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Renewables can't provide baseload power.

Generating electrical power from geothermal resources requires no fuel while providing true baseload energy at a reliability rate that constantly exceeds 90%.

However, satellite and surface measurements observe an enhanced greenhouse effect at the wavelengths that CO2 absorb energy.

Increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and ozone have correspondingly strengthened their absorption and emission of infrared radiation, causing the rise in average global temperature since the mid-20th century.

Climate scientists say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse.

In 2013, record low water levels in the Great Lakes were attributed to climate change.

[Wind energy] is a more expensive way of producing energy than the alternative.

While CO 2 absorption and release is always happening as a result of natural processes, the recent rise in CO 2 levels in the atmosphere is known to be mainly due to human (anthropogenic) activity.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden will establish a 10 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 10 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2012.

A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a mandate that requires electricity providers to supply to their customers a minimum amount of power from renewable sources, usually as a percentage of total energy use.

Back in the late 1980s, the UN claimed that if global warming were not checked by 2000, rising sea levels would wash entire counties away.

In 2018, scientists concluded that high sea levels some 125,000 years ago, which were 6–9 m (20–30 ft) higher than today, were most likely due to the absence of the WAIS, and found evidence that the ice sheet collapsed under climate conditions similar to those of today.

roughly three-quarters of the tidal flood days now occurring in towns along the East Coast would not be happening in the absence of the rise in the sea level caused by human emissions.

Over the 21st century, the IPCC projects that in a very high emissions scenario the sea level could rise by 61–110 cm.

‘While volcanic eruptions are natural events, it was the timing of these that had such a noticeable effect on the trend.

The deposits showed that climate disturbances reported at that time were due to a volcanic event, the global spread indicating a tropical volcano as the cause.

Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by satellite measurement.

Play media Satellite measurements of Greenland's ice cover from 1979 to 2009 reveals a trend of increased melting.

Snowfall is increasing in the fall and winter in the Northern Hemisphere and North America with many records being set.

Seattle recorded its snowiest winter on record with 67.5 inches (171 cm) for the season at Sea-Tac Airport.

Renewables can't provide baseload power

The planet Venus experienced runaway greenhouse effect, resulting in an atmosphere which is 96% carbon dioxide, with surface atmospheric pressure roughly the same as found 900 m (3,000 ft) underwater on Earth.

[…] Constant 24-7 media coverage of every significant storm worldwide just makes it seem that way.”

The severe and widespread damage the storm caused in the United States, as well as its unusual merger with a frontal system, resulted in the nicknaming of the hurricane "Superstorm Sandy" by the media, public officials, and several organizations, including U.S. government agencies.

Together, these two unaltered [sea level] datasets indicate that global mean sea level trend has remained stable over the entire period 1992-2007, altogether eliminating the apparent 3.2 mm/year rate of sea-level rise arising from the “adjusted” data.

Measurements by Jason-1 indicate that mean sea level has been rising at an average rate of 2.28 millimeters (.09 inches) per year since 2001.

Weather and climate are different; climate predictions do not need weather detail.

A study released in 2009, combined historical weather station data with satellite measurements to deduce past temperatures over large regions of the continent, and these temperatures indicate an overall warming trend.

Tuvalu sea level isn't rising

Tuvaluan leaders have been concerned about the effects of rising sea levels.

But [climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey—and the recent history of tropical cyclones worldwide—suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse.

The Gulf of Mexico is known for hurricanes in August, so their incidence alone cannot be attributed to global warming, but the warming climate does influence certain attributes of storms.

I conclude that it must be ice accumulation, through evaporation of ocean water, and subsequent precipitation turning into ice.

At current emission rates, temperatures could increase by 2 °C, which the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) designated as the upper limit to avoid "dangerous" levels, by 2036.

Numerous studies into the effect of urban heat island effect and microsite influences find they have negligible effect on long-term trends, particularly when averaged over large regions.

