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1103
[ocean acidification was ] First referenced in a peer-reviewed study in Nature in 2003
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1108
There was, he said, an ‘inherent bias’ in scientific journals which predisposed them to publish ‘doom and gloom stories’.
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1109
“The chain of events that links the melting Arctic with weather to the south begins with rising global temperatures causing more sea ice to melt.
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1112
“The jet stream forms a boundary between the cold north and the warmer south, but the lower temperature difference means the winds are now weaker.
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1113
This means the jet stream meanders more, with big loops bringing warm air to the frozen north and cold air into warmer southern climes.”
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1115
This “blocking” effect means extreme events can unfold.”
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1116
Severe ‘snowmageddon’ winters are now strongly linked to soaring polar temperatures, say researchers, with deadly summer heatwaves and torrential floods also probably linked.
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1119
Prof Adam Scaife, a climate modelling expert at the UK’s Met Office, said the evidence for a link to shrinking Arctic ice was now good: ‘The consensus points towards that being a real effect.’”
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1120
The connection between the vanishing Arctic ice and extreme summer weather in the northern hemisphere is probable, according to scientists, but not yet as certain as the winter link.
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1121
Another consequence of the fast melting Arctic raises the possibility that there may be even worse extreme weather to come, according to a few scientists: titanic Atlantic superstorms and hurricanes barreling across Europe.
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1127
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.
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1130
The record warm years of 2015 and 2016 were primarily caused by the super El Nino.’”
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1133
Global average temperatures over land have plummeted by more than 1C since the middle of this year – their biggest and steepest fall on record.
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1135
Scientists confirm a mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year has killed more corals than ever before, with more than two thirds destroyed across large swathes of the biodiverse site.
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1136
When water temperatures become too high, coral becomes stressed and expels the algae, which leave the coral a bleached white color.
0SUPPORTS
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1138
Stress from unusually warm ocean water heated by man-made climate change and the natural El Niño climate pattern caused the die-off.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1139
Mass coral bleaching is a new phenomenon and was never observed before the 1980s as global warming ramped up.
0SUPPORTS
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1141
“While record low sea ice is nothing new in the Arctic, this is a surprising turn of events for the Antarctic.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1142
Even as sea ice in the Arctic has seen a rapid and consistent decline over the past decade, its counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere has seen its extent increasing.”
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1143
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.
3DISPUTED
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1144
It “certainly puts the kibosh on everyone saying that Antarctica’s ice is just going up and up,” Meier said.
3DISPUTED
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1145
For what appears to be the first time since scientists began keeping track, sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic are at record lows this time of year.
0SUPPORTS
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1146
“It’s far too early to tell if what we are seeing in the Arctic, and now the Antarctic, is a sharp shift towards warmer poles with less ice.
1REFUTES
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1149
Temperatures in the Arctic have soared recently, and scientists are struggling to explain exactly why.
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1150
To make matters worse, the water temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are several degrees above average, which is an expected result of having less sea ice.
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1151
“Unlike genuine pollutants, carbon dioxide (CO2) is an odorless, colorless gas.
1REFUTES
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1154
[CO2] is also a greenhouse gas which helps maintain earth at a habitable temperature.
0SUPPORTS
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1155
But observations, such as those on our CO2 Coalition website, show that increased CO2 levels over the next century will cause modest and beneficial warming—perhaps as much as one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit)
1REFUTES
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1156
The costs of emissions regulations, which will be paid by everyone, will be punishingly high and will provide no benefits to most people anywhere in the world.
