Sentences with phrase «about human causation»

Even assuming for the sake of argument that there is more scientific uncertainty about human causation of warming than that recognized by the mainstream scientific view, as we have explained in Ethicsandclimate.org before in numerous articles (See.

It is not clear from candidate Romney's stated position about human causation of observable warming whether he is claiming that there is no evidence of human causation or alternatively that there is significant scientific uncertainty about links between human activities and observed warming.

(Fingerprint studies draw conclusions about human causation that can be deduced from: (a) how the Earth warms in the upper and lower atmosphere, (b) warming in the oceans, (c) night - time vs day - time temperature increases, (d) energy escaping from the upper atmosphere versus energy trapped, (e) isotopes of CO2 in the atmosphere and coral that distinguish fossil CO2 from non-fossil CO2, (f) the height of the boundary between the lower and upper atmosphere, and (g) atmospheric oxygen levels decrease as CO2 levels increase.

More specifically in regard to the question of human causation, opponents of climate change policies that deny human causation should be expected to specifically respond to the numerous «foot - print» and «attribution» studies that the international community has relied on to make conclusions about human causation.

Not exact matches

Because fundamentally humans keep failing and being cautious about the difference between correlation and causation.

Donna Bethell recently complained to the Washington Post about an article that mentioned human causation of global warming:

Yet some of the most frequently repeated claims made by those engaged in the climate change disinformation campaign have been outright untruths about such things as the claim that the entire scientific basis for human induced climate change is a hoax or that there is no evidence of human causation.

What specific scientific references and sources do you rely upon to conclude that there is a reasonable scientific dispute about whether human actions are causing observable climate change and are you aware of the multiple «fingerprint» studies and «attribution» studies that very strongly point to human causation?

Rarely is human - induced climate change mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in the recent outbreak of sever tornadoes although questions about causation are becoming more frequent on TV and newspapers in this writer's experience.

Moreover, a change in a respondent's estimate of the scientific consensus significantly influences the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused, and the extent to which they worry about the issue (note that belief in climate change and human causation also directly influence level of «worry»).

In general, however, Trump's Cabinet appointees have been largely noncommittal about the issue of climate change and its human causation.

E.g. of those abstracts making a statement about the quantitative contribution of human activity to the warming, 87 % (65/75) endorsed dominant human causation.

Back when I took torts in law school, torts never seemed like much of a human subject at all, it was all about formulas for figuring out causation, duty and forseeability.

An argument has been made — for example, in Lynda M. Collins «Causation, contribution and Clements: Revisiting the material contribution test in Canadian tort law» (2011), 19 Tort L. Rev. 86 — that there is something inherently uncertain about vehicle dynamics because (in the scheme of human scientific progress) this subject is relatively new.

Ås, Norge About Blog Causation is central to our understanding of human health and illness.

Ås, Norge About Blog Causation is central to our understanding of human health and illness.