Sentences with phrase «about humans causing climate change»

Ironically, the climate debate is about humans causing climate change.

Most, (the vast majority BTW) sceptics I know aren't sceptical about humans causing climate change at all.

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Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

Therefore, people who find # 1 absurd can determine whether or not we should do anything about climate change by determining whether or not humans are causing it.

If you can then show that humans don't cause climate change, then only # 2 (and possibly # 4, which has the same conclusion) is left, and it means that we have no obligation to try and do anything about it.

His session allowed him to talk about how human climate change in national parks is melting glaciers, raising sea level, killing trees, and causing other impacts.

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.

Reality — about 97 % of climate experts have concluded that human - caused climate change is happening.

And President Obama told Vox in February that the media «sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism» when compared with the human suffering that will be caused by climate change (Greenwire, Feb. 11).

The highest number of respondents, 35 percent, said climate change was caused about equally by natural changes in the environment and human causes.

«We want to find ways to confront an erosion of evidence,» AAAS CEO and Science Executive Publisher Rush Holt told the fellows, referring to skepticism about the reality of human - caused climate change, «and that's why we turned to you.»

It was suspected that a harsh drought from about 2000 to 2010 that killed tens of thousands of livestock was unprecedented in the region's history and primarily the result of human - caused climate change.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

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.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

Carolyn Gramling writes about studies that, for the first time, blame specific extreme weather events on human - caused climate change — certain to be a hot topic in 2018.

«Of course not — and yet scientists have the same level of certainty about human - caused climate change as they do that cigarettes harm your health.»

Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a substantial and growing amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, including human evolution, the safety of vaccines and whether or not human - caused climate change is real and happening.

Moreover, we found that when respondents» perception of the level of scientific agreement increased, this led to significant changes in other key beliefs about the issue, such as the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused and a worrisome problem.

When the weather is unseasonably hot or cold, Americans across the political spectrum have even stronger views about whether climate change caused by human activity is a reality or not.

The consensus on human - caused climate change is among the strongest observed in the sciences — about as strong as the consensus surrounding the link between smoking and lung cancer.

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.

One of the senior scientists there (extremely conservative senior scientist who got after me occasionally about being too bold), publicly used the phrase, «this [human caused climate change evidence] is alarming to me.»

«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.

A «Parexit» would send a clear signal to the rest of the world: «The United States does not care about the global problem of human - caused climate change.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

I have wanted to learn more about the effect of human - caused climate change on the natural world.

The National Climate Assessment offers a wealth of actionable science about the causes, effects, risks and possible responses to human - caused climate Climate Assessment offers a wealth of actionable science about the causes, effects, risks and possible responses to human - caused climate climate change.

Marine scientists who met in Monaco in October 2008 released a strong statement on January 30, 2009 about ocean acidification accelerating due to increasing carbon emissions caused by human - induced climate change.

«[The next ice age is] not worth worrying about compared to immediate concerns about damaging human - caused climate change expected over the coming decades if no action is taken to mitigate this likelihood.»

As the graph below from Spracklen's News and Views article shows, the balance between warming (red shading) and cooling (blue shading) have kept the country's contribution to human - caused climate change pegged at about 10 % in recent decades, despite soaring fossil fuel emissions.

I find it troubling that Wojick, a federal employee (DOE), is being paid to develop materials designed misinform and confuse school children about human - caused climate change.

Through many of those years, Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human - caused, or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to address.

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

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

Students watched An Inconvenient Truth — former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's documentary about global warming — and studied the science behind climate change (including arguments that it is not a crisis humans caused).

After a long controversy, Idaho science teachers will now be able to fully educate their students about human - caused climate change.

Though writers have long warned us about what happens when humans mess with nature in general and the weather in particular, We Are Unprepared might be in the vanguard of tales that deal with the consequences of human - caused climate change.

Senator John McCain used a visit to Vestas, a manufacturer of wind turbines in Portland, Ore., as a backdrop for a speech describing his views on human - caused climate change and what to do about it.

We can argue about how to deal with manmade climate change and we can argue about how bad the impacts will be but arguing about whether there is global warming or whether humans are causing it is, quite frankly, absurd.

-- At the other extreme, CO2 growth exceeding exponential at 1.5 % / year would be inconsistent with historical trends and with the negative feedback caused by human concern about climate change.

As I explained last winter in my Issues in Science and Technology essay, I've unlearned almost as many things as I've learned about human - caused climate change in more than a quarter century of reporting on the issue.

Mr. Will's overarching premise about sea ice and messages it holds related to human - caused climate change, was wrong, they say.

From what data exists about previous peroids of rapid climate change (i.e. climate change caused by an intrinsic mechanism such as a meteor impact, massive volcanic activity or human activity, as opposed to sun cycles), it seems that climate does show such behavior too.

Quite possibly the most important thing to communicate about climate change is that there is a 97 % consensus amongst the scientific experts and scientific research that humans are causing global warming.

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.»

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

«Recent surveys of meteorologists have indicated that their belief or disbelief in human cause trying climate change is really an extension of the broader public misunderstanding, and that's a real problem because meteorologists are among the most trusted messengers of information about climate change.»