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So You're Telling Us There's A Chance?... 04/22/19 at 11:43:40   That humans aren't responsible for climate change? Yep!  .0001 % http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/286567-new-study-99-9999-percent-chance-hu... A new study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California says there can no longer be any doubt that humans are responsible for climate change. Technically, there is a tiny amount of doubt, but the scientists cite statistical analysis showing 99.9999 percent confidence that we’re to blame. This so-called “gold standard” is as close to a guarantee as you’ll get in scientific analysis. Climate change deniers have gone through various stages of disinformation in an attempt to cast doubt on the scientific consensus. In past years, they denied that global temperatures were increasing at all. As the evidence for that became incontrovertible (the last four years have been the hottest on record), they’ve shifted tactics to claim global temperature increases are part of a natural cycle and have nothing to do with human activity. Virtually all scientists agree that global warming is a direct result of human activity. As we take fossil fuels out of the ground to produce energy, that carbon ends up in the atmosphere where it bottles up heat. The team at LLNL looked at satellite data from the past 40 years to connect human activity to the increase in temperatures. There are three major climate data sets used by researchers, and the new study evaluated all three. The team says the likelihood of human’s driving climate change has reached five sigma level, which means there’s only a one in a million chance the conclusion is wrong. That’s the same statistical standard used to confirm the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

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Re: So You're Telling Us There's A Chance?... Reply #1 - 04/22/19 at 16:39:59   More to chew on: 'It's already begun': Feedback loops will make climate change even worse, scientists say When the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its dire report in October warning of humanity’s fast-approaching reckoning with global warming, one factor adding to the urgency was a new estimate about how much additional carbon dioxide was being added to the atmosphere as a result of the warming of Arctic permafrost. With rising Arctic temperatures setting free a vast amount of carbon previously locked beneath permafrost, the additional greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere would speed up warming, the report concluded — and that, in turn, would further melt the permafrost. It is “feedback loops” like that one that make climate change unpredictable and represent a threat of global warming spiraling out of control. “It’s already begun,” Thomas Crowther, professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science of ETH Zurich, told Yahoo News. “The feedback is in process.” http://news.yahoo.com/its-already-begun-feedback-loops-will-make-climate-chan... Bah, who cares, right?  I wonder what the kardashians are up to?.....

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