Sentences with phrase «driver of climate change»

As the main driver of climate change, the connection between burning fossil fuels and global warming is clear.

These cycles are clearly the primary drivers of climate change on the scale of roughly 100,000 years, 40,000 years and 20,000 years.

But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change.

When models only include natural drivers of climate change, such as natural variability and volcanic eruptions, they can not reproduce the recent increase in temperature.

CO2 pollution is a key driver of climate change.

At «human - relevant time - scales» the sun is not the dominant driver of climate change.

Nor that there are other drivers of climate change.

Even assuming that water is a bigger driver of climate change, that doesn't mean CO2 can't have an effect as well.

At present, atmospheric temperature is decreasing and CO2 is increasing again showing that CO2 is not the principal driver of climate change.

The core drivers of climate change cause other problems too.

Individual drivers of climate change initially alter the energy budget of the atmosphere leading to distinct rapid adjustments involving changes in precipitation.

Forest degradation and deforestation is one of the prime drivers of climate change, accounting for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, as the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere.

Indeed, animal agriculture is one of the very top drivers of climate change worldwide.

Environmental groups, both national and local, are opposing coal plants because they are the primary driver of climate change.

Negative emission technologies aim to remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a major driver of climate change, from the atmosphere.

It is only over the longer time scales (decades) that the additional predictability that comes from external drivers of climate change (for instance, carbon dioxide, air pollution and ozone depletion) can start to be useful — but that's another post.

Rawls interprets this as an admission that the sun is actually a significant driver of climate change.

But it makes no sense to reject CO2 as a primary driver of climate change today because it looks, through the foggy glasses of time, like CO2 has not always completely controlled climate changes in the past.

Research suggests the feedbacks may be very different on different timescales and in response to different drivers of climate change.

The newly released Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that «radiative forcing» from human - emitted CO2 is the leading driver of climate change.

Reframing the proposition more correctly it would be something like «The prediction is that CO2 CAN BE a major driver of Climate Change in some contexts INCLUDING our current context.

Soon is a popular and oft - cited scientist within climate science denialist circles and claims the sun is the key driver of climate change with fossil fuels playing a minimal role.

There are very short - term trends (e.g. the ENSO) having a short up - or - down effect on the global surface temperature, but which (when you think it through) are incapable of altering the long - term climate trends produced by real drivers of climate change (e.g. long - term solar activity changes / Milankovitch - cycle insolation / Northern Hemisphere ice albedo changes / continental drift positional effects / and of course Greenhouse gas alterations).

is the all - important driver of climate change that the President and others attending COP21 make it out to be.

PDRMIP investigates the role of various drivers of climate change for mean and extreme precipitation changes, based on multiple climate model output and energy budget analyses.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

Reducing the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — the major human - based driver of climate change — requires an expensive shift away from coal and oil as our prime sources of energy.

The researchers also compared phytoplankton's response not only to ocean acidification, but also to other projected drivers of climate change, such as warming temperatures and lower nutrient supplies.

The Observatory will also set out to explain the current drivers of climate change arising from human activities (including industry and agriculture), and how our future actions will depend on our capacity to understand the pace and direction of change.

While this issue of addressing long - lived vs. short - lived drivers of climate change is often posed as a dichotomy, there is a unifying perspective:

There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.

His speech, titled «Solar Irradiance and Oceans are the True Drivers of Climate Change» can be viewed below.

«Current global warming theory dictates that CO2 has been a major driver of climate change throughout the 20th century (Ref, ref, ref, ref, ref).

«Now the city is looking to shift the burden of these expenses from its taxpayers to the companies who produce and profit from fossil fuels, which have been shown by scientists to be the overwhelming driver of climate change.»

Let's turn to Chapter 2: Physical Drivers of Climate Change.

The Summary for Policymakers also incorporates, for the first time, information on, inter alia, paleoclimate reconstruction studies, geoengineering, and an emissions - based perspective on drivers of climate change.

He concluded that soot is currently the No. 2 driver of climate change â $» behind CO2 but ahead of methane â $» and that curbing emissions of black carbon would produce the fastest, most effective and most affordable international response to climate change and the shrinking of the Arctic sea ice.

In this respect both CDR and SRM can be seen as further extensions of the public and policy communities» unwillingness to change behaviour and challenge the fundamental drivers of climate change in our over-consumption of fossil fuels.

As the Director of GISS and Principal Investigator for the GISS ModelE Earth System Model, I am interested in understanding past, present and future climate and the impacts of multiple drivers of climate change, including solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases.