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The IPCC lead authors are experts in their field, instructed to fairly represent the full range of the up-to-date, peer-reviewed literature.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Increased CO2 makes more water vapor, a greenhouse gas which amplifies warming	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Water vapour is the most dominant greenhouse gas.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
“A leading Canadian authority on polar bears, Mitch Taylor, said: ‘We’re seeing an increase in bears that’s really unprecedented, and in places where we’re seeing a decrease in the population	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of mitigation.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by multiple satellite and on the ground field measurements.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
While the Greenland interior is in mass balance, the coastlines are losing ice.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Overall Greenland is losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
While there are direct ways in which CO2 is a pollutant (acidification of the ocean), its primary impact is its greenhouse warming effect.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
While the greenhouse effect is a natural occurence, too much warming has severe negative impacts on agriculture, health and environment.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Although it has some very important and beneficial effects, CO2 meets the legal and encyclopedic definitions of a "pollutant", and human CO2 emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Less energy is escaping to space: Carbon dioxide (CO2) acts like a blanket; adding more CO2 makes the 'blanket' thicker, and humans are adding more CO2 all the time.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Satellite and surface measurements find less energy is escaping to space at CO2 absorption wavelengths.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The sun has shown no long term trend since 1950 and in fact has shown a slight cooling trend in recent decades.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Arctic sea ice has been steadily thinning, even in the last few years while the surface ice (eg - sea ice extent) increased slightly.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
By that time CO2 emissions had already risen from the expanded use of coal that had powered the industrial revolution, and emissions only increased slowly from 3.5gigatonnes in 1910 to under 4gigatonnes by the end of the Second World War.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Even during a period of long term warming, there are short periods of cooling due to climate variability.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Short term cooling over the last few years is largely due to a strong La Nina phase in the Pacific Ocean and a prolonged solar minimum.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The IPCC blames human emissions of carbon dioxide for the last warming.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Greenhouse gases have been the main contributor of warming since 1970.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Furthermore, it is physically incorrect to state that the planet is simply "recovering" from the Little Ice Age.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
There are a number of forcings which affect climate (eg - stratospheric aerosols, solar variations).	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The main reason behind this mid-century cooling was global dimming due to anthropogenic sulfate aerosol emissions.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Early 20th century warming was in large part due to rising solar activity and relatively quiet volcanic activity.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Volcanoes have been relatively frequent and if anything, have exerted a cooling effect.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Warming trends agree well with surface temperatures and model predictions except near the Poles.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The global dimming trend reversed around 1990 - 15 years after the global warming trend began in the mid 1970's.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
(Kerr 2007) points out that the sunlight-reflecting haze that cools much of the planet seems to have thinned over the past decade or so.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
A natural cycle requires a forcing, and no known forcing exists that fits the fingerprints of observed warming - except anthropogenic greenhouse gases.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The El Nino Southern Oscillation shows close correlation to global temperatures over the short term.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Mount Kilimanjaro's shrinking glacier is complicated and not due to just global warming.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
'Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Believers think the warming is man-made, while the skeptics believe the warming is natural and contributions from man are minimal and certainly not potentially catastrophic à la Al Gore.'	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The human fingerprint in global warming is evident in multiple lines of empirical evidence - in satellite measurements of outgoing infrared radiation, in surface measurements of downward infrared radiation, in the cooling stratosphere and other metrics.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Fundamental physics and global climate models both make testable predictions as to how the global climate should change in response to anthropogenic warming.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The IPCC confirms that computer modeling predicts the existence of a tropical, mid-troposphere “hot spot” about 10km above the Earth’s surface.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is a temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean that spends roughly 20-30 years in the cool phase or the warm phase.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
In 1946, PDO switched to a cool phase.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
In 1977, PDO switched to a warm phase.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The atmosphere of the Earth is less able to absorb shortwave radiation from the Sun than thermal radiation coming from the surface.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The effect of this disparity is that thermal radiation escaping to space comes mostly from the cold upper atmosphere, while the surface is maintained at a substantially warmer temperature.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
This is called the "atmospheric greenhouse effect", and without it the Earth's surface would be much colder.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Glaciers are in rapid retreat worldwide, despite 1 error in 1 paragraph in a 3000 page IPCC report.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"In 1999 New Scientist reported a comment by the leading Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who said in an email interview with this author that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Satellites and on-site measurements are observing that Himalayan glaciers are disappearing at an accelerating rate.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The geologic record provides us with abundant evidence for such perpetual natural climate variability, from icecaps reaching almost to the equator to none at all, even at the poles.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Different areas of science are understood with varying degrees of certainty.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Poorly understood aspects of climate change do not change the fact that a great deal of climate science is well understood.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Observed sea levels are actually tracking at the upper range of the IPCC projections.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"The IPCC also made false predictions on the Amazon rain forests, referenced to a non peer-reviewed paper produced by an advocacy group working with the WWF.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The IPCC statement on Amazon rain forests is correct.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
On a world scale coral reefs are in decline.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Over the last 30-40 years 80% of coral in the Caribbean have been destroyed and 50% in Indonesia and the Pacific.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
If the CO2 effect was saturated, adding more CO2 should add no additional greenhouse effect.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
However, satellite and surface measurements observe an enhanced greenhouse effect at the wavelengths that CO2 absorb energy.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
While methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, there is over 200 times more CO2 in the atmosphere.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
...Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The final amount of extra CO2 that remains in the atmosphere stays there on a time scale of centuries.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
[T]he overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies [find] that CO2 in the atmosphere remained there a short time.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
CO2 levels are measured by hundreds of stations scattered across 66 countries which all report the same rising trend.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"The Keeling curve, which is widely used to show the increase in CO2 emissions, is based on data from the top of Mount Mauna Loa in Hawaii.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"...the largest of all the positive or temperature-amplifying feedbacks in the UN’s arsenal is the water-vapor feedback.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Neptune's orbit is 164 years so observations (1950 to present day) span less than a third of a Neptunian year.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"A new storm and a new red spot on Jupiter hints at climate change, USA TODAY and dozens of other sources explained yesterday.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Jupiter's climate change is due to shifts in internal turbulence fueled from an internal heat source - the planet radiates twice as much energy as it receives from the sun.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The "decline" refers to a decline in northern tree-rings, not global temperature, and is openly discussed in papers and the IPCC reports.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"Mike's Nature trick" has nothing to do with "hide the decline", instead refering to a technique by Michael Mann to plot instrumental temperature along with past reconstructions.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The decline in tree-ring growth is openly discussed in papers and IPCC reports.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The divergence of tree-ring proxies from temperatures after 1960 is openly discussed in the peer-reviewed literature and the last two IPCC assessment reports.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Currently, humans are emitting around 29 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per year.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Warming causes more moisture in the air which leads to more extreme precipitation events.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Far from contradicting global warming, record snowfall is predicted by climate models and consistent with our expectation of more extreme precipitation events.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Measurements of carbon isotopes and falling oxygen in the atmosphere show that rising carbon dioxide is due to the burning of fossil fuels and cannot be coming from the ocean.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Pluto's climate change over the last 14 years is likely a seasonal event.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
There are a myriad of other radiative forcings that affect the planet's energy imbalance.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Volcanoes, solar variations, clouds, methane, aerosols - these all change the way energy enters and/or leaves our climate.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
While there are many drivers of climate, CO2 is the most dominant radiative forcing and is increasing faster than any other forcing.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The Independent Climate Change Email Review investigated the CRU scientists' actions relating to peer review.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The Review concluded that CRU's actions were normal and did not threaten the integrity of peer review.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
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.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The full data for latitudes 64-90°N reveal the Arctic is warmer today than in 1940.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
When you account for the effects which are not reflected in the market price of fossil fuels, like air pollution and health impacts, the true cost of coal and other fossil fuels is higher than the cost of most renewable energy technologies.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The news of expanding Antarctic sea ice stole headlines from global warming alarmists who asserted Arctic sea ice had reached its lowest extent since 1979.'	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The result did suggest the sea level was increasing in the western Pacific, but this was offset by a drop in the level near the Alaskan coast.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
A number of independent studies using near-global satellite data find positive feedback and high climate sensitivity.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
It appears, for the entire tropics, the observed outgoing radiation fluxes increase with the increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs).	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
When you read Phil Jones' actual words, you see he's saying there is a warming trend	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Dropped stations show more warming than kept stations.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
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.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
However, studies have determined that current technology is sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the necessary amount, and that we can do so without significant impact on the economy.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Global warming is an increasingly urgent problem.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The long term trend from albedo is of cooling.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
"Earth’s Albedo has risen in the past few years, and by doing reconstructions of the past albedo, it appears that there was a significant reduction in Earth’s albedo leading up to a lull in 1997.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The most interesting thing here is that the albedo forcings, in watts/sq meter seem to be fairly large.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
The long term trend from albedo is that of cooling.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
Europe and Asia emit most of the soot from burning coal, wood, dung, and diesel in open fires or without particulate filters in stoves, chimneys, smokestacks, and exhaust pipes.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate
'On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified before the House of Representatives that there was a strong "cause and effect relationship" between observed temperatures and human emissions into the atmosphere.	SUPPORTS	fact	human	climate

The IPCC lead authors are experts in their field, instructed to fairly represent the full range of the up-to-date, peer-reviewed literature.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Increased CO2 makes more water vapor, a greenhouse gas which amplifies warming

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Water vapour is the most dominant greenhouse gas.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of mitigation.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Greenland on the whole is losing ice, as confirmed by multiple satellite and on the ground field measurements.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Overall Greenland is losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

While there are direct ways in which CO2 is a pollutant (acidification of the ocean), its primary impact is its greenhouse warming effect.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

While the greenhouse effect is a natural occurence, too much warming has severe negative impacts on agriculture, health and environment.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Although it has some very important and beneficial effects, CO2 meets the legal and encyclopedic definitions of a "pollutant", and human CO2 emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Less energy is escaping to space: Carbon dioxide (CO2) acts like a blanket; adding more CO2 makes the 'blanket' thicker, and humans are adding more CO2 all the time.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The sun has shown no long term trend since 1950 and in fact has shown a slight cooling trend in recent decades.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Arctic sea ice has been steadily thinning, even in the last few years while the surface ice (eg - sea ice extent) increased slightly.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

By that time CO2 emissions had already risen from the expanded use of coal that had powered the industrial revolution, and emissions only increased slowly from 3.5gigatonnes in 1910 to under 4gigatonnes by the end of the Second World War.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Even during a period of long term warming, there are short periods of cooling due to climate variability.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Short term cooling over the last few years is largely due to a strong La Nina phase in the Pacific Ocean and a prolonged solar minimum.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Greenhouse gases have been the main contributor of warming since 1970.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Furthermore, it is physically incorrect to state that the planet is simply "recovering" from the Little Ice Age.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

There are a number of forcings which affect climate (eg - stratospheric aerosols, solar variations).

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The main reason behind this mid-century cooling was global dimming due to anthropogenic sulfate aerosol emissions.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Early 20th century warming was in large part due to rising solar activity and relatively quiet volcanic activity.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Volcanoes have been relatively frequent and if anything, have exerted a cooling effect.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Warming trends agree well with surface temperatures and model predictions except near the Poles.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The global dimming trend reversed around 1990 - 15 years after the global warming trend began in the mid 1970's.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

(Kerr 2007) points out that the sunlight-reflecting haze that cools much of the planet seems to have thinned over the past decade or so.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

A natural cycle requires a forcing, and no known forcing exists that fits the fingerprints of observed warming - except anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The El Nino Southern Oscillation shows close correlation to global temperatures over the short term.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

'Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Believers think the warming is man-made, while the skeptics believe the warming is natural and contributions from man are minimal and certainly not potentially catastrophic à la Al Gore.'

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The human fingerprint in global warming is evident in multiple lines of empirical evidence - in satellite measurements of outgoing infrared radiation, in surface measurements of downward infrared radiation, in the cooling stratosphere and other metrics.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Fundamental physics and global climate models both make testable predictions as to how the global climate should change in response to anthropogenic warming.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The IPCC confirms that computer modeling predicts the existence of a tropical, mid-troposphere “hot spot” about 10km above the Earth’s surface.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is a temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean that spends roughly 20-30 years in the cool phase or the warm phase.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

In 1946, PDO switched to a cool phase.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

