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[The 1990 IPCC report said] that the Antarctic ice sheets were stable. Evidence: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is stable so long as the Ross Ice Shelf is constrained by drag along its lateral boundaries and pinned by local grounding.
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International Energy Agency, a global analysis organization, “continue to see a role for coal for the foreseeable future.”. Evidence: He further said that the IEA is overstating the role of shale in a global market, and how the core job of the IEA, is not to take things out of context.
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Sea level rise is now increasing faster than predicted due to unexpectedly rapid ice melting.. Evidence: This acceleration is due mostly to human-caused global warming, which is driving thermal expansion of seawater and the melting of land-based ice sheets and glaciers.
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“Right now, the shelf works like a giant bottle-stopper that slows down ice trying to flow from the land into the sea.. Evidence: However, it is the outflow of the ice from the land to form the ice shelf which causes a rise in global sea level.
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The first adjustment changed how the temperature of the ocean surface is calculated, by replacing satellite data with drifting buoys and temperatures in ships’ water intake.. Evidence: It varies globally in a range of ± 2 m. Historically, adjustments were made to sea-level measurements to take into account the effects of the 235 lunar month Metonic cycle and the 223-month eclipse cycle on the tides.
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The CO2 amplifies the warming and mixes through the atmosphere, spreading warming throughout the planet.. Evidence: Because water vapor is a greenhouse gas, this results in further warming and so is a "positive feedback" that amplifies the original warming.
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HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are tens of thousands of times more polluting than carbon dioxide.. Evidence: Industrial pollutants such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs) have a GWP many thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide by volume.
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Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2.. Evidence: The heat needed to raise an average temperature increase of the entire world ocean by 0.01 °C would increase the atmospheric temperature by approximately 10 °C.
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Arctic sea ice loss is matched by Antarctic sea ice gain.. Evidence: "Antarctic ice shelf disintegration triggered by sea ice loss and ocean swell".
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If water temperatures stay moderate, the damaged sections of the Great Barrier Reef may be covered with corals again in as few as 10 or 15 years. Evidence: Sea level on the Great Barrier Reef has not changed significantly in the last 6,000 years.
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Renewable energy investment kills jobs. Evidence: It established an alternative and low carbon energy business in 2005, with plans to invest $8 billion over a 10-year period into renewable energy sources including solar, wind, and biofuels, and non-renewable sources including natural gas and hydrogen power.
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The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events.. Evidence: Lee County was lashed by strong winds and heavy rainfall, which caused prolonged flooding in some areas.
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The figure traditionally cited that suggests 97 per cent of climate scientists agree that global warming is man-made was also found to be flawed.. Evidence: Several researchers have concluded that around 97% of climate scientists agree with this consensus.
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in a letter to The Times from Lord Krebs and company, essentially telling the newspaper to stop reporting less-than-negative climate stories.. Evidence: During the Iranian nuclear crisis the newspaper minimized the "negative processes" of the United States while overemphasizing similar processes of Iran.
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More than 100 climate models over the past 30 years did not predict what actually happened because it was assumed carbon dioxide had the pivotal role in driving climate change and that the effects of clouds, back-radiation and the sun were trivial.. Evidence: Computer models are run on supercomputers to reproduce and predict the circulation of the oceans, the annual cycle of the seasons, and the flows of carbon between the land surface and the atmosphere.
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La Niñas, on the other hand, feature cooler than average waters in the Pacific. Evidence: latent heat) at the temperature of the warm ocean surface (during evaporation, the ocean cools and the air warms).
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A paper by Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at the University of Guelph, and Patrick Michaels, an environmental studies professor at the University of Virginia, concludes that half of the global warming trend from 1980 to 2002 is caused by Urban Heat Island.. Evidence: For example, Ross McKitrick and Patrick J. Michaels conducted a statistical study of surface-temperature data regressed against socioeconomic indicators, and concluded that about half of the observed warming trend (for 1979–2002) could be accounted for by the residual UHI effects in the corrected temperature data set they studied—which had already been processed to remove the (modeled) UHI contribution.
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It has occurred during the warmest year on record, which occurred in 2015, and the two most unusually mild months on Earth, which took place in January and February, respectively.”. Evidence: April 2007 was also the warmest month in history, the average temperature being 5 °C warmer than normal.
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Worst-case global heating scenarios may need to be revised upwards in light of a better understanding of the role of clouds, scientists have said.. Evidence: With this information, scientists can produce scenarios of how greenhouse gas emissions may vary in the future.
