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The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC	The difference in observed warming trends between cities and their surroundings can partly be attributed to urbanization (very high confidence).	1
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory	A recent global study concluded that reservoirs might emit more carbon than they bury, especially in the tropics .	1
Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2	It is important to note that the fraction of non-CO2 forcing to total forcing is not a fixed quantity and is dependent on the recent history of growth .	1
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.	An independent assessment is underway to look at the compliance of the Paris Agreement with regard to technology and capacity building as means of implementation.	1
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet	The fraction of CO2 removed that remains out of the atmosphere, a measure of CDR effectiveness, decreases slightly with increasing amount of removal (medium confidence) and decreases strongly if CDR is applied at lower CO2 concentrations (medium confidence).	1
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.	In other words, rebound effects associated with induced technological change can never offset the saving effect of that technological change The impact of energy prices on the size of low-carbon technological change is supported by large number of empirical studies .	1
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years	Terrestrial ecosystems contain carbon stocks: 450 GtC .	1
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.	They perceive the climate to be changing, most often reporting changes in rainfall variability, increased dry spells, decreases in rainfall and increased temperatures or temperature extremes.	1
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]	Higher atmospheric CO2 favours plant growth if soil quality and condition are sufficient, but benefits can be offset by increased heat and water stress associated with climate change .	0
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years	For scenarios that reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions, the uncertainty in the ERF values of aerosol and other short-lived climate forcers contribute substantial uncertainty in projected temperature.	1
Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions.	While climate change will affect energy systems .	1
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.	It shows the number of media science stories in those sources grew steadily from 47,376 per annum to 86,587 per annum between 2017 and 2021 across print, broadcast, digital media and entertainment However, increasing media coverage does not always lead to more accurate coverage of climate change mitigation, as it can also spur diffusion of misinformation .	1
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]	For a 4°C global warming, the changes are −48%, −14%, +135%, +213% and +350% respectively.	1
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate	Climate change is improving access to natural resources in the Arctic with consequences for human safety , a situation that could support continued global dependence on relatively cheap and abundant fossil fuels resources and contribute to further warming.	1
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization	If not well designed, such investments are prone to maladaptation, such as exposure to sea level rise.	1
Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.	Ice discharge around the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is strongly influenced by variability in basal melt , in particular at decadal and longer time scales .	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.	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 .	0
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]	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
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined	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
Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’	Estimates of total ice loss during the post-1850 period and recent observations show that the rate of loss has increased since the beginning of the 21st century of ice between 1992 and 2020 .	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 peripheral glaciers in NE Greenland experienced a 23% increase in mass loss in 1980–2014 compared to the period 1910 to 1978–1987 .	0
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists	Volcanic eruptions and the solar cycle were found not to affect long-term stratospheric temperature trends but to have short-term influences.	0
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.	Mean temperatures over the region have increased by 0.7°C–1°C from 1973 to 2013, depending on the season .	1
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.	Antarctic sea ice area is also projected to decrease during the 21st century, but due to mismatches between model simulations and observations, combined with a lack of understanding of reasons for substantial inter-model spread, there is low confidence in model projections of future Antarctic sea ice changes, particularly at the regional level .	0
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'	Climate change is not the sole cause of the increase in forest fire severity .	0
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.	Changes in anthropogenic aerosol concentrations have likely affected trends in hot extremes in some regions.	1
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	The ongoing loss of these natural, high-resolution climate archives endanger an end in their coverage over recent decades, given that many of the longest monthly- to annually-resolved paleoclimate records were collected in the 1960s to 1990s .	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 the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) identified climate change impacts of warming, deoxygenation and acidification of the ocean and reductions in snow, sea ice and glaciers as having major negative impacts on fisheries and crops watered from mountain runoff and agriculture.	1
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	Records start in the late 1800s, with in excess of 10 gauges reporting since the 1920s, expanding to about 80 gauges in the 1980s, but the number of stations has declined since.	1
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.	King et al show that aerosol-induced cooling delayed the timing of a significant human contribution to record-breaking heat extremes in some regions.	1
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...]	There is apparent glacial intensification following the MPWP, 2.75–2.72 Myr .	1
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide.	At large scales the dominant effect of aerosols on the carbon cycle is likely a global cooling effect of the climate .	1
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.	In New Zealand, an increase of 1.1°C has been measured from 1909–2016 .	1
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	Longer records are available from tide gauges, albeit with variable coverage by basin.	1
