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it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | Climate change poses risks to peace . | 0 |
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Studies show increases in future wind resources in windy areas in South America . | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | Given that CO2 emissions constitute the dominant human influence on global climate, global net zero CO2 emissions are a prerequisite for stabilising warming at any level. | 0 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | The global mean surface temperature change, or ‘global warming level’ . | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | Five years later, the Third Assessment Report . | 1 |
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age. | In the Antarctic, dynamic losses driven by ocean warming and ice-shelf disintegration will likely continue to outpace increasing snowfall this century . | 0 |
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] | Ice-core records from vulnerable alpine glaciers in the tropics and the mid-latitudes document more frequent melt layers in recent decades, with glacial retreat occurring at a rate and geographic scale that is unusual in the Holocene . | 0 |
Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction | Tourism demand for polar bear viewing in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, may change due to climate-related declines in polar bear health , but may be offset by ‘Last Chance Tourism’ . | 1 |
So that means that probably about half, maybe half of that nine-tenths of the degree [of total warming] might be caused by greenhouse gases | This is consistent with literature that suggests that greenhouse gas . | 1 |
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] | Climate change may additionally cause the breaching of physical and social adaptation limits, resulting in climate-related residual risks . | 1 |
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | For moderate levels of sea level rise, it is unlikely that these changes alone will exceed the technical limits of coastal adaptation over the 21st century . | 1 |
When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical | However, even extreme events that do not have a particularly low probability in the present climate (at more than 1°C of global warming) can be perceived as surprises because of the pace of global warming (high confidence). | 1 |
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | Since then, increased warming and progressively more conclusive attribution studies have identified human activities as the ‘dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century’ . | 0 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Climate change impacts such as extremely high temperatures, intense rainfall leading to flooding, more intense winds and/or storms, and sea level rise can seriously impact transport infrastructure, operations, and mobility for road, rail, shipping, and aviation. | 0 |
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records | Longer reanalyses that extend further back in time than the beginning of the instrumental record are being developed. | 1 |
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | Because really extreme events occur rarely was three to ten times more likely as the result of climate change. | 0 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Therefore, climate change and sustainable development cannot be assessed or planned in isolation of one another. | 1 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | This will be the case even if global warming is stabilized at 1.5°C. | 1 |
The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events. | There is limited evidence that extreme precipitation associated with severe convective storms has increased in some cases. | 0 |
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] | The majority of mountain glaciers lost mass during the past two decades, and permafrost in the European Alps and Scandinavia is decreasing . | 0 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | Consistent with the AR5 assessment, there is high confidence that SRM would not mitigate CO2 -induced ocean acidification . | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | There was intensified sea level rise during the 1990s and 2000s, with 10-year trends exceeding 20 mm yr–1in the western tropical Pacific Ocean, while sea level trends were negative on the North American west coast. | 0 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Because the energy system is so complex, it can be hard to define particular parts of it precisely, and there may be competing definitions in the literature. | 1 |
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | Adaptations such as improved water management are emerging slowly . | 1 |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | The science on climate change, its impacts and the opportunities to mitigate is continuously being updated. | 1 |
When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical | There was high confidence that global warming was already causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events, impacting ecosystems, food security, disturbances and production processes, with existing . | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | Changes in solar radiation as a consequence of solar dimming and brightening may affect trends . | 1 |
When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical | Data from field campaigns suggest that a ‘suppression of cooling’ can explain the observed warming . | 1 |
Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same. | Relative sea level: Satellite altimetry and tide data show that relative sea levels , which is broadly consistent with findings in Oppenheimer et al . | 1 |
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] | Glaciers are expected to continue to lose mass throughout the 21st century, with higher mass loss under high emission scenarios ). | 0 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | Furthermore, according to IPCC SR1.5 , if the world warms by 2°C–4°C by 2050, rates of human conflict could increase, but again, the role of hydrological change in this was not explicit . | 1 |
Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction | Sea ice loss due to climate change is expected to accelerate over the next century . | 1 |
More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations | It was endorsed at the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2014. | 1 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | In Bolivia, CMIP3/5 models projected an increase in temperature . | 1 |
The polar bear population has been growing. | The latest data indicate continued global livestock population growth between 1990 and 2019 . | 1 |
The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events. | The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land and IPCC AR6 WGI both describe significant climate-related changes resulting from tropical deforestation . | 1 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | Over a 100-year time horizon, this warming is +0.0017°C ± 0.00017°C and +0.0001°C ± 0.000079°C, respectively . | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | EBEs can be calculated by multiplying primary energy extraction of fossil fuels with their respective carbon content . | 1 |
