query: The unusual heat was most noteworthy in Europe, which had its warmest April on record, and Australia, which had its second-warmest.

positive: Climate of Australia Australia 's climate is governed largely by its size and by the hot , sinking air of the subtropical high pressure belt . This moves north and south with the seasons , so that the rainfall pattern over Australia is highly seasonal . Australia 's rainfall is the lowest of all continents except Antarctica . But it is variable , with frequent droughts lasting several seasons -- thought to be caused in part by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation . The climate varies widely due to its large geographical size , but by far the largest part of Australia is desert or semi-arid . Only the south-east and south-west corners have a temperate climate and moderately fertile soil . The northern part of the country has a tropical climate , varied between tropical rainforests , grasslands and part dessert .   Because Australia is a small continent , separated from polar regions by the Southern Ocean , it is not subject to the movements of frigid polar air that sweep over Northern Hemisphere continents during winter . Consequently , its winter is relatively mild , so that there is n't the great contrast between summer and winter temperatures there is in the northern continents . Yet in many parts of the country , seasonal highs and lows can be considerable : temperatures have ranged from above 50 C to well below zero . Nonetheless , minimum temperatures are moderated .   The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is associated with seasonal abnormality in many areas in the world . Australia is one of the continents most affected and experiences extensive droughts alongside considerable wet periods . Occasionally a dust storm will blanket a region and there are reports of the occasional tornado . Tropical cyclones , heat waves , bushfires and frosts in the country are also associated with the Southern Oscillation . Rising levels of salinity and desertification in some areas is ravaging the landscape .   Climate change in Australia is a highly contentious issue . Temperatures in the country have risen following an increasing trend of global warming between the years of 1910 to 2004 by approximately 0.7 ° C. Overnight minimum temperatures have warmed more rapidly than daytime maximum temperatures in recent years . The late-20th century warming has been largely attributed to the increased greenhouse effect . According to the Bureau of Meteorology , 80 % of the land has less than 600 mm of rainfall per year and 50 % has even less than 300 mm . As a whole , Australia has a very low annual average rainfall of 419 mm .

positive: Australia Australia ( -LSB- əˈstreɪliə -RSB- , -LSB- ɒ - -RSB- , -LSB- - ljə -RSB- ) , officially the Commonwealth of Australia , is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent , the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands . It is the world 's sixth-largest country by total area . The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea , Indonesia and East Timor to the north ; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east ; and New Zealand to the south-east . Australia 's capital is Canberra , and its largest urban area is Sydney .   For about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century , Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians ,  who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups . After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606 , Australia 's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788 . The population grew steadily in subsequent decades , and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies established . On 1 January 1901 , the six colonies federated , forming the Commonwealth of Australia . Australia has since maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states and several territories . The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard .   Australia has the world 's 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income ( IMF ) . With the second-highest human development index globally , the country ranks highly in quality of life , health , education , economic freedom , and civil liberties and political rights . Australia is a member of the United Nations , G20 , Commonwealth of Nations , ANZUS , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) , World Trade Organization , Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation , and the Pacific Islands Forum .

negative: Córdoba, Spain Córdoba ( -LSB- ˈkɔrdəbə -RSB- , -LSB- ˈkoɾðoβa -RSB- ) , also called Cordova ( -LSB- ˈkɔrdəvə -RSB- ) in English , is a city in Andalusia , southern Spain , and the capital of the province of Córdoba . It was a Roman settlement . It was conquered by Muslim armies in the eighth century , and then became the capital of the Islamic Emirate and then Caliphate of Córdoba , including most of the Iberian Peninsula .   Caliph Al Hakam II opened many libraries in addition to the many medical schools and universities which existed at the time , making Córdoba a centre for education . During these centuries , Córdoba became a society ruled by Muslims , in which all other groups had a second-class status . It returned to Christian rule in 1236 , during the Reconquista . Today it is a moderately sized modern city ; its population in 2011 was about 330,000 . The historic centre was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site .   Córdoba has the warmest summer high temperatures in Spain and Europe with average high temperatures around 37 C in July and similar heat in August .

negative: 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves included severe heat waves that impacted most of the United States , Kazakhstan , Mongolia , China , Hong Kong , North Africa and the European continent as a whole , along with parts of Canada , Russia , Indochina , South Korea and Japan during May , June , July , and August 2010 . The first phase of the global heatwaves was caused by a moderate El Niño event , which lasted from June 2009 to May 2010 . The first phase lasted only from April 2010 to June 2010 , and caused only moderate above average temperatures in the areas affected . But it also set new record high temperatures for most of the area affected , in the Northern Hemisphere . The second phase ( the main , and most devastating phase ) was caused by a very strong La Niña event , which lasted from June 2010 to June 2011 . According to meteorologists , the 2010 -- 11 La Niña event was one of the strongest La Niña events ever observed . That same La Niña event also had devastating effects in the Eastern states of Australia . The second phase lasted from June 2010 to October 2010 , caused severe heat waves , and multiple record-breaking temperatures . The heatwaves began on April 2010 , when strong anticyclones began to develop , over most of the affected regions , in the Northern Hemisphere . The heatwaves ended in October 2010 , when the powerful anticyclones over most of the affected areas dissipated .   The heat wave during the summer of 2010 was at its worst in June , over the Eastern United States , Middle East , Eastern Europe and European Russia , and over Northeastern China and southeastern Russia . June 2010 marked the fourth consecutive warmest month on record globally , at 0.66 ° C ( 1.22 ° F ) above average , while the period April -- June was the warmest ever recorded for land areas in the Northern Hemisphere , at 1.25 ° C ( 2.25 ° F ) above average . The previous record for the global average temperature in June was set in 2005 at 0.66 ° C ( 1.19 ° F ) , and the previous warm record for April -- June over Northern Hemisphere land areas was 1.16 ° C ( 2.09 ° F ) , set in 2007 . Sometime during June 2010 , the highest recorded temperature caused by the heatwave was 53.5 ° C , in Southeastern Russia , just north of Kazakhstan . The strongest of the anticyclones , the one situated over Siberia , registered a maximum high pressure of 1040 millibars . The weather caused forest fires in China , where three in a team of 300 died fighting a fire that broke out in the Binchuan County of Dali , as Yunnan suffered the worst drought in 60 years by February 17 . A major drought was reported across the Sahel as early as January . In August , a section of the Petermann Glacier tongue connecting northern Greenland , the Nares Strait and the Arctic Ocean broke off , the biggest ice shelf in the Arctic to detach in 48 years . By the time the heatwaves had ended in late October 2010 , about $ 500 billion ( 2011 USD ) of damage was done , in the Northern Hemisphere alone .   The World Meteorological Organization stated that the heat waves , droughts and flooding events fit with predictions based on global warming for the 21st century , include those based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 's 2007 4th Assessment Report . Some climatologists argue that these weather events would not have happened if the atmospheric carbon dioxide was at pre-industrial levels .

negative: Blue Is the Warmest Color (comics) Blue Is the Warmest Color ( Le bleu est une couleur chaude ) ( originally announced as Blue Angel ) is a French graphic novel by Julie Maroh , published by Glénat in March 2010 . The English-language edition was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013 . The novel tells a love story between two young women in France at the end of the 1990s . Abdelatif Kechiche directed a film adaptation in 2013 , titled Blue Is the Warmest Colour , which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival .

negative: Lake Velence Lake Velence is the third largest lake in Hungary . It is a popular holiday destination among Hungarians .   The lake has an area of 26 km2 , one third of which is covered by the common reed . Because of the sunny climate of the area and the shallowness of the lake , it is one of the warmest lakes in Europe : its temperature in the summer may reach 26 to 28 ° C.

negative: Adèle Exarchopoulos Adèle Exarchopoulos ( -LSB- adɛl ɛgzaʁkɔpulɔs -RSB- ; born 22 November 1993 ) is a French actress . She is known for her leading performance as Adèle in Blue Is the Warmest Colour , a role which gave her worldwide attention and critical acclaim and for which she became the youngest artist ever to be awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . She also won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and received a total of 37 other award nominations for her performance in Blue Is the Warmest Colour , including several wins .

negative: 1954 Adelaide earthquake The 1954 Adelaide earthquake had its center at Darlington , some 12 km to the south of Adelaide in South Australia . It took place at 03.40 in the early morning of 1 March 1954 and had a reported magnitude of 5.6 . The quake is thought to have started along the Eden-Burnside fault line , which is essentially the Hills face zone , at a depth of 4 km although , due to lack of instruments , this is uncertain .   As Australia lies in the middle of a tectonic plate , South Australia is relatively stable geologically , however , South Australia is the second most earthquake prone of the Australian states with around 3-4 tremors every day . Most are , however , of a magnitude below 2.5 noteworthy only to seismologists , and since they are dispersed fairly evenly across the state , most take place well away from centers of human population . The 1954 Adelaide earthquake was different because of its magnitude , which made it the fourth most intense earthquake reported in the state since settlement in 1836 , and because it took place in an area of dense human settlement , under a suburb of the state capital , Adelaide .

negative: Mordington Mordington is an agricultural parish in the extreme south-east of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders region . It is five miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed and borders Northumberland to the east , and south ( where the boundary is the Whiteadder Water ) , Foulden to the west , and Lamberton to the north . The parish is bisected by the A6105 Berwick to Duns road . The lower part of the parish is covered by the Edrington estate . It is possibly the warmest parish in Scotland ; the annual hours of sunshine are said to be almost as high as at Dunbar , which records the most hours in Scotland .

negative: Irrsee Irrsee is a lake in the Salzkammergut , Austria , located at . Its surface is approximately 3.5 km2 and its maximum depth is 32 metres . It is a popular tourist destination , also thanks to the warmest water temperature of all lakes in Salzkammergut .   Category : Lakes of Upper Austria

negative: Climate of Estonia Estonia lies in the northern part of the temperate climate zone and in the transition zone between maritime and continental climate . Because Estonia ( and all of Northern Europe ) is continuously warmed by maritime air influenced by the heat content of the northern Atlantic Ocean , it has a milder climate despite its northern latitude . The Baltic Sea causes differences between the climate of coastal and inland areas . Estonia has four seasons of near-equal length . Average temperatures range from 16.3 ° C on the Baltic islands to 18.1 ° C inland in July , the warmest month , and from -3.5 ° C on the Baltic islands to -7.6 ° C inland in February , the coldest month . The average annual temperature in Estonia is 5.2 ° C . The average temperature in February , the coldest month of the year , is -5.7 ° C . The average temperature in July , which is considered the warmest month of the year , is 16.4 ° C . The climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean , the North-Atlantic Stream and the Icelandic Minimum , which is an area known for the formation of cyclones and where the average air pressure is lower than in neighbouring areas . Estonia is located in a humid zone in which the amount of precipitation is greater than total evaporation . The average precipitation in 1961 -- 1990 ranged from 535 to per year and was heaviest in late summer . There were between 102 and 127 rainy days a year , and average precipitation was most plentiful on the western slopes of the Sakala and Haanja Uplands . Snow cover , which is deepest in the south-eastern part of Estonia , usually lasts from mid-December to late March .

negative: Julie Maroh Julie Maroh is a French writer and illustrator of graphic novels , who originates from Northern France . She wrote Blue Is the Warmest Color ( Le bleu est une couleur chaude ) about the life and love of two young lesbians , which has been adapted in the award winning film Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Abdelatif Kechiche .   After having obtained an applied arts baccalauréat at E.S.A.A.T in Roubaix , Maroh continued her studies in Brussels , where she lived for eight years . She got two diplomas there , in Visual Arts ( comics option ) in the Institut Saint-Luc and in Lithography/Engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels .   Julie Maroh started writing Blue is the Warmest Color when she was 19 and it took her five years to complete it .

negative: Climate of the Nordic countries The climate of the Nordic countries is that of a region in Northern Europe that consists of Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden and their associated territories , which include the Faroe Islands , Greenland and Åland . Stockholm , Sweden has on average the warmest summer of the Nordic countries , with an average maximum temperature of 23 ° C in July ; Copenhagen , Oslo and Helsinki have an average July maximum temperature of 22 ° C.

negative: Rolfosteus Rolfosteus canningensis is an extinct species of arthrodire placoderm from the late Devonian of the Gogo Formation of Western Australia .   The 15 cm ( 6 in ) long creature had tough plating on the front of its body . Like other arthrodires such as Coccosteus and the giant Dunkleosteus it had sharp , bony plates in its mouth which formed a turtle-like beak for cutting prey to pieces . Rolfosteus 's most unusual feature was its highly elongated snout , which may have been used to enhance its sense of smell , as well as increase its hydrodynamic streamlining .

