Sentences with phrase «dominant driver of»

There will be changes in our industry, but price of the service is not the dominant driver of that change.

Alternatively, only a small fraction reject that anthropogenic forcings are the dominant driver of the recent warming.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

At all human - relevant time - scales, the Sun is the dominant driver of our ever - changing climate.

Ocean acidification due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions is a dominant driver of long - term changes in pH in the open ocean, raising concern for the future of calcifying organisms, many of which are present in coastal habitats.

Several global studies suggest that at least until 2050 land - use change will be the dominant driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss in human - dominated regions (Sala et al., 2000; UNEP, 2002; Gaston et al., 2003; Jenkins, 2003; Scharlemann et al., 2004; Sala, 2005).

Given they are now the dominant driver of global oil demand, the issue can no longer be ignored if we are to meet our energy and environmental objectives» said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's Executive Director.

It is very clear that the increase in GHG forcing is emerging as the dominant driver of climate since the mid-C20th.

Second, humans are now a dominant driver of the climate and are very likely to be responsible for most of the recent warming we have experienced.

OR b) The basic premise of the models, which all place CO2 as the dominant driver of current and future weather patterns, is just plain wrong.

Wisdom; and wild - eyed JC has none.No flexibility - if it doesn't agree with his insular mind its rejected out of hand.Bit like the peer - review system that rejects alternative climate science that puts the piss up CO2 as the dominant driver of earths temp.

90 % of respondents with more than 10 climate - related peer - reviewed publications (about half of all respondents), explicitly agreed with anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) being the dominant driver of recent global warming.

90 % of respondents with more than 10 climate - related peer - reviewed publications (about half of all respondents), agreed that anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) are the dominant driver of recent global warming.

I find that natural gas price declines are the dominant driver of reduced electricity prices at the 19 nuclear power stations over this period.

As Mosher points out, we don't need no stinkin» Modulz to understand that CO2 is overwhelmingly the dominant driver of temperature trends since the mid-20th Century... for that we've got observations.

«But it's worth noting, because this provides unequivocal evidence that the sun is not the dominant driver of global warming.»

Of these, greenhouse gases appear to be the dominant driver of climate change over the past few decades.

80 % of what he talks about makes the a priori assumption that CO2 is a dominant driver of atmospheric warming.

Forest loss is caused by many factors but, according to the latest analyses, international demand for commodities such as agricultural commodities, biofuels, wood products and minerals is the dominant driver of emissions in many countries.

«The additional burden of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities... leads to the current «perturbed» global carbon cycle... These perturbations to the natural carbon cycle are the dominant driver of climate change because of their persistent effect on the atmosphere.»

Everyone else who follows the science, yourself included surely, has to accept that climate sensitivity estimates almost certainly show CO2 to be the dominant driver of global temperature over the next 50 years.

What I miss is their assertion: «The dominant driver of these trends is increasing greenhouse forcing, although there may be contributions from anthropogenic changes of the ozone layer and long - term increase of geomagnetic activity throughout the 20th century».

The dominant driver of these trends is increasing greenhouse forcing, although there may be contributions from anthropogenic changes of the ozone layer and long - term increase of geomagnetic activity throughout the 20th century.

Read on for some important sections, starting with Francis's reference to, if not direct acceptance of, scientific reports concluding that humans are the dominant driver of recent warming of the climate.

According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of extreme heat waves) the connections between today's extreme weather events and human - driven climate change range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or coastal vulnerability.

That each of the three glaciers has a reduced velocity in 2006 and 2007 despite some exceptional melt conditions in 2007 further suggests that meltwater is not the dominant driver of the acceleration of the main outlet glaciers.

But, as Mendelson writes, that would miss the wider point revealed when putting this species» interruped story in wider context of Earth's unfolding «Anthropocene» — a span, duration as yet unknown, in which humans are the dominant driver of environmental change.

In this case atmospheric warming will soon become the dominant driver of ice loss, but prolonged ocean warming will delay its recovery for thousands of years.»

CO2 accounts for more than 80 % of the added GHG forcing in the past 15 years [64], [167] and, if fossil fuel emissions continue at a high level, CO2 will be the dominant driver of future global temperature change.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

The researchers find that «ocean - driven melt is an important driver of Antarctic ice shelf retreat where warm water is in contact with shelves, but in high greenhouse - gas emissions scenarios, atmospheric warming soon overtakes the ocean as the dominant driver of Antarctic ice loss.»

Income is also set to eclipse population as the dominant driver of food security, a «historical first,» said Baldos.

There has been a global, 30 - year increase in surface mining (1), which is now the dominant driver of land - use change in the central Appalachian ecoregion of the United States (2).

Islamic extremism remains the global dominant driver of persecution, responsible for initiating oppression and conflict in 35 out of the 50 countries on the 2017 list.

Despite all the talk of rising interest rates in connection to gold, they're not a dominant driver of prices.

In particular, industrial activity in emerging Asia now appears to be the dominant driver of oil - price movements (Chart 15).6

Ego in most people is the dominant driver of all thoughts, actions and ways of going about life.

Because credit and default risk are the dominant drivers of valuations of high yield bonds, changes in market interest rates are relatively less important.

Whereas in Florida, urbanization and mosquito control efforts are more likely to be the dominant drivers of mosquito populations,» Kilpatrick said.

«Today, curiosity, creativity, and ultimately genuine learning are at risk anywhere high - stakes testing, Big Data, and punitive accountability are the dominant drivers of what teachers and students do in schools.

But a recent University of Colorado study, while finding a link between periods of high temperatures and pulses of regional violence in East Africa, also concludes that other social and political factors still, by far, are the dominant drivers of unrest and violence.

Not exact matches

Buyers are now in possession of unlimited information so online content is quickly becoming the dominant driver for commerce.

With buyers now in possession of unlimited information, online content is quickly becoming the dominant driver for commerce.

Red Bull Junior driver Pierre Gasly finished out of the points in 9th in the GP2 finale in Abu Dhabi but won the championship anyway, thanks in part to a dominant performance in Saturday's feature race.

The British driver has been aided by a dominant car in recent years, but managing to stay out of trouble on track for 28 consecutive races is an incredible feat.

Michael Andretti, the dominant Indy Car driver of the 1990s, has been a spectacular failure in his first season in Formula One racing

My point is that the Labour blogosphere is too uncritical of the government on civil liberties - that, in your terms, it contributes to the «political culture and dominant political discourses» that are the driver of the problem, rather than contesting this culture and these discourses.

From an evolutionary point of view, health is the dominant driver because it indicates that a person has good genes.

If the federal government was the primary driver of education policy in the early 2000s, states reemerged as a dominant player in recent years leading up to the enactment of ESSA, driving the structure of the post-NCLB iteration of standards - based reform.

In the four years since rejoining endurance racing's top level in 2014, Porsche has scooped a trio of drivers» and constructers» championships, plus three Le Mans 24 - hour wins, beating both the previously dominant Audi squad, which abandoned the series at the end of 2016, and Toyota in the process.