Sentences with phrase «human impact on the climate»

In western New York, officials and environmental advocates hope the Trump administration won't suppress a report that warns of the human impact on the climate.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds that climate change is unequivocal and that humans influence climate, while the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate change.

«If human activities are starting to impact this system, it is a worrying sign that the scale of human impacts on the climate system may be reaching a critical point.»

The human impact on climate during this era greatly exceeds that due to known changes in natural processes, such as solar changes and volcanic eruptions.»

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

Most notable is the discussion of the human impact on climate change in Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist Inez Fung.

Confusingly, it appears that one human impact on the climate — the Antarctic ozone hole — is currently compensating for another, global warming.

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.

In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton, note that so - called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of «alarmism» and «overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system.»

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

[emphasis added] Bast: «We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem.

In its 2012 statement on Climate Change, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has reconfirmed that there is compelling evidence of human impact on the climate system with potentially far - reaching consequences for ecological and political systems.

You are missing important contexts in your understanding, likely the main driver of your doubt regarding human impact on climate.

Is this increase due to global warming (which is almost certainly in large part due to human impacts on climate)?

Re» We will effectively never find out what the human impact on the climate system actually is — whether we are heating the planet or cooling it or having no impact whatsoever.»

The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential for a human impact on climate is based on well - established scientific fact, and should not be denied.

I do not object to scientific efforts to measure the extent of human impact on climate.

In an e-mail message, Dr. Hansen told me that he considers Mr. Barnes a «straight shooter» and that the strategy is the only one that could survive in Washington and actually blunt human impact on the climate.

But I had been focused on climate and humans since 1984, when I began reporting what would end up being a long cover story for Science Digest magazine assessing nuclear winter, kind of the inverse potential human impact on climate (global cooling from a pall of smoke rising from incinerated cities).

An update in The Times refers to a sentence linking the human impact on climate to a «development model based on the intensive use of fossil fuels.»

Conservative think tanks that once championed geoengineering as easier and cheaper than cutting emissions have now all aligned with the view that the human impact on climate is so small that we don't even have to worry about it.

Human impacts on climate.

13 Human Impact on Climate Changes Global Warming As a result of increases in CO2 as well as other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have increased.

12 Human Impact on Climate Changes The Greenhouse Effect Cont.

Specifically, there's a case for avoiding continued dependence on fossil fuels that persuades me regardless of what scientists think they know about the long - term human impact on our climate.

«Depending on emissions rates, carbon dioxide concentrations could double or nearly triple from today's level by the end of the century, greatly amplifying future human impacts on climate.

In 1996, when the IPCC released its second assessment report, stating that the human impact on climate was «discernible», a fossil - fuel - industry - funded group called the Global Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than it was.

A major focus of GISS GCM simulations is to study the human impact on the climate as well as the effects of a changing climate on society and the environment.

Air pollution, ozone depletion, acid precipitation, global warming, desertification, smog production, and deforestation are but a few of the human impacts on the climate system that arise from the alteration of the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere.

That is no tornado would appear at the same place, the same time, with the same wind speed without changes to the climate system that have been caused by human impacts on climate And so every tornado is very likely affected somewhat by climate change.

IPCC is supposed to represent the «gold standard» authoritative document on our planet's climate, in particular on the human impact on this climate.

It is whether IPCC, as the supposed «gold standard» source for information on our planet's climate and on the human impact on our climate, has fallen into the trap of using «bad practices» and, if so, what other examples of such «bad practices» exist beside the «hide the decline» example?

I would not put this as high as 90 % but it is definitely much higher than 0 % (where it should be for IPCC to earn its reputation as the «gold standard» body for unbiased information on our planet's climate and the human impact on this climate).

Oreskes» opinion piece became the basis of her book, Merchants of Doubt — in which she falsely claimed scientists who doubt catastrophic human impact on the climate represent a tiny minority of «deniers.»

Ultimately, the alleged effects of human impacts on climate are not creating new weather - related hazards.

Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory post-doctoral fellow Deepti Singh studies human impact on climate and extreme weather.

So — and this is the reason, because we have the short - term climate fluctuation, therefore, it doesn't make sense to look at short periods to assess the human impact on climate.

I do agree that there is a modest human impact on climate, mainly clear in the latter half of the twentieth century, and mainly manifested by «mild - ing» or decrease in extremes (little warming in summer, mostly in winter) I'm not convinced that this is a good way to isolate the signal.

The potential for a human impact on climate is based on well - established scientific fact, and should not be denied.

This impasse raises the prospect that in a year's time — even as the scientific evidence mounts that human impact on the climate system is veering out of control — there will be no internationally agreed legally binding commitments regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

The second says «The potential for a human impact on climate is based on well - established scientific fact, and should not be denied.»

I served on the AGU Panel to draft the updated Position Statement on «Human Impacts on Climate».

32 Human Impact on Climate Change The Greenhouse Effect Is a natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and surface Makes life as we know it possible Major Gases: Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide Humans have added more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fossil fuels

After having read the many comments here, I see that the discussion is «getting wrapped around the axle» on the definition of a «black swan», rather than staying on the main topic of how uncertainties and potential major outliers in our knowledge of climate science should affect our conclusions of what is likely to be the human impact on climate and what should be done about it.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

More confirmation of the human impact on the climate.

But, even though Pielke's statement may have been said several times before («same old tired talking points», as you write), it still has validity (i.e. we still don't have enough answers to know what the human impact on climate really is).

29 21.3 Climate Changes Human Impact on Climate Changes The Greenhouse Effect • The greenhouse effect is a natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and Earth's surface from solar radiation being absorbed and emitted by the atmosphere.

Scientists, like Hansen, have been working to try and predict how human impacts on our climate will affect the annual world temperature trends in the future.

-- Human Impacts on Climate, 2003