Global
warming Some scientists believe there is a rise in CO 2 levels (carbon dioxide).
Though such additional warming will have both positive and negative consequences for human beings and other life on the planet, global
warming scientists believe that the negative consequences far outweigh the positive consequences.
Though the greenhouse effect itself is completely natural, and very beneficial, global
warming scientists believe that anthropogenic (man - made) emissions of carbon dioxide (mostly from burning fossil fuels) have increased CO2 in the atmosphere to a point where we are now experiencing what could be called an «enhanced greenhouse effect».
Not exact matches
As for pundits the Merson types are like climate
scientists who deny global
warming is anthropgenic, not because they really
believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.
Fifth, the right wing websites, who would never be caught dead reading a hostile left wing website and who would never read anything written by actual
scientists (who they consider to either be part of the liberal elite or part of an ill - defined conspiracy), never hear about what poor science the study they're celebrating actually is, and go right on
believing that their anti-global
warming position is so obviously correct that everyone else must either be fools or conspirators.I
believe the link pfft posted is step three.
Points 2 and 3 might lead to their not
believing in global
warming, but when faced by such an overwhelming majority of
scientist who
believe it, it seems (to me) almost like a conspiracy theory to deny it.
Scientists now
believe that the projected decreases in the polar sea ice due to global
warming will have a significant negative impact or even lead to extinction of this species within this century.
With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global
warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the
scientists, who took part in the new study,
believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.
Now we are told to
believe main stream
scientists about Global
Warming?
If you
believe, along with almost every
scientist who has studied the issue, that global
warming poses a genuine threat to humanity, doesn't this suggest that we should be doing something about it?
«So far, I
believe the benefits (of Arctic
warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian
scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global
warming this year.
Finney
believes that changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as
scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global
warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.
The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire impacts of a
warming global climate, which many
scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.
Many
scientists believe that global
warming will prompt animals and plants of the Northern Hemisphere to shift their ranges northward (or, in the Southern Hemisphere, southward).
Scientists believe this is an important contribution to
warming in the region, but it's not the only one.
Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior
scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.,
believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the
warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.
The negative side is, as one of my right - wing Facebook friends remarked: If the
scientists get gravity waves wrong, why should we
believe them on global
warming?
For example, in a simulated world where the atmospheric CO2 levels were double today's values — a scenario many
scientists believe likely — models predict that Earth will
warm by more than 2 °C.
«I do not know the source of that original document, but I assume it was sent to me because of my past exchanges with Heartland and because I was named in it,» said the
scientist who has sparred often with Heartland and others who do not
believe in the scientific underpinnings of man - made global
warming.
This has created a growing pessimism within the scientific community, with the Guardian reporting that almost nine out of 10 climate
scientists don't
believe political efforts to restrict global
warming to 2º Celsius will succeed.
Scientists do not
believe Antarctica is in a precipitous state of
warming right now.
Some
scientists believe the ice sheet experienced significant melting during the relatively
warmer conditions of the Pliocene, while others think it has remained almost entirely frozen for the last 14 million years.
However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a
warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than
scientists previously
believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.
Tadeusz Patzek, an engineering professor at Berkeley who formerly worked as a
scientist at Shell,
believes the deal compromises the university's ability to look objectively at long - term energy solutions to global
warming.
Soon is a leading skeptic of the widely accepted science surrounding climate change, In the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of
scientists surveyed
believed global
warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of
scientists surveyed
believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the change.
Scientists believe global
warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas.
Scientists believe climate change — the
warming of oceans — has allowed some of the almost 2,000 jellyfish species to expand their ranges, appear earlier in the year and increase overall numbers, much as
warming has helped ticks, bark beetles and other pests to spread to new latitudes.
The UN's IPCC misled the press and public into
believing that thousands of
scientists backed its claims on manmade global
warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate
scientist and IPCC insider.
And this is on top of ongoing efforts by the administration aimed at «preventing
scientists who
believe there might be such a link [between global
warming and more intense hurricanes] from speaking out.»
The Keeling Curve, a famous graph named after
scientist Charles David Keeling, measures the increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the air since 1958; it is considered the bedrock of global
warming science because it is generally
believed that there is a direct correlation between increasing levels of carbon dioxide and global
warming.
8 John said, «Of the 62 % of people that aren't completely isolated from reality: 28 %
believe scientists are overstating the evidence about «Global
Warming»»
But, you also know that whenever a major climate related disaster happens, the media will ask
scientists whether it's related to global
warming, and that these disasters will be used to justify Kyoto, and that the immediacy of the benefit can easily be overstressed to the point where many people do
believe that Bush's refusal to sign Kyoto directly caused Katrina or at least made it noticeably worse.
For those who firmly
believe that
scientists are going full speed ahead to cherry - pick evidence that supports catastrophic anthropogenic global
warming, Andy has provided the megaphone for the objective (and un-biased) voice of the scientific community as a whole.
I am not a climate
scientist but I
believe that global
warming is a catastrophic threat to humanity and that we are responsible.
can see no other reasonable interpretation of these statements than that the
scientists believe their experiments show we're in much more trouble over global
warming than previously thought
We have compiled a list of over 100 respected
scientists in climatology and related fields who do NOT
believe that the facts are clear and that the science concerning global
warming is settled.
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Keep in mind that the IEA's «450 Scenario» is intended to limit
warming to 2 °C — even though we can plainly see that the
warming that has already occurred is sufficient to cause far worse effects than
scientists imagined possible only a few years ago, and we have every reason to
believe that 2 °C will be truly catastrophic.
I often wonder how so many people can not
believe what many
scientists report about global
warming.
He's already called for a moratorium on all regulations, blasted the chairman of the Federal Reserve as «treasonous», and, now, he's stating outright that he
believes global
warming is a hoax stirred up by
scientists who «manipulated data».
Combining the answers from other questions, 47 % of all respondents
believe «that
scientists are overstating evidence about global
warming for their own interests».
Leading climate
scientists believe that maintaining carbon dioxide levels in excess of 350 ppm will result in runaway global
warming with catastrophic impacts to humans, wildlife and ecosystems.
I suspect one of the reasons that he brought it up is that the general public, when told there is no debate amongst experts as to whether
warming is occurring, are also told that the hundreds of
scientists they hear about in the news dismissing
warming (or saying that there is a debate) are not climate change experts and therefore shouldn't be
believed.
Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate
scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly
believe, from your own experience, that cities are
warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.
Look around — anyone that continues to
believe that there is no consensus amongst
scientists that human activity is
warming the planet was duped, and continues to be duped, at least in part by this man.
Of the 62 % of people that aren't completely isolated from reality: 28 %
believe scientists are overstating the evidence about «Global
Warming» and 34 %
believe the media is overstating the evidence about «Global
Warming».
So, if I write an article about this in Examiner (which no one reads anyway — ha), what do I say to the commenter who says, «Gee, every time I bring up the name of a «
scientist» who disputes
warming, I get told he's not an expert and doesn't know what he's talking about, so why should I
believe this other non-climate change expert who doesn't dispute
warming?
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?»
That's why
scientists don't
believe that an increase in the strength of sunlight is causing the
warming of the Earth.
This is encouraging, because the 25 % who do not «
believe» that temperatures have risen are plainly in denial; the evidence for
warming is so strong that just about all the prominent so - called sceptic
scientists acknowledge it.