Sentences with phrase «causing most warming»

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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.»

In the particularly difficult question of global warming, thus far most economists have argued that it will be more efficient to respond to the problems caused by global warming as they occur than to make serious efforts to reduce it, since these efforts would slow economic growth.

Warm air is circulated around the food, gradually causing it to lose all or most of its moisture.

He called himself a «botanic physician» and believed that most diseases were caused by cold and cured with heat, so it was no wonder that he loved cayenne and prescribed it as a warming herb.

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.»

Certified Herbalist Karin Parramore has this to say: Most diaper rash is caused by Candida, a common fungus that lives on our skin, especially in warm and moist places like skin folds.

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.

(No errors have been found in the first, and most often quoted, report, which says that the evidence is incontrovertible that human activity is causing the atmosphere to warm and the seas to rise.)

To many, that finding was illustrative of a lack of commitment from richer countries to help developing ones adapt to the global warming that they have done the most to cause.

They agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activity had caused most of Earth's warming over the second half of the 20th century.

Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.

«There is no doubt that the most important factor causing climate warming are CO2 emissions and this must be the prime target of our climate policies.

«For the most part I agree with the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause some warming,» Spencer said, adding that the temperature rise will be much less than the panel predicts.

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.

Most climatologists expect that on average the atmospheres water vapor content will increase in response to surface warming caused by the long - lived greenhouse gases, further accelerating the overall warming trend.

An emphatic 2008 report by economist Ross Garnaut, a former global warming agnostic who became, in his own words, «a late - life convert» to the green cause, did much to dispel any lingering questions among most Australians about whether the threat of climate change was real.

While the findings clearly show that most Brits think the climate is warming, only 31 % of the people surveyed thought that this was caused mostly or entirely by human activity; 47 % of the people polled think that a combination of natural processes and human activity are to blame.

Researchers have long known that the most frequent cause of the common cold, the rhinovirus, replicates more readily in the slightly cooler environment of the nasal cavity than in the warmer lungs.

It's these transient warming events that are causing the most damage.

Where the reports have grown most firm is in declaring that humans are causing the world to warm.

Developed countries that have done the most to cause global warming fear being asked to shell out limitless compensation for bad weather.

Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the ice sheet over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.

The nematode that causes the original infection exists in dirt on all continents except Antarctica, and it is most common in warmer regions, particularly remote rural areas in the tropics and subtropics where walking barefoot combined with poor sanitation leads to infection.

The IPCC concluded that most of the warming of the latter 20th century was very likely caused by humans.

In response to the second point, the most authoritative international scientific investigation into global warming has recently concluded with 95 percent certainty that human - caused global warming is happening.

He has to statistically show a 90 % probability that «Most of» (> 50 %) the warming during the 2nd half of the 20th century is due to anthropogenic causes.

But unlike the lower glaciers, most of the high glaciers are located in very cold environments and require greater amounts of atmospheric warming before local temperatures rise enough to cause significant melting.

Together, the warm and cold events form the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and cause most of the fluctuations in global weather we see from one year to the next.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

Climate change is a fact, and most of the warming is caused by human activity.

Some individuals, most notably Fred Singer, have argued that Dansgaard - Oeschger (D - O) events could be causing the current global warming.

First, I thought a warming climate reduced the temperature difference between the equator and poles, which is what drives most of the winds and ocean currents that cause ocean mixing.

The researchers found that over a 15 - day period, the water temperatures were most extreme when the low tide period drifted to align with maximum sun heat during noon, and these conditions caused the warming of the shallow water on the reefs.

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human - caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming along the US West Coast over the last century, according to a new study.

In these high latitudes, temperatures are predicted to warm so fast and to such a degree so as to cause unprecedented melting of ice that even the most ardent of climate skeptics would be forced to concede the verity of global warming theory.

Inadequate warm - up is one of the most common causes of workout injuries.

A lot of the times, I will use a clear spot treatment and I'll leave it on under makeup that I apply... Most people should not be popping their own pimples because it can cause scaring, but if a pimple is ready to release, it will do so on its own with a warm compress and exfoliation.

A warm weather disease that primarily affects dogs confined to the outdoors in the summer and fall, fly strike is most often caused by the common stable fly, however, blackflies, deer flies, and houseflies can also bite.

It is most common in warm and wet climates and least common in the Southwest, but can cause problems anywhere.

Aside from a totally home - prepared diet, which most dogs seem to adore, you may perk up your dog's appetite simply by warming food up to room temperature or slightly more — causing the aromas to become more apparent to your older dog's olfactory senses.

Projects of particular interest are those that apply a systemic lens to the root causes of global warming; enroll the leadership of frontline communities most vulnerable to the impact of climate change; push for broad - based civic engagement and community action; and wherever possible leverage the value artists and culture bearers bring to processes for devising and deploying practical solutions to this global crisis.

When faced with a choice between a) and b), I respond: «I can't choose, since i think the most likely split between natural and anthropogenic causes to recent global warming is about 50 - 50 ′.

Either most of the actual drying was not caused by warming per se, or the models are all significantly underestimating a key aspect of climate change (see section 7) even though many of them are getting the spatial gradients in today's climate about right.»

But it is on the eastern Peninsula that the most rapid summer warming has occurred, and where the surface - melting has caused ice shelf collapse (indeed, James Ross Island wasn't really an island until 1995, when the Prince Gustav ice shelf collapsed).

Conceptually speaking, the dynamics causing the global warming situation (as most scientists see it) are not all that complicated.

My point isn't that CO2 isn't the cause of most of our recent warming.

Judith states «i think the most likely split between natural and anthropogenic causes to recent global warming is about 50 - 50».

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.

Most notably, the panel now says it is «extremely likely» (greater than 95 percent confidence) that most warming between 1951 and 2010 was human - cauMost notably, the panel now says it is «extremely likely» (greater than 95 percent confidence) that most warming between 1951 and 2010 was human - caumost warming between 1951 and 2010 was human - caused.

1988 prediction by Syukuro Manabe, NASA atmospheric physicist of what we now observe: Human caused warming will proceed most rapidly in the northern polar reaches.