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2,994 | 'Mauna Loa has been producing a readout which supports Manning's predetermined goal by showing steady growth in atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 1959. | In 2013, CO2 readings taken at the world's primary benchmark site in Mauna Loa surpassing 400 ppm for the first time. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
2,114 | Peer review process was corrupted | At times, peer review has been exposed as a process that was orchestrated for a preconceived outcome. | 0SUPPORTS | Peer review |
1,582 | Tuvalu sea level isn't rising. | Tuvalu is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise the sea level higher than a normal high tide. | 1REFUTES | Tuvalu |
2,157 | CO2 increase is natural, not human-caused | In 2007 climate scientists of the IPCC concluded that there was at least a 90% probability that atmospheric increase in CO2 was human-induced, mostly as a result of fossil fuel emissions but, to a lesser extent from changes in land use. | 1REFUTES | Sustainability |
103 | global warming ceased around the end of the twentieth century and was followed (since 1997) by 19 years of stable temperature | An example of such an episode is the slower rate of surface temperature increase from 1998 to 2012, which was dubbed the global warming hiatus. | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
1,849 | Australia has more solar coverage than any other continent. | Although most of Australia is semi-arid or desert, the continent includes a diverse range of habitats from alpine heaths to tropical rainforests. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Australia |
2,501 | The human fingerprint in global warming is evident in multiple lines of empirical evidence - in satellite measurements of outgoing infrared radiation, in surface measurements of downward infrared radiation, in the cooling stratosphere and other metrics. | Solar irradiance has been measured directly by satellites, and indirect measurements are available beginning in the early 1600s. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
2,178 | Loehle and Scafetta find a 60 year cycle causing global warming | In a 2011 article published in The Open Atmospheric Science Journal ecologist Craig Loehle of the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (a forest industry institution) and Scafetta forecast that the world climate "may remain approximately steady until 2030-2040, and may at most warm 0.5-1.0°C by 2100 at the estimated 0.66°C/century anthropogenic warming rate". | 0SUPPORTS | Nicola Scafetta |
1,784 | Many lines of evidence, including simple accounting, demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is due to human fossil fuel burning. | The sharp acceleration in CO 2 emissions since 2000 to more than a 3% increase per year (more than 2 ppm per year) from 1.1% per year during the 1990s is attributable to the lapse of formerly declining trends in carbon intensity of both developing and developed nations. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Greenhouse gas |
1,623 | Underground temperatures control climate. | Any imbalance results in a change in the average temperature of the earth. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate |
1,618 | We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution. | Climate proxy records show that natural variations offset the early effects of the Industrial Revolution, so there was little net warming between the 18th century and the mid-19th century, when thermometer records began to provide global coverage. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
2,241 | When the Earth comes out of an ice age, the warming is not initiated by CO2 but by changes in the Earth's orbit. | Orbital forcing refers to the slow, cyclical changes in the tilt of Earth's axis and shape of its orbit. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global cooling |
712 | “Instead of a three-foot increase in ocean levels by the end of the century, six feet was more likely, according to DeConto and Pollard’s findings. | Historically, the clarity of Lake Tahoe continued to decrease through 2010, when the average Secchi depth, 64.4 feet (19.6 m), was the second lowest ever recorded (the lowest was 64.1 feet (19.5 m) in 1997). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Lake Tahoe |
668 | Using satellite data rather than tide-gauge data that is normally used to measure sea levels allows for more precise estimates of global sea level, since it provides measurements of the open ocean. | These very accurate observations of variations in sea surface height—also known as ocean topography—provide information about global sea level, the speed and direction of ocean currents, and heat stored in the ocean. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | OSTM/Jason-2 |
1,616 | UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models and/or surface temperature data sets are wrong. | We have found that climate models and popular surface temperature data sets overstate the changes in the real atmosphere and that actual changes are not alarming." | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | John Christy |
3,112 | It also concludes that current northern hemisphere surface air temperatures are significantly higher than during the peak of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). | It was only in the 20th and 21st centuries that the Northern Hemisphere experienced higher temperatures. | 0SUPPORTS | Medieval Warm Period |
