Sentences with phrase «human climate drivers»

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.

Not exact matches

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

President - elect Donald Trump's choice as Energy secretary also told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considering his nomination that he has changed his view on climate change, now viewing human activity as a contributing factor while not stating that it is the primary driver.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

In the spring of 2014, Koonin's drafting committee produced a statement that attributed equal weight to human influences and natural variability as a driver of climate change, according to a source who declined to be named.

The researchers built a complex series of mathematical models to recreate the dynamic interaction between the main potential drivers of extinction (dingoes, climate and humans), the long - term response of herbivore prey, and the viability of the thylacine and devil populations.

The simulations showed that while dingoes had some impact, growth and development in human populations, possibly intensified by climate change, was the most likely extinction driver.

Greenhouse gases from transportation may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change

Human - induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns, and historically, climate shifts have led to shifts in the geographic ranges of many taxa.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

Scientists have long predicted large - scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate - mediated changes.

The U.N.'s panel of climate experts says that it is at least 95 percent probable that human activities are the main driver of warming since 1950.

Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house by Harvey's floodwaters.

But none of these natural climate drivers reproduced the long - term observed drying, indicating this trend is due to human activity.

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

The Indian Ocean Dipole, a key climate driver in the oceans around Australia, is related to patterns of a human parasitic infection primarily spread through water.

«We started from scratch and she wanted to know glacial cycles, rate of deforesting, solar variability — all of the issues that could impact climate and why I think that humans are the main driver of climate change,» he explained afterward at a debriefing with colleagues at a pub on Capitol Hill.

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This new research helps explain the drivers of climate change that impact human subsistence and water resources in the driest region of the country.

The Observatory will also set out to explain the current drivers of climate change arising from human activities (including industry and agriculture), and how our future actions will depend on our capacity to understand the pace and direction of change.

«Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver,» the letter states.

There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that human activities are the primary driver.

The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.

I'm interested in climate change as a driver of human behaviour,» says Funk.

Drivers» interaction with technology in a vehicle's interior is a growing area of dissatisfaction, especially when it comes to basic features such the radio, climate controls and gauge cluster, said Kristin Kolodge, executive director of driver interaction and human - machine interface research at J.D. Power.

You are missing important contexts in your understanding, likely the main driver of your doubt regarding human impact on climate.

The uncertainty includes our own wavering over our human and economic response, layered over our inability to predict the ice sheet response as a function of CO2 and other climate drivers under our control.

According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of extreme heat waves) the connections between today's extreme weather events and human - driven climate change range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or coastal vulnerability.

What we will learn is that human emitted carbon is merely «a drop in the pond» and that other factors which the «enthusiasts» have conveniently dismissed and the IPCC and other models have ignored are the real drivers and forcing of climate over both the long and short terms.

The new directive is the culmination of an extensive interagency review process undertaken in response to rapid changes taking place in the Arctic, the principal drivers of which are climate change, increasing human presence in the region, and the growing demand for Arctic energy deposits and other natural resources.

Read on for some important sections, starting with Francis's reference to, if not direct acceptance of, scientific reports concluding that humans are the dominant driver of recent warming of the climate.

And when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are compared to one another, the dramatic accumulation of carbon from human sources is by far the largest climate change driver over the past half century.

The climate system is hugely complex, with hundreds of variables, and your climate cult religion's attempt to make the patently absurd claim that human CO2 is the driver is as misguided as it gets.

I am convinced next Monday there will be a newspaper explaining the cold and the snow was caused by» extremely dangerous human induced runaway global warming as the driver of climate change».

However there are other first order drivers of climate including natural ones like solar variation and human driven ones like land use change, aerosols and soot.

Some of these climate drivers result in warming and others lead to cooling, but when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are stacked up and compared to one another, the accumulation of human - released heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere is so large that it has very likely swamped other climate drivers over the past half century, leading to observed global warming.

The IPCC hypothesis is that human produced CO2 is the main driver of climate change (global warming).

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.»

The research is considered one of the pillars of the scientific consensus that human activity is the main driver of climate change.

However the human driver of climate has grown since 1900 so 1961 or so is about the time it starts to dominate over natural variations.

«Many other important impacts of climate change are difficult to quantify for a given change in global average temperature, in part because temperature is not the only driver of change for some impacts; multiple environmental and other human factors come into play.»

All, however, have been vocal before Congress, on broadcast news or on the Internet in arguing that human activity is not the primarily driver of climate change.

Climate change, interacting with human drivers such as deforestation and forest fires, are a threat to Africa's forest ecosystems.

It strikes me that we're trying to ascribe climate outcomes to immeasurable influences in really small drivers (like CO2 created from human activity) instead of immeasurable influences in really large drivers (like insolation).

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

«The additional burden of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities... leads to the current «perturbed» global carbon cycle... These perturbations to the natural carbon cycle are the dominant driver of climate change because of their persistent effect on the atmosphere.»

She worked with partners to promote resilience - based management, an approach that uses knowledge of current and future drivers of system condition and function to prioritize and adapt management actions that sustain system resilience and human wellbeing in a changing climate.

Unlike modern human made climate warming, the principal driver of warming at that time was the change in Earth's orbit around the sun.

Your side, the side that says human emitted CO2 is the primary driver of climate change, and which (hubristically) says that natural variation can not explain all the warming we've seen, can not explain why the warming has apparently stopped for almost two decades.