Sentences with phrase «caused dramatic climate changes»

The flood of fresh water into the ocean also caused dramatic climate changes.

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.

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«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

Climate change is having a dramatic impact on Earth's biodiversity, by causing rapid fluctuations in temperature and precipitation that alter species» environments.

The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.

The climate is changing, causing a dramatic rise and fall of sea levels and violent storms at alarming rates.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

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.

It is outflow from Lake Agassiz that became part of another global warming scare when it was theorized to have caused dramatic changes in the North Atlantic Thermohaline current and subsequent climate change.

Changes in the ocean can cause dramatic changes to climate and weather patterns on a globalChanges in the ocean can cause dramatic changes to climate and weather patterns on a globalchanges to climate and weather patterns on a global scale.

Janković and Shultz even dare to reference the late Dr. Stephen Schneider's heartfelt rationalization for climate change advocacy by invoking his stated position that climate scientists must necessarily «offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have» so as to «capture the public's imagination» by «getting loads of media coverage» as a means to advance the cause.

Climate change causing dramatic Arctic shifts, scientists say — CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-dramatic-arctic-shifts-1.3867298

Even as negotiators meet in Marrakech, Morocco to take the next steps to avert dangerous human - caused climate change — and, even as the U.S. decides whether or not to elect a president who is skeptical it is happening — a new study has highlighted the sharp stakes involved, particularly when it comes to the ongoing rise in global sea level and the dramatic but uneven way in which it could affect the world's coastlines.

Meanwhile, NASA scientist James Hansen was wrapping up a study that found that climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, appeared inevitable even with dramatic reductions in greenhouse gases.

This was a during a period when global climate change was supposedly dramatic and unprecedented, causing untold extreme death and destruction.

[The Global Conveyer Belt has suddenly stopped for several speculated reason in the past and caused dramatic and rapid climate changes always to the cold side; therefore, warm is preferable to cold any day] http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/ocean-earth-system/ocean-water-cycle/ «As water temperature increases, the increased mobility of gas molecules make them escape from the water, thereby reducing the amount of gas dissolved.

Archer shows how just a few centuries of fossil - fuel use will cause not only a climate storm that will last a few hundred years, but dramatic climate changes that will last thousands.

More on Global Climate Change: Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short - Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72 % of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers Greenland Rising as Ice Melts

In contrast, the risk of extinction without climate change was calculated to be less than 1 %, suggesting that climate change will cause a dramatic increase in extinction risk for these taxonomic groups over the next century.