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But [climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey—and the recent history of tropical cyclones worldwide—suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse.. Evidence: Global warming not only causes changes in tropical cyclones, it may also make some impacts from them worse via sea level rise.
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Nine years into that 11-year hurricane drought, a NASA scientist computed it as a 1-in-177-year event.. Evidence: Drought is the unusual dryness of soil caused by levels of rainfall significantly below average over a prolonged period.
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Many lines of evidence, including simple accounting, demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is due to human fossil fuel burning.. Evidence: While CO 2 absorption and release is always happening as a result of natural processes, the recent rise in CO 2 levels in the atmosphere is known to be mainly due to human (anthropogenic) activity.
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A cold day in Chicago in winter has nothing to do with the trend of global warming.. Evidence: In it was the prediction that on our current course the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees Fahrenheit (or about 3.9 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.
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[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...]. Evidence: Holstein, James A.
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If ECS is as low as the Energy Balance literature suggests, it means that the climate models we have been using for decades run too hot and need to be revised.. Evidence: In 1896, he published the first climate model of its kind, showing that halving of CO 2 could have produced the drop in temperature initiating the ice age.
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the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'. Evidence: The 2007 Kangaroo Island bushfires were a series of bushfires caused by lightning strikes on 6 December 2007 on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, resulting in the destruction of 95,000 hectares (230,000 acres) of national park and wilderness protection area.
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Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet. Evidence: Additional fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic during a warming cycle may also reduce the global ocean water circulation.
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There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying[…] floods. Evidence: But, more accurately, global warming is the mainly human-caused increase in global surface temperatures and its projected continuation, while climate change includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes in precipitation.
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Eleven percent of the world’s population is currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme weather events and sea-level rise.. Evidence: Impacts include the direct effects of extreme weather, leading to injury and loss of life; and indirect effects, such as undernutrition brought on by crop failures.
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Global Warming history completely coincides with the history of artificial satellites and the use of microwave frequencies from outer space.. Evidence: Over time, a massive system of artificial satellites was placed into orbit around Earth.
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Mauna Loa has been producing a readout which supports Manning's predetermined goal by showing steady growth in atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 1959.. Evidence: Since 1958, initially under the direction of Charles Keeling, followed by his son Ralph and later Elmer Robinson, Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) has been monitoring and collecting data relating to atmospheric change, and is known especially for the continuous monitoring of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), which is sometimes referred to as the Keeling Curve.
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Volcanoes emit around 0.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year.. Evidence: The volcano produces about 400,000 ± 100,000 tonnes per year (400,000 ± 100,000 t/a) of CO 2, which is about 0.2–0.6% of the worldwide CO 2 flux at subaerial volcanoes.
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The most recent ocean measurements show consistent warming.. Evidence: The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report stated that: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as evidenced by increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, the widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.
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Big rooftop solar's plan forces Nevada families who don't have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar.. Evidence: Households with a smaller number of solar panels would likely see their rates go up under the proposal.
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On Feb. 7, several major newspapers carried stories of the declaration by NASA and NOAA that the past five years have been the warmest on record.. Evidence: Consistent with Schmidt's comment, the NASA / NOAA announcement stated that "globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean" and that the impact of El Niño warming was estimated to have "increased the annual global temperature anomaly for 2016 by 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.12 degrees Celsius)."
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Brooks added that Antarctic ice is growing.. Evidence: Satellite measurements by NASA indicate a still increasing sheet thickness above the continent, outweighing the losses at the edge.
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It appears, for the entire tropics, the observed outgoing radiation fluxes increase with the increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs).. Evidence: In tropical and subtropical areas, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) rose 0.2 °C (0.36 °F) within a 50-year period, and in the North Atlantic and Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone basins, the potential destructiveness and energy of storms nearly doubled within the same duration, evidencing a clear correlation between global warming and tropical cyclone intensities.
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But more than 7% of deaths are related to cold—counting hypothermia, as well as increased blood pressure and risk of heart attack that results when the body restricts blood flow in response to frigid temperatures.”. Evidence: High blood pressure is estimated to account for approximately 13% of CVD deaths, while tobacco accounts for 9%, diabetes 6%, lack of exercise 6% and obesity 5%.
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"Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains.. Evidence: This law of neutrality, passed in late October 1955 (and not the State Treaty itself), ensured that modern Austria would align with neither NATO nor the Soviet bloc, and is considered one of the reasons for Austria's delayed entry into the European Union in 1995.
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In the last 35 years of global warming, sun and climate have been going in opposite directions.. Evidence: Climate change may occur over long and short timescales from a variety of factors; recent warming is discussed in global warming.
