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Temperatures11

• Global warming is the rise in average temperatures across the globe, which has been ongoing at least since record keeping began in 1880. (livescience.com)
• Research shows a trend towards warmer spring and summer temperatures in many forests of the western United States, which leads to earlier melting of snow and a longer, more severe fire season. (nature.com)
• Unfortunately, the scientists say, the warmer temperatures still portend an increase in the percentage of intense hurricanes. (popsci.com)
• 10/24/2007) Warming temperatures could trigger a mass extinction event, warn scientists writing in the latest issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Comparing ancient records of marine and terrestrial diversity with historical temperature estimates, researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds found a close correlation between Earth climate and extinctions over the past 520 million years: higher extinction rates occur at higher temperatures. (mongabay.com)
• What appears to beyond doubt, however, is that global temperatures are increasing and that the rate of temperature increase is unprecedented in the world's known history. (peakoil.net)
• As with land temperatures, the longest record goes back to 1850 and the last decade is warmest. (skepticalscience.com)
• Warmer summer temperatures mean a deeper thaw of permafrost and greater release of methane, a gas with a global warming potential 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
• And now, research reveals, that thanks to some wise decision making over 30 years ago, today's global temperatures are considerably lower. (cosmosmagazine.com)
• Somehow 43% of the population still believe that the current rate of rising global temperatures is somehow natural. (blogspot.com)
• Proposed mechanisms include increased global temperatures causing an accelerated plasmodium life cycle, as well as increased rain in endemic regions providing larger capacity for the Anopheles mosquito habitat. (medscape.com)
• Urge healthcare professionals to consider V. vulnificus as a possible cause of infected wounds that were exposed to coastal waters, particularly near the Gulf of Mexico or East Coast, and during periods with warmer coastal sea surface temperatures . (cdc.gov)

Anthropogenic3

• It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming. (wnd.com)
• Panel a: Observed monthly global mean surface temperature (GMST, grey line up to 2017, from the HadCRUT4, GISTEMP, Cowtan-Way, and NOAA datasets) change and estimated anthropogenic global warming (solid orange line up to 2017, with orange shading indicating assessed likely range). (ipcc.ch)
• land surface air temperature) wouldn't cause the whole edifice of anthropogenic global warming to collapse. (skepticalscience.com)

Intergovernmental Panel2

• In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the average global sea level would rise by between 11 cm and 77 cm by 2100, but forecast that Antarctic's contribution would be small. (i-sis.org.uk)
• In an exhaustive study of extreme weather, the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported this month that such events will increase in frequency and intensity as the Earth continues to warm. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

America2

• Some 80 million years ago, during a period of global warming, a group of relatively immobile salamanders trekked from western North America to the continent that became Asia, report researchers writing in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). (mongabay.com)
• For example, warming of between 0.5°C - 1°C has already been avoided over North America, Africa and Eurasia. (cosmosmagazine.com)

Emissions8

• Such emissions are held responsible for causing global warming. (rferl.org)
• China, the world leader in both economic growth and carbon emissions, faces the dilemma of how to respond to the challenges of global warming while not harming its robust economy. (csmonitor.com)
• He warned at the Friday morning briefing on the release of report that current industrial and consumer greenhouse gas emissions are on the high side of various future "scenarios" in the report that project warming in this century. (nationalgeographic.com)
• The grey plume on the right of panel a shows the likely range of warming responses, computed with a simple climate model, to a stylized pathway (hypothetical future) in which net CO2 emissions (grey line in panels b and c) decline in a straight line from 2020 to reach net zero in 2055 and net non-CO2 radiative forcing (grey line in panel d) increases to 2030 and then declines. (ipcc.ch)
• Vertical dotted error bars in panels b, c and d show the likely range of historical annual and cumulative global net CO2 emissions in 2017 (data from the Global Carbon Project) and of net non-CO2 radiative forcing in 2011 from AR5, respectively. (ipcc.ch)
• It is common knowledge that fossil fuel emissions of CO 2 lead to global warming. (sciencedaily.com)
• Global warming is shifting the relationships between fire weather and realized fire-induced CO 2 emissions in Europe. (bvsalud.org)
• Solid waste disposal sites account for up to 20% of global emissions of methane the second most significant greenhouse gas. (lu.se)

