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Climate change need not endanger anyone” | The species said to be most at risk for endangerment or extinction are populations that are not of conservation concern. | REFUTES |
Donald Trump signed an executive order naming climate change as a threat "both to the economy and national security." | "LGBTQ Advocates Say Trump's New Executive Order Makes Them Vulnerable to Discrimination". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Last December, the respected journal “Oceanography” published projections (see graphic below) for this rising acidity, measured by falling pH | "Dynamic patterns and ecological impacts of declining ocean pH in a high-resolution multi-year dataset". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
[T]he overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies [find] that CO2 in the atmosphere remained there a short time. | A peer-reviewed research article by Dr. Steven Wing found a significant increase in cancers from 1979–1985 among people who lived within ten miles of TMI; in 2009 Dr. Wing stated that radiation releases during the accident were probably "thousands of times greater" than the NRC's estimates. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded | A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. | SUPPORTS |
New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars. | However, looking at the well-to-wheel efficiency of EVs, their total emissions, while still lower, are closer to an efficient gasoline or diesel in most countries where electricity generation relies on fossil fuels. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Satellite measurements of infrared spectra over the past 40 years observe less energy escaping to space at the wavelengths associated with CO2. | Cosmic-temperature measurements The VLT has detected, for the first time, carbon-monoxide molecules in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Though CRU neglected to provide an exact list of temperature stations, it could not have hid or tampered with data. | The MPs had seen no evidence to support claims that Jones had tampered with data or interfered with the peer-review process. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
So it’s clear now we’re not seeing dangerous global warming, and the climate models are wrong. | Tipping points are "perhaps the most ‘dangerous’ aspect of future climate changes", leading to irreversible impacts on society. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
But experts say the energy transition needs to speed up drastically to head off the worst effects of climate change. | Continuing emissions will increase the likelihood and severity of global effects. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Poorly understood aspects of climate change do not change the fact that a great deal of climate science is well understood. | The statement stresses that the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action, and explicitly endorsed the IPCC consensus. | SUPPORTS |
"The 30 major droughts of the 20th century were likely natural in all respects; and, hence, they are "indicative of what could also happen in the future," as Narisma | Australia could experience more severe droughts and they could become more frequent in the future, a government-commissioned report said on July 6, 2008. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The knock-on consequences affect national security, as the scale of the challenges involved, such as pandemic disease outbreaks, are overwhelming. | A pandemic is an epidemic occurring on a scale which crosses international boundaries, usually affecting a large number of people. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests | "Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Despite recent attempts to paint the United States as a major global polluter, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. is among the cleanest nations on the planet. | Issues that affect water supply in the United States include droughts in the West, water scarcity, pollution, a backlog of investment, concerns about the affordability of water for the poorest, and a rapidly retiring workforce. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The rate of warming according to the data is much slower than the models used by the IPCC | This claim is simply not true—climate models run in the past have accurately predicted the current rate of warming. | REFUTES |
Consequently, the total amount of Arctic sea ice in 2008 and 2009 are the lowest on record. | The effects of global warming in the Arctic include rising temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"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. | The same procedure was also used to represent key information in the instrumental temperature record for comparison with the proxy series, enabling validation of the reconstruction. | 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. | Research published in 2009 found that overall the continent had become warmer since the 1950s, a finding consistent with the influence of man-made climate change: "We can't pin it down, but it certainly is consistent with the influence of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels", said NASA scientist Drew Shindell, another study co-author. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
For that, we have to work on other types of marine organisms so that we clearly understand what took place in the sediment over geological time” | These fossils help scientists to date the core and to understand the depositional environment in which the rock units formed. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“The amount of coral on the Great Barrier Reef is at record high levels”; those claiming the reef is threatened by climate change are alarmists | Numerous scientific studies show a decrease, not an increase, in coral growth over the past decade. International scientific organizations are not ignoring the improvement in coral communities, and acknowledge the influence of periods with low disturbance on the ability of damaged reefs to recover. | REFUTES |
Stress from unusually warm ocean water heated by man-made climate change and the natural El Niño climate pattern caused the die-off. | The 2014–16 El Niño was a warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean that resulted in unusually warm waters developing between the coast of South America and the International Date Line. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
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.’” | Ben Keene, the atlas's editor, commented: "In the last two or three decades, global warming has reduced the size of glaciers throughout the Arctic and earlier this year, news sources confirmed what climate scientists already knew: water, not rock, lay beneath this ice bridge on the east coast of Greenland. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are the dominant influence on climate, in a study just published in the highly-regarded Journal of Geophysical Research. | The scientific consensus as of 2013[update], as stated in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, is that it "is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Once natural influences, in particular the impact of El Niño and La Niña, are removed from the recent termperature record, there is no evidence of a significant change in the human contribution to climate change. | While ‘climate change’ can be due to natural forces or human activity, there is now substantial evidence to indicate that human activity – and specifically increased greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions – is a key factor in the pace and extent of global temperature increases. | SUPPORTS |
“During the sunless winter, a heatwave raised concerns that the polar vortex may be eroding. | The polar vortex Beginning on January 2, 2014, sudden stratospheric warming (SSW)[dubious – discuss] led to the breakdown of the semi-permanent feature across the Arctic known as the polar vortex. | SUPPORTS |
The CERN CLOUD experiment only tested one-third of one out of four requirements necessary to blame global warming on cosmic rays, and two of the other requirements have already failed. | This result does not support the hypothesis that cosmic rays significantly affect climate, although a CERN press release states that neither does it "rule out a role for cosmic radiation" in climate. | SUPPORTS |
When stomata-derived CO2 (red) is compared to ice core-derived CO2 (blue), the stomata generally show much more variability in the atmospheric CO2 level and often show levels much higher than the ice cores. | One study using evidence from stomata of fossilized leaves suggests greater variability, with carbon dioxide mole fractions above 300 ppm during the period seven to ten thousand years ago, though others have argued that these findings more likely reflect calibration or contamination problems rather than actual CO 2 variability. | SUPPORTS |
Humans are small but powerful, and human CO2 emissions are causing global warming. | Cumulative anthropogenic (i.e., human-emitted) emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel use are a major cause of global warming, and give some indication of which countries have contributed most to human-induced climate change. | SUPPORTS |
It shows that ECS is probably between two and 4.5 degrees, possibly as low as 1.5 but not lower, and possibly as high as nine degrees. | The average separation for all users of the application is 5.73 degrees, whereas the maximum degree of separation is 12. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Human activities (mainly greenhouse-gas emissions) are the dominant cause of the rapid warming since the middle 1900s (IPCC, 2013). | Over the last three decades of the twentieth century, gross domestic product per capita and population growth were the main drivers of increases in greenhouse gas emissions. | SUPPORTS |
90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing. | This claim is based on a single study from 2015 which suggests that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing, and ignores dozens of other published studies which contradict these findings. Furthermore, while the East Antarctic Ice Sheet accounts for over 80% of the world’s ice mass, that does not mean it represents 90% of the world’s glaciers. | REFUTES |
“The clothing industry contributes up to 10% of the pollution driving the climate crisis.” | Globally, the fashion industry is estimated to contribute 3 - 10% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, based on scientific studies and reports from the United Nations and charities. The clothing industry has a variety of other environmental impacts, including intensive water use, water pollution through dying and textile production, and pesticide and herbicide pollution through the agricultural production of cotton. Microplastics, which are shed primarily from synthetic textiles during washing, are also polluting the oceans, potentially negatively impacting human health and natural ecosystems. | SUPPORTS |
California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. | There is no connection between the management of Californias surface water supply and wildfires. There is no restriction on the use of water to fight fires, and the dryness of wildlands depends solely on weather, as they are not irrigated. | REFUTES |
The global dimming trend reversed around 1990 - 15 years after the global warming trend began in the mid 1970's. | A 2007 NASA sponsored satellite-based study sheds light on the puzzling observations by other scientists that the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface had been steadily declining in recent decades, began to reverse around 1990. | SUPPORTS |
At least close to the new spot and to the equator, nothing less than global warming is expected" | The water reacts by radiating, also in the infrared, both upward and downward, and the downward longwave radiation results in increased warming at the surface. | 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. | The issues with tree rings had not been hidden, but were extensively discussed in scientific literature and in IPCC reports. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman Calls Global Warming a Hoax | The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980, by television meteorologist John Coleman (who, at the time of the channel's founding, had formerly served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Climate change is due to cosmic rays. | The primary goal is to understand the influence of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) on aerosols and clouds, and their implications for climate. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life. | Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate direct current electricity. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius. | "The overall risks of climate change impacts can be reduced by limiting the rate and magnitude of climate change" Without new policies to mitigate climate change, projections suggest an increase in global mean temperature in 2100 of 3.7 to 4.8 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels (median values; the range is 2.5 to 7.8 °C including climate uncertainty). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Plant stomata show higher and more variable CO2 levels. | Rates of leaf photosynthesis were shown to increase by 30–50% in C3 plants, and 10–25% in C4 under doubled CO2 levels. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Donald Trump claims Global Warming is a hoax | Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has said that "climate change is a hoax invented by and for Chinese." | SUPPORTS |
This could mean the landmark Paris Climate Agreement – which seeks to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels – may not be enough to ward off catastrophe. | In 2015 all UN countries negotiated the Paris Agreement, which aims to keep climate change well below 2 °C. | SUPPORTS |
Currently, sea-level rise does not seem to depend on ocean temperature, and certainly not on CO2. | 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. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"The observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming... | There is evidence from one study that Antarctica is warming as a result of human carbon dioxide emissions, but this remains ambiguous. | SUPPORTS |
The public understand it, in that if you get a fall evening or spring evening and the sky is clear the heat will escape and the temperature will drop and you get frost. | This will then radiate heat into the building in the evening. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The human contribution to global warming was about 0.01°C. | Human-caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8 °C (1.5 °F) over the past 140 years. | REFUTES |
CO2 is not powerful in that sense, the only thing it does in the system is make the planet greener. | Captain Pollution is weakened when he is in contact with pure elements such as clean water or sunlight, while he gains power from contact with pollutants, being able to absorb pollutant and emit radioactive rays (and is later shown to gain limitless power when in contact with pollutants after his resurrection). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
[CO2] is also a greenhouse gas which helps maintain earth at a habitable temperature. | The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3). | SUPPORTS |
"Britain's big freeze is the start of a worldwide trend towards colder weather that seriously challenges global warming theories, eminent scientists claimed yesterday. | His findings appeared to contradict global warming — the global temperature had been generally rising since the 70s. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
While transient weather variability is playing a key role here, the widespread record warmth across the U.S. so far this year is part of a long-term trend toward more warm temperature records versus cold ones. | While record-breaking years attract considerable public interest, individual years are less significant than the overall trend. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
"The solubility of carbon dioxide in water is listed in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as a declining function of temperature. ... | Often, the smaller the gas molecule (and the lower the gas solubility in water), the lower the temperature of the maximum of the Henry's law constant. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“Unlike genuine pollutants, carbon dioxide (CO2) is an odorless, colorless gas. | Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, but highly toxic. | REFUTES |
About 120,000 years ago, before the last ice age, the planet went through a natural warm period, with temperatures similar to those expected in coming decades. | The last cold episode of the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
A generous estimate of the energy generated by satellites is around 1 million times too small to cause global warming. | The radiative forcing capacity (RF) is the amount of energy per unit area, per unit time, absorbed by the greenhouse gas, that would otherwise be lost to space. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
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) | Also, a report by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research stated that around three million years ago, levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere were similar to today’s levels which increased temperature by two to three degrees Celsius and melted one third of Antarctica’s ice sheets. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
But as that upper layer warms up, the oxygen-rich waters are less likely to mix down into cooler layers of the ocean because the warm waters are less dense and do not sink as readily. | If high latitude waters are warmer than 5 °C (41 °F), their density is too low for them to sink below the cooler deep waters. | SUPPORTS |
