Sentences with phrase «dominant cause of climate change»

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) states that CO2 is the dominant cause of climate change.

We'll provide a down - to - earth discussion of the science, which increasingly shows that natural cycles of Earth are the dominant cause of climate change — not man - made greenhouse gas emissions.

On the surface, Moore is everything deniers are looking for: a former co-founder of Greenpeace who has switched teams, proclaiming loudly that human activity is not the dominant cause of climate change.

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Walt, if you've ever studied Pleistocene geology and the million year history of glacial advances and interglacial warming cycles you would know human - induced global warming and climate changes are the dominant cause of current and future catastrophic consequences.

[Response: And note that the abstract linked says «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

A quote from Micha Tomkiewicz's «counter-viewpoint» paper: «It is based on the understanding that anthropogenic climate change is caused primarily by changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere due to dominant use of fossil fuels.»

The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes.

According to the report, «natural causes are very likely to be [the] dominant» cause of climate change that took place in the twentieth and at the start of the twenty - first centuries.

The widespread change detected in temperature observations of the surface, free atmosphere and ocean, together with consistent evidence of change in other parts of the climate system, strengthens the conclusion that greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant cause of warming during the past several decades.

According to the new report, «natural causes are very likely to be [the] dominant» cause of climate change that took place in the twentieth and at the start of the twenty - first centuries.

However, Solanki et al made the same point as we do: «This comparison shows without requiring any recourse to modeling that since roughly 1970 the solar influence on climate (through the channels considered here) can not have been dominant» (Solanki et al., 2003), and: «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

Last July, they were the only two MPs to vote against the Energy and Climate Change Committee's acceptance of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of global warming.

«We do not rule out the natural forcings at work,» he said, «but there isn't enough quantitative evidence to say that natural forcings are the dominant cause of current climate change.»

It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human - induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases -LSB-...] Since long - term measurements began in the 1950s, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been increasing at a rate much faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

The dominant cause of the warming since the 1950s is human activities,» the American Meteorological Society said as part of a lengthy statement on climate change Monday.

There are large, even dominant, non-climatic causes of δ18O changes over hundreds of millions of years [40], but non-climatic change may be small in the past few hundred million years [41] and is generally neglected in Cenozoic climate studies.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter9.pdf The widespread change detected in temperature observations of the surface (Sections 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.3), free atmosphere (Section 9.4.4) and ocean (Section 9.5.1), together with consistent evidence of change in other parts of the climate system (Section 9.5), strengthens the conclusion that greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant cause of warming during the past several decades.

«It is certain that GHG emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these GHGs are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place over the last 50 years.»

«It is certain that GHG emissions from the burning fossil fuels and land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these GHGs are the dominant cause of the global warming that has taken place over the last 50 years»

quoted; Nevertheless, climate change has become a grand narrative in which human - caused climate change has become a dominant cause of societal problems.

With this preceding the quote:» Nevertheless, climate change has become a grand narrative in which human - caused climate change has become a dominant cause of societal problems.»

Was this the following excerpt where they talked about climate change as a «dominant cause of societal problems, where «everything that goes wrong then reinforces the conviction that there is «only one thing we can do [to] prevent social problems — stop burning fossil fuels?»

«climate change has become a grand narrative in which human - caused climate change has become a dominant cause of societal problems.

-- Nevertheless, climate change has become a grand narrative in which human - caused climate change has become a dominant cause of societal problems.

1.1 Mention that human activity is a dominant influence or has caused most of recent climate change (> 50 %).