Sentences with phrase «between human causes of climate change»

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According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

Now the new study says the drought had a catalytic effect on the unrest in Syria, and human - caused climate change has made the chances of such a severe drought between two and three times more likely.

There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014 said, «I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.

The consistency of climate models made the eastern Mediterranean a great place to start looking for possible connections between human - cause climate change and conflict.

«In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»

This is not a careful argument, because people — sceptical and not — have been questioning the leaps between observing that the earths temperature changes, the attribution of that change to humans, the conclusion that it will cause catastrophe, and that the only way to confront that catastrophe is by mitigating climate change through reduction in emissions.

PRESIDENT TRUMP - New York (CNN) President - elect Donald Trump conceded Tuesday there is «some connectivity» between human activity and climate change and wavered on whether he would pull the United States out of international accords aimed at combating the phenomenon, which scientists overwhelmingly agree is caused by human activity.

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that globally climate change could cause an additional 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, not taking into account factors such as the effects of economic damage, major heat wave events, river flooding, water scarcity, or human conflict.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme weather Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme weather eChange Adaptation (SREX), also discusses the relationship between human - caused climate change and various types of extreme weather climate change and various types of extreme weather echange and various types of extreme weather events.

«They find that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of human - caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

Between 2002 and 2013, Donors Capital Fund (DCF) distributed some $ 170 million to conservative causes, many of which deny the science and impacts of human - caused climate change or the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the key problems in climate science is distinguishing between natural variation and human causes, to the point where even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to use measures of probability to pin the blame on humans («it is highly likely that humans are causing....&rclimate science is distinguishing between natural variation and human causes, to the point where even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to use measures of probability to pin the blame on humans («it is highly likely that humans are causing....&rClimate Change has to use measures of probability to pin the blame on humans («it is highly likely that humans are causing....»).

Between 2004 and 2013, Donors Trust (DT) distributed some $ 80 million to conservative causes, many of which deny the science and impacts of human - caused climate change or the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

He also said that Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was «talking through her hat» when she pointed out earlier this week that there was a link between bushfires and human - caused emissions of greenhouse gases.

We joined scientists Michael Mann and Dana Nucitelli on the Al Jazeera English «Inside Story Americas» program on May 17 to talk about the scientific consensus on human - caused climate change, U.S. public opinion, the Keystone XL pipeline, geoengineering, and other aspects of the collision between climate science and government accountability: