Sentences with phrase «effect on global climate»

There are many reasons that large volcanic eruptions have such far - reaching effects on global climate.

This laid the groundwork for how atmospheric variations over time in addition carbon dioxide emissions could have profound effects on global climate.

I am part of that community; we agree that human greenhouse gas emissions are having a huge, negative effect on global climate.

In this regard, the ideal baseline period would be in the 19th century when anthropogenic effects on global climate were negligible.

And as such, would have huge effects on global climate.

Wiping out an entire forest can have significant effects on global climate patterns and alter vegetation on the other side of the world, according to a study led by the University of Washington and published Nov. 16 in PLOS ONE.

Essentially, the «father of global warming,» James Hansen, admits that near - doubling atmospheric CO2 will have negligible effect on global climate — an increment of < 1 °C.

«What has to happen to have a big effect on the global climate is for all the big emitters to get together and decide that they are all going to cut some substantial fraction [of emissions].»

The concern about the human effects on global climate as opposed to local effects is now reaching a crescendo with energy control, pricing and rationing measures being pushed through in many parts of the Western world and especially in the USA and the UK.

The full effects on the global climate will come later, and even if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere stabilises at double today's levels the International Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) estimates that by end of the 21st century the global temperature will have increased by between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C.

But extrapolated to all areas of North America where beavers have traditionally lived and then placed in the context of a preindustrial world, it suggests that beavers — as well as their relatively sudden removal from the landscape by trappers in pre-Colonial times — may have had a substantial effect on global climate.

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century.

Decadal variations in the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation are characterized by a pattern of sea surface temperature anomalies that resemble the central Pacific El Niño, a dominant mode of interannual variability with far - reaching effects on global climate patterns5, 6, 7.

The contribution from the tiny increase in co2 is not possible to have any real effect on global climate.

The eruptions were significantly smaller than 1991's massive Mount Pinatubo outburst in the Philippines, which had a noticeable cooling effect on the global climate.

A change in ocean heat content can also alter patterns of ocean circulation, which can have far - reaching effects on global climate conditions, including changes to the outcome and pattern of meteorological events such as tropical storms, and also temperatures in the northern Atlantic region, which are strongly influenced by currents that may be substantially reduced with CO2 increase in the atmosphere.

The odd - numbered solar cycles, which for reasons unknown (to me anyway) have a stronger effect on global climate than the even ones.

Your right direction is a fantacy, we do not have the power to change a system we don't fully understand, to claim anything we do will have a maesurable effect on the global climate system is nothing more than presumption & arrogance and will result in the destruction of the only thing that can change things on a global scale.

Today, relatively subtle changes in the tropical Pacific's ocean and atmosphere have profound effects on global climate.

«We were surprised to find that the closing of the ozone hole, which is expected to occur in the next 50 years or so, shows significant effects on the global climate,» said Lorenzo M. Polvani, one of two principle investigators and professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at SEAS.

If we are in a global warming crisis today, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions and all other government proposals and taxes would have a negligible effect on global climate!

He was one of the first scientists to address what we now call the «signal detection problem» — the problem of determining where we might expect to see the first clear evidence of a human effect on global climate.

Scientists are retrieving data from the largest effort yet to monitor the Atlantic conveyor belt, a set of powerful ocean currents with far - reaching effects on the global climate that has mysteriously slowed over the past decade.

Bocherens comments, «The presence of giant herbivores thus not only contributed to a higher species diversity, it also had an effect on the global climate.»

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said Steve Polasky, a professor of ecological and environmental economics at the University of Minnesota who was unaffiliated with the study.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis of the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast, Principal Investigator of the UK consortium, said: «The Sun is the most important astronomical object for humankind with solar activity driving space weather and having profound effects on global climate and technology - based communications.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

Such transformational changes in attitudes would help foster the necessary institutional reforms and technological innovations for providing the energy sources that have negligible effect on global climate, atmospheric pollution and eco-systems, thus protecting generations yet to be born.

2007/04/27: NYT: Public Remains Split on Response to Warming Ninety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb the warming of the atmosphere and deal with its effects on the global climate.

So, if man made CO2 is the problem and there is just too darn much of it and if clouds are primarily water vapor and have no effect on the global climate, then the cloudy / sunny day effects of solar panel bounceback heat retention are nil.

Alas, I believe the preponderance of evidence strongly supports the claim that anthropogenic emissions are having an effect on the global climate, and that effect will increase as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere.