Sentences with phrase «cause of modern climate change»

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Dr. Huybers» research involves the causes of glacial cycles, evaluation of modern climate extremes, and the implications of climate change for food production.

This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record of river piracy caused by a melting glacier, researchers report online April 17 in Nature Geoscience.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

At first, White was convinced that humans would understand the obvious implications of his ice - core data: The consequences of human - caused climate change «would basically cripple any kind of modern society.»

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

This leaves the solar cycle the only known cause of climate change on large scale, up to modern times where there is a documented antropogenic contribution.

Clearly, the causes of climate change over the last millennium have very little to do with attribution of modern warming, or for future prediction.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Tim Ball was a student of H.H. Lamb, who pioneered the modern study of climate change before it was taken over by those promoting dangerous global warming caused by carbon dioxide (CO2).

Air pollution caused by fumes from the hundreds of thousands of vehicles on our roads is one of the big killers of the modern age, especially in cities, and is, along with climate change, a serious threat to the future of the planet.

Global Warming Debate The debate over the causes and consequences of global warming (or «climate change») is one of the great controversies of the modern era.

It goes deeper, and provides more information on the fact that modern day meat consumption is the leading cause of environmental destruction and human induced climate change on our planet, yet we never hear about it.

What is relevant now is the rate of climate change, the specific causes, and its impact on modern civilisation that is dependent, for agricultural and societal security, a relatively stable climate.

Causes of climate change Modern day climate change is attributed to a number of factors, but one stands out above all others: increased greenhouse gasses as a result of human activity.

WITHOUT a shadow of a doubt, the greatest scientific hoax ever perpetrated against mankind is that human's modern life (including your sandwich) is causing catastrophic «climate change» or «global warming» or «climate disruption» or «climate breakdown», depending on the day and the activist concerned.

This research adds to the huge compilation of prior peer - reviewed studies that confirm modern climate change is not out of the ordinary, and highly likely due to natural causes, not human - induced as speculated my many.

Ancient stone carvings in modern - day Turkey appear to depict a comet strike that caused a period of climate change.

United Nations commissioned scientists — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Royal Society, the World Academy of Arts & Science, United Nations Population Fund, World Bank, the UN, NASA, 178 countries, The Earth Charter, modern U.S. Presidents, have declared a global emergency... terminal Climate Change caused by humans.

Rising NP proportions in climate science papers, contrary to intuition, might well signify rising confidence among researchers that human emissions are a main cause of global warming — something that just does not have to be reaffirmed every time the subject of changing modern climates is discussed.