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1,683 | The PDO shows no trend, and therefore the PDO is not responsible for the trend of global warming. | There has been no upward trend in the amount of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth, so it cannot be responsible for the current warming. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
1,772 | Preventing global warming is relatively cheap; business-as-usual will cause accelerating climate damage costs that economists struggle to even estimate. | The total economic impacts from climate change are difficult to estimate. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Effects of global warming |
1,048 | While transient weather variability is playing a key role here, the widespread record warmth across the U.S. so far this year is part of a long-term trend toward more warm temperature records versus cold ones. | Global surface temperature is subject to short-term fluctuations that overlie long-term trends, and can temporarily mask or magnify them. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Global warming |
2,579 | Over the past 250 years, humans have added just one part of CO2 in 10,000 to the atmosphere. | In the modern era, emissions to the atmosphere from volcanoes are approximately 0.645 billion tonnes of CO 2 per year, whereas humans contribute 29 billion tonnes of CO 2 each year. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Greenhouse gas |
2,192 | The data suggests solar activity is influencing the global climate causing the world to get warmer." | In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. | REFUTES | contradiction | Global warming |
1,516 | the U.S. is shattering high temperature records far more frequently than it is shattering low temperature records. | The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | U.S. state and territory temperature extremes |
2,577 | "Three recent articles give us reason to question the alarmists’ claims that coral reefs are in deep trouble due to the buildup of greenhouse gases." (World Climate Report) | In November 2017, a second warning to humanity signed by 15,364 scientists from 184 countries stated that "the current trajectory of potentially catastrophic climate change due to rising greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and agricultural production – particularly from farming ruminants for meat consumption" is "especially troubling". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
2,560 | In the 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age, sea level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone." | As a result of melting ice, the land has continued to rise yearly in Scandinavia, mostly in northern Sweden and Finland where the land is rising at a rate of as much as 8–9 mm per year, or 1 meter in 100 years. | REFUTES | contradiction | Last Glacial Period |
1,097 | “[…]The impact on calcification, metabolism, growth, fertility and survival of calcifying marine species when pH is lowered up to 0.3 units […] is beneficial, not damaging. | The effects on the calcifying organisms at the base of the food webs could potentially destroy fisheries. | REFUTES | contradiction | Ocean acidification |
1,594 | Water vapor in the stratosphere stopped global warming. | An increase in temperature from greenhouse gases leading to increased water vapor (which is itself a greenhouse gas) causing further warming is a positive feedback, but not a runaway effect, on Earth. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Runaway greenhouse effect |
1,769 | CO2 levels are rising so fast that unless we decrease emissions, global warming will accelerate this century. | Between 1993 and 2017, the global mean sea level rose on average by 3.1 ± 0.3 mm per year, with an acceleration detected as well. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Global warming |
2,979 | Water vapor helps trap heat, and is a far the strongest of the major greenhouse gases, contributing 36–72 percent of the greenhouse effect. | Water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas owing to the presence of the hydroxyl bond which strongly absorbs in the infra-red region of the light spectrum. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Water vapor |
1,322 | The report confidently claims that when temperatures rise, “the reduction in premature deaths from cold are expected to be smaller than the increase in deaths from heat in the United States. | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that it "is difficult to make valid projections of heat-related illness and death under varying climate change scenarios" and that "heat–related deaths are preventable, as evidenced by the decline of all-cause mortality during heat events over the past 35 years". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Urban heat island |
1,480 | I think about all the 194 countries that signed onto the Paris accord, the U.S. is the one that's leading the world in reducing emissions. | At the conclusion of COP 21 (the 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties, which guides the Conference), on 12 December 2015, the final wording of the Paris Agreement was adopted by consensus by all of the 195 UNFCCC participating member states and the European Union to reduce emissions as part of the method for reducing greenhouse gas. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Paris Agreement |
1,265 | Some, however, bristle at the belief that because floods and storms have always occurred, they should not be linked to climate change” | Although some studies have reported an increase in frequency and intensity of extremes in rainfall during the past 40–50 years, their attribution to global warming is not established." | SUPPORTS | entailment | 2015 South Indian floods |
