Hollywood Global Warming: Difference between revisions

The Earth's climate is changing;. The <s>Anthropogenic Global Warming</s> <s>Climate Change</s> Climate Disruption [[w:Scientific theory|theory]] argues that since the Industrial Revolution, greenhouse gas production (and other human industrial activity) has been increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and increasing the global average temperature with it<ref>The "speed" of this change has been on the order of 1 degree Celsius per century -- which sounds slow, but is more than 10 times the pre-industrial long-term average warming or cooling rate of half a degree C per millennium -- and it may remain so or become as much as 5 degrees C per century in the later 21st century depending on how human industry changes (or [[Head-in-The-Sand Management|doesn't change]], in the worse cases).</ref>. NobodyThis intheory theis scientificbuilt community<ref>Noton includingdecades peopleof beingresearch paidand bycollected groupsdata; withhowever, acontroversy vestedremains interestover inwho notwill admittingbe thisaffected isand real.</ref>how, disputesas that it is happening; the only lackmost of scientific consensus is on exactly what the impactnegative onconsequences day-to-dayfor life is (orhumanity will be). This is because the changes either take decades to manifest (e.g. sea level increase, ocean acidification), or interact with complex phenomena that happen already and are not evenly distributed around the world (e.g. a projected increase in intensity or frequency of hurricanes). Thornier still are questions of how to deal with it, and thorniest of all is the question of who will pay for mitigation efforts (or [[Head-in-The-Sand Management|the consequences of a ''lack'' of mitigation]]).

{{noreallife|As mentioned above, real-world climate change takes <s>decades</s> years, not days, and thus doesn't qualify for this trope.}}

* [[The Onion]] has an article on the melting ice exposing [https://web.archive.org/web/20100314214920/http://www.theonion.com/content/news/melting_ice_caps_expose_hundreds secret arctic villain lairs].

* ''Calamities of Nature'', 11 Jan 2010: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130804021611/http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=322 discussing] the ways of thinking about this.

* ''Science and Ink'' comments on Carbon Dioxide Panic [https://web.archive.org/web/20160322111302/http://www.lab-initio.com/screen_res/nz048.jpg here].