Growing populations and growing energy demand will greatly increase atmospheric
concentrations of greenhouse gases in this century without big changes in technology, policy, or behavior.
Numerous scientific studies indicate that the greater part of the global warming in recent decades is due to the
great concentration of greenhouse gases... given off above all because of human activity.
That concentration has reflected roughly 0.1 watts per meter squared of sunlight away from the planet, enough to offset roughly one - third of the 0.28 watts per meter squared of extra heat trapped by rising atmospheric
concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.
The upper end of the scenarios assessed, representing a cut of around a third in greenhouse gas emissions from business - as - usual projections, could assist in keeping
concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million.
«One of the main causes of these changes is the growing
concentration of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere as a result of human activity,» says Assaf Hochman of TAU's School of Geosciences, who led the research.
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.
«It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades is due to the
large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.»
But on one critically important metric — how hot the planet will get from a doubling of the
pre-industrial concentration of greenhouse gases, a k a «climate sensitivity» — some climate researchers with substantial publication records are shifting toward the lower end of the warming spectrum.
If variations in the output of the Sun are indeed limited to the tenth of a percent that is recorded in direct measurements, future solar changes will likely have but a small effect, one way or the other, on the surface warming of a few degrees that is expected to result from
doubled concentrations of greenhouse gases.
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