2,170 | Climate change isn't increasing extreme weather damage costs | For example, humans living on atoll islands face risks due to sea level rise, sea surface warming, and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. | REFUTES | contradiction | Effects of global warming |
2,417 | Mars, Triton, Pluto and Jupiter all show global warming, pointing to the Sun as the dominating influence in determining climate throughout the solar system." | The largest human influence has been the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
1,995 | There are about 120,000 solar energy jobs in the United States, but only 1,700 of them are in Georgia. | [clarification needed] Solar jobs have more than doubled in the United States over the last decade growing 153% since 2010 to 242,343 workers directly employed by the industry. | REFUTES | contradiction | Solar power in the United States |
2,144 | 97% consensus on human-caused global warming has been disproven | In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
2,844 | The claim sea level isn’t rising is based on blatantly doctored graphs and conspiracy theories that are contradicted by empirical observational data. | Both natural and social sciences are empirical sciences as their knowledge are based on empirical observations and are capable of being tested for its validity by other researchers working under the same conditions. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Science |
2,692 | Volcanoes, solar variations, clouds, methane, aerosols - these all change the way energy enters and/or leaves our climate. | Human activity — mostly as a by-product of fossil fuel combustion, partly by land use changes — increases the number of tiny particles (aerosols) in the atmosphere. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global cooling |
2,839 | Ice mass loss is occuring at an accelerated rate in Greenland, Antarctica and globally from inland glaciers. | Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica's ice loss. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Pine Island Glacier |
1,669 | There is long-term correlation between CO2 and global temperature; other effects are short-term. | This trend could be extrapolated to continue into the future, possibly leading to a full ice age, but the twentieth-century instrumental temperature record shows a sudden reversal of this trend, with a rise in global temperatures attributed to greenhouse gas emissions. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Little Ice Age |
1,410 | “Temperature, like viscosity and density, and of course phone numbers, is not something that can be meaningfully averaged. ‘ | Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area, or exceptionally unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Population density |
484 | “We almost take forests as a given but we lose forest every year, which means we are diminishing them as a carbon sink. | From the perspective of the developing world, the benefits of forest as carbon sinks or biodiversity reserves go primarily to richer developed nations and there is insufficient compensation for these services. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Deforestation |
2,961 | Cooks ’97% consensus’ disproven by a new peer | James Lawrence Powell reported 2017 that using rejection as the criterion of consensus, five surveys of the peer-reviewed literature from 1991 to 2015, including several of those above, combine to 54,195 articles with an average consensus of 99.94%. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,059 | Heat Waves are increasing at an alarming rate and heat kills. | In every society, crime rates go up when temperatures go up, particularly violent crimes such as assault, murder, and rape. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Heat wave |
2,845 | The original global temperature schematic which appeared in the IPCC First Assessment Report and seemed to show the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) hotter than Present was based on the central England temperature record, and ended in the 1950s. | The schematic was not an actual plot of data, and was based on a diagram of temperatures in central England, with temperatures increased on the basis of documentary evidence of Medieval vineyards in England. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
2,765 | "Earth’s Albedo has risen in the past few years, and by doing reconstructions of the past albedo, it appears that there was a significant reduction in Earth’s albedo leading up to a lull in 1997. | Ice and snow increase Earth's albedo, i.e. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Ice age |
2,048 | CO2 is a greenhouse gas but is clearly subordinate to water vapour and other more significant factors determining global climate. | Increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and ozone have correspondingly strengthened their absorption and emission of infrared radiation, causing the rise in average global temperature since the mid-20th century. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Carbon dioxide |
2,165 | Ben Santer rewrote the 1995 IPCC report | A Contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Greenhouse gas |
621 | Dr. Gutzler said spring temperatures have an impact, too, with warmer air causing more snow to turn to vapor and essentially disappear. | Moisture is removed by orographic lift, leaving drier, warmer air on the descending, leeward side. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Snow |
1,097 | “[…]The impact on calcification, metabolism, growth, fertility and survival of calcifying marine species when pH is lowered up to 0.3 units […] is beneficial, not damaging. | Although the natural absorption of CO 2 by the world's oceans helps mitigate the climatic effects of anthropogenic emissions of CO 2, it is believed that the resulting decrease in pH will have negative consequences, primarily for oceanic calcifying organisms. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Ocean acidification |
