Sentences with phrase «basic causes of climate change»

If Congressional Democrats aren't lobbying President Barack Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to use the full legal authority of the Executive Branch in regulating America's greenhouse gas emissions, then those Democrats aren't being honest in claiming that they truly and sincerely want to address the basic causes of climate change.

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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.

We then exposed participants to a number of different experimental treatments that all contained the same basic message, that «97 % of climate scientists have concluded that human - caused climate change is happening.»

These nuances may be lost in a political environment where the basics of human - caused climate change trigger opposition.

Whilst this is the basic cause of the cyclical nature of the ice age and the warmer inter ice age climate of the earth in the last few million years at least, there are natural «feedbacks» in the earth which then exaggerate this climatic change.

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The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

Here's Lovell on the basics of the geological argument for the power of carbon dioxide to cause enduring changes in climate and the environment:

People who do not accept human - caused climate change generally believe that a large fraction of scientists disagree with the basic notion of man - made warming.

One next needs to integrate the finding into a more complete climate change description which follows the observations from beginning to end as they alternately cause warming or cooling of the climate system around the basic level of energy content determined by mass, gravity and ToA insolation.

The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with... Instead of organizing meetings with free and open debates on the basic physics and the likelihood of AGW induced climate changes, the leaders of the society... have chosen to fully trust the climate models and deliberately avoid open debate and discussion... My interaction (over the years) with a broad segment of AMS members... have indicated that a majority of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming.»

«Besides being a good summary of the massive controversy behind the scenes in the climate science research community about the causes of the past century's modest warming, Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.climate science research community about the causes of the past century's modest warming, Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.&Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.&change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.»

Thirty years ago, when the basic understanding of global climate change was being formulated, there was no real cause for the use of vitriolic dialog in climate science.

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

All of these methods converge on the same basic conclusion: at least 97 % of climate scientists have concluded that human - caused climate change is happening [6].

At the same time, the number of moderate Republicans that accept humans are causing climate change has shown a pretty notable uptick in the past year, so maybe we're not totally doomed to a lifetime of squabbling over basic science.

Regardless of the unbounded ethical duties derived from imperfect obligations, if the climate change causing activities of some people are violating the human rights of others by interfering with life, health, or basic security, among other things, protected by human rights, a case can be made that those who can make reductions in GHG emissions targets that are nevertheless interfering with the rights of others should take steps to prevent human rights violations even if they are complying with just allocations.

These two basic conclusions, that the world is warming and that humanity is the primary cause, are well documented in the reports of the Nobel prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Basic point being, these are people collectively operate in the realm of «climate change sociology» under the unsupportable premise that man - caused global warming is settled science, thus it is up to them to explain to the rest of us what's wrong with the mindset of skeptic climate scientists....

To understand why «this current» global warming is human caused and not natural cycle, one needs to get an idea of what the natural cycle is and what are the basic mechanisms that cause climate change in the natural cycle.

Scientists know that recent climate change is largely caused by human activities from an understanding of basic physics, comparing observations with models, and fingerprinting the detailed patterns of climate change caused by different human and natural influences.

There is rapidly growing evidence from a combination of basic climate science, models, and real - world observations that human - caused climate change has influenced and worsened the current drought.

Q: The Chinese chief negotiator on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, has literally thrown the baby and the bath water and the IPCC out, when he said after the BASIC meeting to please look at natural cyclic events as one of the aspects which could be causing climate change.

One season's weather could either speed up or slightly slow down the loss of Arctic sea ice this year, but it will not change the climate trend and the basic causes of warming.

Information alone is not enough to choose appropriate policies and strategies to limit some climate changes and prepare society for changes that are already well under way, but without understanding the basic causes and effects of climate change, we will be unable to make informed decisions that will affect generations to come.

The case appears to be similar with some of the basics of the theory of human - caused climate change, too — basics, such as the radiative characteristics of CO2 and other «greenhouse» gases, or the importance of the greenhouse effect in the natural regulation of our planetary temperature, are firmly established.

In the mainstream peer - reviewed, juried world - wide science literature since 1824, the basics of human - caused climate change are as strong as five years ago.

However, what is not clear in the report is that the report does NOT undermine the integrity or the basic message of climate change: that it is happening and our GHG emissions are the primary cause.

Skeptics and Smog — The basic principles of human - caused climate change have been known for more than a century and are based on physics 101, chemistry 101 and economics 101.