Perhaps it is time to take a hard look at another industrial chemical
with dangerous global warming impacts — ammonia.
Roy Spencer is a bona fide climate scientist who disagrees
with the dangerous global warming hypothesis.
Not exact matches
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GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that climate change is real, potentially
dangerous and probably caused in part by humans, has disagreed
with many climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.
THE phrase «
dangerous climate change» got scarier last week,
with a new analysis suggesting that
global warming will bring a rising tide of human violence.
Pope Francis is to make history this week
with a call for international cooperation to avert
dangerous global warming — the Vatican's most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change.
«Science tells us that we can not say
with any certainty what constitutes a
dangerous level of
warming, and therefore what level must be avoided,» Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for
global affairs and the leader of the American delegation, said in her remarks to the conference.»
These fundamental distinctions make scenarios
with 2 °C or more
global warming far more
dangerous; so
dangerous, we suggest, that aiming for the 2 °C pathway would be foolhardy.
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».
For years now, I've been exploring whether words alone, without a calamitous kick from nature, can jog humanity to cut short its long love affair
with fossil fuels for the sake of limiting the odds of
dangerous global warming.
Much of what they said meshed
with the overall theme of the meeting, which organizers said was aimed at proving that the recent consensus on
dangerous human - caused
global warming was shaped more by politics and passion than data.
With an 80 % reduction in GHGs by 2050 we have a 50 % chance of
dangerous climate change or runaway
global warming.
«Science tells us that we can not say
with any certainty what constitutes a
dangerous level of
warming, and therefore what level must be avoided,» Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for
global affairs and the leader of the American delegation, said in her remarks to the conference.»
The trigger was an e-mail chain maintained by Benny J. Peiser, a British social scientist who sends out daily summaries of research questioning
dangerous human - caused
global warming and international climate treaties, along
with other subjects.
The fine balance of chemicals in our air and seas has been disrupted
with dangerous consequences — our carbon emissions are driving
global warming and ocean acidification, while excesses of nitrogen and phospohorous from industry and agriculture are turning parts of the sea into dead zones.
10: Given that the authors of the largest ever survey of peer - reviewed opinion in learned papers marked only 64 of 11,944 papers, or 0.5 %, as stating they agreed
with the official «consensus» proposition that recent
warming was mostly manmade, on what rational, evidence - based, scientific ground is it daily asserted that «97 % of scientists» believe recent
global warming is not only manmade but
dangerous?
But the episode — revealed at a recent meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Salt Lake City, Utah — is a reminder that the energies released by the
dangerous mix of swirling winds and
warm oceans are dramatic and,
with global warming, could become even more frequent and more devastating.
How
dangerous it is to question the ruling paradigm of human caused
global warming, a once interesting idea that the United Nations latched onto
with all the enthusiasm of a fox in a hen coop, simultaneously drawing the interest of various national governments, and dragging
with it many unwitting but eager scientifically credentialed sycophants.
The
global warming «
warmest» year ever was finally delivered... although
with some birthing difficulties... NASA had to «adjust» its previous 2014 monthly temperatures to eek out another +0.04 deg before adding December's anomaly... even
with that tomfoolery, the outlook for «rapid and
dangerous»
warming is not so hot...
I refer, not to any
warming of the planet that may or may not be occurring, but to the world's apparently serious and broadly shared belief in
dangerous, man - made
global warming and of equally serious attempts to implement policies of enforced decarbonisation to deal
with it.
The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund
with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should
global warming raise sea levels at a
dangerous pace, according to several news reports.
Dr. S. Fred Singer, one of the world's earliest and most credible critics of the theory that
global warming is man - made and
dangerous, will be recognized
with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science at an international conference on
global warming taking place July 7 — 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
One thing that does seem clear is that
warmer oceans (a la
global warming) mean more evaporation, and that likely leads to storms
with more and more
dangerous rainfall of the kind we saw
with Hurricane Irene last year.
We also revealed that no peer - reviewed survey of a sufficiently large sample of published papers has even asked the question whether those peer - reviewed climate papers state —
with evidence — that
global warming will prove
dangerous.
She has been working through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and on December 7, 2005, she filed a climate change - related petition
with to the Commission as an urgent message from the Inuit «sentinels» to the rest of the world on
global warming's already
dangerous impacts.
Given the increased levels of certainty regarding human - induced
global warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on sea - level rise and data on melting of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together
with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable of preventing
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the climate system.