The world's most important greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide, a by-product of the burning of fossil fuels.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.

While there have been prehistoric periods of global warming, many observed changes since the mid-20th century have been unprecedented over decades to millennia.

Heatwaves occur in any climate, but we know that heatwaves are becoming much more likely due to climate change.

At the core of most proposals is the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through reducing energy waste and switching to low-carbon power sources of energy.

warmer oceans have also begun to destabilize glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica

Data points to an average drop in temperature of about 2 °C (3.6 °F) in this period.

"The 30 major droughts of the 20th century were likely natural in all respects; and, hence, they are "indicative of what could also happen in the future," as Narisma

They also found that galactic cosmic rays, and total solar irradiance did not have any statistically significant influence on changes in cloud cover.

“[Carbon dioxide] just crossed 400 parts per million, and high-end estimates extrapolating from current trends suggest it will hit 1,000 ppm by 2100.

In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.

In the early 2000s, ice shelves began disintegrating in several parts of Antarctica, and scientists realized that process could greatly accelerate the demise of the vastly larger ice sheets themselves.

Concerns have been raised that disruption of ice shelves may result in increased glacial outflow from the continental ice mass.

Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory.

The eruptions would also have emitted carbon dioxide, causing global warming.

Satellites measure Antarctica losing land ice at an accelerating rate.

In addition to referring to the IPCC as "[the] world's best climate scientists", they stated that climate change is happening as "the result of emissions since industrialization and we have already set in motion the next 50 years of global warming – what we do from now on will determine how worse it will get."

The rate of global sea level rise on average has fallen by 40% the last century.

"Potential Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by hydrofracturing and ice cliff failure".

Increases in atmospheric CO2 followed increases in temperature.

During the late 20th century, a scientific consensus evolved that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause a substantial rise in global temperatures and changes to other parts of the climate system, with consequences for the environment and for human health.

The amount of energy used to construct solar and wind facilities is greater than they produce in their working lives.

Energy is usually harvested onsite through energy producing technologies like solar and wind, while reducing the overall use of energy with highly efficient lightning and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technologies.

Humans have been through climate changes before- but mostly cold ones and

The Earth has been in an Ice House Climate for the last 30 million years.

In a paper published online this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, economics professor Ross McKitrick says the resulting discrepancies may be leading to an overstatement of the role of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The 2007 Fourth Assessment Report compiled by the IPCC (AR4) noted that "changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, land cover and solar radiation alter the energy balance of the climate system", and concluded that "increases in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations is very likely to have caused most of the increases in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century".

Poorly understood aspects of climate change do not change the fact that a great deal of climate science is well understood.

The scientific consensus on climate change is "that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities", and it "is largely irreversible".

There is no question whatsoever that the CO2 increase is human-caused.

It is likely that anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) warming, such as that due to elevated greenhouse gas levels, has had a discernible influence on many physical and biological systems.

The extreme cycles of dry and wet weather appear to have been intensifying over the last three decades.

Using the long-term temperature trends for the earth scientists and statisticians conclude that it continues to warm through time.

[Jonathan Overpeck:] ‘No doubt about it anymore — humans, mainly by burning fossil fuels, are cooking the planet,’ Overpeck said.

Climate change threatens to diminish crop yields, harming food security, and rising sea levels may flood coastal infrastructure and force the abandonment of many coastal cities.

‘While volcanic eruptions are natural events, it was the timing of these that had such a noticeable effect on the trend.

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the most outstanding coral reef system in the world because of its great length, number of individual reefs and species diversity.

cold kills many more people than heat.

Within the United States alone, an average of 1,000 people die each year due to extreme heat.

roughly three-quarters of the tidal flood days now occurring in towns along the East Coast would not be happening in the absence of the rise in the sea level caused by human emissions.

"A 40-y record reveals gradual Antarctic sea ice increases followed by decreases at rates far exceeding the rates seen in the Arctic".

