Evidence for God from Science

The study, published in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, makes clear that rapid reductions in emissions will still be required but suggests that the world has more time to make the necessary changes.

Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change at University College London and one of the study’s authors, admitted that his previous prediction had been wrong.

He stated during the climate summit in Paris in December 2015: “All the evidence from the past 15 years leads me to conclude that actually delivering 1.5C is simply incompatible with democracy.”

Speaking to The Times, he said: “When the facts change, I change my mind, as Keynes said.

“It’s still likely to be very difficult to achieve these kind of changes quickly enough but we are in a better place than I thought.”

Professor Grubb said that the new assessment was good news for small island states in the Pacific, such as the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, which could be inundated by rising seas if the average temperature rose by more than 1.5C.

“Pacific islands are less doomed than we thought,” he said.

Professor Grubb added that other factors also pointed to more optimism on climate change, including China reducing its growth in emissions much faster than predicted and the cost of offshore wind farms falling steeply in the UK.

He said: “We’re in the midst of an energy revolution and it’s happening faster than we thought, which makes it much more credible for governments to tighten the offer they put on the table at Paris.”

The study found that a group of computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had predicted a more rapid temperature increase than had actually occurred.

The global average temperature has risen by about 0.9C since pre-industrial times but there was a slowdown in the rate of warming for 15 years before 2014.

Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford and another author of the paper, said: “We haven’t seen that rapid acceleration in warming after 2000 that we see in the models. We haven’t seen that in the observations.”

Stu wrote:According to Al Gore of a few years back, weren't we already supposed to be knee deep in water.

edwardmurphy wrote:Keep it up, fellas. If you nit-pick hard enough you can change reality...

...that the RATE of global warming is far less and that, as many skeptics have stated over and over, the models overestimated

Nicki wrote:What about the poor old polar bears which are apparently running out of ice to fish from? I saw a sad video of a starving one on TV recently.

RickD wrote:

Nicki wrote:What about the poor old polar bears which are apparently running out of ice to fish from? I saw a sad video of a starving one on TV recently.

Tell them to move to Florida.

Nicki wrote:What about the poor old polar bears which are apparently running out of ice to fish from? I saw a sad video of a starving one on TV recently.

abelcainsbrother wrote:I don't want to hear it about global warming.It has been nothing but cold here.It got down to 6 degress last night and the high today was only 22,we are under an 90 hour or three day span with below freezing tgemperatures here.I'm not used to this kind of cold weather but I'm having to adabt to it regardless.Getting up to go to work with it below freezing,having to scrape ice off my wind shield before I can drive.My heater does'nt work either.And my room is feeezing to where I had to add blankets on my bed in order to sleep warm,then got out from under the covers in the morning to go to work,and freeze while getting dressed.I guess I'll survive but global warming would be great about right now.I say this actually hoping to see some snow finally because I only rarely got to see snow where I moved from and it was not much snow if.when it rarely ever snowed. I move away though and it snows there with about two inches of snow which I never saw having lived there all of them years.And eventhough it has been alot colder here,no snow yet.