Yet no one knew whether the
gradual warming of the globe is intensifying these events, in part because records are short and spotty in the remote parts of the Pacific where El Niño hits hardest.
«The real reason for concern is that we can not rule out the upper end of that uncertainty range, i.e. around 9
°F warming of the globe by the end of the century,» Mann said.
At some time or another, most people will have seen the hockey stick - the iconic graph which purports to show that after centuries of stable temperatures, the second half of the twentieth century saw a sudden and
unprecedented warming of the globe.
This seemingly obvious point is apparently lost on those who argue its an «either / or» proposition (i.e. the fatuous implication that somehow the research in question suggests that greenhouse gases are not primarily responsible for the
observed warming of the globe).
There has been criticism of the IPCC and its work, the so - called climategate scandal involving leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's climate studies centre and doubt has been cast on the very idea that humans could be
causing warming of the globe.
Only about 2 % of the planet's overall warming heats the atmosphere, so if we focus only on surface air temperatures, we miss 98 % of the
overall warming of the globe.
Bush: So global warming —
the warming of the globe, pretty serious, huh.
When they worked out how the ice would disappear, they failed to take both methane quantities and political inadequacy would affect
the warming of our globe.
There are also of course many «natural thermometers» confirming
the warming of the globe - rapidly rising seas, melting sea ice, melting land ice, etc. (Figure 1).
And also by the modifying effects of Arctic amplification of
the warming of the globe.
Only about 2 percent of the planet's overall warming heats the atmosphere, so if we focus only on surface air temperatures, we miss 98 percent of the overall
warming of the globe.
That means that anthropogenic aerosols have been a mitigating factor when it comes to
the warming of the globe over the past century.
Some recent work has suggested that
the warming of the globe may be progressing at a slightly slower rate than the upper range of previous studies estimated.
It's obvious that the «theory» claiming
the warming of the globe has stopped /» paused» is placed in what I would consider dire jeopardy by the persistent increase in the OHCA.
If, that is, we're holding out hope of limiting
the warming of the globe to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures, often cited as the threshold where «dangerous» warming begins (although in truth, that's a matter of interpretation).