Not exact matches
The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow of the three
greenhouse gases on land that were caused
by human activities
over the last three decades and subtracted out
emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.
Scientists can confidently say that Earth is warming due to
greenhouse gas emissions caused
by humans, but data on climate trends
over the Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean only go back to 1979 when regular satellite observations began.
The key conclusions were that: It is «unequivocal» that global warming is occurring; the probability that this is caused
by natural climatic processes is less than 5 %; and the probability that this is caused
by human emissions of
greenhouse gases is
over 90 %.
In theory, the goal of the Paris talks
over a new global climate agreement is to create a more sustainable
human relationship with the climate system
by curbing
emissions of
greenhouse gases and boosting poor countries» capacity to withstand climate shocks.
Thus a grand solar minimum would have to cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued
human - caused global warming between 1 and 5 °C
by 2100, depending on how our
greenhouse gas emissions change
over the next century.
Scientists in the US say parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of
greenhouse gas emissions — which means that the long - term decline in rainfall
over south and south - west Australia results from fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer
by human activity.
The average land temperature on earth has risen 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit
over the past 250 years — essentially all of it caused
by human emission of
greenhouses gases.
Over the past several centuries,
human greenhouse gas emissions have caused
by far the largest radiative forcing (energy imbalance), and thus must be the driver of any observed long - term global warming.
However, the amount of warming caused
by human greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions is known to a high degree of certainty, and these same studies have all found that GHGs are responsible for
over 100 % of the observed warming
over this timeframe (Figure 3).
By then comparing the results of these Industrial and Non-industrial simulated climates, and recording the occurrence of floods like that of Autumn 2000 in each of them, the change in the frequency of occurrence (or «risk») of such a flood was determined, and therefore how much risk is attributable to
human - induced
emissions of
greenhouse gases over the last century.
We further recognize the need to reduce the global
emission of
greenhouse gases by 80 %
by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made
human progress
over the last 10,000 years possible.
So, in order to trigger another LIA, a new grand solar minimum would have to cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued
human - caused global warming of 1 to 5 °C
by 2100, depending on how our
greenhouse gas emissions change
over the next century.