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The answer lies in the summer’s record-breaking heat, say wildfire experts. | A combination of the smoke from the fires, producing heavy smog blanketing large urban regions and the record-breaking heat wave put stress on the Russian healthcare system. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The science is clear, climate change is making extreme weather events, including tornadoes, worse. | The main impact of global warming on the weather is an increase in extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, cyclones, blizzards and rainstorms. | SUPPORTS |
They can now model how likely a specific event would be to occur under historical conditions, compared to the record temperatures we’re experiencing. | The authors used computational models developed by NCAR to simulate the climatic effects of a soot cloud that they suggest would be a result, of a regional nuclear war in which 100 "small" (15 Kt) weapons are detonated over cities. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
In the past, warming has never been a threat to life on Earth. | If such an event were to occur oriented towards the Earth, the massive amounts of gamma radiation could significantly affect the Earth's atmosphere and pose an existential threat to all life. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
while it’s true that studies in some regions show polar bears are lighter in weight than they were in the 1980s, there is no evidence that more individuals are starving to death or becoming too thin to reproduce because of less summer ice. | In Alaska, the effects of sea ice shrinkage have contributed to higher mortality rates in polar bear cubs, and have led to changes in the denning locations of pregnant females. | REFUTES |
Postma disproved the greenhouse effect. | Simultaneously, the clouds enhance the greenhouse effect, warming the planet. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
However, more direct comparisons between solar activity and global temperature finds that as the sun grew hotter or cooler, Earth's climate followed it with a 10 year lag - presumably due to the dampening effect of the ocean. | (2009) found that the evidence showed that connections between solar variation and climate were more likely to be mediated by direct variation of insolation rather than cosmic rays, and concluded: "Hence within our assumptions, the effect of varying solar activity, either by direct solar irradiance or by varying cosmic ray rates, must be less than 0.07 °C since 1956, i.e. | REFUTES |
Bill Nye proposed penalizing families with too many children to reduce population growth and slow climate change. | Higher taxation of parents who have too many children Contraception Abstinence Reducing infant mortality so that parents do not need to have many children to ensure at least some survive to adulthood. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet | Additional fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic during a warming cycle may also reduce the global ocean water circulation. | SUPPORTS |
Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate | Currently, through land development, combustion of fossil fuels, and pollution, humans are thought to be the main contributor to global climate change. | REFUTES |
But gravity measurements of ice-mass loss are complicated by glacial isostatic adjustments—compensation for the rise or fall of the underlying crustal material. | However, glacial isostatic adjustment of the ice sheets affect ground deformation and the gravity field today. | SUPPORTS |
Forget what global warming activists would lead you to believe—2015 was not even close to the hottest year on record. | He tells Friedman that "you've got to recognize [that global warming] is going to be one of the most significant long-term challenges, if not the most significant long-term challenge, that this country faces and that the planet faces. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The world has entered a 'cold mode' which is likely to bring a global dip in temperatures which will last for 20 to 30 years, they say. | They say that even if all the current pledges will be accomplished there is a chance for a 4.5 degree temperature rise in decades. | REFUTES |
Ironic' study finds more CO2 has slightly cooled the planet | The higher concentration of CO2 in the Martian thermosphere may explain part of the discrepancy because of the cooling effects of CO2 in high altitude. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
global warming ceased around the end of the twentieth century and was followed (since 1997) by 19 years of stable temperature | The 20th (twentieth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The 'decline' refers to a decline in northern tree-rings, not global temperature, and is openly discussed in papers and the IPCC reports. | Scientific discussion takes place in journal articles that are peer-reviewed, which scientists subject to assessment every couple of years in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural. | Martian geysers (or CO 2 jets) are putative sites of small gas and dust eruptions that occur in the south polar region of Mars during the spring thaw. | SUPPORTS |
The most recent ocean measurements show consistent warming. | The global average and combined land and ocean surface temperature, show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C, in the period 1880 to 2012, based on multiple independently produced datasets. | SUPPORTS |
as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity. | Rice becomes sterile if exposed to temperatures above 35 degrees for more than one hour during flowering and consequently produces no grain. | SUPPORTS |
Because oxygen in the global ocean is not evenly distributed, the 2 percent overall decline means there is a much larger decline in some areas of the ocean than others. | Ozone at middle latitudes has declined, but by a much smaller extent (a decrease of about 4–5 percent). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"...the largest of all the positive or temperature-amplifying feedbacks in the UN’s arsenal is the water-vapor feedback. | The main reinforcing feedbacks are the water vapour feedback, the ice–albedo feedback, and probably the net effect of clouds. | SUPPORTS |