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The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].. Evidence: Currently, surface temperatures are rising by about 0.2 °C per decade.
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While the north-east, midwest and upper great plains have experienced a 30% increase in heavy rainfall episodes – considered once-in-every-five year downpours – parts of the west, particularly California, have been parched by drought.. Evidence: Drought is much more common in the West than the rest of the United States.
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The report suggests significantly smaller overall ice-mass losses than previous estimates.. Evidence: As with glaciers worldwide, those of the greater Himalayan region are experiencing a decline in mass, and researchers claim that between the early 1970s and early 2000s, there had been a 9 percent reduction in ice mass.
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This argument originates from Angstrom's work in 1901.. Evidence: This classic was originally published in French in 1958.
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"the temperature increase in the second half of the 20th century could have taken place in steps driven by major ENSO events" (Jens Raunsø Jensen). Evidence: The average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8° Celsius (1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880; Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20 °C per decade.
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‘The dry periods are drier and the wet periods are wetter,’ said Jeffrey Mount, a water expert and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.. Evidence: In certain areas where the climate is drier, it becomes a true semi-desert with ground not entirely covered by vegetation: "open" as opposed to "closed" vegetation.
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Global warming is causing more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes.. Evidence: Their report also states that due to global warming the number of future hurricanes will "either decrease or remain essentially unchanged" overall, but the ones that do form will likely be stronger, with fiercer winds and heavier rains.
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Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors of climate change, but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one.. Evidence: Seventy-five of 77 believed that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.
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Shelters in poorer countries are not repainted as often, and darker stations absorb more of the sun’s energy.. Evidence: Acute conditions such as sunburn, dehydration, heat stroke and allergic reactions are also common.
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The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850.. Evidence: The Little Ice Age ended in the latter half of the 19th century or early in the 20th century.
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Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has helped raise global food production and reduce poverty.. Evidence: Potential negative environmental impacts caused by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are rising global air temperatures, altered hydrogeological cycles resulting in more frequent and severe droughts, storms, and floods, as well as sea level rise and ecosystem disruption.
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The Greenland ice sheet is at least 400,000 years old and warming was not global when Europeans settled in Greeland 1,000 years ago. Evidence: The effects of global warming in the Arctic, or climate change in the Arctic include rising air and water temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet with a related cold temperature anomaly, observed since the 1970s.
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Latest IPCC Reports (AR5) have shown global mean temperature forecasts from the 2005 IPCC report exceeded actual readings.. Evidence: Compared to the previous report, the lower bounds for the sensitivity of the climate system to emissions were slightly lowered, though the projections for global mean temperature rise (compared to pre-industrial levels) by 2100 exceeded 1.5 °C in all scenarios.
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The data is being reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions (Daily Tech).. Evidence: The IR estimates have rather low skill at short time and space scales, but are available very frequently (15 minutes or more often) from satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit.
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The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.. Evidence: The main idea in the report according to one of his authors Michael Oppenheimer is that if humanity will drastically reduce Greenhouse gas emission in the next decades the problem will be tough but manageable.
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The sea level was 20 to 30 feet higher than it is today, implying that the ice sheets in both Greenland and Antarctica must have partly disintegrated, a warning of what could occur in the relatively near future if the heating of the planet continues unchecked.”. Evidence: In 2018, scientists concluded that high sea levels some 125,000 years ago, which were 6–9 m (20–30 ft) higher than today, were most likely due to the absence of the WAIS, and found evidence that the ice sheet collapsed under climate conditions similar to those of today.
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And there is a lot of evidence that climate change is diminishing biodiversity, which can be seen in these alpine meadows as well.. Evidence: Increased temperatures may allow herbivores to expand further into alpine regions, significant impacting the composition of alpine herbfields.
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Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions.. Evidence: When the model included estimated changes in solar intensity, it gave a reasonable match to temperatures over the previous thousand years and its prediction was that "CO 2 warming dominates the surface temperature patterns soon after 1980."
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Weather and climate are different; climate predictions do not need weather detail.. Evidence: Documented long-term climate changes include changes in Arctic temperatures and ice, widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones.
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describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040. Evidence: Battle for the Reef – Four Corners – ABC.au Great Barrier Reef scientists confirm largest die-off of corals recorded.
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About 60% of the warming observed from 1970 to 2000 was very likely caused by this natural 60-year climatic cycle during its warming phase.... Evidence: In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.