In 1977, PDO switched to a warm phase.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The atmosphere of the Earth is less able to absorb shortwave radiation from the Sun than thermal radiation coming from the surface.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The effect of this disparity is that thermal radiation escaping to space comes mostly from the cold upper atmosphere, while the surface is maintained at a substantially warmer temperature.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Glaciers are in rapid retreat worldwide, despite 1 error in 1 paragraph in a 3000 page IPCC report.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"In 1999 New Scientist reported a comment by the leading Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who said in an email interview with this author that all the glaciers in the central and eastern Himalayas could disappear by 2035.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Satellites and on-site measurements are observing that Himalayan glaciers are disappearing at an accelerating rate.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The geologic record provides us with abundant evidence for such perpetual natural climate variability, from icecaps reaching almost to the equator to none at all, even at the poles.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Different areas of science are understood with varying degrees of certainty.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Observed sea levels are actually tracking at the upper range of the IPCC projections.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"The IPCC also made false predictions on the Amazon rain forests, referenced to a non peer-reviewed paper produced by an advocacy group working with the WWF.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The IPCC statement on Amazon rain forests is correct.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

On a world scale coral reefs are in decline.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Over the last 30-40 years 80% of coral in the Caribbean have been destroyed and 50% in Indonesia and the Pacific.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

If the CO2 effect was saturated, adding more CO2 should add no additional greenhouse effect.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

While methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, there is over 200 times more CO2 in the atmosphere.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

...Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The final amount of extra CO2 that remains in the atmosphere stays there on a time scale of centuries.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

[T]he overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies [find] that CO2 in the atmosphere remained there a short time.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

CO2 levels are measured by hundreds of stations scattered across 66 countries which all report the same rising trend.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"The Keeling curve, which is widely used to show the increase in CO2 emissions, is based on data from the top of Mount Mauna Loa in Hawaii.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"...the largest of all the positive or temperature-amplifying feedbacks in the UN’s arsenal is the water-vapor feedback.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Neptune's orbit is 164 years so observations (1950 to present day) span less than a third of a Neptunian year.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"A new storm and a new red spot on Jupiter hints at climate change, USA TODAY and dozens of other sources explained yesterday.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Jupiter's climate change is due to shifts in internal turbulence fueled from an internal heat source - the planet radiates twice as much energy as it receives from the sun.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"Mike's Nature trick" has nothing to do with "hide the decline", instead refering to a technique by Michael Mann to plot instrumental temperature along with past reconstructions.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The decline in tree-ring growth is openly discussed in papers and IPCC reports.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The divergence of tree-ring proxies from temperatures after 1960 is openly discussed in the peer-reviewed literature and the last two IPCC assessment reports.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Currently, humans are emitting around 29 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per year.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Warming causes more moisture in the air which leads to more extreme precipitation events.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Far from contradicting global warming, record snowfall is predicted by climate models and consistent with our expectation of more extreme precipitation events.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Measurements of carbon isotopes and falling oxygen in the atmosphere show that rising carbon dioxide is due to the burning of fossil fuels and cannot be coming from the ocean.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Pluto's climate change over the last 14 years is likely a seasonal event.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

There are a myriad of other radiative forcings that affect the planet's energy imbalance.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Volcanoes, solar variations, clouds, methane, aerosols - these all change the way energy enters and/or leaves our climate.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The full data for latitudes 64-90°N reveal the Arctic is warmer today than in 1940.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

When you account for the effects which are not reflected in the market price of fossil fuels, like air pollution and health impacts, the true cost of coal and other fossil fuels is higher than the cost of most renewable energy technologies.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The result did suggest the sea level was increasing in the western Pacific, but this was offset by a drop in the level near the Alaskan coast.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

A number of independent studies using near-global satellite data find positive feedback and high climate sensitivity.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

It appears, for the entire tropics, the observed outgoing radiation fluxes increase with the increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs).

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

When you read Phil Jones' actual words, you see he's saying there is a warming trend

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Dropped stations show more warming than kept stations.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

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.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

However, studies have determined that current technology is sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the necessary amount, and that we can do so without significant impact on the economy.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

Global warming is an increasingly urgent problem.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The long term trend from albedo is of cooling.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

"Earth’s Albedo has risen in the past few years, and by doing reconstructions of the past albedo, it appears that there was a significant reduction in Earth’s albedo leading up to a lull in 1997.

SUPPORTS

fact

human

climate

The most interesting thing here is that the albedo forcings, in watts/sq meter seem to be fairly large.

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The long term trend from albedo is that of cooling.

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Europe and Asia emit most of the soot from burning coal, wood, dung, and diesel in open fires or without particulate filters in stoves, chimneys, smokestacks, and exhaust pipes.

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'On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified before the House of Representatives that there was a strong "cause and effect relationship" between observed temperatures and human emissions into the atmosphere.

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