The IPCC blames human emissions of carbon dioxide for the last warming.

Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers on the planet.

sea-level rise is not accelerating.

In 2016, bleaching of coral on the Great Barrier Reef killed between 29 and 50 percent of the reef's coral.

Coral bleaching has devastated 93% of the Great Barrier Reef

An overall analysis of coral loss found that coral populations on the Great Barrier Reef had declined by 50.7% from 1985 to 2012, but with only about 10% of that decline attributable to bleaching, and the remaining 90% caused about equally by tropical cyclones and by predation by crown-of-thorns starfishes.

The extreme cycles of dry and wet weather appear to have been intensifying over the last three decades.

Although the natural absorption of CO 2 by the world's oceans helps mitigate the climatic effects of anthropogenic emissions of CO 2, it is believed that the resulting decrease in pH will have negative consequences, primarily for oceanic calcifying organisms.

With more CO2 in the atmosphere, the challenge [feeding 2.5 billion more people] can and will be met.

Some European countries require a degree of elevated heat treatment to kill harmful bacteria in the input waste.

While changes in cloud cover & aerosols lead to more sunlight hitting the surface, this can be compensated by the cooling effect on the atmosphere due to fewer clouds trapping less warmth and fewer absorbing aerosols absorbing less sunlight.

For instance, if absorbing aerosols are present in a layer aloft in the atmosphere, they can heat surrounding air which inhibits the condensation of water vapour, resulting in less cloud formation.

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.

"a paper...in Science magazine concludes that the climate sensitivity—how much the earth’s average temperature will rise as a result of a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide—likely (that is, with a 66% probability) lies in the range 1.7°C to 2.6°C, with a median value of 2.3°C.

That article was based on an email interview, and says that "Hasnain's four-year study indicates that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035 at their present rate of decline."

If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change, Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped

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.

Sea ice has diminished much faster than scientists and climate models anticipated.

The effects of global warming include rising sea levels, regional changes in precipitation, more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, and expansion of deserts.

A large number of ancient mass extinction events have been strongly linked to global climate change.

Global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably.

The sun has gone into ‘lockdown’ which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, say scientists

The current consensus of the scientific community is that the aerosols and dust released into the upper atmosphere causes cooler temperatures by preventing the sun's energy from reaching the ground.

The sea level was 20 to 30 feet higher than it is today, implying that the ice sheets in both Greenland and Antarctica must have partly disintegrated, a warning of what could occur in the relatively near future if the heating of the planet continues unchecked.”

In 2018, scientists concluded that high sea levels some 125,000 years ago, which were 6–9 m (20–30 ft) higher than today, were most likely due to the absence of the WAIS, and found evidence that the ice sheet collapsed under climate conditions similar to those of today.

Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture

There are many potential impacts on human health due to the modern cattle industrial agriculture system.

Donald Trump claims Global Warming is a hoax

Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has said that "climate change is a hoax invented by and for Chinese."

Consequently, the total amount of Arctic sea ice in 2008 and 2009 are the lowest on record.

Animal husbandry is also responsible for greenhouse gas production of CO 2 and a percentage of the world's methane, and future land infertility, and the displacement of wildlife.

The ocean is absorbing massive amounts of CO2, and is becoming more acidic as a result.

The IPCC (2007) estimates that the expected rise in temperature due to a doubling of CO2 to be about 3 °C (5.4 °F), ± 1.5°.

But Trenberth’s "lack of warming at the moment" has been going on at least a decade.

This was associated with a change of surface winds over the Pacific which had caused ocean heat to penetrate below 700m depth and had contributed to the apparent global warming hiatus in surface temperatures during the previous decade.

The corals may save themselves, as many other creatures are attempting to do, by moving toward the poles as the Earth warms, establishing new reefs in cooler water.”

One way, however, that corals "might escape ocean warming, is to migrate into cooler waters."

We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.

