Another basic error you repeat is that surface - based temperature data validate or prove that
human greenhouse gas emissions affect the climate.
Not exact matches
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.)
A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system;
emissions of
greenhouse gases and aerosols due to
human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to
affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to
human activities.
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.
«
Greenhouse gas emissions due to
human activity have
affected the odds of floods in England and Wales,» says physicist Pardeep Pall of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), who led the research published February 17 in Nature.
Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to
greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that
affect human well - being.
To argue, or even suggest, that [
human action, including alterations in landscapes and
emissions of
greenhouse gases] «can»» or even doesn't, or even «may not»
affect climate is in essence to argue against the very basic of geophysics and chemistry itself.
Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely
affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological process and increase
greenhouse gas emissions.
[18] The report determines that manmade
greenhouse gas emissions will accelerate sea - level rise, increase the intensity and frequency of extreme weather, and warm the planet at an unsustainable rate, adversely
affecting everything from
human and ecosystem health to transportation, forestry, and agriculture.
Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely
affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase
greenhouse gas emissions.
One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely
affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any
human - induced climate changes).
«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,» he added.
In spite of much effort, the IPCC has never succeeded in demonstrating that climate change is significantly
affected by
human activities — and in particular, by the
emission of
greenhouse gases.
Warming from decade to decade can also be
affected by
human factors such as variations in the
emissions, from coal - fired power plants and other pollution sources, of
greenhouse gases and of aerosols (airborne particles that can have both warming and cooling effects).
In terms of
greenhouse agents, the main conclusions from the WGI FAR Policymakers Summary are still valid today: (1) «
emissions resulting from
human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the
greenhouse gases: CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O»; (2) «some
gases are potentially more effective (at
greenhouse warming)»; (3) feedbacks between the carbon cycle, ecosystems and atmospheric
greenhouse gases in a warmer world will
affect CO2 abundances; and (4) GWPs provide a metric for comparing the climatic impact of different
greenhouse gases, one that integrates both the radiative influence and biogeochemical cycles.