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says	This is well illustrated by growing attention to climate security.	1
Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2	Ocean pH and oxygen levels are declining, whereas global warming, sea level rise and extreme events are increasing .	0
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	Although these rates are an order of magnitude lower than those directly observed over 1919–2019 CE .	1
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse.	Climate change has added to these stressors: warming temperature leads to more extreme weather conditions that are conducive to increasingly severe wildfires.	0
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory	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
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 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 .	1
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.	The combination of new observations with other sources of information has led to updated estimates of heat storage in inland waters , contributing to revised estimates of heat storage on the continents The ongoing collection of information about the atmosphere as it evolves is supplemented by the reconstruction and digitization of data about past conditions.	1
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.	Last, the first observed climatology of snowfall over Antarctica was obtained using the cloud/precipitation radar onboard NASA’s CloudSat .	1
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...]	Scale: RegionalIssue: Complex ramifications of glacial retreat on vegetation, animals, herders and urban populationsAccelerated warming is shrinking tropical glaciers at rates unseen since the middle of the Little Ice Age .	0
Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction	As a result, keeping a cooler average global temperature will lead to lower extinction risks.	0
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.	Duration of freshwater lake ice across the northern USA and southern Canada is projected to diminish Ocean surface temperature is very likely to increase in future decades in waters around North America , but at a slower rate than air temperature over the continent.	1
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists	Under continued climate change, increased temperature, aridity, drought, wildfire .	1
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says	Records also indicate a higher rate of warming in minimum temperatures than maximum temperatures in Asia, leading to more frequent warm nights and warm days, and less frequent cold days and cold nights Projections show continued warming over Asia in the future with contrasted regional patterns across the continent , but EAS, SAS and SEA have a lower projected warming of less than 5°C .	1
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]	Last, the first observed climatology of snowfall over Antarctica was obtained using the cloud/precipitation radar onboard NASA’s CloudSat .	1
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.	Climate change will not affect wind and solar resources to the extent that it would compromise their ability to reduce emissions.	1
Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2	Sea level rise is creating conditions where considerable financial investments are needed and, in many cases, are being raised to address adaptation needs .	1
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...]	The reconstructions of glacier variations show that the glaciers in some regions are now smaller than previously recorded: since the mid-16th century in the Mont Blanc and Grindelwald regions of the European Alps , since the 9th century in Norway , and for the past 1800 years in north-west Iceland .	0
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet	Leduc et al suggested further that a declining strength of snow and sea ice feedbacks in a warmer world would also contribute to a smaller TCRE at high amounts of cumulative emissions.	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.	Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred has warmed since the 1970s and extremely likely that human influence is the main driver.	0
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says	Despite lower global precipitation amounts, research since AR5 has identified a wetting of mid-latitudes during the LGM , thereby complicating the characterization of the LGM as a relatively ‘dry’ period.	1
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse.	Climate change could worsen risks from extreme heat in North American cities, especially where there is limited adaptation .	1
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].	These prior assessments filled in projections for models that did not provide GMTSL rise for all scenarios, by calculating the heat content of the climate system from global surface air temperature and net radiative flux, then converting this to GMTSL rise using each model’s diagnosed expansion efficiency coefficient.	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.	In the 21st century, heatwaves have become hotter, longer and more extended compared to the last two decades of the 20th century .	1
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.	This assessed change in temperature before 1850–1900 is not included in the AR6 assessment of global warming to date, to ensure consistency with previous IPCC assessment reports, and because of the lower confidence in the estimate.	1
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'	Climate change, human activity and lightning determine increases in wildfire severity and area burned in North Asia and nearly doubled between 1970 and 1990 .	0
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate	Wind turbines alter the transport and dissipation of momentum near the surface but do not directly impact the Earth’s energy balanceBox 6.7.	1
unadjusted data suggests that temperatures in Australia have only increased by 0.3 degrees over the past century, not the 1 degree usually claimed	The mean temperature in Australasia is virtually certain to continue to rise through the 21st century, accompanied by less frequent cold extremes (virtually certain) and frost days (high confidence), and more frequent hot extremes (virtually certain).	0
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	Also, some media outlets have recently adopted and promoted terms and phrases stronger than the more neutral ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’, including ‘climate crisis’, ‘global heating’, and ‘climate emergency’ .	1
Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.	Ocean pH and oxygen levels are declining, whereas global warming, sea level rise and extreme events are increasing .	0
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	An additional comparison of risk levels under +1.5°C and +2°C suggests that every additional 0.5°C of global warming will increase the risk level by about a third.	1
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate	These reductions have only partly offset global emissions growth (high confidence).	1
