{"id":11316,"date":"2015-08-21T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2015-08-21T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:57:17","slug":"the-latest-science-on-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11316","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Science on Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Latest Science on Global Warming<\/a><\/h3>\n

Because of the prejudiced coverage of the global warming issue that\u2019s common in much of the press, I have decided to present highlights from one of the most comprehensive articles that\u2019s now being considered by one of the world\u2019s top scientific journals on the topic:\u00a0Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics<\/i><\/span><\/a>. This is the latest scientific knowledge on the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n

The paper is titled:\u00a0\u201cIce melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 \u25e6C global warming is highly dangerous,\u201d by J. Hansen et al.<\/span><\/a>(You can read it there.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the article\u2019s full team of authors: J. Hansen, M. Sato, P. Hearty, R. Ruedy, M. Kelley, V. Masson-Delmotte, G. Russell, G. Tselioudis, J. Cao, E. Rignot, I. Velicogna, E. Kandiano, K. von Schuckmann, P. Kharecha, A. N. Legrande, M. Bauer, and K.-W. Lo<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some highlights (the most easily comprehensible statements) from this research article:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Global CO2 emissions continue to increase as fossil fuels remain the primary energy source. The argument is made that it is economically and morally responsible to continue fossil fuel use for the sake of raising living standards, with expectation that humanity can adapt to climate change and find ways to minimize effects via advanced technologies. We suggest that this viewpoint fails to appreciate the nature of the threat posed by ice sheet instability and sea level rise. If the ocean continues to accumulate heat and increase melting of marine-terminating ice shelves of Antarctica and Greenland, a point will be reached at which it is impossible to avoid large scale ice sheet disintegration with sea level rise of at least several meters. The economic and social cost of losing functionality of all coastal cities is practically incalculable. We suggest that a strategic approach relying on adaptation to such consequences is unacceptable to most of humanity, so it is important to understand this threat as soon as possible.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Latest Science on Global Warming Because of the prejudiced coverage of the global warming issue that\u2019s common in much of the press, I have decided to present highlights from one of the most comprehensive articles that\u2019s now being considered by one of the world\u2019s top scientific journals on the topic:\u00a0Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,1004,4394,369,8346,512,5510],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-global-warming","tag-jay-hansen","tag-media","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}