1,673 | When CO2 was higher in the past, the sun was cooler. | If this energy balance is shifted, Earth's surface becomes warmer or cooler, leading to a variety of changes in global climate. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Greenhouse gas |
2,500 | Believers think the warming is man-made, while the skeptics believe the warming is natural and contributions from man are minimal and certainly not potentially catastrophic à la Al Gore.' | Attribution sceptics or deniers (who accept the global warming trend but see natural causes for this), [and] doubt that human activities are responsible for the observed trends. | 0SUPPORTS | Climate change denial |
2,317 | What they find is sea level rise has been steadily accelerating over the past century. | "Antarctica ice melt has accelerated by 280% in the last 4 decades". | 0SUPPORTS | Sea level rise |
1,837 | A major part of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP." | On June 19, 2010, Lieberman introduced a bill called "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010", which he co-wrote with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Joe Lieberman |
1,594 | Water vapor in the stratosphere stopped global warming. | When water vapour condenses onto a surface, a net warming occurs on that surface. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Water vapor |
1,451 | The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere. | Human-caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8 °C (1.5 °F) over the past 140 years. | 0SUPPORTS | Scientific consensus on climate change |
31 | Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory | Intrusions of hot magma into carbon-rich sediments may have triggered the degassing of isotopically light methane in sufficient volumes to cause global warming and the observed isotope anomaly. | 0SUPPORTS | Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum |
1,602 | Antarctica is too cold to lose ice. | This ice sheet is constantly gaining ice from snowfall and losing ice through outflow to the sea. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Antarctica |
2,557 | Poorly understood aspects of climate change do not change the fact that a great deal of climate science is well understood. | The statement stresses that the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action, and explicitly endorsed the IPCC consensus. | 0SUPPORTS | Scientific consensus on climate change |
1,773 | The global trend is calculated from hundreds of CO2 measuring stations and confirmed by satellites. | AIRS aboard NASA's Aqua satellite makes global XCO2 measurements and was launched shortly after ENVISAT in 2012. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere |
2,449 | "January 2008 capped a 12 month period of global temperature drops on all of the major well respected indicators. | The Iranian / Persian calendar, currently used in Iran and Afghanistan, also has 12 months. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Month |
173 | If there were [carbon emissions], we could not see because most carbon is black. | Bituminous coal, a dense sedimentary rock, usually black, but sometimes dark brown, often with well-defined bands of bright and dull material. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Coal |
1,477 | Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors of climate change, but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. | While ‘climate change’ can be due to natural forces or human activity, there is now substantial evidence to indicate that human activity – and specifically increased greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions – is a key factor in the pace and extent of global temperature increases. | 1REFUTES | Scientific consensus on climate change |
3,084 | "the temperature increase in the second half of the 20th century could have taken place in steps driven by major ENSO events" (Jens Raunsø Jensen) | But, more accurately, global warming is the mainly human-caused increase in global surface temperatures and its projected continuation, while climate change includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes in precipitation. | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
2,733 | A number of independent studies using near-global satellite data find positive feedback and high climate sensitivity. | "High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate change feedback |
676 | more so than downsizing one’s car, or being vigilant about turning off light bulbs, and certainly more than quitting showering. | Intelligent Light System is a headlamp beam control system introduced in 2006 on the Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W211) which offers five different bi-xenon light functions, each of which is suited to typical driving or weather conditions: Country mode Motorway mode Enhanced fog lamps Active light function (Advanced front-lighting system (AFS)) Cornering light function Adaptive Highbeam Assist is Mercedes-Benz' marketing name for a headlight control strategy that continuously automatically tailors the headlamp range so the beam just reaches other vehicles ahead, thus always ensuring maximum possible seeing range without glaring other road users. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Headlamp |
568 | The research also revealed how large areas of the polar ice caps could collapse and significant changes to ecosystems could see the Sahara Desert become green and the edges of tropical forests turn into fire-dominated savanna. | Dryland degradation occurs when the loss of vegetation transforms an ecosystem from being vegetated to being dominated by bare soils. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Regime shift |
2,428 | It was the post war industrialization that caused the rapid rise in global CO2 emissions, but by 1945 when this began, the Earth was already in a cooling phase that started around 1942 and continued until 1975. | Between 1970 and 2004, global growth in annual CO 2 emissions was driven by North America, Asia, and the Middle East. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Greenhouse gas |
3,039 | Hocker is claiming that his model shows that the long-term upward trend in CO2 is explained by temperature, when his methods actually removed the long-term trend. | Any imbalance results in a change in temperature. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | General circulation model |
2,432 | The sun was warming up then, but the sun hasn’t been warming since 1970. | By contrast, the Sun's surface temperature is approximately 5,800 K. Recent analysis of SOHO mission data favors a faster rotation rate in the core than in the radiative zone above. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sun |
2,359 | Therefore human emissions upset the natural balance, rising CO2 to levels not seen in at least 800,000 years. | Human activities have caused CO 2 to increase above levels not seen in hundreds of thousands of years. | 0SUPPORTS | Carbon dioxide |
2,229 | but Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate, which has implications for sea level rise. | It is important to understand the various types of Antarctic ice to understand possible effects on sea levels and the implications of global cooling. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Antarctica |
2,065 | Global warming is causing snow to disappear. | Not only does this increase the absorption of sunlight, it also increases melting and sea level rise. | 0SUPPORTS | Global warming |
127 | Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has helped raise global food production and reduce poverty. | Potential negative environmental impacts caused by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are rising global air temperatures, altered hydrogeological cycles resulting in more frequent and severe droughts, storms, and floods, as well as sea level rise and ecosystem disruption. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Human impact on the environment |
2,575 | Over the last 30-40 years 80% of coral in the Caribbean have been destroyed and 50% in Indonesia and the Pacific. | The tsunami devastated the northwestern coastlines of Sumatra, especially in Aceh Province, Indonesia, about 20 minutes after the initial earthquake. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami |
702 | ‘While volcanic eruptions are natural events, it was the timing of these that had such a noticeable effect on the trend. | Small eruptions, with injections of less than 0.1 Mt of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, affect the atmosphere only subtly, as temperature changes are comparable with natural variability. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate change (general concept) |
190 | Climate change is normal and continual. | Climate change due to internal variability sometimes occurs in cycles or oscillations, for instance every 100 or 2000 years. | 0SUPPORTS | Climate change (general concept) |
1,921 | Miami Congressman Carlos "Curbelo supports drilling offshore" and "repeatedly voted against President Obama's ability to fight pollution and combat climate change." | The Miami Herald wrote that Curbelo has "attempted to position himself as the national voice for Republicans who are concerned about climate change," describing him as "one of the few GOP voices speaking out against Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and his desire to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency." | 1REFUTES | Carlos Curbelo |
942 | ‘We could be decades too fast, or decades too slow,’said one of them, Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. | Last of the ‘Big Four’ was President Henry H. Goodell—classicist, modern thinker, lover of literature and the arts, disciplinarian, sympathizer, self-forgetter. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
2,248 | Climate sensitivity can be calculated empirically by comparing past temperature change to natural forcings at the time. | One way is to use estimates of global radiative forcing and temperature directly. | 0SUPPORTS | Climate sensitivity |
127 | Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has helped raise global food production and reduce poverty. | While increased CO 2 levels help crop growth at lower temperature increases, those crops do become less nutritious. | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
1,479 | In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet. | The aerosols increase the Earth's albedo—its reflection of radiation from the Sun back into space—and thus cool the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere; however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the stratosphere. | 1REFUTES | Volcano |
2,627 | Neptune's orbit is 164 years so observations (1950 to present day) span less than a third of a Neptunian year. | The semi-major axis of Pluto's orbit varies between about 39.3 and 39.6 au with a period of about 19,951 years, corresponding to an orbital period varying between 246 and 249 years. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Pluto |
1,490 | the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has climbed to a level last seen more than 3 million years ago — before humans even appeared on the rocky ball we call home. | The current concentration may be the highest in the last 20 million years. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere |
1,476 | The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius. | "The overall risks of climate change impacts can be reduced by limiting the rate and magnitude of climate change" Without new policies to mitigate climate change, projections suggest an increase in global mean temperature in 2100 of 3.7 to 4.8 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels (median values; the range is 2.5 to 7.8 °C including climate uncertainty). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,485 | A natural cycle requires a forcing, and no known forcing exists that fits the fingerprints of observed warming - except anthropogenic greenhouse gases. | The spatial and temporal fingerprint of warming can be traced to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, which are a direct result of burning fossil fuels, broad-scale deforestation and other human activity." | 0SUPPORTS | Scientific consensus on climate change |
1,850 | Australian households will benefit to the tune of $550 a year if the carbon tax is axed. | The average household pays US$21 towards the tax each year, while the average business pays $94 per year. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Carbon tax |
3,052 | "...there has been no increase in the global average surface temperature for the past 16 years" (Judith Curry and David Rose) | Currently, surface temperatures are rising by about 0.2 °C per decade. | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
3,052 | "...there has been no increase in the global average surface temperature for the past 16 years" (Judith Curry and David Rose) | The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum was an approximate 200,000 year long event where the global average temperature rose by some 5 to 8 °C (9 to 14 °F), and mid-latitude and polar areas may have exceeded modern tropical temperatures of 24–29 °C (75–84 °F). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Paleocene |
942 | ‘We could be decades too fast, or decades too slow,’said one of them, Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. | October 31, 2013. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
1,414 | The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted. | The Thames remained frozen over for about 8 weeks. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Winter |
520 | Just 1.25 per cent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere-ocean system has been released by humans in the past 250 years. | Most of the CO 2 taken up by the ocean, which is about 30% of the total released into the atmosphere, forms carbonic acid in equilibrium with bicarbonate. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Carbon dioxide |
849 | The most notorious was 252 million years ago; it began when carbon warmed the planet by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life on Earth dead.” | The current Arctic warming is leading to ancient carbon being released from thawing permafrost, leading to methane and carbon dioxide production by micro-organisms. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Arctic |
1,677 | A cold day in Chicago in winter has nothing to do with the trend of global warming. | In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
856 | as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity. | In Africa and Latin America many rainfed crops are near their maximum temperature tolerance, so that yields are likely to fall sharply for even small climate changes; falls in agricultural productivity of up to 30% over the 21st century are projected. | 0SUPPORTS | Climate change and agriculture |
2,813 | In fact, the authors go on to estimate climate sensitivity from their findings, calculate a value between 2.3 to 4.1°C. | The IPCC literature assessment estimates that TCR likely lies between 1 °C and 2.5 °C. | 1REFUTES | Climate sensitivity |
1,729 | A large amount of warming is delayed, and if we don’t act now we could pass tipping points. | Quantifying the exact temperature change for which this tipping point is crossed remains controversial. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sea level rise |
2,302 | Since the mid 1970s, global temperatures have been warming at around 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade. | Global Warming of 1.5 °C. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
2,221 | Natural temperature measurements also confirm the general accuracy of the instrumental temperature record. | The warming evident in the instrumental temperature record is consistent with a wide range of observations, documented by many independent scientific groups; for example, in most continental regions the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation has increased. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
108 | sea-level rise is not accelerating. | Climate scientists expect the rate to further accelerate during the 21st century. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sea level rise |
