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Since the mid-1970s you’ve seen this relentless increase in temperature and that’s totally robust to all the different methodologies.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That would suggest that 2024 would be the record warmest year by quite a large amount.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s clear that people are taking this more seriously than they were a decade ago, but let’s not sugarcoat how big a challenge this is. It’s not a challenge for a week or a year or a decade. It’s going to be the challenge of the century.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What we’re predicting – if we were to burn all the fossil fuels that we can – it could get as warm, by the end of the century, as the Ice Age was cold.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We will see instances of extreme precipitation that will break records or see extreme heat waves that will break records. We will see increased wildfires ; we will see increases in coastal flooding ; we will see increases in sea level ; we will see increased mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica, these are very predictable aspects of the climate.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Global warming is happening, and I always sound like a broken record because we've basically broken the climate, we need to keep tracking what's happening to the planet. And even though it's doing what we expect, it's getting warmer because we've got more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We don't get any satisfaction as scientists from being proven right on this. We would much rather have been wrong.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The last seven years have all been more than 1-degree Celsius above the 19th century -- and that's large enough on a planetary scale to start showing up much, much more clearly in local and regional and extreme events, the global warming is now large enough that it's an indicator of all those other things that we're already seeing. So, we're now seeing global warming quite locally in ways that, a decade ago or maybe 20 years ago, was still unclear.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The impacts of long-term global warming are already being felt - in coastal flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This warming has been driven in large part by increased emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activities.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
2015 was remarkable even in the context of the larger, long-term warming trend.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We would not have seen the record warming without the long-term trend.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's greenhouse gases that are responsible for the majority of the long-term trend.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
It would not surprise me at all that the next year that started off with an El Niño would also have a record high.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
We've got a rising baseline, so we may anticipate further record highs in the years to come.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases, the data shows quite clearly that it's the greenhouse gas trends that are responsible for the majority of the trends.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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