3DISPUTED
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1157
“In 2013 the level of U.S. farm output was about 2.7 times its 1948 level, and productivity was growing at an average annual rate of 1.52%.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Economy of the United States:501", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Economy of the United States", "evidence": "Despite the recession, it was still at 2.79% in 2012 and will slide only marginally to 2.73% in 2013, according to provisional data, and should remain at a similar level in 2014.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Economy of the United States:93", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Economy of the United States", "evidence": "It grew 3.0% per year on average in the 1960s, 2.1% in the 1970s, 2.4% in the 1980s, 2.2% in the 1990s, 0.7% in the 2000s, and 0.9% from 2010 to 2017.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Reaganomics:17", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Reaganomics", "evidence": "GDP per employed person increased at an average 1.5% rate during the Reagan administration, compared to an average 0.6% during the preceding eight years.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Reaganomics:18", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Reaganomics", "evidence": "Private sector productivity growth, measured as real output per hour of all persons, increased at an average rate of 1.9% during Reagan's eight years, compared to an average 1.3% during the preceding eight years.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Unemployment in the United States:469", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Unemployment in the United States", "evidence": "This forecast assumes real GDP growth would be 1.4% in 2013 and 2.5% in 2014.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1160
With more CO2 in the atmosphere, the challenge [feeding 2.5 billion more people] can and will be met.
0SUPPORTS
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1163
“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.
1REFUTES
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1164
Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts and other natural disasters have yet to show any obvious long-term change.”
3DISPUTED
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1166
Drought in the western U.S. pales in comparison to the mega-droughts tree rings tell us existed in centuries past.
0SUPPORTS
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1167
Lake-bottom sediments in Florida tell us that recent major hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico has been less frequent than in centuries past.
1REFUTES
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1169
“Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated and still amounts to only 1 inch every ten years.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1170
If a major hurricane is approaching with a predicted storm surge of 10-14 feet, are you really going to worry about a sea level rise of 1 inch per decade?”
0SUPPORTS
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1171
If Hillary would have fact-checked her example of sea level rise in Norfolk, Virginia, she would have found out that the experts already know this is mostly due to the land there sinking.
3DISPUTED
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1173
[…]until we develop a practical, cost-competitive alternative to fossil fuels, it is unlikely that renewable energy will ever make up more than 15-20% of global energy requirements.
0SUPPORTS
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1175
But the observed warming as monitored by satellites (our only truly global monitoring system) has been only about half of what computerized climate models say should be happening.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1178
“The most famous of these studies, published in 2010 by Paul Kench and Arthur Webb of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji, showed that of 27 Pacific islands, 14% lost area.
1REFUTES
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1180
“It seems self-evident that rising sea levels will reduce land area.
0SUPPORTS
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1181
However, there is a process of accretion, where coral broken up by the waves washes up on these low-lying islands as sand, counteracting the reduction in land mass.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1183
“suggest that residents are fleeing atolls swiftly sinking into the sea.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Battle of the Coral Sea:178", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Battle of the Coral Sea", "evidence": "Heavily damaged and without power, Neosho was left drifting and slowly sinking (16°09′S 158°03′E / 16.150°S 158.050°E / -16.150; 158.050).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Bikini Atoll:540", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Bikini Atoll", "evidence": "\"Exiled by nuclear testing, rising seas force Bikinians to flee again\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, "SUPPORTS" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Kiribati:191", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Kiribati", "evidence": "Since land height has not changed the vulnerability of the greater part of the land area of each island to submergence due to sea level rise is also unchanged and these low-lying atolls remain immediately and extremely vulnerable to inundation or sea water flooding.\"", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Kiribati:436", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Kiribati", "evidence": "\"Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, "SUPPORTS" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Kiribati:529", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Kiribati", "evidence": "\"Islands disappear under rising seas\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO" ] } ]
1186
President Hilda Heine has told reporters that longtime residents are leaving the Marshall Islands because climate change is threatening the nation’s existence.”
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Hilda Heine:43", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Hilda Heine", "evidence": "\"First female President Hilda Hine elected in the Marshall Islands\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Hilda Heine:72", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Hilda Heine", "evidence": "\"Hilda Heine elected first female Pacific leader as president of Marshall Islands\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Marshall Islands:357", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Marshall Islands", "evidence": "\"A sinking feeling: why is the president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru so concerned about climate change?\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Marshall Islands:534", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Marshall Islands", "evidence": "\"In The Marshall Islands, Traditional Agriculture And Healthy Eating Are A Climate Change Strategy\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Marshall Islands:94", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Marshall Islands", "evidence": "According to the president of Nauru, the Marshall Islands are the most endangered nation in the world due to flooding from climate change.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1188
Policy makers who want to help the residents of the Marshall Islands today should look at improving the islands’ resilience
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1198
” ‘You see, gas in America is incredibly cheap, because of fracking,’ he says.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
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1202
 The discrepancy between model-predicted warming and (lower) real-world observations has inspired new respect for natural climate variability relative to greenhouse-gas forcing. 
3DISPUTED
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1204
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.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:13", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "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.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:146", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Between 1993 and 2017, the global mean sea level rose on average by 3.1 ± 0.3 mm per year, with an acceleration detected as well.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:354", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "rising sea levels, shrinking Arctic sea ice).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:9", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "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.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:92", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Not only does this increase the absorption of sunlight, it also increases melting and sea level rise.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1205
“In 2009, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted that the world had only 50 days to save the planet from global warming.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "2010 United Kingdom general election:12", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "2010 United Kingdom general election", "evidence": "Realising that a deal between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats was imminent, the next day on Tuesday 11 May Brown announced his resignation as Prime Minister, marking the end of 13 years of Labour government.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:261", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "In 2009 several UNFCCC Parties produced the Copenhagen Accord, which has been widely portrayed as disappointing because of its low goals, leading poor nations to reject it.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Gordon Brown:10", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Gordon Brown", "evidence": "After initial rises in opinion polls following Brown becoming Prime Minister, Labour's popularity declined with the onset of a recession in 2008, leading to poor results in the local and European elections in 2009.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Gordon Brown:129", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Gordon Brown", "evidence": "On 5 June 2007, just three weeks before he was due to take the post of Prime Minister, Brown made a speech promising \"British Jobs for British workers\".", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Gordon Brown:93", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Gordon Brown", "evidence": "Appearances and news coverage leading up to the handover were interpreted as preparing the ground for Brown to become Prime Minister, in part by creating the impression of a statesman with a vision for leadership and global change.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1211
“climate economists see a positive externality, not a negative one, from the human influence on climate.
3DISPUTED
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1212
(In technical lingo, the so-called social cost of carbon would be negative.)”
1REFUTES
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1216
…obsessing about climate change is avoiding a frank discussion about the here-and-now problems of budget deficits, the federal debt, school choice, entitlement reform, and so on.
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Political positions of Paul Ryan:102", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Political positions of Paul Ryan", "evidence": "He suggested using discussions about raising the federal debt ceiling as \"leverage\" to reduce federal spending.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Political positions of Paul Ryan:29", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Political positions of Paul Ryan", "evidence": "He helped bring the issues of the national debt and the national deficit into the national policy debate.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Political positions of Paul Ryan:31", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Political positions of Paul Ryan", "evidence": "His positions on fiscal policy have included tax cuts, cuts to entitlement programs, freezes on discretionary spending, the elimination of automatic inflation increases in calculating budget baselines, deregulation, and the privatization of social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and education.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "United States federal budget:432", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "United States federal budget", "evidence": "Prior to the 2008-2009 U.S. recession, experts argued for steps to be put in place immediately to address an unsustainable trajectory of federal deficits.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "United States federal budget:538", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "United States federal budget", "evidence": "\"Ignoring the Debt Problem\".", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] } ]
1219
Global warming is driving major melting on the surface of Greenland’s glaciers and is speeding up their travel into the sea.”
