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«Thousands of scientists have been funded to find a connection between human carbon emissions and the climate.

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In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

«The results show unequivocally that most of the increase in CO2 between 7000 and 500 years ago is due to release of carbon from the ocean, not to axe - wielding humans,» says Eric Steig, an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The study is the first to differentiate between the impact of human activity in the Amazon — such as deforestation or changes in land use — and the impact of climate change to quantify the carbon - storing potential of new forests.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

Hi Andrew, Paper you may have, but couldn't find on «The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature» CO2 lagging temp change, which really turns the entire AGW argument on its head: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818112001658 Highlights: ► Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 11 — 12 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature ► Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions.

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

Hence the irony in Bob Carter's conclusion «The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

According to one of its authors, Bob Carter, the paper found that the «close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

A new study, however, shows that forests devastated by drought may lose their ability to store carbon over a much longer period than previously thought, reducing their role as a buffer between humans» carbon emissions and a changing climate.

There is a surprisingly linear relationship between global warming and human carbon dioxide emissions since the pre-industrial age regardless of where and when these emissions were produced.

Researchers shed light on the relationship between humans» carbon dioxide emissions and future climate change.

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

«In 1997, human - caused Indonesian peat fires were estimated to have released between 13 % and 40 % of the average carbon emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels around the world in a single year.»

For most of human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide fluctuated between 180ppm and 300ppm.

It focused on trends in carbon sinks and found the fraction of anthropogenic (human caused) CO2 in the atmosphere likely increased from 40 to 45 percent between 1950 and 2008.

Yes, there are relatively large cycles of CO2 between the atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere... but the point is that this is just moving carbon around and before human emissions it was pretty much in equilibrium.

These facts help explain why, in spite of the Earth's air temperature increasing to a level that the IPCC claims is unprecedented in the the past millennium or more, a recent study by Randall et al. (2013) found that the 14 % extra carbon dioxide fertilization caused by human emissions between 1982 and 2010 caused an average worldwide increase in vegetation foliage by 11 % after adjusting the data for precipitation effects.

The IPCC defines the difference between natural and human emissions of carbon dioxide.

The significance of these restraints should be considered by the deniers when they assert that the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans is so large that exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere dwarf human production.

Unfortunately for the IPCC case, Munshi, whom I reference, has done a statistical analysis that proves the correlation between the annual increases in carbon dioxide and annual human emissions is zero.

While the president and top administration officials continue denying the causal connection between carbon emissions from human activity and climate change, many corporations, including utilities like DTE, have accepted it as fact.

I view his response essay to be in large part an outstanding quantitative review of the human implications of the trade - offs between carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth.

Even if we could discriminate between human - originated CO2 and natural CO2 isotopically with reliability I don't see how carbon isotope measurements could prove we have increased atmospheric CO2 by 40 % anyway (or 110ppm) because, problematically, CO2 has a very short atmospheric residence time.

This evidence includes multiple finger - print and attribution studies, strong correlations between fossil fuel use and increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, carbon isotope evidence that is supports that elevated carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are from fossil sources, and model predictions that best fit actual observed greenhouse gas concentrations that support human activities as the source of atmospheric concentrations.

Dr. Holmgren reinforces the divide between the carbon role of forests and their place in sustainable development: «Using forests to offset human - induced climate change is an admirable aim, and it is likely that other forestry objectives, such as conserving biological diversity, would benefit from this as well.

Between 1959 and 2006 humans dumped 248 Gt of carbon in the atmosphere.

A number of recent studies have found a strong link between peak human - induced global warming and cumulative carbon emissions from the start of the industrial revolution, while the link to emissions over shorter periods or in the years 2020 or 2050 is generally weaker.

Also the Paris Agreement says by the second half of this century, there must be a balance between the emissions from human activity such as energy production and farming, and the amount that can be captured by carbon - absorbing «sinks» such as forests or carbon storage technology.

In today's West Australian, which is the most widely newspaper in Western Australia, there is a piece by Paul Murray discussing the survey by the American Meteorological Society of the views of its members on the link between carbon emissions from human activity and global warming.

Human knowledge is accelerating in an exponential fashion, and between the ability to change the carbon dioxide absorbing capabilities of plants or insects or the ability to reflect sunlight back into space, reducing warming should be a trivial task in a 50 - 100 year time frame, if warming becomes a problem.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

Thanks to humans, the earth was (since the 1990s) already experiencing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in a realm not experienced on the planet since the Pliocene epoch, which was the period 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago that saw atmospheric carbon dioxide levels between 350 and 405 parts per million and average global temperatures that ranged between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius warmer than the climate of the 1880s.

«Carbon models» may «indicate that the ocean will be a net sink for CO2» (as you write), but, inasmuch as the natural carbon cycle is so much greater than the human emissions, we are talking about a small difference between large numbers.

There is a surprisingly linear relationship between global warming and human carbon dioxide emissions since the pre-industrial age regardless of where and when these emissions were produced.

But there is now an effective consensus among the world's leading scientists and serious and well - informed people outside the scientific community that there is a discernible human influence on the climate and a link between the concentration of carbon dioxide and the increase in temperature.

Of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions only a small fraction comes from the activities of human beings, but it is that small fraction that might threaten the equilibrium between the much greater flows.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found to their surprise that despite the increased human emissions of greenhouse gases, between 2002 and 2014, plants were somehow able to absorb more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than in previous decades.

The Mercer (1978) ``... a threat of disaster» paper introduced above was fraught with presumptions, guesswork, and spectacularly wrong predictions about the connections between fossil fuel consumption by humans and future carbon dioxide (CO2) parts per million (ppm) concentrations, the melting of polar ice sheets, and an impeding sea level rise disaster.

On human timescales carbon easily moves between the atmosphere, ocean, and land.

Logarithmic or not, one should not overlook the massive differences between the puny amount of CO2 emitted by humans (or even the relatively tiny amount of total carbon contained in all fossil fuels on this planet) as compared with the gigantic carbon sink contained in the carbonate / bicarbonate of the ocean.

Remember that this is the same Professor who believes that ``... the Great Barrier Reef will benefit from rising seas, that there is no correlation between carbon dioxide levels and temperature, that only 0.1 % of carbon dioxide emissions are due to human activities, and that 96 % of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapour.»

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

Drawing a parallel with progress in understanding human perturbations to the carbon cycle, our approach in assessing anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH is to separate the regulation of pH in ocean surface waters into two modes — regulation in the pre-disturbance Holocene ocean and anthropogenic processes regulating pH — with the interplay between both components acting to regulate seawater pH in the Anthropocene.

We and other species already have experienced climate change, and humans have tipped the 10,000 - year balance between carbon dioxide emissions and absorption.

As part of the study, the researchers managed to identify an approximate relationship between human - caused carbon emissions, the temperature rise they cause and the committed change in the world's glaciers.

It will focus on how engagement between State and non ‐ State actors can be further strengthened in the key sectors for Africa (energy, agriculture and human settlements), including the role of future carbon markets to achieve enhanced climate action, towards the goals of sustainable development.

Hi Andrew, Paper you may have, but couldn't find on «The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature» CO2 lagging temp change, which really turns the entire AGW argument on its head: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818112001658 Highlights: ► Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 11 — 12 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature ► Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.