Not exact matches
The Trudeau government believes accepting the scientific evidence for
human -
caused climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are critical to gaining social licence for pipelines, Carr
says.
According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who
say they believe in
human -
caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.
«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of
human activity as a
cause for
climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of
climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,»
said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of
climate change is clear, and warrants action.»
Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once
said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from
humans are the main
cause for
climate change.
«There is no credible doubt that
climate change is real and is
caused by
human activity,» Gillibrand
said.
«I do not believe that
human activity is
causing these dramatic
changes to our
climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator
said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether
humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.
A Washington Post-Stanford University poll in June found 77 percent of Americans
say rising global temperatures are at least partly the result of
human activity, while 22 percent
said that
climate change is the result only of natural
causes.
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climate change [June 28,
change [June 28, 2016]
Ruling out natural variability, scientists
say several of 2016's extreme weather events wouldn't have happened without
human -
caused climate change.
Those differences can be
caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to
human -
caused climate change, she
said.
«Students could interpret scientific information for themselves and deduce that
climate change is
human -
caused or anthropogenic,»
says Stevenson, a former science teacher for grades 4 - 12.
Scientific consensus that
humans cause climate change is akin to the scientific consensus that smoking
causes cancer,
says a report released today by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The highest number of respondents, 35 percent,
said climate change was
caused about equally by natural
changes in the environment and
human causes.
This does not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be
said to be simply «
caused» by
human - induced
climate change — usually such events are complex, with many
causes.
The researchers
say that rising ocean temperatures, driven by
human -
caused climate change, are mostly to blame.
«I'm not a scientist» is a line officials love to use to avoid having to acknowledge that what actual scientists
say is true — for example, that
human -
caused climate change is ravaging the planet.
He
said scientists need about a century's worth of good data to start making sophisticated predictions about the influence of
human -
caused climate change on hurricane frequency.
«With
human -
caused climate change, we're running a vast, unintended ecological experiment,» she
says.
While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by
human -
caused climate change, Steig
said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.
The Big Picture RT The impacts of
human -
caused climate change are happening faster than scientists previously assumed, the AAAS CEO
said on 6 July, during an appearance on The Hartmann Report, a radio and television talk show.
In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed
said they believed
climate change was occurring, with 8 percent pinpointing
human activities as the main
cause.
That «we can't
say with assurance that
human activities
cause weather
changes» and that
climate problems in Texas are best solved through «days of prayer for rain».
«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of
human -
caused climate change,» he
said in an email.
Bennett: When you
say an open mind, you mean you're just not sure whether
human activity
causes climate change?
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center,
said there is no doubt the sharp increase in weather disasters is an effect of
human -
caused climate change.
'' [S] ea - ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next decades could substantially impact California's precipitation, thus highlighting another mechanism by which
human -
caused climate change could exacerbate future California droughts,» the study
says.
37 - percentage point gap over whether
climate change is mostly
caused by
human activity — 87 % of AAAS scientists
say it is, while 50 % of the public does.
As for the long - running political controversy about
climate change, especially about the degree to which
human activity
causes it, the scientists
said it tends to become relevant mainly when they are dealing with long time frames —
say 30 years or more — and mostly at the top echelons of the political hierarchy.
Regardless of whether participants
said they accepted that
human activity
caused climate change, most recognized that scientists expect
climate change to create serious environmental dangers, including increased coastal flooding.
«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 %
saying they do believe in
human -
caused climate change and 50 %
saying they don't,»
said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.
«It will never be possible to
say that any specific flood was
caused by
human - induced
climate change.
That
said, the overall trend is clear: with fuel aridity increasing in the western U.S. due in part to
human -
caused climate change, the authors project that both burned area and burn severity will continue to increase under
climate change.
It will never be possible to
say that any specific flood was
caused by
human - induced
climate change alone, in the sense that, without
climate change, that flood would not have happened.
This indicates that summer sea ice in the Antarctic is heavily influenced by natural fluctuations in the
climate system, which can mask the impact of
human -
caused climate change,
says Day:
Climatologists reporting for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)
say we are seeing global warming
caused by
human activities and there are growing fears of feedbacks that will accelerate this warming.
Perceptions of where the scientific community stands on
climate change have fluctuated from a low of 44 % in 2010 who
said that scientists agree about
human activity as the main
cause of warming temperatures to a high of 57 %
saying this today.19
According to the survey, 87 percent of the scientists questioned by the Pew Research Center
said that
climate change is mostly
caused by
human activity, compared with 50 percent of the public.
Now the new study
says the drought had a catalytic effect on the unrest in Syria, and
human -
caused climate change has made the chances of such a severe drought between two and three times more likely.
«
Climate change, as well as
human -
caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,»
said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
«Harvey was not
caused by
climate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to human - caused global warming,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in a sta
climate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to
human -
caused global warming,»
said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research, in a sta
Climate Impact Research, in a statement.
There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014
said, «I do not believe that
human activity is
causing these dramatic
changes to our
climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.
We can
say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were
caused by
human - induced
climate change.»
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are
causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who
say they show that
climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a
human influence on
climate change.
Mr. Will's overarching premise about sea ice and messages it holds related to
human -
caused climate change, was wrong, they
say.
It seems safe to
say that there is no scientific basis for asserting a
climate change signal (
human caused or otherwise) underlying the decades - long trend of escalting economic impacts related to extreme events.
They released a detailed spending plan,
saying among other things that more money could increase computing power, a prerequisite for gaining insights and forecasting skill on drought, tornadoes, hurricanes and regional impacts of
human -
caused climate change.
He is reported to have gone from the sublime, back in June, when he
said «
climate change is occurring, is
caused largely by
human activities and poses significant risks», to the ridiculous, all in the space of a few short weeks.
University of Florida researcher Edward Schuur
says he doesn't expect permafrost greenhouse gas emission to trump anthropogenic (
human -
caused) greenhouse gas emissions anytime soon, however they could become «an important amplifier of
climate change.»
The letter portends to offer facts about «
climate change deniers, but readers can't even get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about skeptic
climate scientists
saying global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and
caused by
humans, but it's not so bad.»
In the Washington Times piece, interviewer Joseph Cotto asked a straightforward question: Cotto: In the past, you have
said that
human activity is not the only
cause for
climate change.