Sentences with phrase «activity than global warming»

The news here is that natural variability within certain hurricane basins appears to be much more influential on hurricane activity than global warming.

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While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, Earth's soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

Their findings indicated that, overall, the contribution of changing solar activity, either directly or through cosmic rays, was even less and can not have contributed more than 10 percent to global warming in the 20th century.

«We conclude that the level of contribution of changing solar activity is less than 10 percent of the measured global warming observed in the 20th century.

By comparing the small oscillations in cosmic ray rate and temperature with the overall trends in both since 1955, Sloan and Wolfendale found that less than 14 percent of the global warming seen during this period could have been caused by solar activity.

Essentially, all they said is that they acknowledge that global warming is due to unspecified human activities, that it will have ecological consequences (no mention of economic consequences, other than the insinuation that taking action of global warming might threaten economic growth), and that coordinated global action is required, but that economic growth and energy security must be taken into account, and that they'll meet to talk about it again.

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

The abnormally high Atlantic hurricane activity of the last 10 - 15 years may or may not be due to global warming, but the less - than - 2005 activity of the 2006 - 8 Atlantic hurricane seasons does not change the fact that the last 10 - 15 years have seen extra-ordinary hurricane activity.

This is your hardest question to answer, as the question seems to presuppose their are other sources of heat that are warming up the earth other than global warming due to CO2, methane, nitrous oxide (from agriculture and fertilisers) and CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons, from refrigerants etc) accumulating in the atmosphere from mankind's various activities.

• Anyone who doubts that the threat of large hurricanes is still being used as part of global warming campaigns should look no further than the energy and climate platform of a presidential candidate [pdf alert], who writes, «Global warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activglobal warming campaigns should look no further than the energy and climate platform of a presidential candidate [pdf alert], who writes, «Global warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activGlobal warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activities.

The historical multidecadal - scale variability in Atlantic hurricane activity is much greater than what would be «expected» from a gradual temperature increase attributed to global warming.

But the new work did seem a lot more scientifically rigorous than most previous arguments against a link between global warming and hurricanes; which simply state we don't know enough about past hurricane activity to determine whether modern hurricane activity is unprecedented.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

But it does say; «Natural climate variations, which tend to involve localized changes in sea surface temperature, may have a larger effect on hurricane activity than the more uniform patterns of global warming...»

Also found was that the correlation between solar activity and global temperatures ended around 1975, hence recent warming must have some other cause than solar variations.

11/7/17 — Contrary to statements by President Trump and many of his advisers, the global climate has warmed considerably over the past century and it is «extremely likely» than human activities are the «dominant cause,» according to a major new report.

For the most part, Smith hasn't had to address the climate issue back home, even though polls show that a majority of his adult constituents believe human activity is causing global warming and Texas has suffered more severe climate and weather disasters since 1980 than any other state.

This year, 58 % see global warming as due more to human activities than to natural causes, similar to the 61 % in 2003.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

This makes coal mining in the region responsible for more greenhouse gases than any other activity in the U.S., making it a root contributor to global warming.

The IPCC has not only asserted that global warming is occurring, but that to a large degree it is caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels rather than being a natural phenomenon.

New Study: Majority of Climate Scientists Don't Agree with «Consensus» http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/07/31/new-study-majority-of-climate-scientists-dont-agree-with-consensus/ Of the 1868 who responded [out of 6550], just 43 percent agreed with the IPCC that «It is extremely likely -LCB- 95 % + certainty -RCB- that more than half of [global warming] from 1951 to 2010 was caused by [human activity]».

By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that Mr. Nash succeeded in circumventing a divisive political debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

Thanks to their large heat capacity, the oceans absorb warming caused by human activities, and more than 90 % of the Earth's extra heat from global warming is absorbed by them.

In the long run, the truth of whether the earth is round (mostly), goes around the sun (so the best evidence shows), or is warming due to industrial activity (considered «very likely» i.e., more than 90 % certainty) will be demonstrated on the global stage.

People are concerned that the rapid global warming due to human activities is one of the main reasons why the world's ice shelves are thinning and declining faster than expected.

