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Our children and grandchildren will look back on the climate deniers and ask how they could have sacrificed the planet for the sake of cheap fossil fuel energy, when the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of a transition to a low-carbon economy,’ Watson said. | Examples of mitigation include reducing energy demand by increasing energy efficiency, phasing out fossil fuels by switching to low-carbon energy sources, and removing carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere. | 0 |
Benny Peiser conducted a search of peer-reviewed literature on the ISI Web of Science database between 1993 and 2003. | Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. | 1 |
The jet stream controls broad weather patterns, such as high-pressure and low-pressure systems. | These reactions are exothermic and occur naturally (e.g., the weathering of rock over geologic time periods). | 1 |
Polar bears are in danger of extinction as well as many other species. | "Rising sea levels threaten small Pacific island nations". | 1 |
more than 100 per cent of the warming over the past century is due to human actions. | Increasing acidity is thought to have a range of potentially harmful consequences for marine organisms such as depressing metabolic rates and immune responses in some organisms and causing coral bleaching. | 1 |
As it happens, the writer of that October 2009 e-mail—Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the warmist bible, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report—told Congress two years ago that evidence for manmade warming is "unequivocal. | There has been significant and ongoing ice volume losses on the largest New Zealand glaciers, including the Tasman, Ivory, Classen, Mueller, Maud, Hooker, Grey, Godley, Ramsay, Murchison, Therma, Volta and Douglas Glaciers. | 1 |
The knock-on consequences affect national security, as the scale of the challenges involved, such as pandemic disease outbreaks, are overwhelming. | A pandemic, or worldwide outbreak of a new influenza virus, could dwarf this impact by overwhelming our health and medical capabilities, potentially resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of hospitalizations, and hundreds of billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs. | 0 |
Donald Trump claims Global Warming is a hoax | Trump is a climate change skeptic, who in 2012 tweeted that he believed the concept of global warming was created by China in order to impair American competitiveness. | 0 |
Venus is not hot because of a runaway greenhouse. | He also perceived global warming as a growing, man-made danger and likened it to the natural development of Venus into a hot, life-hostile planet through a kind of runaway greenhouse effect. | 0 |
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 effects of global warming in the Arctic, or climate change in the Arctic include rising air and water temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet with a related cold temperature anomaly, observed since the 1970s. | 1 |
Climate scientists say that aspects of the case of Hurricane Harvey suggest global warming is making a bad situation worse. | The Gulf of Mexico is known for hurricanes in August, so their incidence alone cannot be attributed to global warming, but the warming climate does influence certain attributes of storms. | 0 |
Marine life has nothing whatsoever to fear from ocean acidification.” | Human activities affect marine life and marine habitats through overfishing, pollution, acidification and the introduction of invasive species. | 0 |
Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995. | Multiple independently produced instrumental datasets confirm that the 2009–2018 decade was 0.93 ± 0.07 °C warmer than the pre-industrial baseline (1850–1900). | 0 |
Arctic sea ice is also falling at an accelerated rate. | The rate of the decline in entire Arctic ice coverage is accelerating. | 0 |
Less than half of published scientists endorse global warming. | The net change is a slight increase in the area of sea ice in the Antarctic seas (unlike the Arctic Ocean, which is showing a much stronger decrease in the area of sea ice). | 1 |
The increase in temperatures since 1975 is a consistent feature of all reconstructions. | published on 10 February 2005 used a wavelet transform technique to reconstruct Northern Hemisphere temperatures over the last 2,000 years, combining low-resolution proxy data such as lake and ocean sediments for century-scale or longer changes, with tree ring proxies only used for annual to decadal resolution. | 0 |
The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites. | Global warming has led to decades of shrinking and thinning of the Arctic sea ice, making it vulnerable to atmospheric anomalies. | 1 |
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. | We'll scrap the carbon tax so your family will be $550 a year better off. | 1 |
When you account for the effects which are not reflected in the market price of fossil fuels, like air pollution and health impacts, the true cost of coal and other fossil fuels is higher than the cost of most renewable energy technologies. | Fossil fuel prices generally are below their actual costs, or their "efficient prices," when economic externalities, such as the costs of air pollution and global climate destruction, are taken into account. | 0 |
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the most widespread bleaching ever recorded | "EPA chief Scott Pruitt says carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming". | 1 |
CERN CLOUD experiment proved cosmic rays are causing global warming. | The extreme loss in 2007 rendered the passage "fully navigable". | 1 |
