Sentences with phrase «human effects on climate»

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.

Identifying human effects on climate is a difficult statistical problem.

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

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.

Perhaps we are devoting too many resources to correcting human effects on the climate without being sure that we are the major contributor,» he 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.

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.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that human effects on climate change will make the area drier than it would have become without the manmade influences.

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 we are talking about the next century, there might be a human effect on climate change on top of that, but the natural effect from solar effect will be important.

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.

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.

, 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?»

3) The proponents of a human effect on climate support their case by suggesting that DWIR from the sky, having been increased by composition changes such as more greenhouse gases then offsets a portion of the naturally occurring UWIR thereby slowing the cooling of the Earth and forcing the equilibrium temperature to rise.

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.

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

These are not evidence of human effect on climate.»

«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.

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

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.