Not exact matches
Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse
gas emissions that
cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.
Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of
global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be
caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse
gasses produced by human activity.
The reality is though, that we can't ignore the ever - increasing depletion of our world's forests and its negative impact through greenhouse
gases causing global warming.
Burning more natural
gas might also mean more greenhouse
gas emissions
causing more
global warming
Reducing the emissions of the greenhouse
gases that
cause global warming makes the most sense in the context of planetary boundaries, and many of the other thresholds collapse into it, Blomqvist and his colleagues note.
A crucial distinction in the
global -
warming balance sheet — and another stumbling block for beginners starting to count carbons — is that researchers treat fuel from current plant growth as
causing zero net greenhouse -
gas emissions.
An Australian wildfire has killed at least 135 people, and some experts are blaming
global warming caused by greenhouse
gas emissions for this and other recent blazes.
While a strong El Niño provided a boost to
global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the
warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere.
Although a wide variety of greenhouse
gases contribute to human -
caused global warming, it is CO2, largely alone, that will determine the long - term climate, Solomon says.
Of course, modern
global warming stems from a clear
cause — rising levels of CO2 (and other greenhouse
gases) from fossil fuel burning, cutting down forests and other human activities.
Since levels of greenhouse
gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that
global warming in the industrial era has been
caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
This year has already brought higher temperatures than normal nation - wide, and that trend is expected to continue, in part due to
global warming which is
caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere.
Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping
gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is
causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.
«It is nearly certain that
global warming is
caused by greenhouse
gases,» she says, and «the best way to convince people of this is to also explain what we do not yet know and why it is so difficult to get those answers.»
The bad news is that such record - breaking downpours, blizzards and sleet storms are likely to continue to get worse as atmospheric greenhouse
gas concentrations continue to rise,
causing global temperatures to continue to
warm and making the atmosphere more and more humid.
Geographer Carol Harden, the editor of the journal, Physical Geography, was aware that Soon was a vociferous critic of the idea that humans were
causing global warming and of proposals for the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse
gas emissions.
Global warming is the rise in temperatures
caused by an increase in the levels of greenhouse
gases due to human activity.
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 %.
The first report concludes that
global warming is happening, and is very likely
caused by human emissions of greenhouse
gases.
Volcanoes can
cause global warming because eruptions often spew huge amounts of the greenhouse
gas carbon dioxide.
While a strong El Niño has given
global temperatures a boost, the main reason for the spate of intensely
warm months is the long - term
warming of the planet
caused by the accumulation of heat - trapping greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere, scientists have found.
When did you become convinced that greenhouse
gas emissions from using fossil fuels for power generation is
causing rapid
global warming?
The model study suggests that the
cause is
global warming by increased greenhouse
gases.
These records show both the influence of the long - term trend in
global warming —
caused by the continued release of heat - trapping greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere — as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño that is altering weather around the world.
Global warming is the result of a greenhouse
gas -
caused imbalance between incoming solar energy and heat that the Earth radiates away to space.
Wicker also cited a publication by the
Global Warming Petition Project, a document signed by nearly 32,000 American scientists that disputes the international scientific consensus that man - made greenhouse
gas emissions are
causing the Earth's atmosphere to
warm, leading to potentially catastrophic changes in the climate.
As greenhouse
gases cause global temperatures to rise, however, sharks are once again swimming in oceans that are
warmer and more acidic, forcing them to adapt to their new environment.
«Science knew already in the 19th Century that greenhouse
gases cause global warming — it is standard physics.
The effects of
global warming are the ecological and social changes
caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse
gases.
«It is thus extremely likely (> 95 % probability) that the greenhouse
gas induced
warming since the mid-twentieth century was larger than the observed rise in
global average temperatures, and extremely likely that anthropogenic forcings were by far the dominant
cause of
warming.
The long - term
global warming trend is predominantly a forced climate change
caused by increased human - made atmospheric
gases, mainly CO2 [1].
The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that
global warming, from increased greenhouse
gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature
cause massive forest fires.
Global climate change will occur as a result of global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth caused by the concentration of gases of various
Global climate change will occur as a result of
global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth caused by the concentration of gases of various
global warming resulting from the greenhouse effect
caused by the retention of heat in the lower atmosphere of the Earth
caused by the concentration of
gases of various kinds.
The assessment examines the following content;
global warming, the greenhouse effect /
gases, natural and human
causes of past climate change, evidence of the little ice age, features of tropical storms and the effects and response to tropical storms.
The WorldWatch Institute estimates that a staggering 51 percent of
global greenhouse
gas emissions are
caused by animal agriculture, and the United Nations has also urged everyone to eat less meat to combat
global warming.
Trees absorb the greenhouse
gases that
cause global warming.
However its a fact that
gas is
causing global warming.
Global warming is usually attributed to the increase in «greenhouse gases» and our «carbon footprint», but that is an incomplete understanding of the real cause of global wa
Global warming is usually attributed to the increase in «greenhouse
gases» and our «carbon footprint», but that is an incomplete understanding of the real
cause of
global wa
global warming.
That is how we know that it is CO2 and other
gasses that are
causing global warming.
The now conventional view on
global warming, as stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is that most of the
warming recorded in the past 50 years has been
caused by emissions of manmade greenhouse
gases.
Carbon dioxide, considered the main vector for human -
caused global warming, is some 0.038 % of the atmosphere [1]- a trace
gas.
Specifically, do you believe current
global warming is
caused by GCR's and thereby greenhouse
gases are unimportant?
«A rapid cutback in greenhouse
gas emissions could speed up
global warming... because current
global warming is offset by
global dimming — the 2 - 3ºC of cooling
cause by industrial pollution, known to scientists as aerosol particles, in the atmosphere.»
Natural, large - scale climate patterns like the PDO and El Niño - La Niña are superimposed on
global warming caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse
gases and landscape changes like deforestation.
Because we understand the energy balance of our Earth, we also know that
global warming is
caused by greenhouse
gases — which have
caused the largest imbalance in the radiative energy budget over the last century.
Item 8 could be confusing in having so many messages: «It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in
global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was
caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse
gas... The best estimate of the human - induced contribution to
warming is similar to the observed
warming over this period....
And talk passionately about the basic facts in public: climate changes (expressed as the wacky and destructive weather that has become so common) are
caused by the
global warming produced by having too much greenhouse
gas pollution in the atmosphere.
But President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S. greenhouse
gas emissions by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro groups want, legitimizes their argument that
global warming is
caused by humans and an imminent threat to mankind.
I take your comment as meaning you believe the press release is fine in not mentioning greenhouse
gas emissions as the primary
cause of
global warming.
The burning
gas emit greenhouse
gas that
cause global warming and earth surface temerpature raise.