Sentences with phrase «how human impacts on our climate»

Scientists, like Hansen, have been working to try and predict how human impacts on our climate will affect the annual world temperature trends in the future.

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«We can use this information to look at questions about climate change or human impact on environments by seeing how, over time, the ranges of insect species have changed.»

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

James Balog, who founded Extreme Ice Survey that uses photography and videography to document the impact of climate change on glaciers — work that was the basis of his 2012 documentary «Chasing Ice» — said his work shows how human activities are transforming Earth's systems.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

How can the atmospheric sciences community facilitate access to ozone metrics necessary for quantifying the impact of tropospheric ozone on human health, crop and ecosystem productivity and climate?

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When I wrote with James Kanter last year about the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on impacts from global warming, I made sure we noted how the consequences for humans change significantly when adaptation is taken into account (boldface added):

Here's a 2009 post on «the climate bill in climate context» with a bit more background on how American legislation relates to the need for global action, mostly in developing countries, to blunt the rising human impact on the atmosphere.

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

Here are the main bullet points from the summary on impacts of the changing climate that have already been detected (it's important to note that the panel stresses it is not, in this section, assessing how much of the change is human - driven or the result of natural variability):

When framing questions for people with climate claims, in fact, I often find it useful to assume the position of the atmosphere, asking how they would «convince» the sky that their proposals would have a meaningful impact on human - generated emissions.

In a July 18 interview on Free Speech Radio News, CSW director Rick Piltz commented on the release by EPA of a new federal scientific assessment of climate change impacts on human health and welfare, and how the administration is... Continue reading →

Climate and environmental scientists have frequently invoked the term Anthropocene to highlight the impact of humans on the planet, and even started to think about how and when to date the most significant evidence of change.

You can find out how the climate is changing; the effects of climate change on extreme weather, human health, water supply, the oceans; and the impact we already see.

They open up a whole new viewpoint, often exposing the human element as it interfaces with changes in climate over the centuries, and in some cases demonstrating how climate had an impact on human history

The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.

We've discussed how the appetite for producing «interesting» results — which in the case of climate change means results that indicate the human impact on weather events / climate is large, unequivocal, and negative — leads to climate alarm becoming «a self promulgating collective belief.»

Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work highlighting humans» impact on climate change, gave his recommendations on how the country could dramatically increase its production of wind, solar, geothermal and other types of renewable energy.

Mostly they just move energy around in the climate system, which definitely has effects on how humans perceive global warming and how the impacts of warming are spread through the system.

In this way, writes geophysicist David Archer in The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of the Earth's Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.Climate, «humankind has the capacity to overpower the climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.climate impact of Earth's orbit, taking the reins of the climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.climate system that has operated on Earth for millions of years.»

On the vital question of how to approach climate change, the most influential economist is William Nordhaus whose explicit position is that we should decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions only if cost - benefit analysis or an optimisation model concludes that the net benefits to humans are positive, where the relevant effects are essentially impacts on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996On the vital question of how to approach climate change, the most influential economist is William Nordhaus whose explicit position is that we should decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions only if cost - benefit analysis or an optimisation model concludes that the net benefits to humans are positive, where the relevant effects are essentially impacts on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996on economic output (Nordhaus and Yang, 1996).

Matthew Sturm Professor, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks Specialties: Physical processes that govern the behavior of snow, how it is distributed in various landscapes including sea ice, and its impact on climate, ecosystems, and humans

In Part 1 «Climate makes history ``, the documentary looks at how abrupt climate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialiClimate makes history ``, the documentary looks at how abrupt climate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialiclimate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialiclimate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialization.

My prime area of research was climatology, particularly how climate changes over time and the impact of those changes on human history and the human condition.

I've read both the NIPCC report and bart's rebuttal to it and because I'm not a scientist like apparently bart and allpunsintended are I have to assume the jury is still out on how much impact humans have on Global Warming (Climate Change).

I find the yearly buildup of layer upon layer to be a particularly compelling way of visualizing how we humans are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the atmosphere — and thereby causing profound, continuing impacts on our planet's climate control system.

The Farm Bureau does not share the scientific opinion on climate change, with its official position being that «there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment of the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming or how they will affect future climate changes.»

After having read the many comments here, I see that the discussion is «getting wrapped around the axle» on the definition of a «black swan», rather than staying on the main topic of how uncertainties and potential major outliers in our knowledge of climate science should affect our conclusions of what is likely to be the human impact on climate and what should be done about it.

By how the Greens Restaurant operates, focusing on vegetarian cuisine from local, sustainable, organic farms and businesses featuring artisan foods, they've also been leaders in helping mitigate human impacts climate change.

The resolution called for one panel discussion on identifying challenges and ways forward towards the realization of all human rights for all, including the right to development, in particular those in vulnerable situations, as well as the measures and best practices to promote and protect human rights that can be adopted by States in addressing the adverse effects of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and another panel discussion on how climate change has had an adverse impact on States» efforts to progressively realize the right to food, and policies, lessons learned and good practices.

Here you can see the human impact on the climate: the blue denotes how temps would have dropped had we not emitted the amount of greenhouse gases that we did.

But it also explores the impact of humans on complex ecosystems, showing how through habitat loss, excessive hunting, toxins and yes, even climate change, we are losing them.

When considering global warming's impacts on species, it is essential to look at how entire ecosystems are affected as species interact and climate change interacts with other human - induced stresses.