However, the recent changes in sun activity are not larger than the one we have in the last 1000 years, while the global warming in that last 30 years is not similar to anything on the record.

I also take issue with Gleick's 2007 testimony... «In the long run, the truth of whether the earth is round (mostly), goes around the sun (so the best evidence shows), or is warming due to industrial activity (considered «very likely» i.e., more than 90 % certainty) will be demonstrated on the global stage.

Don't forget that Judith Curry was one of the «scientists» claiming a connection between increased hurricane activity and global warming with less than adequate data (see discussions on this blog).

Professor Sherwood says research has effectively disproved the idea that sunspots are more responsible for global warming than human activity.

Of the 1868 who responded, just 43 percent agreed with the IPCC that «It is extremely likely -LCB- 95 % + certainty -RCB- that more than half of [global warming] from 1951 to 2010 was caused by [human activity]».

The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism looks at both the evidence that human activity is causing global warming and the ways that climate «skeptic» arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full piGlobal Warming Skepticism looks at both the evidence that human activity is causing global warming and the ways that climate «skeptic» arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full pWarming Skepticism looks at both the evidence that human activity is causing global warming and the ways that climate «skeptic» arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full piglobal warming and the ways that climate «skeptic» arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full pwarming and the ways that climate «skeptic» arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full picture.

There have been three assessments of global warming by the international panel since 1990, and each has drawn a more conclusive picture than the last of the link between human activities and the prospects for significant harm to agriculture, ecosystems and coastlines.

Issues like the Medieval warm period, different possible causes of climate change (such as solar activity, or even the nature of our climate), studies indicating the last interglacial period was warmer than today, and the failure of recent dire predictions about the climate all show the debate on climate change is not nearly as settled as many global warming proponents would have us believe.

They argue that total magnetic activity is much better correlated with global warming than is sunspot number alone.

Muller, who lacks any training or expertise in atmospheric science, is more than happy to promote with great confidence the unsupportable claim that global warming will actually decrease tornado activity.

A recent draft of an international consensus report offers stronger - than - ever evidence that global warming is driven by human activity.

A large majority of people in New York believe that global warming is happening because of human activities, and more than two - thirds think that parts of the city will even have to be abandoned over the next 50 years because of rising sea levels, according to survey results released this morning by Columbia and Yale Universities, which called the research the first comprehensive study of opinions from residents of the five boroughs about global warming.

To give one example, she says human activities are contributing to global warming, but she bridles at the IPCC consensus that humans are «largely responsible» — in other words, that more than 50 percent of global warming to date is caused by human activity.

The paper concluded that «the entire «global warming» theory [is] nothing more than a scam,» and described the individual who committed criminal activities to hack personal emails as a «gallant» and a «unnamed hero.»

I wonder how hard it was for him to acknowledge that other more significant processes than global warming could be causing increased hurricane activity.

Back in 2007, the IPCC said it was «more likely than not» (meaning, a greater - than -50-percent probability) that human activities — through global warming — were contributing to an observed intensification of hurricanes in at least some regions of the globe.

I get to understand why Global Warming is not seriously discussed amongst the populace in general, by watching many TV Meteorologists, who utterly confuse the matter, who also seem to be limited by the range of their Doppler radars, seldom explain anything more than the latest extreme Hurricane activity as the result of a «cycle».

The panel concludes there is very high confidence that the warming is due to human activities, which are likely to have been at least five times greater than the impact of solar irradiance changes on global warming.

But the most interesting part of the segment is an interview with Joe Lucas, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electricity.

Entertaining how the NRDC played a role of some sort with one of the global warming nuisance lawsuits, the Connecticut v American Electric Power, while another of those global warming nuisance lawsuits, Comer v. Murphy Oil had wording within its documents stating «The API [American Petroleum Institute] and other Oil Company Defendants have engaged in concerted financial activity — far in excess of $ 1 million — in furtherance of a tortious civil conspiracy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — details I described in my previous blog post.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

This is more than all human activities combined can safely produce without exceeding two degrees of global warming.