negative: Blue Is the Warmest Colour Blue Is the Warmest Colour ( La Vie d'Adèle -- Chapitres 1 & 2 -- `` The Life of Adèle -- Chapters 1 & 2 '' ) is a 2013 French coming-of-age erotic romantic drama film co-written , co-produced , and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche , starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux . The film revolves around Adèle ( Exarchopoulos ) , a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom when a blue-haired aspiring painter ( Seydoux ) enters her life . The film charts their relationship from Adele 's high school years to her early adult life and career as a school teacher . The premise of Blue Is the Warmest Colour is based on the 2010 French graphic novel of the same name by Julie Maroh , which was published in North America in 2013 .   Production began in March 2012 and lasted six months . Approximately 800 hours of footage was shot , including extensive B-roll footage , with Kechiche ultimately trimming the final cut of the film down to 179 minutes . The film generated controversy upon its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and before its release . Much of the controversy was centred around claims of poor working conditions on set by the crew and the lead actresses , and also the film 's raw depiction of sexuality .   At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival the film unanimously won the Palme d'Or from the official jury and the FIPRESCI Prize . It is the first film to have the Palme d'Or awarded to both the director and the lead actresses , with Seydoux and Exarchopoulos joining Jane Campion ( The Piano ) as the only women to have won the award . The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival . The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language . Many critics declared it one of the best films of 2013 .

negative: Triple J Hottest 100, 2012 The 2012 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day 26 January 2013 . It was the 20th countdown of the most popular songs of the year , as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.   Voting commenced on 19 December 2012 , and closed at midnight on 20 January 2013 .   Over 1.5 million votes were cast in this countdown , beating the record set in the 2011 list .   In the week prior to the countdown , Nick Drewe , a Brisbane statistician and marketer , analysed the votes that had been published on social media and determined the possible top 100 , naming it the Warmest 100 . The votes that had been published represented approximately 2.7 % of the total vote . Ultimately , his list correctly predicted 92 of the songs in the countdown , the songs comprising the top 10 , and the top 3 in the correct order . The ABC have announced that it would likely make changes to the voting system to prevent `` spoiler attempts '' in future countdowns .

negative: Brocklehurst, Kamloops Brocklehurst is a neighbourhood in the western area of Kamloops , British Columbia , Canada . Brocklehurst is bordered by the Thompson River to the south , North Shore to the east , the Kamloops Airport to the west , and the Batchelor hills and Batchelor Heights aka Batchelor Hills to the north . Brocklehurst , which briefly existed as a District Municipality in its own right from 1971 until amalgamation with Kamloops in 1973 , is the largest of the city 's neighbourhoods , accounting for 16 % of the city 's population . The Brocklehurst area ( or Brock ) as referred to by its residents , is the warmest and most hospitable of the micro climates in the city of Kamloops . There can be as much as a 4 degree celsius increase from Brock , to Aberdeen all within the city of Kamloops .

negative: Nordic Deep Nordic Deep is the warmest coldwater free-diving competition in the world . Located in Lysekil , Sweden . The depth is > 90m .

negative: Lake Klopein Lake Klopein is a lake near the town of Völkermarkt located within the municipality of Sankt Kanzian in Carinthia , Austria . Lake Klopein is the remaining lake of previously larger lake area , which has spanned over today 's Kühnsdorf area . With water temperatures reaching 29 ° C it is among the warmest lakes in the Alpic region .

negative: Climate of Cebu The Climate of Cebu is a tropical wet and dry climate . There are two seasons in Cebu - the wet season and the dry season . Cebu has three different climates , based on the distribution of rainfall , with the most prevalent ones being Am and Af and a very minor area of Aw .  Based on temperature , the warmest months of the year are March through October ; the winter monsoon brings cooler air from November to February . May is the warmest month , and January , the coolest .   All typically tropical temperature at sea level or low-elevation have a temperature range over the year is less than three degrees Celsius ( 5.4 degree F ) , and annual rainfall exceeds 1,500 millimetres ( 60 in ) .

negative: 1932 World Series The 1932 World Series was a four-game sweep by the American League champions New York Yankees over the National League champions Chicago Cubs . By far its most noteworthy moment was Babe Ruth 's called shot home run , in his 10th and last World Series . It was punctuated by fiery arguments between the two teams , heating up the atmosphere before the World Series even began .   A record 13 future Hall of Famers played in this Series , which was also the first in which both teams wore uniforms with numbers on the backs of the shirts .

negative: 1936 North American cold wave The 1936 North American cold wave ranks among the most intense cold waves in recorded North American meteorological history . The states of the Midwest United States and the Prairie Provinces of Canada were hit the hardest , but only the Southwest and California largely escaped its effects . February 1936 was the coldest month recorded in the states of North Dakota , South Dakota , and Minnesota , and rivals that of 1899 the coldest February on record for the continent as a whole . Only a few parts of the Great Basin , the Bering Sea coast of Alaska and the Labrador Sea coast of Canada were even close to their long-term means .   The 1930s had previously seen some of the mildest winters in recorded North American climatic history -- 1930/1931 in the northern Plains and Western Canada , 1931/1932 in the East , 1932/1933 in New England and 1933/1934 in the Western United States . The northern plains had during the previous eleven years experienced six of their ten warmest Februaries between 1895 and 1976 -- those of 1925 , 1926 , 1927 , 1930 , 1931 and 1935 -- with only February 1929 being severe during this period .   Despite a warm March over most areas east of the Rockies , the extended winter from October to March was the fifth-coldest on record over the conterminous United States and the coldest since 1917 .   The cold wave was followed by one of the hottest summers on record , the 1936 North American heat wave .

negative: Black Lake (Triglav Lakes Valley) Black Lake ( Črno jezero ) ( 1319 m ) is the lowest-lying lake in the Triglav Lakes Valley , part of the Julian Alps in Slovenia . It is named for its location in a basin in the middle of the forest , which stretches right to the edge of the Komarča rock face . Because of its relatively low elevation , it is the warmest of the Triglav Lakes . At the surface , its temperature in summer is 9 ° C , whereas in winter it is 3 ° C . It is 150 m long , 80 m wide , and up to 6 m deep . . The Alpine Newt ( Ichthyosaura alpestris ) , endemic to the Alps , lives in it .

