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.
Although carbon dioxide increases are the largest
driver of modern climate change, changes in the abundance of many other compounds also play a role.
Not exact matches
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).