2°C is not known to be a "point of no return", as Jonathan Franzen claims
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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
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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
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Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors [of climate change], but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one.
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Peer-reviewed studies, geologic records, and all the studies have shown that we have actually cooled since the Roman Warming Period, and likely since the Medieval Warming Period.
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the U.S. Climate Reference Network[...] finds there has been no warming for the past 14 years at least
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changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as “warming”[...]. In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet
“This article focuses only on specific lines of evidence that climate models disagree with observations. In doing so, the authors ignore research that helps to reconcile differences between models and observations. The authors do not consider alternate datasets and time periods in which models and observations agree. Models are one tool for understanding climate change; their overall credibility does not hinge on one variable, in one domain, over a specific time period, with respect to a set of imperfect observations.”
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I am talking about the slaughter, death, and starvation of 6 billion people this century—that's what the science predicts.
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I think about all the 194 [countries] that signed onto the Paris accord, the U.S. is the one that's leading the world in reducing emissions
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CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] temperature always changes first, and CO2 follows
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Based on the increase of solar activity during the twentieth century, it should account for between half to two-thirds of all climate change