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1,376 | Also, it is increasingly clear that the planet was significantly warmer than today several times during the past 10,000 years. | During the Mesozoic, the world, including India, was considerably warmer than today. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate of India |
889 | “Several of the papers note that the primary influence on warming appears to be solar activity. | The scientific consensus as of 2013[update], as stated in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, is that it "is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century". | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
1,866 | Climate scientists have predicted global temperatures would increase more than one degree Celsius by 2020," but observed temperatures have been only half as high. | The Earth's average surface temperature has increased by 1.5 °F (0.83 °C) since 1880. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate change and agriculture |
2,819 | More importantly, the OISM list only contains 39 scientists who specialise in climate science. | The list includes scientists from several specialities or disciplines. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | List of climate scientists |
656 | The Arctic’s carbon bomb might be even more potent than we thought […] methane, a shorter-lived but far harder-hitting gas that could cause faster bursts of warming | Melting of this ice may release large quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, causing further warming in a strong positive feedback cycle. | 0SUPPORTS | Arctic methane emissions |
392 | a study that totally debunks the whole concept of man-made Global Warming | (2012) concluded that human activities had likely led to a warming of extreme daily minimum and maximum temperatures at the global scale. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Attribution of recent climate change |
2,922 | Soares looks at short-term trends which are swamped by natural variations. | Phenotypic variation (due to underlying heritable genetic variation) is a fundamental prerequisite for evolution by natural selection. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Phenotype |
2,745 | Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada. | In a NASA report published in January 2013, Hansen and Sato noted "the 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing." | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming controversy |
1,842 | A video shows Koko the gorilla spontaneously using sign language to issue a warning about climate change. | Koko was reported to use meta-language, being able to use language reflexively to speak about language itself, signing "good sign" to another gorilla who successfully used signing. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Koko (gorilla) |
945 | In their worst-case scenario, the sea level could rise by six feet by the end of this century, and the pace could pick up drastically in the 22nd century. | Among other findings, the report concluded that sea level rises could be up to two feet higher by the year 2100, even if efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to limit global warming are successful; coastal cities across the world could see so-called "storm[s] of the century" at least once a year. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
392 | a study that totally debunks the whole concept of man-made Global Warming | Global Change Research Program concluded that "[global] warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced." | 1REFUTES | Attribution of recent climate change |
2,837 | In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards. | From September 2018 onward, as the economic and political news worsened, the bloated US stockmarkets began to deflate, while the VIX index trebled. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Tendency of the rate of profit to fall |
803 | The team of climate scientists notes that in failing to predict the warming ‘hiatus’ in the beginning of the 21st century, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models overestimated temperature increases… | Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that global temperatures are likely to increase by 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100. | 0SUPPORTS | Global warming controversy |
2,181 | Humans survived past climate changes | One of the main theories to the extinction is climate change. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Holocene extinction |
626 | The trend has been measured by a network of tidal gauges, many of which have been collecting data for over a century. | Earlier satellite measurements were previously slightly at odds with tide gauge measurements. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sea level rise |
1,932 | Newspaper Article from 1922 Discusses Arctic Ocean Climate Change | February 14, 1926. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global cooling |
2,590 | This argument originates from Angstrom's work in 1901. | Rabbit, Run is a 1970 American independent film directed by Jack Smight. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Rabbit, Run (film) |
1,444 | Natural climate solutions like ending deforestation and restoring degraded forests could, at the global level, create 80 million jobs, bring 1 billion people out of poverty and add US$ 2.3 trillion in productive growth. | Since 1980, the global economy has grown by 380 percent, but the number of people living on less than 5 US dollars a day increased by more than 1.1 billion. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Human overpopulation |
2,662 | "...there is the contention by Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol in England that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are about where they were 160 years ago." (as quoted by Ken Ward Jr.) | For example, diverse geochemical and paleontological proxies indicate that at the maximum of global warmth the atmospheric carbon dioxide values were at 700–900 ppm while other proxies such as pedogenic (soil building) carbonate and marine boron isotopes indicate large changes of carbon dioxide of over 2,000 ppm over periods of time of less than 1 million years. | 1REFUTES | Eocene |
1,202 | The discrepancy between model-predicted warming and (lower) real-world observations has inspired new respect for natural climate variability relative to greenhouse-gas forcing. | When the model included estimated changes in solar intensity, it gave a reasonable match to temperatures over the previous thousand years and its prediction was that "CO 2 warming dominates the surface temperature patterns soon after 1980." | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global cooling |
2,817 | The Petition Project features over 31,000 scientists signing the petition stating "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide will, in the forseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere". | There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. | 0SUPPORTS | Climate change denial |
2,110 | They changed the name from 'global warming' to 'climate change' | "Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'reasons for concern'". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
1,314 | Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans | Over the course of approximately 100 days, at least 500,000 people were killed. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | 1990s |
3,105 | Global warming theory holds that one of the fingerprints of human-induced global warming is more rapid warming in the lower troposphere than at the surface (James Taylor) | 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." | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Scientific consensus on climate change |
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." | NOAA data is also relevant to the issues of global warming and ozone depletion. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
2,132 | Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored | la Repubblica said that its FOI requests had been hindered and delayed in all jurisdictions. | 0SUPPORTS | Julian Assange |
2,325 | Martian climate is primarily driven by dust and albedo and there is little empirical evidence that Mars is showing long term warming. | Their low albedo and carbonaceous chondrite composition have been regarded as similar to asteroids, supporting the capture theory. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Mars |
1,717 | If every nation agrees to limit CO2 emissions, we can achieve significant cuts on a global scale. | To limit global temperature rise to 1.5 °C, the global annual emission reduction needed is 7.6% emissions reduction every year between 2020 and 2030. | 0SUPPORTS | Paris Agreement |
630 | I conclude that it must be ice accumulation, through evaporation of ocean water, and subsequent precipitation turning into ice. | Much of this precipitation began as water vapor evaporated from the ocean surface. | 0SUPPORTS | Sea level rise |
1,719 | When you account for all of the costs associated with burning coal and other fossil fuels, like air pollution and health effects, in reality they are significantly more expensive than most renewable energy sources. | Fossil fuel prices generally are below their actual costs, or their "efficient prices," when economic externalities, such as the costs of air pollution and global climate destruction, are taken into account. | 0SUPPORTS | Fossil fuel |
1,605 | Scientists retracted claim that sea levels are rising. | Sea level rise will continue over many centuries. | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
60 | 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 | Before the Industrial Revolution, naturally occurring amounts of greenhouse gases caused the air near the surface to be warmer by about 33 °C (59 °F) than it would be in their absence. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
1,268 | The thermal expansion of the oceans, compounded by melting glaciers, resulted in the highest global sea level on record in 2015. | Since the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the sea level has risen by more than 125 metres (410 ft), with rates varying from less than a mm/year to 40+ mm/year, as a result of melting ice sheets over Canada and Eurasia. | 0SUPPORTS | Sea level rise |
577 | ‘Heatwaves are far more intense than when my parents were growing up in the 1950s. | 's Heat Wave Duration Index is that a heat wave occurs when the daily maximum temperature of more than five consecutive days exceeds the average maximum temperature by 5 °C (9 °F), the normal period being 1961–1990. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Heat wave |
161 | Extreme melting and changes to the climate like this has released pressure on to the continent, allowing the ground to rise up. | The three main reasons warming causes global sea level to rise are: oceans expand, ice sheets lose ice faster than it forms from snowfall, and glaciers at higher altitudes also melt. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sea level rise |
3,058 | Correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped." | All these effects can combine to produce a dramatic drop in sea surface temperature over a large area in just a few days. | 0SUPPORTS | Tropical cyclone |
1,466 | This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. | The oceans act as an enormous carbon sink, and have taken up about a third of CO 2 emitted by human activity. | 0SUPPORTS | Carbon dioxide |
2,482 | The warm and cool regions roughly balance each other out with little impact on global temperature. | The main balancing feedback to global temperature change is radiative cooling to space as infrared radiation, which increases strongly with increasing temperature. | 1REFUTES | Global warming |
2,280 | While there are minor errors in An Inconvenient Truth, the main truths presented - evidence to show mankind is causing global warming and its various impacts is consistent with peer reviewed science. | All 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or had read the homonymous book said that Gore accurately conveyed the science, with few errors. | 0SUPPORTS | An Inconvenient Truth |
2,441 | Furthermore, it is physically incorrect to state that the planet is simply "recovering" from the Little Ice Age. | "When and how did the ice age end? | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Earth |
207 | Each of the six major past ice ages began when the atmospheric carbon dioxide content was far higher than at present. | (BBC) 4 April A new, detailed record of past climate change has shown compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. | 1REFUTES | 2012 in science |
2,549 | "Many people think the science of climate change is settled. | "The work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the consensus of the international scientific community on climate change science. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
2,136 | Renewables can't provide baseload power | Geothermal power plants can operate 24 hours per day, providing baseload capacity. | 1REFUTES | Renewable energy commercialization |
2,800 | Elementary radiative-transfer calculations demonstrate that a natural surface global brightening amounting to ~1.9 Wm–2 over the 18-year period of study would be expected – using the IPCC’s own methodology – to have caused a transient warming of 1 K (1.8 F°). | Taking planetary heat uptake rate as the rate of ocean heat uptake estimated by the IPCC AR4 as 0.2 W/m2, yields a value for S of 2.1 °C (3.8 °F). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climate sensitivity |
1,257 | “as surface temperatures of the oceans warm up, the immediate response is more water vapor in the atmosphere. | This process is enhanced by global warming, because warmer air holds more water vapor than colder air, so the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere increases as it is warmed by the greenhouse effect. | 0SUPPORTS | Atmospheric methane |
11 | They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | Most carbon dioxide from human activities is released from burning coal and other fossil fuels. | 0SUPPORTS | Carbon dioxide |
2,429 | With 32 years of rapidly increasing global temperatures and only a minor increase in global CO2 emissions, followed by 33 years of slowly cooling global temperatures with rapid increases in global CO2 emissions, it was deceitful for the IPCC to make any claim that CO2 emissions were primarily responsible for observed 20th century global warming." | "The IPCC Third Assessment Report'] conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue". | 1REFUTES | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
1,486 | 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 surprising effect of this is that the global warming potential of CO is three times that of CO 2. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Greenhouse gas |
2,441 | Furthermore, it is physically incorrect to state that the planet is simply "recovering" from the Little Ice Age. | This trend could be extrapolated to continue into the future, possibly leading to a full ice age, but the twentieth-century instrumental temperature record shows a sudden reversal of this trend, with a rise in global temperatures attributed to greenhouse gas emissions. | 0SUPPORTS | Little Ice Age |
1,066 | […] in fact this pattern is already emerging, with the conditions that create extremely warm dry years and extremely wet years both becoming more frequent. | The climate of the region is typically warm and dry for a large part of the year, with summer temperatures occasionally reaching up to 40 °C (104 °F), while winters are relatively mild and wet. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Alentejo |
1,073 | The amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has steadily declined over the past few decades because of man-made global warming, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. | Global warming has led to decades of shrinking and thinning of the Arctic sea ice, making it vulnerable to atmospheric anomalies. | 0SUPPORTS | Global warming |
1,672 | Global temperature is still rising and 2010 was the hottest recorded. | Currently, surface temperatures are rising by about 0.2 °C per decade. | 0SUPPORTS | Global warming |