Decades8

• The latest fires in the western United States are also consistent with models of fire activity expected from global-climate-change projections over the next few decades, including models that my lab helped to develop. (nature.com)
• Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850. (nationalgeographic.com)
• It is not just one decade that is warmer, but a succession of decades. (nationalgeographic.com)
• The US Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report on the controversy surrounding the papers published in the late 1990s by climate scientists Michael Mann and colleagues [3] who concluded that the warming in the Northern Hemisphere in the last decades of the 20th century was unprecedented in the past thousand years. (i-sis.org.uk)
• By any of these measures, the 2000s was the warmest decade and each of the last three decades has been much warmer than the previous one. (skepticalscience.com)
• Without any fanfare the Montreal Protocol has been mitigating global warming impacts for more than three decades, surpassing some treaties that were specifically aimed to ameliorate climate change impacts," says co-author Martin Jucker. (cosmosmagazine.com)
• Climate warming in Europe during the past decades has been shown to influence the distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks, the main TBE vector, in several European countries ( 4 , 5 , 8 ). (cdc.gov)
• The reported trends indicate that global warming is possibly inducing an incipient change on regional fire dynamics towards increased fire impacts in Europe , suggesting that emerging risks posed by exceptional fire - weather danger conditions may progressively exceed current wildfire suppression capabilities in the next decades and impact forest carbon sinks . (bvsalud.org)

Skeptic3

• Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch U.N. IPCC committee. (wnd.com)
• Yet several prominent global warming skeptic organizations are actively working to sow doubt about the facts of global warming. (ucsusa.org)
• Here's a quick primer on several prominent global warming skeptic organizations, including examples of their disinformation efforts and funding sources from the fossil fuel industry. (ucsusa.org)

Biodiversity2

• When scientists try to forecast the impact of global change on future biodiversity levels, the results are contentious, to say the least. (mongabay.com)
• While some argue that species have managed to survive worse climate change in the past and that current threats to biodiversity are overstated, many biologists say the impacts of climate change and resulting shifts in rainfall, temperature, sea levels, ecosystem composition, and food availability will have significant effects on global species richness. (mongabay.com)

Deniers3

• But deniers use this line to downplay the fact that the Earth is currently warming almost entirely due to human influence . (slate.com)
• I mean, sure global warming is happening -- even some of the more ignorant climate change deniers have had to reverse course on that -- but humanity had nothing to do with it, OK? (commondreams.org)
• As the evidence for global warming has become more and more irrefutable.climate change deniers have shifted away from denying global warming is happening to arguing that it is just natural. (blogspot.com)

Threat3

• We're living in a world where global warming is a constant threat, but in fact we have relatively little knowledge of what the inputs and outputs are for CO2. (marginalrevolution.com)
• Copenhagen was the Green left's forlorn hope, their last chance at breaching the wall of public suspicion and stubbornness to impose environmentalism as a governing system through the threat of global warming. (americanthinker.com)
• Extreme weather resulting from global warming is an emerging threat to farm worker health and safety. (cdc.gov)

World8

• In October, former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern issued a 700-page report on the economic impact of global warming. (rferl.org)
• Recent weather extremes all over the world such as devastating storms like Katrina might already be signs of global warming. (peakoil.net)
• But scientists say that in a warming world, the likelihood of wildfires like the ones tearing across Southern California is definitely higher. (livescience.com)
• According to a recent report, the climate is getting warmer and the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly noticeable in countries throughout the world. (bellaonline.com)
• The science is solid and proves unequivocally that the world is warming," Lengoasa said. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
• I am delighted to remember that hardcore science has lied, misguided, misnomered and whatever else weird science does to confuse the world about the real impact humanity has had on global ecosystems. (commondreams.org)
• At the time, the world climate was warmer than it is today, and Greenland, though very cold, did actually support some marginal agricultural production and dairy farming. (prospect.org)
• Because of how they warm our world, these gases are referred to as greenhouse gases. (teachervision.com)

Risen2

• In the last century, the air and the water has warmed, snow and ice has melted, and the seas have risen. (nationalgeographic.com)
• After a year of increasing scientific alarms, public concern about global warming has risen dramatically. (go.com)

Earth's3

• global warming models can no longer ignore fungi in snowy regions and seasons as they have, scientists said - especially because about 40 percent of Earth's landmass is covered with snow for at least part of the year. (marginalrevolution.com)
• Instead, it is the earth's atmosphere, which turns out to be the right thickness to act like cosy duvet, trapping sufficient solar energy to keep it warm and pleasant. (i-sis.org.uk)
• The report is a warning against compelling evidences of a shift in the earth's weather patterns and changes in climate, It showed a huge array of convincing global data which clearly signal that a change is already under way. (bellaonline.com)

Unequivocal2

• The warming in the climate system is indeed unequivocal," says report co-chairman Thomas Stocker of Switzerland's University of Bern, speaking at the report's release in Stockholm. (nationalgeographic.com)
• There are many lines of evidence indicating global warming is unequivocal. (skepticalscience.com)

