Sentences with phrase «activities warming the planet»

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This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

If a Republican candidate would say, — yes even if a messiah is coming, people had been saying that for 2000 years, therefore, we are all obliged to preserve the planet for future generations and human activities do excessively cause global warming.

For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

The fires were costly for the rest of the planet, too: At their peak, the blazes belched more climate - warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day than did all U.S. economic activity.

His studies show that cosmic rays trigger cloud formation, suggesting that a high level of solar activity — which suppresses the flow of cosmic rays striking the atmosphere — could result in fewer clouds and a warmer planet.

In the past, Sessions has acknowledged that human activity may be warming the planet but has fiercely fought government efforts to curb emissions of warming gases including carbon dioxide and methane.

«Currently, our planet is in a warm phase — an interglacial period — and the associated increased climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account for future projections of warming induced by human activities.»

Short Summary: Tornado activity has been declining during the past 45 years as our planet modestly warms.

Seeing deep within the gas giant of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune is impossible with optical telescopes, but magnetic fields are usually a product of a warm, moving core, so they are a good guide to structures and activities within planets.

If the world's foremost climate scientists didn't know whether man's activities were warming or cooling the planet, how could any responsible government condone scaring its people with «descriptions of climate - related health risks»?

Global warming was touched on repeatedly in speeches at the Berry memorial, and this planet - scale challenge, too, appears to be a perfect target for the cathedral - building approach, given the time scales required to curb emissions that are still a near - direct reflection of economic activity.

Look around — anyone that continues to believe that there is no consensus amongst scientists that human activity is warming the planet was duped, and continues to be duped, at least in part by this man.

Yes, volcanic activity will not by way of direct heat warm the planet much by comparison with the sun.

Since the beginning of the industrial age, 30 % to 60 % of the coral reefs on the planet have disappeared because of human activity and warming oceans.

Most scientists believe that the ensuing scandal, while noteworthy, does little to undermine the fundamental notion that human activity — chiefly spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — is contributing to a warming of the planet.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

Second, the rate of warming between 1880 and 1940 was not as severe as it has been since 1980, and morever, biomes across the planet have been radically altered by human activities muc more during the latter period (e.g. especially since 1950).

Human activities, such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests, have increased atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping gases and caused the planet to warm by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.

The true null — that there is no evidence of human influence warming the planet dangerously — may be compatible with «natural variation drives the climate», and indeed incompatible with «human activity is dangerously warming the planet» but they are not logically identical.

For about two decades, the vast majority of climate scientists have agreed that human industrial activity is forcing the planet to warm.

There's a lot in there, but, the authors write, the compilation of peer - reviewed scientific observations and models together «tell an unambiguous story: the planet is warming, and over the last half century, this warming has been driven primarily by human activity.»

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Overall, Democrats and liberals are more likely than Republicans and conservatives to say the Earth is warming, human activity is the cause of the change, the problem is serious and there is scientific consensus about the climate changes underway and the threat it poses to the planet.

The outgoing South Carolinian is a burr in the GOP's rigid saddle because he discomfits dominant House Republican groupthink: he admits he trusts the science that says human activities are causing the planet to warm.

«Further recognizing the fact that «[h] uman activity has and will continue to alter the atmosphere of the planet» and that «[s] uch activity may lead to demonstrable changes in climate, including a warming of the planetary mean temperature,» ALEC developed the Interstate Research Commission on Climactic Change Act in the mid-1990s.

In the recently released Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded with more than 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet.

Tweet There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.

Besides which, humans also do things that have the effect of cooling the planet, although both our warming & cooling activities have negligible effect worldwide, although more pronounced locally.

As for how tropical cyclone activity will respond to a warming planet, the literature is as Field notes «mixed».

This is because the planet is not only warming, the climate is changing and becoming more variable with the increase in CO2 emissions from human activity.

It pushes free market policies and has questioned the well - established science linking human activity to a warming planet.

The announcement came just days before the launch of Climate Week NYC 2013 and the September 30 release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s fifth climate science assessment, which will reportedly make it clear that the planet is warming due to human activities, according to the IPCC.

To me one of the root causes for my position lies in the fact the ICCP is a group put together, funded and controlled by the United Nations (perhaps THE most politically motivated group on this planet) AND that their mandate was NOT to determine the causes for climate warming, but rather to prove that climate warming is a result of man's activities.

The Orange County assemblyman has rejected both the scientific conclusion that the climate is changing and that human activity can warm the planet.

You're right, & IMO, the net effect of human activity since c. AD 1950 has been to cool rather than warm the planet, although not much in either direction.

First, let me be clear about this reality: Planet Earth is warming because of human activity, because of us, and that is profoundly affecting the climate.

The media frequently declares that thousands of scientists all agree that the planet's slight warming in the late 20th century was due to human activity.

(My current view is that the planet has warmed and that man's activity is probably one cause of the warming.

Growing concentration of greenhouse gases from human activities is making this blanket thicker, and warming the planet.

It's clear that human activity is warming our planet, and we must act to reduce our contribution to the problem.

While the Kyoto Protocol had already been set into place as the primary solution to climate change, the historian of science Stuart Weart marks the point at the year 2001 where climate scientists had actually reached a consensus that human activity was warming the planet via GHG emissions and land - use changes, the former largely from fossil fuel use.

Tropical cyclone activity and intensity increasing Record droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells, high tides occurring Unequivocal warming of the climate system observed with very high confidence that human activities are to blame Temperature rising even more dramatically in Arctic, threatening ice loss and extinction of species Halving human CO2 emissions immediately might save the planet from catastrophe.

That shock will be felt most especially by the world's climate alarmist Establishment, whose scientists and learned institutions have staked their reputation on the idea that CO2, not solar activity, is the prime driver of climate and that the planet is on a warming trend not a cooling one.

People who consider human activity to have a direct impact on climate generally take the stance that increased urbanization leads to more sunlight being absorbed by the planet (making it warmer).

Theres a good reason why 97 % os scientists agree human activity is warming up our planet.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

In fact, a recent poll found that 97.4 % of active climatologists agree that human activity is warming the planet.

The problems begin when human activities distort and accelerate the natural process by creating more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than are necessary to warm the planet to an ideal temperature.

They've acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it.

By Michael Bastasch There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.