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Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010.

This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference.

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2000s (decade)

An exponential increase in CO2 will result in a linear increase in temperature

Temperature will increase respiration exponentially to a maximum, at which point respiration will decrease to zero when enzymatic activity is interrupted.

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Soil respiration

California legislators have made it illegal for anyone to deny climate change, under threat of jail time.

Among the political idiosyncrasies and trendsetting, California was the second state to recall their state governor, the second state to legalize abortion, and the only state to ban marriage for gay couples twice by vote (including Proposition 8 in 2008).

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California

Mount Kilimanjaro's shrinking glacier is complicated and not due to just global warming.

There are currently 11 small glaciers, which are shrinking rapidly, and will likely be gone forever by 2050, due to global warming[citation needed].

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Mount Kenya

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored

It said that emails showed harassment of researchers, with multiple Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit, but release of information had been hampered by national government restrictions on releasing the meteorological data researchers had been using.

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Climatic Research Unit email controversy

This means it is possible that by some yardsticks, 2016 will be declared as hot as 2015 or even slightly hotter – because El Nino did not vanish until the middle of the year.

During November and December 2015, values within NOAA's Oceanic Niño Index peaked at 2.4 °C (4.3 °F), which surpassed December 1997 value of 2.2 °C (4.0 °F).

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2014–16 El Niño event

When the exact same group of 'experts' who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim it's global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical

Trend sceptics or deniers (who deny there is global warming), [and] argue that no significant climate warming is taking place at all, claiming that the warming trend measured by weather stations is an artefact due to urbanisation around those stations ("urban heat island effect").

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Climate change denial

It has never been shown that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming.

CO2 emissions are continuing to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land-use change.

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Global warming

there is no relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide emissions by ­humans[...]

A consensus, based on current evidence, now exists within the global scientific community that human activities are the main source of climate change and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for driving this change...

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Scientific consensus on climate change

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

Climate sensitivity can be estimated using observed temperature rise, observed ocean heat uptake, and modeled or observed radiative forcing.

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Climate sensitivity

This “blocking” effect means extreme events can unfold.”

Based on the evidence, memories are not extreme enough.

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List of memory biases

Overall, about 90% of the global warming occurs after the CO2 increase.

As of 2011, the concentrations of CO2 and methane had increased by about 40% and 150%, respectively, since pre-industrial times.

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Global warming

So this is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia.

nearly 4 million UK children are judged to live in households that would find it difficult to afford enough fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods to reach official guidelines, the Food Foundation maintains.

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Poverty in the United Kingdom

Dropped weather stations actually show a slightly warmer trend compared to kept stations.

Continental west-coasts (to which all of Scandinavia belongs, as the westernmost part of the Eurasian continent), are notably warmer than continental east-coasts; this can also be seen by comparing e.g.

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Sweden

NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.

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.

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Global warming controversy

Internal variability can only account for small amounts of warming and cooling over periods of decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it cannot account for the global warming over the past century.

Over the past five decades there has been a global warming of approximately 0.65 °C (1.17 °F) at the Earth's surface (see historical temperature record).

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Attribution of recent climate change

Barack Obama will help the Gulf Coast restore the wetlands, marshes and barrier islands that are critical to tamping down the force of hurricanes.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion destroyed an offshore drilling rig at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a major sustained oil leak.

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Barack Obama

While there are many drivers of climate, CO2 is the most dominant radiative forcing and is increasing faster than any other forcing.

Recent data also shows that the concentration is increasing at a higher rate.

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Greenhouse gas

First, they concur with the believers that the Earth has been warming since the end of a Little Ice Age around 1850.

The result is a picture of relatively cool conditions in the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and warmth in the eleventh and early fifteenth centuries, but the warmest conditions are apparent in the twentieth century.

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Little Ice Age

Reef material is calcium carbonate, which contains 44 per cent carbon dioxide.

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

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Carbon sink

Dropped stations introduce warming bias

Secondly, the satellite cannot look through clouds, creating a cool bias in satellite-derived SSTs within cloudy areas.

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Sea surface temperature

In fact, human emit 26 gigatonnes of CO2 per year while CO2 in the atmosphere is rising by only 15 gigatonnes per year - much of human CO2 emissions is being absorbed by natural sinks.

This increase has occurred despite the uptake of more than half of the emissions by various natural "sinks" involved in the carbon cycle.

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Greenhouse gas

It’s usually taken to be the fact that as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase, the 1 per cent of CO2 that’s the heavier carbon isotope ratio c13 declines in proportion.

The global mean CO 2 concentration is currently rising at a rate of approximately 2 ppm/year and accelerating.

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Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere

This is the South Pole ice, 90% of Earth’s ice, and it’s getting thicker.

Other research has shown that higher snowfalls from the North Atlantic oscillation caused the interior of the ice cap to thicken by an average of 6 cm or 2.36 in/y between 1994 and 2005.

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Greenland

97% of climate experts agree humans are causing global warming.

Of these, 97% agree, explicitly or implicitly, that global warming is happening and is human-caused.

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Scientific consensus on climate change

Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995

Multiple independently produced instrumental datasets confirm that the 2009–2018 decade was 0.93 ± 0.07 °C warmer than the pre-industrial baseline (1850–1900).

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Global warming

They concluded that trends toward rising climate damages were mainly due to increased population and economic activity in the path of storms, that it was not currently possible to determine the portion of damages attributable to greenhouse gases, and that they didn’t expect that situation to change in the near future.

It said that Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

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Scientific consensus on climate change

[The 1990 IPCC report said] that the Antarctic ice sheets were stable

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is stable so long as the Ross Ice Shelf is constrained by drag along its lateral boundaries and pinned by local grounding.

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Cryosphere

Within a decade, certain kinds of branching and plate coral could be extinct, reef scientists say, along with a variety of small fish that rely on them for protection from predators.

They are important apex predators feeding on a wide variety of smaller fish and cephalopods.

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Glossary of fishery terms

“Which is to say that these beans will be eaten by cows, and the cows will convert the beans to meat, and the humans will eat the meat.

Buffalo are generally fed on coarse feeds; they convert them into the protein-rich lean meat.

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Buffalo meat

This is called the "atmospheric greenhouse effect", and without it the Earth's surface would be much colder.

Because the Earth is much colder than the Sun, it radiates at much longer wavelengths, primarily in the infrared part of the spectrum (see Figure 1).

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Greenhouse effect

Australia has more solar coverage than any other continent.

Firstly, tropical continents are more reflective than open ocean, and so absorb less of the Sun's heat: most absorption of Solar energy on Earth today occurs in tropical oceans.

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Snowball Earth

Multiple lines of evidence indicate Greenland's ice loss is accelerating and will contribute sea level rise in the order of metres over the next few centuries.

Estimates on future contribution to sea level rise from Greenland range from 0.3 to 3 metres (1 to 10 ft), for the year 2100.

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Sea level rise

Carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."

On March 9, 2017, in an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, Pruitt stated that he "would not agree that" carbon dioxide is "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see" backing up his claim by stating that "measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact."

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Scott Pruitt

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

Cumulative anthropogenic (i.e., human-emitted) emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel use are a major cause of global warming, and give some indication of which countries have contributed most to human-induced climate change.

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Greenhouse gas

Donald Trump claims Global Warming is a hoax

Trump rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.

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Donald Trump

Doubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from its pre-industrial level, in the absence of other forcings and feedbacks, would likely cause a warming of ~0.3°C to 1.1°C.

Without feedbacks the radiative forcing of approximately 3.7 W/m2, due to doubling CO 2 from the pre-industrial 280 ppm, would eventually result in roughly 1 °C global warming.

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Climate sensitivity

While the link between cosmic rays and cloud cover is yet to be confirmed, more importantly, there has been no correlation between cosmic rays and global temperatures over the last 30 years of global warming.

Together with the lack of a proven physical mechanism and the plausibility of other causal factors affecting changes in cloud cover, this makes the association between galactic cosmic ray-induced changes in aerosol and cloud formation controversial Studies by Lockwood and Fröhlich (2007) and Sloan and Wolfendale (2008) found no relation between warming in recent decades and cosmic rays.

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Attribution of recent climate change

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored

In two cases, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued decisions on appeals of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests which had been turned down by the university.

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Climatic Research Unit email controversy

But it means a chunk of the rise is coming from elsewhere.

In a 2009 interview, Wyatt said, "We've incorporated elements from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, in terms of how the apes begin to revolt, but this is primarily a prequel to the 1968 film...Caesar is a revolutionary figure who will be talked about by his fellow apes for centuries...This is just the first step in the evolution of the apes, and there's a lot more stories to tell after this.

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto."

This could be caused by the interaction between the stellar wind and the planet's magnetosphere creating an electric current through the planet that heats it up causing it to expand.

