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CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]
and N2o Although there has been greater understanding since AR5 of the carbon cycle responses to CO2 emissions .
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There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase.
Because the cloud-top temperature does not change significantly with global warming, cloud LW emission does not increase even though the surface warms, resulting in an enhancement of the high-cloud greenhouse effect ).
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Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’
Given the agreement between theoretical analyses and paleo-ice-sheet model experiments, there is high confidence that the elevation–mass balance feedback is most relevant at multi-centennial and millennial time scales, consistent with future-focused studies The SROCC adopted the AR5 assessment that complete loss of Greenland ice, contributing about 7 m to sea level, over a millennium or more would occur for a sustained global mean surface temperature confirm this assessment estimate a complete loss to take about 8000 years at 5.5°C and about 3000 years at 8.6°C.
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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.
There is growing evidence that human-induced climate warming has amplified climate extreme events , but detection and attribution of food insecurity to anthropogenic climate change is still limited by a lack of long-term data and complexity of food systems .
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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory
The AR5 concluded that, on interannual time scales, the radiative effects of volcanic aerosols are a dominant natural driver of climate variability, with the greatest effects occurring within the first 2–5 years following a strong eruption.
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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory
Volcanic SO2 emissions may contribute a positive forcing through effects on upper tropospheric ice clouds, due to additional ice nucleation on volcanic sulphate particles , although one observational study found no significant effect .
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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 is therefore deemed more likely than not that these estimates based on post-1970s global warming are biased low by internal variability.
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Sea level rise is not going to happen.
Sea level rise is the origin of multiple risks for low-lying areas in the Mediterranean Basin; for example, the further increase in flooding at high tide in some locations, such as Venice .
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[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.
Melting of ice and warming of the atmosphere account for about 3% and 1% of the total change respectively.
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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
We provide assessments of observed and projected impacts of climate change across species, biomes .
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Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2
For moderate levels of sea level rise, it is unlikely that these changes alone will exceed the technical limits of coastal adaptation over the 21st century .
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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.
So far, these emergent constraints have been limited to the Last Glacial Maximum and warming in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period due to the availability of sufficiently large multi-model ensembles for these two cases.
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Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet
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.
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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.
It is well established that climate change compounds the impacts of pressures that humans place on the environment .
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[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.
NAO variability over the past 8 kyr suggests the presence of a significant 1.5 kyr periodicity .
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according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined
Mean air temperature: New literature confirms a continuous warming since the beginning of the 20th century in the majority of the eight sub-regions .
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the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
Anthropogenic climate change has caused some of these emissions through increases in wildfire .
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Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming
Ice discharge around the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is strongly influenced by variability in basal melt , in particular at decadal and longer time scales .
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There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase.
Greenhouse gas emissions from transport may increase due to the temporary relocation of city residents to cooler locations during heatwaves , and from increased energy use for snowmaking in European ski resorts .
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A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.
The overall solution would be to develop a resilient energy system and avoid the risk of unsustainable energy growth in developing Asia.
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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
For a 4°C global warming, the changes are −48%, −14%, +135%, +213% and +350% respectively.
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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.
In CSA, the awareness of climate change as a threat is increasing, a situation related to growth in climate justice activism and to the occurrence of extreme weather events of all kinds .
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'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.
Such reconstructions provide a new context for recent warming trends .
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[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...]
The upward shift of high-clouds with surface warming is detected in observed interannual variability and trends in satellite records for recent decades .
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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 [...]
A global-scale projection suggests that a decline in glacier runoff by 2100 .
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Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.
A recent global study concluded that reservoirs might emit more carbon than they bury, especially in the tropics .
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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.
A global temperature increase <2°C could increase global population exposure to wildfire by ~30% .
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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.
At 2°C GWL and SSP3, half of the European population will be under very high risk of heat stress in summer .
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Fifty-five thousand years ago the whole world was 2°C warmer than it is today[...]
From 1895 to 2010, mean annual temperature of the US national park area increased at a rate of 1°C ± 0.2°C per century, double the rate of the whole USA, and precipitation decreased in 12% of the national park area, compared with 4% for the whole USA, due to a high fraction of US national park area being in the Arctic, at high elevations, and in the arid southwestern USA .
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Earth about to enter 30-YEAR ‘Mini Ice Age’
Sea ice loss due to climate change is expected to accelerate over the next century .
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The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists
Political economy approaches can be crudely divided into ‘economic approaches to politics’, and those used by other social scientists .
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If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.
However, the amount of increase is uncertain as it depends on the extent to which CO2 fertilization of land plants is limited by nutrient availability.
