Sentences with phrase «human effect on climate»

I think you can't pick a better date than 2001, when the IPCC officially announced that there was a «discernible» human effect on climate.

Willie Soon's climate change research has been consistently cited by parties seeking to doubt the human effect on climate change.

«What has happened, of course, is that people have cut down trees and created pasture, so you actually have to artificially come in and cut down trees and turn it into pasture, and you have to account for this human effect on the climate system,» Weaver said.

Whereas the reports of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs.

Effectively asking scientists involved with the IPCC to provide impartial information that would cast doubt on the human effect on the climate is asking them to take the KoolAid.

These are not evidence of human effect on climate.»

Now I haven't asked all of them, but I'm pretty confident that no climate scientist has ever used a picture of a dolphin — even a cute, smiling one — as «evidence of human effect on climate.»

If you truly believe that increasing surface temperatures 1875 - 1900 are evidence for a human effect on the climate in the last 16 years, as you clearly state above, you desperately need to reconsider your definition of «evidence».

Much of what you are calling «evidence» that humans have a hand in the warming, whether provided by yourself or the IPCC or the Mail and Guardian, is merely evidence of warming and says nothing about any human effect on the climate.

Second, recent weather and temperature anomalies have not been unusual and are not evidence of a human effect on climate.

After the 1995 IPCC report claimed that the «balance of evidence» supported a human effect on the climate, the next year's COP in Geneva marked a turning point on the way to Kyoto.

There's just no way of explaining what we've actually observed without invoking a strong human effect on climate.

For my two cents the two null's would be 1 - There is no human effect on climate wrt C02 2 - There is no significant human effect on climate wrt C02.

, but rather «are we sure that the human effect on climate over the last 8,000 years has helped to prevent the occurrence of another glaciation?»

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

Human effects on the climate notwithstanding, the cycle will continue to turn, the hothouse period will some day come to an end — and the ice sheets will descend again.

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.

The bottom line is that the identification of human effects on climate is a signal - to - noise problem.

Almost immediately, and predictably, the findings were criticized by both sides in the debate over what to do, or not do, about human effects on the climate.

The null needs to be tightly confined to co2 - there are obviously other human effects on climate (land use being the first to spring to mind), but they just muddy the issue.

Putting up «sea level rise since 1961» as an argument either for or against human effects on the climate is a joke.

Look at the pile of junk that you are calling «evidence» for the existence of human effects on the climate in the last 16 years.

Since the late 1970s, it has been recognized that the identification of human effects on climate is inherently a signal - to - noise (S / N) problem [Hasselmann, 1979; Madden and Ramanathan, 1980; Wigley and Jones, 1981; Wigley and Raper, 1990; Allen et al., 1994; Santer et al., 1994, 1995].

In any case, one decade is not long enough to say anything about human effects on climate; as one forthcoming paper lays out, 17 years is required.»

That's close to the 97 % in Cook's «survey» that found agreement to an equally vague statement of human effects on climate change.

According to Steffen, there are two approaches to modelling human effects on climate — either include anthropogenic factors such as greenhouse gases, aerosols and land use in conventional climate models, or use an economics approach.

Not exact matches

Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.

We're representing loads of different points of view here, but 95 per cent or more of scientists believe that human beings have had an adverse effect on the climate — we have created it.

These vectors — for instance, birds — also face climate effects and can alter exposure patterns in humans depending on when and how they cross paths.

The model calculations, which are based on data from the CLOUD experiment, reveal that the cooling effects of clouds are 27 percent less than in climate simulations without this effect as a result of additional particles caused by human activity: Instead of a radiative effect of -0.82 W / m2 the outcome is only -0.60 W / m2.

While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on the climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century.

Although the magnitudes of future effects are uncertain, human influences on the climate are growing.

«Our study suggests that the effect of human capital on economic growth is larger in high - quality - of - life counties — natural amenities such as clean air and temperate climate, could potentially attract human capital and perhaps increase labor productivity, thus boosting the effect of human capital on growth,» said Fan.

«Because the complexity of the climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the climate challenge in the near and longer terms.

«There is no scientific body of national or international standing that rejects the findings of human - induced effects on climate,» Peter Gleick, a scientist and president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental group, said on a conference call on Wednesday.

Overall, improving our understanding of one of the largest natural aerosol sources is critical if we are to understand the effects of human - made aerosols on climate,» says Matt Salter.

It had major effects on the world's oceans, climate and biology, and perhaps even triggered the evolution of humans.

The review, «Population, development, and climate change, links and effects on human health», examines the interconnections between population growth and climate change, from the perspective of global health.

While the effects of human activity on the seal population can be detrimental — for example through a high rate of fishing bycatch mortality as observed on Lake Saimaa — a novel conservation method can help the seal population to cope with climate change.

The lifetime effects of coal on humans — from mining to climate change — gets attention tomorrow at the National Press Club.

The results suggest that climate change will convert much of the area currently occupied by temperate grasslands and deserts to subtropical vegetation with effects on associated wildlife and human populations.

To single out the effects of human - caused climate change, the researchers used statistical methods to remove the effects of the AMO and PDO on rainfall variability during the period from 1920 to 2013.

With a new grasp of global dust traffic, scientists are now working to understand the often subtle effects that dust has on climate, human health, and the biosphere.

«The human influence on the climate system has the effect of intensifying precipitation extremes,» Zwiers notes.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Jaap Nienhuis, a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics, says the effects of climate change, and the human efforts to combat these effects, are already making an impact on river deltas around the world.

On the international stage, an apparatus is needed to financially compensate poorer countries facing the brunt of climate change and its associated effects on human well - beinOn the international stage, an apparatus is needed to financially compensate poorer countries facing the brunt of climate change and its associated effects on human well - beinon human well - being.

The researchers suggest that modeling the effects of future climate variations should focus on human response to transient short - term changes in addition to the traditional focus on long - term mean changes in climate.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cClimate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cclimate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.