However, the facts can be resisted for only so long and in the case of global
warming the evidence from the climate scientists is becoming stronger and more frightening by the month.
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Co-author Dr Gerhard Kuhn,
from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, says: «Our results provide
evidence that in the past WAIS retreat was also predominantly caused by melting through
warm ocean water.
But Rybczynski and her colleagues have unearthed
evidence of a balmier Arctic
from a slice of time referred to as the mid-Pliocene
warm period, roughly 3 million to 3.3 million years ago.
In a 5 — 4 decision against the EPA, the Supreme Court majority decided that the scientific
evidence (some of which came
from the agency itself) suggested that Massachusetts and other states were experiencing harm
from global
warming and that the EPA had the authority to redress it.
Some scientists speculate that the sun may be entering a prolonged inactive phase, similar to the one that lasted
from 1645 to 1715 and coincided with the «little ice age» in Europe — although there is no
evidence that the sun will rescue us
from global
warming.
Some
evidence that a
warming climate might affect ENSO comes
from geological studies.
For example, if a proxy record indicated that a drier condition existed in one part of the world
from 800 to 850, it would be counted as equal
evidence for a Medieval
Warming Period as a different proxy record that showed wetter conditions in another part of the world
from 1250 to 1300.
As well
warming direct
from the sun, recent
evidence shows that increasing amounts of heat energy are being transported
from the tropics to the Arctic (Nature DOI: 10.1038 / nature06502).
The octopuses that the scientists observed (both in - person and via hours of video footage
from an ROV) showed
evidence of severe stress, and they could only guess that the 186 eggs that were attached to the rocks leaking
warm, low oxygen fluid had it worse.
The findings
from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new
evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify
warming near the equator in the future.
The conclusion of that study was that we are now in that interval's
warmest range of temperatures, therefore adding support to the overwhelming
evidence from other sources and models that man - made climate change is already well underway.
In the late 1960s, new fossils
from Montana and Mongolia provided Robert Bakker, a palaeontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with
evidence for his controversial claims that dinosaurs were
warm - blooded.
The strongest
evidence for global
warming comes
from physics and chemistry, not
from records of past temperatures, which is why scientists were predicting
warming long before the rise in temperature over the 20th century was obvious.
As
evidence of global
warming increased, removing carbon
from the air had become important in the world outside.
From melting glaciers and earlier springs to advancing treelines and changing animal ranges, many lines of
evidence back up what thermometers tell us — Earth is getting
warmer.
In the face of this overwhelming
evidence, is denying global
warming really that different
from believing that the government is hiding aliens in Area 51?
Warming and the seas — both on the rise Those ancient samples of sediment
from 10 coastal wetlands in North Carolina provide some of the best
evidence that sea - level rise closely follows
warmer temperatures, Rahmstorf says.
The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a
warmer world, but
evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.
A lot of
evidence points towards Mars being
warm and wet early in its history; features that look like rivers, lakes and outflows have been spotted both
from orbit and by rovers on the surface, and a lot of the planet's minerals contain water.
Geologists studying a region in the Mexican state of Veracruz have discovered
evidence to explain the origin of the Wilcox Formation, one of Mexico's most productive oil plays, as well as support for the theory that water levels in the Gulf of Mexico dropped dramatically as it was separated
from the rest of the world's oceans and Earth entered a period of extreme
warming.
Now, new
evidence from a marine sediment core
from the deep Pacific points to
warmer ocean waters around Antarctica (in sync with the Milankovitch cycle)-- not greenhouse gases — as the culprit behind the thawing of the last ice age.
And it's possible that we are currently no
warmer than we were a thousand years ago, during the «Medieval
Warm Period» or «Medieval Optimum,» an interval of warm conditions known from historical records and indirect evidence like tree ri
Warm Period» or «Medieval Optimum,» an interval of
warm conditions known from historical records and indirect evidence like tree ri
warm conditions known
from historical records and indirect
evidence like tree rings.
The
evidence points to a
warming of about 0.6 - 0.8 °C over the past century and a neglible effect on this
from the UHI.
Although the
evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes»)
from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep,
warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.
A critical piece of
evidence from almost fifty scientific expeditions to seven shrinking tropical ice - caps points to global
warming as the reason for their decline.
There is no
evidence of a sudden changes in CO2 then, and it has just been proved
from ice core sampling that there was not a sudden methane release at the end to cause that rapid
warming.
Far
from just inverting the burden of proof, with IPCC's statements, Trenberth has to show far beyond just «statistical
evidence» of «anthropogenic global
warming» AGW.
There is separate
evidence from ice cores that Antarctica has been
warming for most of the 20th century, but this is complicated by the strong influence of El Niño events in West Antarctica.
Although the study acknowledges that methane sources come
from a range of natural and man - made activities — oil extraction, natural gas leaks, wetlands, landfills,
warming permafrost — researchers say they found less
evidence that the boom in oil and gas production is the primary driver of the spike.
We now have many lines of
evidence all pointing to a single, consistent answer - the main driver of global
warming is rising carbon dioxide levels
from our fossil fuel burning.
Ironically, some of the most damning
evidence again the AGW or Anthropogenic Global
Warming Theory comes
from Al Gore himself.
One thing that struck me, however, was that although the
evidence of climate change is overwhelming in «Chasing Ice,» there's very little about slowing or stopping the planet
from warming.
For years prior to the publication of
evidence that the THC was slowing down, Gray was testifying in Congress and writing widely that hurricane increases were due to Atlantic
warming arising
from a speed - up of the THC (see our article for some typical quotes).
Evidence for regional warmth during medieval times can be found in a diverse but more limited set of records including ice cores, tree rings, marine sediments, and historical sources
from Europe and Asia, but the exact timing and duration of
warm periods may have varied
from region to region, and the magnitude and geographic extent of the warmth are uncertain.
It's a long paper with a long title: «Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms:
evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 oC global
warming could be dangerous».
«Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms:
evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2o C global
warming could be dangerous»
Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard
evidence to presumption, so a team
from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current
warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.
Evidence of Recent
Warming in Polar Latitudes
from Borehole Temperature.
The full title is: «Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms:
evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 o C global
warming could be dangerous ``.
The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming
evidence that global
warming,
from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.
The FDA says there is insufficient
evidence to claim that Heartgard will prevent transmission of
warms from pets to humans.
Muhs shared
evidence from the Channel Islands about the last period of global
warming that occurred about 125,000 years ago.
From my own experience, the most unconvincing
evidence for accelerating
warming is this graph: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.C.lrg.gif
Some of the most compelling
evidence of global
warming comes to us
from NASA.
Also,
evidence of the affects of global
warming from many parts of the world speaks for itself — melting ice, droughts, increasing water supply problems in big cities like Barcelona etc..
In essence, the authors have revisited a question posed earlier in a paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas (2003: see our previous discussion here), investigating whether or not
evidence from past proxy records of temperature support the existence of past intervals of warmth with the widespread global scale of 20th century
warming.
There is little
evidence for a connection between solar activity (as inferred
from trends in galactic cosmic rays) and recent global
warming.
While there is a good theoretical case for greater damage
from tropical storms, there is
evidence that mid latitude storms may have decreased in intensity compared to the Middle ages, and a good theoretical case that they should decline in intensity due to global
warming.