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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.
Combining the evidence from across the climate system increases the level of confidence in the attribution of observed climate change to human influence and reduces the uncertainties associated with assessments based on single variables.
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Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions.
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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The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded
If bleaching persists, an estimated 10,000 jobs and AUD$1 billion in revenue would be lost per year from declines in tourism alone .
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Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.
For instance, warming affects snowpack levels , as well as the timing of snow melt, thus potentially affecting the seasonality and magnitude of low flows .
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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.
Building on the scientific literature and adaptation and risk reduction practice, the IPCC Special Report on Extremes resulted in several major IPCC advances that continue through the present report, including emphasis on risk and climate-related extremes and re-conceptualisation of vulnerability to encompass both social and biophysical orientations .
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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.
The processes that translate emissions of CO2 into a change in global temperature .
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The polar bear population has been growing.
Adequate infrastructure to support Africa’s rapidly growing population is important to raise living standards and productivity in informal settlements .
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A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.
Also, energy efficiency, sufficiency and on-site renewable energy production can help to increase building resilience to climate change impacts and reduce pressure on the energy system.
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it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.
With its significant negative impact on natural systems, food security and infrastructure, loss of lives and territories, species extinction, conflict health, among several other risks, climate change poses a serious threat to development and wellbeing in both rich and poor countries .
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[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.
However, there is low confidence that the frequency of extreme positive IOD events will increase under the high-emissions scenario of SSP5-8.5.
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Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet
The latter still shows stronger cooling than simulated in chemistry-climate models .
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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
Further evidence that anthropogenic global warming has caused an increase in the frequency, intensity and/or amount of heavy precipitation events at the global scale highlights that each half degree of additional global warming influences the climate response.
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NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.
Over the past two decades, Arctic Ocean surface temperature has increased in line with the global average, while there has been no uniform warming across the Antarctic .
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'Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.
Compared to changes in global surface air temperature for the period 1971–2006 and 152 ZJ for the period 2006–2018.
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They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide.
Other things being equal, regulation of emissions of industrial producers decreases the demand for fossil fuels that would reduce prices and encourage the rise of fossil fuel consumption in regions with no or weaker climate policies studied the energy channel of carbon leakage with the REMIND IAM of the global economy.
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it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.
Increasing economic inequality globally has given rise to concern that unequal societies may be more likely to pollute and degrade their environments .
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The ­atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years
Since AR5, advances in satellite retrievals , ground-based column observations , airborne platforms , surface measurement networks and assimilation products have resulted in better characterization of the present-day atmospheric CO distribution.
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[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.
Isotopic changes in the Talos Dome ice core are inconsistent with local surface lowering, limiting retreat to 0.4–0.8 m SLE from this sector .
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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.
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 ).
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according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined
Over the past decades, until the COVID-19 pandemic, global poverty rates have declined rapidly.
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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.
Longer reanalyses can be used to describe the change in the climate over the last 100 to 1000 years.
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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.
This report shows that past and future climate changes and extreme weather events can be substantial on local and regional scales Although the evolution of global climate trends emerges as the net result of regional phenomena, average or aggregate estimates often do not reflect the intensity, variability and complexity of regional climate changes .
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Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction
Reproductive failures and declining abundances attributed to warmer polar oceans and less sea ice cover are observed in populations of polar bears, Ursus maritimus, seals, whales and marine birds .
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The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists
Higher temperatures and SLR, changes in rainfall patterns, and an increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events could generate risks to the energy and infrastructure sectors and to the mining and metals industry.
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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.
Therefore, climate change and sustainable development cannot be assessed or planned in isolation of one another.
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it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization.
Hydrogen is considered a modern and clean technology, but people also have safety concerns.
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Burping cows are more damaging to the climate than all the cars on this planet.
Overall, different farming and pastoral systems can achieve reductions in the emissions intensity of livestock products.
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Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming
A study by Garbe et al suggests that 6°C sustained warming and associated mass loss of about 12 m SLE may be a critical threshold beyond which the ice sheet reorganizes to a new state, leading to large losses from East Antarctica The SROCC assessed that Antarctic mass losses could be irreversible over decades to millennia show that the AIS is always volumetrically smaller when regrowing under a given warming level than when it retreats under the same forcing.
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The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse.
Multiple lines of evidence indicate that climate change is already contributing to more intense and more frequent extreme events across North America.
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The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse.
Extreme events are a fundamental part of how we experience weather and climate.
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NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.
There were inconsistent trends and insufficient data coverage on extreme temperatures and precipitation .
