Not exact matches
Dear EarthTalk: Has anyone been tracking whether
climate change is
causing more loss of
human life as it
gets more pronounced?
But
getting nations to acknowledge that the
climate is
changing, that the leading
cause is
human activity and that everyone is obligated to act is only the first step.
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.»
As I wrote in 2006 («Yelling Fire on a Hot Planet «-RRB- problems that
get people's attention (and
cause them to
change) are «soon, salient and certain» and the dangerous aspects of
human - forced
climate disruption remain none of those things.
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:
The letter portends to offer facts about «
climate change deniers, but readers can't even
get further than the first paragraph without running into an unsupportable talking point about skeptic
climate scientists saying global warming «isn't happening / happening, but for natural reasons / happening and
caused by
humans, but it's not so bad.»
Getting back to the CSSR and NCA, here is how they turn natural
climate change into looming
human caused disaster.
But both «liberals» and «conservatives» have «
gotten the memo» that scientists think
human activity is
causing climate change and that we are in deep shit as a result.
Side Effect of California's Drought: More
Climate Pollution 01.03.2017 — Droughts are already getting longer and more severe because of human - caused climate change in the American Southwest and around the
Climate Pollution 01.03.2017 — Droughts are already
getting longer and more severe because of
human -
caused climate change in the American Southwest and around the
climate change in the American Southwest and around the world.
Andersen: People often
get caught up in thinking about geoengineering strictly in the context of
human -
caused climate change.
«As science has
gotten closer and closer to pinning down the reality of
human -
caused climate change and its consequences,» Cain writes, «our moral certitude has frayed.»
«I very easily started refuting every point they made like «
climate change is not
caused by
humans» and «it's not
getting any warmer,»» she said.
Analogies of
getting a heart condition checked out by a motor mechanic are relevant when comparing the findings of Cook et al (ie 97 % of expert
climate scientists agree that
climate change is
caused by
human activity) versus the OISM petition, signed predominantly by non-
climate, possibly non-practising, unpublished, general scientists.
Even more than lessening the influence of
human activities, the discussion today is about keeping
human -
caused climate change from
getting out of control.
The IPCC represents the entire world's
climate scientists in concluding that
humans are
causing climate change and that it's going to
get worse.
The L.A. Times editor stated the paper's reasoning as, «Letters that have an untrue basis (for example, ones that say there's no sign
humans have
caused climate change) do not
get printed.»
Don't
get me wrong I'm committed to fighting anthropogenic
climate change — by addressing the
human behaviours that
cause it, and whether we succeed or fail there is always the possibility that life will adapt, obviously any such possibility is made more unlikely the more «
climate change» we create.
To understand why «this current» global warming is
human caused and not natural cycle, one needs to
get an idea of what the natural cycle is and what are the basic mechanisms that
cause climate change in the natural cycle.
Over the past several years, winter has indeed been
getting warmer due to
human -
caused climate change, but «the El Niño has pushed that into overdrive,» Epstein says.
The chart
got its name because Hansen's unsupported, non peer - reviewed conjecture depicted a «run - away» line suggesting
human -
caused pollution was the sole culprit of greenhouse gases which is the primary
cause of a
changing climate.
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.»
«
Human -
caused climate change is a reality, and it's about time we
get on to a meaningful discussion about what to do about it,» he said.
This four session course contains useful information about our current state of affairs based upon
human -
caused climate change, how we
got here and what we can do to
change course.
As Media Matters is pointing out, Matt Drudge (as well as plenty of other media outlets) seems to have not
gotten that memo: It May Not Be Unanimous... But It's Pretty Close Despite conclusions by the IPCC that global
climate change is actually occurring and
humans are very likely the
cause of it, somehow the idea has entered the mainstream media that every time it snows it's further evidence that those kooky, socialist, hair - shirt - wearing environmentalists have
gotten it all wrong.
Since last year, lawyers for the defendants from various governmental organizations have attempted to
get the case dismissed on various grounds, including the question of whether minors can defend their constitutional rights like adults, as well as asserting that
climate change is not
caused by
humans.