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:11", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Surface temperature increases are greatest in the Arctic, which has contributed to the retreat of glaciers, permafrost, and sea ice.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:92", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Not only does this increase the absorption of sunlight, it also increases melting and sea level rise.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:55", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "When the meltwater seeps down through cracks in the sheet, it accelerates the melting and, in some areas, allows the ice to slide more easily over the bedrock below, speeding its movement to the sea.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:3", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "This acceleration is due mostly to human-caused global warming, which is driving thermal expansion of seawater and the melting of land-based ice sheets and glaciers.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Shutdown of thermohaline circulation:51", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Shutdown of thermohaline circulation", "evidence": "Global warming could lead to an increase in freshwater in the northern oceans, by melting glaciers in Greenland, and by increasing precipitation, especially through Siberian rivers.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1222
The melting Greenland ice sheet is already a major contributor to rising sea level and if it was eventually lost entirely, the oceans would rise by six metres around the world, flooding many of the world’s largest cities.
0SUPPORTS
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1223
Ice cap is disappearing far more rapidly than previously estimated, and is part of a long-term trend, new research shows
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "2013 in science:559", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "2013 in science", "evidence": "Rapidly melting sea ice is causing ocean acidification in the Arctic to occur at faster rates than previously forecast, with serious implications for the food web, according to new research.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change in the Arctic:26", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Climate change in the Arctic", "evidence": "The data show a long-term negative trend in recent years, attributed to global warming, although there is also a considerable amount of variation from year to year.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Future of Earth:203", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Future of Earth", "evidence": "However, the long-term trend is for the plant life on land to die off altogether as most of the remaining carbon in the atmosphere becomes sequestered in the Earth.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Retreat of glaciers since 1850:396", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Retreat of glaciers since 1850", "evidence": "A 2019 study showed that Antarctica is losing ice six times faster than it was 40 years ago.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:187", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "More recent research, especially into Antarctica, indicates that this is probably a conservative estimate and true long-term sea level rise might be higher.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ null, "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1224
“Federal scientists have documented a sharp jump in this nuisance flooding — often called ‘sunny-day flooding’ — along both the East Coast and the Gulf Coast in recent years.
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1227
These tidal floods are often just a foot or two deep, but they can stop traffic, swamp basements, damage cars, kill lawns and forests, and poison wells with salt.
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1230
On the Pacific Coast, a climate pattern that had pushed billions of gallons of water toward Asia is now ending, so that in coming decades the sea is likely to rise quickly off states like Oregon and California.
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1235
“During ice ages, caused by wobbles in the Earth’s orbit, sea levels dropped more than 400 feet as ice piled up on land.
0SUPPORTS
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1237
the last sea-level high point, … occurred between the last two ice ages, about 125,000 years ago.
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1239
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.
0SUPPORTS
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1240
“Ice-free means the central basin of the Arctic will be ice-free
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1243
by that I mean the central Arctic will be ice-free.
0SUPPORTS
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1245
There will still be about a million square kilometres of ice in the Arctic in summer
3DISPUTED
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1246
Most people expect this year will see a record low in the Arctic’s summer sea-ice cover.
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1247
People tend to think of an ice-free Arctic in summer in terms of it merely being a symbol of global change.
0SUPPORTS
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1251
“Underneath the permafrost there are sediments full of methane hydrates.
0SUPPORTS
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1253
“The most recent prediction of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that seas will rise by 60 to 90 centimetres this century.
