Sentences with phrase «human influence»

So, in effect, to pin down the role of human influence on climate in the winter that has just ended, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.

It concluded that the global average temperatures seen in recent years would be highly unlikely in a world without human influence on the climate.

They compared the probability of the extreme summer of 2013 in the natural - only experiments with the ones that had human influences in them.

Would this not be compelling evidence for human influence on climate?

Then again, you didn't have to be a IPCC climate scientist to figure out that global warming / climate change from human influences was not an existential threat to civilization.

In the last several years, the scientific case that the rising human influence on climate could become disruptive has become particularly robust.

The chart below shows that this positive heating effect compared to other human influences on the heat balance of the atmosphere.

The majority was concerned about human influences on climate, but were uncertain which would prove larger: CO2 warming or cooling from aerosols.

What's refreshing is that the building human influence on the climate system is not being portrayed definitively as an unfolding catastrophe, with present - day events cast as the reason for action.

FAQ 2.1 addresses the question of how human influences compare with natural ones in their contributions to recent climate change.

What's more, the fact that changes have taken place in the past does not rule out human influence now.

The question at this point isn't whether humans influence climate.

Its original goal was to assess possible human influences on global warming and potential risks of human - induced warming.

Only the simulations that included human influences exhibited warming similar to the observed temperatures around the globe during the last century.

A large human influence on global climate is the best explanation for the warming we've measured and monitored.

But, as we have added heat - trapping gases to the atmosphere, we have seen human influence «emerge» from natural variability.

Even though human influences could have serious consequences for the climate, they are physically small in relation to the climate system as a whole.

Step back from these short time scales and look at the past century to see the clear human influence.

In addition, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, researchers should look for «win - win» solutions wherever possible.

As The Right Climate Stuff team points out, we can not possibly model or distinguish human influences on climate change, without first understanding and modeling natural factors.

Before we cite human influence — in the form of increased CO2 emissions — as the cause, it is perhaps reasonable to ask what the levels of atmospheric CO2 were at the time.

Understanding the staircase is particularly important for understanding how much random variability has contributed to recent warming versus human influences.

There have always been extremes of weather around the world but evidence suggests human influence is changing the odds.

For other gases, two important observations demonstrate human influence.

Despite attempts to locate monitoring sites in places not affected by human activities, the stations are picking up signals of human influence throughout the Caribbean basin.

This new feature allows it to represent human influence on the river systems.

This may explain why human influence has not been detected in global precipitation, while the influence of volcanic aerosols has been detected.

Everything laid out above tends to draw attention away from the broad and deep body of work pointing to a growing and long - lasting human influence on the climate system.

The conclusion remains that the current warming is strongly human influence.