Sentences with phrase «human impact on the global warming»

Point being, the more one examines the data and reads the studies, the more difficult it is to deny the significant human impact on global warming.

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released a study presenting the human impact on global warming as greatly exaggerated.

She was speaking weeks after the Republican - controlled Legislature made Wyoming, where coal and oil are king, the first state to reject the standards, which include lessons on human impact on global warming.

Not exact matches

The report acknowledged a 15 - year hiatus in the impact on climate change but the panel made clear it was 95 % certain humans were primarily responsible for global warming.

The meeting, called by the White House, will hear experts discuss the impacts of global warming on human health.

«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.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

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

Remember, a good persuasive essay on global warming should focus on the impact of human activities on the environment.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

Current and likely future impacts of global warming on ecosystems and human activities are also considered, including biodiversity, system buffering and resilience, and regional inequality and vulnerability.

Arguing against the alleged human activity's impact on global warming is politically incorrect.

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

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

When I wrote with James Kanter last year about the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on impacts from global warming, I made sure we noted how the consequences for humans change significantly when adaptation is taken into account (boldface added):

As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human - driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms.

And these newly - constituted Vaclav Klaus Climate Joke Awards will be given out through out the year, and through out the years, any day of the week will do, just send in your nominations and we will clear them with the awards committee, and these awards will be given out to people espouse very stupid notions about the very real reality of global warming and the possible impact it may have on future generations of Earthlings (include the human species).

[UPDATE] After visiting various research buildings, he gave a pep talk on the energy revolution he said was vital if the United States and the world are to avoid conflicts over limited supplies of oil and eventual disruptive impacts from human - caused global warming.

On This American Life this weekend, Ira Glass tried to jog the climate conversation out of the «mire and muck» with an hourlong discussion of impacts and options related to human - driven global warming.

First of all, Oreskes et al. emphasize that the reality of mean global warming is essentially undisputed, but that the future impacts on the scale for which humans would have to prepare are still the subject of considerable research, inquiry, and debate.

This fast - forward moment in human history (a k a «the great acceleration «-RRB- is characterized by a mix of clarity on long - term trends (greenhouse gases and warming; plunging poverty and rising income inequality; declining deaths in conflict...) and short - term turbulence and unpredictability, with impacts amplified by global interconnectedness.

Therefore, if anyone claims to be part of the 97 percent, it means they disagree with the contrarian argument that humans are having a minimal impact on global warming.

What The Science Says: If anyone claims to be part of the 97 %, it means they disagree with the contrarian argument that humans are having a minimal impact on global warming.

Sections on the ecological effects of global warming and its impact on human health were removed.

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C13 also counted as «reject AGW» abstracts that: «Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly, e.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming».

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found in March 2017 that it's «premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming — have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.»

Although one might think that the human health impacts of global warming would be among the most well studied areas of climate change, it is only in the last decade that the medical community and other health professionals have focused on this issue in depth.

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 iGlobal Climate Coalition accused the IPCC author Benjamin Santer of making unauthorised changes to make global warming appear more certain than iglobal warming appear more certain than it was.

She has been working through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and on December 7, 2005, she filed a climate change - related petition with to the Commission as an urgent message from the Inuit «sentinels» to the rest of the world on global warming's already dangerous impacts.

If we accept that global warming will be a net negative impact for the global economy and human well - being (I don't accept that, but will proceed on that assumption for the sake of argument here), policies will have to be sustainable for many decades to a century.

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The impact of global warming on temperature - induced human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims of human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.

«Global Warming Expedition to prove Antarctic Ice is Melting Trapped by Ice --» Expedition leader Chris Turney: One of the purposes of the expedition was to determine the extent to which human activity and pollution has directly impacted on this remote region of Antarctica.»»

Over the last decade, she has reported on the ecological and human impacts of global warming from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Science: Climate scientists say any positives are far outweighed by the negative impacts of global warming on agriculture, human health, the economy and the environment.

In the last half of the post, WCR moves on to a discussion of the supposed lack of impact of global warming on humans.

Most global warming skeptics believe that humans have some measurable impact on global temperatures and the climate, but that natural climate forces, over longer periods, will overwhelm the human influence... in addition, skeptics believe that the human influence will not result in the hysterical catastrophic climate disasters presented by doomsday pundits...

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

Changes in the frequency of extreme events coinciding with global warming have already been observed, and there is increasing evidence that some of these changes are caused by the impacts of human activities on the climate.

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.

World Health Organization and British government - sponsored global impact studies indicate that, relative to other factors, global warming's impact on key determinants of human and environmental well - being should be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario.

«The CCR - II report correctly explains that most of the reports on global warming and its impacts on sea - level rise, ice melts, glacial retreats, impact on crop production, extreme weather events, rainfall changes, etc. have not properly considered factors such as physical impacts of human activities, natural variability in climate, lopsided models used in the prediction of production estimates, etc..

If anyone claims to be part of the 97 percent, it means they disagree with the contrarian argument that humans are having a minimal impact on global warming.

I would probably generally state it as «human CO2 activity has a measurable warming impact on global average temperature that can be readily discerned from the background of natural climate change and other human effects that may cause cooling, and this warming impact will be, in general, neutral in impact for humanity and the biosphere».

May be we need to admit that our behaviour and actions on the earth have significant impacts on the functioning natural and human urban environments and is the key factor, not global warming per se.