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1,402 | Beginning in 2005, however, polar ice modestly receded for several years. | The Trift Glacier had the greatest recorded retreat, losing 350 m (1,150 ft) of its length between the years 2003 and 2005. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Retreat of glaciers since 1850 |
2,123 | Tree-rings diverge from temperature after 1960 | A microthermal climate is one of low annual mean temperatures, generally between 0 °C (32 °F) and 14 °C (57 °F) which experiences short summers and has a potential evaporation between 14 centimetres (5.5 in) and 43 centimetres (17 in). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Climate |
1,806 | 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. | "The IPCC Third Assessment Report'] conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue". | 0SUPPORTS
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
1,009 | ‘Arctic ice conditions have been tracking at record low conditions since October, persisting for six consecutive months’ | "Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent for the year and the satellite record" (Press release). | 0SUPPORTS
| Methane |
1,756 | Melting ice leads to more sunlight being absorbed by water, thus heating the Arctic. | The primary cause of this phenomenon is ice-albedo feedback, where by melting ice uncovers darker land or ocean beneath, which then absorbs more sunlight, causing more heating. | 0SUPPORTS
| Climate change in the Arctic |
1,315 | cold kills many more people than heat. | After the elder Snart insults him and his mother, calling them weak, Cold punches him, but finds himself unable to kill him, instead getting Heat Wave to do it. | 1REFUTES
| Captain Cold |
446 | It’s not carbon dioxide, it’s not methane… Scientists estimate that somewhere between 75% and 90% of Earth greenhouse effect is caused by water vapor in clouds.” | Excluding water vapor, about half of landfill gas is methane and most of the rest is carbon dioxide, with small amounts of nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, and variable trace amounts of hydrogen sulfide and siloxanes. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Natural gas |
189 | The geological history of the planet shows major planetary climate changes have never been driven by a trace gas | The remaining gases are often referred to as trace gases, among which are the greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Natural environment |
1,507 | Global warming' is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017. | The highly publicised figures came from work still undergoing peer review, and CICERO would wait until they had been published in a journal before disseminating the results. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming controversy |
1,541 | Sea level rise due to global warming is exaggerated. | This is an important confirmation of climate change simulations which predicted that sea level rise would accelerate in response to global warming. | 1REFUTES
| Sea level rise |
2,266 | A number of independent investigations from different countries, universities and government bodies have investigated the stolen emails and found no evidence of wrong doing. | Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. | 0SUPPORTS
| Climatic Research Unit email controversy |
1,729 | A large amount of warming is delayed, and if we don’t act now we could pass tipping points. | Climate change may cross tipping points where elements of the climate system may 'tip' from one stable state to another stable state, much like a glass tipping over. | 0SUPPORTS
| Climate engineering |
1,239 | Through decades of research, it has become clear that human civilization, roughly 6,000 years old, developed during an unusually stable period for global sea levels. | Over the years, more and more evidence has advanced the idea of "pre-Clovis" cultures including tools dating back about 15,550 years ago. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| United States |
2,605 | "A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. ... | Also in 2005, the Human Security Report documented a decline in the number of wars, genocides, and human rights abuses since the end of the Cold War, and presented evidence, albeit circumstantial, that international activism—mostly spearheaded by the UN—has been the main cause of the decline in armed conflict in that period. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| United Nations |
2,200 | The Petition Project features over 31,000 scientists signing the petition stating "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide will, in the forseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere ...". | Evidence from the geological record is consistent with the physics that shows that adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere warms the world and may lead to: higher sea levels and flooding of low-lying coasts; greatly changed patterns of rainfall; increased acidity of the oceans; and decreased oxygen levels in seawater. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,120 | Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995 | The Framework Convention was agreed on in 1992, but global emissions have risen since then. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming |
2,144 | 97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven | Of these, 97% agree, explicitly or implicitly, that global warming is happening and is human-caused. | 1REFUTES
| Scientific consensus on climate change |
1,163 | “Global warming and climate change, even if it is 100% caused by humans, is so slow that it cannot be observed by anyone in their lifetime. | But, more accurately, global warming is the mainly human-caused increase in global surface temperatures and its projected continuation, while climate change includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes in precipitation. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming |
2,052 | Nor is there any evidence that levels as high as 7,000 ppm of CO2 did or could cause ocean acidity. | It has been estimated that the extra dissolved carbon dioxide has caused the ocean's average surface pH to shift by about −0.1 unit from pre-industrial levels. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Carbonic acid |
180 | Reef material is calcium carbonate, which contains 44 per cent carbon dioxide. | Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Limestone |
1,304 | in a letter to The Times from Lord Krebs and company, essentially telling the newspaper to stop reporting less-than-negative climate stories. | In 1993, the Times published articles purporting to debunk climate change. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| The Washington Times |
2,657 | Currently, humans are emitting around 29 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per year. | Global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 were equivalent to 49 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (using the most recent global warming potentials over 100 years from the AR5 report). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming |
120 | 90 per cent of the world's coral reefs will disappear in the next 35 years due to coral bleaching induced by global warming, pollution and over-development. | In late November 2016 surveys of 62 reefs showed that long term heat stress from climate change caused a 29% loss of shallow water coral. | 0SUPPORTS
| Coral bleaching |
2,276 | It is unclear whether global warming is increasing hurricane frequency but there is increasing evidence that warming increases hurricane intensity. | 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. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming |
2,910 | The authors seem to have jumped right into statistical analysis without proposing a physical mechanism that works. | One key point was that they realized that the quickest way to reach a result was not to continue a mathematical analysis, but to build a physical model. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Scientific method |
2,099 | 2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory | This does not conflict with notions that have been observed of the fundamental laws of physics, namely CPT symmetry, since the second law applies statistically, it is hypothesized, on time-asymmetric boundary conditions. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Second law of thermodynamics |
576 | ‘Summers keep getting hotter,’ said Friederike Otto of the University of Oxford, who conducted extensive research into data from the heatwave that spread Europe in June, July and August 2017. | That, in turn, renders most of Sweden's southern areas having warmer summers than almost everywhere in the nearby British Isles, even matching temperatures found along the continental Atlantic coast as far south as in northern Spain. | 0SUPPORTS
| Sweden |
1,844 | After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards." | As the airplane approached the Pentagon, its wings knocked down light poles and its right engine hit a power generator before crashing into the western side of the building. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| September 11 attacks |
311 | there has been no systematic increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, | This was associated with a 1.5 °C fall in temperature (determined from oxygen-isotope analysis) and an observed increase in El Niño frequency. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Little Ice Age |
199 | In the past, warming has never been a threat to life on Earth. | If such an event were to occur oriented towards the Earth, the massive amounts of gamma radiation could significantly affect the Earth's atmosphere and pose an existential threat to all life. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global catastrophic risk |
2,775 | For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards. | Each player carries a "stick" that normally measures between 80–95 cm (31–38"); shorter or longer sticks are available. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Field hockey |
2,902 | "So recently the media picked up on the fact that CRU deleted the raw data for this important global temperature set long ago. | The mainstream media picked up the story, as negotiations over climate change mitigation began in Copenhagen on 7 December 2009. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Climatic Research Unit email controversy |
2,013 | U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air" | 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. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Emissions trading |
2,058 | Global methane levels published by CSIRO are now relatively stable showing fluctuations during El Nino events. | These fluctuations peaked at the end of the Martian summer at 0.6 parts per billion. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Methane |
344 | Globally there’s no clear evidence of trends and patterns in extreme events such as droughts, hurricanes and floods. | Health impacts of climate change include the direct impacts of extreme events such as storms, floods, heatwaves and fires and the indirect effects of longer-term changes, such as drought, changes to the food and water supply, resource conflicts and population shifts. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Scientific consensus on climate change |
1,292 | Any reasonable person can recognize both positives and negatives among the policy proposals of both Tories and Labour. | In a speech in Tynemouth the next day, May said Labour had "deserted" working-class voters, criticised Labour's policy proposals and said Britain's future depended on making a success of Brexit. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| 2017 United Kingdom general election |
21 | Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization | Under Stalin's leadership, the government launched a command economy, industrialization of the largely rural country, and collectivization of its agriculture. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Russia |
2,741 | 'Phil Jones said that for the past 15 years there has been no "statistically significant" warming. | He said that "Our conclusion was that the warming of the past few decades appears to be closely tied to emission of greenhouse gases by humans and not any of the natural factors". | 1REFUTES
| Hockey stick graph |
745 | The past shows that climate change is normal, that warmer times and more atmospheric carbon dioxide have driven biodiversity and that cold times kill.” | The trigger for these mass extinctions appears to be a warming of the ocean caused by a rise of carbon dioxide levels to about 1000 parts per million. | 1REFUTES
| Anoxic event |
2,499 | First, they concur with the believers that the Earth has been warming since the end of a Little Ice Age around 1850. | Consequently, summers are 2.3 °C (4 °F) warmer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere under similar conditions. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Earth |
812 | The human contribution can be up to 30 percent or so of the total rainfall coming out of the storm | Some cities show a total precipitation increase of 51%. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Urban heat island |
498 | The 30 most costly hurricanes in U.S. history (according to federal data from January) show no increase in intensity over time. | It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Hurricane Harvey |
2,378 | The costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of mitigation. | Cline noted that the Review's large cost-benefit ratio for mitigation policy allows room for these long-term costs to be reduced substantially but still support aggressive action to reduce emissions. | 0SUPPORTS
| Stern Review |
871 | “As it happens, Zika may also be a good model of the second worrying effect — disease mutation. | These errors, called mutations, can affect the phenotype of an organism, especially if they occur within the protein coding sequence of a gene. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Genetics |
1,829 | "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS. | This has had cascading effects, especially on grizzly bear populations as pine nuts are an important source of winter time food in periods of large snowpack. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Climate change in Washington |
1,339 | “Dr Browman, a marine scientist for 35 years, said he was not saying that ocean acidification posed no threat, but that he believed that “a higher level of academic scepticism” should be applied to the topic. | Skepticism (American English) or scepticism (British English, Australian English, and Canadian English) is generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief or dogma. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Skepticism |
2,029 | Bill Gates claims pandemic's 'misery' will 'happen regularly' if climate change is not stopped | "Loss of soil carbon 'will speed global warming'". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Climate change feedback |
861 | None of these places, which today supply much of the world’s food, will be reliable sources of any. | Human nutrition deals with the provision of essential nutrients in food that are necessary to support human life and health. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Human nutrition |
1,674 | Early 20th century warming is due to several causes, including rising CO2. | The largest contribution to total radiative forcing is caused by the increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 since 1750." | 0SUPPORTS
| 20th century |
3,124 | the Great Barrier Reef is in fine fettle | The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". | 1REFUTES
| Great Barrier Reef |
1,530 | Scientists have known for some time, from multiple lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate, primarily through greenhouse gas emissions. | 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. | 0SUPPORTS
| Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,319 | While urban areas are undoubtedly warmer than surrounding rural areas, this has had little to no impact on warming trends. | As a result, cities are often 1 to 3 °C (1.8 to 5.4 °F) warmer than surrounding landscapes. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Urbanization |
133 | The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska | It is by far the biggest cause of land use, as it accounts for nearly 40% of the global land surface. | 0SUPPORTS
| Meat |
1,775 | Venus very likely underwent a runaway or ‘moist’ greenhouse phase earlier in its history, and today is kept hot by a dense CO2 atmosphere. | 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. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Greenhouse effect |
211 | For decades, most scientists saw climate change as a distant prospect. | Decades of scientific research have shown that climate can change from both natural and anthropogenic causes. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,077 | The increase in damage in recent years is due to population growth in vulnerable areas and poor forest management. | The average growth rate of the urban population has recently increased which is attributed mainly to migration and rapid urbanisation. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Vietnam |
1,786 | CFCs contribute to global waerming at a small level. | They are, however, greenhouse gases, with a high global warming potential (GWP), comparable to that of CFCs and HCFCs. | 1REFUTES
| Montreal Protocol |
1,794 | Ben Santer could not have and did not single-handedly alter the 1995 IPCC report. | The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) is a report by the IPCC which was published in 2000. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
1,559 | Clouds provide negative feedback. | This effect results in a negative feedback process that can inhibit further development or lead to weakening. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Tropical cyclone |
320 | Globally averaged thermometers show two periods of warming since 1900: a half-degree from natural causes in the first half of the 20th century, before there was an increase in industrial carbon dioxide that was enough to produce it, and another half-degree in the last quarter of the century. | The average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8° Celsius (1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880; Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20 °C per decade. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| 20th century |
2,447 | The main reason behind this mid-century cooling was global dimming due to anthropogenic sulfate aerosol emissions. | Although the temperature drops foreseen by this mechanism have now been discarded in light of better theory and the observed warming, aerosols are thought to have contributed a cooling tendency (outweighed by increases in greenhouse gases) and also have contributed to "Global Dimming." | 0SUPPORTS
| Global cooling |
95 | [climate scientists] say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey 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. | 0SUPPORTS
| Hurricane Harvey |
2,986 | As a result, the planet as a whole is becoming less reflective and absorbing more sunlight, which is accelerating global warming. | In the tropics the net effect is to produce a significant warming, while at latitudes closer to the poles a loss of albedo leads to an overall cooling effect. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming |
220 | Hurricane Harvey gave Houston and the surrounding region a $125 billion lesson about the costs of misjudging the potential for floods | It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas. | 0SUPPORTS
| Hurricane Harvey |
2,983 | Despite the logarithmic relationship between CO2 and surface temperatures, atmospheric CO2 levels are rising so fast that unless we dramatically decrease our emissions, global warming will accelerate over the 21st Century. | 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. | 0SUPPORTS
| Carbon dioxide |
2,168 | IPCC graph showing accelerating trends is misleading | The IPCC needs to look at this trend in the errors and ask why it happened". | 0SUPPORTS
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
1,658 | Rising CO2 increases atmospheric water vapor, which makes global warming much worse. | Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations have led to an increase in dissolved CO2, which causes ocean acidification. | 0SUPPORTS
| Global warming |
1,647 | Extreme weather events are being made more frequent and worse by global warming. | Global warming boosts the probability of extreme weather events, like heat waves, far more than it boosts more moderate events. | 0SUPPORTS
| Heat wave |
2,661 | Current CO2 levels are the highest in 15 million years. | Measured atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are currently 100 ppm higher than pre-industrial levels. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Greenhouse gas |
503 | “During the sunless winter, a heatwave raised concerns that the polar vortex may be eroding. | The general assumption is that reduced snow cover and sea ice reflect less sunlight and therefore evaporation and transpiration increases, which in turn alters the pressure and temperature gradient of the polar vortex, causing it to weaken or collapse. | 0SUPPORTS
| Polar vortex |
482 | It is expected the report will focus on required changes to the energy system, rather than forests. | Information on the environmental impacts of alternative models of treatment and service provision Some of the suggested changes needed are: Greater efficiency and lower ecological impact of energy, buildings, and procurement choices (e.g., in-patient meals, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment). | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Low-carbon economy |
1,725 | The iris hypothesis has not withstood the test of time - subsequent research | "A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming controversy |
1,279 | “Earlier this month, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend — the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions. | NASA's Climate Change website indicates a compatible overall trend of greater than 100 gigatonnes of ice loss per year since 2002. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Antarctica |
2,849 | "by the 2001 [IPCC] climate assessment...the Medieval Warm Period had been ingeniously wiped out. | "We concur with the climate science assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001 ... We endorse the conclusions of the IPCC assessment..." Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
256 | One of the main areas of contention is the existence of two strange climate episodes known as The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age. | The warm period became known as the Medieval Warm Period, and the cold period was called the Little Ice Age (LIA). | 0SUPPORTS
| Medieval Warm Period |
161 | Extreme melting and changes to the climate like this has released pressure on to the continent, allowing the ground to rise up. | Under the influence of global warming, melt at the base of the ice sheet increases. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Sea level rise |
926 | 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. | 0SUPPORTS
| West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
1,860 | Bill Nye proposed penalizing families with too many children to reduce population growth and slow climate change. | [citation needed] Population policies that are intended to increase a population or subpopulation growth rates may use practices such as: Higher taxation of married couples who have no, or too few, children Politicians imploring the populace to have bigger families Tax breaks and subsidies for families with children Loosening of immigration restrictions, and/or mass recruitment of foreign workers by the government A number of ancient writers have reflected on the issue of population. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Human population planning |
1,923 | More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry â three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry. | At the same time, the solar power industry grew by almost a quarter to 374,000 jobs. | 1REFUTES
| Infrastructure policy of Donald Trump |
1,369 | “With a record El Niño, we should have experienced record high temperatures. | Over the southern part of the continent, warmer than average temperatures can be recorded as weather systems are more mobile and fewer blocking areas of high pressure occur. | 0SUPPORTS
| El Niño |
1,154 | [CO2] is also a greenhouse gas which helps maintain earth at a habitable temperature. | This last phenomenon is known as the greenhouse effect: trace molecules within the atmosphere serve to capture thermal energy emitted from the ground, thereby raising the average temperature. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Earth |