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory	Land clathrates are formed at depths greater than 200 m , which precludes a substantial response to global warming over the next few centuries and associated emissions.	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.	Studies conducted in the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu found qualitative and quantitative evidence of experiences of climate change and worry about the future, with negative impacts on respondents’ well-being Heat is one of the best-studied aspects of climate change observed to reduce well-being .	1
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.	Heat load in cattle leads to reduced growth rates and reproduction, and extreme heat waves can lead to death .	1
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	Climate change is now creating additional challenges for Indigenous Peoples.	1
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.	Freezing rain and ice storms can be treacherous for road and air travel , and can knock down power and telecommunication lines if ice accumulation is high .	1
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	They showed in Shyamnagar Upazilla in Satkhira district the proportion of salinity-free farmland has gone down over the past 20 years, from more than 60% to nil .	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	It can be traced back to the late 1970s and the US National Climate Program Act of 1978 .	1
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]	Data from field campaigns suggest that a ‘suppression of cooling’ can explain the observed warming .	1
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.	For instance, the PV CYCLE programme in Europe prevented more than 30,000 metric tonnes of renewable technology from reaching the waste stream (Box 10.6 and ‘circular economy’ in Glossary).	1
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.	Smoliak et al performed their dynamical adjustment using partial least squares regression of temperature to remove variations arising from sea level pressure changes.	1
Sea level rise is not going to happen.	The potential for flooding and inundation depends on the relative sea level rise .	1
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.	In the IPCC AR6, ‘risk’ is defined as the potential for adverse consequences for human or ecological systems, recognising the diversity of values and objectives associated with such systems.	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 no evidence for changes in tornado frequencies in Europe in the observations as well as in future climate projections.	1
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]	People came into North America more than 15,000 years ago and have experienced both massive and minor shifts in climate ever since.	1
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet	Furthermore, Buchholz et al report a slowdown in global CO decline in 2010–2018 compared to 2002–2010, although the magnitude and sign of this change in the trend varies regionally.	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 global mean surface temperature change, or ‘global warming level’ .	1
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.	Exceeding a specific remaining carbon budget results in higher global warming.	1
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says	Under the SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, it is likely that the Arctic Ocean in September, the month of annual minimum sea ice area, will become practically ice-free than in September .	1
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'	In Australia, during 1987–2016, natural disasters caused an estimated 971 deaths and 4370 injuries, 24,120 people were made homeless and about 9 million people were affected .	1
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]	Given the strength of relationship between past GSAT and warming trends at lake surfaces .	1
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.	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.	0
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.	High CO2 concentration affects total biomass and plant sugar content important to bioenergy production , but also helps some pests and weeds flourish , while potentially shifting the effectiveness of herbicides .	0
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	The clear-cut inside indigenous territories more than doubled from 2018 to 2019 and, despite it decreasing from the 2019 rate, during 2020 it was the highest since 2008.	1
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records	Observations from time series longer than modes of natural variability .	1
Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory	Despite updated emissions datasets, the global multi-model and single-model simulations persistently underestimate observed CO concentrations at northern high and mid-latitudes as well as in the Southern Hemisphere, but with smaller biases compared with that in the Northern Hemisphere .	1
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.	Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred has warmed since the 1970s and extremely likely that human influence is the main driver.	0
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.	It is therefore more likely than not that no multi-centennial interval during the post-glacial period was warmer globally than the most recent decade ; the LIG indicate that MH warmth was most pronounced north of 30°N latitude, and that GMST subsequently decreased in general, albeit with multi-century variability, with greater cooling in the NH than in the SH The temperature history of the last millennium and the methods used to reconstruct it have been studied extensively, both prior to and following AR5, as summarized recently by Smerdon and Pollack and Christiansen and Ljungqvist .	0
Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]	Over a 100-year time horizon, this warming is +0.0017°C ± 0.00017°C and +0.0001°C ± 0.000079°C, respectively .	1
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.	The same applies to other sources of climate information.	1
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.	The rate of Arctic surface warming will continue to exceed the global average over this century (high confidence).	0
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.	But even smaller-scale low-carbon energy and infrastructure projects can fail to get off the ground if uncertainty and investment risk discourage project planning and bank-lending programmes .	1
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]	The total human-forced GSAT change from 1750 to 2019 is calculated to be 1.29 °C.	1
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.	The Amazon has been identified as one of the areas of persistent and emergent regional climate-change hotspots in response to various representative concentration pathways .	1
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization	The results of Gregory et al show that, if the ice sheet loses mass equivalent to about 3–3.5 m of sea level rise, it would not regrow to its present state, and 2 m of the sea level rise would be irreversible.	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.	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.	1

