Sentences with phrase «caused warming of the planet»

It does indeed cause some warming of our planet, and we should thank Providence for that, because without the greenhouse warming of CO2 and its more potent partners, water vapor and clouds, the earth would be too cold to sustain its current abundance of life.

I know that there is a debate about [humans causing the warming of the planet]- that's all I am prepared to say.

Not exact matches

For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

Every corner of the earth wastes food, and every nation feels the effects of a warming planet, in part caused by methane released from the 1.3 billion tons of food that go uneaten every year And yet, the specifics of food loss and waste vary by country — and to be effective, the solutions have to be local.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

Although, Santiago adds: «Continued warming of the planet would eventually cause widespread tree mortality.»

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.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

Making roads more reflective and thereby sending more sunlight back to space helps cool the planet, offsetting some of the atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

As has been seen year after year, the warming of the Earth is causing major changes in many aspects of the planet's climate, and 2014 was yet another year that showed this trend in stark relief, a report released Thursday says.

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.

The science is settled in terms of knowing that the planet is warming rapidly, and that humans are the dominant cause.

These oceans were formed by tidal heating, that is, warming of the ice caused by friction between the surface ice and the core as a result of the gravitational interaction between the planet and the moon.

But it is cause for concern and provides a clear sign of how the planet is changing as the Earth warms.

That trend is projected to continue as the planet warms and could put coastal cities at risk and cause trillions of dollars in damage.

A journalist from Jyllands Posten present at the conference got the message, as my criticism was echoed in a news report the following day («Klimaforskere i åben krig» [translation «Climate researchers in open war»], May 28, 2002): It's tricky to explain how a warming caused by decreasing albedo would be stronger at the night - side (dark) of the planet.

But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.

A new theory may well come along which supplants CO2 as the most important cause in warming of the planet.

We have those who say that this just gives more ammo to the denialists, who will (correctly) point out that our own science is telling us that we can't prevent the warming (of course, more warming is even worse, but that would be the NEXT conversation after this one); we have philosophers telling us that the planet has a fever and we are the infection which caused it; we have many, many more who continue to insist that maybe NOW we will finally undertake drastic emissions reductions.

Of course, the planet indeed warms (and cools, although not in my lifetime) from natural causes, but that doesn't eliminate the need for identifiable causes.

Hundreds of millions of cars around the planet are releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, causing ocean acidification and global warming.

Unlike a belief in leprechauns, there is a preponderance of evidence that CO2 warms the planet and that the anthropogenic contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere is causing the observed warming trend.

In the case of an increase in greenhouse gases (which cause a warming), that implies that the planet will be absorbing more solar radiation than it emits as longwave radiation.

A positive cloud feedback loop posits a scenario whereby an initial warming of the planet, caused, for example, by increases in greenhouse gases, causes clouds to trap more energy and lead to further warming.

There are some fundamental conclusions that we now know: that the planet is warming; that humans are the cause of it.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

I have no idea what you mean by the heat on the planet, but if you mean why do I reject the hypothesis of human caused global warming, here is a good place to start: http://www.cfact.org/2018/01/02/no-co2-warming-for-the-last-40-years/

There is absolutely no scientific basis for the suggestion that there will be «disruptions to the food supply (Including the ocean food chain) and access to clean water» from a «warming planet» caused by AGW, with «a few tens of millions of starving people» as a result.

Human activities, such as burning coal and oil and cutting down tropical forests, have increased atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping gases and caused the planet to warm by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.

human caused atmospheric CO2 is the root and predominant cause of a warmer planet, 2.

Roger disputed that carbon (as CO2) caused any warming, that honest, unaltered science thought CO2 to be the consequence rather than the driver of temperature increases, that increasing CO2 in the air was sourced by natural phenomena rather than mostly man - made, and that to decrease CO2 to levels required by regulation would start to starve plants, making more folks on the planet to starve accordingly.

The inescapable if unfashionable conclusion is that the human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second, by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates.

Since at least 1995, the balance of evidence in climate science has indicated that human - caused greenhouse - gas emissions are behind the planet's warming.

Its just something to ponder because regardless of belief the data of the planet warming up is not a myth, maybe what is causing it is debatable.

This is the belief backed up by the scientific evidence; in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in September 2013, scientists agreed that it is «extremely likely» that human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing the planet to warm.

To my mind the possibility, which certainly has a great deal of at least circumstantial evidence behind it, that humans are causing global warming is enough to suggest that we should cease the behaviors that have the potential of destroying our planet.

After that, the agenda took over, meaning that thousands of rural temperature stations were removed or moved to urban areas (airports) to cause artificial warming and support the models that said the planet should be warming.

Overall, Democrats and liberals are more likely than Republicans and conservatives to say the Earth is warming, human activity is the cause of the change, the problem is serious and there is scientific consensus about the climate changes underway and the threat it poses to the planet.

The hard truth is that the people of the world are going to have to adapt to a warmer planet — regardless of the cause of that warming.

Tweet There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.

They point to this uncertainty, while ignoring the very high degree of confidence scientists have that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, currently warming the planet, causing sea level rise and ocean acidification.

On a planet with an atmosphere of N2 and O2, adding a CO2 would cause warming.

And knowing what causes cooling seems far more important to human beings and welfare of life on this planet, than what causes warming.

While it is widely recognized that continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming of the planet and this warming could lead to damaging economic and social consequences, the exact timing and severity of physical effects are difficult to estimate.

At this instant in time, the best that can be said is that it is reasonably likely that humans have caused some fraction of the non-catastrophic, indeed mostly beneficial, warming of the planet that has occurred over the last 165 years.

«I'm convinced now that there's overwhelming evidence the hypothesis is wrong,» Robinson said of the belief that carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is causing the planet to warm.

Of course, it's always possible that some natural cycle exists, unknown to scientists and their instruments, that is currently causing the planet to warm.

To me one of the root causes for my position lies in the fact the ICCP is a group put together, funded and controlled by the United Nations (perhaps THE most politically motivated group on this planet) AND that their mandate was NOT to determine the causes for climate warming, but rather to prove that climate warming is a result of man's activities.