Sentences with phrase «evidence of climate change causing»

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Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

AG Eric Schneiderman said the Buffalo snowstorms are more evidence that climate change is happening, and that New York and the nation need to work harder to combat the causes of global warming.

The State's Attorney General says the Buffalo snowstorms are more evidence that climate change is happening, and that New York and the nation need to work harder to combat the causes of global warming.

«We want to find ways to confront an erosion of evidence,» AAAS CEO and Science Executive Publisher Rush Holt told the fellows, referring to skepticism about the reality of human - caused climate change, «and that's why we turned to you.»

A ClimateWire investigation into the origins of the flood disaster uncovered evidence that points to a calamity caused by man, the cumulative effect of erratic weather forecast by climate change models, massive deforestation, and lax attention to infrastructure maintenance and engineering standards.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

A quarter of producers said they believed climate change was caused mostly by natural shifts in the environment, and 31 percent said there was not enough evidence to determine whether climate change was happening or not.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

The Climate Science Special Report lays out the most recent scientific evidence of climate change, once again confirming that climate change is real, it's happening now, and human activity is the primary cause.Climate Science Special Report lays out the most recent scientific evidence of climate change, once again confirming that climate change is real, it's happening now, and human activity is the primary cause.climate change, once again confirming that climate change is real, it's happening now, and human activity is the primary cause.climate change is real, it's happening now, and human activity is the primary cause.»

One of the senior scientists there (extremely conservative senior scientist who got after me occasionally about being too bold), publicly used the phrase, «this [human caused climate change evidence] is alarming to me.»

This research received wide attention, in part because it was illustrated with a simple graphic, the so - called hockey stick curve, that many interpreted as definitive evidence of anthropogenic causes of recent climate change.

,» Soon wrote that because he has assembled evidence supporting the hypothesis that the sun causes climatic change in the Arctic it «invalidates the hypothesis that CO2 is a major cause of observed climate change.»

ASU's longtime climate skeptic Robert C. Balling continues to reject conclusive scientific evidence that humans are the primary cause of global warming and was listed as a recipient of prospective payments in Heartland's leaked budget for work on their «Climate Change Reconsidered» rclimate skeptic Robert C. Balling continues to reject conclusive scientific evidence that humans are the primary cause of global warming and was listed as a recipient of prospective payments in Heartland's leaked budget for work on their «Climate Change Reconsidered» rClimate Change Reconsidered» reports.

Michael Mann added that «Donald Trump and his campaign still firmly reject the scientific evidence that climate change is human - caused, opposing the only action (a reduction of fossil fuel burning) that can save us from ever - more dangerous climate change impacts,» according to EcoWatch.

Multiple lines of well - established evidence point to the reality of human - caused climate change.

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The consortium brings together University of Nairobi through the Wangari Maathai Institute & Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mekelle University - Ethiopia, World Animal Protection and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) who will work together to provide together academia to provide research based evidence to inform policy, implementation and challenges caused by disaster and climate change.

Worst of all, this is all occurring with indisputable evidence of the causes, dangers, and solutions to climate change readily available.

Does The Silurian Hypothesis help to educate or inform the public or journalists about the overwhelming evidence of climate change, it's causes and solutions?

Thanks Gavin, I get the point (in your response to my comment # 14) that your intention here is to discuss changes in the ocean / atmosphere system that could cause a cooling of European climate, and that both observational and model evidence point to a weakening of THC as the most likely candidate.

The two threads of evidence together — from data and from computer models — suggest that climate change is affecting El Niño, rather than a natural variation in El Niño causing trends that may appear as if they are the result of man - made climate change.

There is of course more, but I'm going to stop because I realize that while all this is good evidence for harms caused by anthropogenic climate change in general, to be really relevant to the topic at hand, we should be looking at the specific harms alleged by the plaintiffs in the suit over which judge Alsup is presiding.

He lauded me for having some skeptical Web sites on the blogroll here, as evidence that at least one mainstream reporter paid attention to the full range of voices on the causes and consequences of climate change.

