How is a 1 degree temperature increase able to cause?

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Well first you need to look at the time period involved and what the climate conditions were at the beginning of the measurement period. First the period stated is 150 years, second it is not 1c it is .7c or 7/10ths of a degree centigrade. Third 1850 was the coldest part of the Dalton solar minimum which was the 4th and mildest of the 4 solar minimums that constituted the Little Ice Age. so the period measured started in the coldest part of an unusual cold spell that was considered by scientists to be more than a full degree Celsius below what they felt was normal at that time.

So if you go by historical scientific reasoning we today are probably more than 1/2 a degree centigrade below what scientists then considered optimum. This is why skeptics get so upset about warmer propaganda because we know the world is still well below what science considers optimum and there seems little or no chance or our getting that warm in the current cycle because it peaked way to cold.
 
It's the other way around: global warming has resulted in an overall change in the average temperature. 1 degree? It think it's more than that, but even if it is:

Water is a solid at 32. At 33 it's a liquid. Melting icebergs and the solar cap causes flooding. Increased water = increased evaporation = flooding by higher rates of rainfall.
 
It is important to understand that the measurements for World Climate are taken in Celsius not in Farenheit like most of US americans would like to believe. Take the base temp at which water freezes. In the Metric (celsius) it is 0* but in the US Standard it is 32* Farenheit. Increase the temp by one degree and you shoot up almost 2 degrees standard increase the temp by 10 degrees celsius and you rise by 18 degrees farenheit. The rise is not the issue it is the prolonged and sustained increase that concerns scientists and environmental activists. It should also concern you as well.
 
Records from land stations and ships indicate that the global mean surface temperature warmed by between 1.0 and 1.7°F since 1850. These records indicate a near level trend in temperatures from 1880 to about 1910, a rise to 1945, a slight decline to about 1975, and a rise to present. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2007 that warming of the climate system is now “unequivocal,” based on observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. Since the mid 1970s, the average surface temperature has warmed about 1°F. The Earth’s surface is currently warming at a rate of about 0.32ºF/decade or 3.2°F/century. The eight warmest years on record (since 1850) have all occurred since 1998, with the warmest year being 2005. The warming trend is seen in both daily maximum and minimum temperatures, with minimum temperatures increasing at a faster rate than maximum temperatures. Land areas have tended to warm faster than ocean areas and the winter months have warmed faster than summer months. Widespread reductions in the number of days below freezing occurred during the latter half of the 20th century in the United States as well as most land areas of the Northern Hemisphere and areas of the Southern Hemisphere. Average temperatures in the Arctic have increased at almost twice the global rate in the past 100 years.
 
That's right, less than 1 degree

This is a far cry from the double digit increases and decreases that have occured over the lifetime of the planet.
 
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