negative: Nation of Heat Nation of Heat is Joe Pug 's debut EP . Pug recorded Nation of Heat 's seven songs at a Chicago studio his friend had snuck him into when other musicians had cancelled . He self-released the EP and began shipping sampler CDs with some of its songs free of charge to whoever asked for a sample of his music . This unorthodox promotional strategy led to Pug selling 20,000 copies of Nation of Heat , piquing the attention of Lighting Rod Records , the Nashville label with which he would eventually sign . The EP was a critical success , drawing comparisons to the work of Bob Dylan and Josh Ritter . `` Hymn # 101 , '' the album 's opening song , drew special attention , being spotlighted on NPR 's Second Stage music blog .

negative: Christina Lake Provincial Park Christina Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia , Canada . The lake it 's on , Christina Lake , is renowned as the warmest tree-lined lake in British Columbia .

negative: Doryanthes Doryanthes is the sole genus in the flowering plant family Doryanthaceae . The genus consists of two species , D. excelsa and D. palmeri , both native to the coast of Eastern Australia .   Plants grow in a rosette form , only flowering after more than 10 years . They enjoy a warm environment , good soil , and much water during the warmest time of the year .

negative: Euro Top 20 The MTV Euro Top 20 ( previously known as the MTV European Top 20 ) was a music chart countdown on MTV Europe , which played the continent 's most popular songs and artists . The countdown had been shown on the majority of the regional MTV channels in Europe since the late 1980s until its cancellation in April 2009 . It was then rebranded on MTV Europe as Euro Hitlist and shown with a varying compilation method until its complete termination in August 2012 .

negative: NGC 2346 NGC 2346 ( also known as the Butterfly Nebula ) is a planetary nebula near the celestial equator in the constellation Monoceros . It is bright and conspicuous and has been extensively studied . Among its most remarkable characteristics is its unusually cool central star , which is a spectroscopic binary , and its unusual shape .   The binary star , which has a period of about 16 days , is also variable , probably due to dust in orbit around it . The dust itself is heated by the central star and so NGC 2346 is unusually bright in the infrared part of the spectrum . When one of the two stars evolved into a red giant , it engulfed its companion , which stripped away a ring of material from the larger star 's atmosphere . When the red giant 's core was exposed , a fast stellar wind inflated two ` bubbles ' from either side of the ring .

negative: Dipterus Dipterus ( meaning ` two wings ' ) is an extinct genus of lungfish from the late Devonian period of Australia , Europe and North America .   In most respects , Dipterus , which was about 35 cm long , closely resembled modern lungfish . Like its ancestor Dipnorhynchus , it had tooth-like plates on its palate instead of real teeth . However , unlike its modern relatives , in which the dorsal , caudal , and anal fin are fused into one , Dipterus '' 's fins were still separated . It mostly ate invertebrates , and had lungs , not an air bladder . These were more developed in Dipterus '' and are still seen in modern-day lungfish .   The genus was established by Adam Sedgwick & Roderick Murchison in the year 1828 .

negative: Sofian El Fani Sofian El Fani ( born 28 January 1974 ) is a Tunisian cinematographer . His credits include Timbuktu , Blue Is the Warmest Colour , and Black Venus .

negative: Ikertivaq Ikertivaq , also known as Ikersuaq or Ikerssuaq , is a bay or fjord in Sermersooq municipality , southeastern Greenland . Tundra climate prevails in the area of the fjord , the average annual temperature in the area being -8 ° C . The warmest month is July when the average temperature rises to 0 ° C and the coldest is January with -14 ° C.   This fjord has been labeled as one of the most dangerous fjords in the area because of the abundance of pack ice . Large ice floes encumber its entrance , blocking the fjord and keeping the calf ice inside .

negative: Bellmunt del Priorat Bellmunt del Priorat is a municipality in the comarca of Priorat , Tarragona , Catalonia , Spain .   Much like the rest of the comarca , Bellmunt has very active wine production , although the climate is one of the warmest to be found .

negative: Central Heating Plant The Central Heating Plant is a power station located at 325 13th Street , SW in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington , D.C. which serves most of the United States federal government buildings near the National Mall . Operated by the General Services Administration , it was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret in 1933 . At the time of its construction it was the largest such heating facility in the United States and served 22 federal buildings . It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 .   Cret used Art Deco styling for the essentially industrial building , a departure from the prevailing Washington classicism , but was able to integrate it with its surroundings through careful massing and detailing . Pilasters and vertical ribbons of windows stand in for classical colonnades . Cret designed the roof profile so that the plant 's smokestacks did not project above the equipment screen , satisfying the concerns of the District of Columbia Commission on Fine Arts , which had jurisdiction over the design . The three octagonal smokestacks rise only 42 ft. Limestone relief panels illustrate the building 's purpose with depictions of a boiler , safety valve , generator , fan and heat exchanger . The building is noteworthy as an early example of Modernism-influenced architecture , and as a notably attractive building in its own right .   Originally designed to burn coal , the Central Heating Plant has been converted to use coal , oil , or natural gas . A central refrigeration plant constructed in 1957 obscures the east elevation .

negative: Abdellatif Kechiche Abdellatif Kechiche ( -LSB- abdɛlatif keʃiʃ -RSB- ; عبد اللطيف كشيش , born 7 December 1960 ) is a Tunisian-French actor , film director and screenwriter . He made his directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire , which he also wrote . His film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival .


query: Even if the warming were as big as the IPCC imagines, it would not be as dangerous as Mr. Brown suggests.

positive: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007 , the Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4 ) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific , technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change , its potential effects , and options for adaptation and mitigation . The report is the largest and most detailed summary of the climate change situation ever undertaken , produced by thousands of authors , editors , and reviewers from dozens of countries , citing over 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies .   It supersedes the Third Assessment Report ( 2001 ) , and is superseded by the Fifth Assessment Report .   The headline findings of the report were : `` warming of the climate system is unequivocal '' , and `` most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations . ''

positive: Global warming controversy The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring , how much has occurred in modern times , what has caused it , what its effects will be , whether any action should be taken to curb it , and if so what that action should be . In the scientific literature , there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases . No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view , though a few organizations with members in extractive industries hold non-committal positions . Disputes over the key scientific facts of global warming are more prevalent in the media than in the scientific literature , where such issues are treated as resolved , and such disputes are more prevalent in the United States than globally .   Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of climate change includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record , whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations , and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it . Scientists have resolved these questions decisively in favour of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing , that human activity is the cause , and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years . Public disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases ( climate sensitivity ) , how global climate change will play out at local and regional scales , and what the consequences of global warming will be .   Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate , often split along party political lines , especially in the United States . Many of the issues that are settled within the scientific community , such as human responsibility for global warming , remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay , dismiss or deny them -- an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial . The sources of funding for those involved with climate science -- both supporting and opposing mainstream scientific positions -- have been questioned by both sides . There are debates about the best policy responses to the science , their cost-effectiveness and their urgency . Climate scientists , especially in the United States , have reported official and oil-industry pressure to censor or suppress their work and hide scientific data , with directives not to discuss the subject in public communications . Legal cases regarding global warming , its effects , and measures to reduce it have reached American courts . The fossil fuels lobby has been identified as overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming .

positive: Climate change and agriculture -RSB-   Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes , both of which take place on a global scale . Climate change affects agriculture in a number of ways , including through changes in average temperatures , rainfall , and climate extremes ( e.g. , heat waves ) ; changes in pests and diseases ; changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and ground-level ozone concentrations ; changes in the nutritional quality of some foods ; and changes in sea level .   Climate change is already affecting agriculture , with effects unevenly distributed across the world . Future climate change will likely negatively affect crop production in low latitude countries , while effects in northern latitudes may be positive or negative . Climate change will probably increase the risk of food insecurity for some vulnerable groups , such as the poor .   Agriculture contributes to climate change by ( 1 ) anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases ( GHGs ) , and ( 2 ) by the conversion of non-agricultural land ( e.g. , forests ) into agricultural land . Agriculture , forestry and land-use change contributed around 20 to 25 % to global annual emissions in 2010 .   There are a range of policies that can reduce the risk of negative climate change impacts on agriculture , and to reduce GHG emissions from the agriculture sector .

positive: Scientific consensus on climate change There is currently a strong scientific consensus that the Earth is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human activities. This consensus is supported by various studies of scientists' opinions and by position statements of scientific organizations, many of which explicitly agree with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesis reports.  Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists (97–98%) support the consensus on anthropogenic climate change, and the remaining 2% of contrarian studies either cannot be replicated or contain errors.

positive: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) is a scientific and intergovernmental body under the auspices of the United Nations , set up at the request of member governments , dedicated to the task of providing the world with an objective , scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts . It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations , the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) and the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , and later endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 43/53 . Membership of the IPCC is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP .  The IPCC produces reports that support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) , which is the main international treaty on climate change . The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to `` stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic -LSB- i.e. , human-induced -RSB- interference with the climate system '' . IPCC reports cover `` the scientific , technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change , its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation . ''   The IPCC does not carry out its own original research , nor does it do the work of monitoring climate or related phenomena itself . The IPCC bases its assessment on the published literature , which includes peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources .   Thousands of scientists and other experts contribute ( on a voluntary basis , without payment from the IPCC ) to writing and reviewing reports , which are then reviewed by governments . IPCC reports contain a `` Summary for Policymakers '' , which is subject to line-by-line approval by delegates from all participating governments . Typically this involves the governments of more than 120 countries .   The IPCC provides an internationally accepted authority on climate change , producing reports which have the agreement of leading climate scientists and the consensus of participating governments . The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared , in equal parts , between the IPCC and Al Gore .

negative: The Big Help The Big Help is a community outreach program made famous in 1994 by Nickelodeon . It was a yearly event in which kids from around the country would call in to try to get one of their local parks refurbished by Nickelodeon , the ten with the most votes would get refurbished by Nickelodeon in an eight-hour special . There were special instances like the September 11 , 2001 terrorist attack where they had unscheduled specials . In 2008 , a sequel emerged called The Big Green Help , which was created to get kids interested in global warming . In 2010 , the name `` The Big Help '' was revived .

negative: Cadbury Mr. Big Mr. Big is the largest sized candy bar produced by Cadbury in Canada , hence the name . The standard bar is made of a layered vanilla wafer coated in caramel , peanuts and rice crisps covered in a brown simulated chocolate-like coating . Because of Canada 's higher chocolate standards compared to other areas of the world , it is not considered a `` chocolate bar '' and is labeled instead as a `` candy bar '' . The bar is the length of two `` standard '' - sized bars -- around 20 centimeters ( 8 inches ) long . Additional varieties include Mr. Chew Big , Mr. Big Fudge , and Mr. Big with Maple .

negative: Global warming hiatus A global warming hiatus , also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown , is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures . In the current episode of global warming many such 15-year periods appear in the surface temperature record , along with robust evidence of the long-term warming trend ; climate is classically averaged over 30-year periods .   Publicity has surrounded claims of a global warming hiatus during the period 1998 -- 2013 . The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend , and so subsequent annual temperatures gave the appearance of a hiatus : by January 2006 , it appeared to some that global warming had stopped or paused . A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional , and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability , the rising temperature trend continued unabated . There was increased public interest in 2013 in the run-up to publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report , and despite concerns that a 15-year period was too short to determine a meaningful trend , the IPCC included a section on a hiatus , which it defined as a much smaller increasing linear trend over the 15 years from 1998 to 2012 , than over the 60 years from 1951 to 2012 . Various studies examined possible causes of the short-term slowdown . Even though the overall climate system has continued to accumulate energy due to Earth 's positive energy budget , the available temperature readings at the Earth 's surface indicate slower rates of increase in surface warming than in the prior decade . Since measurements at the top of the atmosphere show that Earth is receiving more energy than it is radiating back into space , the retained energy should be producing warming in the Earth 's climate system .   Research reported in July 2015 on an updated NOAA dataset casts doubt on the existence of a hiatus , and it finds no indication of a slowdown even in earlier years . Scientists working on other datasets welcomed this study , though they have expressed the view that the recent warming trend was less than in previous periods of the same length . Subsequently , a detailed study supports the conclusion that warming is continuing , but it also find there was less warming between 2001 and 2010 than climate models had predicted , and that this slowdown might be attributed to short-term variations in the Pacific decadal oscillation ( PDO ) , which was negative during that period . Another review finds `` no substantive evidence '' of a pause in global warming . A statistical study of global temperature data since 1970 concludes that the term ` hiatus ' or ` pause ' is not justified .   Independent of these discussions about data and measurements for earlier years , 2015 turned out to be much warmer than any of the earlier years , already before El Niño conditions started . The warmth of 2015 largely ended any remaining scientific credibility of claims that the supposed `` hiatus '' since 1998 had any significance for the long-term warming trend . In January 2017 , a study published in the journal Science Advances cast further doubt on the existence of a recent pause , with more evidence that ocean temperatures have been underestimated . An April 2017 study found the data consistent with a steady warming trend globally since the 1970s , with fluctuations within the expected range of short term variability .

