Sentences with phrase «human emissions of greenhouse gases»

Contrary to model projections, there is no evidence that floods are increasing in frequency or intensity as a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases.

The first report concludes that global warming is happening, and is very likely caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Virtually every advance in climate science points to bigger impacts and more serious consequences from human emissions of greenhouse gases than previously predicted.

«Increased human emissions of greenhouse gases are leading to more risk of dangerous weather extremes,» he said.

The recovery of the ozone layer is being delayed by human emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.

Many scientists say that ensuring the health of the world's forests requires slowing human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Unfortunately, when they mean «human influence», they still mean the dominance of human emissions of greenhouse gases.

The coalition, the article said, maintained publicly that scientists disagreed about whether greenhouse gases generated by humans could cause warming even after its own scientific advisory committee concluded that the evidence for the «potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and can not be denied.»

The researchers looked at a total of 34 different global climate model outputs, encompassing different degrees of atmospheric sensitivity to greenhouse gases and different levels of human emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Lead scientist on the project Jessica Tierney told Reuters the sharp rise in temperature coincided with rises in human emissions of greenhouse gases seen in the past century, so the study added to evidence that emissions are warming the planet.

That, in turn, depends crucially on human emissions of greenhouse gases over the next few decades.

Substantial human emission of greenhouse gases only exist for approx. 50 years.

Concludes that past human emissions of greenhouse gases are already negatively impacting statewide water resources during drought

Two weeks ago, The New York Times published an article detailing the results of an investigation into Wei - Hock «Willie» Soon, an aerospace engineer who's published several papers questioning the link between human emissions of greenhouse gases and global warming.

That's what human emissions of greenhouse gases have done to the Arctic, covered it in rotten ice.

In other words, the EF defines carbon uptake in forests as the single mechanism for offsetting human emissions of greenhouse gases from industrial activity to the atmosphere.

Instead of including projections for extreme climate changes as a result of continued human emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from our production of energy, the high - end projections would have featured relatively modest changes and the low - end projections would have been completely unremarkable.

Although ice sheet disintegration and the subsequent sea level rise lags behind rising temperatures, the process will become irreversible sometime in the second half of the 21st century, Overpeck said, «unless something is done to dramatically reduce human emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

In 1995 the coalition's own scientists reported that «the scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and can not be denied.»

The key conclusions were that: It is «unequivocal» that global warming is occurring; the probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes is less than 5 %; and the probability that this is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is over 90 %.

The rise in temperatures along the U.S. West Coast during the past century is almost entirely the result of natural forces — not human emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a major new study released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found to their surprise that despite the increased human emissions of greenhouse gases, between 2002 and 2014, plants were somehow able to absorb more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than in previous decades.

Discussions of future impacts from changes in precipitation resulting from human emissions of greenhouse gases are everywhere in the report and they are usually bad — increased droughts, floods, and longer dry spells, for example.

It is clear that climate change is happening, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and its impacts will be felt around the world.

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.

Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.

That influence comes from direct human impacts, such as trawling and fertilizer washed into the ocean, or more indirect ways, like the increased temperatures and carbon dioxide of the ocean that are a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases.

That's the Jerry Taylor who — after doing what he describes as his own «due diligence» — has come to fully accept and endorse the peer - reviewed scientific evidence on human - caused climate change that Earth's atmosphere has warmed over the past half - century - plus primarily as a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases, specifically including carbon dioxide.

The effects of global warming are the ecological and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

I have been told that the warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases is happening far faster than natural trends normally do and that the fear is that natural systems won't be able to cope quickly enough to this warming.

But temperatures are running so far ahead of those during the last strong El Niño, in 1997 and 1998, that scientists said the records would not be occurring without an underlying trend caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

A draft summary prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that more than half of global warming is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Since 1951, Earth's climate has warmed by about 0.6 degrees Celsius, and researchers assessing the state of climate science for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are 95 percent certain that more than half of the warming is due to human emissions of greenhouse gases.

This is the belief backed up by the scientific evidence; in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in September 2013, scientists agreed that it is «extremely likely» that human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing the planet to warm.

The study also found that about 97 percent of all the comment articles published in the Herald Sun newspaper either rejected or questioned the views of the vast majority of climate scientists that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change.

This is a natural response to an unnatural situation, a change in the climate caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

WHEN speaking to script, Australia's new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott will say that he accepts that human emissions of greenhouse gases are having an impact on the world's climate.

Monsieur Joggles, methane emission from the arctic can not be stopped, but they can be reduced by stopping, or failing that greatly limiting, human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Scientists have shown that human emissions of greenhouse gases are pushing global temperatures up, and many aspects of climate are responding to the warming in the way that scientists predicted they would.

«That is due to the warming of the Arctic, which in turn is due to human emissions of greenhouse gases and primarily burning of fossil fuels,» Overpeck declared.

Yet according to official climate models, even if the U.S. enacted an immediate and total ban on all human emissions of greenhouse gases, the difference in global temperature by the year 2050 would be a mere five one - hundredths of a degree Celsius.

Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.