We have all kinds of evidence of pre-human climate changes, and it doesn't negate that AGW is the cause of this climate change we are now in.

Nearly 200 years of research confirms that humans are the primary cause of present - day climate change, which, as vast amounts of evidence show, seriously threatens our way of life — indeed, for many people, their very survival.

-- Projected precipitation and temperature changes imply changes in floods, although overall there is low confidence at the global scale regarding climate - driven changes in magnitude or frequency of river - related flooding, due to limited evidence and because the causes of regional changes are complex.

On «the conclusion was made that the «balance of evidence» supported the notion of ongoing human - caused climate change.»

Alistair I suspect that part of the answer is that weathermen, as a general rule, have a pretty limited background in science (at least as evidenced by what comes out of the mouths of those on CNN and the various news stations around DC) and expecting them to be able to explain what is causing climate change would be sort of like expecting an EMT to explain brain surgery.

We need knowledge based on evidence and not guesswork of how much warming is caused by carbon dioxide, versus solar output and other factors, and of how much climate change we could produce by controlling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The new papers indicating that this particular cause and effect is not well established is unsurprising and, as contrary evidence of climate change, meaningless.

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

A very interesting paper on causality that addresses the issue of the causes of the increases in Atlantic hurricanes is available at Evidence in support of the climate change - Atlantic hurricane hypothesis, James B. Elsner, GRL Aug 2006 (pdf).

The patient is showing more and more of the syndrome, and although we can not be sure that each particular symptom is due to climate change rather than some other cause, the combined evidence justifies strong confidence that the syndrome is present.

If you're sincerely interested in the scientific case for AGW, you can't really do better than to start with this free 36 - page booklet published jointly by the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of the UK: Climate Change: Evidence and Causes.

[UPDATE, 5:30 p.m.: John Christy, one of the scientists publicly questioning the evidence for dangerous human - caused climate change, responds below.]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (big pdf file) and other climate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main inflClimate Change (big pdf file) and other climate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main inflclimate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main inflclimate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main influence).

My opinion is that, putting global warming and climate change aside, we have much greater evidence of the difficult future caused by land degradation, shrinking drinkable water supplies, collapsing fish stocks, and the troubles that will be caused to the economy and society as supply of oil and gas supplies shrink and energy becomes too expensive.

Dr. Prather's comment is worth posting here on its own as a starting point for more discussion of how scientists can best help society weigh evidence pointing to human - caused climate change and attendant risks and consider how to respond if people ever got inspired to do so:

How I would love for just one reporter to ask Mr. Inhofe (or any other denialist) «Please, what level of evidence would you accept as substantial enough that human caused climate change is real?»

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

Pielke critiques the state of flood research, but sidesteps the strong evidence showing that extreme rainfall events have increased due to human - caused climate change.

Your and all your other fellow climate alarmists provide evidence that these observations of eminent scientists is correct, because none of you can cite any peer reviewed science that empirically falsifies the null climate hypothesis of natural variability still being the primary cause of climate change, or cite any peer reviewed science that empirically shows that anthropogenic CO2 has been the primary cause of the late 20th century climate warming.

One could imagine a world in which crediting evidence of human - caused climate change and the risks it poses gratify hierarchical and individualistic sensibilities and threaten egalitarian communitarian ones.

I intend both to «follow the money» (flowing primarily from special interests opposed to regulation or taxation of greenhouse gas emissions) and to «follow the science» (by exposing the most egregious flaws in the «evidence» against the attribution of contemporary climate change primarily to human causes).

Thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence and improved computer models that can project climate changes more accurately and in much finer detail, each report has proclaimed with greater and greater certainty that human activity is the main cause of global warming.

Similarly, attribution of climate change to anthropogenic causes involves statistical analysis and the assessment of multiple lines of evidence to demonstrate, within a pre-specified margin of error, that the observed changes are (1) unlikely to be due entirely to natural internal climate variability; (2) consistent with estimated or modelled responses to the given combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing; and (3) not consistent with alternative, physically plausible explanations of recent climate change.