The hurricane is spinning over waters that have warmed in the last
century as a result of human activity.
Not exact matches
On Monday, I asked him, in essence, if the shape
of the 20th -
century temperature curve were to shift much
as a
result of some
of the issues that have come up in the disclosed e-mail messages and files, would that erode confidence in the keystone climate question (the high confidence expressed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 that most warming since 1950 is driven by
human activities)?
Then, perhaps in the early years
of the next
century, the climate could warm up a little
as a
result of human activity, especially the greater amount
of carbon dioxide that will be released from the burning
of fossil fuels.
The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change - IPCC - Concludes That Increasing Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
Resulting From
Human Activity Such
As Fossil Fuel Burning And Deforestation Are Responsible For Most
Of The Observed Temperature Increase Since The Middle
Of The 20th
Century Source: Wikipedia
This is despite a steady increase in radiative forcing
as a
result of human activities and has led some to question climate predictions
of substantial twenty - first
century warming (Lawson 2008; Carter 2008).