But it is not just the Great Barrier Reef at risk. And in terms of media manipulation, the Times also revealed that at least one interview (amongst many others) was canceled because it was with NPR, which the public affairs official responsible felt was the most liberal media outlet in the country. Rising sea levels will impact many coastlines, and a large mass of humanity lives near the coasts or by major rivers. .. There are many natural and anthropogenic (human-induced) factors that contribute to climate change. Significant events, such as the extreme winter weather in Europe and the flooding in Australia occurred after this date. In 2013, the USGS released the first-ever comprehensive, nation-wide assessment of geologic carbon sequestration, which estimates a mean storage potential of 3,000 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide. As the case of Californias drought shows, it is often necessary to dig deeper to understand the full picture. These types of studies have not been included in the attribution map as the focus here is on extremes. Increased greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect has contributed to an overall warming of the Earths climate, leading to a global warming (even though some regions may experience cooling, or wetter weather, while the temperature of the planet on average would rise). Sarah, None of the charts you attached show that it was not warmer 8,000 years ago and 3800 years ago. This has been observed with lizard populations too, as the leader of the research team told the BBC: We are actually seeing lowland species moving upward in elevation, slowly driving upland species extinct, and if the upland species cant evolve fast enough then theyre going to continue to go extinct. It was front page news for a few years and FACT until they discovered the hole in the ozone layer can never increase. Six main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) (which is 20 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide) and nitrous oxide (N2O), plus three fluorinated industrial gases: hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). Hardly. However, the additional excess CO2 being absorbed is also resulting in the acidification of the oceans: When CO2 reacts with water it produces a weak acid called carbonic acid, changing the sea water chemistry. Earths climate has changed naturally over the past 650,000 years, moving in and out of ice ages and warm periods. While much has been achieved in the field of extreme event attribution in a short space of time, scientists are constantly looking for ways to tailor their work to suit the people who might use it. Im receptive to anything that has a coherent rationale supported by sound argument from reliable data. The New York Times also notes that this echoes other recent disputes, whereby many scientists who routinely took calls from reporters five years ago can now do so only if the interview is approved by administration officials in Washington, and then only if a public affairs officer is present or on the phone. East Africa is currently facing its fifth season of failed rains, which the UN's World Food Programme says has put up to 22 million people at risk of severe hunger. Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time. They say global warming needs to be kept to 1.5C by 2100. Its a myth that people used to believe the earth was flat. It is important to note that the weather events scientists have studied so far are not randomly chosen. When they can figure out how to stop them from happening, well, I rest my case. By the way, it is not that we dont want any action as you falsely claim it is an action that improves life and, not an action that helps the Globalist banker control commodities prices that we aspire to take. For example, a study of the 2011 East Africa drought found that climate change contributed to the failure of the long rains in early 2011, but that the lack of short rains in late 2010 was down to the climate phenomenon La Nia. And, crucially, we dont know how many pieces are missing.. The Arctic reflects much sunlight back into space helping keep earth temperate. This means that ecosystems have less chance of adapting to the changes that will result and so the effects felt will be worse and more dramatic it things continue along the current trajectory. Silica sand for fiberglass or carbon for carbon fiber turbines are hugely plentiful resources even if the mining process fucks up the land. Except if you actually look at the models and their history do realize how dubious they are. Nineteen studies (15%) found that climate change had made the whole event less likely to occur. In short, the results are quite a way off what they forecasted. France and Germany recorded about seven times more land burnt between January and the middle of July 2022, compared with the average. Why not promote nuclear energy which is safe, does not create carbon, is abundant and can replace coal? Please contact us for commercial use. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is an organization backed by the UN and various European governments attempting to compile, build and make a compelling economics case for the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. a major change in the food chain upon which we depend, water sources may change, recede or disappear, medicines and other resources we rely on may be harder to Yes, over 97% of scientist agree that humans cause climate change. Consider going back and rereading that part. (In some cases, these rapid assessments are later published in peer-reviewed journals. While attribution studies of heatwaves are generally more straightforward than storms as they focus on thermodynamic influences the type of question they are asking is still important. All of this helps explain why IPCC anticipates climate change will have a modest impact on economic growth. My point being here is that why should we care? Environment and Climate Change Making London greener, cleaner and ready for the future. This lobby group included interests from the coal, electricity, aluminum (aluminium), petroleum, minerals and cement industries. The different symbols show the type of extreme weather; for example, a heatwave, flood or drought. More melting will result in less reflection and even more heat being absorbed by the earth. Seems that if they have it all wrong, were still OK. China, India etc. It has perhaps taken about a decade or so and a severe enough global financial crisis that has hit the heart of this way of thinking to change this mentality (in which time, more greenhouse gases have been emitted inefficiently). Crap, wrongagain. Some marine creatures are growing thinner shells or skeletons, for example. No, that is absolutely false. That there is a more divided set of results for extreme rainfall than for heatwaves could suggest several things. The Hawaiians used to