The Sun provides the primary source of energy driving Earth's climate system, but its variations have played very little role in
the climate changes observed in recent decades.
Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human -... Learn More >>
The modelers got a good match to maps of
the climate changes observed over the past century, but only if they included the effects of the gases, and not if they tried to attribute it all to the Sun.
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Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.
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Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.
This information is used throughout the assessment to explain the key impacts of
climate change observed in recent decades and projected in the future.
«No Study to date has positively attributed all or part [of
the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic causes.»
«Concerning the climate change that we observe around us today... the simplest (and therefore null) hypothesis, is that «
the climate change observed today is natural unless and until evidence accrues otherwise».
Humanity is the major influence on the global
climate change observed over the past 50 years.
For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that
the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.
They asserted,»... no study to date has positively attributed all or part of
climate change observed to man - made causes.»
Human activities that release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are largely responsible for
the climate change observed over the last century.
«While some of the pattern - base discussed here have claimed detection of a significant climate change, no study to date has positively attributed all or part of
climate change observed to man - made causes.»
In contrast to the above, it is entirely possible that much, perhaps most, of
the climate change observed over the last century or so is natural.
The skeptic view is that since there has been
no climate change observed that is at odds with historical variability, the alarmist case is not only unproven, but suspect.
Not exact matches
«Events with severe consequences are becoming more frequent and intense, due to
climate change, and have been the principal contributors to an
observed increase in the frequency and duration of power outages in the United States,» according to the draft.
Acknowledging that «we can not attribute any single wildfire to
climate change,» Henderson
observed that
climate change
Kevin Grandia, a noted
climate -
change blogger,
observes that this time around, Canada has adopted a passive, do - nothing strategy: before, it had actively blocked attempts at real progress.
Storms like Sandy have been routinely hitting the same area as noted by the historical record which started way before any potential
climate changes were
observed.
As Li Junfeng, the director - general of China's National Center on
Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, observed: «Through this kind of lifestyle change, it is expected that the livestock industry will [be transformed] and carbon emissions will be reduced.&
Change Strategy and International Cooperation,
observed: «Through this kind of lifestyle
change, it is expected that the livestock industry will [be transformed] and carbon emissions will be reduced.&
change, it is expected that the livestock industry will [be transformed] and carbon emissions will be reduced.»
An upcoming article in the journal Climatic
Change (1) modeled what could happen to coffee production in Veracruz, Mexico if observed trends in climate change continue and coffee prices remain s
Change (1) modeled what could happen to coffee production in Veracruz, Mexico if
observed trends in
climate change continue and coffee prices remain s
change continue and coffee prices remain steady.
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), has also urged people to
observe one meat - free day a week to curb carbon emissions.
The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of
climate change,
changes observed in the
climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future
changes.
«Numerous
changes in
climate have been
observed at the scales of continents or ocean basins.
The simulations suggest that, for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates,
changes in
climate will very likely be larger than the
changes already
observed during the 20th century.
Observed Climate Changes The many new or improved observational data sets that became available in time for the 2007 IPCC report allowed a more comprehensive assessment of changes than was possible in earlier r
Changes The many new or improved observational data sets that became available in time for the 2007 IPCC report allowed a more comprehensive assessment of
changes than was possible in earlier r
changes than was possible in earlier reports.
Other
climate simulations that use sea surface temperature variation didn't match
observed changes, either.
Nevertheless, as recognized by Working Group 1 of the IPCC, scientific challenges remain to our abilities to
observe, interpret, and project
climate changes.
Tippett notes that more studies are needed to attribute the
observed changes to either global warming or another component of
climate variability.
Most elements of this storm have indeed been
observed in the past without any need for invoking global
climate change as a causative agent.
Now Muller says Berkeley Earth's new results «are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change,» because they found solar activity had a «negligible» role in warming
observed since the 1750s.
Wine growers in Australia have long
observed that
changes in the
climate bring their grapes to early maturity — leading to
changes in the balance of flavors and aromas that could bring down the value of wine.
The problem stems from oxygen reduction in deep water, a phenomenon that some scientists are
observing in oceans worldwide, and that may be related to
climate change.
In my class on
climate change problem solving, I use a 2005 paper by M. H. Zhang et al. that compares modeled clouds with
observed ones from 10
climate models.
«However, they are a reminder of how
climate uncertainty has increased and that we'll have to get use to variations in the weather as the
climate change proceeds,» Laaksonen
observes.
To see how increased temperatures might contribute to the reductions in the river's flow that have been
observed since 2000, Udall and Overpeck reviewed and synthesized 25 years of research about how
climate and
climate change have and will affect the region and how temperature and precipitation affect the river's flows.
Satellite measurements and a model of how efficiently maize converts that light to mass, reveal that solar brightening, an increase in the sunlight penetrating the atmosphere and reaching Earth, accounted for 27 % of the yield increase U.S. Corn Belt farmers have
observed between 1984 and 2013, researchers report today in Nature
Climate Change.
Spend a little more time
observing meteors or combating
climate change, spend a little less time worrying about global catastrophes.
While the effects of human activity on the seal population can be detrimental — for example through a high rate of fishing bycatch mortality as
observed on Lake Saimaa — a novel conservation method can help the seal population to cope with
climate change.
They also compare
observed changes with those predicted by
climate change studies and examine the reasons for discrepancies where they exist.
«The
observed climate changes we report are not opinions, they are facts,» said report co-chair Jerry M. Melillo, director of the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other
changes in the
climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the
climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future
climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming
observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.
Although computer models used to project
climate changes from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations consistently simulate an increasing upward airflow in the tropics with global warming, this flow can not be directly
observed.
«It is important to begin mechanistic studies of these declines,» the team concludes in a paper presenting the finding published in today's Science, «with habitat alteration,
climate change and agricultural chemical usage being potential key drivers of
observed shifts.»
The
observed variation in the fern diversity was compared with the variation in other groups of plants and in the environment, such as continental drift and
climate changes.
«By prescribing the effects of human - made
climate change and
observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the
observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.»
The trees play an absolutely critical role in rural life,»
observes Peter Läderach of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, who has led research into the effects of
climate change on cacao farming in Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Under
climate change, people in urban areas may get used to warmer temperatures, though they would still be vulnerable to heat surges, especially when they strike in April rather than August, Kalkstein
observed.
Using this technique, the researchers detected patterns of human
climate drivers (so - called fingerprints) associated with the
observed change just like detectives look for fingerprints to catch criminals.
But it makes equally clear that
climate - related
changes are already being
observed globally and that new problems and challenges will develop no matter how radically emissions are reduced in the future.