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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 [...] | Glaciers in the Southern Andes show decreasing mass loss rates for RCP2.6, and increasing rates for RCP8.5, which peak in the mid to late 21st century. | 1 |
Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction | Exceeding a specific remaining carbon budget results in higher global warming. | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | In a +1.5°C world, historical 50-year droughts . | 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. | A recent global study concluded that reservoirs might emit more carbon than they bury, especially in the tropics . | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | The AR5 did not include an assessment of large-scale temperature estimates for the MH, although it assigned high confidence to the long-term cooling trend over mid- to high-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and likely the warmest 30-year period of the past 1.4 kyr based on a quality-controlled, multi-proxy synthesis of paleo-temperature records from 470 terrestrial and 209 marine sites globally indicates that the median GMST of the warmest two-century-long interval was 0.7 °C warmer than 1800–1900 , and was centred around 6.5 ka. | 1 |
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change' | While the effects of inter-decadal climate cycles on fire are superimposed on long-term climate change, the relative importance of anthropogenic climate change in explaining changes in burned area in Australia remains unquantified to a significant −1.9% yr -1 in the period 2001–2016 . | 0 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | Constraints on the timing and rates of past climate changes have improved since AR5. | 1 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | Only six of the 17 taxes, where data are available, have reduced actual emissions subject to the tax. | 1 |
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] | In summary, although interannual variability is high in many regions, glacier mass records throughout the world show with very high confidence that the loss rate has been increasing in the last two decades . | 0 |
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded | Ocean warming and acidification harm red coral and communities hosting black coral . | 1 |
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change' | The fire outbreaks were a consequence of multiple factors related to political, social, economic and environmental scenarios concomitant with the weakening of environmental governance, such as control and monitoring of deforestation and fire incidences programmes . | 1 |
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory | New estimates of SO2 emissions from explosive eruptions have been derived from satellite and in situ measurements . | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | Surface-based networks have reduced in their coverage or range of variables measured due to COVID-19 and other factors. | 1 |
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] | 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 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | An encouraging development for understanding climate variations over the past 250 years or so at the global and regional scale lies in the field of data rescue, in which hitherto hidden archives of meteorological data are brought to the forefront . | 1 |
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | This situation threatens human water security in the long term and poses an increasing risk to adaptation success in CSA Important progress has been made on climate change and water management policies in combination with more inclusive stakeholder processes. | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | However,the low frequency of carbon observations in the interior of the vast ocean leads to medium confidence in the assessment of temporal variability in the rate of regional ocean CO2 storage and its controlling mechanisms. | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | Insummary, under a past warming level of around 2.5°C–4°C, ice sheets in both hemispheres were reduced in extent compared to present . | 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. | These changes have been predominantly ascribed to the impact of changes in the MOC on the transport of anthropogenic CO2 into the ocean interior due to regional climate variability, in addition to the increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration . | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | However, they also contribute disproportionately to total annual anthropogenic GHG emissions globally and influence climate through land use change, processing and transport through emitting CO2, animal production by increasing methane emissions, and feed and manure production by emitting CO2, nitrous oxide, and methane, . | 1 |
Sea level rise is not going to happen. | Sea level rise hazards for coastal ecosystems, infrastructure, farmland, cities and settlements in a particular region are often driven by regional changes in relative sea level . | 0 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | In summary, based on the latest updates to satellite observations of stratospheric temperature, we assess that simulated and observed trends in global mean temperature through the depth of the stratosphere are more consistent than based on previous datasets, but some differences remain (medium confidence). | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Coastal erosion and flooding of Australasian beaches due to sea level rise . | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | For example, sea level rise 50 years after a 1°C warming will be lower than sea level rise 150 years after that same 1°C warming , depending on whether near-term transient climate, end of the century, equilibrium climate or climate states after an initial overshoot are considered. | 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 | Around 46% of the pathways are consistent with an end-of-century temperature of at least likely limiting warming to below 2°C . | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | Livestock production may account for 30% of all water and can negatively affect water quality. | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | For RCP8.5, warming increases to 5.4°C and duration increases dramatically to 95.5 days Worldwide alterations in lake mixing regimes in response to climate change are projected . | 1 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | Heatwaves are projected to become more frequent and intense even at 1.5°C of global warming . | 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 will be the case even if global warming is stabilized at 1.5°C. | 1 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | Data from field campaigns suggest that a ‘suppression of cooling’ can explain the observed warming . | 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. | Heatwaves are projected to become more frequent and intense even at 1.5°C of global warming . | 1 |
