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Warming Has Been Underestimated

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Interesting read below.

...that’s where the good news ends. Because the oceans cover three fifths of the globe, this correction implies that previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than predicted by theory—as much as two orders of magnitude faster—throwing current model projections of sea level rise further in doubt.

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change - Scientific American Blog Network
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As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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So, don't buy any waterfront property.
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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Well well well. Not merely propaganda, but transparently stupid propaganda. There are many many volcanoes under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). Not a word about those. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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I don't see it as putting a nail in any coffin. It sounds like a convoluted argument to explain away the 97% who agree number no longer being in agreement. Field researchers in the arctic have put forth that soot may be a driver there. Field researchers in the antarctic have put forth competing opinions as to the Ross Ice Shelf. One group suggested that it is wind pushing in warm currents driving the melting and another has suggested based on their observations that it is local surface weather. The book, and apparently you as well, believe that whatever the worst case scenario is, that is the one that must be scientifically true and anything not supporting that just needs to be ignored.
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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Cue the deniers.......
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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Scientists have known about global warming since 1896, that's over a hundred years. Seems like they could've been more vocal about it over that time.
 
Jack Hays said:
Well well well. Not merely propaganda, but transparently stupid propaganda. There are many many volcanoes under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). Not a word about those. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
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Can you add that disclaimer to every post. It would be more helpful up front though.
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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Need I say more?

Scientific American Blog Network
 
Jack Hays said:
It's not every time that I'm responding to fake news.
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No, but it is nearly every time that one of your posts can be the poster child for "Nothing to see here folks. Move along."
 
calamity said:
Interesting read below.



As for my opinion, let's put it this way. I certainly never thought that scientists were overestimating the severity of the problem. Scientists are cautious that way. So, that their errors sided on the low side meets my expectations. It also puts another nail in the denier's coffin.
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Let's "correct" the record some more. Maybe we can squeeze more warming out of it and scare everyone.
 
All the wrong on the Right is stunning. First they pick the two worst presidents in history, and then they deny that the ice is melting, even as video shows them that the ice is melting. :doh
 
LowDown said:
Let's "correct" the record some more. Maybe we can squeeze more warming out of it and scare everyone.
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What did you research come up with?
 
Jack Hays said:
Well well well. Not merely propaganda, but transparently stupid propaganda. There are many many volcanoes under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). Not a word about those. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
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Do you think you’re the one who discovered those volcanoes?
 
LowDown said:
Let's "correct" the record some more. Maybe we can squeeze more warming out of it and scare everyone.
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There comes a time when people who have been marching down a false path need to man up and just admit they have been wrong. Now is that time.
 
Jack Hays said:
I think the OP authors studiously ignored them. Naomi Oreskes is integrity-challenged.
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You have no indication volcanoes were ignored.
 
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