Sentences with phrase «consensus human emissions»

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Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

Pruitt is currently participating in a lawsuit against the EPA's regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and denies the overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

«This research does not change the consensus view that human emissions drive climate change,» says Fortunat Joos, a climate modeller at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

The overwhelming scientific consensus is that the earth's climate is changing and that human activity — including emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — is contributing to that change.

The inquiry aims to find out whether the oil company was aware of the dangers of human - made climate change but chose to keep quiet and to promote denial groups challenging the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.

The first showed that acceptance of several scientific propositions — including the acceptance of HIV causing AIDS, smoking causing lung cancer, and human CO2 emissions causing global warming — were all manifestations of a common factor, which in turn is correlated with a factor reflecting perceived scientific consensus.

In June 2016, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific associations sent a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers that reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

In other words, I am not defending the «consensus,» I doubt that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming, I doubt that such warming would be bad for humans, and I doubt any catastrophic tipping points are imminent.

This explanation obviously did not fit in with the «consensus view» that climate is forced only by human emissions.

The adjacent chart reflects poorly on the «consensus» science that unequivocally states the human CO2 emissions must first increase the lower troposphere temperatures in order to warm the Earth.

But it is true that some of the fossil - fuel funded groups that formerly argued that there is no global warming have reacted to criticism by changing their argument to «the climate is always changing,» as if that somehow disproves the scientific consensus that human greenhouse - gas emissions are causing dangerous warming.

Of course, if the NYTimes or WAPO or CNN or CBS or the AP were ever to report the actual cooling trend over the last 15 years (despite the massive amounts of human CO2 emissions) this would establish that they have been grossly misleading the public for years about consensus «global warming.»

This idea, first proposed six years ago and formally endorsed by the International Energy Agency in 2011, has been gaining traction because of the ever - stronger scientific consensus that carbon emissions from human activity is the principal driver of destructive climate change.

The experts say their research DOES NOT UNDERMINE THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS THAT EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY DRIVE GLOBAL WARMING, BUT THEY CALL FOR A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE WAY CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS CONSIDER WATER VAPOUR.

In a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies today reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

While the Kyoto Protocol had already been set into place as the primary solution to climate change, the historian of science Stuart Weart marks the point at the year 2001 where climate scientists had actually reached a consensus that human activity was warming the planet via GHG emissions and land - use changes, the former largely from fossil fuel use.

We are told that there is an overwhelming agreement, or consensus, among scientists that most weather and climate changes that have occurred since the mid-20th century have been caused by human activity — our fossil fuel burning and CO2 emissions in particular.

Given the importance of the scientific consensus on human - caused global warming in peoples» decisions whether to support action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the public lack of awareness of the consensus, we need to make people aware of these results.

An analysis of satellite temperature dataset, through February 2014, identifies only two 5 - year periods having significant warming and five periods that exhibit either zero warming or cooling... the consensus experts» predicted reaction, by the climate, to a surge of human CO2 emissions is not supported by empirical evidence

The «consensus» «experts» and billion dollar computer climate models predicted that human CO2 emissions would generate accelerating, catastrophic global warming.

The first installment of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report confirms the overwhelming scientific consensus that the impacts of climate change are accelerating, and they're largely driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions.

Awareness of the scientific consensus on human - caused global warming is a key factor in peoples» decisions whether or not to support action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced climate change, (b) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for policy that follows from understanding climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a global solution to climate change in international climate negotiations, and (f) the failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized climate change disinformation campaign.

This table lists all the names I've found who have signed any of the open letters or declarations expressing skepticism of the IPCC's findings, of climate science generally, of the «consensus» on human - induced warming, and / or arguing against any need for immediate cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

Given this consensus, all groups and individuals have a burden of demonstrating what justice would require of them in terms of emissions levels mindful that, as a starting point, all human beings should be entitled to equal per capita shares of safe emissions unless some higher level can be justified on moral grounds.

The new target: Naomi Oreskes who last week found her research used as a foil by some lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to try and discredit the widely - accepted and growing view that there is a broad scientific consensus on the evidence of human - caused global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions.

The memo shows concern that parts of UK media do not reflect the scientific consensus that human emissions of carbon dioxide are driving climate change.

On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.

Certainly Salby's analysis is real surprise for people dominated by the political consensus, according to which human CO2 emissions control the CO2 content in the atmosphere.

Those in the «IPCC - oriented consensus» believe it is due to mankind's increased CO2 and other gas emissions; therefore temperatures are likely to rise as more humans inhabit the earth and economies grow.

A scientific consensus exists linking human activities to global warming due to industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

RE: The Over-whelming scientific Consensus on man - made CO2 caused Global - warming - 97 % of the climate scientists surveyed believe «global aver temps have increased» during the past century [So do I]-- Your quotes: How «significant it is that 84 % of climate scientists have reached a «consensus» that «human - induced warming is occurring» «--RCB- 84 % «personally believe» [implies they may NOT have actually studied this topic — IE: may NOT be experts on this particular matter] human - induced warming is occurring -LCB--... — «In 1991 only 41 % of climate scientists were very confident that industrial emissions of greenhouse gases were responsible for climate disruption.

He has repudiated the Paris Agreement and seems unable to accept the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the world — a setback which seems to have redoubled some countries» efforts to act to reduce their own emissions.

One of the organizations funded by Donors Trust is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank that is openly skeptical of the scientific consensus on human - caused climate change and which opposes legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

I don't know — but it seems that the advocates of consensus climate change define things to make humans look as bad as possible and fail to take into consideration the positive results of increased warmth, the enhanced crop growth, the lower cost to heat a home during winter, the increased CO2 sinks which are absorbing 1/2 of our emissions and so on.

The cause and impact of the observed multi-decadal cycles should be investigated more closely, even if this work ends up falsifying the current «consensus» notion of a climate being driven primarily by human GHG emissions.

that argued there is no scientific consensus that human - caused emissions contribute to climate change and that, in fact, a warming climate is good for people and the planet.

The scientific consensus is that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human agricultural and industrial activity are the principal cause of this global warming [1]--[3] and that such emissions must be severely curtailed to prevent further anthropogenic disruption of the climate system [4].