sacrifice a virgin to make the volcano god happy. Therefore, you need to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue. When we mine coal and extract oil from the Earths crust, and then burn these fossil fuels for transportation, heating, cooking, electricity, and manufacturing, we are effectively moving carbon more rapidly into the atmosphere than is being removed naturally through the sedimentation of carbon, ultimately causing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to increase. There are a number of ways that can happen, but each of them has a different fingerprint. Furthermore, Confidential data from maritime industry insiders based on engine size and the quality of fuel typically used by ships and cars shows that just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the worlds 760m cars. What about the money saved from decreased heating bills? repairing billions of dollars worth of damage keeps people busy that would otherwise just do other useless stuff instead of creating wealth furthermore 9While I am at it) we have many problems on this earth at least as large as Climate Change and none of them are on the big list of Mitigation ie rising Rates of Suicides rising rates from Drug overdoses many Nations spending trillions preparing for more Wars many Nations at War when are we going to deal with alml that? It is worth noting for that one event, however, that although the study (pdf Attribution is about working out if the likelihood or magnitude of a particular event happening now is different from what it would be in a world that was not warming. Healthy coral is very colorful and rich with marine life. What exactly of Newtons law are you speaking on??? The planet's oceans and its habitats are also under threat. Extreme weather events are already more intense across the globe, threatening lives and livelihoods. And if what Darren is saying is correct, then it seems to go against such a conclusion without explaining why the CO2 from fossil fuels is more prone to cause global warming than CO2 from other sources. More recently, Brazil was struck by the first-ever recorded hurricane in the South Atlantic last March. Of the 126 rainfall or flooding events included in the attribution map, 71 (56%) found human activity had made the event more likely or more severe a far smaller proportion than for heat-related studies. Everyone used to believe that the world was flat. Where possible, alternative links are provided to backups or reposted versions here. Short life throw away toxic battery car. expanded side notes, shows alternative links), use the print version: Energy from the sun drives the earths weather and climate, and heats the earths surface; In turn, the earth radiates energy back into space; Some atmospheric gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases) trap some of the outgoing energy, retaining heat somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse; These gases are therefore known as greenhouse gases; The greenhouse effect is the rise in temperature on Earth as certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy. Since 1909, global temperature has warmed, with the most recent years showing the highest anomalies of +0.6 oC in the past 120 years. As pointed out the proof is a scientific factand is certainly backed up, for example, by NASAs Operation Ice Bridge and other scientific bodies and scientists involved in their specific areas of expertise. What if the Earth is tilting on its axis? Wont warmer weather be nicer for everyone? No one in Science should be absolute, either way.! In a situation where there are /many/ reasons itd be practical to make the change sooner rather than later, even if climate change /was/ a hoax or bad science, we need to think about WHO benefits from stalling it? If you have /most/ of the picture and a large majority agree on it, and some of it is testable, its worth taking action on. Amongst scientists, however, there is less skepticism: 11% of US scientists from any field disagree with human-induced climate change, while only 1% of US climatologists disagree, according to the following: Asking who are among the 11% of skeptical scientists amongst all science fields, almost half are engineers. What do we have to do with it? Satellite observations show the arctic sea ice decreasing, and projections for the rest of the century predict even more shrinkage: In terms of biodiversity, the prospect of ice-free summers in the Arctic Ocean implies the loss of an entire biome, the Global Biodiversity Outlook report notes (p. 57). Specific types of event can be displayed in the chart below by clicking on the category names at the top. Most of the categories of extreme weather are self-explanatory, but storms and oceans require a bit of explanation. Our charge is to understand characteristics of the Earth, especially the Earth's surface, that affect our Nation's land, water, and biological resources. Earths climate is warming due to human activities. We see instead warming at the surface, cooling in the stratosphere, cooling in the mesosphere. Two simple graphs help illustrate this: The next graph is an animation from Skeptical Science showing how time-frames to interpret climate data is significant: For further information on the above see also Does the global warming pause mean what you think it means?, from Skeptical Science. In 30 to 50 years time, the Earths weather generating system will be entirely different, he predicted. The alternative industry creates more pollution and toxic waste from short term batteries and panels, carbon blades and other filthy short life overpriced materials pushed by your ridiculous ideology. Ok i get that it is accelerated 10x by human factors but surely all this is confirms thats it is natural??? 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Even if that were true,, that does NOT indicate they are referencing CO2 as the causation driver for any such change.! I wont go any further than that, not wishing to provoke fear, but thought. Warming of the North Pole and thinning ice Photo: WasifMalik. Ecosystems are already showing negative impacts under current levels of climate change which is modest compared to future projected changes. In contrast, the since 1980 the anomaly has been consistently positive. Public opinion on climate change is the aggregate of attitudes or beliefs held by the adult [citation needed] population concerning the science, economics, and politics of climate change.It is affected by media coverage of climate change.. Public opinion on climate change is multidimensional, dynamic, and differentiated. Today , we need CO2 to be above 400 ppm because plant growth is very dependent upon photosynthesis whereby CO2 is a prerequisite. As the first BAMS report in 2012 noted: While it has been argued that in the Anthropocene, all extreme weather or climate events that occur are altered by human influence on climatethis does not mean that climate change can be blamed for every extreme weather or climate event. I cant tell you why you should care about climate change, but I can tell you why plenty of people do: Because climate change is already costing us hundreds of billions of dollars in damages from natural disasters, and because human lives are at stake. (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 1990 report that a 60% reduction in emissions was needed). To ignore human greed, to expect everyone in a situation to be noble and truthful and purely rationable, is to be completely naive about human nature. With these comprehensive environmental inputs and experienced scientific analysis, the BCM provi, Landsat Surface Reflectance Climate Data Records (CDRs) are high level Landsat data products that support land surface change studies. Why are they so sure? A panel of climate and weather experts ranked the top 10 global weather/climate events of 2010 which included heat waves to droughts to negative arctic oscillation (a climate pattern where cold Arctic air slides south while warmer air moves north, bringing snow storms and record cold temperatures to much of the Northern Hemisphere) show that a variety of weather events can occur as a result of changing climate: Source: Top Ten Global Weather/Climate Events of 2010 National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, December 2010. This combination of environmental and economic factors put indigenous populations ways at a cross roads as this documentary from explore.org shows: For decades, scientists and environmentalists have warned that the way we are using Earths resources is not sustainable. It is also a fact that many regions of the world, would fail to harvest within Season, if we were back to 280 ppm today. by natural variability] in terms of magnitude and mostly externally-driven [i.e. As Earth experiences a warming climate, we experience hotter air temperatures. Water vapor is also considered a greenhouse gas. Interviewing a biological oceanography professor at Harvard University, IPS notes that the worlds oceans are approaching 27 degrees C or warmer during the summer. Has the USGS made any Biologic Carbon Sequestration assessments? Panorama also interviewed a pollster who had advised the Bush Administration when they came into power in 2000 to question global warming, that humans caused it if it existed at all, to hire skeptical scientists, and play down its impacts. So if it was warmer 3800 years ago why is it a bad thing for temperatures to rise today. Wow, must be nice to be privileged and protected by affluence, for now. Carbon dioxide, though not the most potent of greenhouse gases, is the most significant one. For the majority of events affected by climate change, the balance has shifted in the same direction. Al Gore showed the CO2 gragh of the ice ages, the CO2 is higher now than ever before and there is no ice age..? Professor Robert Diaz, of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, explains ocean dead zones further in this short video: There is also a linkage with climate change: Ocean stratification, where warm water sits firmly on top of cold, nutrient-rich water, also creates dead zones and lowers the overall productivity of the oceans. Such dead zones were rare 40 years ago but now number several hundred. (March 6, 2000). In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future. Unbelievably, despite the fact that empirical data everybody can see flatly contradicts it, people raising the climate alarm swear the Hockey Stick is still true. On the topic of forecasts, a 2021 study showed how it was possible to use a weather forecast model for attribution. Small update added. Or maybe in 1000 years the temperature will increase 10 degrees but by that time elon musks great great great great great great great grandson invents the magical farting zero emission zero footprint flying car. This is a global self-reinforcing vicious circle accelerating the global warming. The Sun also goes through short term phases of activity ; we are entering a low. In the U.S. many lives were lost as well, some of the most expensive damage resulted from the successive hurricanes. In addition, concentrations of carbonate ions are now lower than at any time during the last 800,000 years. Scientists from The Nature Conservancy are answering some of the most frequently asked questions so that you have the information you need to speak up and take action. In the 1990s, every year was warmer than the average of the previous decade. Other related problems reported by the Inter Press Service include more oceanic dead zones (areas where there is too little oxygen in the sea to support life) and the decline of important coastal plants and forests, such as mangrove forests that play an important role in carbon absorption. Other agencies, especially NOAA and NASA, are specifically funded to monitor global temperature and atmospheric phenomena such as ozone concentrations. Bangladesh suffered some of its worst floods ever the following year, as did Venezuela. I can find out how much money the US government and the IPCC grants scientists who study climate change from natural causes? Environment and Climate Change Making London greener, cleaner and ready for the future. Look, I'm all for bamboozling the system, but this hack definitely didn't seem foolproof to me, and I had some follow-up questions. What is the difference between weather and climate change? The same was true for 64 of the 315 fatalities in London, the study said. The deniers are not selling a new way of looking at the problem, theyre selling doubt, and its very easy to manufacture doubt., They are in total denial of the evidence that there is, said Schmidt. This implies a political bias/propaganda in terms of how information is released to the public, which should be of serious concern. This is happening more and more, she says. Mangroves are endangered by salt water encroaching for a while now. Maybe if I bet all my money that a stranger can beat Lebron James one-on-one Ill get a jackpot, but who would do that even though its technically possible? Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb heat radiation. The rapid climate change we are now seeing is caused by humans using oil, gas and coal for their homes, factories and transport. Landsat surface temperature and land cover products have been used to estimate surface temperatures in urban and surrounding nonurban areas and to quantify urban heat island intensity. Climate change has always happened on Earth, which is clearly seen in the geological record; it is the rapid rate and the magnitude of climate change occurring now that is of great concern worldwide. Its true what you say, but issues have to be dealt with in some order and climate is the first thing and its a unifying issue.
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