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:147", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Over the 21st century, the IPCC projects that in a very high emissions scenario the sea level could rise by 61–110 cm.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:237", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change", "evidence": "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.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:157", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "In its fifth assessment report (2013) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated how much sea level is likely to rise in the 21st century based on different levels of greenhouse gas emissions.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:160", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "If emissions remain very high, the IPCC projects sea level will rise by 52–98 cm (20–39 in).", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:8", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "For example, in 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected a high end estimate of 60 cm (2 ft) through 2099, but their 2014 report raised the high-end estimate to about 90 cm (3 ft).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1255
the first scientists to show that the thick icecap that once covered the Arctic ocean was beginning to thin and shrink.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Arctic Ocean:26", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Arctic Ocean", "evidence": "Nevertheless, as all the explorers who travelled closer and closer to the pole reported, the polar ice cap is quite thick, and persists year-round.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Arctic Ocean:7", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Arctic Ocean", "evidence": "The summer shrinking of the ice has been quoted at 50%.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:150", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Global warming has led to decades of shrinking and thinning of the Arctic sea ice, making it vulnerable to atmospheric anomalies.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Retreat of glaciers since 1850:310", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Retreat of glaciers since 1850", "evidence": "Other studies show that between 1960 and 1999, the Devon Ice Cap lost 67 km3 (16 cu mi) of ice, mainly through thinning.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Retreat of glaciers since 1850:315", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Retreat of glaciers since 1850", "evidence": "The 66 km2 (25 sq mi) ice shelf drifted into the Arctic Ocean.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1256
‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "Arctic Ocean:164", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Arctic Ocean", "evidence": "Research shows that the Arctic may become ice-free in the summer for the first time in human history by 2040.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Arctic sea ice decline:208", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Arctic sea ice decline", "evidence": "\"Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, "SUPPORTS" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Arctic sea ice decline:242", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Arctic sea ice decline", "evidence": "\"US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 2016\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, "SUPPORTS" ] }, { "evidence_id": "Ice age:124", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Ice age", "evidence": "(Current projected consequences of global warming include a largely ice-free Arctic Ocean within 5–20 years, see Arctic shrinkage.)", "entropy": 0.5623351335525513, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, "REFUTES" ] }, { "evidence_id": "North Pole:175", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "North Pole", "evidence": "Reports have also predicted that within a few decades the Arctic Ocean will be entirely free of ice in the summer.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, "REFUTES" ] } ]
1257
“as surface temperatures of the oceans warm up, the immediate response is more water vapor in the atmosphere.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Atmospheric methane:244", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Atmospheric methane", "evidence": "This process is enhanced by global warming, because warmer air holds more water vapor than colder air, so the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere increases as it is warmed by the greenhouse effect.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Eocene:94", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Eocene", "evidence": "These isotope changes occurred due to the release of carbon from the ocean into the atmosphere that led to a temperature increase of 4-8 °C (7-14 °F) at the surface of the ocean.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:68", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "The heat needed to raise an average temperature increase of the entire world ocean by 0.01 °C would increase the atmospheric temperature by approximately 10 °C.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Water vapor:113", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Water vapor", "evidence": "The upper temperature level is given by the soil or water surface of the earth, which absorbs the incoming sun radiation and warms up, evaporating water.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Water:354", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Water", "evidence": "Water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere provide a temperature buffer (greenhouse effect) which helps maintain a relatively steady surface temperature.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] } ]
1259
While the north-east, midwest and upper great plains have experienced a 30% increase in heavy rainfall episodes – considered once-in-every-five year downpours – parts of the west, particularly California, have been parched by drought.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "California:461", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "California", "evidence": "Water use and conservation in California is a politically divisive issue, as the state experiences periodic droughts and has to balance the demands of its large agricultural and urban sectors, especially in the arid southern portion of the state.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "San Joaquin Valley:20", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "San Joaquin Valley", "evidence": "The valley experienced a severe drought from 2011 to 2017.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "San Joaquin Valley:45", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "San Joaquin Valley", "evidence": "By August 2014, a three-year drought was prompting changes to the agriculture industry in the valley.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Western United States:77", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Western United States", "evidence": "However, parts of the West get extremely high amounts of rain or snow, and still other parts are true desert and get less than 5 inches (130 mm) of rain per year.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Western United States:86", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Western United States", "evidence": "Drought is much more common in the West than the rest of the United States.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1260
The contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will increase, although there may be regional exceptions.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Morocco:257", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Morocco", "evidence": "Most regions have distinct seasons where summer is usually not spoiled by rain and winter turns wet, snowy and humid with mild, cool to cold temperatures, while spring and fall see warm to mild weather characterised by flowers blooming in spring and falling leaves in autumn.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tropical monsoon climate:5", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Tropical monsoon climate", "evidence": "In essence, a tropical monsoon climate tends to either see more rainfall than a tropical savanna climate or have less pronounced dry seasons.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tropical monsoon climate:9", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Tropical monsoon climate", "evidence": "Regions with this variation of the tropical monsoon climate typically see copious amounts of rain during the wet season(s), usually in the form of frequent thunderstorms.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tropical savanna climate:8", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Tropical savanna climate", "evidence": "There are generally four types of tropical savanna climates: Distinct wet and dry seasons of relatively equal duration.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Tundra:67", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Tundra", "evidence": "Despite the potential diversity of climates in the ET category involving precipitation, extreme temperatures, and relative wet and dry seasons, this category is rarely subdivided.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1265
Some, however, bristle at the belief that because floods and storms have always occurred, they should not be linked to climate change”
3DISPUTED
[ { "evidence_id": "2007 United Kingdom floods:28", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "2007 United Kingdom floods", "evidence": "Climate researchers have suggested that the unusual weather leading to the floods may be linked to this year's appearance of La Nina in the Pacific Ocean, and the jet stream being further south than normal.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "2015 South Indian floods:439", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "2015 South Indian floods", "evidence": "Although some studies have reported an increase in frequency and intensity of extremes in rainfall during the past 40–50 years, their attribution to global warming is not established.\"", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change denial:62", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Climate change denial", "evidence": "To the public, this was related to climate change and the possibility of effective action, but news interest faded.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change denial:63", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Climate change denial", "evidence": "Public attention was renewed amidst summer droughts and heat waves when James Hansen testified to a Congressional hearing on 23 June 1988, stating with high confidence that long term warming was underway with severe warming likely within the next 50 years, and warning of likely storms and floods.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "REFUTES", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Climate change in Australia:2", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Climate change in Australia", "evidence": "In 2014, the Bureau of Meteorology released a report on the state of Australia's climate that highlighted several key points, including the significant increase in Australia's temperatures (particularly night-time temperatures) and the increasing frequency of bush fires, droughts and floods, which have all been linked to climate change.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null ] } ]
1266
This means that the world is now 1C warmer than it was in pre-industrial times
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Global warming:21", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "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).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:225", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Near- and long-term trends in the global energy system are inconsistent with limiting global warming to below 1.5 or 2 °C relative to pre-industrial levels.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:226", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Current pledges made as part of the Paris Agreement would lead to about 3.0 °C of warming at the end of the 21st century, relative to pre-industrial levels.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:55", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Before the Industrial Revolution, naturally occurring amounts of greenhouse gases caused the air near the surface to be warmer by about 33 °C (59 °F) than it would be in their absence.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "World Bank:124", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "World Bank", "evidence": "The planet is now 0.8 °C warmer than in pre-industrial times.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1268
The thermal expansion of the oceans, compounded by melting glaciers, resulted in the highest global sea level on record in 2015.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:26", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "Since the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the sea level has risen by more than 125 metres (410 ft), with rates varying from less than a mm/year to 40+ mm/year, as a result of melting ice sheets over Canada and Eurasia.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:3", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "This acceleration is due mostly to human-caused global warming, which is driving thermal expansion of seawater and the melting of land-based ice sheets and glaciers.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:4", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "Between 1993 and 2018, thermal expansion of the oceans contributed 42% to sea level rise; the melting of temperate glaciers, 21%; Greenland, 15%; and Antarctica, 8%.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level rise:56", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level rise", "evidence": "The three main reasons warming causes global sea level to rise are: oceans expand, ice sheets lose ice faster than it forms from snowfall, and glaciers at higher altitudes also melt.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea level:63", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Sea level", "evidence": "Most of this rise can be attributed to the increase in temperature of the sea and the resulting slight thermal expansion of the upper 500 metres (1,640 feet) of sea water.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1269
