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But shrinking snow and ice cover is itself a result of warming, so reduced reflection of solar rays is not the primary cause of
warming.
Rather, it is a feedback that amplifies
warming.
But converting forest to farmland (which is brighter than forest) and adding smog particles to the atmosphere (which reflect sunlight) have increased the reflection of solar radiation, thus tending to offset some of the global
warming
that would otherwise have occurred.
That is one of several reasons why hardly any serious climate scientist doubts that greenhouse gases are the cause of global
warming.
In fact, this
warming
was predicted before it was observed.
There he correctly predicted “that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced
warming
induced by carbon dioxide,” and that “by early in the next century [CO2] will have driven the mean planetary temperature beyond the limits experienced during the last 1,000 years.”
He predicted an overall twentieth-century global
warming
of 0.8 ºC.
Many are lining up to oppose the science of global
warming.
But the laws of physics don’t surrender to opposition: for the past 35 years, global
warming
has unfolded as predicted by science.
(Other countries cannot use as much as the US and Europe have already used, because of global
warming
then exceeding 2oC, the point at which, in the view of most scientists, climate change would become unpredictable and quite possibly catastrophic.)
It will have to take account of its historic responsibility for today’s global warming, of size of population, and of present economic strength.
Images of ScarcityNEW HAVEN – Could the television image we’ve all seen of the Greenland ice cap crumbling into the ocean because of global
warming
somehow – indirectly and psychologically – be partly responsible for high oil and other commodity prices?
We have seen photographs of hurricane and typhoon activity due to global warming, affecting people in Louisiana or Myanmar.
We must mediate the severity of global warming, while simultaneously conserving the resilience of coral reefs.
Historically, the principal agents of reef degradation have been over-fishing and pollution, not global
warming.
Interpreted in light of even the most optimistic global
warming
scenarios, this is disturbing news.
The first is obvious: minimize global
warming
by, say, honoring the Kyoto Treaty's emissions targets.
Living with Climate ChangeROTTERDAM – For anyone still undecided about the consequences of global warming, the summer of 2018, one of the hottest on record, should have tipped the scales.
Moreover, this sizeable investment does remarkably little to counter global
warming.
In the meantime, Germans have paid about $130 billion for a climate-change policy that has no impact on global
warming.
The decision in Doha reaffirms that any new agreement must bolster efforts to meet the UN target of limiting global
warming
to two degrees centigrade.
And public anxiety about employment and living standards has replaced the fears about global
warming
that inspired the 2009 movement.
The path to an international agreement strong enough to keep global
warming
under two degrees will be fraught with obstacles.
The drink-more-water story is curiously similar to how “everyone knows” that global
warming
only makes climate more extreme.
He claims that global
warming
caused the current drought in America’s Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis.
Moreover, there is no way that Krugman could have identified this drought as being caused by global
warming
without a time machine: climate models estimate that such detection will be possible by 2048, at the earliest.
Finally, Krugman conveniently forgets that concerns about global
warming
are the main reason that corn prices have skyrocketed since 2005.
Moreover, he confidently tells us that raging wildfires from New Mexico and Colorado to Siberia are “exactly” what the early stages of global
warming
look like.
When well-meaning campaigners want us to pay attention to global warming, they often end up pitching beyond the facts.
That is unfortunate, because global
warming
is a real problem, and we do need to address it.
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