In 1896, he published the first climate model of its kind, showing that halving of CO 2 could have produced the drop in temperature initiating the ice age.

the warming is not nearly as great as the climate change computer models have predicted.

Based on effects of Arctic amplification (warming) and ice loss, a study in 2015 concluded that highly amplified jet-stream patterns are occurring more frequently in the past two decades, and that such patterns can not be tied to certain seasons.

[Jonathan Overpeck:] ‘No doubt about it anymore — humans, mainly by burning fossil fuels, are cooking the planet,’ Overpeck said.

Several studies have revealed increases in the severity of the effect of heat islands with the progress of climate change.

“A leading Canadian authority on polar bears, Mitch Taylor, said: ‘We’re seeing an increase in bears that’s really unprecedented, and in places where we’re seeing a decrease in the population

Deep reductions in non-CO2 emissions (such as nitrous oxide and methane) will also be required to limit warming to 1.5 °C.

Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet

Additional fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic during a warming cycle may also reduce the global ocean water circulation.

Cosmic rays show no trend over the last 30 years & have had little impact on recent global warming.

From 1979–1996, the average per decade decline in entire ice coverage was a 2.2% decline in ice extent and a 3% decline in ice area.

But Trenberth’s "lack of warming at the moment" has been going on at least a decade.

Though most of human existence has been sustained by hunting and gathering in band societies, many human societies transitioned to sedentary agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals, thus enabling the growth of civilization.

Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet

This increase of CO 2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere has produced the current episode of global warming.

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is already contributing significantly to sea level rise, and new research is highlighting that the melting of Arctic sea ice can alter weather conditions across Europe, Asia and North America.’”

The tree-ring data indicate that the Western states have experienced droughts that lasted ten times longer than anything the modern U.S. has seen.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.13,14

Increasing acidity is thought to have a range of potentially harmful consequences for marine organisms such as depressing metabolic rates and immune responses in some organisms and causing coral bleaching.

“Carbon dioxide hurts nobody’s health.

Smog is a serious problem in many cities and continues to harm human health.

Satellite and surface measurements find less energy is escaping to space at CO2 absorption wavelengths.

Broadly speaking, if clouds, especially low clouds, increase in a warmer climate, the resultant cooling effect leads to a negative feedback in climate response to increased greenhouse gases.

Trenberth is talking about the details of energy flow, not whether global warming is happening.

"Shifts in ENSO coupling processes under global warming".

A longer and warmer growing season also has an effect, Dr. Overpeck said, as plants take up more water, further reducing stream flows.

While warmer temperatures create longer growing seasons, and faster growth rates for plants, it also increases the metabolic rate and number of breeding cycles of insect populations.

The news of expanding Antarctic sea ice stole headlines from global warming alarmists who asserted Arctic sea ice had reached its lowest extent since 1979.'

The text stated that it was "likely that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year" in the past 1,000 years.

Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost for ever.

A retired journalist for The New York Times, William K. Stevens wrote: "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the likelihood was 90 percent to 99 percent that emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, spewed from tailpipes and smokestacks, were the dominant cause of the observed warming of the last 50 years.

Therefore human emissions upset the natural balance, rising CO2 to levels not seen in at least 800,000 years.

Although the temperature may be −60 °C (−76 °F; 210 K) at the tropopause, the top of the stratosphere is much warmer, and may be near 0 °C.

The broader term covers changes beyond warmer temperatures, such as shifting rainfall patterns.”

In general, climatic patterns consist of warm temperatures and high annual rainfall.

If there is a cloud cover, the heat is trapped by water vapour as a greenhouse gas and the temperature stays quite warm.

If cloud cover increases, more sunlight will be reflected back into space, cooling the planet.

The data suggests solar activity is influencing the global climate causing the world to get warmer."

In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.

Sea level rise is not going to happen.

However, U.S. civilian nuclear power is considerably more expensive than wind power.

Climate sensitivity can be calculated empirically by comparing past temperature change to natural forcings at the time.