839 | “Even if we meet the Paris goals of two degrees warming, cities like Karachi and Kolkata will become close to uninhabitable, annually encountering deadly heat waves like those that crippled them in 2015. | While the summers are hot and humid, cool sea breezes typically provide relief during hot summer months, though Karachi is prone to deadly heat waves, though a text-message based early warning system is now in place that helped prevent any fatalities during an unusually strong heatwave in October 2017. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Karachi |
1,375 | the world is barely half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than it was about 35 years ago | A temperature interval of 1 °F is equal to an interval of 5⁄9 degrees Celsius. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Fahrenheit |
123 | the warming is not nearly as great as the climate change computer models have predicted. | It is a major aspect of climate change and has been demonstrated by direct temperature measurements and by measurements of various effects of the warming. | REFUTES | contradiction | Global warming |
862 | In the sugarcane region of El Salvador, as much as one-fifth of the population has chronic kidney disease, including over a quarter of the men, the presumed result of dehydration from working the fields they were able to comfortably harvest as recently as two decades ago. | Serum creatinine is measured to assess for the presence of kidney disease, which can be either the cause or the result of hypertension. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Hypertension |
512 | water vapour has been the main greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide has had a minuscule effect on global climate | The largest human influence has been the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
377 | If we halve the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, all life dies. | Currently, about half of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels remains in the atmosphere and is not absorbed by vegetation and the oceans. | REFUTES | contradiction | Carbon dioxide |
2,599 | Small amounts of very active substances can cause large effects. | Doses as low as 100 mg/day, such as a 6 oz cup of coffee or two to three 12 oz servings of caffeinated soft-drink, may continue to cause sleep disruption, among other intolerances. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Caffeine |
1,525 | Earth's changing climate is a critical issue and poses the risk of significant environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe. | Climate change refers to a lasting change in the Earth's climate. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global catastrophic risk |
697 | While many scientists have acknowledged the mismatch between model predictions and actual temperature observations, few have really challenged the validity of the models themselves. | Loss functions express the discrepancy between the predictions of the model being trained and the actual problem instances (for example, in classification, one wants to assign a label to instances, and models are trained to correctly predict the pre-assigned labels of a set of examples). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Machine learning |
1,474 | Etna has already put more than 10,000 times the CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has in our entire time on the Earth. | The carbon dioxide levels necessary to thaw Earth have been estimated as being 350 times what they are today, about 13% of the atmosphere. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Snowball Earth |
1,715 | Theory, models and direct measurement confirm CO2 is currently the main driver of climate change. | Models are typically used when it is either impossible or impractical to create experimental conditions in which scientists can directly measure outcomes. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Scientific modelling |
1,230 | On the Pacific Coast, a climate pattern that had pushed billions of gallons of water toward Asia is now ending, so that in coming decades the sea is likely to rise quickly off states like Oregon and California. | Along the Pacific Ocean coast lie the Coast Ranges, which, while not approaching the scale of the Rocky Mountains, are formidable nevertheless. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Western United States |
2,967 | The contribution of waste heat to the global climate is 0.028 W/m2. | Global forcing from waste heat was 0.028 W/m2 in 2005. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Waste heat |
1,932 | Newspaper Article from 1922 Discusses Arctic Ocean Climate Change | Both the terms global warming and climate change were used only occasionally until 1975, when Wallace Smith Broecker published a scientific paper on the topic, "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
909 | Meeting the 2025 emissions reduction target alone could subtract $250 billion from our GDP and eliminate 2.7 million jobs. | Judging by the continued growth in the Renewable Fuel Standard and the extension of the biodiesel tax incentive, the number of jobs can increase to 50,725, $2.7 billion in income, and reaching $5 billion in GDP by 2012 and 2013. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Biodiesel |
1,943 | Over 97 percent of the scientific community ⦠believe that humans are contributing to climate change. | Seventy-five of 77 believed that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Scientific consensus on climate change |
