Sentences with phrase «fundamental cause of climate change»

Yes, they do, according to an extensive analysis of the abstracts or summaries of scientific papers published over the past 20 years, even though public perception tends to be that climate scientists disagree over the fundamental cause of climate change.

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

Not exact matches

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change,» he said in an email.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.

The statement continues: «While the understanding of the drivers and consequences of climate change will continue to advance with additional research, the fundamental premise remains sound that human life has altered the atmosphere and is one of the causes of climate change.»

«agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

Though not obvious, this claim is central to the tenet of the paper, and is an example of the cause - versus - effect issue I repeatedly refer to in the past when discussing some of the most fundamental errors made in the scientific «consensus» on climate change.

It calls for a new era of climate change science where an emphasis is placed on «fundamental, use - inspired» research, which not only improves understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change but also is useful to decision makers at the local, regional, national, and international levels acting to limit and adapt to climate change.

The Lowy Institute report argues that expected climate change «poses fundamental questions of human security, survival and the stability of nation states» and identifies food shortages, extreme weather events and rising sea - levels as potential causes of large - scale, unregulated population movements in Asia and destabilisation of governments unable to respond.

The widespread belief that AGW is the fundamental cause of present - day climate change is predicated on the apparent correlation between rising levels of carbon dioxide and the increase in mean global temperature over the past two centuries.

However, I fear that until all these learned societies go back to the fundamental principles of science, like Nullius in Verba, Marcotte and people like him will think that, when it comes to climate change, the right thing to do is forget science, and just present the propaganda that supports The Cause and The Team.

He describes the person / people who released the latest batch of CRU emails as: «agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

The warming global climate is causing fundamental changes to the carbon cycle in northern parts of the world.

While we are ultimately interested in understanding and predicting how climate will change, regardless of the cause, an ability to differentiate anthropogenic change from natural variability is fundamental to help guide policy decisions, treaty negotiations, and adaptation versus mitigation strategies.

Such drying is a feature of human - caused climate change in that human - forced warming due to fossil fuel burning increases evaporation rates and related stress to forests even as it drives fundamental alterations to precipitation patterns that can substantially worsen drought and wildfire intensity.

Both this fundamental understanding of the physics of greenhouse gases and fingerprint studies show that natural causes alone are inadequate to explain the recent observed changes in climate.

«Many of the fundamental questions concerning the nature and causes of climate change are still largely unresolved because of our incomplete quantitative understanding of many of the physical processes that enter into the global energy balance and for lack of definitive observational data on which to test various theories.

To explain this, let's start with the fundamentals: CO2 is the largest cause of climate change.