“The oceans, which absorb more than 90% of the extra CO2 pumped into the atmosphere“
1REFUTES
[ { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide:187", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Carbon dioxide", "evidence": "Currently, about half of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels remains in the atmosphere and is not absorbed by vegetation and the oceans.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide:203", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Carbon dioxide", "evidence": "The oceans act as an enormous carbon sink, and have taken up about a third of CO 2 emitted by human activity.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide:211", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Carbon dioxide", "evidence": "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.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Carbon dioxide:215", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Carbon dioxide", "evidence": "NOAA states in their May 2008 \"State of the science fact sheet for ocean acidification\" that: \"The oceans have absorbed about 50% of the carbon dioxide (CO 2) released from the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in chemical reactions that lower ocean pH.", "entropy": 0.6931471824645996, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Sea:226", "evidence_label": 1, "article": "Sea", "evidence": "More recently, anthropogenic activities have steadily increased the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere; about 30–40% of the added CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, forming carbonic acid and lowering the pH (now below 8.1) through a process called ocean acidification.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "REFUTES", null, null, null ] } ]
1270
The world’s alpine glaciers recorded a net annual loss of ice for the 36th consecutive year and the Greenland ice sheet … experienced melting over more than 50% of its surface.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:141", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "It was estimated that in the year 2007 Greenland ice sheet melting was higher than ever, 592 km3 (142.0 cu mi).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:35", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced record melting in recent years since detailed records have been kept and is likely to contribute substantially to sea level rise as well as to possible changes in ocean circulation in the future if this is sustained.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:36", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "The area of the sheet that experiences melting has been argued to have increased by about 16% between 1979 (when measurements started) and 2002 (most recent data).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:37", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "The area of melting in 2002 broke all previous records.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:39", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "In 2006, estimated monthly changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest that it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometers (57 cu mi) per year.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1271
Greenland ice sheet … would balloon sea levels by around 7m should it disintegrate
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:43", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "If the entire 2,850,000 km3 (684,000 cu mi) of ice were to melt, global sea levels would rise 7.2 m (24 ft).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:46", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "Ice sheet models project that such a warming would initiate the long-term melting of the ice sheet, leading to a complete melting of the ice sheet (over centuries), resulting in a global sea level rise of about 7 metres (23 ft).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland ice sheet:6", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland ice sheet", "evidence": "If the entire 2,850,000 cubic kilometres (684,000 cu mi) of ice were to melt, it would lead to a global sea level rise of 7.2 m (24 ft).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Greenland:172", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Greenland", "evidence": "If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt away completely, the world's sea level would rise by more than 7 m (23 ft).", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Ice sheet:21", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Ice sheet", "evidence": "The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82% of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1273
The rapid changes in the climate may have profound consequences for humans and other species… Severe drought caused food shortages for millions of people in Ethiopia, with a lack of rainfall resulting in “intense and widespread” forest fires in Indonesia that belched out a vast quantity of greenhouse gas
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Drought:102", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Drought", "evidence": "According to the WWF, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Drought:110", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Drought", "evidence": "Recurring droughts leading to desertification in East Africa have created grave ecological catastrophes, prompting food shortages in 1984–85, 2006 and 2011.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Ethiopia:177", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Ethiopia", "evidence": "The ensuing government suffered several coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and a huge refugee problem.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Ethiopia:337", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Ethiopia", "evidence": "A 17-year-long civil war, along with severe drought, negatively impacted Ethiopia's environmental conditions, leading to even greater habitat degradation.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Famine:131", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Famine", "evidence": "A primary cause of the famine (one of the largest seen in the country) is that Ethiopia (and the surrounding Horn) was still recovering from the droughts which occurred in the mid-late 1970s.", "entropy": 0.6365141868591309, "votes": [ "REFUTES", "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null ] } ]
1276
“Typically, in such an attribution study, scientists will use sets of climate models — one set including the factors that drive human global warming and the other including purely “natural” factors — and see if an event like the one in question is more likely to occur in the first set of models.
