Sentences with phrase «causes of a warming world»

Their exploitation has been seen by many climatologists as a symbol of humanity's unwillingness to address the causes of a warming world, even decades after they have been identified.

This applies whatever the cause of a warmer world, although it just so happens that a warmer world is predicted because of AGW and that prediction remains.

Not exact matches

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

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.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

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.

In 1988, Thatcher, as prime minister, became one of the first world leaders to warn of warming caused by greenhouse gases.

While more than 95 percent of the world's climate scientists attribute global warming to human causes, only about half of U.S. adults agree.

A warming world may have less snow, but the sort of severe snowstorms that caused chaos in the US this year will remain a serious hazard, according to new research

A major release of methane trapped in the frozen seabed off Russia could accelerate global warming and cause $ 60 trillion in damage, almost the size of world GDP, it said.

The warming of the world's climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes.

They used the butterfly — one of the world's smallest — to test how global warming and other pressures like livestock grazing might cause animal species to go extinct.

A number of media outlets tried to link this recent cold outbreak with a wavier jet stream that is possibly caused by the reduction in temperature difference between a much warmer Arctic, which is heating up rapidly due to global warming, and the lower parts of the world.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.

This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.

Given those findings and the rest of the improved understanding of the climate system, the IPCC projects that if carbon dioxide gas emissions — the primary cause of warming — continue to grow at the recent rate, the world would warm 2oC above 19th - century levels by the middle of this century.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scales, effects and consequences, which was presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since world's oceans have warmed significantly since 1995.

Many of these adaptation mechanisms needed for Third World countries require implementing tools that can override natural disturbances caused by global warming.

Sea level rise caused by global warming can prove extremely destructive to island habitats, which hold about 20 % of the world's biodiversity.

The causes are all human: overfishing wiping out key species, warmer waters from a warming world, dying coral which supported millions of species, pollution like fertilizers causing deadly algae blooms and dead zones,...

The loss of Arctic sea ice caused by climate warming is having world - wide effects on shipping, fishing, and human life.

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.

That finding, detailed in the journal Science Advances, fits with the conclusions of an earlier study by Swain and his colleagues that suggested such persistent ridging was more likely to occur in a world with human - caused warming than one without it.

«Even 1.5 C warming will cause irreparable harm to coral reefs in many parts of the world.

Despite a sudden increase of unstable weather on every continent, Hall tries to convince world leaders the event is indicative of a looming ice age caused by global warming.

Returning to England in 1946, Ballard spent brief stints at medical school and in the RAF, before publishing his first novel in 1961, The Drowned World, in which he argued, quite rightly, that global warming could ultimately cause the flooding a number of the world's major ciWorld, in which he argued, quite rightly, that global warming could ultimately cause the flooding a number of the world's major ciworld's major cities.

Scientists say electricity generation is responsible for one - quarter of the world's total CO2 emissions — the main cause of global warming — and U.S. power plants account for fully 25 percent of the emissions generated by the power sector worldwide.

The report starts off with a blunt warning: «Man is setting in motion a series of events that seem certain to cause a significant warming of world climates over the next decades unless mitigating steps are taken immediately.»

In any event, pretty early on in the book (a bit after box 2.2, «The World According to Oxygen Isotopes») he says: that cores taken from «Intermediate depths in the ocean... show warming of perhaps 5C» and that this warming was caused by CO2 the source of which is still controversial.

Every day we are witness to new groups forming to promote the very same CAUSE of global warming: DEVELOPEMENT, i.e. overconsumption of energy and resources, in the USA and the industrial world.

The issue of «the world is warming» is not one that climate skeptics question, it is the magnitude and causes.

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.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

You repeatedly tout the proposition that carbon monoxide is an insignificant greenhouse gas in terms of ability to cause warming, yet here you argue that «carbon encumbrance in a cooling world will devastate the poor of this earth.»

We may not understand all the details yet, but there's no question that a) the world is warming, and b) human activity is most of the cause.

Not one, I repeat, not one published study stating that human caused global warming is false has held up to world wide juried peer review to the best of my knowlege.

As this blog and other venues continue discussions of global warming, its causes and consequences, we would do well also to look at the world around us for clues about where we are headed.

The fact that so many people in the world believe, without understanding even the basic concepts, that global warming is indeed an issue should be a point of concern, not cause for celebration.

Re # 158 (Sashka): I read the document you linked to at http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=236 and found out that the $ 5T number you claimed as the cost of Kyoto compliance is not that at all, but is actually Bjorn Lomborg's quote of Nordhaus» figure for how much it would cost to pay for global warming - caused damage in the developing world over the course of the current century if nothing were done to impede the warming.

As an academic and historian reminded me recently, the core cause of a host of current concerns, from global warming to epidemic disease to hunger and tribal warfare, is that the population of the world continues to grow at a rapid rate.

The observed CO2 increase in the world ocean disproves another popular #fakenews piece of the «climate skeptics»: namely that the CO2 increase in the atmosphere might have been caused by the outgassing of CO2 from the ocean as a result of the warming.

This is a silly thing to say, since these cities were created before the world had to worry about rising sea levels being a result of human - caused global warming.

[UPDATE] After visiting various research buildings, he gave a pep talk on the energy revolution he said was vital if the United States and the world are to avoid conflicts over limited supplies of oil and eventual disruptive impacts from human - caused global warming.

As to the final question: In the 2003/4 survey conducted of the world's top 600 climatologists, Professor Dennis Bray of the German Institute for Coastal Research found the following: Less than 1 in 10 (9.67 %) of the world's top climatologists strongly agreed that the recent warming was caused by human activity.

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.

If he says the world has warmed 0.8 degrees and most of that is human caused, then it must be at least that.

According to Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, the warming globe will likely cause a decline in the production of malting barley, which, when combined with the scarcity of hops right now, stands to have a profound and negative impact on the world's beer supply starting now, and for decades to come.

A central dispute was over how scientists can best discuss risks and responses related to inherent, and dangerous, extremes of climate in a world increasingly fixated on how to limit global warming caused by human activity.