The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC

The difference in observed warming trends between cities and their surroundings can partly be attributed to urbanization (very high confidence).

1

Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory

A recent global study concluded that reservoirs might emit more carbon than they bury, especially in the tropics .

1

Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2

It is important to note that the fraction of non-CO2 forcing to total forcing is not a fixed quantity and is dependent on the recent history of growth .

1

NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.

An independent assessment is underway to look at the compliance of the Paris Agreement with regard to technology and capacity building as means of implementation.

1

Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet

The fraction of CO2 removed that remains out of the atmosphere, a measure of CDR effectiveness, decreases slightly with increasing amount of removal (medium confidence) and decreases strongly if CDR is applied at lower CO2 concentrations (medium confidence).

1

A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

In other words, rebound effects associated with induced technological change can never offset the saving effect of that technological change The impact of energy prices on the size of low-carbon technological change is supported by large number of empirical studies .

1

The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years

Terrestrial ecosystems contain carbon stocks: 450 GtC .

1

NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.

They perceive the climate to be changing, most often reporting changes in rainfall variability, increased dry spells, decreases in rainfall and increased temperatures or temperature extremes.

1

CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]

Higher atmospheric CO2 favours plant growth if soil quality and condition are sufficient, but benefits can be offset by increased heat and water stress associated with climate change .

0

The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years

For scenarios that reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions, the uncertainty in the ERF values of aerosol and other short-lived climate forcers contribute substantial uncertainty in projected temperature.

1

Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions.

While climate change will affect energy systems .

1

'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.

It shows the number of media science stories in those sources grew steadily from 47,376 per annum to 86,587 per annum between 2017 and 2021 across print, broadcast, digital media and entertainment However, increasing media coverage does not always lead to more accurate coverage of climate change mitigation, as it can also spur diffusion of misinformation .

1

Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]

For a 4°C global warming, the changes are −48%, −14%, +135%, +213% and +350% respectively.