Global warming is causing more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes. | As the Earth's climate warms, we are seeing many changes: stronger, more destructive hurricanes; heavier rainfall; more disastrous flooding; more areas of the world experiencing severe drought; and more heat waves." | SUPPORTS |
Modellers assume carbon dioxide drives climate change | "Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet. | Since the Industrial Revolution anthropogenic emissions – primarily from use of fossil fuels and deforestation – have rapidly increased its concentration in the atmosphere, leading to global warming. | REFUTES |
Donald Trump "thinks that climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese." | In 2012, Donald Trump claimed that "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." | SUPPORTS |
The panel was forced to retract a statement in its 2007 report saying all Himalayan glaciers could melt entirely by 2035. | A paragraph in the 938-page 2007 Working Group II report (WGII) included a projection that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. | SUPPORTS |
Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. | From 1979–1996, the average per decade decline in entire ice coverage was a 2.2% decline in ice extent and a 3% decline in ice area. | REFUTES |
“Even if we meet the Paris goals of two degrees warming, cities like Karachi and Kolkata will become close to uninhabitable, annually encountering deadly heat waves like those that crippled them in 2015. | While the summers are hot and humid, cool sea breezes typically provide relief during hot summer months, though Karachi is prone to deadly heat waves, though a text-message based early warning system is now in place that helped prevent any fatalities during an unusually strong heatwave in October 2017. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
They concluded that trends toward rising climate damages were mainly due to increased population and economic activity in the path of storms, that it was not currently possible to determine the portion of damages attributable to greenhouse gases, and that they didn’t expect that situation to change in the near future. | It said that Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age. | The fact that past changes in Antarctic sea ice extent can help explain natural ice age swings of atmospheric carbon dioxide does not mean that this process is capable of reversing modern human-caused warming. | REFUTES |
So it’s been a surprise to climate scientists that 2017 has been so remarkably warm — because the last El Niño ended a year ago. | About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool to become unusually large in summer. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
They tell us that we are the primary forces controlling earth temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels and releasing their carbon dioxide. | At present, the primary source of CO 2 emissions is the burning of coal, natural gas, and petroleum for electricity and heat. | SUPPORTS |
“The Lancet researchers found that about 0.5%—half a percent—of all deaths are associated with heat, not only from acute problems like heat stroke, but also increased mortality from cardiac events and dehydration. | The risk of death is less than 5% in those with exercise-induced heat stroke and as high as 65% in those with non-exercise induced cases. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The report, published in the journal Nature Geoscience on September 18, acknowledges that most of the models of warming trends failed to predict the ‘slowdown’ in warming post-2000, resulting in less pronounced warming than predicted and thus more room in the CO2 ‘emissions budget’ for the coming decades. | The 2017 United States-published National Climate Assessment notes that "climate models may still be underestimating or missing relevant feedback processes". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Fundamental physics and global climate models both make testable predictions as to how the global climate should change in response to anthropogenic warming. | These predictions can be tested at a later time, and if they are incorrect, this may lead to revision, invalidation, or rejection of the theory. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Excess CO2 from human emissions has a long residence time of over 100 years | Aside from water vapor, which has a residence time of about nine days, major greenhouse gases are well mixed and take many years to leave the atmosphere. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The heaviest precipitation events will become more frequent and more extreme. | The heaviest precipitation occurs during the autumn months, although more frequent rainy spells occur in winter. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Forward projections of solar cyclicity imply the next few decades may be marked by global cooling rather than warming, despite continuing CO2 emissions. | Avoiding this future warming will require a large and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Methane is the only cause of climate change. | Scientists have determined that the major factors causing the current climate change are greenhouse gases, land use changes, and aerosols and soot. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
In fact, the global melt rate has been accelerating since the mid-1970s. | "Antarctica ice melt has accelerated by 280% in the last 4 decades". | SUPPORTS |
for thousands of millions of years the Earth has been changing, with cycles and one-off events such as an asteroid impact, super-volcano or a supernova explosion. | High-latitude regions have since undergone repeated cycles of glaciation and thaw, repeating about every 40,000–100,000 years. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“It seems self-evident that rising sea levels will reduce land area. | Humans impact how much water is stored on land. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
“Forest fires are caused by poor management. Not by climate change.” | Scientific studies demonstrate clear links between climate change, hotter and drier conditions, and an increase in dry vegetative fuel load, drastically increasing the amount of forest fire area in the western US. | REFUTES |