The retreat of the Arctic sea ice will accelerate global warming, as less ice cover reflects less solar radiation, and may have serious climate implications by contributing to Arctic cyclone generation.

The IPCC 95% confidence that humans are responsible for most of the current global warming is simply a summary of the peer-reviewed scientific research.

Gore's presentation was the most powerful and clear explanation of global warming I had ever seen.

As the temperature has increased, so has the ability of scientists to determine whether specific events are linked to climate change.

Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent global warming and related climate changes on Earth.

The most recent satellite data show that the earth as a whole is warming.

The current scientific consensus on climate change is that the Earth underwent global warming throughout the 20th century and continues to warm.

The models predicted about three times the amount of warming in the world we’ve seen since [1988].

For example, urban and rural trends are very similar.

Skeptics have long pointed to ice gain in the Southern Hemisphere as evidence climate change wasn’t occurring, but scientists warned that it was caused by natural variations and circulations in the atmosphere.

A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs.

In Alaska, brown bears are changing their feeding habits to eat elderberries that ripen earlier.

As climate change causes elderberries to ripen earlier, berry season is now overlapping with salmon season and some bears are abandoning salmon runs to focus on the berries.

This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.

In the deep ocean, the predominant driving force is differences in density, caused by salinity and temperature variations (increasing salinity and lowering the temperature of a fluid both increase its density).

The warming causes the oceans to release CO2.

The effect of this warm water propagates through the ocean, and reduces the amount of CO 2 that the oceans can hold in solution, which makes the oceans release large quantities of CO 2 into the atmosphere in a geologically short time (tens or thousands of years).

“Although the extent of the summer sea ice after 2006 dropped abruptly to levels not expected until 2050, the predicted 67-per-cent decline in polar bear numbers simply didn’t happen.

Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall.

Extreme weather events are being made more frequent and worse by global warming.

All datasets generally show an acceleration of mass loss from the Antarctic ice-sheet, but with year-to-year variations.

Extreme melting and changes to the climate like this has released pressure on to the continent, allowing the ground to rise up.

However, the report also observed that the rate of warming over the period 1998–2012 was lower than that predicted by 111 out of 114 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project climate models.

Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate

Human-induced climate change has, e.g., the potential to alter the prevalence and severity of extreme weathers such as heat waves, cold waves, storms, floods and droughts.

The Review concluded that CRU's actions were normal and did not threaten the integrity of peer review.

The impact on the environment, ecosystems, the animal kingdom, society and humanity depends on how much more the Earth warms.

Extreme high temperatures were seen from India — where the city of Phalodi recorded temperatures of 51 degrees Celsius (123.8 Fahrenheit) in May, a new national record — to Iran, where a temperature of 53 degrees Celsius (127.4 F) was recorded in Delhoran on July 22.

Higher carbon dioxide concentrations will favourably affect plant growth and demand for water.

“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".

Solar panels drain the sun's energy.

Changes to Earth's radiative equilibrium, that cause temperatures to rise or fall over decadal periods, are called climate forcings.

All the indicators show that global warming is still happening.

In contrast to the melting of the Arctic sea ice, sea ice around Antarctica has been expanding as of 2013[update].

The extreme cycles of dry and wet weather appear to have been intensifying over the last three decades.

Members of the InterAcademy Panel recommended that by 2050, global anthropogenic CO 2 emissions be reduced less than 50% of the 1990 level.

“A leading Canadian authority on polar bears, Mitch Taylor, said: ‘We’re seeing an increase in bears that’s really unprecedented, and in places where we’re seeing a decrease in the population

The calcium carbonate from which coral skeletons are made is just over 60% carbon dioxide.

climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’.

The long Australian Millennial drought broke in 2010.

The ocean is absorbing massive amounts of CO2, and is becoming more acidic as a result.

With the production of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, oceans are becoming more acidic since CO2 dissolves in water and forms the acidic bicarbonate ion.