claim: Scientists used to think that ice sheets could take millennia to respond to changing climates
evidences.evidence_id: Climatology:22
evidences.article: Climatology
evidences.evidence: While scientists knew of past climate change such as the ice ages, the concept of climate as unchanging was useful in the development of a general theory of what determines climate.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Greenland ice sheet:100
evidences.article: Greenland ice sheet
evidences.evidence: They offered a conclusion that the "coupling between surface melting and ice-sheet flow provides a mechanism for rapid, large-scale, dynamic responses of ice sheets to climate warming".
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Greenland ice sheet:53
evidences.article: Greenland ice sheet
evidences.evidence: An ice sheet response time of centuries seems probable, and we cannot rule out large changes on decadal time-scales once wide-scale surface melt is underway."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Scientific consensus on climate change:16
evidences.article: Scientific consensus on climate change
evidences.evidence: Its conclusions are summarized below: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Scientific consensus on climate change:671
evidences.article: Scientific consensus on climate change
evidences.evidence: There is growing evidence that our climate is changing.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS NOT_ENOUGH_INFO