World's largest1

• Now the world's top global exporter of manufactured goods, China is also the world's largest importer of tropical woods and its largest producer of cement, feeding a breakneck pace of construction. (csmonitor.com)

Arctic4

• At that time, the Arctic was ice-free for at least part of the year and significantly warmer than it is today, according to 2013 research published in the journal Science . (livescience.com)
• Two studies that combine computer modelling with paleoclimate records show that by 2100, the Arctic may increase in temperature 3-5C and become as warm as 130 000 years ago when sea levels eventually rose up to 6 m higher than today [6]. (i-sis.org.uk)
• Mitigation is even greater in regions such as the Arctic, where the avoided warming will be as much as 3°C - 4°C. (cosmosmagazine.com)
• By mid-century avoided warming in some of these areas will be 1.5°C - 2°C and over the Arctic avoided warming will be as much as 3°C - 4°C. (cosmosmagazine.com)

Wildfires3

• Wildfires that raged in Southern California this week and forced more than half a million people from their homes spread so rapidly in part because the landscape was parched by a hot, dry summer-conditions that may become more of a norm for the Southwest, thanks to global warming. (livescience.com)
• This very issue was brought to light Tuesday when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters, "One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming," according to The Hill.com, a political news Web site, though Reid later said many factors contributed to the wildfires. (livescience.com)
• A warming climate has been linked to an increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including heat and cold waves, extreme precipitation, and wildfires. (cdc.gov)

Least 15 percent2

• To combat global warming, China hopes to derive at least 15 percent of all its energy from renewable sources by 2020. (csmonitor.com)
• Within the past five years, however, studies found that melting Antarctic ice caps contribute at least 15 percent to the current global sea level rise of 2 mm a year. (i-sis.org.uk)

Atmosphere4

• Global warming is the gradual heating of the planet's surface, oceans and atmosphere. (livescience.com)
• Ocean warming accounts for more than 90 percent of the heat added to the atmosphere by global warming in that time, with most of it pumped into the top 2,300 feet (700 meters) of the oceans. (nationalgeographic.com)
• Wild Again is an organization that aims to reduce the level of CO2 in the atmosphere by reforestation, and in doing so help in the fight against global warming. (peakoil.net)
• Negative emission technologies include different technologies that can remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere in order to reduce global warming. (lu.se)

Rise8

• But the planet is warming much faster, so sea level may rise as fast as it ever did before. (motherjones.com)
• 4. Sea level rise has happened, and will happen in the future, as a result of global warming, the report finds. (nationalgeographic.com)
• It asks these states to think very hard about limiting the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Centigrade. (americanthinker.com)
• In 1983, Revelle derived a sea level rise of about 70cm for a global warming of 6°k. (bellaonline.com)
• The avoided warming over Greenland also suggests that the observed accelerating ice sheet melt there and the associated sea level rise has also been reduced by the Protocol. (cosmosmagazine.com)
• Such a rapid rise in the rate of global warming is unprecedented. (blogspot.com)
• Weather and climate patterns are changing, causing increasingly frequent and severe heat waves, drought, flooding, and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels, a report released in May by the U.S. Global Change Research Program concluded ( National Climate Assessment ). (cdc.gov)
• It is expected that the global surface temperature will continue to rise by at least 2°C during the 21st century.1 There is global scientific consensus that this phenomenon is largely caused by human activities. (who.int)

Degrees5

• Between 1880 and 1980, the global annual temperature increased at a rate of 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit (0.07 degrees Celsius) per decade, on average. (livescience.com)
• This climate goal is commonly expressed as an increase in the global mean temperature by a maximum of two degrees since pre-industrial times. (sciencedaily.com)
• Amid changes in the air and seas, average global surface temperature data show an increase of 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 Celsius) from 1880 to 2012, the report says. (nationalgeographic.com)
• 2. The oceans have warmed with "virtual certainty," the report concludes, at a rate of about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.11 Celsius) per decade since 1970 in the upper 246 feet (75 meters) of surface water. (nationalgeographic.com)
• Earlier in the 20th century much of Siberia is three to five degrees Celsius warmer than it was. (bellaonline.com)

Greenhouse effect3

• What causes global warming is known as the greenhouse effect, a well-understood phenomenon in physics and chemistry [7]. (i-sis.org.uk)
• Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would not be warm enough for humans to live. (teachervision.com)
• But if the greenhouse effect becomes stronger, it could make the Earth warmer than usual. (teachervision.com)

Significantly1

• Global warming could lead to significantly raised sea levels, and flooding of some areas or even whole countries. (peakoil.net)

Hoax1

• WASHINGTON - A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming - labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion. (wnd.com)

Scenarios1

• To get their results, the researchers modelled global climate under two scenarios of atmospheric chemistry - one with, and one without the Montreal Protocol being enacted. (cosmosmagazine.com)

Decade2

• and a significant decline -- the first in a decade -- in the belief that many scientists disagree on whether global warming is happening. (go.com)
• And more than six in 10 Americans (62 percent) now feel they know a good deal about global warming -- again similar to last year, but well up from its level a decade ago. (go.com)

Increase9

• This has led to an overall 3.6 F (2 C) increase in global average temperature today compared with the preindustrial era. (livescience.com)
• Global warming is the ongoing increase in global average temperature that is causing climate change. (wikipedia.org)
• This plot purports to show that we are now experiencing the warmest climate in a millennium, and that the earth, after remaining cool for centuries during the medieval era, suddenly began to heat up about 100 years ago-just at the time that the burning of coal and oil led to an increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. (technologyreview.com)
• DESPITE intense speculation, there is no proof that global warming has caused an increase in the number of Atlantic hurricanes in recent years. (newscientist.com)
• The piece makes several things very clear: there has not been a significant increase in erupting volcanoes or earthquakes in the past century, and there are no scientists out there claiming that there's a connection between global warming and things like the Japanese quake. (motherjones.com)
• All scientists agree that if greenhouse gases increase the earth will warm up. (bellaonline.com)
• Global warming is predicted to cause an increase in global mean sea level by 65 cm by the year 2100 in a report by IPCC in 1990. (bellaonline.com)
• The recent increase in incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in central and eastern Europe, especially since 1990, has been attributed to climate warming ( 1 - 5 ) or various socioeconomic factors ( 6 , 7 ). (cdc.gov)
• [ 4 ] there is an anticipation that global warming will increase the incidence of malaria worldwide. (medscape.com)

Oceans1

• That means a pH drop of 0.1 delivered to the global oceans by humanity. (nationalgeographic.com)

Scientists agree2

• An overwhelming majority of scientists agree - global warming is happening and human activity is the primary cause . (ucsusa.org)
• Today, with better measurements, better understanding, and far, far more research into the problem, the overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree: The Earth is warming, and it's human activity causing it. (slate.com)

Methane1

• Its popularity can easily be explained by its very obvious potential benefits - improved sanitation, renewable energy generation and the fact that methane has a global warming potential 21 times that of CO2. (lu.se)

Pathways1

• The vertical error bars on right of panel a) show the likely ranges (thin lines) and central terciles (33rd - 66th percentiles, thick lines) of the estimated distribution of warming in 2100 under these three stylized pathways. (ipcc.ch)

Climates1

• 3/26/2007) Many of the world's local climates could be radically changed if global warming trends continue, reports a new study published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (mongabay.com)

Considerably2

• Ocean acidification has the potential to speed up global warming considerably, according to new research. (sciencedaily.com)
• Simply put, their research shows that ocean acidification has the potential to speed up global warming considerably. (sciencedaily.com)

Today's1

• The main driver of today's warming is the combustion of fossil fuels. (livescience.com)

Scientific consensus1

• The world's climate scientists already knew that, but they expressed renewed confidence in those troubling trends in a major report Friday that has come to represent the global scientific consensus around global warming. (nationalgeographic.com)

Earth4

• But a warming Earth is definitely making the hurricanes wetter, more powerful and hence more dangerous. (newscientist.com)
• Not only is the land surface of the earth getting warmer, the seas are getting warmer especially at the poles, which is why the polar ice caps are melting rapidly. (i-sis.org.uk)
• All of these independent lines of evidence tell us unequivocally that the Earth is warming. (skepticalscience.com)
• Coleman claims that he loves the earth and wants to protect it, yet spends the next 8 minutes refuting the idea of man-made global warming. (matadornetwork.com)

Year6

• A British government study last week said the damage from unabated climate change could eventually cost up to 20 percent of global gross domestic product each year. (rferl.org)
• We need to make 2007 the year for meaningful legislation on global warming. (thepetitionsite.com)
• 2007 is a critical year for effective global warming action. (thepetitionsite.com)
• While 56 percent of Americans still think there's substantial scientific disagreement on global warming, that's down from 64 percent last year (and similar levels in the late 1990s. (go.com)
• A variety of other measures of awareness and concern about global warming have held steady from last year, e.g., 84 percent believe it's occurring, 86 percent believe it'll be a serious problem if uncorrected, 63 percent think it indeed can be reduced and 70 percent say the federal government should do more to address it. (go.com)
• Every year Yale surveys the opinions of Americans, aged 25 and over, about their attitudes, beliefs and policy preferences towards global warming. (blogspot.com)