332 | Shelters in poorer countries are not repainted as often, and darker stations absorb more of the sun’s energy. | Darker colours were originally used but, as the years went by, new brighter paint served as a welcoming change to open up the spaces and brighten up the homes. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Australian residential architectural styles |
1,515 | no one really knows if last year 2016 was a global temperature record. | "Breaking global temperature records after Mt. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | James Hansen |
696 | climate models predict too much warming in the troposphere | Some models show more warming in the troposphere than at the surface, while a slightly smaller number of simulations show the opposite behavior. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Microwave Sounding Unit temperature measurements |
1,853 | Barack Obama supports proposals "to devote billions of dollars annually to state game and fish agencies and federal land management agencies to help them ensure that fish and wildlife survive the impacts of climate change." | They include: stewardship and education; professional excellence; youth programs; climate change impacts; and budget restructure and realignment. | 0SUPPORTS | National Park Service |
487 | “It’s horrifying that we’d lose our biodiversity to avert climate change. | The integrity of essential natural systems is already at risk from climate change caused by the atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Scientific consensus on climate change |
1,851 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden will establish a 10 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 10 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2012. | By 2012, 10% of U.S. electricity shall come from renewable sources and 25% by 2025. | 0SUPPORTS | Presidential transition of Barack Obama |
348 | There’s no trend in hurricane-related flooding in the U.S. | North Carolina experiences severe weather in both summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain, and flooding. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | North Carolina |
1,112 | “The jet stream forms a boundary between the cold north and the warmer south, but the lower temperature difference means the winds are now weaker. | This in turn reduces the temperature gradient that drives jet stream winds, which may eventually cause the jet stream to become weaker and more variable in its course. | 0SUPPORTS | Jet stream |
74 | The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988]. | In 1896, he published the first climate model of its kind, showing that halving of CO 2 could have produced the drop in temperature initiating the ice age. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
294 | A global network of 500 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. | The National Institute of Disaster Management is a policy think-tank and training institution for developing guidelines and training programs for mitigating disasters and managing crisis response. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Emergency management |
2,096 | We're coming out of the Little Ice Age | The first game based on the series, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Adventure Time |
2,921 | The tax-payer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has become mired in fresh global warming data scandal involving numbers for the Great Lakes region that substantially ramp up averages." | AOML's research spans hurricanes, coastal ecosystems, oceans and human health, climate studies, global carbon systems, and ocean observations. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
717 | Scientists used to think that ice sheets could take millennia to respond to changing climates | 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. | 0SUPPORTS | Climatology |
1,237 | the last sea-level high point, … occurred between the last two ice ages, about 125,000 years ago. | The last cold period began about 115,000 years ago and ended 11,700 years ago. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Weichselian glaciation |
2,460 | That drop in temperature came after what was described in the National Geographic as 'six decades of abnormal warmth'." | Generally daytime temperatures during the summer rise to about 12 °C (54 °F) but can often drop to 3 °C (37 °F) or even below freezing. | 1REFUTES | Tundra |
1,751 | Benny Peiser, the Oreskes critic, retracted his criticism. | Peiser later admitted that it was a mistake to include one of the papers in his survey and said that his main criticism of Oreskes' essay its "claim of a unanimous consensus on anthropogenic global warming (APG) (as opposed to a majority consensus) is tenuous" and that it still was valid. | 0SUPPORTS | Benny Peiser |
2,012 | U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters." | They all put a price on pollution (for example, see carbon price), and so provide an economic incentive to reduce pollution beginning with the lowest-cost opportunities. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Emissions trading |
1,825 | Climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese. | "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive" (Tweet). | 0SUPPORTS | Global warming conspiracy theory |
