climate system.

Dramatic and unprecedented warming in the Arctic is driving sea level rise, affecting weather patterns around the world and may trigger even more changes in the climate system.

Briffa: «I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards «apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data» but in reality the situation is not quite so simple.

«I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards «apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data» but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.»

I'd appreciate if you'd send this link below along to the authors of the recent Brown press release (here http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/05/tanganyika) Brown Geologists Show Unprecedented Warming in Lake Tanganyika

Keith Briffa, whose team reconstructed the contradictory temperature graph, was furious, and wrote: «I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards «apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data.»»

He also addresses the stunning admission that a widely publicized study claiming unprecedented warming in the past 100 years was not «statistically robust» — another way of admitting that their conclusions are scientifically baseless.

This one, dating back a decade, particularly seems to show pressures within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to send a strong message: «I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards «apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data» but in reality the situation is not quite so simple...»]

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In a 184 - page letter to Catholic leaders released Thursday, Francis warns of «unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequences for all of us» and recommends renewable fuel subsidies and maximum energy efficiency to combat global warming.

While natural patterns of certain atmospheric and ocean conditions are already known to influence Greenland melt, the study highlights the importance of a long - term warming trend to account for the unprecedented west Greenland melt rates in recent years.

«Study projects unprecedented loss of corals in Great Barrier Reef due to warming.»

Record warming drove this phenomenon to an unprecedented scale: Australian scientists announced in April that 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef had experienced bleaching.

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed «the blob» — in winter and spring of that year.

Recent warming is unprecedented, but modern hydroclimatic variations may have at times been exceeded in magnitude and duration.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

The fishery saw unprecedented reductions in marketable wild - caught urchins after the 2014 warm blob and 2015 El Niño, which decimated kelp forests (the primary food source for urchins) throughout California,» explains Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology researcher Kirk Sato, lead author of the study.

For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three - dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world.

The changes in tree - ring width are closely correlated with temperature, the study concludes: recent warming in western US is the best explanation for last century's unprecedented growth spurt.

In 2005, Dr. Lupo contradicted his previous op - ed statements and told the Kansas City Star that «the climate is warming» but that the warming was not «unprecedented.»

Mountain pine beetle develops an unprecedented summer generation in response to climate warming.

Given the unprecedented rapidity of the human - made climate forcing, it is difficult to establish how soon slow feedbacks will become important, but clearly slow feedbacks should be considered in assessing the «dangerous» level of global warming, as discussed in the next section.

In these high latitudes, temperatures are predicted to warm so fast and to such a degree so as to cause unprecedented melting of ice that even the most ardent of climate skeptics would be forced to concede the verity of global warming theory.

While the planet's surface temperatures over the past century have risen to unprecedented levels, records have shown a slowdown in the pace of warming over the past 15 years.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

With the unprecedented growth of this breeds popularity in this country, and especially in the warm southern states, hundreds and even thousands of «would - be» breeders have appeared.

Just one week after scientists warned of unprecedented change brought on by warming in the Arctic, President Obama announced permanent protection for 115 million acres of federal waters in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Accompanying this increase in tropical cyclone numbers is a marked SST warming to unprecedented anomaly levels exceeding +0.7 C.

``... recent summer warming in the eastern Canadian Arctic is unprecedented in more than 44,000 years.»

Well, we hear that the 1980 - present warming is «unprecedented» when in fact it's very close to the warming from 1910 - 1940, which supposedly is natural.

Arctic Warming Unprecedented in Last 44,000 Years http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arctic-warming-unprecedented-in-last-44000-years

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

Three record years in a row — that is unprecedented even in all those decades of global warming.

After all, the reality that humans are causing the climate to warm, with potentially catastrophic results, really does demand radical government intervention in the market, as well as collective action on an unprecedented scale.

... a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

The rate and magnitude of 20th century warming are thus unknowable, and suggestions of an unprecedented trend in 20th century global air temperature are unsustainable.

In particular, in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic the summer of 1922 was (for the time) quite warm, and there were a number of reports that discussed some unprecedented (again, for the time) observations of open wateIn particular, in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic the summer of 1922 was (for the time) quite warm, and there were a number of reports that discussed some unprecedented (again, for the time) observations of open watein the Atlantic sector of the Arctic the summer of 1922 was (for the time) quite warm, and there were a number of reports that discussed some unprecedented (again, for the time) observations of open water.

Anthropogenic global warming apostles would have us believe the planet has never changed in all it's history, and suddenly man and his evil, capitalistic, oil - company fed industry has plunged the planet into an unprecedented warming event.

Abstract:... Here we show that a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades — unprecedented in observations / reanalysis data and not captured by climate models — is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.

After reading the piece, Crowley sent a note under the title «Tales of Brave Ulysses» (as per Cream), alluding in part to an essay he wrote for The Guardian in 2007: «In the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change; to tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.&raquin part to an essay he wrote for The Guardian in 2007: «In the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change; to tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.&raquin 2007: «In the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change; to tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.&raquIn the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change; to tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time.&raquin attitudes unprecedented in peace time.&raquin peace time.»

In the light of a devastating global warming we must therefore change forest management practices because new practices would increase the chances to reduce the unprecedented speed of global warming.

However, while most «skeptics» agree we are in a warming trend, for most, the main challenges are (i) that it is not shown to be at unprecedented levels or rates (for the last millenium or so) and (ii) that it is not shown to be principally manmade.

There is nothing «natural» about these extremes of weather over the last 2 years, or about the unprecedented ozone hole in the Arctic last year (troposphere warming from greenhouse gases caused stratospheric cooling to below threshold temperature for polar stratospheric cloud generation and ozone destruction).

Before interpreting the upward trend in the occurrence of weather - related disasters as «completely unprecedented» and «due to global warming», one has to take into account the complexities of disaster occurrence, human vulnerabilities and statistical reporting and registering.

The possibility exists that the unprecedented activity since 1995 is the result of a combination of the multidecadal - scale changes in Atlantic SSTs (and vertical shear) along with the additional increase in SSTs resulting from the long - term warming trend.

Well, the work that ultimately led to the so - called Hockey Stick — this reconstruction that demonstrates recent warming to be unprecedented in a long time frame — arose from an effort that really had nothing to do with climate change per se.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is fighting hard against treaties or legislation limiting greenhouse gases, has pointed afresh to old media coverage pointing to «unprecedented» Arctic ice retreats and warming early in the 20th century.

We find that the current Greenland warming is not unprecedented in recent Greenland history.

The papers questioned everything from the relative role of natural mechanisms in changes to the climate system vis - à - vis increased CO2 concentrations, the allegedly «unprecedented» nature of modern climate phenomena such as warming, sea levels, glacier and sea ice retreat, and the efficacy and reliability of computer climate models for projecting future climate states.

It took the admirable Watts Up With That blog, run by the American meteorologist Anthony Watts, to point out that in 1893 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen found the Arctic so ice - free that he was able to kayak above 82 degrees north, 100 miles nearer the Pole than our hapless campaigner against «unprecedented global warming».