Contributes2

• Do you believe Man contributes to global warming? (slate.com)
• Undernutrition is responsible for one third of all child deaths and contributes substantially to the global burden of disease. (who.int)

Periods2

• Periods of global warming may have promoted diversification and both inter- and transcontinental dispersal in northern hemisphere salamanders by making available terrain that shortened dispersal routes and offered new opportunities for adaptive and vicariant evolution," the authors conclude. (mongabay.com)
• Rapid diversification and dispersal during periods of global warming by plethodontid salamanders. (mongabay.com)

Climate scientists2

• Climate scientists express increased confidence of human link to global warming. (nationalgeographic.com)
• For years, AEI played a role in propagating misinformation about a manufactured controversy over emails stolen from climate scientists [2], with one AEI research fellow even claiming, "There was no consensus about the extent and causes of global warming. (ucsusa.org)

Fossil3

• These organizations play a key role in the fossil fuel industry's "disinformation playbook," a strategy designed to confuse the public about global warming and delay action on climate change. (ucsusa.org)
• Burning fossil fuel, such as oil, coal and gas is the way to produce carbon dioxide and other gases that is one of the causes of global warming. (bellaonline.com)
• There are many uncertainties with respect to global climate change, but there is one thing about which I have no doubts: we will not solve climate change by running out of fossil fuels. (scientificamerican.com)

Surface3

• El Niño is also associated with warm surface water in the eastern tropical Pacific. (realclimate.org)
• The Walker circulation refers to the mean (steady) ciculation where air over the warm pool in the western part of the tropical Pacific rises, being fed by the easterly surface trade winds across the Pacific, and subsidence over eastern Pacific. (realclimate.org)
• Note that Ekman pumping does not penetrate deep into the oceanic interior, but since the trades advect the surface waters westward, the upper layer of warm sea water is deeper in the west than in the east. (realclimate.org)

Pollution1

• It was released in Geneva and at the U.N. climate talks in South Africa, provided a bleak backdrop to negotiators who are seeking ways to limit pollution blamed for global warming. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Human4

• According to The Wall Street Journal , Australian Senator Steve Fielding recently met with the Obama administration seeking reassurance that human-caused global warming was a real concern. (reason.com)
• During her widely publicized interview with ABC News' Charlie Gibson Thursday, Gibson asked Palin whether she still believed that global warming was not the result of human behavior. (salon.com)
• Coleman says the hypothesis of human-caused global warming has been disproved and that we should stop talking about it. (matadornetwork.com)
• Global climate change has become one of the most visible environmental concerns of the 21st century and these changes have the potential to affect human health both directly and indirectly. (cdc.gov)

Planet's1

• In his video, Coleman shows impressive charts and graphs that point to the planet's natural cycles of cooling and warming. (matadornetwork.com)

Incidence1

• With the influence of global warming, it is predicted that the incidence of heat stroke cases and fatalities will also become more prevalent. (medscape.com)

Tough1

• Global Warming: Will Campbell Get Tough? (thetyee.ca)

Atmospheric1

• Climate change related to a global warming is more than just temperature and precipitation -massive atmospheric circulations change too, and these changes can have consequences. (realclimate.org)

Waters2

• Krills, a food source for many marine animals have declined, seemingly killed by warmer waters. (bellaonline.com)
• V. vulnificus bacteria thrive in warmer waters-especially during the summer months (May to October) and in low-salt marine environments like estuaries . (cdc.gov)

Extent1

• We report high-resolution U-isotope (δ 238 U) data from carbonates of the uppermost Permian to lowermost Middle Triassic Zal section (Iran) to characterize the timing and global extent of ocean redox. (lu.se)

Effects2

• It's not surprising that the warming effects of climate change can be beneficial for a cold country like Iceland," says Tómas Jóhannesson, a geophysicist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. (popsci.com)
• The serious impact of climate change and the effects of increasing food prices are resulting in hunger and becoming even more serious as a global problem, with grave consequences on health. (who.int)

Prominent1

• I recently received an email forward with a video clip featuring a prominent meteorologist refuting man-made global warming. (matadornetwork.com)

Harder1

• There are easier and harder things on the premier's global warming to-do list, and dragging B.C.'s cities towards sustainable practices will take the muscle of a Schwarzenegger in his prime . (thetyee.ca)

Fears1

• Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined. (wnd.com)