1,818 | HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are tens of thousands of times more polluting than carbon dioxide. | Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is the most important anthropogenic GHG. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Kyoto Protocol |
528 | Our evolving dynamic planet has survived[…] mass extinctions | The last mass extinction occurred some 66 million years ago, when a meteorite collision probably triggered the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and other large reptiles, but spared small animals such as mammals. | 0SUPPORTS | Nature |
1,119 | Prof Adam Scaife, a climate modelling expert at the UK’s Met Office, said the evidence for a link to shrinking Arctic ice was now good: ‘The consensus points towards that being a real effect.’” | In response to the incident, 1,700 British scientists signed a joint statement circulated by the UK Met Office declaring their "utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Climatic Research Unit email controversy |
2,201 | That humans are causing global warming is the position of the Academies of Science from 80 countries plus many scientific organizations that study climate science. | There are more than two dozen scientific institutions that develop climate models. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
71 | Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | Its statements concur with the global scientific consensus that the global climate is warming. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | NASA |
832 | Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as ‘calving.’ | Four days later, they found their way into open water and were hoping that they would have a clear passage to their destination. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Ross Ice Shelf |
1,069 | “There is now less sea ice on Earth than at any time on record. | Global warming has led to decades of shrinking and thinning of the Arctic sea ice, making it vulnerable to atmospheric anomalies. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
888 | the mild warming of around 0.8 degrees Celsius that the planet has experienced since the middle of the 19th century | If compared to the period 1861–1890, the annual increase in temperature is 1.8 °C. | 1REFUTES | Uppsala |
2,497 | Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. | Strong winds of dry nature blow from September to April, causing dryness in the locality with the result there is a fire hazard, especially in the deciduous forests. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary |
1,640 | Recent studies agree that recent global temperatures are unprecedented in the last 1000 years. | Since the start of the 20th century, the global mean surface temperature of the Earth has increased by more than 0.7°C and the rate of warming has been largest in the last 30 years. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,896 | But gravity measurements of ice-mass loss are complicated by glacial isostatic adjustments—compensation for the rise or fall of the underlying crustal material. | However, glacial isostatic adjustment of the ice sheets affect ground deformation and the gravity field today. | 0SUPPORTS | Post-glacial rebound |
2,591 | We now know that the planetary energy balance is determined by the upper levels of the troposphere and that the saturation of the absorption at the central frequency does not preclude the possibility to absorb more energy. | In the case of the Earth-atmosphere system, it refers to the process by which long-wave (infrared) radiation is emitted to balance the absorption of short-wave (visible) energy from the Sun. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Heat transfer |
2,201 | That humans are causing global warming is the position of the Academies of Science from 80 countries plus many scientific organizations that study climate science. | International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS) in 2007, issued a Statement on Environment and Sustainable Growth: As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to human-produced emission of greenhouse gases and this warming will continue unabated if present anthropogenic emissions continue or, worse, expand without control. | 0SUPPORTS | Scientific consensus on climate change |
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. | The Milankovitch cycles are a set of cyclic variations in characteristics of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Ice age |
1,657 | Numerous papers have documented how IPCC predictions are more likely to underestimate the climate response. | Another example of scientific research which suggests that previous estimates by the IPCC, far from overstating dangers and risks, have actually understated them is a study on projected rises in sea levels. | 0SUPPORTS | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
2,521 | The atmosphere of the Earth is less able to absorb shortwave radiation from the Sun than thermal radiation coming from the surface. | Solar radiation (or sunlight) is the energy Earth receives from the Sun. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Atmosphere of Earth |
534 | Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state | "Domino-effect of climate events could push Earth into a 'hothouse' state". | 0SUPPORTS | Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (2005 conference) |
161 | Extreme melting and changes to the climate like this has released pressure on to the continent, allowing the ground to rise up. | The gravitational effects comes into play when a large ice sheet melts. | 0SUPPORTS | Sea level rise |
2,209 | Surface temperatures can show short-term cooling when heat is exchanged between the atmosphere and the ocean, which has a much greater heat capacity than the air. | latent heat) at the temperature of the warm ocean surface (during evaporation, the ocean cools and the air warms). | 0SUPPORTS | Tropical cyclone |
2,991 | Yet the cost of doing something will likely be higher than 6 per cent of GDP" (Bjorn Lomborg) | 'Central estimates of the annual costs of achieving stabilisation between 500 and 550ppm CO2e are around 1% of global GDP, if we start to take strong action now. | 1REFUTES | Stern Review |
1,987 | The Obama administration is "proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obama's Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030." | The Obama administration designed the plan to lower the carbon dioxide emitted by power generators. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Clean Power Plan |
368 | The most recent IPCC report lays out a future if we limit global heating to 1.5°C instead of the Paris Agreement’s 2°C. | In 2015 all UN countries negotiated the Paris Agreement, which aims to keep climate change well below 2 °C. | 0SUPPORTS | Global warming |
662 | Rather, global polar bear numbers have been stable or slightly improved.” | For decades, large-scale hunting raised international concern for the future of the species, but populations rebounded after controls and quotas began to take effect. | 0SUPPORTS | Polar bear |
1,049 | So far this month, there have been nearly 5,000 daily record highs set or tied, compared to just 42 daily record lows. | On average, there are 77 days of 90 °F (32 °C)+ highs, 8.1 days per winter where the high does not exceed 50 °F (10 °C), and 8.0 nights with freezing lows annually. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | New Orleans |
784 | “Scientists have published strong evidence that the warming climate is making heat waves more frequent and intense. | "More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century". | 0SUPPORTS | Heat wave |
2,693 | While there are many drivers of climate, CO2 is the most dominant radiative forcing and is increasing faster than any other forcing. | The increased radiative forcing due to increased CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere is based on the physical properties of CO2 and the non-saturated absorption windows where CO2 absorbs outgoing long-wave energy. | 0SUPPORTS | Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere |
2,592 | "A July 6, 2007 study published in the journal Science about Greenland by an international team of scientists found DNA “evidence that suggests the frozen shield covering the immense island survived the Earth’s last period of global warming,” according to a Boston Globe Article. ... | Scientific discussion takes place in journal articles that are peer-reviewed, which scientists subject to assessment every couple of years in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
2,426 | "Twentieth century global warming did not start until 1910. | From 1938 Guy Stewart Callendar published evidence that climate was warming and CO 2 levels increasing, but his calculations met the same objections. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global warming |
2,445 | When all forcings are combined, they show good correlation to global temperature throughout the 20th century including the mid-century cooling period. | Stott's group found that combining these factors enabled them to closely simulate global temperature changes throughout the 20th century. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Solar activity and climate |
820 | “Healthy societies do not fall apart over slow, widely predicted, relatively small economic adjustments of the sort painted by climate analysis. | In 2019, 2 weeks before the elections to the European Parlament, the World Wide Fund for Nature stated that the European Union is unsustainable in his current mode of life and economy and asked him to fix it by "Shift to sustainable consumption and food systems, make Europe climate-neutral by 2040, restore our Nature, protect the Ocean, invest in a sustainable future" At a March 2009 meeting of the Copenhagen Climate Council, 2,500 climate experts from 80 countries issued a keynote statement that there is now "no excuse" for failing to act on global warming and that without strong carbon reduction "abrupt or irreversible" shifts in climate may occur that "will be very difficult for contemporary societies to cope with". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sustainability |
358 | Their analysis calculates the existential climate-related security risk to Earth through a scenario set 30 years into the future. | A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling or destroying modern civilization. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Global issue |
1,543 | Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the climate warming today. | The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum, or Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region lasting from c. 950 to c. 1250. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Medieval Warm Period |
