Sentences with phrase «driver of modern climate change»
Although carbon dioxide increases are the largest driver of modern climate change, changes in the abundance of many other compounds also play a role.
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For example, the United States Enviornmental Protection Agency regulates several pollutants affecting air quality but does not currently regulate carbon dioxide, the primary driver of modern climate change.
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Unlike modern human made climate warming, the principal driver of warming at that time was the change in Earth's orbit around the sun.
To better understand these discrepancies, a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters investigates the drivers of changes in deep ocean circulation across a range of modern and Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~ 21000 years ago) climate simulations from the latest Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).