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Sea level rise is not going to happen. | Under the assumption that other contributors to extreme sea levels remain constant to 82% . | 1 |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | There is growing evidence on the interconnectedness of extreme weather, climate change and disaster impacts . | 0 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | The degree to which N2O production impacted PETM warming, however, has not yet been established. | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | For instance, all of the 1.5°C scenarios used in IPCC deploy carbon dioxide removal technologies . | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | Day-to-day variations in temperature also appear important. | 1 |
There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase. | However, very few studies have quantified the impact of these policies on climate. | 1 |
The polar bear population has been growing. | Shipping in the Arctic is a topic of increasing interest. | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | Ruminant livestock rearing takes place on vast tracts of pasture land worldwide, contributing to large quantities of CH4 emissions from enteric fermentation in Latin America , Southern Asia In all regions, the amount of land required per unit of agricultural output has decreased significantly from 2010 to 2019, with a global average of –2.2% yr –1 Global diets are a key driver of production per capita, and thus land pressure and AFOLU emissions . | 0 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | The highest increase of temperature of coldest days is projected in Arctic regions, at about three times the rate of global warming (high confidence). | 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 | In 2015 the world concluded four major agreements that are very relevant to climate action. | 0 |
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | These studies were not designed or conducted in a manner to make climate change attribution possible, although many vegetation changes are consistent with climate change. | 1 |
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age. | In conclusion, the observed small increase in Antarctic sea ice extent during the satellite era is not generally captured by global climate models, and there is low confidence in attributing the causes of the change. | 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 | Human-induced greenhouse gas forcing is the main driver of the observed changes in hot and cold extremes on the global scale (virtually certain ) and on most continents (very likely ). | 0 |
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land since pre-industrial times. | 1 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | 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. | The Greenland Ice Sheet has lost 4890 Gt mass over the period 1992–2020, equivalent to 13.5 mm global mean sea level rise. | 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. | The highest increase of temperature of hottest days is projected in some mid-latitude and semi-arid regions and in the South American Monsoon region, at about 1.5 times to twice the rate of global warming (high confidence). | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Under a ‘slow decline’ scenario by 2060 where Australia fails to adequately address climate change and sustainability challenges, GDP is projected to grow at 0.7% less per year and real wages would be 50% lower than under an ‘outlook scenario’ where Australia meets climate change and sustainability challenges In New Zealand, the value of buildings exposed to coastal inundation could increase by NZD$2.55 billion for every 0.1-m increment in sea level, that is, NZD$25.5 billion for a 1.0-m sea level rise . | 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. | Because really extreme events occur rarely was three to ten times more likely as the result of climate change. | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | A positive trend has been observed in the Northern Annular Mode , but the detection and attribution of these changes remain difficult . | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | These impacts are driven by changes in temperature, precipitation, irrigation developments, population growth, agricultural policies and markets . | 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 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 . | 0 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | 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’ . | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | 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 |
Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming | Glaciers in New Zealand’s southern alps have lost one third of their mass since 1977 , and glacier mass loss in 2018 was at least 10 times more likely to occur with anthropogenic forcing than without . | 0 |
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age. | Sea ice loss due to climate change is expected to accelerate over the next century . | 0 |
Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’ | The magnitude of cascading changes over the next two centuries includes regional warming and temperature extremes, permafrost declines and sea ice loss beyond that experienced in human existence. | 0 |
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | Fear-inducing representations of climate change may inhibit action when they make people feel helpless . | 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. | 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 . | 0 |
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | There is limited evidence that extreme wind speeds, which can damage wind turbines, will increase due to climate change . | 1 |
[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years. | Mean air temperature: Across Australia mean temperatures have increased by 1.44°C ± 0.24°C during the period 1910–2019, with most of the warming occurring since 1950 . | 0 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | Modelling studies consistently show that, relative to a high-CO2 world without SRM, SRM-induced cooling . | 1 |
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | Water pollution and climate stressors have been considered major challenges to ecosystem sustainability, and now it has been shown that the combined effect these two stressors would be more damaging . | 0 |
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. | It has first been used to separate internal modes of interannual and decadal variability from slowly varying and externally-forced variability in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans . | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | For present-day emissions, agriculture is the second largest contributor to warming on short time scales but with a small persisting effect on surface temperature after a pulse of current emissions . | 0 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | The growing interest in longer-term climate forecasts . | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Sea level extremes and their physical impacts in the coastal zone arise from a complex set of atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial processes that interact on a range of spatial and temporal scales and will be modified by a changing climate, including sea level rise . | 0 |
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. | Due to limited observations prior to the satellite era, long-term global CO trends are based on estimates from models. | 1 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | 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 |
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. | An increase of global CO burden of about 50% for the year 2000 relative to 1850 is found in CMIP6 The AR5 reported a global CO decline of about 1% yr–1based on satellite data from 2002–2010, but biases in instruments rendered low confidence in this trend. | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | Coastal energy facilities could potentially be impacted by sea level rise The energy sector uses large volumes of water , making it highly vulnerable to climate change . | 1 |
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded | Coral reefs in Australia are at very high risk of continued negative effects on ecosystem structure and function , cultural well-being , food provision , coastal protection and tourism . | 1 |
Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’ | If warming exceeds around 3°C above pre-industrial, part of the EAIS , or much faster under widespread ice-shelf loss and/or MICI . | 1 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | In the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes, the snow- and ice-albedo feedback, along with other factors, is projected to largely amplify temperature increases , although the effect on temperature extremes is still unclear. | 0 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | The processes that translate emissions of CO2 into a change in global temperature . | 1 |
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in. | It also interacts with the response of the climate system to external forcing. | 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 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 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | 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 |
Sea level rise is not going to happen. | Sea level rise is creating conditions where considerable financial investments are needed and, in many cases, are being raised to address adaptation needs . | 0 |
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] | For all regions with long-term observations, glacier mass in the decade 2010–2019 was the smallest since at least the beginning of the 20th century , and an increase in snowfall, possibly caused by increases in evapotranspiration from irrigated agriculture . | 0 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | The global lifetimes of several ozone-depleting substances have been updated , in particular for CFC-11 from 45 to 52 years. | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | Estimated storage timescales vary from decades to centuries for methods that store carbon in vegetation and through soil carbon management, to ten thousand years or more for methods that store carbon in geological formations. | 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 | 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 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | Remaining carbon budgets for limiting warming to 1.5°C, 1.7°C, and 2.0°C are 140 PgC , respectively, based on the 50th percentile of TCRE. | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | The projected increase in climate hazards, in combination with high regional vulnerability and exposure make it a prominent ‘climate change hotspot’ , with a large number of vulnerable natural systems and socioeconomic sectors . | 1 |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | Climate change causes intensified droughts and greater wind erosion resulting in increased intensity and frequency of sand and dust storms . | 0 |
it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. | Notably, these costs need not exceed those of more polluting alternatives . | 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 impacts from extreme events depend not just on physical climate system hazards . | 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 | Since AR5, the formal dialogue between the scientific and policy communities has been strengthened through a new science– policy interface, the Structured Expert Dialogue goal in light of the ultimate objective of the convention’ and the ‘overall progress made towards achieving the long-term global goal, including a consideration of the implementation of the commitments under the Convention.’The SED of the first periodic review provided an important opportunity for face-to-face dialogue between decision makers and experts on review themes, based on ‘the best available scientific knowledge, including the assessment reports of the IPCC.’ That SED was instrumental in informing the long-term global goal of the PA and in providing the scientific argument for the consideration of limiting warming to 1.5°C warming . | 0 |
[O]ne of the previously fastest shrinking glaciers in the world is growing again, calling into question the narrative that rapid climate change [...] | Climate change has already changed the start and duration of the growing season and increased variability of rainfall in some places, with impacts on food intake and nutritional status and income for low-income and small-scale producers . | 1 |
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were. | A significant increase in the intensity and frequency of warm extremes and length of heatwaves and a decrease in the frequency of cold extremes were likely 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 latter emphasises the central role of structures of power and production, and a commitment to economic growth and capital accumulation in relation to climate action, given the historically central role of fossil fuels to economic development and the deep embedding of fossil energy in daily life The economic centrality of fossil fuels raises obvious questions regarding the possibility of decarbonisation. | 1 |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | Some research has found a negative effect of extreme cold on well-being ; increasing winter temperatures associated with climate change could serve to compensate for the impact of increased summer temperatures. | 1 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | In contrast, cooking has a much higher share of building energy use in regions of the Global South, including China . | 1 |
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | Areas with low or negative change have substantial land uplift counteracting the global mean sea level trend . | 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. | Carbon is a key building block in organic chemicals, fuels and materials, and will remain important (high confidence). | 1 |
