Global Warming

[Newtonian]

Much publicity has been given in the media of late - feel free to post what you think are accurate links (or relatively accurate).

 

I will start with our literature since it is more accurate - albeit less detailed.

 

There are 1,452 references on JW.org - here:

 

https://www.jw.org/en/search/?q=global+warming

 

For starters:

 

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201111/Climate-Summits-Just-Talk/#?insight[search_id]=931eb5af-58e2-414d-bbcd-aa1fa7828a25&insight[search_result_index]=4

 

Climate Summits—Just Talk?

“The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.”—U.S. President Barack Obama.

 

Our article also notes:

 

"Many scientists believe that human activity is a major factor, beginning with the industrial revolution and the subsequent increase in the use of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil. Another factor involves rampant deforestation. Forests serve as lungs for our environment. Trees absorb some of the greenhouse gases that produce global warming. However, the cutting away of large amounts of forest results in leaving increasing amounts of these gases in our atmosphere."

 

This article is from Awake of November, 2011 - about 8 years ago.

 

And things have gotten worse since then!

[GrumpysWife]

55 minutes ago, Newtonian said:

I will start with our literature since it is more accurate - albeit less detailed.

 

There are 1,452 references on JW.org - here:

 

Oh please Paul, don't post them all! 😊😊😊

[Beggar for the Spirit]

I like this statement 

1 hour ago, Newtonian said:

"Forests serve as lungs for our environment."

Awake of November, 2011

 

[Shannie]

Do we believe in climate change?. What is it? 

I do believe the Earth is Changing but is that climate change???

Do really under stand it I know the Earth is being ruined by the man...

[Newtonian]

12 hours ago, Shannie said:

Do we believe in climate change?. What is it? 

I do believe the Earth is Changing but is that climate change???

Do really under stand it I know the Earth is being ruined by the man...

Drastically oversimplified - and as our literature points out - man is adding too much CO2 too fast for our polluted oceans and disappearing rainforests to handle.

 

The result - and this is absolute scientific fact - the amount of CO2 in earth's atmosphere has increased and is now increasing even faster than before!

 

CO2 is a greenhouse gas - meaning it allows heat in from the sun but tends to trap that heat near the surface of earth.

 

The result - the last 10 years have been among the hottest on planet earth, the ice sheets are melting and the oceans are warming.

 

Water expands when it heats up - the result is seal level rise.   Melting of the ice sheets just makes this worse.

 

But, for me personally since I am an organic gardener - we are in a terrible drought while east of us has been flooded out (by Barry) - and we have the hottest September on record - not to mention July and August on planet earth as a whole.

 

People here in SE Louisiana are used to heat - yet virtually everyone says it is so hot!

 

Bottom line - we are near, at or past earth's tipping point - beyond that we would have a runaway Greenhouse effect - Venus had a runaway greenhouse effect - fair warning!

 

[Newtonian]

Sorry I abandoned this thread.   It is clear some doubt that global warming is actually occurring (e.g. the GT thread).

 

While I will let you all study our literature as pointed to in OP (= opening post) - I will now research the scientific literature on global warming.

 

I will start with the magazine "Scientific American" since I have not noted any political bias from this source (there is anti-Biblical bias though):

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/climate/

 

This has many links - the first concerns this year: 2019 - 

 

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/eye-of-the-storm/september-2019-earths-warmest-september-on-record/

September 2019: Earth’s Warmest September on Record

This year is virtually certain to end up among the top five warmest in Earth’s history

[Newtonian]

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/eye-of-the-storm/september-2019-earths-warmest-september-on-record/

 

More from the Sciam article:

 

"September 2019 was the planet's warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on October 16. NASA rated September 2019 as the second warmest September on record, just 0.1 degrees Centigrade behind September 2016. Minor differences between the NOAA and NASA rankings can result because of differing techniques on how they handle data-sparse regions like the Arctic.

Global ocean temperatures during September 2019 were tied for second warmest on record, according to NOAA, and global land temperatures were the warmest on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures in September 2019 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the warmest in the 42-year record, beating the previous record from 2017, according to the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and RSS."

 

Note: Global ocean temperatures for September were tied for 2nd warmest - this was determined by Global satellite measurements which also noted the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere in the 42 year record was the warmest ever - as were global land temperatures.

[Newtonian]

More from Sciam (the above link):

 

The January through September year-to-date period was the second warmest on record globally, behind 2016, according to NOAA. Their global annual temperature ranking outlook indicated that it is virtually certain that 2019 will end among the top five warmest years in Earth’s history. This means that the six warmest years on record globally since 1880 will be the last six years—2014 through 2019—with the peak occurring during the strong El Niño year of 2016. NOAA gave a 95% chance that 2019 would be a top-four warmest year on record, but only a 0.11% chance that it would be the warmest year on record.

This near-record global warmth in 2019 is all the more remarkable since it is occurring during the minimum of the weakest solar cycle in 100+ years, and during a year when a strong El Niño has not been present (though a weak El Niño was present in the first half of 2019, ending in July). Record-warm global temperatures typically occur during strong El Niño events, and when the solar cycle is near its maximum. The near-record warmth of 2019 is thus a testament to how greatly human-caused global warming is impacting the planet.

[Newtonian]

I do believe Scientific American is accurate on global warming.

 

If some of you doubt this - please post specifically why you have doubts.

 

Meanwhile, I will search other sources that are generally accepted as good.

 

Next: Britannica - but feel free to cite other sources just as our literature does.

[Newtonian]

From Britannica on global warming:

 

https://www.britannica.com/science/global-warming

 

Excerpt (please read the whole article or at least the context of the following quote):

 

"A special report produced by the IPCC in 2018 honed this estimate further, noting that human beings and human activities have been responsible for a worldwide average temperature increase of between 0.8 and 1.2 °C (1.4 and 2.2 °F) of global warming since preindustrial times, and most of the warming observed over the second half of the 20th century could be attributed to human activities. It predicted that the global mean surface temperature would increase between 3 and 4 °C (5.4 and 7.2 °F) by 2100 relative to the 1986–2005 average should carbon emissions continue at their current rate."

 

[Newtonian]

From NASA:

 

https://climate.nasa.gov/

 

Note from the link the actual global temperature rise, sea level rise, CO2 (carbon dioxide) increase, the fall of artic ice minimum and earth's ice sheets.

 

A more specific link:

 

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

 

Excerpt:

 

"The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20^th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.¹

Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.

The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.² Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response."

Reference 1 (which gives other credible science sources):

"IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Summary for Policymakers

B.D. Santer et.al., “A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere,” Nature vol 382, 4 July 1996, 39-46

Gabriele C. Hegerl, “Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method,” Journal of Climate, v. 9, October 1996, 2281-2306

V. Ramaswamy et.al., “Anthropogenic and Natural Influences in the Evolution of Lower Stratospheric Cooling,” Science 311 (24 February 2006), 1138-1141

B.D. Santer et.al., “Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes,” Science vol. 301 (25 July 2003), 479-483."

[Newtonian]

I would be amiss If I did not mention that our literature quotes IPCC here (6 examples)

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/s/r1/lp-e?q=IPCC&p=par&r=occ

 

One of the six examples:

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102008282?q=IPCC&p=par

 

However, our literature does not go into detail on the satellite data which skeptics generally ignore.

 

IPCC next:

 

 

[Newtonian]

Concerning the 2018 IPCC special report:

 

https://www.coolearth.org/2018/10/ipcc-report-2/

 

Excerpt:

 

"The 2018 IPCC report

is the most up-to-date and comprehensive explanation of the science of climate change and the future of Earth.

91 lead authors and 133 contributing authors, from 40 countries, assessed 30,000 scientific papers and made over 42,000 comments during the review process.

Their findings cannot be ignored."

 

Actually their findings have been ignored by some.   Not me, since I am into science.

 

But I will leave this thread for now and let you all post what you have found in your own research.

 

Bottom line - Revelation 11:18.