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the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
In summary, anthropogenic climate change, through a 0.9°C surface temperature increase since the pre-industrial period, has lengthened or increased the frequency of periods with heat and aridity that favour wildfire on up to one-quarter of vegetated area since 1979 (robust evidence, high agreement ).
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The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists
Marine heatwaves , affecting resources like copepods and coral reefs .
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Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
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 .
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Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions.
Capabilities for observing the physical climate system have continued to improve and expand overall, but some reductions in observational capacity are also evident emissions and CO2 emissions remaining around current levels until the middle of the century; and scenarios with very low and low GHG emissions and CO2 emissions declining to net zero around or after 2050, followed by varying levels of net negative CO2 emissions (SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6).
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[T]he raw data, the actual thermometer data[...] shows that the US has been cooling for 80 to 90 years.
Longer reanalyses can be used to describe the change in the climate over the last 100 to 1000 years.
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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
Two international agreements—the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change emissions in the second half of this century’ .
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Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.
Meltwater yields from glacier ice are likely to increase in many regions during the next decades but decrease thereafter, as glaciers become smaller and smaller and finally disappear .
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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.
These trends are neither a local phenomenon nor a measurement artefact (high confidence).
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More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
The main findings of previous reports, particularly the WGII AR5 and the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C , highlighted the impacts of warming and rainfall variations and their extremes on Europe, particularly SEU and mountainous areas.
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A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.
The green paradox may work in different ways for different kinds of fossil fuels.
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There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase.
There is limited evidence that extreme wind speeds, which can damage wind turbines, will increase due to climate change .
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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
They found a large upper-stratospheric temperature change in response to volcanic forcing found that the cooling of the middle and upper stratosphere after 1979 is mainly due to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations.
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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
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 .
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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
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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Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate
There is still limited evidence on how climate change impacts wind, solar and biomass energy production and their use.
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The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists
In some cases, a warmer climate could lead to extinction of species.
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according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined
For the period 2006–2015, observed global mean surface temperature .
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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
Despite expert scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, there is polarisation and an ongoing debate over the reality of anthropogenic climate change in the public and policy domains, with attendant risks to society .
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Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.
The land-to-ocean riverine flux and the carbon burial in ocean sediments play a minor role .
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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.
These uncertainties do not change the basic conclusion that global CO2 emissions would need to decline to at least net zero to halt global warming.
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Sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2
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 .
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The ­atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years
and N2o Although there has been greater understanding since AR5 of the carbon cycle responses to CO2 emissions .
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Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet
For example, in a cool temperate grassland experiment, warming led to a longer growing season and elevated CO2 further extended growing by conserving water, which enabled most species to remain active longer .
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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory
In addition, melting of glaciers and ice caps due to anthropogenic influences has been speculated to increase volcanic activity .
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They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide.
Human influence has been a major driver of regional mean temperature change since 1950 in many sub-continental regions of the world (virtually certain).
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There isn’t yet any empirical evidence for their claim that greenhouse gases even cause temperatures to increase.
There is medium evidence that climate change can undermine human capital and education.
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Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet
Analyses of satellite remote sensing and ground-based observations have indicated that, between 1982 and 2015, the CO2 fertilisation effect has already declined, implying a negative climate system feedback .
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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.
Warming over land drives an increase in atmospheric evaporative demand and the severity of droughts (high confidence).
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[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.
Many large-scale farmers using irrigation switched to corn and forage and dropped crops with high labour costs.
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Ice berg melts, ocean level remains the same.
Melting of ice and warming of the atmosphere account for about 3% and 1% of the total change respectively.
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Volcanoes Melting West Antarctic Glaciers, Not Global Warming
Glacier-melt in response to warming can initially lead to increased runoff volumes, especially in peak summer flows, but they will eventually decline as most glaciers continue to shrink.
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Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory
These uncertainties do not change the basic conclusion that global CO2 emissions would need to decline to at least net zero to halt global warming.
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CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]
The processes that translate emissions of CO2 into a change in global temperature .
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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
Likewise, the distillation process results in low confidence in the influence of Arctic warming on mid-latitude climate because of contrasting lines of evidence.
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Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age.
Under high-emissions scenarios, poorly understood processes related to marine ice sheet instability and marine ice cliff instability, characterized by deep uncertainty, have the potential to strongly increase Antarctic mass loss on century to multi-century time scales.
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[S]unspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped to a new low.
Furthermore, NDVI declines were reported across the Sahel from 1999 to 2015 .
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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
About half of the atmospheric CO burden is due to its direct emissions and the remainder is due to the atmospheric oxidation of methane and NMVOCs.
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