Neither the rate nor the magnitude of the reported late twentieth century surface warming (1979–2000) lay outside normal natural variability. | The short timeframe given makes it more difficult to say whether something is or is not outside the bounds of natural variability. However, thorough analysis in the 2013 IPCC report concluded it was “extremely likely” (a probability of at least 95%) that humans are responsible for more than half of the warming since 1950, and likely all of it. | REFUTES |
Volcanoes, solar variations, clouds, methane, aerosols - these all change the way energy enters and/or leaves our climate. | If this energy balance is shifted, Earth's surface becomes warmer or cooler, leading to a variety of changes in global climate. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain’s experience...reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average | What the programme failed to do, the sharp and prolonged economic crisis has done from 2010 to 2011 in that tens of thousands of immigrants have left the country due to lack of jobs. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“climate economists see a positive externality, not a negative one, from the human influence on climate. | Economists describe environmental impacts as negative externalities. | REFUTES |
2009-2010 winter saw record cold spells. | Overall it was the coldest winter since 1978–79, with a mean temperature of 1.5 °C (34.7 °F). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“CO2 is certainly a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, but hardly the primary one: Water vapor accounts for about 95 percent of greenhouse gases. | The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
About 60% of the warming observed from 1970 to 2000 was very likely caused by this natural 60-year climatic cycle during its warming phase... | This period of warmth ended about 5,500 years ago with the descent into the Neoglacial and concomitant Neopluvial. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Coral bleaching has devastated 93% of the Great Barrier Reef | An overall analysis of coral loss found that coral populations on the Great Barrier Reef had declined by 50.7% from 1985 to 2012, but with only about 10% of that decline attributable to bleaching, and the remaining 90% caused about equally by tropical cyclones and by predation by crown-of-thorns starfishes. | REFUTES |
Final data for 2016 sea level rise have yet to be published. | More precise data gathered from satellite radar measurements reveal an accelerating rise of 7.5 cm (3.0 in) from 1993 to 2017, which is a trend of roughly 30 cm (12 in) per century. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Global warming' and 'climate change' mean different things and have both been used for decades. | Research in the 1950s suggested that temperatures were increasing, and a 1952 newspaper used the term "climate change". | SUPPORTS |
Under the most ambitious scenarios, they found a strong likelihood that Antarctica would remain fairly stable.” | Climate model projections summarized in the report indicated that during the 21st century the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 0.3 to 1.7 °C (0.5 to 3.1 °F) in a moderate scenario, or as much as 2.6 to 4.8 °C (4.7 to 8.6 °F) in an extreme scenario, depending on the rate of future greenhouse gas emissions and on climate feedback effects. | REFUTES |
no one really knows if last year (2016) was a (global temperature) record | Global temperature records were set in 2014, 2015 and then again in 2016, which illustrates the trend toward warmer temperatures on which year-to-year fluctuations are superimposed. | REFUTES |
The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. | In 2015, Obama also announced the Clean Power Plan, which is the final version of regulations originally proposed by the EPA the previous year, and which pertains to carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. | REFUTES |
There is ample evidence that Earth's average temperature has increased in the past 100 years and the decline of mid- and high-latitude glaciers is a major piece of evidence. | An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Climate change is because of El Niño. | El Nino affects the global climate and disrupts normal weather patterns, which as a result can lead to intense storms in some places and droughts in others. | SUPPORTS |
"The observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming... | "Sun's Shifts May Cause Global Warming". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
By 2080, without dramatic reductions in emissions, southern Europe will be in permanent extreme drought, much worse than the American dust bowl ever was. | Another form of severe weather is drought, which is a prolonged period of persistently dry weather (that is, absence of precipitation). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Mother Earth has clearly ruled that CO2 is not a pollutant.' | This made the debate a political one. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Tuvalu sea level isn't rising | Tuvalu is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise the sea level higher than a normal high tide. | REFUTES |
The data is being reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions (Daily Tech). | The IR estimates have rather low skill at short time and space scales, but are available very frequently (15 minutes or more often) from satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“We indicated 23 years ago — in our 1994 Nature article — that climate models had the atmosphere’s sensitivity to CO2 much too high,” Christy said in a statement. | For constant humidity they computed a climate sensitivity of 2.3 °C per doubling of CO2 (which they rounded to 2, the value most often quoted from their work, in the abstract of the paper). | SUPPORTS |
Cold weather to grip world as solar minimum to deepen, NASA says | The coolest layer of the Sun is a temperature minimum region extending to about 500 km above the photosphere, and has a temperature of about 4,100 K. This part of the Sun is cool enough to allow the existence of simple molecules such as carbon monoxide and water, which can be detected via their absorption spectra. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
If the public were aware that man-made CO2 is so incredibly small there would be very little belief in a climate disaster ..." | Gelbspan 1998 p. 3 "But some individuals do not want the public to know about the immediacy and extent of the climate threat. | REFUTES |
an airplane is contributing to the emissions that put the frozen continent at risk. | In November 2017, a statement by 15,364 scientists from 184 countries indicated that increasing levels of greenhouse gases from use of fossil fuels, human population growth, deforestation, and overuse of land for agricultural production, particularly by farming ruminants for meat consumption, are trending in ways that forecast an increase in human misery over coming decades. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Over the coming 25 or 30 years, scientists say, the climate is likely to gradually warm | Most of the climatic warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Their analysis calculates the existential climate-related security risk to Earth through a scenario set 30 years into the future. | Christopher Scotese and his colleagues have mapped out the predicted motions several hundred million years into the future as part of the Paleomap Project. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Helicopters are using chemicals made from fossil fuels to defrost wind turbines; frosted wind turbines are responsible for blackouts in Texas; “the reason your power is/was out is wind energys fault.” | Texas is experiencing extremely cold temperatures due to a current winter storm, causing millions of households to lose power. These power outages are due to multiple fuel types going offline, primarily natural gas. While helicopters can use hot water to de-ice wind turbines, the image in the viral posts is from 2014 of a wind turbine in Sweden. There is no evidence that suggests helicopters are currently using chemicals to de-ice wind turbines in Texas. | REFUTES |
Man-made greenhouse gases play only an insignificant role.” | Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to increased radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs, and nitrous oxide. | REFUTES |
Climate change is due to cosmic rays. | "Cosmic rays blamed for global warming". | SUPPORTS |
"the temperature increase in the second half of the 20th century could have taken place in steps driven by major ENSO events" (Jens Raunsø Jensen) | But, more accurately, global warming is the mainly human-caused increase in global surface temperatures and its projected continuation, while climate change includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes in precipitation. | REFUTES |
there were no ice sheets covering either Greenland or West Antarctica, and much of the East Antarctic ice sheet was gone. | Play media The Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West (or Lesser) Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains which lies in the Western Hemisphere. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Most people expect this year will see a record low in the Arctic’s summer sea-ice cover. | The Arctic sea ice minimum is the day in a given year when Arctic sea ice reaches its smallest extent, occurring at the end of the summer melting season, normally during September. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
(2009) have demonstrated recently – the upper troposphere (the only place where adding CO2 to the atmosphere could make any difference to temperature) is considerably drier than the models are tuned to expect." | At the 500 hPa level, the air temperature averages −7 °C (18 °F) within the tropics, but air in the tropics is normally dry at this height, giving the air room to wet-bulb, or cool as it moistens, to a more favorable temperature that can then support convection. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
We’re not sure because we don’t have enough data, for long enough, to separate signal from noise,” said Eric J. Steig, a scientist at the University of Washington who has studied temperature trends in Antarctica. | One of the paper's authors, Eric Steig of the University of Washington, stated "We now see warming is taking place on all seven of the earth’s continents in accord with what models predict as a response to greenhouse gases." | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Thus rather than a "doomsday" cycle of runaway warming, Mother Earth appears surprisingly tolerant of carbon, decreasing atmospheric levels of water vapor -- a more effective greenhouse gas -- to compensate. | Because water vapor is a greenhouse gas, this results in further warming and so is a "positive feedback" that amplifies the original warming. | REFUTES |
The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. | The warmest year on record is 2012, with a mean temperature of 57.4 °F (14.1 °C). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models and/or surface temperature data sets are wrong. | Globally, most climate models used by the IPCC in preparation of their third assessment in 2007 show a slightly greater warming at the TLT level than at the surface (0.03 °C/decade difference) for 1979–1999 while the GISS trend is +0.161 °C/decade for 1979 to 2012, the lower troposphere trends calculated from satellite data by UAH and RSS are +0.130 °C/decade and +0.206 °C/decade. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“The 58 year net gain of global temperature is zero. We are simply in a cyclical, normal ebb and flow of temperature.” | Clear global warming trends of Earth’s ocean, land, lower and atmosphere have been observed over the past 58 years as well as over longer time periods. Radiosonde data collected from 1958 to 2019 also shows a pattern of warming in the lower atmosphere (troposphere). | REFUTES |
