Sentences with phrase «bigger driver of climate change»

Even assuming that water is a bigger driver of climate change, that doesn't mean CO2 can't have an effect as well.

«It's the first official confirmation we've had that CO2 is not as big a driver of climate change as the computer models have claimed; and it's the first official admission that the planet is not warming dangerously,» Peiser said.

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Findings of thousands of scientists have determined that the biggest driver of warming of the planet and the resulting climate change is industrial - scale coal burning.

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

Burning coal is the single biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally, and so is a major driver of climate change.

Must be big when Drudge gives 8 col - lines to climate: Reid: Kochs «main causes» of climate change (For Reid to say that the Koch brothers are «Not a cause, one of the main causes» shows major political desperation and and ignorance of climate and its major drivers.)

«The biggest question, though, remains the extent to which climate change is the driver of hurricanes, cyclones and flooding that have hit the world with apparently increased ferocity and regularity in recent years.

The biggest driver behind these «land use changes,» as the climate change folks call them, is the expansion of pasture for cattle, feed crops for livestock, and oil palm for processed foods and biofuels.