Sentences with phrase «warming from catastrophe»

Frequent readers of this site know that I believe that feedbacks in the climate are the key issue of anthropogenic global warming, and their magnitude and sign separate mild, nearly unnoticeable warming from catastrophe.

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The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

He has pledged to undo American efforts to prevent a global warming catastrophe, including retreat from the Paris Agreement on Climate, Clean Power Plan, and new EPA

From global warming to pollution to vanishing wildlife, children face a world profoundly threatened by environmental catastrophe.

Many parents have long objected to what is being taught in schools — from belief in an anthropogenic global warming catastrophe to banning acknowledgment of American exceptionalism — but fearing the power of teachers to hurt their children's futures, parents keep their mouths shut.

Between the poles of real - time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: Without big changes in emissions rates, global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to substantial, and largely irreversible, transformations of climate, ecosystems and coastlines later this century.

It's no wonder that a large body of the public remains skeptical about the global warming community's projections of catastrophe 30 years from now.

Not a single scientific authority or reference is cited in the «Report» for any of the supposed catastrophes arising from «global warming» that it mentions.

Fewer deaths seems like a good thing to us, but the enviro - fascists have not wavered from their unrelenting rhetoric that global warming is a catastrophe in the making.

After 25 years of close to a trillion dollars of treasure being expended, thousands of avoidable deaths from hypothermia related health problems amongst the elderly, the destruction of entire industries and large parts of some national economies, science, very expensive science at that has been sent down an innumerable number of dead end paths and rabbit holes in pursuit of the unpredictable non existent global warming and it's totally failed predictions of catastrophes always still to come but which never do.

The United States faces a choice between manageable warming and unmanageable catastrophe, according to a leaked draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies.

Me, I don't think warmer winter nights are that big a deal, and not seeing any catastrophes from the last 2 ° warming, I'm not expecting a slightly warmer world to be that much different from today.

If it's 0.8 degC warmer in 2030 and we are 30 years away from possible catastrophe, the carbon tax should have risen to levels that eliminate the rule out the use of fossil fuels for electricity and most transportation.

As the scientific case for a climate - change catastrophe wanes, proponents of big - ticket climate policies are increasingly focused on punishing dissent from an asserted «consensus» view that the only way to address global warming is to restructure society — how it harnesses and uses energy.

The end - of - the - world prognostications from the Left of global warming catastrophe that never came but, the Left never cared if they were right or wrong about that and it does not worry them that the EPA prefers politics to science.

However, to help save the planet from this unprecedented warming catastrophe, I am obliged to give the UK government a shed load of vehicle road tax calculated purely on the amount of CO2 spewing from my car's exhaust.

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of «Field Notes from a Catastrophe» (2006) writes about global warming for The New Yorker.

We encourage you to join your peers from California, New York and Washington and lead in combating global warming, drought, stronger storms and other catastrophes that would decimate Illinois» economy from Southern and Central Illinois farms to Chicago's lakefront.»

Much of the warming, he says, stems from fluctuations in temperature that have occurred for millions of years — explained by complicated natural changes in equilibrium between the oceans and the atmosphere — and the latest period of warming will not result in catastrophe.

The best that can be said for the catastrophist side is that there is at least some evidence that future warming or changes in sea level or ocean chemistry could be catastrophic, even though this evidence is far from conclusive and is actively contradicting most models that predict catastrophe at present.

Over on the Energy from Thorium forum (where believers outnumber sceptics, but not hugely so) the preferred abbreviation is AGWCC (Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Catastrophe).

And 2 ˚C is far, far too high, given the now clear evidence that at less than 1 ˚C of warming we are already on the precipice of climate catastrophe, from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef, from the Himalayas to Siberia.

Tropical cyclone activity and intensity increasing Record droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells, high tides occurring Unequivocal warming of the climate system observed with very high confidence that human activities are to blame Temperature rising even more dramatically in Arctic, threatening ice loss and extinction of species Halving human CO2 emissions immediately might save the planet from catastrophe.

Scientists and experts skeptical that human activity will cause a climate catastrophe have filed briefs with the court, likely disputing claims from cities and oil companies about global warming.

While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming's impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security.

Experts agree that a shift in our energy and consumption is necessary to avert catastrophe brought on by global warming, yet there is strong resistance to a major move away from a coal - fired electricity and oil - based economy to one based on alternative sources of renewable energy.

I'd like to invoke the Precautionary Principle about the coming catastrophe of policy from the warming madness.

Many of you know that I consider questions around positive feedback in the climate system to be the key issue in global warming, the one that separates a nuisance from a catastrophe.

The catastrophe comes from the assumption that there are large net positive feedbacks in the climate system that multiply a small initial warming from CO2 many times.

Direct warming from the greenhouse gas effect of CO2 does not create a catastrophe, and at most, according to the IPCC, might warm the Earth another degree over the next century.

The CFR's Levi was also a lead voice in the «extreme weather» catastrophe choir claiming that the deaths and damage from Tropical Storm Sandy could be laid at the feet of human - caused global warming.

It's easy enough to believe that drought, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes are signs of a coming catastrophe from global warming, but these are normal variations of any climate that we — and other forms of life — have survived.

I think the self - described grouping in the case of luke - warmers is more of a label whereby this group can at least attempt to separate itself from the true deniers and those that point to catastrophes from AGW without good evidence.

Judy's got it, the catastrophes from future warming, should we get it, will be local or regional.

As the companion article to this one points out, virtually every major prediction of catastrophe that global - warming alarmists have made about the coming state of the environment over the past several decades — from melting sea ice and flooded nations to loss of snowfalls and increased climate refugees — has proven utterly incorrect.

Amid contemporary scenarios of potential climatic catastrophes and global warming that might be imagined to bring a new ice age, the powerful image of the Gulf Stream rising from the Florida Straits and flowing to the north Atlantic inevitably provokes questions about its ecological significance and whether it might ever stop.

After 20 minutes none of her classmates believed in the global warming catastrophe any more and the teacher was so impressed that he moved her grade from a 3 to a 2 at the end of the semester.

The majority of the warming, the amount that converts the forecast from nuisance to catastrophe, comes from feedback which is very poorly understood and not at all subject to any sort of consensus.

«The implications of the level of ocean warming that already has been attained include the need to reassess the way we quantify and manage today's catastrophe risk; specifically, after moving away from historical averages, the need to define a «new normal» which is itself highly uncertain.»

If he sincerely wants to understand global warming as he claims, he should take up Gavin's invitation to meet and listen with an open mind, as Elizabeth Colbert did for her fine objective book» Field Notes From A Catastrophe».

All the dissenters contributed was the letters «CAGW» to distinguish claims of catastrophe from «Benign Antrhopogenic Greenhouse - GAS Induced Warming», «natural climate change», «lukewarming» and everything else.