Not exact matches
These findings, along
with those from Alaska, point to
global warming as the culprit, but
additional work over a longer period of time is needed before scientists can be certain of that.
«So, working independently, several research teams have converged on almost identical results for
warming over the past century at the
global scale, but
with periodic fine - tuning as
additional information becomes available,» Holt and Field write.
With even further
warming more hydrates are released,
additional global soil feedback (extreme soil respiration rates, compost bomb instability) and weathering becomes a driver, now Ocean very stratified, maybe things like permanent El Nino, weather systems probably move very slow — everything gets stuck due to lack of perturbed ocean, no or very little frozen water at the poles.
Meaning that the recent ice melt is likely due to
global warming with an
additional participant that has not been explored yet.
One way or another, expect a lot more stories like Mr. Yiryel's in Africa, where demographers expect an
additional one billion people by midcentury and science has revealed patterns of withering drought,
with or without
global warming.
Here's my e-mail conversation
with Wei and Monson, followed by a few
additional thoughts on putting a price on gases linked to
global warming:
In his paper «Unhealthy Exaggeration: The WHO report on climate change,» Goklany writes: «In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released,
with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that
global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000
additional deaths annually between 2030 and 2050.
To some extent, I actually agree
with Dr. Hansen on this point,
additional global warming would cause an albedo change - I just disagree that CO2 would have any affect.
Option C won't make it go away either because simulations are so massaged by confirmation bias that many reasonable people, understanding this, may tentitively choose option A. On the other hand, the problem of catastrophic
global warming may well go away
with additional data.
«Arctic Ice in «Death Spiral»
with additional heating due to
global warming, the extent of sea ice cover has gotten smaller and smaller over the summers since the 1980s.
For example,
with each degree of
warming, renewable water resources are projected to decline by at least 20 percent for an
additional 7 percent of the
global population.
In our on - going effort to keep up
with the science, today we update our previous summary
with two
additional recently published lower - than - IPCC climate sensitivity estimates — one made by Troy Masters and another by Alexander Otto and colleagues (including several co-authors not typically associated
with global warming in moderation, or «lukewarming»).
Farmers are faced
with shrinking supplies of irrigation water, a diminishing response to
additional fertilizer use, rising temperatures from
global warming, the loss of cropland to non-farm uses, rising fuel costs, and a dwindling backlog of yield - raising technologies.
The report noted that although these temperature record reconstructions «are not the primary evidence for the widely accepted views that
global warming is occurring, [and] that human activities are contributing, at least in part, to this
warming,» they «are consistent
with other evidence of
global climate change and can be considered as
additional supporting evidence.»
Especially since 2002 is the
warmest (at least globally
with the GHCN - ERSST data) I prefer to look at 1880 -LRB--.2) to 2006 (+.3) off
global mean for the period and it's clear to see the trend globally going from -.4 to +.3 The only questions then left are what is the meaning (and / or import) of the sudden changes since 1980, what changing a total of.005 C a year during the period means, what impact does increasing urbanization globally and
additional industrialization in places like India and China contribute, why the drop from +.6 to +.3, and why not a constant increase from year to year, given the elevated CO2 levels.