Sentences with phrase «human greenhouse gas emissions»

The green bar shows the amount of warming caused by human greenhouse gas emissions during that time.
All these impacts are the direct result of human greenhouse gas emissions and their forcing effect on the world's climate.
The researchers suggest that climate change most likely associated with human greenhouse gas emissions is the probable cause of the additional warming.
The above shows how observed warming is inconsistent with climate models that do not incorporate human greenhouse gas emissions, but consistent with those that do.
In fact, the two events were connected by the same weather system, leading some scientists to blame human greenhouse gas emissions.
And of course more warming is yet to come from continuing human greenhouse gas emissions.
An overwhelming 97 % of scientists agree that climate change is being caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.
The IPCC projects future changes in temperature, etc., based on projections of human greenhouse gas emissions.
The researchers suggest that climate change most likely associated with human greenhouse gas emissions is the probable cause of the additional warming.
On the other hand, 42 papers or about 62 % of scientific papers of this same period predicted the earth would warm from human greenhouse gas emissions.
So these two articles are suggesting that a grand solar minimum could have a cooling effect of about 1 to 6 °C, depending on how human greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.
Agriculture and land use change contributed about 1/3 of total human greenhouse gas emissions in the past decade, through crop cultivation, animal production, and deforestation.
Raised in a small town in Iowa, Hansen initially studied the planet Venus, but switched to studying the effect of human greenhouse gas emissions on Earth during the 1970s.
In fact we expect human greenhouse gas emissions to cause more warming than we've thus far seen, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans (the time it takes to heat them).
So these two articles are suggesting that a grand solar minimum could have a net cooling effect in the ballpark of 1 to 6 °C, depending on how human greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.
The emissions scenarios included business as usual (BAU) and three other scenarios (B, C, D) in which global human greenhouse gas emissions began slowing in the year 2000.
Therefore, I think a statement like «The green bar shows the amount of warming caused by human greenhouse gas emissions during that time.»
«Eighty percent [of human greenhouse gas emissions] come from coal, oil and natural gas, which provide 80 percent of the world's energy supply,» observed White House Office of Science and Technology Policy advisor John Holdren during remarks at the ARPA - E summit.
The latest en vogue explanation linking human greenhouse gas emissions to strong winter - season East Coast storms involves changes in the characteristics of the jet stream — a river of fast moving air in the atmosphere that influences both the strength and the forward speed of extratropical storm systems.
Another basic error you repeat is that surface - based temperature data validate or prove that human greenhouse gas emissions affect the climate.
A linear warming trend plus natural cycles can be mistaken for a step function, but physically the global warming is caused by an external radiative forcing (i.e. human greenhouse gas emissions).
Oil companies are expected to argue human greenhouse gas emissions were the main driver of recent global warming and that it is a problem, but their legal filings contest their liability and the use of courts to settle what's considered a global matter.
It is important that Clive Palmer understands why human greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for global warming.
In his speech, the President served up the usual red meat for climate partisans, restating the well - established fact that climate change has been incontrovertibly linked to human greenhouse gas emissions while offering dubious assertions about the link between warming and present day natural disasters.
They used the Representative Concentrations Pathway (RCP) 4.5 scenario, which represents a future in which we slowly reduce human greenhouse gas emissions such that they peak around the year 2040.
This suggests that IPCC projections of future global warming, which are based on various possible human greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, are reliable.
Of course, the extra heat trapped by human greenhouse gas emissions is likely to play a bigger role than raindrop friction in any atmospheric changes.
It looked at how human greenhouse gas emissions had affected the probability of a devastating heat wave in Europe in the summer of 2003 (estimated to have killed at least 35,000 people.)
In fact we expect human greenhouse gas emissions to cause more warming than we've thus far seen, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans (the time it takes to heat them).
The report notes that this decade is critical in reducing human greenhouse gas emissions, that we have all the technology necessary to do so, and examines the policies of various countries toward that end.
Come the cold season, whenever there is some type of strong storm system near the U.S. Eastern Seaboard — be it a Nor» easter, a blizzard, or ex-hurricane Sandy — you don't have to look very hard to find someone who will tell you that this weather is «consistent with» expectations of climate change resulting from human greenhouse gas emissions.
For decades, tropical deforestation has been the No. 1 cause of species extinctions and the No. 2 cause of human greenhouse gas emissions, after the burning of fossil fuels.
Oceans are taking in about 90 percent of the excess heat created by human greenhouse gas emissions, but they're also absorbing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) itself.
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