0SUPPORTS
[ { "evidence_id": "Attribution of recent climate change:101", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Attribution of recent climate change", "evidence": "For example, when climate model simulations of the last century include all of the major influences on climate, both human-induced and natural, they can reproduce many important features of observed climate change patterns.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Attribution of recent climate change:103", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Attribution of recent climate change", "evidence": "The clear message from fingerprint studies is that the observed warming over the last half-century cannot be explained by natural factors, and is instead caused primarily by human factors.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Attribution of recent climate change:193", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Attribution of recent climate change", "evidence": "Models are, however, able to simulate the observed 20th century changes in temperature when they include all of the most important external forcings, including human influences and natural forcings.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Attribution of recent climate change:76", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Attribution of recent climate change", "evidence": "Climate models forced by natural factors and increased greenhouse gases and aerosols reproduce the observed global temperature changes; those forced by natural factors alone do not.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Attribution of recent climate change:99", "evidence_label": 0, "article": "Attribution of recent climate change", "evidence": "Therefore, climate models are used to study how individual factors affect climate.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "SUPPORTS", "SUPPORTS", null, null, null ] } ]
1279
“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.
2NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
[ { "evidence_id": "Antarctica:361", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Antarctica", "evidence": "NASA's Climate Change website indicates a compatible overall trend of greater than 100 gigatonnes of ice loss per year since 2002.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Earth:172", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Earth", "evidence": "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.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Earth:378", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Earth", "evidence": "The perception of Earth shifted again in the 20th century when humans first viewed it from orbit, and especially with photographs of Earth returned by the Apollo program.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Global warming:362", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Global warming", "evidence": "Climate change is more accurate scientifically to describe the various effects of greenhouse gases on the world because it includes extreme weather, storms and changes in rainfall patterns, ocean acidification and sea level.\".", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] }, { "evidence_id": "Hubble Space Telescope:5", "evidence_label": 2, "article": "Hubble Space Telescope", "evidence": "It has recorded some of the most detailed visible light images, allowing a deep view into space.", "entropy": 0, "votes": [ "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", "NOT_ENOUGH_INFO", null, null, null ] } ]
1284
It is clear, then, that greening is emerging as a factor with the potential to blunt some of the worst impacts of human greenhouse gas emissions.
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1286
Arctic greening was recently cited, in a major report by the U.S. Geological Survey, as the central reason that the state of Alaska, despite worsening wildfires and more thaw of permafrost, might still be able to stow away more carbon than it loses over the course of the 21st century.”
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1292
Any reasonable person can recognize both positives and negatives among the policy proposals of both Tories and Labour.
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1293
Over time, climate becomes a net problem: by the 2070s, the UN Climate Panel finds that global warming will likely cause damage equivalent to 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent of global GDP.
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1294
“Because CO₂ acts as a fertilizer, as much as half of all vegetated land is persistently greener today.
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1296
precipitation from global warming will make the world much greener
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1299
A recent Nature study expecting more severe hurricanes from global warming still found that damages would halve from 0.04 per cent to 0.02 per cent of global GDP, because the increased ferocity would be more than made up by increased prosperity and resilience.
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1300
“Yet, a new study of 60 climate models and scenarios shows this warning fails to take into account the fact that global warming will mean precipitation increases.
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1303
No one ever says it, but in many ways global warming will be a good thing
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1304
in a letter to The Times from Lord Krebs and company, essentially telling the newspaper to stop reporting less-than-negative climate stories.
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1305
The projection that much of the Great Barrier Reef could perish within the next few decades could turn out to be too pessimistic, since other research has shown that some species of corals are surprisingly resilient to the stress from changing ocean temperatures.
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1307
a new study by scientists at the Australian Research Council finds that the ongoing bleaching event is mainly due to human-caused global warming, and that if global warming proceeds as currently expected, “large parts” of the Great Barrier Reef could die by the mid-2030s.
0SUPPORTS
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1308
Great Barrier Reef may perish by 2030s
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It has occurred during the warmest year on record, which occurred in 2015, and the two most unusually mild months on Earth, which took place in January and February, respectively.”
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A World Heritage site, it is currently under assault from unusually hot ocean temperatures,”
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Coral bleaching has devastated 93% of the Great Barrier Reef
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Higher temperatures, we’re told, will be deadly—killing “thousands to tens of thousands” of Americans
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