1,569 | Sea level rise is decelerating. | More precise data gathered from satellite radar measurements reveal an accelerating rise of 7.5 cm (3.0 in) from 1993 to 2017, which is a trend of roughly 30 cm (12 in) per century. | 1REFUTES | Sea level rise |
562 | current climate predictions may underestimate long-term warming by as much as a factor of two | A conservative estimate of the long-term projections is that each Celsius degree of temperature rise triggers a sea level rise of approximately 2.3 meters (4.2 ft/degree Fahrenheit) over a period of two millennia: an example of climate inertia. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Sea level rise |
1,669 | There is long-term correlation between CO2 and global temperature; other effects are short-term. | There is also a close correlation between CO2 and temperature, where CO2 has a strong control over global temperatures in Earth history. | 0SUPPORTS | Paleoclimatology |
1,895 | Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made. | Palin considers herself a conservationist and during the 2008 campaign demonstrated her skepticism about global warming politics, saying "of global warming, climate change, whether it's entirely, wholly caused by man's activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet...John McCain and I agree that we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution." | 1REFUTES | Sarah Palin |
1,372 | The strong El Niño has continued into 2016, raising the possibility that this year will, yet again, set a global temperature record | In August, the NOAA CPC predicted that the 2015 El Niño "could be among the strongest in the historical record dating back to 1950." | 0SUPPORTS | 2014–16 El Niño event |
2,603 | While methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, there is over 200 times more CO2 in the atmosphere. | Methane is a strong GHG with a global warming potential 84 times greater than CO2 in a 20-year time frame. | 0SUPPORTS | Atmospheric methane |
1,570 | Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate. | Currently, through land development, combustion of fossil fuels, and pollution, humans are thought to be the main contributor to global climate change. | 1REFUTES | Human |
1,315 | cold kills many more people than heat. | Both cold waves and heat waves cause deaths, though different groups of people may be susceptible to different weather events. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Cold wave |
1,160 | With more CO2 in the atmosphere, the challenge [feeding 2.5 billion more people] can and will be met. | the stock of carbon in the atmosphere increases by more than 3 million tonnes per annum (0.04%) compared with the existing stock. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Greenhouse gas |
1,991 | The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change." | The number of these climate skeptics is greater in the US than in any other country. | 0SUPPORTS | Climate change denial |
2,649 | "Mike's Nature trick" has nothing to do with "hide the decline", instead refering to a technique by Michael Mann to plot instrumental temperature along with past reconstructions. | "Mike's Nature trick" referred to Michael E. Mann's paper on temperature trends published by Michael Mann in Nature in 1998, which combined various proxy records and related them to actual temperature records: it included a figure later dubbed the ""hockey stick" graph, which clearly distinguished between the proxy and instrumental data. | 0SUPPORTS | Climatic Research Unit documents |
1,299 | A recent Nature study expecting more severe hurricanes from global warming still found that damages would halve from 0.04 per cent to 0.02 per cent of global GDP, because the increased ferocity would be more than made up by increased prosperity and resilience. | (2001) projected losses in world GDP for a medium increase in global mean temperature (above 2–3 °C relative to the 1990 temperature level), with increasing losses for greater temperature increases. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Effects of global warming |
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." | Play media At 9:42 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all civilian aircraft within the continental U.S., and civilian aircraft already in flight were told to land immediately. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | September 11 attacks |
3,075 | Multiple lines of evidence indicate Greenland's ice loss is accelerating and will contribute sea level rise in the order of metres over the next few centuries. | The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet on sea level over the next couple of centuries can be very high due to a self-reinforcing cycle (a so-called positive feedback). | 0SUPPORTS | Sea level rise |
2,687 | It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto." | The presence of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in Pluto's atmosphere creates a temperature inversion, with the average temperature of its atmosphere tens of degrees warmer than its surface, though observations by New Horizons have revealed Pluto's upper atmosphere to be far colder than expected (70 K, as opposed to about 100 K). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | Pluto |
1,468 | The bushfires in Australia were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'. | "Climate change is one factor affecting how fires in Australia burn, regardless of whether arsonists or lightning started them". | 1REFUTES | 2019–20 Australian bushfire season |
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