1

Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate

Climate change is improving access to natural resources in the Arctic with consequences for human safety , a situation that could support continued global dependence on relatively cheap and abundant fossil fuels resources and contribute to further warming.

1

Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization

If not well designed, such investments are prone to maladaptation, such as exposure to sea level rise.

1

Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.

Ice discharge around the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is strongly influenced by variability in basal melt , in particular at decadal and longer time scales .

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.

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 .

0

CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]

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

according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined

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

Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’

Estimates of total ice loss during the post-1850 period and recent observations show that the rate of loss has increased since the beginning of the 21st century of ice between 1992 and 2020 .

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 peripheral glaciers in NE Greenland experienced a 23% increase in mass loss in 1980–2014 compared to the period 1910 to 1978–1987 .

0

The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists

Volcanic eruptions and the solar cycle were found not to affect long-term stratospheric temperature trends but to have short-term influences.

0

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.

Mean temperatures over the region have increased by 0.7°C–1°C from 1973 to 2013, depending on the season .

1

Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.

Antarctic sea ice area is also projected to decrease during the 21st century, but due to mismatches between model simulations and observations, combined with a lack of understanding of reasons for substantial inter-model spread, there is low confidence in model projections of future Antarctic sea ice changes, particularly at the regional level .

0

the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'

Climate change is not the sole cause of the increase in forest fire severity .

0

NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.

Changes in anthropogenic aerosol concentrations have likely affected trends in hot extremes in some regions.

1

They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

The ongoing loss of these natural, high-resolution climate archives endanger an end in their coverage over recent decades, given that many of the longest monthly- to annually-resolved paleoclimate records were collected in the 1960s to 1990s .

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 the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) identified climate change impacts of warming, deoxygenation and acidification of the ocean and reductions in snow, sea ice and glaciers as having major negative impacts on fisheries and crops watered from mountain runoff and agriculture.

1

They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

Records start in the late 1800s, with in excess of 10 gauges reporting since the 1920s, expanding to about 80 gauges in the 1980s, but the number of stations has declined since.

1

[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.

King et al show that aerosol-induced cooling delayed the timing of a significant human contribution to record-breaking heat extremes in some regions.

1

[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...]

There is apparent glacial intensification following the MPWP, 2.75–2.72 Myr .

1

They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide.

At large scales the dominant effect of aerosols on the carbon cycle is likely a global cooling effect of the climate .

1

[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.

In New Zealand, an increase of 1.1°C has been measured from 1909–2016 .

1

They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

Longer records are available from tide gauges, albeit with variable coverage by basin.

1

Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says

This is well illustrated by growing attention to climate security.

1

Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2

Ocean pH and oxygen levels are declining, whereas global warming, sea level rise and extreme events are increasing .

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They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

Although these rates are an order of magnitude lower than those directly observed over 1919–2019 CE .

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The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse.

Climate change has added to these stressors: warming temperature leads to more extreme weather conditions that are conducive to increasingly severe wildfires.

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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory

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.

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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 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 .

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[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.

The combination of new observations with other sources of information has led to updated estimates of heat storage in inland waters , contributing to revised estimates of heat storage on the continents The ongoing collection of information about the atmosphere as it evolves is supplemented by the reconstruction and digitization of data about past conditions.

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Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.

Last, the first observed climatology of snowfall over Antarctica was obtained using the cloud/precipitation radar onboard NASA’s CloudSat .

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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 [...]

Scale: RegionalIssue: Complex ramifications of glacial retreat on vegetation, animals, herders and urban populationsAccelerated warming is shrinking tropical glaciers at rates unseen since the middle of the Little Ice Age .

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Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction

As a result, keeping a cooler average global temperature will lead to lower extinction risks.

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Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.

Duration of freshwater lake ice across the northern USA and southern Canada is projected to diminish Ocean surface temperature is very likely to increase in future decades in waters around North America , but at a slower rate than air temperature over the continent.

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The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists

Under continued climate change, increased temperature, aridity, drought, wildfire .