2,531 | "In 1999 New Scientist reported a comment by the leading Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who said in an email interview with this author that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035. | This was a March 2005 World Wildlife Fund Nepal Program report, page 29: In 1999, a report by the Working Group on Himalayan Glaciology (WGHG) of the International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI) stated: “glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the livelihood [sic] of them disappearing by the year 2035 is very high”. | 0SUPPORTS | Criticism of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report |
157 | Contemporary Global Warming placed in geological context. | "Global warming in the context of the Little Ice Age". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Little Ice Age |
903 | Growers regularly pump CO2 into greenhouses, raising levels to three times that of the natural environment, to produce stronger, greener, healthier plants.” | Adequate levels of CO2 must be maintained for the plants to grow efficiently. | 0SUPPORTS | Cannabis cultivation |
550 | Last year, scientists published evidence that the conditions leading up to “stuck jet streams” are becoming more common, with warming in the Arctic seen as a likely culprit. | Trends such as Arctic sea ice decline, reduced snow cover, evapotranspiration patterns, and other weather anomalies have caused the Arctic to heat up faster than other parts of the globe (polar amplification). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Jet stream |
2,049 | The Millennium Drought starting in 1997 and ending in 2010 was misinterpreted as a long term trend as a consequence of Climate Change. | He says that the drought in Australia is already 8 years long. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate change in Australia |
2,779 | Europe and Asia emit most of the soot from burning coal, wood, dung, and diesel in open fires or without particulate filters in stoves, chimneys, smokestacks, and exhaust pipes. | They include soot from coal burning, internal-combustion engines, power-plant boilers, hog-fuel boilers, ship boilers, central steam-heat boilers, waste incineration, local field burning, house fires, forest fires, fireplaces, and furnaces. | 0SUPPORTS | Soot |
2,515 | When the PDO last switched to a cool phase, global temperatures were about 0.4C cooler than currently. | The 2014 flip from the cool PDO phase to the warm phase, which vaguely resembles a long and drawn out El Niño event, contributed to record-breaking surface temperatures across the planet in 2014. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Pacific decadal oscillation |
2,787 | Hansen's 1988 results are evidence that the actual climate sensitivity is about 3°C for a doubling of atmospheric CO2. | For constant humidity they computed a climate sensitivity of 2.3 °C per doubling of CO2 (which they rounded to 2, the value most often quoted from their work, in the abstract of the paper). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate sensitivity |
1,674 | Early 20th century warming is due to several causes, including rising CO2. | Decades ago, they correctly predicted how much Earth's temperature would rise due to increasing atmospheric CO2. | 0SUPPORTS | James Hansen |
243 | In its 5th assessment report in 2013, the IPCC estimated that human emissions are probably responsible for more than half of the observed increase in global average temperature from 1951 to 2010. | This ocean warming accounts, with high confidence, for 90% of the energy accumulation between 1971 and 2010. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | IPCC Fifth Assessment Report |
1,869 | Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country." | In 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the global number of SUVs and crossovers on the road multiplied by six since 2010 — from 35 million to 200 million vehicles, and their market share has grown to 40 percent of worldwide new light vehicle sales at the end of the decade. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sport utility vehicle |
2,464 | While natural forcings can account for much of the early 20th Century warming, humans played a role as well. | Since the mid-20th century, most of the observed warming is "likely" (greater than 66% probability, based on expert judgement) due to human activities. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
1,453 | Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. | The months of June, July, August and September account for a combined 4.49 inches (114 mm) of total rainfall – only 12% of the 36.03 in (915 mm) of the precipitation that falls throughout the year. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Portland, Oregon |
33 | Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate | Compared with other low carbon power sources, wind turbines have some of the lowest global warming potential per unit of electrical energy generated. | 1REFUTES | Wind power |
581 | the kind of extreme heat we saw this past summer will be the norm | Summers are generally hot and dry, lasting from December to March, with February generally the hottest month. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Perth |
1,844 | After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards." | North American air space was closed for several days after the attacks and air travel decreased upon its reopening, leading to a nearly 20% cutback in air travel capacity, and exacerbating financial problems in the struggling U.S. airline industry. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | September 11 attacks |
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