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Who's winning the climate science vs sceptics battle?
http://af.reuters.com/article/en…
While signs of a warming world has been truly global in 2010, from fast-melting Arctic ice to floods in Pakistan and fires in Russia, attitudes about whether this can be blamed on human-generated greenhouse gas emissions differ widely.
In China and the United States, the top two emitters of climate-warming carbon dioxide, residents aren't terribly troubled about the challenge of climate change, while those in most other countries see it as a serious problem.
Most climate scientists point to increasing evidence that climate change is affecting life on Earth. The 10 key planet-wide indicators of a warming climate as identified in July by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are:
- higher temperatures over land
- higher temperatures over oceans
- higher ocean heat content
- higher near-surface air temperatures (temperatures in the troposphere, where Earth's weather occurs)
- higher humidity (moister air can hold more heat)
- higher sea surface temperatures
- higher sea levels
- less sea ice
- less snow cover
- shrinking glaciersTo many of the scientists who look at the data, the fact of global warming is a given and that 2010 is tied for the warmest year on record.
As Peter Thorne of the U.S. Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites put it: "Not a single analysis disagrees that the global climate is changing. The bottom line conclusion that the world's been warming is simply undeniable."
- how the hell does one measure global climate change and relate it to humans, on a global time scale...********
- It's all too dang complicated huh?ukit
- Of course, we sent a man to the Moon, recreated the Big Bang (LHC), cloned a sheep, etc...but measuring changes in climate due to greenhouse effect, that's beyond our capabilities.ukit
- climate due to the greenhouse effect created by pollution, that's beyond our capabilities.ukit
- how the hell does one measure global climate change and relate it to humans, on a global time scale...