Satellite transmissions are extremely small and irrelevant. | Each satellite provides three transmission beams that can support 50 channels each, carrying news, music, entertainment, and education, and including a computer multimedia service. | 0 |
Human CO2 is a tiny fraction of CO2 emissions. | Human activities emit about 29 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, while volcanoes emit between 0.2 and 0.3 billion tons. | 0 |
Rising CO2 increases atmospheric water vapor, which makes global warming much worse. | The effects of global warming include rising sea levels, regional changes in precipitation, more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, and expansion of deserts. | 1 |
Temperatures in the Southwest increased by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit (one degree Celsius) from 1901 to 2010, and some climate models forecast a total rise of six degrees or more by the end of this century. | In it was the prediction that on our current course the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees Fahrenheit (or about 3.9 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century. | 0 |
climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’. | In his first paper on the matter, he estimated that global temperature would rise by around 5 to 6 °C (9.0 to 10.8 °F) if the quantity of CO 2 was doubled. | 1 |
Back in the late 1980s, the UN claimed that if global warming were not checked by 2000, rising sea levels would wash entire counties away. | Climate change threatens to diminish crop yields, harming food security, and rising sea levels may flood coastal infrastructure and force the abandonment of many coastal cities. | 0 |
Weather is chaotic because air is light, it has low friction and viscosity, it expands strongly when in contact with hot surfaces and it conducts heat poorly. | A November 2019 study showed that the consensus among research scientists had grown to 100%, based on a review of 11,602 peer-reviewed articles published in the first 7 months of 2019. | 1 |
“We’ve known about [the greenhouse effect] for more than a century. | In 1896, he published the first climate model of its kind, showing that halving of CO 2 could have produced the drop in temperature initiating the ice age. | 0 |
But like most claims regarding global warming, the real effect is small, probably temporary, and most likely due to natural weather patterns | Across the country, the average summer temperatures have increased leading to record-breaking hot weather, with the early summer of 2019 the hottest on record. | 1 |
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. | Other causal or contributing factors to the extinction may have been the Deccan Traps and other volcanic eruptions, climate change, and sea level change. | 1 |
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. | Water that is saltier or cooler will be denser, and will sink in relation to the surrounding water. | 0 |
A longer and warmer growing season also has an effect, Dr. Overpeck said, as plants take up more water, further reducing stream flows. | While summer growing seasons are expanding, winters are getting warmer and shorter, resulting in reduced winter ice cover on bodies of water, earlier ice-out, earlier melt water flows, and earlier spring lake level peaks. | 0 |
“as surface temperatures of the oceans warm up, the immediate response is more water vapor in the atmosphere. | The upper temperature level is given by the soil or water surface of the earth, which absorbs the incoming sun radiation and warms up, evaporating water. | 0 |
Adapting to global warming is cheaper than preventing it | "Geoengineering: How to Cool Earth--At a Price". | 0 |
That humans are causing the rise in atmospheric CO2 is confirmed by multiple isotopic analyses. | Data collected by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia show the current global mean sea level trend to be 3.2 mm (0.13 in) per year, a doubling of the rate during the 20th century. | 1 |
We simply could never release enough CO2 into the atmosphere to cause the pH to go below 7 [the point in the pH scale at which a solution becomes acidic].” | Surfaces in the urban areas tend to warm faster than those of the surrounding rural areas. | 1 |
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. | 0 |
Miami Congressman Carlos "Curbelo supports drilling offshore" and "repeatedly voted against President Obama's ability to fight pollution and combat climate change." | The Miami Herald wrote that Curbelo has "attempted to position himself as the national voice for Republicans who are concerned about climate change," describing him as "one of the few GOP voices speaking out against Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and his desire to dismantle the Env... | 0 |
Alaska Sen. Mark Begich "is on record supporting a carbon tax, even pushing Harry Reid to make it a priority." | Begich has stated that this should not be interpreted as support for a carbon tax. | 0 |
The MWP lasted from about 950 to 1250AD, and temperature records appear to show it was even hotter than today | 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. | 0 |
the total area burned in the western United States over the past 33 years was double the size it would have been without any human-caused warming. | Several studies, including and have compiled box and gravity cores in the North Pacific analyzing them for palynological content to determine the distribution of dinocysts and their relationships with sea surface temperature, salinity, productivity and upwelling. | 1 |
Early 20th century warming is due to several causes, including rising CO2. | There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. | 1 |
The warm and cool regions roughly balance each other out with little impact on global temperature. | The main balancing feedback to global temperature change is radiative cooling to space as infrared radiation, which increases strongly with increasing temperature. | 0 |