It’s also a sufficiently long period to include several cycles of climate variability. | Another longer-term near-millennial oscillation involves the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, occurring on roughly 1,500-year cycles during the last glacial maximum. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Over the past one million years climate cycles ranging from Ice Ages to warmer periods have been caused by changing levels of energy from the sun, planetary alignments and ocean currents. | The Milankovitch cycles are a set of cyclic variations in characteristics of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Greenhouse gases have been the main contributor of warming since 1970. | Global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 were equivalent to 49 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (using the most recent global warming potentials over 100 years from the AR5 report). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"...there has been no increase in the global average surface temperature for the past 16 years" (Judith Curry and David Rose) | 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. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Ever since 2012, scientists have been debating a complex and frankly explosive idea about how a warming planet will alter our weather — one that, if it’s correct, would have profound implications across the Northern Hemisphere and especially in its middle latitudes | Whether this be due directly to the health, disposition or constitution of our globe itself, or to the weather from without, as the new glacial cosmogony would teach us, must remain a question for experts to debate, if not settle. | SUPPORTS |
climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’. | The 2017 United States-published National Climate Assessment notes that "climate models may still be underestimating or missing relevant feedback processes". | SUPPORTS |
Forget what global warming activists would lead you to believe—2015 was not even close to the hottest year on record. | He learns that "Earth could warm by more than 9 degrees F (5 degrees C) by 2100 if we don’t aggressively reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases", and that more frequent heat waves and droughts will contribute to food shortages, which can lead to greater conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
No known natural forcing fits the fingerprints of observed warming except anthropogenic greenhouse gases. | Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to increased radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs, and nitrous oxide. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
From 1970 until 1998 there was a warming period that raised temperatures by about 0.7 F that helped spawn the global warming alarmist movement. | The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum was an approximate 200,000 year long event where the global average temperature rose by some 5 to 8 °C (9 to 14 °F), and mid-latitude and polar areas may have exceeded modern tropical temperatures of 24–29 °C (75–84 °F). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Global warming theory holds that one of the fingerprints of human-induced global warming is more rapid warming in the lower troposphere than at the surface (James Taylor) | Observations from weather balloons, satellites, and surface thermometers seemed to show the opposite behaviour (more rapid warming of the surface than the troposphere). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Australia has more solar coverage than any other continent. | This low temperature was maintained by the high albedo of the ice sheets, which reflected most incoming solar energy into space. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Scientists retracted claim that sea levels are rising. | rising sea levels, shrinking Arctic sea ice). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. | European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2007 issued a formal declaration on climate change titled Let's Be Honest: Human activity is most likely responsible for climate warming. | SUPPORTS |
Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s | Emissions in Russia and Ukraine have decreased fastest since 1990 due to economic restructuring in these countries. | SUPPORTS |
Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle. | As well as the regular seasonal cycle there has been an underlying trend of declining sea ice in the Arctic in recent decades. | REFUTES |
Globally averaged thermometers show two periods of warming since 1900: a half-degree from natural causes in the first half of the 20th century, before there was an increase in industrial carbon dioxide that was enough to produce it, and another half-degree in the last quarter of the century. | One argument is that of global warming occurring due to human-caused emission of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
When CO2 levels were higher in the past, solar levels were also lower. | At times during the paleoclimate, carbon dioxide levels were two or three times greater than today. | SUPPORTS |
Antarctica is too cold to lose ice. | This ice sheet is constantly gaining ice from snowfall and losing ice through outflow to the sea. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Species that have a lot of plasticity tend to be generalists. | phenotypic plasticity, multiple life-cycle stages). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
[NASA] has been adjusting temperatures from the past[...] | The 1720–1800 period is most suitable to be defined as preindustrial in physical terms ... | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Postma disproved the greenhouse effect. | It was demonstrated experimentally (R. W. Wood, 1909) that a (not heated) "greenhouse" with a cover of rock salt (which is transparent to infrared) heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“suggest that residents are fleeing atolls swiftly sinking into the sea. | "Exiled by nuclear testing, rising seas force Bikinians to flee again". | SUPPORTS |