2,445 | When all forcings are combined, they show good correlation to global temperature throughout the 20th century including the mid-century cooling period. | IPCC AR4 WG1 Ch9 2007, p. 690: "Recent estimates indicate a relatively small combined effect of natural forcings on the global mean temperature evolution of the second half of the 20th century, with a small net cooling from the combined effects of solar and volcanic forcings." | 0SUPPORTS
| Global warming |
1,663 | Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by satellite measurement. | "Greenland Glaciers Losing Ice Much Faster, Study Says". | 0SUPPORTS
| Greenland |
2,886 | As it happens, the writer of that October 2009 e-mail—Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the warmist bible, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report—told Congress two years ago that evidence for manmade warming is "unequivocal. | He was a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change (see IPCC Fourth Assessment Report) and serves on the Scientific Steering Group for the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) program. | 0SUPPORTS
| Kevin E. Trenberth |
432 | Climate scientists use the 20th-century average as a benchmark for global temperature measurements. | Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Climate |
2,745 | Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada. | U.S. officials, such as Philip Cooney, have repeatedly edited scientific reports from US government scientists, many of whom, such as Thomas Knutson, have been ordered to refrain from discussing climate change and related topics. | 0SUPPORTS
| Global warming controversy |
2,365 | Comparisons to the most recent data consistently finds that climate change is occurring more rapidly and intensely than indicated by IPCC predictions. | Some of the changes have been faster than previous assessments had suggested. | 0SUPPORTS
| Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,300 | "Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains. | This law of neutrality, passed in late October 1955 (and not the State Treaty itself), ensured that modern Austria would align with neither NATO nor the Soviet bloc, and is considered one of the reasons for Austria's delayed entry into the European Union in 1995. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Vienna |
2,702 | While it's true that any single country's CO2 emissions reductions will make little difference, only if every nation agrees to limit CO2 emissions can we achieve significant cuts on a global scale. | Cost-effective 2 °C scenarios project annual global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before the year 2020, with deep cuts in emissions thereafter, leading to a reduction in 2050 of 41% compared to 1990 levels. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Climate change mitigation |
1,314 | Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans | The war, as well as the ensuing cholera epidemic, resulted in the deaths of thousands of combatants as well as tens of thousands of civilians. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Philippines |
455 | Climate scientists are telling us it’s likely we’re going to be in for a period of cooling. | Beside the expected cooling down in comparison with the current climate, a significant precipitation change happened here. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Ice age |
331 | But each serial adjustment has tended to make the early years colder, which increases the warming trend. | Because the climate system has large thermal inertia, it can take centuries for the climate to fully adjust. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Global warming |
717 | Scientists used to think that ice sheets could take millennia to respond to changing climates | They offered a conclusion that the "coupling between surface melting and ice-sheet flow provides a mechanism for rapid, large-scale, dynamic responses of ice sheets to climate warming". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Greenland ice sheet |
712 | “Instead of a three-foot increase in ocean levels by the end of the century, six feet was more likely, according to DeConto and Pollard’s findings. | If the sheet were to break down, ocean levels would rise by several metres in a relatively geologically short period of time, perhaps a matter of centuries. | 0SUPPORTS
| Antarctica |
494 | The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 experienced a Category 3 or 4 storm, with up to a 20-foot storm surge. | On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma struck Collier County as a category-3 hurricane. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Palm Beach County, Florida |
2,687 | It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto." | The four largest, Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, show similarities to the terrestrial planets, such as volcanism and internal heating. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Solar System |
2,081 | Heat waves have been decreasing since the 1930s in the U.S. and globally. | Massive heat waves across North America were persistent in the 1930s, many mid-Atlantic/Ohio valley states recorded their highest temperatures during July 1934. | 1REFUTES
| List of heat waves |
36 | 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 | He said, "A lot of my older colleagues are very skeptical on the global warming thing". | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Richard Lindzen |
2,384 | Climate economics research shows that in reality, we are harming the economy by failing to implement CO2 limits. | In theory, a polluter's decisions should lead to an economically efficient allocation of reductions among polluters, and lower compliance costs for individual firms and for the economy overall, compared to command-and-control mechanisms. | 2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
| Emissions trading |
638 | Mr. Singer is a professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. | He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000. | 0SUPPORTS
| Fred Singer |