negative: IPCC report IPCC report may refer to :   IPCC First Assessment Report , 1990  IPCC Second Assessment Report , 1995  IPCC Third Assessment Report , 2001  IPCC Fourth Assessment Report , 2007  IPCC Fifth Assessment Report , 2014  IPCC Sixth Assessment Report , expected in 2022

negative: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride `` If wishes were horses , beggars would ride '' is an English language proverb and nursery rhyme , originating in the 16th century , which suggests if wishing could make things happen , then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted . It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004 .

negative: David Henderson (economist) David Henderson ( born 1927 ) is a British economist . He was the chief economist at the Economics and Statistics Department at the OECD in 1984 -- 1992 . Before that he worked as an academic economist in Britain , first at Oxford ( Fellow of Lincoln College ) and later at University College London ( Professor of Economics , 1975 -- 1983 ) ; as a British civil servant ( first as an Economic Advisor in HM Treasury , and later as Chief Economist in the Ministry of Aviation ) ; and as a staff member of the World Bank ( 1969 -- 1975 ) . In 1985 he gave the BBC Reith Lectures , which were published in the book Innocence and Design : The Influence of Economic Ideas on Policy ( Blackwell , 1986 ) .   Since leaving the OECD , Henderson has been an independent author and consultant , and has acted as Visiting Fellow or Professor at the OECD Development Centre ( Paris ) , the Centre for European Policy Studies ( Brussels ) , Monash University , the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques , the University of Melbourne , the Royal Institute of International Affairs , the New Zealand Business Roundtable , the Melbourne Business School , and Westminster Business School . He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs .   In 1992 , Henderson was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Companion ( CMG ) .   Henderson and Nigel Lawson appealed to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to investigate the economic implications of the potential implementation of policies put forth by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) findings .   Henderson and Ian Castles , a former head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics argued that the IPCC 's projections of future emissions of greenhouse gases was flawed . The IPCC 's forecasts of global output were based on national GDP converted to dollars using market exchange rates . Henderson and Ian Castles were critical of the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios ( SRES ) report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) that was published in 2000 . The core of their critique was the use of market exchange rates ( MER ) for international comparison , in lieu of the theoretically favoured PPP exchange rate which corrects for differences in purchasing power . The IPCC rebutted this criticism . Castles and Henderson later acknowledged that they were mistaken that future greenhouse gas emissions had been significantly overestimated .   Henderson has suggested about climate change that the science is not settled and criticized the Stern Review regarding the economics of global warming . He has also published books that strongly criticize `` corporate social responsibility '' .   he is chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation .

negative: Ted (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) `` Ted '' is episode 11 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer . It was written by David Greenwalt and Joss Whedon , and guest starred John Ritter as Ted .   Buffy is unable to warm to her mother 's new boyfriend , Ted . When her escalating conflict has apparently lethal consequences , Buffy 's guilt turns to fear -- Joyce is in far greater danger than anyone could have imagined .

negative: Mr. Bill Mr. Bill is a clay figurine clown star of a parody of children 's shows , created by Walter Williams . Mr. Bill got its start on Saturday Night Live as a Super 8 film sent in response to the show 's request for home movies during the first season . Mr. Bill 's first appearance occurred on the February 28 , 1976 , episode . Williams became a full-time writer for the show in 1978 , writing more than 20 sketches based on Mr. Bill .   Each Mr. Bill episode would start innocently enough but would quickly turn dangerous for Mr. Bill . Along with his dog , Spot , he would suffer various indignities inflicted by `` Mr. Hands , '' a man seen only as a pair of hands ( played by Vance DeGeneres ) .  Sometimes the abuse would ostensibly come from the mean Sluggo , another clay character . The violence would inevitably escalate , generally ending with Mr. Bill being crushed or dismembered while squealing in a high pitched voice , `` Ohhhh noooooooooooooo ... '' . The concept for Mr. Hands came from Williams ' observation that children 's cartoons in the 70s were so static , he expected the artist 's hands to enter the screen at any moment and physically start moving the drawings around .   Mr. Bill has subsequently appeared on other television programs and advertisements .

negative: Mr. Brown (album) Mr. Brown is the second album by R&B artist Sleepy Brown . The album has been released under Big Boi 's label Purple Ribbon Records . The release date for the album is October 3 , 2006 . The album features production by Sleepy Brown himself and his group Organized Noize , as well as The Neptunes .   The first single was `` Margarita '' , which features Big Boi & Pharrell and was produced by The Neptunes . The second single pulled from the album is `` Till ( Your Legs Start Shaking ) '' . The song `` I Ca n't Wait '' was previously released as a single from the Barbershop 2 Soundtrack .

negative: Imagination Is the Only Escape Imagination Is the Only Escape was an upcoming video game by Luc Bernard , the creator of Mecho Wars , that mysteriously was never released . It was being developed for the Nintendo DS , though some rumors have popped up suggesting it would 've been a WiiWare game instead . However , Luc Bernard has since expressed interest in bringing the title to Wii U.   Set in France during World War II , Imagination Is The Only Escape is an educational title aiming to teach children about the WWll genocide , The Holocaust .

negative: Actual Size Actual Size is the sixth album by the American rock band Mr. Big , originally released in August 2001 . It was their second and final studio album to feature guitarist Richie Kotzen . Actual Size would be Mr. Big 's final studio album for 9 years , until What If ... in 2010 .

negative: Riddim Driven: Mr Brown Meets Number One Riddim Driven : Mr Brown Meets Number One is the seventeenth album in VP Records ' Riddim Driven series . It was released in December 2001 on CD and LP . The album , produced by Donovan Germain , features various artists recorded over re-licks of two classic reggae riddims from Gregory Isaacs . The first six tracks are across Isaacs ' `` Mr. Brown '' riddim , while the last 10 are over his `` Number One '' riddim . Both tunes were big hits for Isaacs ' during the 1970s and he records updated versions of both on this compilation . The last four tracks only appear on the CD edition . They are replaced on the vinyl edition by two version tracks , one before the Isaacs & Griffiths duet and the second at the very end .

negative: Margarita (Sleepy Brown song) `` Margarita '' is a song by R&B singer Sleepy Brown 's from his third studio album Mr. Brown . It features rapper Big Boi and singer Pharrell Williams . The song debuted at # 8 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart but fell off soon after .

negative: Mr Big (UK band) Mr Big were a British pop rock band , active in the 1970s and 1990s . They were formed by Jeff Pain ( aka Dicken ) and best known for their 1977 Top 5 hit , `` Romeo '' . The band was originally active from 1972 -- 78 and then for a second period from 1990 -- 98 .

negative: Mr. Imagination Gregory Warmack , better known as Mr. Imagination ( March 30 , 1948 in Maywood , Illinois -- May 30 , 2012 in Atlanta , Georgia ) was an American outsider artist . He worked in a variety of forms and his work often made use of sandstone and bottlecaps .

negative: Is Religion Dangerous? Is Religion Dangerous ? is a book by Keith Ward examining the questions : `` Is religion dangerous ? Does it do more harm than good ? Is it a force for evil ? '' It was first published in 2006 . Looking at the evidence from history , philosophy , sociology and psychology , Ward focuses on the main question at issue : does religion do more harm than good ? He begins by examining the key area of religion and violence and goes on to assess the allegations of irrationality and immorality , before exploring the good religion has done over the centuries . He suggests that without religion the human race would be considerably worse off and there would be little hope for the future .

negative: Mr. I-Magination Mr. I. Magination was one of the earliest television shows for children . It ran live as a half-hour weekly show on CBS from 1949 to 1952 and was broadcast from Manhattan . ( Information about Mr. I. Magination may be found in `` Children 's Television : The First Thirty Five Years : Live , Filmed And Taped '' by George Woolery ; Scarecrow Press , Inc. . )   The host , Mr. I. Magination ( Paul Tripp ) , dressed as a train engineer , gathered a group of children each week . The same child actors appeared on a rotating basis . Two would be selected to ask about a career , occupation , activity , and such . Tripp would then play a `` magic '' slide flute , he and the children would board a train and travel to Imagination Land , where they would meet a professional from each of the two areas for that week 's show .   Guests were as diverse as Damu , a lion tamer from Ringling Brothers Circus , and test pilot Scott Crossfield . His wife , Ruth Enders Tripp , also acted in the show . The show was also a pioneer in using simple , early special effects , such as making it appear as if the opening train ride went through a tunnel to enter Imagination Land , emerging from the smoke from its engine .   Yul Brynner served as the director of the show at times , but did not appear as a performer . The show also featured performances by Walter Matthau , Richard Boone , Joe Silver , Ted Tiller , and Simon Oakland .   Mr. I. Magination also was featured on several RCA records for children , including `` Billy On A Bike '' and `` Mr. I. Magination Meets Rip Van Winkle '' , there are at least two versions on a LP ( long playing ) record .

negative: The Deniers The Deniers is a 2008 book by Lawrence Solomon , a Canadian environmentalist and writer . Subtitled `` The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria , political persecution , and fraud , '' the book draws attention to a number of scientists and others who , according to Solomon , have advanced arguments against what he calls the `` alarmist '' view of global warming , as presented by Al Gore , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , the mainstream media , and others . The book is based on a series of columns Solomon wrote for Canada 's National Post .

negative: Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is the second solo album by American rapper and OutKast-member Big Boi , released on December 11 , 2012 , by Purple Ribbon Records and Def Jam Recordings . The album features guest appearances from Sleepy Brown , Phantogram , T.I. , Ludacris , Kid Cudi , Little Dragon , Killer Mike , Kelly Rowland , ASAP Rocky , B.o.B , Wavves , Mouche , Scar , Bosko , Jai Paul , UGK , Big K.R.I.T. , Theophilus London , and Tre Luce .

negative: Cosmon Cosmon or Cosmonium is a hypothetical form of matter where the Universe would have been in a dense form of matter as a particle named Cosmon . The idea was originally proposed by Georges Lemaître who suggested the idea of a ` primeval atom ' ( L'Hypothèse de l'Atome Primitif ) 1946 . He illustrated the idea by imagining an object 30 times larger than the volume of the sun containing all the matter of the Universe . Its density would be around . In his view this exploded somewhere between 20 -- 60 billion years ago . On this model matter would n't been generated from singularity unlike in current big bang theory .   The idea of a primeval `` super-atom '' lived on and was developed forward by Maurice Goldhaber in 1956 . In his proposal there would have been a point , which had been called a Universon , that would have collapsed into a Cosmon and an Anticosmon pair . Goldhaber was wondering about why is there any matter if equal amount of matter and antimatter was formed in the beginning of the big bang . One explanation for this is the asymmetry of matter meaning that there could have been slightly more matter than antimatter , for instance 1001 matter particles to every 1000 antimatter . In Goldhabers model cosmon and anticosmon would have flown apart and therefore explaining issue without asymmetry .   In 1989 Hans Dehmelt attempted to modernize the idea of the primeval atom . In this hypothesis , Cosmonium would have been the heaviest form of matter at the beginning of the big bang .

negative: Margaret Brown Margaret `` Maggie '' Brown ( née Tobin ) ( July 18 , 1867 -- October 26 , 1932 ) ( posthumously known as `` The Unsinkable Molly Brown '' ) was an American socialite and philanthropist . She is best remembered for exhorting the crew in to return to the debris field of the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic to look for survivors . Accounts differ on whether the boat actually returned to look for survivors , and if so , if any survivors were found . During her lifetime , her friends called her `` Maggie '' , but even by her death , obituaries referred to her as the `` Unsinkable Mrs. Brown '' . The reference was further reinforced by a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation were each entitled The Unsinkable Molly Brown .

negative: Pseudonaja Pseudonaja is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to Australia . Species of this genus are known commonly as brown snakes and are considered to be some of the most dangerous snakes in the country ; even young snakes are capable of delivering a fatal envenomation to a human .   Despite its common name , the king brown snake ( Pseudechis australis ) is not a brown snake , but a member of the genus Pseudechis , commonly known as black snakes .

negative: Mr. Moto in Danger Island Mr. Moto in Danger Island is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and starring Peter Lorre , Jean Hersholt and Amanda Duff . It is part of the Mr. Moto series of films .   The film was based on the novel Murder in Trinidad , but the setting was moved to Puerto Rico .