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Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says

Records also indicate a higher rate of warming in minimum temperatures than maximum temperatures in Asia, leading to more frequent warm nights and warm days, and less frequent cold days and cold nights Projections show continued warming over Asia in the future with contrasted regional patterns across the continent , but EAS, SAS and SEA have a lower projected warming of less than 5°C .

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[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]

Last, the first observed climatology of snowfall over Antarctica was obtained using the cloud/precipitation radar onboard NASA’s CloudSat .

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it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.

Climate change will not affect wind and solar resources to the extent that it would compromise their ability to reduce emissions.

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Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2

Sea level rise is creating conditions where considerable financial investments are needed and, in many cases, are being raised to address adaptation needs .

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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 [...]

The reconstructions of glacier variations show that the glaciers in some regions are now smaller than previously recorded: since the mid-16th century in the Mont Blanc and Grindelwald regions of the European Alps , since the 9th century in Norway , and for the past 1800 years in north-west Iceland .

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Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet

Leduc et al suggested further that a declining strength of snow and sea ice feedbacks in a warmer world would also contribute to a smaller TCRE at high amounts of cumulative emissions.

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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.

Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred has warmed since the 1970s and extremely likely that human influence is the main driver.

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Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says

Despite lower global precipitation amounts, research since AR5 has identified a wetting of mid-latitudes during the LGM , thereby complicating the characterization of the LGM as a relatively ‘dry’ period.

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[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse.

Climate change could worsen risks from extreme heat in North American cities, especially where there is limited adaptation .

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The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].

These prior assessments filled in projections for models that did not provide GMTSL rise for all scenarios, by calculating the heat content of the climate system from global surface air temperature and net radiative flux, then converting this to GMTSL rise using each model’s diagnosed expansion efficiency coefficient.

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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.

In the 21st century, heatwaves have become hotter, longer and more extended compared to the last two decades of the 20th century .

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Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.

This assessed change in temperature before 1850–1900 is not included in the AR6 assessment of global warming to date, to ensure consistency with previous IPCC assessment reports, and because of the lower confidence in the estimate.

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the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'

Climate change, human activity and lightning determine increases in wildfire severity and area burned in North Asia and nearly doubled between 1970 and 1990 .

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Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate

Wind turbines alter the transport and dissipation of momentum near the surface but do not directly impact the Earth’s energy balanceBox 6.7.

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unadjusted data suggests that temperatures in Australia have only increased by 0.3 degrees over the past century, not the 1 degree usually claimed

The mean temperature in Australasia is virtually certain to continue to rise through the 21st century, accompanied by less frequent cold extremes (virtually certain) and frost days (high confidence), and more frequent hot extremes (virtually certain).

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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

Also, some media outlets have recently adopted and promoted terms and phrases stronger than the more neutral ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’, including ‘climate crisis’, ‘global heating’, and ‘climate emergency’ .

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Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.

Ocean pH and oxygen levels are declining, whereas global warming, sea level rise and extreme events are increasing .

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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

An additional comparison of risk levels under +1.5°C and +2°C suggests that every additional 0.5°C of global warming will increase the risk level by about a third.

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Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate

These reductions have only partly offset global emissions growth (high confidence).

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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory

Land clathrates are formed at depths greater than 200 m , which precludes a substantial response to global warming over the next few centuries and associated emissions.

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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.

Studies conducted in the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu found qualitative and quantitative evidence of experiences of climate change and worry about the future, with negative impacts on respondents’ well-being Heat is one of the best-studied aspects of climate change observed to reduce well-being .

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Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.

Heat load in cattle leads to reduced growth rates and reproduction, and extreme heat waves can lead to death .

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They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

Climate change is now creating additional challenges for Indigenous Peoples.

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Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.

Freezing rain and ice storms can be treacherous for road and air travel , and can knock down power and telecommunication lines if ice accumulation is high .

