Climate Change in the Coloradan Mind

[W*GS]

Climate Change in the Coloradan Mind

Highlights:

• Most Coloradans (70%) believe global warming is happening. Relatively few—only 19%— believe it is not.
• Nearly half (48%) believe global warming is caused mostly by human activities.
• Coloradans think global warming is important and are worried about it. Three in four (73%) say the issue of global warming is very or somewhat important to them personally. And six in ten (59%) are at least somewhat worried about it.
• Among those who believe global warming is happening, 70% believe it is currently contributing to increased droughts and decreased snowpack, and 66% believe it is exacerbating wildfires.
• About half of Coloradans (48%) say they have personally experienced global warming’s effects.
• More than half of Coloradans say that more should be done about global warming at all levels of government—from President Obama and Congress, to Governor Hickenlooper and the state legislature, to local government officials. However, even larger numbers of Coloradans believe that corporations and industry (67%) and citizens themselves (66%) should be doing more to address climate change.
• Half of Coloradans (52%) say that switching from fossil fuels to clean energy sources would increase economic growth and the number of jobs.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by W*GS

Climate Change in the Coloradan Mind

Highlights:

• 53% of Coloradans voted to for the Legalization of Marijuana
  
• Most Coloradans (70%) believe global warming is happening. Relatively few—only 19%— believe it is not.
• Nearly half (48%) believe global warming is caused mostly by human activities.
• Coloradans think global warming is important and are worried about it. Three in four (73%) say the issue of global warming is very or somewhat important to them personally. And six in ten (59%) are at least somewhat worried about it.
• Among those who believe global warming is happening, 70% believe it is currently contributing to increased droughts and decreased snowpack, and 66% believe it is exacerbating wildfires.
• About half of Coloradans (48%) say they have personally experienced global warming’s effects.
• More than half of Coloradans say that more should be done about global warming at all levels of government—from President Obama and Congress, to Governor Hickenlooper and the state legislature, to local government officials. However, even larger numbers of Coloradans believe that corporations and industry (67%) and citizens themselves (66%) should be doing more to address climate change.
• Half of Coloradans (52%) say that switching from fossil fuels to clean energy sources would increase economic growth and the number of jobs.

Oops you forgot one!

[Rohirrim]

Anybody who says the climate hasn't changed in Colorado hasn't been around very long. Thirty years ago I could almost set my clock by the weather. I always got tee times for golf at dawn in the Spring because you knew it would wash out by one in the afternoon with the afternoon showers. August would be too hot to golf. Fall would be the best. Perfect temperature. No wind. Now, we're having Spring weather in August. Windstorms in October. And Spring is completely impossible to predict. Not to mention the cloud formations which I've never seen in my life.

[mhgaffney]

New Little Ice Age ‘to Begin in 2014′

http://iceagenow.info/2010/05/new-li...begin-in-2014/

[Arkie]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Anybody who says the climate hasn't changed in Colorado hasn't been around very long. Thirty years ago I could almost set my clock by the weather. I always got tee times for golf at dawn in the Spring because you knew it would wash out by one in the afternoon with the afternoon showers. August would be too hot to golf. Fall would be the best. Perfect temperature. No wind. Now, we're having Spring weather in August. Windstorms in October. And Spring is completely impossible to predict. Not to mention the cloud formations which I've never seen in my life.

The 2013 NFL season has just been delayed 15 minutes due to climate change!

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by Arkie

The 2013 NFL season has just been delayed 15 minutes due to climate change!

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

Oops you forgot one!

We can always count on you to represent the small minority of idiots who are invariably on the wrong side of the issue.

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by mhgaffney

New Little Ice Age ‘to Begin in 2014′

Bull****.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

We can always count on you to represent the small minority of idiots who are invariably on the wrong side of the issue.

What .... you couldn't find a cartoon to make your worthless point ...

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

We can always count on you to represent the small minority of idiots who are invariably on the wrong side of the issue.

You got it, L.A. -- always.

[barryr]

, the Obama supporters can always go back to their usual subjects when things aren't going well for their messiah: gays marriage, abortion, religion, or global warming. Only now looks like it's shifting to being called "Global Cooling" again, so it changes depending on convenience of course

And now it's global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year

• Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
• BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
• Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...edictions.html

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by barryr

, the Obama supporters can always go back to their usual subjects when things aren't going well for their messiah: gays marriage, abortion, religion, or global warming. Only now looks like it's shifting to being called "Global Cooling" again, so it changes depending on convenience of course

David Rose is more faeces than faeces are.

But of course you love him and the stench that accompanies him.

And:

[W*GS]

Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph

Read it and choke, barryr.

[UltimateHoboW/Shotgun]

Except for climate science, then: "fixed ideas", "No peer review", "Select only favourable discoveries", "Sees criticism as 'Conspiracy'", "non-repeatable results", "claims of widespeard usefulness", "Ballpark measurements", are ok.

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by UltimateHoboW/Shotgun

Except for climate science, then: "fixed ideas", "No peer review", "Select only favourable discoveries", "Sees criticism as 'Conspiracy'", "non-repeatable results", "claims of widespeard usefulness", "Ballpark measurements", are ok.

Yeah, right.

Provide evidence that anthropogenic influence isn't necessary to explain the state of, and the trends in, the climate system.

Perhaps you can tell me how Lindzen's claim for very low ECS can be reconciled with the paleoclimate record.

Ideas?

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by UltimateHoboW/Shotgun

Except for climate science, then: "fixed ideas", "No peer review", "Select only favourable discoveries", "Sees criticism as 'Conspiracy'", "non-repeatable results", "claims of widespeard usefulness", "Ballpark measurements", are ok.

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities,1and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources. (NASA, NOAA, Japanese Meteorological Agency, etc.)
http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus


Statement on climate change from 18 scientific associations
"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver." (2009)2

AAAS emblem
American Association for the Advancement of Science
"The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society." (2006)3

ACS emblem
American Chemical Society
"Comprehensive scientific assessments of our current and potential future climates clearly indicate that climate change is real, largely attributable to emissions from human activities, and potentially a very serious problem." (2004)4

AGU emblem
American Geophysical Union
"The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system — including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons — are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained by the increased atmospheric abundances of greenhouse gases and aerosols generated by human activity during the 20th century." (Adopted 2003, revised and reaffirmed 2007)5

AMA emblem
American Medical Association
"Our AMA ... supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant." (2013)6

AMS emblem
American Meteorological Society
"It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human-induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and nitrous oxide." (2012)7

APS emblem
American Physical Society
"The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." (2007)8

GSA emblem
The Geological Society of America
"The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s." (2006; revised 2010)9


SCIENCE ACADEMIES
International academies: Joint statement
"Climate change is real. There will always be uncertainty in understanding a system as complex as the world’s climate. However there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and from phenomena such as increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes to many physical and biological systems. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities (IPCC 2001)." (2005, 11 international science academies)10

USNAS emblem
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
"The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify taking steps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." (2005)11


U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
USGCRP emblem
U.S. Global Change Research Program
"The global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases. Human 'fingerprints' also have been identified in many other aspects of the climate system, including changes in ocean heat content, precipitation, atmospheric moisture, and Arctic sea ice." (2009, 13 U.S. government departments and agencies)12


INTERGOVERNMENTAL BODIES
IPCC emblem
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.”13

“Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely* due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”14

*IPCC defines ‘very likely’ as greater than 90 percent probability of occurrence.


OTHER RESOURCES
List of worldwide scientific organizations
The following page lists the nearly 200 worldwide scientific organizations that hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action.
http://opr.ca.gov/s_listoforganizations.php



Dumbass

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Dumbass

That's an entirely redundant term used in reference to UHW/S.

[Pony Boy]

91 thousand Degrees ……This Woman explains the effects of Global Warming.

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities,1and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources. (NASA, NOAA, Japanese Meteorological Agency, etc.)
http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus


Statement on climate change from 18 scientific associations
"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver." (2009)2

AAAS emblem
American Association for the Advancement of Science
"The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society." (2006)3

ACS emblem
American Chemical Society
"Comprehensive scientific assessments of our current and potential future climates clearly indicate that climate change is real, largely attributable to emissions from human activities, and potentially a very serious problem." (2004)4

AGU emblem
American Geophysical Union
"The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system — including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons — are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained by the increased atmospheric abundances of greenhouse gases and aerosols generated by human activity during the 20th century." (Adopted 2003, revised and reaffirmed 2007)5

AMA emblem
American Medical Association
"Our AMA ... supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant." (2013)6

AMS emblem
American Meteorological Society
"It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human-induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and nitrous oxide." (2012)7

APS emblem
American Physical Society
"The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." (2007)8

GSA emblem
The Geological Society of America
"The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s." (2006; revised 2010)9


SCIENCE ACADEMIES
International academies: Joint statement
"Climate change is real. There will always be uncertainty in understanding a system as complex as the world’s climate. However there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and from phenomena such as increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes to many physical and biological systems. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities (IPCC 2001)." (2005, 11 international science academies)10

USNAS emblem
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
"The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify taking steps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." (2005)11


U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
USGCRP emblem
U.S. Global Change Research Program
"The global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases. Human 'fingerprints' also have been identified in many other aspects of the climate system, including changes in ocean heat content, precipitation, atmospheric moisture, and Arctic sea ice." (2009, 13 U.S. government departments and agencies)12


INTERGOVERNMENTAL BODIES
IPCC emblem
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.”13

“Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely* due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”14

*IPCC defines ‘very likely’ as greater than 90 percent probability of occurrence.


OTHER RESOURCES
List of worldwide scientific organizations
The following page lists the nearly 200 worldwide scientific organizations that hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action.
http://opr.ca.gov/s_listoforganizations.php



Dumbass

To be fair, you did just post the American Medical Association's position statement on Climate Changiness.

Frankly I'm disappointed the American Dental Association hasn't weighed in.

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by BroncoBeavis

To be fair, you did just post the American Medical Association's position statement on Climate Changiness.

Frankly I'm disappointed the American Dental Association hasn't weighed in.

You're a dumbass too.

[W*GS]

Perhaps BroncoBeavis would prefer the position statement of the Geological Society of America - you know, the association to which many petroleum geologists belong.

Position Statement
Decades of scientific research have shown that climate can change from both natural and anthropogenic causes. The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2011), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse-gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s. If current trends continue, the projected increase in global temperature by the end of the twenty-first century will result in significant impacts on humans and other species. Addressing the challenges posed by climate change will require a combination of adaptation to the changes that are likely to occur and global reductions of CO2 emissions from anthropogenic sources.

Purpose
This position statement (1) summarizes the strengthened basis for the conclusion that humans are a major factor responsible for recent global warming; (2) describes the significant effects on humans and ecosystems as greenhouse-gas concentrations and global climate reach projected levels; and (3) provides information for policy decisions guiding mitigation and adaptation strategies designed to address the future impacts of anthropogenic warming.

http://www.geosociety.org/positions/position10.htm

[Rohirrim]

I guess he thinks climate change isn't also a medical issue, or perhaps he thinks doctors aren't scientists? Hard to imagine what goes through a trog's skull.

[Requiem]

I gave up on Contrarian (Beavis) a long time ago.

Originally Posted by W*GS

Perhaps BroncoBeavis would prefer the position statement of the Geological Society of America - you know, the association to which many petroleum geologists belong.



http://www.geosociety.org/positions/position10.htm

I'll just ride my man Hansen's 2008 prediction that in 5-10 years there would be no more Summer sea ice.

He is officially on the clock.

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

I guess he thinks climate change isn't also a medical issue, or perhaps he thinks doctors aren't scientists? Hard to imagine what goes through a trog's skull.

Well, "Medical Issue" is a stretch, yet, irrelevant. If it makes you feel better to stretch a climatalogical "consensus" around what your proctologist thinks, be my guest.