The melting in the polar ice caps and in high altitude plains can lead to the dangerous release of methane gas | Potential methane releases from the region, especially through the thawing of permafrost and methane clathrates, may occur. | 0 |
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. | "Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE". | 0 |
When you account for all of the costs associated with burning coal and other fossil fuels, like air pollution and health effects, in reality they are significantly more expensive than most renewable energy sources. | Artificial gasolines and other renewable energy sources currently require more expensive production and processing technologies than conventional petroleum reserves, but may become economically viable in the near future. | 0 |
Volcanoes have been relatively frequent and if anything, have exerted a cooling effect. | It is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases, responsible for 18% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents. | 1 |
If there were [carbon emissions], we could not see because most carbon is black. | Study author Katherine Richardson stresses, "We note that the Earth has never in its history had a quasi-stable state that is around 2 °C warmer than the preindustrial and suggest that there is substantial risk that the system, itself, will ‘want’ to continue warming because of all of these other processes – even if we... | 1 |
“Today climate scientists are obsessed with the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a very very small part of the overall picture. | The world's most important greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide, a by-product of the burning of fossil fuels. | 0 |
The sea was much colder than previously thought, the study suggests, indicating that climate change is advancing at an unprecedented rate” | Researchers have warned that current economic modeling may seriously underestimate the impact of potentially catastrophic climate change and point to the need for new models that give a more accurate picture of potential damages. | 1 |
Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. | The effects of global warming or climate damage include far-reaching and long-lasting changes to the natural environment, to ecosystems and human societies caused directly or indirectly by human emissions of greenhouse gases. | 1 |
UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models and/or surface temperature data sets are wrong | It is "extremely likely" that this warming arises from "human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere. | 1 |
water vapour has been the main greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide has had a minuscule effect on global climate | 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. | 0 |
A recent study led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientist Ben Santer found that while the models ran hot, the ‘overestimation’ was ‘partly due to systematic deficiencies in some of the post-2000 external forcings used in the model simulations.’ | A 2007 study by David Douglass and coworkers, concluded that the 22 most commonly used global climate models used by the IPCC were unable to accurately predict accelerated warming in the troposphere although they did match actual surface warming, concluding "projections of future climate based on these models should be... | 0 |
When accelerating ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica are factored into sea level projections, the estimated sea level rise by 2100 is between 75cm to 2 metres. | For example, in 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected a high end estimate of 60 cm (2 ft) through 2099, but their 2014 report raised the high-end estimate to about 90 cm (3 ft). | 0 |
(In technical lingo, the so-called social cost of carbon would be negative.)” | The deposits showed that climate disturbances reported at that time were due to a volcanic event, the global spread indicating a tropical volcano as the cause. | 1 |
Until last June, most scientists acknowledged that warming reached a peak in the late 1990s | The SPM statement in the IPCC TAR of 2001 had been that it was "likely that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year" in the past 1,000 years. | 0 |
The warming is extremely rapid on the geologic time scale, and no other factor can explain it as well as human emissions of greenhouse gases. | "Warming 'very likely' human-made". | 1 |
While there are direct ways in which CO2 is a pollutant (acidification of the ocean), its primary impact is its greenhouse warming effect. | Increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and ozone have correspondingly strengthened their absorption and emission of infrared radiation, causing the rise in average global temperature since the mid-20th century. | 0 |
The heatwave we now have in Europe is not something that was expected with just 1C of warming | Self-reinforcing feedbacks in the carbon cycle and planetary reflectivity could trigger a cascading set of tipping points that lead the world into a hothouse climate state. | 1 |
The IPCC statement on Amazon rain forests is correct. | The National Research Council's report agreed that there were some statistical failings, but these had little effect on the graph, which was generally correct. | 0 |
Marine life has nothing whatsoever to fear from ocean acidification.” | "Rising levels of acids in seas may endanger marine life, says study". | 0 |
Scientists studying Antarctica sea ice warn a rise in accumulation could spark the next ice age. | 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. | 1 |
Greenland's ice loss is accelerating & will add metres of sea level rise in upcoming centuries. | The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet on sea level over the next couple of centuries can be very high due to a self-reinforcing cycle (a so-called positive feedback). | 0 |
Different areas of science are understood with varying degrees of certainty. | The sharp acceleration in CO 2 emissions since 2000 to more than a 3% increase per year (more than 2 ppm per year) from 1.1% per year during the 1990s is attributable to the lapse of formerly declining trends in carbon intensity of both developing and developed nations. | 1 |
The consequences of climate change become increasingly bad after each additional degree of warming, with the consequences of 2°C being quite damaging and the consequences of 4°C being potentially catastrophic. | Henrik Svensmark has suggested that the magnetic activity of the sun deflects cosmic rays, and that this may influence the generation of cloud condensation nuclei, and thereby have an effect on the climate. | 1 |
climate models have overestimated the amount of global warming and failed to predict what climatologists call the warming ‘hiatus’. | These models predict an upward trend in the surface temperatures, as well as a more rapid increase in temperature at higher latitudes. | 0 |
“So the bottom line of all this is that climate change is natural, not man-made. | "Penetration of human-induced warming into the world's oceans". | 0 |
The amount of heat energy coming out of the Earth is too small to even be worth considering. | Sea ice coverage in the Arctic has shrunk at a much faster rate than it has expanded in the Southern Ocean. | 1 |
The unusual heat was most noteworthy in Europe, which had its warmest April on record, and Australia, which had its second-warmest. | Over the 21st century, the IPCC projects that in a very high emissions scenario the sea level could rise by 61–110 cm. | 1 |
‘Arctic ice conditions have been tracking at record low conditions since October, persisting for six consecutive months’ | However, other research suggests that there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years. | 1 |
There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying[…] droughts | Overall, higher temperatures bring more rain and snowfall, but for some regions droughts and wildfires increase instead. | 0 |
Through decades of research, it has become clear that human civilization, roughly 6,000 years old, developed during an unusually stable period for global sea levels. | Though most of human existence has been sustained by hunting and gathering in band societies, many human societies transitioned to sedentary agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals, thus enabling the growth of civilization. | 0 |
A natural cycle requires a forcing, and no known forcing exists that fits the fingerprints of observed warming - except anthropogenic greenhouse gases. | The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) reaffirmed its position on global warming and "expressed grave concerns that the illegal release of private emails stolen from the University of East Anglia should not cause policy-makers and the public to become confused about the scientific basis of globa... | 1 |
While there has been a mean rise of a little more than 3mm per year worldwide since the 1990s, in the last decade, the NOAA Virginia Key tide gauge just south of Miami Beach has measured a 9mm rise annually.” | While CO 2 absorption and release is always happening as a result of natural processes, the recent rise in CO 2 levels in the atmosphere is known to be mainly due to human (anthropogenic) activity. | 1 |
In one particularly damning email, CRU director Phil Jones said he had used ‘Mike’s Nature trick’ to ‘hide the decline’ in temperatures in the second half of the 20th century. | Many commentators quoted one email in which Phil Jones said that he had used "Mike's Nature trick" in a 1999 graph for the World Meteorological Organization "to hide the decline" in proxy temperatures derived from tree-ring analyses when measured temperatures were actually rising. | 0 |
In other words, we have, trapped in Arctic permafrost, twice as much carbon as is currently wrecking the atmosphere of the planet, all of it scheduled to be released at a date that keeps getting moved up, partially in the form of a gas that multiplies its warming power 86 times over. | Then they begin the long walk from the denning area to the sea ice, where the mother can once again catch seals. | 1 |
‘But even if an organism isn’t directly harmed by acidification it may be affected indirectly through changes in its habitat or changes in the food web.’ | These large-scale alterations in the physical environment are "driving change through all levels of Antarctic marine food webs". | 0 |
The most vulnerable parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet could raise the sea level by 10 to 15 feet, inundating many of the world’s coastal cities, though most scientists think that would take well over a century, or perhaps longer. | It has been hypothesised that this disintegration could raise sea levels by approximately 3.3 metres (11 ft). | 0 |
Global brightening is caused by changes in cloud cover, reflective aerosols and absorbing aerosols. | Solid and liquid particles known as aerosols – from volcanoes, plankton, and human-made pollutants – reflect incoming sunlight, cooling the climate. | 0 |
Lindzen and Choi’s paper is viewed as unacceptably flawed by other climate scientists. | Lindzen and Choi revised their paper and submitted it to PNAS. | 0 |
Hurricane Harvey gave Houston and the surrounding region a $125 billion lesson about the costs of misjudging the potential for floods | Siegfried Fred Singer (born September 27, 1924) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia. | 1 |
The CO2 amplifies the warming and mixes through the atmosphere, spreading warming throughout the planet. | Their first uses were to measure the changes in gravity from the varying densities and distribution of masses inside the earth, from temporal "tidal" variations in the shape and distribution of mass in the oceans, atmosphere and earth. | 1 |
The Arctic’s carbon bomb might be even more potent than we thought […] methane, a shorter-lived but far harder-hitting gas that could cause faster bursts of warming | Melting of this ice may release large quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, causing further warming in a strong positive feedback cycle and marine genus and species to become extinct. | 0 |
[…]You can think of global warming as one type of climate change. | Climate change refers to a broad range of global phenomena ...[which] include the increased temperature trends described by global warming." | 0 |
But Trenberth’s "lack of warming at the moment" has been going on at least a decade. | In January 2013 James Hansen and colleagues published their updated analysis that temperatures had continued at a high level despite strong La Niña conditions, and said 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... | 0 |
But it is part of a long list of studies from independent teams (as this interactive graphic shows), using a variety of methods that take account of critical challenges, all of which conclude that climate models exhibit too much sensitivity to greenhouse gases. | Over several decades of development, models have consistently provided a robust and unambiguous picture of significant climate warming in response to increasing greenhouse gases. | 0 |
The natural cycle adds and removes CO2 to keep a balance; humans add extra CO2 without removing any. | The reason for this is that human activities are adding CO2 to the atmosphere faster than natural processes can remove it (see carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere for a complete explanation). | 0 |
"There is no actual evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming. | There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. | 0 |
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. | In 2008, countries with a Kyoto cap made up less than one-third of annual global carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion. | 1 |
The final amount of extra CO2 that remains in the atmosphere stays there on a time scale of centuries. | Atmospheric CO2 has risen over the last 150 years to current levels of over 390 ppmv, from the 180 – 300 ppmv of the prior 800 thousand years This rise in temperature has reduced the Arctic ice cap to 1,100,000 sq mi (2,800,000 km2),[citation needed] smaller than ever recorded. | 0 |
The news of expanding Antarctic sea ice stole headlines from global warming alarmists who asserted Arctic sea ice had reached its lowest extent since 1979.' | Climate change refers to a broad range of global phenomena ...[which] include the increased temperature trends described by global warming." | 1 |
more than 100 per cent of the warming over the past century is due to human actions. | For example, in 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected a high end estimate of 60 cm (2 ft) through 2099, but their 2014 report raised the high-end estimate to about 90 cm (3 ft). | 1 |
whenever in the past there was an explosion of plant life, the carbon dioxide content was far higher than at present. | Data collected by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia show the current global mean sea level trend to be 3.2 mm (0.13 in) per year, a doubling of the rate during the 20th century. | 1 |
The polar bear population has been growing. | Of the 19 recognized polar bear subpopulations, one is in decline, two are increasing, seven are stable, and nine have insufficient data, as of 2017. | 0 |
It also concludes that current northern hemisphere surface air temperatures are significantly higher than during the peak of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). | Climate change caused by human activities that emit greenhouse gases into the air is expected to affect the frequency of extreme weather events such as drought, extreme temperatures, flooding, high winds, and severe storms. | 1 |
However, satellite and surface measurements observe an enhanced greenhouse effect at the wavelengths that CO2 absorb energy. | While transparent to visible light, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, absorbing and emitting infrared radiation at its two infrared-active vibrational frequencies (see the section "Structure and bonding" above). | 0 |
Over the three years from 1979 to 1982 when CO2 emissions were decreasing due to the rapid increase in the price of oil that drastically reduced consumption, there was no change in the rate of increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 proving that humans were not the primary source for the increase in concentration.... | Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and secondarily the clearing of land, have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, methane, and other heat-trapping ("greenhouse") gases in the atmosphere...There is international scientific consensus that most of the warming o... | 0 |
Scientists confirm a mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year has killed more corals than ever before, with more than two thirds destroyed across large swathes of the biodiverse site. | According to a 2012 study by the National Academy of Science, since 1985, the Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals with two-thirds of the loss occurring from 1998 due to the factors listed before. | 0 |
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