Sentences with phrase «anthropogenic causes of climate change»

In the last few decades, climatologists who want tenure have had to concentrate on theories and studies of anthropogenic causes of climate change.

Ludwig (# 3), I think the question does go beyond simply what we can do about the anthropogenic causes of climate change.

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Climate change is the result of human corruption of the environment» so - called anthropogenic causes....

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

Another lesson examined the possible causes of changing climates, differentiating between anthropogenic and natural ones.

If you listen to global warming deniers, or even much of the public, it seems like there is some stack of scientific studies somewhere that refute anthropogenic — human - caused — climate change.

The acknowledged role of sunspots and cosmic rays in forming clouds has been fertile ground for climate deniers, who have cast doubt on whether anthropogenic climate change (in other words, change caused by humans) is occurring at all.

This research received wide attention, in part because it was illustrated with a simple graphic, the so - called hockey stick curve, that many interpreted as definitive evidence of anthropogenic causes of recent climate change.

Something detailing any ongoing changes in communities of living things in the natural world like coral reefs, lakes and alpine regions caused by anthropogenic climate change would be great, if its not too off topic for RC.

Something detailing any ongoing changes in communities of living things in the natural world like coral reefs, lakes and alpine regions caused by anthropogenic climate change would be great, if its not too off topic for RC.

There is of course more, but I'm going to stop because I realize that while all this is good evidence for harms caused by anthropogenic climate change in general, to be really relevant to the topic at hand, we should be looking at the specific harms alleged by the plaintiffs in the suit over which judge Alsup is presiding.

Emphasizing that developed countries bear the overwhelming historic responsibility for causing anthropogenic climate change and must therefore take the lead in responding to the challenge across all four building blocks of an enhanced international climate change regime — namely mitigation, adaption, technology and finance — that builds - upon the U.N.F.C.C.C. and its Kyoto Protocol.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

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.»

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»

This is what it said, â $ œThe responsiveness of species to recent and past climate change raises the possibility that anthropogenic climate change could act as major cause of extinctions in the near futureâ $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Here we use projections of the future distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species to provide â $ ˜first - passâ $ ™ estimates of extinction probabilitiesâ $ ¦ â $ ¦.

Your and all your other fellow climate alarmists provide evidence that these observations of eminent scientists is correct, because none of you can cite any peer reviewed science that empirically falsifies the null climate hypothesis of natural variability still being the primary cause of climate change, or cite any peer reviewed science that empirically shows that anthropogenic CO2 has been the primary cause of the late 20th century climate warming.

There are many interesting comments from proponents of human caused climate change (AGW or anthropogenic global warming) and from sceptics which show an astonishing range of differing interpretations and understandings of the so called Greenhouse Effect none of which bear much relation to the actuality.

Similarly, attribution of climate change to anthropogenic causes involves statistical analysis and the assessment of multiple lines of evidence to demonstrate, within a pre-specified margin of error, that the observed changes are (1) unlikely to be due entirely to natural internal climate variability; (2) consistent with estimated or modelled responses to the given combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing; and (3) not consistent with alternative, physically plausible explanations of recent climate change.

A quote from Micha Tomkiewicz's «counter-viewpoint» paper: «It is based on the understanding that anthropogenic climate change is caused primarily by changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere due to dominant use of fossil fuels.»

Second, a measurable portion of the observed regional climate change, or the associated observed change in the system, must be attributed to anthropogenic causes with a similar degree of confidence.

«Anthropogenic Climate change» means a quantified change of climate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate trends and variability observed over comparable time pClimate change» means a quantified change of climate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate trends and variability observed over comparable time pclimate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate trends and variability observed over comparable time pclimate trends and variability observed over comparable time periods.

Changes in atmospheric composition from human activities are the main cause of anthropogenic climate change by enhancing the greenhouse effect, although with important regional effects from aerosol particulates (IPCC 2007).

Most papers on climate change are independent of whether the cause of the change is anthropogenic or natural.

«No Study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic causes.»

Commenting on the likely cause, Prof Steig told BBC News: «A fingerprint of forced climate change - that is, anthropogenic (man - made) forcing of climate by greenhouse gases - is that it will warm in most places at the same time.

