Posted on 02/25/2019 10:29:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
OSLO - Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on Monday.
“Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals,” the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.
They said confidence that human activities were raising the heat at the Earth’s surface had reached a “five-sigma” level, a statistical gauge meaning there is only a one-in-a-million chance that the signal would appear if there was no warming.
Such a “gold standard” was applied in 2012, for instance, to confirm the discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe.
Benjamin Santer, lead author of Monday’s study at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said he hoped the findings would win over skeptics and spur action.
“The narrative out there that scientists don’t know the cause of climate change is wrong,” he told Reuters. “We do.”
Mainstream scientists say the burning of fossil fuels is causing more floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.
U.S. President Donald Trump has often cast doubt on global warming and plans to pull out of the 197-nation Paris climate agreement which seeks to end the fossil fuel era this century by shifting to cleaner energies such as wind and solar power.
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Ahhhhh.
Not the “Bronze” level of evidence, or even a “Silver” level of evidence.
The “Gold” level of evidence.
Well, then, we should all buy into it then. Who would deny the validity of a “gold standard” of evidence????
They need to be more concerned about how hot it will be in the afterlife if they don’t believe in Jesus. That is something they personally can do something about with good results.
Went to the link and read the article. Was disappointed that the evidence touted in the headline wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the article.
Why> I’m waiting for PLATINUM!!
Cue the top 100 failed GW predictions.
Why is it NOT ever discussed or thrown out there, even by our side?
It’s great ammo.
I guess they would just say, “it’s coming a little later than expected but it’s coming!!”
These scientists are at the chicken poop stage for viable brain activity
There’s a gold standard that debt will destroy a nation. I don’t see Leftists as excited about that, however.
Whatever. The issue always has been that the “cure” is worse than the “disease”. If these clowns want to propose some real solutions instead of warmed-up communism, we can talk.
I still don’t believe the story.
I wonder how much of the books they had to cook to come up with this.
Hard to argue with a 5-Smegma standard...............
Hogwash!
You seriously expected evidence?! Re-education camp for you. /s
Yeah, as I read on I saw that and have now changed my tune. To D sharp.
Then why are all their predictions wrong?
See Post 18. Global Warming Hoax Nobel Prize winner
I guess the next stage will be the “too late” stage, where global warming is destroying plants and animals and the poles are completely melting and the sea levels have risen 100 feet around the whole world and every person on Earth is getting fried or is suffocating from the poisoned and heated air.
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