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Maybe the study is suggesting we take a different approachlike how the computer models were a bit out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-550am:homepage/story&utm_term=.bb5836b87067
Harry Angstrom
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get the modelling right would be a start.
danbob
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Hang on a minute, does this mean the zealots are now moving towards denial?
http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...ience-myles-allen-michael-grubb-a7954496.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...ience-myles-allen-michael-grubb-a7954496.html
Billy Rocket
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Anyone hear the thing this week about the fall in nutritional content of crops and animals fed on them? In summary, what was always blamed on intensive farming turns out to be because of increased CO2. It's been found in algae too.
Human ingenuity. Always finding imaginative new ways to wipe ourselves out.
Human ingenuity. Always finding imaginative new ways to wipe ourselves out.
I see the climate change sceptics are avoiding that one like the plague
Has everyone read the report issued yesterday y the US Global Research Program?
Seems it got through WH censorship
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4173244/CSSR2017-FullReport.pdf
Highlights:
The climate of the United States is strongly connected to the changing global climate. The statements below highlight past, current, and projected climate changes for the United States and the globe. Global annually averaged surface air temperature has increased by about 1.8°F (1.0°C) over the last 115 years (1901–2016).
This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization. The last few years have also seen record-breaking, climate-related weather extremes, and the last three years have been the warmest years on record for the globe. These trends are expected to continue over climate timescales.
This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence. In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are changing, primarily in response to human activities.
Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor. For example, global average sea level has risen by about 7–8 inches since 1900, with almost half (about 3 inches) of that rise occurring since 1993.
Human-caused climate change has made a substantial contribution to this rise since 1900, contributing to a rate of rise that is greater than during any preceding century in at least 2,800 years. Global sea level rise has already affected the United States; the incidence of daily tidal flooding is accelerating in more than 25 Atlantic and Gulf Coast cities.
Global average sea levels are expected to continue to rise—by at least several inches in the next 15 years and by 1–4 feet by 2100. A rise of as much as 8 feet by 2100 cannot be ruled out. Sea level rise will be higher than the global average on the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
Changes in the characteristics of extreme events are particularly important for human safety, infrastructure, agriculture, water quality and quantity, and natural ecosystems. Heavy rainfall is increasing in intensity and frequency across the United States and globally and is expected to continue to increase. The largest observed changes in the United States have occurred in the Northeast.
Seems it got through WH censorship
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4173244/CSSR2017-FullReport.pdf
Highlights:
The climate of the United States is strongly connected to the changing global climate. The statements below highlight past, current, and projected climate changes for the United States and the globe. Global annually averaged surface air temperature has increased by about 1.8°F (1.0°C) over the last 115 years (1901–2016).
This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization. The last few years have also seen record-breaking, climate-related weather extremes, and the last three years have been the warmest years on record for the globe. These trends are expected to continue over climate timescales.
This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence. In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are changing, primarily in response to human activities.
Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor. For example, global average sea level has risen by about 7–8 inches since 1900, with almost half (about 3 inches) of that rise occurring since 1993.
Human-caused climate change has made a substantial contribution to this rise since 1900, contributing to a rate of rise that is greater than during any preceding century in at least 2,800 years. Global sea level rise has already affected the United States; the incidence of daily tidal flooding is accelerating in more than 25 Atlantic and Gulf Coast cities.
Global average sea levels are expected to continue to rise—by at least several inches in the next 15 years and by 1–4 feet by 2100. A rise of as much as 8 feet by 2100 cannot be ruled out. Sea level rise will be higher than the global average on the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
Changes in the characteristics of extreme events are particularly important for human safety, infrastructure, agriculture, water quality and quantity, and natural ecosystems. Heavy rainfall is increasing in intensity and frequency across the United States and globally and is expected to continue to increase. The largest observed changes in the United States have occurred in the Northeast.
AlpineExile
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bump
Gideon Gungeon
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too late mate. catastrophic consequences unavoidable imo
Kent_Mackem
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Unfortunately many of those in power are greedy and disagree. Plenty of lazy people (who can't be bothered to research properly) and thick people (who just believe what they read in tabloids with agendas).
It's a lazy way out. Head in the sand and shout "it's all bullshit".
Royal 8er
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Come on down donald trump
ProfessionalMackem
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Maybe running put of oil won't be a bad thing. The reliance on it has stunted our alternative fuel technologies. We should be further ahead in battery and hydrogen cells by now.
I don't necessarily believe in the running out hype either (it's good to make people scared to keep prices high). I do however agree though that we are running out of cheap sites to search for fossil fuels. The production of it is literally an organic process. We are simply slurping on the cool aid too much.
Entropy in action
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