Human additions of CO2 are in the margin of error of current measurements and the gradual increase in CO2 is mainly from oceans degassing as the planet slowly emerges from the last ice age. | In the interior of the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean, and the North Atlantic, the increase in the CO2 inventory from 1994 to 2007 was about 20% smaller than expected from the atmospheric CO2 increase during the same period and the anthropogenic CO2 inventory in 1994 . | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | Human influence has been a major driver of regional mean temperature change since 1950 in many sub-continental regions of the world (virtually certain). | 1 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | It is very likely that global mean stratospheric cooling will be larger by the end of the 21st century in a pathway with higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. | 1 |
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined | The report also found that Arctic sea ice extent has very likely decreased for all months of the year since 1979 and that September sea ice reductions of 12.8 ± 2.3% per decade are likely unprecedented for at least 1000 years. | 1 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | Some papers corroborate that earlier start and later end of phenological events in Asia are associated with global warming; however, other papers do not confirm such a connection. | 1 |
Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid. | This can be transformed into an absolute global temperature-change potential . | 1 |
When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical | The majority of the climate science community has reached consensus that mean global temperature has increased and human activity is a major cause , setting the context for public policy action. | 0 |
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in. | But biodiversity changes, warming, acidification and non-climate drivers . | 1 |
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Global climate models project an increase in wind speeds, under all future scenarios, augmenting wind power potential in most parts of Central and South America, especially in NES, where changes lie in the range 0–20% by 2050 under RCP8.5 and 0–40% under RCP8.5 . | 1 |
The polar bear population has been growing. | The city, situated in a global biodiversity hotspot , has a rapidly growing population . | 1 |
Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors [of climate change], but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. | On the one hand, mitigation and adaptation processes can create significant development opportunities. | 1 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | In this way, blocking can also be associated with extreme events such as heavy precipitation , drought and heatwaves . | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Mean temperatures over the region have increased by 0.7°C–1°C from 1973 to 2013, depending on the season . | 1 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | Smoliak et al performed their dynamical adjustment using partial least squares regression of temperature to remove variations arising from sea level pressure changes. | 1 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | This is consistent with literature that suggests that greenhouse gas . | 1 |
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | Mean air temperature: New literature confirms a continuous warming since the beginning of the 20th century in the majority of the eight sub-regions . | 0 |
Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors [of climate change], but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. | Due to the lack of large-scale modelling studies, there is low confidence for climate change impacts on peat carbon uptake and emissions. | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | In the near term, the forced change in Southern Annular Mode in austral summer is likely to be weaker than observed during the late 20th century under all five SSPs assessed. | 1 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | There is a near-linear relationship between cumulative CO2 emissions and the increase in global mean surface air temperature is due to a better integration of evidence across the science in this assessment. | 0 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | The AR4 further strengthened previous statements, concluding that ‘most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations’ . | 0 |
The polar bear population has been growing. | Responses by marine mammals and birds to the ongoing changes in polar ecosystems are both positive and negative . | 1 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | However, ESMs still have considerable biases in the climatological temperature and cloud fraction over land, and the magnitude of this feedback has not yet been supported by observational evidence. | 1 |
Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors [of climate change], but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. | Several factors affect the precise value of remaining carbon budgets, including estimates of historical warming, future emissions from thawing permafrost, and variations in projected non-CO2 warming. | 1 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | Some studies find an increase in the frequency of SSWs under increasing greenhouse gases . | 0 |
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory | The ability to simulate the effect of volcanic aerosol in global models is evaluated in VolMIP . | 1 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | The latter still shows stronger cooling than simulated in chemistry-climate models . | 1 |
Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions. | Globally, high climate change projections imply lower mitigation effort, higher climate risks and greater adaptation. | 1 |
More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations | These factors provide the context for climate policymaking and include differences in countries’ histories ; the political culture and regulatory traditions in governing environmental and energy issues ; and even bureaucrats’ educational background . | 1 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | SR1.5 assessed with low confidence differences in projected impacts under 1.5°C compared with 2°C of warming . | 1 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Electricity is a versatile energy carrier, potentially produced from abundant renewable energy sources or other low carbon options; regional resources and preferences will vary. | 1 |
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined | Mean air temperature: A long-term warming trend in annual mean surface temperature has been observed across Asia during 1960–2015, and the warming accelerated after the 1970s . | 0 |
The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events. | At the same time, with the increase in the proportion of renewable energy in the power system, the power system will be more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather and climate events, and the vulnerability and risk of the power system will greatly increase (medium confidence). | 0 |
Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming | Fires are attributed to changes in temperature regimes and precipitation regimes The glaciers of the southern Andes . | 1 |
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | Regional sea level change has been the main driver of changes in extreme still water levels across the quasi-global tide gauge network over the 20th century . | 1 |
Human additions of CO2 are in the margin of error of current measurements and the gradual increase in CO2 is mainly from oceans degassing as the planet slowly emerges from the last ice age. | The century-scale climate–carbon cycle response to a CO2 removal from the atmosphere is not always equal and opposite to the response to a CO2 emission (medium confidence). | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum that occurred 55.9–55.7 Ma. | 1 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | At large scales the dominant effect of aerosols on the carbon cycle is likely a global cooling effect of the climate . | 1 |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | In a changing climate, people frequently ask whether extreme events are generally becoming more severe or more frequent, and whether an actual extreme event was caused by climate change. | 1 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | Models project a very likely 2°C GWL increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes. | 0 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | In the North Atlantic, a low rate of anthropogenic CO2 storage at 1.9 ± 0.4 PgC per decade during the time period of 1989–2003 increased to 4.4 ± 0.9 PgC per decade during 2003–2014. | 0 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | Several studies suggest that increasing atmospheric CO2 could lead to reduced leaf stomatal conductance, which would increase water-use efficiency and reduce plant water needs, thus limiting ET . | 0 |
Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’ | The point in time at which the current ice sheet might reach this critical volume depends on oceanic and atmospheric conditions, ice dynamics, and climate–ice sheet feedbacks . | 1 |
Earth’s mean temperature over the last 2,000 years shows two previous periods when temperatures were warmer than they are now; from 1–200 A.D., an epoch called the Roman Warm Period, and more recently the Medieval Warm Period from 900–1100 A.D. | The median of the multi-method GMST reconstruction from this synthesis a multi-centennial period of relatively low temperature beginning around the 15th century, with GMST averaging –0.03 °C between 1450 and 1850 relative to 1850–1900; . | 1 |
The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events. | Markets for green bonds, ESG (environmental, social, and governance), and sustainable finance products have grown significantly since the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5) and the landscape continues to evolve. | 1 |
More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations | The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , and in 2015, Article 8 of the Paris Agreement provided a legal basis for the WIM. | 1 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | There are indications from ocean-colour data used in conjunction with fisheries data that the survival rate of various larger marine organisms depends on phenological metrics related to the seasonality of phytoplankton growth. | 1 |
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in. | The dominant human influence on observed global warming and related water cycle changes was confirmed. | 0 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | Although agriculture in parts of North America has become more sensitive to climate over the last 50 years, livestock have helped to moderate this effect, being less sensitive to increasing temperatures than some specialised crop systems . | 1 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | Human influence has been a major driver of regional mean temperature change since 1950 in many sub-continental regions of the world (virtually certain). | 1 |
Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming | However, expert opinion differs as to whether recent Antarctic ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been driven primarily by external forcing or by internal variability, and there is no consensus . | 1 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | Technological change that is induced by an increase in price of a resource can never lead to an increase in use of that resource. | 1 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | Moreover, coverage of climate science is increasing. | 1 |
The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events. | In the USA, it is indicated that there is no significant increase in convective storms, and hail and severe thunderstorms . | 1 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | Mean temperatures over the region have increased by 0.7°C–1°C from 1973 to 2013, depending on the season . | 1 |
The polar bear population has been growing. | In the Chukchi Sea, in recent decades the average duration polar bears spent onshore increased by 30 d in line with global warming and the rapid decline of their sea ice habitat In Central Kazakh Steppe, in line with warming, in 2018 there were more ‘southern’ sub-arid species in the communities and fewer relatively ‘northern’ boreal and polyzonal species of ground beetles . | 1 |
So that means that probably about half, maybe half of that nine-tenths of the degree [of total warming] might be caused by greenhouse gases | This relationship between levels of warming, climate risk and reasons for concern . | 1 |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | In CSA, the awareness of climate change as a threat is increasing, a situation related to growth in climate justice activism and to the occurrence of extreme weather events of all kinds . | 0 |
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] | The natural response of land to human-induced environmental change – such as increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration, nitrogen deposition and climate change – caused a net CO2 sink equivalent of around 29% of total CO2 emissions . | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Increasing relative sea level, compounding with increasing tropical cyclone storm surge and rainfall intensity, will increase the probability of coastal city flooding (high confidence). | 0 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | Observations of climate changeThe SR1.5 estimated with high confidence that human activities caused a global warming of approximately 1°C between the 1850–1900 period and 2017. | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | To address this limitation an emergent constraint on 1970–2005 global warming was demonstrated to yield a best estimate ECS of 2.83 °C . | 1 |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | In the USA, projected changes in the environmental conditions show an increase in CAPE and no changes or decreases in the vertical wind shear, suggesting favourable conditions for an increase in severe convective storms in the future, but the interpretation of how tornadoes or hail will change is an open question because of the strong dependence on shear . | 0 |