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Exoplanet

Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture

In Vietnam policymakers, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), used HPAI control to accelerate the industrialization of livestock production for export by proposing to increase the portion of large-scale commercial farms and reducing the number of poultry keepers from 8 to 2 million by 2010.

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Avian influenza

describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040

Malnutrition, dehydration and related diseases Mass migration, resulting in internal displacement and international refugees Reduced electricity production due to reduced water-flow through hydroelectric dams Shortages of water for industrial users Snake migration, which results in snake-bites Social unrest War over natural resources, including water and food Wildfires, such as Australian bushfires, become more common during times of drought and may cause human deaths.

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Drought

Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

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.

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Agriculture

IPCC graph showing accelerating trends is misleading

A potentially important area for consideration is also the detection of trends in extreme events and the attribution of these trends to human influence.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Yet the cost of doing something will likely be higher than 6 per cent of GDP" (Bjorn Lomborg)

This would take us to 9.4 per cent of GDP spent on health ie around EU average.

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United Kingdom

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Due to the high viscosity of the Earth's mantle, the flow of mantle rocks which controls the rebound process is very slow—at a rate of about 1 cm/year near the center of rebound area today.

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Ice age

Let’s find out by comparing the actual temperatures since 1979 with what the 32 families of climate models used in the latest U.N. report on climate science predicted they would be.

They judge that global mean surface air temperature has increased by 0.3 to 0.6 °C over the last 100 years, broadly consistent with prediction of climate models, but also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

They changed the name from “global warming” to “climate change” after the term global warming just wasn’t working (it was too cold)!

This is much colder than the conditions that actually exist at the Earth's surface (the global mean surface temperature is about 14 °C).

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Global warming

Shelters in poorer countries are not repainted as often, and darker stations absorb more of the sun’s energy.

Earth houses can be built using wide glass façades and dome-lights, allowing rooms to become bright and suffused with light.

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Earth shelter

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.

Current rates of sea level rise from satellite altimetry have been estimated to be 3.0 ± 0.4 millimetres (0.118 ± 0.016 in) per year for the period 1993–2017.

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Sea level rise

"The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, 2007, carries in three places a graph in which the Hadley Center’s global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset from 1850-2005 is displayed with four arbitrarily-chosen trend-lines overlaid upon it.

The Synthesis Report also brings in relevant parts some material contained in the full Working Group Reports over and above what is included in the Summary for Policymakers in these three Reports.

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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

CO2 is colorless, odorless and completely non-toxic.

Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless and tasteless, but highly toxic.

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Exhaust gas

In the sugarcane region of El Salvador, as much as one-fifth of the population has chronic kidney disease, including over a quarter of the men, the presumed result of dehydration from working the fields they were able to comfortably harvest as recently as two decades ago.

In El Salvador and Nicaragua alone, the reported number of men dying from this painful disease has risen five-fold in the last 20 years, although some researchers believe hidden cases have always been there and this increment in official data could be partially due to the recent increase in reports and improved case search, pushed by the growing social and political interest in the disease.

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Mesoamerican nephropathy

Southern sea ice is increasing.

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

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Antarctica

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."

The program caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from large installations with a net heat supply in excess of 20 MW, such as power plants and carbon intensive factories and covers almost half (46%) of the EU's Carbon Dioxide emissions.

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Emissions trading

The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."

Play media Play media In a televised announcement from the White House Rose Garden on June 1, 2017, Trump said, "In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect the United States and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord," adding "The bottom line is that the Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States."

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United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

The report, published in the journal Nature Geoscience on September 18, acknowledges that most of the models of warming trends failed to predict the ‘slowdown’ in warming post-2000, resulting in less pronounced warming than predicted and thus more room in the CO2 ‘emissions budget’ for the coming decades.

They judge that global mean surface air temperature has increased by 0.3 to 0.6 °C over the last 100 years, broadly consistent with prediction of climate models, but also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Rob Portman voted for the bipartisan bill to affirm climate change is real, humans significantly contribute to it and it needs to be addressed.

Climate change means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.

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Climate change (general concept)

Models and direct observations find that CFCs only contribute a fraction of the warming supplied by other greenhouse gases.

The seven sources of CO 2 from fossil fuel combustion are (with percentage contributions for 2000–2004): Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide (N 2O) and three groups of fluorinated gases (sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and perfluorocarbons (PFCs)) are the major anthropogenic greenhouse gases, and are regulated under the Kyoto Protocol international treaty, which came into force in 2005.

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Greenhouse gas

I note particularly that sea-level rise is not affected by the warming; it continues at the same rate, 1.8 millimeters a year, according to a 1990 review by Andrew S. Trupin and John Wahr.

The last time the Earth was 2 °C (3.6 °F) warmer than pre-industrial temperatures, sea levels were at least 5 metres (16 ft) higher than now: this was when warming because of changes in the amount of sunlight due to slow changes in the Earth's orbit caused the last interglacial.

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Sea level rise

The Independent Climate Change Email Review investigated the CRU scientists' actions relating to peer review.

The report, issued on 18 February 2011, cleared the researchers and "did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data or failed to adhere to appropriate peer review procedures".

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Climatic Research Unit email controversy

"There is no actual evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming.

CO2 emissions are continuing to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land-use change.

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Global warming

Global temperature is still rising and 2010 was the hottest recorded.

Global warming is the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system.

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Global warming

The "decline" refers to a decline in northern tree-rings, not global temperature, and is openly discussed in papers and the IPCC reports.

This "decline" referred to the well-discussed tree-ring divergence problem, but these two phrases were taken out of context by global warming sceptics, including US Senator Jim Inhofe and former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, as though they referred to some decline in measured global temperatures, even though they were written when temperatures were at a record high.

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Climatic Research Unit email controversy

2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory.

The recurrence theorem may be perceived as apparently contradicting the second law of thermodynamics.

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Second law of thermodynamics

While many scientists have acknowledged the mismatch between model predictions and actual temperature observations, few have really challenged the validity of the models themselves.

To that end, experiments are performed and observations are made in order to determine the validity or invalidity of the theory.

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Physics

Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming a Hoax

He has called global warming the "greatest scam in history" and made numerous false or misleading claims about climate science.

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John Coleman (meteorologist)

according, again, to the official figures—during this past 10 years, if anything, mean global temperature, average world temperature, has slightly declined

Currently, surface temperatures are rising by about 0.2 °C per decade.

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Global warming

When we do the calculations and include all radiative forcings and the amount of heat being absorbed by the oceans, it shows that the Earth has warmed almost exactly as much as we would expect.

Earth's surface, warmed to an "effective temperature" around −18 °C (0 °F), radiates long-wavelength, infrared heat in the range of 4–100 μm.

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Greenhouse effect

“The oceans, which absorb more than 90% of the extra CO2 pumped into the atmosphere“

Most of the CO 2 taken up by the ocean, which is about 30% of the total released into the atmosphere, forms carbonic acid in equilibrium with bicarbonate.

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Carbon dioxide

Discovery Of Massive Volcanic CO2 Emissions Discredits Global Warming Theory

The basalt lava erupted or intruded into carbonate rocks and into sediments that were in the process of forming large coal beds, both of which would have emitted large amounts of carbon dioxide, leading to stronger global warming after the dust and aerosols settled.

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Permian–Triassic extinction event

Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption

A scientist named Bill Hingest, who is resigning from the N.I.C.E., warns Mark to get out.

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That Hideous Strength

Unlike the simple example of positive feedback we learned in high school, the increase from every round of feedback gets smaller and smaller, in the case of the enhanced greenhouse effect.

Since water vapor is a greenhouse gas, the increase in water vapor content makes the atmosphere warm further; this warming causes the atmosphere to hold still more water vapor (a positive feedback), and so on until other processes stop the feedback loop.

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Climate change feedback

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

In a 2009 paper, "An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy", Trenberth discussed the distribution of heat and how it was affected by climate forcing, including greenhouse gas changes.

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Kevin E. Trenberth

The Millennium Drought starting in 1997 and ending in 2010 was misinterpreted as a long term trend as a consequence of Climate Change.

In addition, many areas are experiencing higher than normal droughts.

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Physical impacts of climate change

Species that have a lot of plasticity tend to be generalists.

The American coyote is an example of a generalist.

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Effects of climate change on terrestrial animals

Top Scientist Hal Lewis Resigns Over Climate Change Corruption

However, the country continues to face the challenges of the Rohingya genocide and refugee crisis, corruption, and the erratic effects of climate change.

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Bangladesh

"Each unit of CO2 you put into the atmosphere has less and less of a warming impact.

This additional CO2 led to a projected increase in warming of between 0.1 and 1.5 °C.

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Physical impacts of climate change

Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative.

This support may be strong or weak.

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Evidence

On Feb. 7, several major newspapers carried stories of the declaration by NASA and NOAA that the past five years have been the warmest on record.

Comments from climate scientists reported in The Washington Post showed strong agreement in attributing the warming primarily to anthropogenic climate change, with some contribution from El Niño warming, though there were differing views on the significance of individual records.

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Instrumental temperature record

"Global warming data apparently cooked by U.S. government-funded body shows astounding temperature fraud with increases averaging 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

Arrhenius calculated the temperature increase expected from doubling CO 2 to be around 5-6 °C.

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Global warming

temperatures were 6-10C above normal over most of France, Germany and northern Spain during the final days of the month, according to C3S.

The annual average temperature is 25.4 °C (78 °F) during the day and 13 °C (55 °F) at night.

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Seville

“There is now less sea ice on Earth than at any time on record.

However, ice melt caused world sea levels to rise about 35 m (115 ft) in the early part of the Holocene.

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Holocene

[Riebesell] is a world authority on the topic and has typically communicated cautiously about the effects of acidification.

Perhaps one of the most recent adverse effects of climate change to be explored is that of ocean acidification.

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Effects of global warming on human health

While the Greenland interior is in mass balance, the coastlines are losing ice.

"Greenland's Coastal Ice Caps Have Melted Past The Point Of No Return".

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Sea level rise

'What I can comment on is this prediction by Dr. Hansen: “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water.”

"Elevated Highway Along Hudson Shore Is Ordered by City: Estimate Board Passes Half of Miller Plan for Viaduct From 59th to 72d Street".

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West Side Highway

So CO2 causes warming AND rising temperature causes CO2 rise.

CO2 emissions are continuing to rise due to the burning of fossil fuels and land-use change.

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Global warming

This increases confidence in other peer-reviewed research predicting sea level rise of 80cm to 2 metres by 2100.

However, Greg Holland from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who reviewed the study, noted: “There is no doubt that the sea level rise, within the IPCC, is a very conservative number, so the truth lies somewhere between IPCC and Jim.” In addition, one 2017 study's scenario, assuming high fossil fuel use for combustion and strong economic growth during this century, projects sea level rise of up to 132 cm (4.3 ft) on average — and an extreme scenario with as much as 189 cm (6.2 ft), by 2100.

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Sea level rise

Last December, the respected  journal “Oceanography” published projections (see graphic below) for this rising acidity, measured by falling pH

"Rising levels of acids in seas may endanger marine life, says study".

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Ocean acidification

Rob Portman voted for the bipartisan bill to affirm climate change is real, humans significantly contribute to it and it needs to be addressed.

In March 2016, Portman authored the bipartisan bill the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, along with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy.

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Rob Portman

In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming.

In March 2015, he said that some people are "global warming alarmists" and, citing satellite temperature measurements, said that there had been no significant warming in 18 years.

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Ted Cruz

The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.

Current annual increase in atmospheric CO2 is approximately 4 gigatons of carbon.

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Oceanic carbon cycle

Florida ranks "45th out of 50 states'' for its regulatory climate for business.

If it were a country, Florida would be the 16th largest economy in the world, and the 58th most populous as of 2018[update].

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Florida

All the indicators show that global warming is still happening.

The 10th Emissions Gap Report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) predicts that if emissions continue to increase at the same rate as they have in 2010–2020, global temperatures would rise by as much as 4° by 2100.

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Global warming

CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...]

A new statement, adopted by the society in 2003, revised in 2007, and revised and expanded in 2013, affirms that rising levels of greenhouse gases have caused and will continue to cause the global surface temperature to be warmer: Human activities are changing Earth's climate.

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Scientific consensus on climate change

Previous IPCC reports tended to assume that clouds would have a neutral impact because the warming and cooling feedbacks would cancel each other out.

The IPCC reports that feedbacks to increased temperatures are net positive for the remainder of this century, with the impact of cloud cover the largest uncertainty.

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Tipping points in the climate system

In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet.

"Evidence is now 'unequivocal' that humans are causing global warming – UN report".

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Earth

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.

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Ocean acidification

Last year’s warmth was manifested across the planet, from the warm tropical ocean waters off the coast of northeastern Australia, where the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst coral bleaching event on record and large scale coral death, to the Arctic, where sea ice hit regular monthly record lows and overall temperatures were also the warmest on record, at least from January through September 2016.

Coral reef provinces have been permanently damaged by warm sea temperatures, most severely in the Indian Ocean.

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Coral bleaching