negative: Climate change mitigation Climate change mitigation consists of actions to limit the magnitude or rate of long-term climate change . Climate change mitigation generally involves reductions in human ( anthropogenic ) emissions of greenhouse gases ( GHGs ) . Mitigation may also be achieved by increasing the capacity of carbon sinks , e.g. , through reforestation . Mitigation policies can substantially reduce the risks associated with human-induced global warming .   According to the IPCC 's 2014 assessment report , `` Mitigation is a public good ; climate change is a case of the ` tragedy of the commons . Effective climate change mitigation will not be achieved if each agent ( individual , institution or country ) acts independently in its own selfish interest ( see international cooperation and emissions trading ) , suggesting the need for collective action . Some adaptation actions , on the other hand , have characteristics of a private good as benefits of actions may accrue more directly to the individuals , regions , or countries that undertake them , at least in the short term . Nevertheless , financing such adaptive activities remains an issue , particularly for poor individuals and countries . ''   Examples of mitigation include phasing out fossil fuels by switching to low-carbon energy sources , such as renewable and nuclear energy , and expanding forests and other `` sinks '' to remove greater amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . Energy efficiency may also play a role , for example , through improving the insulation of buildings . Another approach to climate change mitigation is climate engineering .   Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) . The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference of the climate system . Scientific analysis can provide information on the impacts of climate change , but deciding which impacts are dangerous requires value judgments .   In 2010 , Parties to the UNFCCC agreed that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 ° C ( 3.6 ° F ) relative to the pre-industrial level . With the Paris Agreement of 2015 this was confirmed , but was revised with a new target laying down `` parties will do the best '' to achieve warming below 1.5 ° C . The current trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions does not appear to be consistent with limiting global warming to below 1.5 or 2 ° C . Other mitigation policies have been proposed , some of which are more stringent or modest than the 2 ° C limit .

negative: The Cuban Doctor `` The Cuban Doctor '' is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry , Harmonium . It was first published in the journal Poetry in October 1921 , so it is in the public domain .   The1 poem meditates on Stevens 's increasing awareness , also notably expressed in `` The Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks '' ( 1923 ) , that the difference between imaginative activity and ordinary experience is unstable and affected by irrational forces , which may attack , like a bolt of lightning , even someone `` drowsing in summer 's sleepiest horn '' . This theme can be understood as signalling that writing poetry is dangerous . Poetic drowsing is liable to attack by the Indian , or by Berserk in `` Peacocks '' , defeating imagination 's task of transforming the ordinary . This sense of danger is absent in such earlier poems as `` Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock '' ( 1915 ) , where the old sailor need fear no such violence as he catches tigers in red weather .

negative: What Is Your Dangerous Idea? What Is Your Dangerous Idea ? : Today 's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable is a book edited by John Brockman , which deals with `` dangerous '' ideas , or ideas that some people would react to in ways that suggest a disruption of morality and ethics . Scientists , philosophers , artists , and various other groups of people have written in to the online salon called the Edge , where thinkers in several areas post and discuss their ideas . This collection of responses forms the entirety of the book ( possibly with some excluded because of the great number of posts ) . The basic concept behind the book is `` to gather a hundred of the most brilliant minds in the world in a room , lock them in , and have them ask each other the questions they were asking themselves '' .

negative: Seita Emori Seita Emori ( born 1970 in Kanagawa , Japan ) is a Japanese environmental scientist whose most noted work focuses upon the worldwide effects of Global Warming . He completed his Doctorate at the University of Tokyo in 1997 and thereafter joined the National Institute of Environmental Studies , Japan where he is currently the  Chief of the Climate Risk Assessment Research Section at the Center for Global Environmental Research . Emori is a contributing author to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) and a member of the IPCC Steering Committee for the `` Expert Meeting on New Scenarios '' , for which the IPCC received a Noble Prize in 2007 .   Among Emori 's publications are the academic paper `` Sensitivity Map of LAI to Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature Variations in a Global Scale '' ( co-authored with his Japans colleague Hiroshi Kanzawa and Jiahua Zhang and Congbin Fu of the START , Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing , China ) .

negative: Hey Man Hey Man is the fourth studio album by the hard rock band , Mr. Big . It would be their last album with guitarist Paul Gilbert until 2010 's What If ...

negative: Jonathan A. Rosenbaum Jonathan A. Rosenbaum ( sometimes credited as Jon Rosenbaum ) is American television director and producer . As a director , his credits include Zixx : Level Three , The Assistants , Imagination Movers , What 's Up Warthogs ! , Big Time Rush , The Troop , Zeke and Luther , Mr. Young , Supah Ninjas , A.N.T. Farm , Some Assembly Required , and Stuck in the Middle . He also worked as a producer on the series Mental .

negative: Floral Decorations for Bananas `` Floral Decorations for Bananas '' is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry , Harmonium ( 1923 ) . It was first published Measure 26 ( Apr. 1923 ) and is therefore under copyright , however it is quoted here as justified by fair use in order to facilitate scholarly commentary .   The poem 's speaker is unhappy about the choice of bananas as a table decoration , complaining that they do n't match well with the eglantine and are suitable only for a room of women who are all shanks and bangles and slatted eyes . Recommended instead are plums in an eighteenth-century dish , centering a room in which there would be women of primrose and purl .   This poem finds Stevens , the cool master as Yvor Winters described him , in warm good humor , putting the world 's raw material in tension with imagination 's desire for a sophisticated construct . The raw bananas do n't quite succumb , and there is a suggestion that this is not a bad thing , if only to provide energy and impetus for imagination 's renewal . Alternatively , the poem can be interpreted as about the dangers of blatant sexuality and Stevens 's `` fear of the force of female sexuality '' .   Surely Marianne Moore had this poem foremost in mind when she compared Stevens 's efforts in Harmonium to Henri Rousseau 's paintings . There is lushness and sexuality in both .   The poetic device that Robert Buttel noted in connection with `` The Apostrophe to Vincentine is at work here too , in what Eleanor Cook , following art historian Ernst Gombrich , calls inverted recognition , `` the recognition not of reality in a painting but of a painting in reality '' .

negative: Pseudo-warm front A pseudo-warm front is a boundary between the in-flow region and the forward-flank downdraft of a supercell . It can either be stationary or move in a northeasterly direction . If it were stationary it would technically be a pseudo-stationary front .

negative: Mr. Big (Big Boy album) Mr. Big is Big Boy 's first album released in 1993 .