The knock-on consequences affect national security, as the scale of the challenges involved, such as pandemic disease outbreaks, are overwhelming. | For example, Sweden's national security strategy of 2017 declared: "Wider security measures must also now encompass protection against epidemics and infectious diseases, combating terrorism and organised crime, ensuring safe transport and reliable food supplies, protecting against energy supply interruptions, countering devastating climate change, initiatives for peace and global development, and much more." | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions, but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions. | It is one of the ways countries can meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon emissions and thereby mitigate global warming. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
When the exact same group of experts who claimed it was global cooling in 1977 now claim its global warming you can easily see why I am skeptical | The 1977 Time magazine cover shown in this image is fake and it is not true that climate science predicted global cooling in the 1970s. | REFUTES |
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) | The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part one) global warming is occurring and (part two) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The atmospheric residency time of carbon dioxide is five years | N2O has a mean atmospheric lifetime of 121 years. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate. | The largest human influence has been the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. | REFUTES |
the first scientists to show that the thick icecap that once covered the Arctic ocean was beginning to thin and shrink. | 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. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The United States has been restricting soot emissions in Draconian fashion since the Clean Air Act of 1963. | The Clean Air Act of 1970 (1970 CAA) authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
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. | The vast majority of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions come from combustion of fossil fuels, principally coal, oil, and natural gas, with additional contributions coming from deforestation, changes in land use, soil erosion and agriculture (including livestock). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Opponents of climate action are getting twice as much airtime as proponents of climate action. | Their stories prominently reported how the world's leading climate scientists declared that atmospheric changes were already causing harm, and might cause much more; the scientists called for vigorous government action to restrict greenhouse gases." | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The corals may save themselves, as many other creatures are attempting to do, by moving toward the poles as the Earth warms, establishing new reefs in cooler water.” | The poleward migration of coral species refers to the phenomenon brought on by rising sea temperatures, wherein corals are colonising cooler climates in an attempt to circumvent coral bleaching, rising sea levels and ocean acidification. | SUPPORTS |
Temperatures in the Arctic have soared recently, and scientists are struggling to explain exactly why. | Various mechanisms have been identified that might explain extreme weather in mid-latitudes from the rapidly warming Arctic, such as the jet stream becoming more erratic. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
Carbon dioxide is not a climate heat driver; we had an ice age when the Earth had extraordinarily larger amounts of carbon dioxide; in the 1970s scientists thought we were going to have a new ice age. | While a few studies in the 1970s speculated about the possibility of global cooling, the majority of the climate research community indicated that future warming would occur. | REFUTES |
The jet stream controls broad weather patterns, such as high-pressure and low-pressure systems. | These types of cyclones are defined as large scale (synoptic) low pressure weather systems that occur in the middle latitudes of the Earth. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
To claim that humidity is decreasing requires you ignore a multitude of independent reanalyses that all show increasing humidity. | As the temperature of a parcel of air decreases it will eventually reach the saturation point without adding or losing water mass. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
This could mean the landmark Paris Climate Agreement – which seeks to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels – may not be enough to ward off catastrophe. | Parties associated with the Accord aim to limit the future increase in global mean temperature to below 2 °C. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
During the 2013 election campaign the Coalition said its first legislative priority in government would be to scrap the carbon tax. | He committed to abolishing the carbon tax, to bring down power and gas prices, and to abolishing the mining tax to increase investment and employment. | SUPPORTS |
Preventing global warming is relatively cheap; business-as-usual will cause accelerating climate damage costs that economists struggle to even estimate. | Global losses reveal rapidly rising costs due to extreme weather-related events since the 1970s. | SUPPORTS |
Scientists just discovered a massive, heretofore unknown, source of nitrogen | The discovery of nitrogen is attributed to the Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772, who called it noxious air. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |
The claim sea level isn’t rising is based on blatantly doctored graphs and conspiracy theories that are contradicted by empirical observational data. | More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO |