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.
There will be changes in our industry, but price of the service is not
the dominant driver of that change.
Not exact matches
Because credit and default risk are the
dominant drivers of valuations
of high yield bonds,
changes in market interest rates are relatively less important.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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».
«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»
«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.»
Of these, greenhouse gases appear to be the dominant driver of climate change over the past few decade
Of these, greenhouse gases appear to be the
dominant driver of climate change over the past few decade
of climate
change over the past few decades.
Another finding
of the paper is that precipitation was the
dominant driver for
changes in the terrestrial water budget before the early 1980's.
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).
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.
At all human - relevant time - scales, the Sun is the
dominant driver of our ever -
changing climate.
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].