The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | The multi-model mean captures most aspects of observed climate change well (high confidence). | 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. | These conditions constitute multiple lines of evidence, which, when they converge, can provide very high confidence that climate change is the causal driver of an observed change in a particular biological species or system Important factors that may confound or obscure effects of climate change are the presence of invasive species, changes in land use . | 1 |
Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming | Peatland ecosystems may increase on the west Antarctic Peninsula with future warming . | 1 |
Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’ | In the Arctic, anthropogenic sea ice changes have already emerged from the background internal variability, and anthropogenic alteration of air temperatures will emerge in the early- to mid-21st century . | 1 |
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change' | But biodiversity changes, warming, acidification and non-climate drivers . | 1 |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | Under this mechanism, NDCs will be communicated or updated every five years. | 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 Arctic Canada and Svalbard, many glaciers are now smaller than they have been in at least 4000 years and more than 40,000 years in Baffin Island . | 0 |
Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | 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 |
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] | The temperature dependence is not only evident at very high CO2 concentrations in excess of 4×CO2, but also apparent in the difference in temperature response to a 2×CO2 forcing compared with to a 4×CO2 forcing , and as such is relevant for interpreting century-scale climate projections. | 1 |
[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low. | Non-local impacts may occur through: GHG fluxes and subsequent changes in radiative transfer, changes in atmospheric chemistry, thermal, moisture and surface pressure gradients creating horizontal transport and vertical transport . | 1 |
Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet. | Climate change will have effects on future distribution, incidence and severity of climate-sensitive infectious diseases of livestock . | 1 |
Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction | In some cases, a warmer climate could lead to extinction of species. | 0 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | Data from field campaigns suggest that a ‘suppression of cooling’ can explain the observed warming . | 1 |
Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2 | In summary, multiple lines of observational and modelling evidence provide high confidence in the finding that the ocean sink for anthropogenic CO2 has increased quasi-linearly over the past 60 years in response to growing global emissions of anthropogenic CO2, with a mean fraction of 23% of total emissions. | 1 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | D. Li et al and Karnauskas et al evaluated wind thresholds at turbine height (about 80–100 m above ground) including periods outside of cut-in (2.5–3 m s–1) and cut-out (about 25 m s–1) levels beyond which given turbines could not operate. | 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 | 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 |
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 | Most studies have concluded that Kyoto did cause emissions reductions. | 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 | In 2020, the European Commission introduced a new climate law establishing the framework for achieving the climate neutrality by 2050 principle, and upgraded its 2030 GHG emission reduction target to at least net 55% reduction, which was adopted in June 2021 . | 0 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | It is very likely that abrupt water cycle changes will occur if solar radiation modification (SRM) techniques are implemented rapidly or terminated abruptly. | 1 |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | Exceeding a specific remaining carbon budget results in higher global warming. | 1 |
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in. | Poorer households, who often live in highly exposed locations, are more likely to be forced into low-agency migration as a means of adapting to climate risks and at the same time are the most likely to be immobile or trapped in deteriorating circumstances where migration would be a preferred response . | 1 |
Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming | These mass losses from the West Antarctic outlet glaciers were mainly induced by ice-shelf basal melt . | 0 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | Data from field campaigns suggest that a ‘suppression of cooling’ can explain the observed warming . | 1 |
'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | 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 |
The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists | Elevation-dependent warming could speed up the observed, rapid upward shifts of the freezing level height . | 1 |
If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants. | 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 |
[climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | A substantial fraction of the damage from hurricane Harvey’s extreme rainfall has been attributed to anthropogenic climate change . | 0 |
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined | Compared to changes in global surface air temperature for the period 1971–2006 and 152 ZJ for the period 2006–2018. | 1 |
Unprecedented climate change has caused sea level at Sydney Harbour to rise approximately 0.0 cm over the past 140 years. | 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 . | 1 |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | All models involved in a model comparison of 1.5°C targets constrained the models to historically observed rates of change and found that it would no longer allow to solve for 2°C, highlighting the need for rapid technological change. | 1 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | There is still limited evidence on how climate change impacts wind, solar and biomass energy production and their use. | 1 |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | Net zero emissions imply that fossil fuel use is minimised and replaced by renewables and other low-carbon primary forms of energy, or that the residual emissions from fossil fuels are offset by carbon dioxide removal , or limit warming to 1.5°C . | 1 |
Most likely the primary control knob [on climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in. | The land-to-ocean riverine flux and the carbon burial in ocean sediments play a minor role . | 1 |
according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined | The specific global mean temperature is known as global warming level , always taking into account caveats described in Cross-Chapter Box 11.1. | 1 |