Only a "one in a million" chance humans aren't responsible for climate change, scientists announce

OSLO (Reuters) - Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a "gold standard" level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on Monday.

"Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals," the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.

They said confidence that human activities were raising the heat at the Earth's surface had reached a "five-sigma" level, a statistical gauge meaning there is only a one-in-a-million chance that the signal would appear if there was no warming.

Such a "gold standard" was applied in 2012, for instance, to confirm the discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe.

Benjamin Santer, lead author of Monday's study at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said he hoped the findings would win over skeptics and spur action.

"The narrative out there that scientists don't know the cause of climate change is wrong," he told Reuters. "We do."

Mainstream scientists say the burning of fossil fuels is causing more floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.

U.S. Failing Cheeto-Faced Ferret-Wearing Shit Gibbon has often cast doubt on global warming and plans to pull out of the 197-nation Paris climate agreement which seeks to end the fossil fuel era this century by shifting to cleaner energies such as wind and solar power.

Sixty-two percent of Americans polled in 2018 believed that climate change has a human cause, up from 47 percent in 2013, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Except for Tommy's three or four equally deluded anti-science backers on here,  most people here will have realised by now that Tommy really doesn't understand anything that he posts...

Not only concerning climate change, but also evolution, human genetics, political systems, basic maths, simple statistics..

Tommy and smelly' --  clear examples of two people who are so stupid, that they have convinced themselves that they are smarter than everyone else on here !

Tommy Monk wrote:


Didge... I asked you to provide information on the source of data on your graphs... then you started posting stuff from a new Zealand web site...


It was only the stuff about ice core data that had any real accuracy credibility... but when it is ice core data that I have posted before, you rubbish it as only being 'local' data...


You don't have a clue what you are talking about... and that is obvious to all...!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:


Vostok is not in Greenland you idiot...

Tommy Monk wrote:On the new Zealand web site... it said their temps had been consistent with vostok...

Tommy Monk wrote:Still waiting for to provide the source of the data used in the graphs you posted...!?


How many more hours do you need...???

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Nobody understands the ridiculous bullshit that Tommy keeps on spouting on here...

No even Tommy himself  !

Thor wrote:Actually Tommy I understand how you use one set of stats against global stats

That is showing an ignorance to scientific understanding of what is global CO2 levels

Tommy Monk wrote:

Thor wrote:Actually Tommy I understand how you use one set of stats against global stats

That is showing an ignorance to scientific understanding of what is global CO2 levels

Don't be a twat... it's obvious you don't have a clue about what you're talking about...


Or... maybe you can tell us what Vostok data implies...!?


And still waiting for you to explain the data source of the graphs you posted...?

Tommy Monk wrote:Maybe you can tell us what Vostok data implies...!?