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Unfortunately for the Princeton-Scripps team, it appears that their report has been proven inaccurate.
Independent scientist Nic Lewis found the study had “apparently serious (but surely inadvertent) errors in the underlying calculations.” Lewis’ findings were quickly corroborated by another researcher. -Daily Caller
It's all a game to make money based on fears. . .
originally posted by: randomtangentsrme
a reply to: 727Sky
We have known this since the hockey stick graph.
But certain members of our population refuse to use critical thinking skills.
It's all a game to make money based on fears. . .
We will see where public opinion goes in the next 10 years.
originally posted by: noonebutme
a reply to: 727Sky
So.. what does this mean? Global Warming isn't happening?
originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: randomtangentsrme
It's all a game to make money based on fears. . .
And what group is well known for that ?
Hint : abbreviated as 2 letters.
Answer that and you have root cause of the lies.
originally posted by: wmd_2008
a reply to: 727Sky
Well speaking from experience here in Scotland winters are more mild more rain than snow, had a wasp fly into the hose last week would not normally see them after September same with flies and other insects.
Temperature last night was warmer than we would get daytime in November plenty of other evidence things are heating up.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: randomtangentsrme
It's all a game to make money based on fears. . .
And what group is well known for that ?
Hint : abbreviated as 2 letters.
Answer that and you have root cause of the lies.
Been thinking of a group with 2 letters for their abbreviation and can't think of it, other than the CDC, which has 2 letters, one used twice. what r u talking about?
Resplandy and her colleagues estimated ocean heat by measuring the volume of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: randomtangentsrme
It's all a game to make money based on fears. . .
And what group is well known for that ?
Hint : abbreviated as 2 letters.
Answer that and you have root cause of the lies.
Dang , keep goin....
Been thinking of a group with 2 letters for their abbreviation and can't think of it, other than the CDC, which has 2 letters, one used twice. what r u talking about?
Given the weight of the evidence, scientists have come to a consensus that climate change is happening, and that human greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause.
So where are the real scientific debates? There are still a lot of questions left about how fast climate change will happen and what the precise effects will be. "What I would say is most uncertain is simply how quickly things are chaning," Moore Powell said. "I'm very interested in the pace."
One of the major unknowns is the ultimate influence of clouds on climate: Clouds are white, so they reflect sunlight back toward space, which could have a cooling effect. But clouds are also water vapor, which traps heat. And different types of clouds might have warming or cooling effects, so the precise role of clouds in the feedback loop of global warming remains difficult to untangle, scientists have said.
Another burning question is how high, and how quickly, the sea level will rise as warming sea waters expand and Antarctic and Arctic ice melts. The IPCC forecasted a rise of 20 to 38 inches (52 to 98 cm), assuming no efforts are made to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Currently, all of the Earth's clouds together exert a net cooling effect on our planet. But the large and opposing influences of clouds on the Earth's climate begs the question: What will be the net effect of all of the Earth's clouds on climate as the Earth continues to warm in the future? Will clouds accelerate warming or help offset, or dull, warming?
Right now, "The scientific community is uncertain about how the effects of clouds will change in the future," says Hugh Morrison, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. That's why, in 1997, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described clouds as "the largest source of uncertainty" in predictions of climate change. To reduce this uncertainty and improve predictions of climate change/global warming, scientists are now working to better understand the relationships between clouds and climate.
Most scientists doubt that the net cooling effect of clouds will ever be large enough to completely offset ongoing warming. But many scientists say that if warming were to increase the number or kind of cooling clouds or decrease the presence of warming clouds, the current net cooling effect of clouds on the Earth's climate would probably increase, and thereby moderate, or offset, ongoing warming. If warming were to continue, the net cooling effect of clouds would increase and, in a negative feedback loop, perpetuate the moderating force on ongoing warming provided by clouds. The result: The Earth's end-of-the-century temperature may be pulled down toward the lower end of its predicted range. But, if on the other hand, warming were to increase the number or kind of warming clouds or decrease the presence of cooling clouds, scientists say the current net cooling effect of clouds on the Earth's climate would probably decrease; and an important moderating force on ongoing warming would thereby diminish. The result: The Earth's end-of-the-century temperature may be pushed up towards the upper end of its predicted range.
Scientists are working on it, however. One of the World Climate Research Programme’s CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change) projects is bringing together scientists from around the world to study “ENSO in a Changing Climate.”
CLIVAR says that it has not been possible to determine how ENSO will be affected by changes in coming decades because there has not been long and comprehensive enough observation of ENSO phenomena, and because the ability of computers to model the complex interplay of the many ocean and atmospheric processes involved in ENSO is limited. The project’s goal is to better understand how different physical processes influence ENSO and the variability of El Niño events over decades. This research is critical, because future El Niño events will unfold against the background of global warming. Michael Jarraud, former secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, warned that El Niño could be “playing out in uncharted territory.” “This naturally occurring El Niño event and human induced climate change may interact and modify each other in ways we have never before experienced,” said Jarraud.
That intense El Niño and El Niña events could be in fact one of the consequences of global warming, even though this hasn’t been proven yet as chuck pointed out. I think that in conclusion, it can be said that no matter how much the El Niño actually contributed to the sudden increase in temperature, greenhouse gas emissions still caused some if not most of it. Human-induced climate change is a huge threat and we need to reduce this emission significantly to assure our planet’s sustainability.