It has to be such that anyone predicting
dangerous man - made
global warming is automatically laughed at
with rolling eyes.
Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along
with the costs we incur from increasingly
dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by
global warming.
Over a period of 97 Hours Of Consensus, his website will be showing cartoon caricatures of climate scientists from around the world, each
with little speech bubbles coming out of their cartoon mouths explaining exactly why
global warming is more real and
dangerous than ever before.
Fund managers and investors attending the meeting want oil and gas majors to assess how compatible their assets are
with global efforts to avoid
dangerous levels of
warming.
Yet, when not too busy taking selfies near Alaskan glaciers, Obama spent time to prophesize about
dangerous «
global warming,» thus exhibiting either a deep ignorance of real climate science and facts or an amazing dishonesty that journalists allowed him to get away
with.
Two California counties and a city are suing 37 fossil fuel companies, accusing them of knowingly emitting
dangerous greenhouse gases that have contributed to
global warming that threatens their communities
with sea level rise.
Or do you mean people who disagree
with the hypothesis that man made CO2 emissions will cause
dangerous global warming?
In a cover story in the influential UK magazine Spectator James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that «anthropogenic
global warming» is a
dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a «first - world luxury»
with no ba...
These climate scientists warned President Johnson in 1965 not just of the dangers associated
with human - caused
global warming, but also that we might eventually have to consider geoengineering the climate to offset that
warming and the risks that we're causing by inadvertently running a
dangerous experiment
with the Earth's climate.
Maybe Willis might like to consider perusing the British publication «Avoiding
Dangerous Climate Change» as it outlines many of the concerns associated
with global warming.
I was amazed at the Government and Green responses to the serious flooding in the English Midlands a couple of years ago, when increassed rainfall due to alleged Man - made
Global Warming was trumpeted as a cause for the flooding; anyone who pointed out that generations of covering flood plains
with buildings, concrete and ashphalt was quite a
dangerous thing to do was derided as a simpleton or an ignoramus.
Atmospheric cooling, in this case, that would occur in isolation and in the context of a broader and rapidly
warming global climate system together
with a
dangerous warming of the land ice sheets.
The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «
dangerous»
global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal
with for thousands of years.
Recognition of this reality and perceptions of what is «politically feasible» may partially account for acceptance of targets for
global warming and carbon emissions that are well into the range of «
dangerous human - made interference»
with climate.
Brandon Gates's commentary as in point 1) is based the premise that
dangerous human - caused
global warming requiring immediate radical mitigating action is occurring and has been since ~ 1800 and any observations that do not accord
with or contradict that a priori assumption are airily dismissed by «that is the way CO2 induced
warming occurs».
It is my contention (and that of many others) that in fact this is the default null hypothesis and until proponents of the anthropogenic
global warming hyothesis come up
with some better evidence to back up their claims of imminent
dangerous warming driven by co2 and a water vapour feedback to its increasing levels, the null hypothesis is the best one we have.
Problem is, it's pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn't enough to keep
global warming from crossing the «
dangerous» two degree Celsius threshold — a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future,
with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.
The Cancun
global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week,
with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «
dangerous» climate change.
That might have changed this week
with the coverage of announcement of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C
Global Warming is Highly
Dangerous» by James Hansen and 16 other eminent scientists.
These fundamental distinctions make scenarios
with 2 °C or more
global warming far more
dangerous; so
dangerous, we suggest, THAT AIMING FOR THE 2 °C PATHWAY WOULD BE FOOLHARDY.
These fundamental distinctions make scenarios
with 2 °C or more
global warming far more
dangerous; so
dangerous, we suggest, that aiming for the 2 °C pathway would be foolhardy.
In a new paper, the climate scientist Professor James Hansen and a team of international experts found the most
dangerous effects of a
warming climate — sea level rise, Arctic ice melt, extreme weather — would begin kicking in
with a
global temperature rise of 1C.
Why does Professor Reif continue to champion the notion of
dangerous manmade
global warming when it is so greatly at odds
with observation?
PARIS (December 8, 2015)-- The Science Based Targets initiative announced today that 114 companies have now committed to set emissions reduction targets in line
with what scientists say is necessary to keep
global warming below the
dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius.
After becoming fed up
with the childish and
dangerous tactics of alarmists, particularly the use of the term «climate denier,» Spencer said that the «
global -
warming Nazis» were in fact threatening millions of lives — especially among the poor —
with their «pseudo-scientific ramblings» and support for fascist - style «radical policies» supposedly aimed at combating «
global warming.»