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | There is increasing awareness that climate change causes weather patterns and extreme events that directly harm military installations and readiness through infrastructure damage, loss of utilities, and loss of operational capability . | 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 | International climate cooperation has long focused on supporting developing countries in building capacity to implement climate mitigation actions. | 1 |
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | The rapid pace of technological development and deployment in mitigation pathways is not incompatible with historical records. | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | At the ocean surface, temperature has on average increased by 0.88 °C from 1850–1900 to 2011–2020 . | 1 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | This extreme drought also caused an increase in the occurrence and spread of fires in the basin . | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | When decomposing emissions between two cases k and k–1, either the time-period, or the scenario remains constant. | 1 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | There is growing confidence that modern reanalyses can provide another line of evidence in describing recent temperature trends . | 1 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | Greater lags in regions with faster warming. | 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. | Records of CO2 from the AIS formed during the last glacial period and the LDT show century-scale fluctuations of up to 9.6 ppm . | 1 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover extent will decrease by about 8% per 1°C of global surface air temperature change (up to 4°C above pre-industrial temperature) (medium confidence). | 0 |
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | Not all emissions can be avoided. | 1 |
Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’ | Melting of ice and warming of the atmosphere account for about 3% and 1% of the total change respectively. | 1 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | Extreme climatic events in Australia from 2011 to 2017 led to abrupt and extensive mortality of key habitat-forming organisms — corals, kelps, seagrasses and mangroves — along over 45% of the continental coastline of Australia In 2016 and 2017, the GBR experienced consecutive occurrences of the most severe coral bleaching in recorded history . | 1 |
Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions. | In the next two decades, it is very likely that the SLCF emissions changes in the WGI core set of SSPs will cause a warming relative to 2019, whatever the SSPs, in addition to the warming from long-lived greenhouse gases. | 0 |
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in. | Climate change is having major impacts on the region’s oceans . | 0 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | Higher CO2 reduces the nutritional density of crops and forage lands and can increase the production of toxins and allergenic pollen . | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | Multiple measures show similar location changes Sudden stratospheric warming and on average occurs approximately 6 times per decade in the NH winter . | 1 |
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory | In summary, our understanding of present-day global CO distribution has increased since AR5 with newer and improved observations and reanalysis. | 1 |
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | Slow-moving, destructive storms like hurricanes Harvey and Florence have caused significant flooding . | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | The dominant human influence on observed global warming and related water cycle changes was confirmed. | 0 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | This is reflected in the higher proportion of freshwater hotspots impacted by humans . | 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. | Thus, the level of confidence on the effect of SRM on carbon and other biogeochemical cycles is low. | 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. | Climate change can cause significant impacts and as a result can impose considerable adaptation costs on countries and people. | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | As yet, these systems are not widely implemented and information on their climate change impacts is limited. | 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 critique of ‘global’ studies by argues that their naming is misleading, that most of them are far from global, and that a considerable geographic and taxonomic bias remains. | 1 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | Stronger warming in the Arctic than the global average has already been observed . | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | The AR5 concluded that ‘it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century’ . | 0 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | NGHGI, based on IPCC guidelines, consider a much larger area of forest to be under human management than global models. | 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 | Warming cannot be limited to well below 2°C without rapid and deep reductions in energy system carbon dioxide , net energy system CO2 emissions with no or limited overshoot, net CO2 and GHG emissions fall by 35–51% and 38–52% respectively. | 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. | Mean temperatures over the region have increased by 0.7°C–1°C from 1973 to 2013, depending on the season . | 1 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | Global surface temperatures increased by about 0.1°C . | 0 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | The timing of ‘unseasonal’ cold spells also affect human health . | 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. | Contrary to constraints based on paleoclimates or global warming since the 1970s, when based on CMIP6 models a higher, yet still well-bounded ECS estimate of 3.7 °C is obtained . | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | Temperature extremes have likely increased in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decreased in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes . | 1 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | Anthropogenic global warming was estimated to be increasing at 0.2 ± 0.1°C per decade , increased droughts in some regions . | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | They found that anthropogenic forcing has caused a cooling of approximately 2°C–3°C in the upper stratosphere over the period of 1979–2015, with greenhouse gases contributing two thirds of this change and ozone depletion contributing one third. | 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 | Climate and climate change are also highly relevant to most other SDGs, and UNFCCC is acknowledged as the main forum to negotiate the global response to climate change. | 0 |
