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.
Of these, greenhouse gases appear to be
the dominant driver of climate change over the past few decades.
«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.»
Not exact matches
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.
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.
While there are many
drivers of climate, CO2 is the most
dominant radiative forcing and is increasing faster than any other forcing.
The IPCC concluded that «the effects [
of greenhouse gases], together with those
of other anthropogenic
drivers, have been detected throughout the
climate system and are extremely likely to have been the
dominant cause
of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.»
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.
«On forced temperature changes, internal variability, and the AMO» «Tracking the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years» «The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a
dominant factor
of oceanic influence on
climate» «The role
of Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in the global mean temperature variability» «The North Atlantic Oscillation as a
driver of rapid
climate change in the Northern Hemisphere» «The Atlanto - Pacific multidecade oscillation and its imprint on the global temperature record» «Imprints
of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» «North Atlantic Multidecadal SST Oscillation: External forcing versus internal variability» «Forced and internal twentieth - century SST trends in the North Atlantic» «Interactive comment on «Imprints
of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures»
A relatively small group
of people was able both to claim that CO2 is the main
driver of temperature /
climate, and to become
dominant in this field.
You do * deny * that the increasing atmospheric fraction
of CO2 is emerging as the
dominant climate driver, do you not?
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.
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.
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.
Over the period the known natural
drivers of climate have been flat or slightly negative, which leaves just 2 possibilities: some as yet undiscovered natural cause or that, as the IPCC conclude, the
dominant factor was anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gas concentrations, which are after all, at least 35 % higher than at any time in the last 600K years.
At all human - relevant time - scales, the Sun is the
dominant driver of our ever - changing
climate.