All that’s missing is a back-and-forth of "You shut up!" "No, you shut up! That is reserved for those who doubt the need for panic. The answer is if it is about the climate, we just don't know! If it is about pollution, thats a different story and could be true that it - at the end - will kill us!
Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
Well, read the amazing chronology of the last 120 years of messages on climate, it is truly mind-boggling:
CO2 ppm: 294.8
1895 Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again, New York Times 1902 Disappearing Glaciers deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation scientific fact surely disappearing, Los Angeles Times 1912 Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age, New York Times
CO2 ppm: 304.5
1923 Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada, Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Chicago Tribune 1923 Discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years give rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age, Washington Post
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1924 MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age, New York Times 1929 Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer, Los Angeles Times, in; 'Is another ice age coming?'
City Hall, Leiden, Netherlands, 1929. On the night of 11 to 12 February 1929, a security guard discovered that a fire had probably broken out due to the coal heaters that had been fired up because of the cold. The extinguishing work was seriously hampered by the extremely low temperatures of around -15 degrees. The extinguishing water froze when it touched the façade, creating an ice palace.
CO2 ppm: 308.3
What is climate change simple definition?
Ice ages are prominent examples. Climate change is any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region (or the whole Earth) over a significant period of time. Climate change is about abnormal variations to the climate, and the effects of these variations on other parts of the Earth.
1932 If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age, The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World 1933 America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise, New York Times, March 27th, 1933 1933 Wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing? Federal Weather Bureau 'Monthly Weather Review'. 1938 Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power, Royal Meteorological Society 1938 Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise. Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last 20 years Chicago Tribune 1939 Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right. Weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer, Washington Post
CO2 ppm: 312.2
What are the possible effects of climate change?
Examples of climate change include increases in global surface temperature (global warming), changes in rainfall patterns, and changes in the frequency of extreme weather events.
1952 We have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century, New York Times, August 10th, 1962 1954 Winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing, U.S. News and World Report 1954 Climate – 'The Heat May Be Off' – Fortune Magazine 1959 Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures, New York Times
In 1959, a young geologist from Ohio in the USA, Paul T Walker, was on Ward Hunt Island in the high Arctic. It’s the closest Canadian land to the north pole, while the nearest tiny community Grise Fjord, is 800km away to the south. While there he set up a small cairn right at the edge of the glacier with a note inside. In 2010 Warwick Vincent and his team from Laval University in Quebec City,were working at the Laval research station. They discovered the small cairn and the note still inside a bottle inside the cairn. In 1959, the glacier was only 1.2 metres from the glacier edge. This year the Laval University team measured and found it had retreated to 101.5 metres. For me, it was an incredible thing to hold this in my hands, because these two people, these are very famous names,” said Vincent. A hill on Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut, is named after Walker.
CO2 ppm: 324.23
1969 The Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two, New York Times, February 20th, 1969 1969 If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000, Paul Ehrlich
CO2 ppm: 325.54
1970 Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters, the worst may be yet to come, there’s no relief in sight, Washington Post 1974 Global cooling for the past forty years, Time Magazine 1974 Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age, Washington Post 1974 As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed, Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger 1974 The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure, mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence, New York Times Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age 1975 Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable, New York Times 1975 The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind, Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine 1976 Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend, U.S. News and World Report
CO2 ppm: 340.36
Which is the greenhouse gas?
The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
Retreat of the Grinnell Glacier
1981 Global Warming, of an almost unprecedented magnitude, New York Times
Climate Change - Warming Warning - 1981 Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
1988 I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves Jim Hansen June 1988 testimony before Congress, see His later quote and His superior’s objection for context
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1989 On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but – which means that we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This “double ethical bind” we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both. – Stephen Schneider, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Discover Magazine
Margaret Thatcher on Global Warming Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
CO2 ppm: 354.29
1990 We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy, Senator Timothy Wirth 1993 Global climate change may alter temperature and rainfall patterns, many scientists fear, with uncertain consequences for agriculture, U.S. News and World Report 1998 No matter if the science (of global warming) is all phony . . . climate change (provides) the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world, Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald, 1998
CO2 ppm: 371.15
2001 Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible, Time Magazine 2003 Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as synfuels, shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration, Jim Hansen, NASA Global Warming activist, Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb 2006 I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis, Al Gore, Grist magazine, May 2006 2006 It is not a debate over whether the earth has been warming over the past century. The earth is always warming or cooling, at least a few tenths of a degree, Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT 2006 What we have fundamentally forgotten is simple primary school science. Climate always changes. It is always warming or cooling, it’s never stable. And if it were stable, it would actually be interesting scientifically because it would be the first time for four and a half billion years, Philip Stott, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the University of London 2006 Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930’s the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920’s until the 1960’s they warned of global warming. From the 1950’s until the 1970’s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate’s fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years, Senator James Inhofe, Monday, September 25, 2006 2007 I gave a talk recently (on fallacies of global warming) and three members of the Canadian government, the environmental cabinet, came up afterwards and said, ‘We agree with you, but it’s not worth our jobs to say anything.’ So what’s being created is a huge industry with billions of dollars of government money and people’s jobs dependent on it, Dr. Tim Ball, Coast-to-Coast, Feb 6, 2007 2008 Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress, Dr. John S. Theon, retired Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program atNASA, see above for Hansen quotes 2009 Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters. Scientists at a London conference next week will warn of earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic eruptions as the atmosphere heats up and geology is altered. Even Britain could face being struck by tsunamis – “Not only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too,” – Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London, The Guardian, Sep 2009.
CO2 ppm: 389.21
Global Warming Facts Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
2010 What Global Warming Looks Like. It was more than 5°C (about 10°F) warmer than climatology in the eastern European region including Moscow. There was an area in eastern Asia that was similarly unusually hot. The eastern part of the United States was unusually warm, although not to the degree of the hot spots in Eurasia. James Hansen, NASA GISS, August 11, 2010. 2011 Where Did Global Warming Go? In Washington, ‘climate change’ has become a lightning rod, it’s a four-letter word,” said Andrew J. Hoffman, director of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainable Development, New York Times, Oct 15, 2011. 2012 Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists. This is the critical decade. If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines, said Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University’s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London. Reuters, Mar 26, 2012 2013 Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating. The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don’t expect anyone who pointed to last year’s hurricanes as 'proof' of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don’t work that way. New York Post, Dec 5, 2013 2014 Climate change: It’s even worse than we thought. Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer, New Scientist 2015 A big year for climate change. Dizzying highs and stunning lows The hottest January on record, to March, when global carbon dioxide levels hit a million-year high, to December, when nearly 200 nations signed an agreement to minimize global warming, The Guardian 2016 Climate trends continue to break records. The disappearance of Arctic ice is already having a huge impact on the ocean’s ecosystem. In the United States Congress, are still a large number of lawmakers who claim that the warming trend is the product of a global scientific hoax, The New York Times 2017 Artic meltdown, heat and fire around the globe. Heavy monsoon rains during the summer of 2017 resulted in unprecedented flooding in Asia. Earth’s third-ever global coral bleaching event, Climatenexus 2018 Papers start to write about major climate change risks as early as 2040, damaged economies, rising sea levels and the possible near future unbearable hot summers in India, The New York Times. 2019 Human disruption of earth's oceans and ice is 'unprecedented'. Students, people in general worldwide mobilize for climate action. Still scientist try to understand ice ages and the real trigger(s) for climate change especially the impact of humans who maybe have permanently broken the cycle of ice ages. Ice ages are driven by a complex, interconnected set of factors, involving Earth's position in the solar system and more local influences, like carbon dioxide levels, LiveScience
CO2 ppm: 408.58
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All that’s missing is a back-and-forth of "You shut up!" "No, you shut up! That is reserved for those who doubt the need for panic. The answer is if it is about the climate, we just don't know! If it is about pollution, thats a different story and could be true that it - at the end - will kill us!
Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
Well, read the amazing chronology of the last 120 years of messages on climate, it is truly mind-boggling:
CO2 ppm: 294.8
1895 Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again, New York Times 1902 Disappearing Glaciers deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation scientific fact surely disappearing, Los Angeles Times 1912 Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age, New York Times
CO2 ppm: 304.5
1923 Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada, Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Chicago Tribune 1923 Discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years give rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age, Washington Post
Recommended: Global Warming By CO2 Or Cooling By A Grand Solar Minimum
1924 MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age, New York Times 1929 Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer, Los Angeles Times, in; 'Is another ice age coming?'
City Hall, Leiden, Netherlands, 1929. On the night of 11 to 12 February 1929, a security guard discovered that a fire had probably broken out due to the coal heaters that had been fired up because of the cold. The extinguishing work was seriously hampered by the extremely low temperatures of around -15 degrees. The extinguishing water froze when it touched the façade, creating an ice palace.
CO2 ppm: 308.3
What is climate change simple definition?
Ice ages are prominent examples. Climate change is any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region (or the whole Earth) over a significant period of time. Climate change is about abnormal variations to the climate, and the effects of these variations on other parts of the Earth.
1932 If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age, The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World 1933 America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise, New York Times, March 27th, 1933 1933 Wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing? Federal Weather Bureau 'Monthly Weather Review'. 1938 Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power, Royal Meteorological Society 1938 Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise. Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last 20 years Chicago Tribune 1939 Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right. Weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer, Washington Post
CO2 ppm: 312.2
What are the possible effects of climate change?
Examples of climate change include increases in global surface temperature (global warming), changes in rainfall patterns, and changes in the frequency of extreme weather events.
1952 We have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century, New York Times, August 10th, 1962 1954 Winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing, U.S. News and World Report 1954 Climate – 'The Heat May Be Off' – Fortune Magazine 1959 Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures, New York Times
In 1959, a young geologist from Ohio in the USA, Paul T Walker, was on Ward Hunt Island in the high Arctic. It’s the closest Canadian land to the north pole, while the nearest tiny community Grise Fjord, is 800km away to the south. While there he set up a small cairn right at the edge of the glacier with a note inside. In 2010 Warwick Vincent and his team from Laval University in Quebec City,were working at the Laval research station. They discovered the small cairn and the note still inside a bottle inside the cairn. In 1959, the glacier was only 1.2 metres from the glacier edge. This year the Laval University team measured and found it had retreated to 101.5 metres. For me, it was an incredible thing to hold this in my hands, because these two people, these are very famous names,” said Vincent. A hill on Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut, is named after Walker.
CO2 ppm: 324.23
1969 The Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two, New York Times, February 20th, 1969 1969 If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000, Paul Ehrlich
CO2 ppm: 325.54
1970 Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters, the worst may be yet to come, there’s no relief in sight, Washington Post 1974 Global cooling for the past forty years, Time Magazine 1974 Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age, Washington Post 1974 As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed, Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger 1974 The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure, mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence, New York Times Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age 1975 Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable, New York Times 1975 The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind, Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine 1976 Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend, U.S. News and World Report
CO2 ppm: 340.36
Which is the greenhouse gas?
The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
Retreat of the Grinnell Glacier
1981 Global Warming, of an almost unprecedented magnitude, New York Times
Climate Change - Warming Warning - 1981 Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
1988 I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves Jim Hansen June 1988 testimony before Congress, see His later quote and His superior’s objection for context
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1989 On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but – which means that we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This “double ethical bind” we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both. – Stephen Schneider, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Discover Magazine
Margaret Thatcher on Global Warming Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
CO2 ppm: 354.29
1990 We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy, Senator Timothy Wirth 1993 Global climate change may alter temperature and rainfall patterns, many scientists fear, with uncertain consequences for agriculture, U.S. News and World Report 1998 No matter if the science (of global warming) is all phony . . . climate change (provides) the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world, Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald, 1998
CO2 ppm: 371.15
2001 Scientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible, Time Magazine 2003 Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as synfuels, shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration, Jim Hansen, NASA Global Warming activist, Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb 2006 I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis, Al Gore, Grist magazine, May 2006 2006 It is not a debate over whether the earth has been warming over the past century. The earth is always warming or cooling, at least a few tenths of a degree, Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT 2006 What we have fundamentally forgotten is simple primary school science. Climate always changes. It is always warming or cooling, it’s never stable. And if it were stable, it would actually be interesting scientifically because it would be the first time for four and a half billion years, Philip Stott, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the University of London 2006 Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930’s the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920’s until the 1960’s they warned of global warming. From the 1950’s until the 1970’s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate’s fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years, Senator James Inhofe, Monday, September 25, 2006 2007 I gave a talk recently (on fallacies of global warming) and three members of the Canadian government, the environmental cabinet, came up afterwards and said, ‘We agree with you, but it’s not worth our jobs to say anything.’ So what’s being created is a huge industry with billions of dollars of government money and people’s jobs dependent on it, Dr. Tim Ball, Coast-to-Coast, Feb 6, 2007 2008 Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress, Dr. John S. Theon, retired Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program atNASA, see above for Hansen quotes 2009 Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters. Scientists at a London conference next week will warn of earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic eruptions as the atmosphere heats up and geology is altered. Even Britain could face being struck by tsunamis – “Not only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too,” – Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London, The Guardian, Sep 2009.
CO2 ppm: 389.21
Global Warming Facts Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!
2010 What Global Warming Looks Like. It was more than 5°C (about 10°F) warmer than climatology in the eastern European region including Moscow. There was an area in eastern Asia that was similarly unusually hot. The eastern part of the United States was unusually warm, although not to the degree of the hot spots in Eurasia. James Hansen, NASA GISS, August 11, 2010. 2011 Where Did Global Warming Go? In Washington, ‘climate change’ has become a lightning rod, it’s a four-letter word,” said Andrew J. Hoffman, director of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainable Development, New York Times, Oct 15, 2011. 2012 Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists. This is the critical decade. If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines, said Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University’s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London. Reuters, Mar 26, 2012 2013 Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating. The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don’t expect anyone who pointed to last year’s hurricanes as 'proof' of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don’t work that way. New York Post, Dec 5, 2013 2014 Climate change: It’s even worse than we thought. Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer, New Scientist 2015 A big year for climate change. Dizzying highs and stunning lows The hottest January on record, to March, when global carbon dioxide levels hit a million-year high, to December, when nearly 200 nations signed an agreement to minimize global warming, The Guardian 2016 Climate trends continue to break records. The disappearance of Arctic ice is already having a huge impact on the ocean’s ecosystem. In the United States Congress, are still a large number of lawmakers who claim that the warming trend is the product of a global scientific hoax, The New York Times 2017 Artic meltdown, heat and fire around the globe. Heavy monsoon rains during the summer of 2017 resulted in unprecedented flooding in Asia. Earth’s third-ever global coral bleaching event, Climatenexus 2018 Papers start to write about major climate change risks as early as 2040, damaged economies, rising sea levels and the possible near future unbearable hot summers in India, The New York Times. 2019 Human disruption of earth's oceans and ice is 'unprecedented'. Students, people in general worldwide mobilize for climate action. Still scientist try to understand ice ages and the real trigger(s) for climate change especially the impact of humans who maybe have permanently broken the cycle of ice ages. Ice ages are driven by a complex, interconnected set of factors, involving Earth's position in the solar system and more local influences, like carbon dioxide levels, LiveScience
CO2 ppm: 408.58
Before you go!
Recommended: Climate Change Natural Man Made: Causes And Facts
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Global Cooling Will Kills Us All. No, Wait Global Warming Will Kill Us!