1,722 | Humans are small but powerful, and human CO2 emissions are causing global warming. | Cumulative anthropogenic (i.e., human-emitted) emissions of CO 2 from fossil fuel use are a major cause of global warming, and give some indication of which countries have contributed most to human-induced climate change. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Greenhouse gas |
772 | Geologists say that humans are now pumping the gas into the air much faster than nature has ever done. | Human activity since the Industrial Revolution has increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to increased radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs, and nitrous oxide. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Global warming |
2,069 | Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are causing ocean acidification, which is catastrophically harming marine life. | Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations have led to an increase in dissolved CO2, which causes ocean acidification. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Global warming |
548 | The jet stream controls broad weather patterns, such as high-pressure and low-pressure systems. | A polar low is a small-scale, short-lived atmospheric low-pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Cyclone |
2,922 | Soares looks at short-term trends which are swamped by natural variations. | He established the idea of a taxonomic hierarchy of classification based upon observable characteristics and intended to reflect natural relationships. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Species |
358 | Their analysis calculates the existential climate-related security risk to Earth through a scenario set 30 years into the future. | Christopher Scotese and his colleagues have mapped out the predicted motions several hundred million years into the future as part of the Paleomap Project. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Future of Earth |
2,394 | (2005), where satellite altimetry established that the mean thickness of the entire Greenland ice sheet had increased at 2 inches per year – a total of almost 2 feet – in the 11 years 1993-2003.” | In 2005, this had increased to about 220 km3 or 52.8 cu mi a year due to rapid thinning near its coasts, while in 2006 it was estimated at 239 km3 (57.3 cu mi) per year. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Greenland ice sheet |
508 | Climate projections also assume that planet Earth is not dynamic | In meteorology and oceanography, it is convenient to postulate a rotating frame of reference wherein the Earth is stationary. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Coriolis force |
157 | Contemporary Global Warming placed in geological context. | Multiple independently produced instrumental datasets confirm that the 2009–2018 decade was 0.93 ± 0.07 °C warmer than the pre-industrial baseline (1850–1900). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
621 | Dr. Gutzler said spring temperatures have an impact, too, with warmer air causing more snow to turn to vapor and essentially disappear. | Warmer air holds more water vapor. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Effects of global warming |
1,532 | Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. | Conclusions of AR5 are summarized below: Working Group I "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia". | SUPPORTS | entailment | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
1,649 | Urban and rural regions show the same warming trend. | Surfaces in the urban areas tend to warm faster than those of the surrounding rural areas. | REFUTES | contradiction | Urban heat island |
30 | the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change' | The 2007 Kangaroo Island bushfires were a series of bushfires caused by lightning strikes on 6 December 2007 on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, resulting in the destruction of 95,000 hectares (230,000 acres) of national park and wilderness protection area. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | 2007 Kangaroo Island bushfires |
1,243 | by that I mean the central Arctic will be ice-free. | The melting of the ice is making the Northwest Passage, the shipping routes through the northernmost latitudes, more navigable, raising the possibility that the Arctic region will become a prime trade route. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Arctic |
98 | Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid. | At the center, the temperature may be up to 6,000 °C (10,830 °F), and the pressure could reach 360 GPa (52 million psi). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Earth |
2,992 | The measurements of the amount of CO2 made at the Mauna Loa Observatory are accurate and uncontaminated by any emissions from the volcano. | The latest observation of CO2 concentrations from MLO can be found at web sites along with data from other sites and trends at Mauna Loa. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Mauna Loa Observatory |
338 | Rapid assessment of average temperatures in France between 26-28 June showed a “substantial” increase in the likelihood of the heatwave happening as a result of human-caused global warming, experts at the World Weather Attribution group said. | Human-caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8 °C (1.5 °F) over the past 140 years. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Scientific consensus on climate change |
2,395 | While the Greenland interior is in mass balance, the coastlines are losing ice. | The additional snowfall causes increased ice flow of the ice sheet into the ocean, so that the mass gain due to snowfall is partially compensated. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Sea level rise |
2,515 | When the PDO last switched to a cool phase, global temperatures were about 0.4C cooler than currently. | The temperature changes occurred somewhat suddenly, at carbon dioxide concentrations of about 600–760 ppm and temperatures approximately 4 °C warmer than today. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Climate variability |
2,744 | Dropped stations show more warming than kept stations. | Throughout the daytime, particularly when the skies are cloudless, urban surfaces are warmed by the absorption of solar radiation. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Urban heat island |
1,445 | CO2 emissions from all commercial operations in 2018 totaled 918 million metric tons—2.4% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use. | In 2018, global commercial operations emitted 918 million tonnes (Mt) of CO₂, 2.4% of all CO₂ emissions: 747 Mt for passenger transport and 171 Mt for freight operations. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Environmental impact of aviation |
1,923 | More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry â three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry. | The industry employs around 113,000 people directly and around 276,000 indirectly and has an annual turnover of around £20 billion. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Economy of the United Kingdom |
2,782 | "NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. | In a NASA report published in January 2013, Hansen and Sato noted "the 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing." | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming controversy |
2,090 | Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle | As well as the regular seasonal cycle there has been an underlying trend of declining sea ice in the Arctic in recent decades. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Arctic ice pack |
1,882 | Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar. | The wheel moves continuously, removing garbage and dumping it into an attached dumpster using only hydro and solar renewable power to keep its wheel turning. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Baltimore |
1,690 | That human CO2 is causing global warming is known with high certainty & confirmed by observations. | In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Global warming |
1,286 | Arctic greening was recently cited, in a major report by the U.S. Geological Survey, as the central reason that the state of Alaska, despite worsening wildfires and more thaw of permafrost, might still be able to stow away more carbon than it loses over the course of the 21st century.” | The source rock for the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field and neighboring reserves is also a potential source for tight oil and shale gas – possibly containing "up to 2 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil and up to 80 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey report." | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Alaska North Slope |
282 | The panel was forced to retract a statement in its 2007 report saying all Himalayan glaciers could melt entirely by 2035. | The final WG I report was released on 30 April 2007 and the final AR4 Synthesis Report was released on 17 November 2007.Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chair, admitted at the launch of this report that since the IPCC began work on it, scientists have recorded "much stronger trends in climate change", like the unforeseen dramatic melting of polar ice in the summer of 2007, and added, "that means you better start with intervention much earlier". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
502 | But abnormal temperature spikes in February and earlier this month have left it vulnerable to winds, which have pushed the ice further away from the coast than at any time since satellite records began in the 1970s.” | The coastline sees significantly mild temperatures when compared to the inland areas during summer. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | West Coast of the United States |
1,859 | Big rooftop solar's plan forces Nevada families who don't have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar. | Households with a smaller number of solar panels would likely see their rates go up under the proposal. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Net metering |
1,430 | Seventeen of the 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000. | 2016's record meant that 16 of the 17 warmest years have occurred since 2000, 2017 being the third-hottest year on record meant that 17 of the last 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Instrumental temperature record |
2,289 | In fact, in recent years when cosmic rays should have been having their largest cooling effect on record, temperatures have been at their highest on record. | It is the hottest planet, with surface temperatures over 400 °C (752 °F), most likely due to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Solar System |
2,449 | "January 2008 capped a 12 month period of global temperature drops on all of the major well respected indicators. | All of these events can have wide variations of more than a month from year to year. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Year |
2,978 | The lower temperatures at this "coldest point" have caused global water vapor levels to drop, even as carbon levels rise. | These isotope changes occurred due to the release of carbon from the ocean into the atmosphere that led to a temperature increase of 4-8 °C (7-14 °F) at the surface of the ocean. | REFUTES | contradiction | Eocene |
1,216 | …obsessing about climate change is avoiding a frank discussion about the here-and-now problems of budget deficits, the federal debt, school choice, entitlement reform, and so on. | He suggested using discussions about raising the federal debt ceiling as "leverage" to reduce federal spending. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Political positions of Paul Ryan |
1,868 | Currently, Florida is one of only five states in the nation that prohibit citizens from buying electricity from companies that will put solar panels on your home or business. | It is estimated that approximately 4% of energy in the state is generated through renewable resources. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Florida |
1,555 | Climate change is because of El Niño. | El Nino affects the global climate and disrupts normal weather patterns, which as a result can lead to intense storms in some places and droughts in others. | SUPPORTS | entailment | El Niño |
57 | Earth’s mean temperature over the last 2,000 years shows two previous periods when temperatures were warmer than they are now; from 1–200 A.D., an epoch called the Roman Warm Period, and more recently the Medieval Warm Period from 900–1100 A.D. | It is thought that between c. 950 and c. 1100 was the Northern Hemisphere's warmest period since the Roman Warm Period. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Medieval Warm Period |
1,246 | Most people expect this year will see a record low in the Arctic’s summer sea-ice cover. | It is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year and almost completely in winter. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Arctic Ocean |
2,935 | Claims have recently surfaced in the blogosphere that an increasing number of scientists are warning of an imminent global cooling, some even going so far as to call it a "growing consensus". | Despite increasing consensus on the science underpinning predictions of global climate change, doubts have been expressed recently about the need to mitigate the risks posed by global climate change. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming controversy |
826 | The latest NOAA report is “a reminder that climate change has not, despite the insistence of climate contrarians ‘paused’ or even slowed down,” Mann said.. | The statement references the IPCC's Fourth Assessment of 2007, and asserts that "climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO 2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid". | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Scientific consensus on climate change |
817 | Scientists have long known about the anomalous ‘warming hole‘ in the North Atlantic Ocean, an area immune to warming of Earth’s oceans. | The NADW is fed by a flow of warm shallow water into the northern North Atlantic which is responsible for the anomalous warm climate in Europe. | SUPPORTS | entailment | Atlantic Ocean |
2,607 | Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. | It is produced by combustion of wood and other organic materials and fossil fuels such as coal, peat, petroleum and natural gas. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Carbon dioxide |
2,422 | As of today,JAXA shows that we have more ice than any time on this date for the past 8 years of Aqua satellite measurement for this AMSRE dataset." | Aqua carries six instruments for studies of water on the Earth's surface and in the atmosphere, of which four are still operating: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS (AMSR-E) — measures cloud properties, sea surface temperature, near-surface wind speed, radiative energy flux, surface water, ice and snow. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Aqua (satellite) |
435 | NOAA’s analysis found last month was the 3rd-warmest April on record globally. | 21 July The latest global analysis of temperature data from NOAA shows that the first half of 2015 was the hottest such period on record, at 0.85 °C (1.53 °F) above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous record set in 2010 by 0.09 °C (0.16 °F). | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | 2015 in science |
1,910 | It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as it likely generates in its entire life. | Normally the solar arrays on the rovers are able to generate up to 700 watt-hours (2,500 kJ) of energy per Martian day. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Spirit (rover) |
2,664 | Warming causes more moisture in the air which leads to more extreme precipitation events. | Overall, higher temperatures bring more rain and snowfall, but for some regions droughts and wildfires increase instead. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Global warming |
1,389 | If global warming caused the 2014 Queensland heat wave, why wasn’t it as severe as the 1972 Queensland heat wave?” | By 2014, another report revealed that, due to the change in climatic patterns, the heat waves were found to be increasingly more frequent and severe, with an earlier start to the season and longer duration. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Climate change in Australia |
1,850 | Australian households will benefit to the tune of $550 a year if the carbon tax is axed. | Officials estimated that the tax would generate income of 37 billion yen a year for the government and result in a payment of 2,100 yen per year for an average household. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Carbon tax |
2,445 | When all forcings are combined, they show good correlation to global temperature throughout the 20th century including the mid-century cooling period. | The major differences between the various proxy reconstructions relate to the magnitude of past cool excursions, principally during the twelfth to fourteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Little Ice Age |
665 | many scientists were surprised when other researchers subsequently found that ringed and bearded seals (the primary prey of polar bears) north of the Bering Strait especially thrived with a longer open-water season, which is particularly conducive to fishing | The polar bear is the most carnivorous species of bear, and its diet primarily consists of ringed (Pusa hispida) and bearded (Erignathus barbatus) seals. | NOT_ENOUGH_INFO | neutral | Marine mammal |