A huge peat swap is burnt in Indonesia © WWF Indonesia / Samsul Koma. A large coal power station in the UK with barbed wire in the foreground © Global Warming Images / WW. Untitled. Image result for global warmin. Earth 'just decades away from global warming tipping point which threatens future of humanity' Global Warming Made 2018 Temps Historically Hot. Global temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest on record, US government scientists have confirmed, adding to a stretch of five years that are now collectively the hottest period since modern measurements began.
The world in 2018 was 1.5F (0.83C) warmer than the average set between 1951 and 1980, said Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa). This means 2018’s average global temperatures were the fourth warmest since 1880, placing it behind 2016, 2017 and 2015. This follows a broader pattern of human-induced climate change, which is boosting increasingly punishing heatwaves, sea level rises and extreme weather. Last year saw a pair of devastating hurricanes hit the eastern US, while record wildfires ravaged California. There was disastrous flooding in India, a huge typhoon in the Philippines and deadly wildfires in Greece and Sweden. Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise was mitigated by snowfall. By Maria-José Viñas, NASA’s Earth Science News Team A new NASA-led study has determined that an increase in snowfall accumulation over Antarctica during the 20th century mitigated sea level rise by 0.4 inches.
However, Antarctica’s additional ice mass gained from snowfall makes up for just about a third of its current ice loss. “Our findings don’t mean that Antarctica is growing; it’s still losing mass, even with the extra snowfall,” said Brooke Medley, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published in Nature Climate Change on Dec. 10. Union of Concerned Scientists. Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change. Causes. › en español Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Long-lived gases that remain semi-permanently in the atmosphere and do not respond physically or chemically to changes in temperature are described as "forcing" climate change. Gases, such as water vapor, which respond physically or chemically to changes in temperature are seen as "feedbacks.
" Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect include: ISWA: In Defense of Science – Global Warming is Not an Opinion « Opinion. As the now famous young Ms Greta Thunberg from Sweden said in Katowice, Poland, -“You’re never too small to make a difference!”
Science is establishing facts through investigations and research. It aims to advance our understanding of causes and effects and the nature of reality. So, let’s start with what we know. Fact 1: 97% or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are due to human activities. Fact 2: 2018 was a year full of floods, heatwaves and wildfires that are related with the on-going global warming.
Scientists Agree: Global Warming is Happening and Humans are the Primary Cause. Human fingerprintsImage: IPCC AR5 The evidence is overwhelming.
Record-breaking temperatures, humidity, and sea level rise, along with many other indicators, show that the Earth is warming fast, and that all the heat-trapping emissions we release into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels is changing our climate. - The Washington Post. How the Weather Gets Weaponized in Climate Change Messaging. It’s time to be scientific about global warming, says climatologist Judith Curry. We’ve all come across the images of polar bears drifting on ice floes: emblematic victims of the global warming that’s melting the polar ice caps, symbols of the threat to the earth posed by our ceaseless energy production—above all, the carbon dioxide that factories and automobiles emit.
We hear louder and louder demands to impose limits, to change our wasteful ways, so as to save not only the bears but also the planet and ourselves. In political discourse and in the media, major storms and floods typically get presented as signs of impending doom, accompanied by invocations to the environment and calls to respect Mother Nature. Only catastrophes seem to grab our attention, though, and it’s rarely mentioned that warming would also bring some benefits, such as expanded production of grains in previously frozen regions of Canada and Russia. Nor do we hear that people die more often of cold weather than of hot weather. Global Warming and Its Effects. Global Warming Issue Unites World Opinion. Guest Opinion: Global Warming Twenty Years Later. Tipping Points Near Today, I will testify to Congress about global warming, 20 years after my June 23, 1988 testimony, which alerted the public that global warming was under way.
There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference. Again a wide gap has developed between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known by policymakers and the public. Now, as then, frank assessment of scientific data yields conclusions that are shocking to the body politic. Now, as then, I can assert that these conclusions have a certainty exceeding 99 percent. World Opinion on the Environment. More on: Global Energy and Climate Policy Polls and Public Opinion This page is part of Public Opinion on Global Issues.
Public Opinion on Global Warming, Environment and Energy. Section 7: Global Warming, Environment and Energy Opinions about the environment and energy sharply divide the typology groups, with the two predominantly Republican groups – Steadfast Conservatives and Business Conservatives – standing out for their skepticism of global warming and relatively low support for environmental protection.
The other typology groups generally express pro-environmental views, and majorities in these groups say the average temperature on Earth has increased over the past few decades. However, most typology groups also favor building the Keystone XL pipeline, with the notable exception of Solid Liberals. Quora.