Sentences with phrase «human climate»

His session allowed him to talk about how human climate change in national parks is melting glaciers, raising sea level, killing trees, and causing other impacts.

But finding a statistically robust link between such disasters and the building human climate influence remains a daunting task.

Scientists use climate computer models to compare these observed changes with natural climate drivers and human climate drivers.

Jerry and the others were informed of my studies of the importance of understanding the role of human climate forcings on regional circulations in both e-mails and during our teleconferences.

Carter, from Washington, D.C., wrote about the utter certainty of a growing human climate impact (which is a separate issue from certainty over a signal of such influence, the focus of Tuesday's post):

Therefore, the cost - benefit analyses regarding the mitigation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases need to be considered along with the other human climate forcings in a broader environmental context, as well as with respect to their role in the climate system.»

Plenty of changes driven partly by the growing human climate influence are already apparent, the report said:

Their ACCI is the difference between climate model runs including human climate influences (greenhouse gases and aerosols) and runs without those human influences.

This may sound like giving support to the denialist brou - haa - haa, but it actually drives home the Fact that the Full Impact of Human Climate Modification is actually staving off that very Ice Age — providing, of course, that we don't turn off the Atlantic Conveyor........

It is not in the models» software «DNA» because human climate experts really don't understand the chaotic nature of Earth's climate, nor comprehend the true power of nature.

And, more recently, the massive Tibetan earthquake of this past weekend, resulting in the loss of 4,000 lives, has called into question current human climate change's role in geological upheaval events.

Stopping human climate change forcing would be a key step.

Chapters 1 through 3 examine the present, beginning with the scientific basis for the greenhouse effect, examining human climate impacts so far, and laying out the forecast for the next century.

So if 93 % of the change forced by the alleged human climate influence has only produced a temperature change of hundredths to tenths of a °C in the deep oceans since 1955, or since CO2 concentrations rose by about 75 parts per million (315 ppm in 1955 to 390 ppm in 2010), this would clearly indicate that it is extremely difficult if not effectively impossible to confidently attribute the practically imperceptible change in ocean temperature to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, or to CO2 in general.

Constructing a climate narrative about human climate impacts, rather than electricity prices and taxes;

Using this technique, the researchers detected patterns of human climate drivers (so - called fingerprints) associated with the observed change just like detectives look for fingerprints to catch criminals.

Human climate drivers include heat - trapping emissions from burning coal, gas and oil in power plants and cars; cutting down and burning forests; tiny pollution particles (aerosols); black carbon pollution more commonly referred to as soot; and changes in land use that also affects Earth's albedo.

After all, the irony of extreme events is that the larger the magnitude the smaller the fractional contribution by human climate change.

«In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, other first - order human climate forcings are important to understanding the future behavior of Earth's climate.

Humans are altering the climate in diverse ways, a variety of human climate forcings are significant, and the effects of these forcings need to be responded to, even if the climate did not warm.

In this way, natural and human climate influences can be separated, and as with disease and risk factors, the role of a specific factor in a specific outcome can be quantified.

Trenberth 2015 suggested that for Hurricane Sandy, «the subways and tunnels may not have flooded without warming - induced increase in sea level and storm intensity and size, putting a potential price tag of human climate change in this storm in the tens of billions of dollars.»

«Observation of melting glaciers in Glacier National Park and North Cascades National Park has contributed to the global database that tells us glaciers are receding and human climate change is the cause,» notes Patrick Gonzalez, NPS's national climate change scientist.

Past field research has shown that human climate change has already shifted vegetation at the biome level upslope and towards the Poles or the Equator..

There's no analog event in the past to compare with the rapidity of human climate change.

But the study concluded that lowering greenhouse gas emissions now could eventually avoid the too - hot - for - humans climate.

The human climate shift will top anything in that past.

The importance of heterogeneous human climate forcings does not diminish the important of added greenhouse gases, but does indicate that more attention needs to be given to these other human climate forcings, including how they can modify atmospheric and ocean circulation features.

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

«Those who continue to talk in certain terms of how local weather extremes are the result of human climate change are failing to heed all the available evidence.»

Earlier this week I wrote a piece examining Dr. Lacis's views as well as the wording of the final version of that report section, which dealt with the tough question of detecting the human climate influence amid all the various forces creating climate patterns.

«We recommend that the next assessment phase of the I.P.C.C. (and other such assessments) broaden its perspective to include all of the human climate forcings.

What's your view of the human climate influence in the context of both technology and morality?

It is impossible to falsify «any human climate impact», and a hypothesis should be falsifiable or it is just a paradox.