Sentences with phrase «determine human influences on the climate»

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the policies of the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.»

Most of the action in Mexico won't be related to the dominant factor determining the human influence on climate in this century and far beyond — carbon dioxide.

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the actions taken over the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.

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The IPCC process is a major effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of climate science, though as is evident even from the Summary — which, due to the necessity for brevity, tends to downplay uncertainties — there are still many difficult obstacles and uncertainties to overcome in determining the influence of human activities on the climate.»

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.