You appear to define «climate change» as anthropogenic cause for greater than 50 % of global warming in the latter half of the 20th century.»

I have wondered if Marshal's point, above, is the cause of the 31072 American scientists who signed a petition denying that climate change is anthropogenic (caused by Man's activities).

With abrupt climate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Societyclimate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal SocietyClimate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal SocietyClimate Change Page, Royal Society Change Page, Royal Society 2010).

Reports such as those of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) demonstrate that science is far too immature to know what, if any, GHG concentrations would cause «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.Climate Change (NIPCC) demonstrate that science is far too immature to know what, if any, GHG concentrations would cause «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.climate system.»

Scientists: «Loud Divergence Between Sea Level Reality And Climate Change Theory» Global Sea Level «Acceleration» Just 0.002 mm / year ² According to peer - reviewed, «consensus» climate science, anthropogenic CO2 emissions are the cause of Arctic sea ice dClimate Change Theory» Global Sea Level «Acceleration» Just 0.002 mm / year ² According to peer - reviewed, «consensus» climate science, anthropogenic CO2 emissions are the cause of Arctic sea ice dclimate science, anthropogenic CO2 emissions are the cause of Arctic sea ice decline.

The various official Conservative policy statements cited above contain no implicit or explicit acknowledgnment of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, as outlined in the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«Most scientists now regard anthropogenic (human - caused) global climate change to be the most important environmental issue of our times.»

Under the Theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming, it is human - generated greenhouse gases, and mainly CO 2, that cause climate change.

While bleaching is far from the only cause of reef decline in the Caribbean, the repeated coral bleaching events since the 1980s have been strongly attributed to anthropogenic climate change [1].

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

the unequivocal attribution of climate change to anthropogenic causes (i.e., the isolation of cause and effect) would require controlled experimentation with the climate system in which the hypothesised agents of change are systematically varied in order to determine the climate's sensitivity to these agents.

and which said claims of CO2 causing Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Change (CAGW) makes no mention of the «warming» associated with the IPGW,....

I am not sure whether you accept the reality of anthropogenic climate change (climate change caused by humans, ACC).

The IPCC's recent special report on extreme weather found that there is no evidence of increased frequency or intensity of storms, floods or droughts, or losses caused by them attributable to anthropogenic climate change.

And anthropogenic greenhouse gases may in future perturb the climate system flow sufficiently to cause some or major change in the global pattern of coupled quasi standing waves.

The fact that unforced variability in the climate system can offset anthropogenic forcing changes on a time scale of about 15 years and smaller does not logically imply that unforced variability is also the primary cause of the statistically significant temperature increase since the mid 1970ies.

* * * The evidence to support the theory of anthropogenic, or human - caused, climate change has been mounting since the mid-1950s, when atmospheric models predicted that growing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere would add to the natural «greenhouse effect» and lead to warming.

Just as in the rest of the country, belief in human - caused climate change in Oklahoma has been rising with the thermometer — according to Krosnick, a large majority of Inhofe's constituents now believe that anthropogenic global warming is real.

In order to better understand the causes of the Arctic's changing climate, the authors used observational data and nine CMIP5 global climate models to tease apart the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, natural forcings and other anthropogenic forcings (aerosols, ozone and land use changes).

At the moment, the uncertainties in modeling and complexities of the ocean system even prevent any quantification of how much of the present changes in the oceans is being caused by anthropogenic climate change or natural climate variability, and how much by other human activities such as fishing, pollution, etc..

A key claim of the hypothesis known as anthropogenic global warming (AGW), is that human activities (particularly industry) are producing CO2 that is causing warming and climate change.

That 40 % number is a falsehood - there is about a 98 % consensus of all scientists who study this phenomena that anthropogenic climate change is a reality, and every major scientific institution in the world supports the conclusion of man caused global warming.

It appears that the message from the AGW believers regarding solar impact on our climate is slowly shifting from «it is insignificant, limited to the measurable direct impact from changes in solar irradiation» to «well, it could be a cause of natural variation but is still much less significant than anthropogenic factors (i.e. CO2)»