Sentences with phrase «human greenhouse gas emissions change»

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.

Not exact matches

The Trudeau government believes accepting the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are critical to gaining social licence for pipelines, Carr says.

Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

... modalities, rules and guidelines as to how, and which, additional human - induced activities related to changes in greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks in the agricultural soils and the land - use change and forestry... shall be added or subtracted.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

The reason is that if climate change would not be human - caused, then humans would not be able to prevent it by scaling down their greenhouse gas emissions.

Pruitt is currently participating in a lawsuit against the EPA's regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and denies the overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

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

The overwhelming scientific consensus is that the earth's climate is changing and that human activity — including emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — is contributing to that change.

The inquiry aims to find out whether the oil company was aware of the dangers of human - made climate change but chose to keep quiet and to promote denial groups challenging the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

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.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

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.

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

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.

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.

Within minutes, the two men had also agreed that it was important to prepare for climate change, whether human - induced or natural, and that an expansion of nuclear reactors to generate power could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But the paper «Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. states» adds what the MSU researchers say is an important layer to understanding human impact on climate change.

The National Research Council in Washington, D.C., estimates that dairy cows account for as much as 20 percent of human - induced emissions of methane, a potent climate change — causing greenhouse gas.

Although carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, methane emissions are also an important factor driving climate change.

It marks the world's acceptance that climate change, driven by humans» greenhouse gas emissions, is about as close to a certainty as science can ever get — and that conclusion can not be covered up or waved away.

Because we are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, we are able to look at evidence the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) igchange is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, we are able to look at evidence the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) igChange (IPCC) ignores.

«In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.»

Human behavioral changes, such as installing solar panels or investing in public transportation, alter greenhouse gas emissions, which change the global temperature and thus the frequency of extreme events, leading to new behaviors, and the cycle continues.

One will represent conditions and «possible weather» in the winter 2014, and the second will represent the weather in a «world that might have been» if human behaviour had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

For example, the report summarizes recent research underpinning the scientific rationale for large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce the likelihood of dangerous human - induced climate change.

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.

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

Global climate models are the scientific community's best tools for understanding the detailed dynamics of the global climate system and the way those dynamics change in response to greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities.

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

It should be pointed out here, that the amount of change in downward heat radiation from changes in cloud cover in the experiment, are far greater than the gradual change in warming provided by human greenhouse gas emissions, but the relationship was nevertheless established.

After 20 years of unfulfilled aspirational pledges (the original Framework Convention on Climate Change), seemingly dead - end detours (the Kyoto Protocol) and relentlessly rising greenhouse - gas emissions, the world may be better off shifting from climate - centric diplomacy to a slate of efforts aimed at advancing the human condition in ways that limit climate - related risks.

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

At the same time it will help mitigate and solve catastrophic consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

It would be hard to find someone more concerned about human - driven climate change and more involved in pursuing and assessing ways to get traction on curbing greenhouse gas emissions than Marshall.

Now it is clear human drive the climate change and human can slow down it by action to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

This is what counts as progress in the two - decadelong slow slog toward finding a common (but differentiated) worldwide path toward limiting emissions of greenhouse gases and limiting vulnerability to the impacts of human - driven climate change.

Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as a solution that — because of the long - term and cumulative nature of warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).

This means that an already difficult challenge for resident populations and those who care about them (for whatever reason, including moral, humanitarian or national security) will be likely be made more challenging by human climate change if the greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced significantly.

Actions to reduce emissions of carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change will protect human health in both the short...

University of Florida researcher Edward Schuur says he doesn't expect permafrost greenhouse gas emission to trump anthropogenic (human - caused) greenhouse gas emissions anytime soon, however they could become «an important amplifier of climate change.»

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

There is one and only one justification for a carbon tax — an attempt to influence the future course of the earth's climate (or, as some people prefer, to mitigate anthropogenic climate change) by trying to force down the emissions of the most abundant human - generated greenhouse gas.

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.