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They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

They showed in Shyamnagar Upazilla in Satkhira district the proportion of salinity-free farmland has gone down over the past 20 years, from more than 60% to nil .

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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

It can be traced back to the late 1970s and the US National Climate Program Act of 1978 .

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[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]

Data from field campaigns suggest that a ‘suppression of cooling’ can explain the observed warming .

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A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

For instance, the PV CYCLE programme in Europe prevented more than 30,000 metric tonnes of renewable technology from reaching the waste stream (Box 10.6 and ‘circular economy’ in Glossary).

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NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.

Smoliak et al performed their dynamical adjustment using partial least squares regression of temperature to remove variations arising from sea level pressure changes.

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Sea level rise is not going to happen.

The potential for flooding and inundation depends on the relative sea level rise .

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it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.

In the IPCC AR6, ‘risk’ is defined as the potential for adverse consequences for human or ecological systems, recognising the diversity of values and objectives associated with such systems.

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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 no evidence for changes in tornado frequencies in Europe in the observations as well as in future climate projections.

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Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]

People came into North America more than 15,000 years ago and have experienced both massive and minor shifts in climate ever since.

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Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet

Furthermore, Buchholz et al report a slowdown in global CO decline in 2010–2018 compared to 2002–2010, although the magnitude and sign of this change in the trend varies regionally.

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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 global mean surface temperature change, or ‘global warming level’ .

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Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.

Exceeding a specific remaining carbon budget results in higher global warming.

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Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says

Under the SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, it is likely that the Arctic Ocean in September, the month of annual minimum sea ice area, will become practically ice-free than in September .

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the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'

In Australia, during 1987–2016, natural disasters caused an estimated 971 deaths and 4370 injuries, 24,120 people were made homeless and about 9 million people were affected .

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[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]

Given the strength of relationship between past GSAT and warming trends at lake surfaces .

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'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.

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.

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If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.

High CO2 concentration affects total biomass and plant sugar content important to bioenergy production , but also helps some pests and weeds flourish , while potentially shifting the effectiveness of herbicides .

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They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

The clear-cut inside indigenous territories more than doubled from 2018 to 2019 and, despite it decreasing from the 2019 rate, during 2020 it was the highest since 2008.

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They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records

Observations from time series longer than modes of natural variability .

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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory

Despite updated emissions datasets, the global multi-model and single-model simulations persistently underestimate observed CO concentrations at northern high and mid-latitudes as well as in the Southern Hemisphere, but with smaller biases compared with that in the Northern Hemisphere .

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Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.

Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred has warmed since the 1970s and extremely likely that human influence is the main driver.

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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.

It is therefore more likely than not that no multi-centennial interval during the post-glacial period was warmer globally than the most recent decade ; the LIG indicate that MH warmth was most pronounced north of 30°N latitude, and that GMST subsequently decreased in general, albeit with multi-century variability, with greater cooling in the NH than in the SH The temperature history of the last millennium and the methods used to reconstruct it have been studied extensively, both prior to and following AR5, as summarized recently by Smerdon and Pollack and Christiansen and Ljungqvist .

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Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]

Over a 100-year time horizon, this warming is +0.0017°C ± 0.00017°C and +0.0001°C ± 0.000079°C, respectively .

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'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.

The same applies to other sources of climate information.

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Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability.

The rate of Arctic surface warming will continue to exceed the global average over this century (high confidence).

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A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

But even smaller-scale low-carbon energy and infrastructure projects can fail to get off the ground if uncertainty and investment risk discourage project planning and bank-lending programmes .

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[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]

The total human-forced GSAT change from 1750 to 2019 is calculated to be 1.29 °C.

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[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.

The Amazon has been identified as one of the areas of persistent and emergent regional climate-change hotspots in response to various representative concentration pathways .

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Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization

The results of Gregory et al show that, if the ice sheet loses mass equivalent to about 3–3.5 m of sea level rise, it would not regrow to its present state, and 2 m of the sea level rise would be irreversible.

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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 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.

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