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...] | This will be the case even if global warming is stabilized at 1.5°C. | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | However, instability and/or irreversible loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, resulting in a multi-metre rise in sea level over hundreds to thousands of years, could be triggered at 1.5°C–2°C of global warming while under RCP8.5 multi-metre sea level rise is projected by then chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C is about 580 GtCO2, and about 420 GtCO2 for a two-in-three . | 1 |
Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions. | In such situations, the need for active cooling technologies may arise, along with higher energy consumption and GHG emissions Changes in cloud formation can affect global solar irradiation and, therefore, the output of solar photovoltaic panels, possibly affecting on-site renewable energy production . | 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. | Taking all lines of evidence into account, the GMST averaged over the warmest centuries of the current interglacial period . | 1 |
Sea level rise is not going to happen. | Interactions between sea level rise and storm surges , and sea level and fluvial flooding are projected to lead to more frequent and intense compound coastal flooding events as sea levels continue to rise. | 0 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | As such, they can promote holistic, egalitarian approaches to enable, accelerate and deepen climate action and environmental care . | 1 |
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined | However, recent global-scale analyses estimate lower contributions . | 1 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | Future systems will generate electricity using different mixes of technologies, produce and transport different carriers . | 1 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | High CO2 concentrations are shown to potentially decrease plant ET and increase plant water-use efficiency, affecting soil moisture levels, but this effect interacts with other CO2 physiological and radiative effects . | 0 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | Under one scenario including a peak and decline in atmospheric CO2 concentration . | 1 |
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | Although these rates are an order of magnitude lower than those directly observed over 1919–2019 CE . | 1 |
Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions. | Over time scales of 10 to 20 years, the global temperature response to a year’s worth of current emissions of SLCFs is at least as large as that due to a year’s worth of CO2 emissions would not only alleviate this warming but would turn this into a cooling of 0.07°C with a likely range of °C . | 1 |
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined | Since the mid-20th century, extreme warm temperatures have increased and extreme cold temperatures have decreased in the region . | 0 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | Improvements in air temperature datasets over the ocean and an improved understanding of the representation of the lowermost atmosphere over the ocean in models would reduce uncertainty in assessed changes in GSAT. | 1 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | These differences have also been observed in former years That means, even moderate changes in the global mean temperature, as identified in the recent IPCC report SR1.5°C and in scientific literature , can mean substantial increases in risks for more than 3 billion people due to high levels of vulnerability. | 1 |
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | Climate change is not expected to substantially impact global solar insolation and will not compromise the ability of solar energy to support low-carbon transitions . | 1 |
Sea level rise is not going to happen. | 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 |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | There remains a paucity of data for observed climate-change impacts on Asian agriculture and food systems since the release of IPCC AR5. | 1 |
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records | Thus, no official data exists yet on tracking progress of individual NDCs. | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | Understanding the global climate system requires both theoretical understanding and empirical measurement of the major forces and factors that govern the transport of energy and mass In addition to radiative transfer , who hypothesized vertical atmospheric circulatory cells driven by solar heating, and Hadley , who showed how the Earth’s rotation affects that circulation. | 1 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | This increase includes +0.34 W m–2 from increases in atmospheric concentrations of well-mixed greenhouse gases . | 1 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | A recent global study concluded that reservoirs might emit more carbon than they bury, especially in the tropics . | 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 | Six months later in September 2019, young people and adults responded to a call to participate in climate strikes as part of the ‘Global Week for Future’ surrounding the UN Climate Action Summit , and the number of participants globally jumped to an estimated six million people . | 1 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | In scenarios limiting warming to 1.5°C . | 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. | Direct industry CO2 emissions have also declined in Latin America, Europe and Australia, Japan and New Zealand, and – to a smaller extent – in North America. | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | The observations from the surface networks show that the abundance of dichloromethane continued to increase until 2019 . | 1 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | However, CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming and reducing emissions of other greenhouse gases (GHGs) alongside CO2 towards net zero emissions of all GHGs would lower the level at which global temperature would peak. | 1 |
Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same. | Areas with low or negative change have substantial land uplift counteracting the global mean sea level trend . | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | Climate hazards undermine adaptation by damaging livelihoods . | 1 |
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | The GCMs and ESMs compared in CMIP6 The FAR concluded that while both theory and models suggested that anthropogenic warming was already well underway, its signal could not yet be detected in observational data against the ‘noise’ of natural variability . | 0 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | Solar radiation modification, in the literature also referred to as ‘solar geoengineering’, refers to the intentional modification of the Earth’s shortwave radiative budget, such as by increasing the reflection of sunlight back to space, with the aim of reducing warming. | 1 |
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | Recent studies conclude that climate change can increase the severity and intensity of crises or even trigger disasters, particularly floods, storms, forest and wildfires, and droughts. | 0 |