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parts of the Earth will likely become close to uninhabitable. Evidence: The expanding Sun is expected to vaporize Mercury and render Earth uninhabitable.
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Comparisons to the most recent data consistently finds that climate change is occurring more rapidly and intensely than indicated by IPCC predictions.. Evidence: The statement references the IPCC's Fourth Assessment of 2007, and asserts that "climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO 2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid".
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The amount of heat energy coming out of the Earth is too small to even be worth considering.. Evidence: Geothermal power is considered to be renewable because any projected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth's heat content.
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California legislators have made it illegal for anyone to deny climate change, under threat of jail time.. Evidence: If the government was armed with appropriate legislation and the threat of long prison terms, private citizens would not feel the need to act.
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The current debate on the connection between CO2 emissions and climate change has largely overlooked an independent and equally serious problem, the increasing acidity of our oceans.. Evidence: This will cause an elevation of ocean alkalinity, leading to the enhancement of the ocean as a reservoir for CO 2 with implications for climate change as more CO 2 leaves the atmosphere for the ocean.
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Given that a doubling of carbon dioxide would change the surface heat flux by only two watts per square meter, it is evident that a small change in cloud cover can strongly affect the response to carbon dioxide.". Evidence: The main reinforcing feedbacks are the water vapour feedback, the ice–albedo feedback, and probably the net effect of clouds.
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"a [cloudcover] change in the Tropics could lead to a negative feedback in the global climate, with a feedback factor of about –1.1, which if correct, would more than cancel all the positive feedbacks in the more sensitive current climate models" (Lindzen et al.. Evidence: The impact of this negative feedback effect is included in global climate models summarized by the IPCC.
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I note particularly that sea-level rise is not affected by the warming; it continues at the same rate, 1.8 millimeters a year, according to a 1990 review by Andrew S. Trupin and John Wahr.. Evidence: The sea-level rise due to Antarctica has been estimated to be 0.25 mm per year from 1993–2005, and 0.42 mm per year from 2005 to 2015.
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They can now model how likely a specific event would be to occur under historical conditions, compared to the record temperatures we’re experiencing.. Evidence: The authors used computational models developed by NCAR to simulate the climatic effects of a soot cloud that they suggest would be a result, of a regional nuclear war in which 100 "small" (15 Kt) weapons are detonated over cities.
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“The IPCC reports also don’t fully account for the albedo effect (less ice means less reflected and more absorbed sunlight, hence more warming); more cloud cover (which traps heat); or the dieback of forests and other flora (which extract carbon from the atmosphere).. Evidence: If cloud cover increases, more sunlight will be reflected back into space, cooling the planet.
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The atmosphere of the Earth is less able to absorb shortwave radiation from the Sun than thermal radiation coming from the surface.. Evidence: Sunlight on the surface of Earth is attenuated by Earth's atmosphere, so that less power arrives at the surface (closer to 1,000 W/m2) in clear conditions when the Sun is near the zenith.
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The past shows that climate change is normal, that warmer times and more atmospheric carbon dioxide have driven biodiversity and that cold times kill.”. Evidence: Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide certainly affects plant morphology and is acidifying oceans, and temperature affects species ranges, phenology, and weather, but, mercifully, the major impacts that have been predicted are still potential futures.
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In an interview with the BBC after the scandal broke, Dr Jones admitted there had been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. Evidence: Here is the quote: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't."
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Losing tropical forests is not somehow cheaper than putting up wind farms in the US or Sahara.”. Evidence: An ambitious proposal for China is the Aerially Delivered Re-forestation and Erosion Control System and the proposed Sahara Forest Project coupled with the Seawater Greenhouse.
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“Underneath the permafrost there are sediments full of methane hydrates.. Evidence: (2008) estimate that not less than 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon is presently locked up as methane and methane hydrates under the Arctic submarine permafrost, and 5–10% of that area is subject to puncturing by open taliks.
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CO2 increase is natural, not human-caused.. Evidence: Human activities have caused CO 2 to increase above levels not seen in hundreds of thousands of years.
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Our harmless emissions of trifling quantities of carbon dioxide cannot possibly acidify the oceans.. Evidence: Carbon dioxide also causes ocean acidification because it dissolves in water to form carbonic acid.
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a new study by a leading climate economist, Richard Tol of the University of Sussex, concludes that warming may well bring gains, because carbon dioxide causes crops and wild ecosystems to grow greener and more drought-resistant.. Evidence: In 2009, Tol published an influential paper that combined data from several earlier studies, concluding that at least some amount of global warming could lead to economic gains.
