kert keomonyrath's List: Global average temperature rising

• What Does the Last Decade Tell Us about Global Warming? (Hint: the ‘skeptics’ have the momentum)
• And all of this non-warming occurred over a period of time during which the global emissions of CO2 increased faster than ever before (thanks primarily to China). In fact, anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing is about 5 percent greater now than a decade ago (about 16 parts per million).

  • Taking note: Co2 increases, greenhouse gases increase.( In this article also list some points believing that global warming is no true. )

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  • • Chip Knappenberger 2009 What Does the Last Decade Tell Us about Global Warming? [online] available from http://masterresource.org/?p=4872 accessed date Oct 22 2009
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• The relatively chilly temperatures compared with recent years are not evidence that global warming is slowing however, say climate scientists at the Met Office. "Absolutely not," said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. "If we are going to understand climate change we need to look at long-term trends."

  • taking note: global warming not slowing, temperature go up: La Nina conditions, 2008: tenth hottest year.

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  • • James Randerson 2008, 2008 will be coolest year of the decade [online] available from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/05/climate-change-weather accessed date 13 Oct 2009 
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• "We would expect the number to go up rather than down because the early parts of the year were still under the La Niña conditions."
• Assuming the final figure is close to 14.3C then 2008 will be the tenth hottest year on record. The hottest was 1998 - which included a very strong El Niño event - followed by 2005, 2003 and 2002. The data are a combination of measurements from satellites

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• The average global temperature has warmed by more than 0.7°C   over the past century, and the present warming rate is 0.2°C per   decade. If continued, this trend will lead to a temperature rise of   about 3°C by the end of this century

  • taking note: temperature: above 0.7C over the past century, 1970s: global warming keep increasing-more cause' greenhouse effect & mountain glaciers.

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  • • Author unknown, Temperatures are rising [online] available   from http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ClimateChange/theClimate/temperatures.htm accessed date 13 Oct 2009
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• Global warming since the 1970s has been more rapid over land than   over the oceans, as would be expected from an increasing human-caused   greenhouse effect.
• a recent warming is also supported by the widespread   recession of mountain glaciers over the last few decades

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• This increase in earth’s average temperature is called Global warming. More or less all specialists studying the climate record of the earth have the same opinion now that human actions, mainly the discharge of green house gases from smokestacks, vehicles, and burning forests, are perhaps the leading power driving the fashion.
• • take note: cause, human actions, Building both commercial and residential. effect, climate events, natural diaster, famines, warmer.

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  • • Author unknown, Global Warming is an Inrternational Issue [online] available from http://www.globalwarming.org.in/ accessed date Oct 22 2009
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• The major source of carbon dioxide is the power plants
• This is true for most of the developed countries. Buildings, both commercial and residential represent a larger source of global warming pollution than cars and trucks.
• These modifications may boost the occurrence and concentration of severe climate events, such as floods, famines, heat waves, tornados, and twisters.

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