Sentences with phrase «big impact on the global climate»

But he pointed out that even if the researchers» predictions are right and the planet warms just 4.1 degrees, this would nonetheless have a big impact on the global climate.

An example of internal variability is El Niño, a warming cycle in the Pacific Ocean which has a big impact on the global climate, resulting from the interaction between atmosphere and ocean in the tropical Pacific.

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The biggest impact a U.S. citizen can have on global environment problems, such as climate change, is having fewer children.

Pokorny's work, coupled with a controversial new theory called the «biotic pump,» suggests that transforming landscapes from forest to field has at least as big an impact on regional climate as greenhouse gas — induced global warming.

He tells Newsweek the findings play into a bigger picture, where we see large volcanic eruptions having an impact on the global climate that causes a chain effect resulting in social unrest.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

Here's a basic rundown of some big impacts we can expect if global warming continues, via the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (here and here).

However, because global warming is always of one sign, a much bigger impact is from the cumulative effects of these radiative perturbations on the climate.

Because around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions originate with EU nations, getting those governments to take stronger action, faster, would have a big impact on curbing climate change's worst impacts.

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, leader of WWF's global Climate & Energy Practice says, «Climate change is one of the biggest threats of our future, with fundamental impacts on places, species and people everywhere.

«Because Americans are high resource consumers in a country with a large, rapidly growing population base, the U.S. has a much bigger «per - person» impact on global climate change than any other nation.»

One of the biggest debates in the climate change research community in recent years has been the projected impact of global warming on hurricanes.

Of course, such findings don't of themselves say a lot but require comparing firstly with what is expected of the AMOC under AGW (IPCC AR5 put it as 1 - 24 % drop by 2100 under RCP2.6 and 12 - 54 % under RCP8.6, all with the «low confidence» sticker) and secondly what would be the resulting impact on global climate which is a bit of a big ask as it would all be wrapped up with other AGW impacts.