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Geologists say that humans are now pumping the gas into the air much faster than nature has ever done.. Evidence: CO 2 is produced by all aerobic organisms when they metabolize carbohydrates and lipids to produce energy by respiration.
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temperature under the ice is fixed at -2C.  Thus elevated winter air temperatures. Evidence: They typically occur when a layer of warm air hovers over a region, but the ambient temperature a few meters above the ground is near or below 0 °C (32 °F), and the ground temperature is sub-freezing.
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Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford.. Evidence: In particular, the use of renewable energy for production of fuels from CO 2 (such as methanol) is attractive as this could result in fuels that could be easily transported and used within conventional combustion technologies but have no net CO 2 emissions.
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“Which is to say that these beans will be eaten by cows, and the cows will convert the beans to meat, and the humans will eat the meat.. Evidence: Carnivores require meat in their diet for survival, but carnists choose to eat meat based on their beliefs.
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Yet the cost of doing something will likely be higher than 6 per cent of GDP" (Bjorn Lomborg). Evidence: He argues that "... the cost and benefits of the proposed measures against global warming.
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While evidence that the earth’s orbital variations impact radiation levels and thus global temperatures does not of course mean that man is not in some way impacting the climate, studies like these highlight that the role man plays on the planet is dwarfed by natural phenomena utterly out of our control.. Evidence: There are many interesting palaeoclimate studies that suggest that solar variability had an influence on pre-industrial climate.
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Global temperature is still rising and 2010 was the hottest recorded.. Evidence: Between 1993 and 2017, the global mean sea level rose on average by 3.1 ± 0.3 mm per year, with an acceleration detected as well.
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Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.. Evidence: The retreat of mountain glaciers, notably in western North America, Asia, the Alps and tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Africa and Indonesia, provide evidence for the rise in global temperatures since the late 19th century.
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The temporary drop in sea level in 2010 was due to intense land flooding caused by a strong La Nina.. Evidence: An especially strong Walker circulation causes a La Niña, resulting in cooler ocean temperatures due to increased upwelling.
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Species that have a lot of plasticity tend to be generalists.. Evidence: phenotypic plasticity, multiple life-cycle stages).
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The long term trend from albedo is of cooling.. Evidence: Orbital forcing from cycles in the earth's orbit around the sun has, for the past 2,000 years, caused a long-term northern hemisphere cooling trend that continued through the Middle Ages and the Little Ice Age.
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In 1990 the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that temperatures would rise by 0.54F (0.3C) per decade.. Evidence: Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that global temperatures are likely to increase by 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100.
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Benny Peiser conducted a search of peer-reviewed literature on the ISI Web of Science database between 1993 and 2003.. Evidence: Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.
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So it’s clear now we’re not seeing dangerous global warming, and the climate models are wrong.. Evidence: Tipping points are "perhaps the most ‘dangerous’ aspect of future climate changes", leading to irreversible impacts on society.
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Natural climate solutions like ending deforestation and restoring degraded forests could, at the global level, create 80 million jobs, bring 1 billion people out of poverty and add US$ 2.3 trillion in productive growth.. Evidence: Globally, there are an estimated 3 million direct jobs in renewable energy industries, with about half of them in the biofuels industry.
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It fails to explain how we can have short-term positive feedback and long-term negative feedback.. Evidence: This provided immediate feedback and acted as positive reinforcement for a soldier's behavior.
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While preventing global warming is relatively cheap, economists can't even accurately estimate the accelerating costs of climate damages if we continue with business-as-usual.. Evidence: Economists have different views over the cost estimates of climate change mitigation given in the Review.
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“Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated and still amounts to only 1 inch every ten years.. Evidence: A 2018 systematic review study estimated that ice loss across the entire continent was 43 gigatons (Gt) per year on average during the period from 1992 to 2002, but has accelerated to an average of 220 Gt per year during the five years from 2012 to 2017.
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First, they concur with the believers that the Earth has been warming since the end of a Little Ice Age around 1850.. Evidence: An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Recent research also indicates that the quantity of fossil fuels staying in the atmosphere is much less than previously thought.. Evidence: Projections suggest that more than 80% of the world's energy will come from fossil fuels.
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But abnormal temperature spikes in February and earlier this month have left it vulnerable to winds, which have pushed the ice further away from the coast than at any time since satellite records began in the 1970s.”. Evidence: A lower air temperature of −94.7 °C (−138.5 °F) was recorded in 2010 by satellite—however, it may be influenced by ground temperatures and was not recorded at a height of 7 feet (2 m) above the surface as required for the official air temperature records.
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