As president, Obama will immediately close the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, which experts say funneled floodwater into New Orleans. | The Mississippi River was shut to all ship traffic between the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans on August 30. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“With a record El Niño, we should have experienced record high temperatures. | Over the southern part of the continent, warmer than average temperatures can be recorded as weather systems are more mobile and fewer blocking areas of high pressure occur. | SUPPORTS |
Postma's model contains many simple errors; in no way does Postma undermine the existence or necessity of the greenhouse effect. | In the 25 papers with quantitative comparisons, complexity increased forecast errors by an average of 27 percent. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. | In a NASA report published in January 2013, Hansen and Sato noted "the 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing." | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Benny Peiser conducted a search of peer-reviewed literature on the ISI Web of Science database between 1993 and 2003. | Three volumes of an annual peer-reviewed journal, Philosophy and Geography, were published by Rowman & Littlefield Press which later became a bi-annual journal published by Carfax publishers. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
They were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records | We’ve got to put a stop to it in order to set a precedent. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The trend has been measured by a network of tidal gauges, many of which have been collecting data for over a century. | "One of the most striking trends – over a century of global-average sea level change". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Consequently, the total amount of Arctic sea ice in 2008 and 2009 are the lowest on record. | The Arctic sea ice September minimum extent (i.e., area with at least 15% sea ice coverage) reached new record lows in 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
One of the main areas of contention is the existence of two strange climate episodes known as The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age. | The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum, or Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region lasting from c. 950 to c. 1250. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
CO2 levels are measured by hundreds of stations across the globe, all reporting the same trend. | There are several surface measurement (including flasks and continuous in situ) networks including NOAA/ERSL, WDCGG, and RAMCES. | SUPPORTS |
The research also revealed how large areas of the polar ice caps could collapse and significant changes to ecosystems could see the Sahara Desert become green and the edges of tropical forests turn into fire-dominated savanna. | If all the ice on the polar ice caps were to melt away, the oceans of the world would rise an estimated 70 m (230 ft). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
While the Medieval Warm Period saw unusually warm temperatures in some regions, globally the planet was cooler than current conditions. | study found warmth exceeding 1961–1990 levels in Southern Greenland and parts of North America during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (defined in the study from 950 to 1250) with warmth in some regions exceeding temperatures of the 1990–2010 period. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“Trees provide a solution to almost all environmental crises were facing. Trees reverse climate change by cleaning carbon from the air.” | Trees can absorb and store carbon, thus mitigating some effects of climate change, but tree planting alone cannot solve climate change because the amount of CO2absorbed by forests is far less than the amount humans emit. As a result, tree planting needs to be complemented with other more effective solutions such as reducing fossil fuel emissions and avoiding deforestation. | REFUTES |
Sea level rise could reach six or seven feet by the year 2100. | If emissions remain very high, the IPCC projects sea level will rise by 52–98 cm (20–39 in). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The influence of the volcano is easily spotted and removed, together with other even more important spurious influences. | In his treatment of elegy, scholars have traced the influence of rhetorical education in his enumeration, in his effects of surprise, and in his transitional devices. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
there has been no systematic increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, | This was associated with a 1.5 °C fall in temperature (determined from oxygen-isotope analysis) and an observed increase in El Niño frequency. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Meanwhile, it will likely to continue to snow in Chicago in the coming days. | On October 29, snow was falling in parts of the state. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Hansen predicted in 1988 the West Side Highway would be underwater in 20 years. | During a senate meeting on June 23, 1988, Hansen reported that he was ninety-nine percent certain the earth was warmer then than it had ever been measured to be, there was a clear cause and effect relationship with the greenhouse effect and lastly that due to global warming, the likelihood of freak weather was steadily increasing. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did | Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block operations at the Athabasca oil sands in Canada. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |