Sentences with phrase «human influence on climate»

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.
But I wouldn't look for fresh findings there to up - end the basic picture of a growing human influence on the climate system.
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.
A group of Australian scientists has begun a new online effort to communicate the body of science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.
Would this not be compelling evidence for human influence on climate?
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.
So, in effect, to pin down the role of human influence on climate in 2013, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.
The majority was concerned about human influences on climate, but were uncertain which would prove larger: CO2 warming or cooling from aerosols.
However, the main contributor to warming over the last 150 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Never mentioned in activist and political propaganda is the growing conviction among scientists that human influence on climate through the use of fossil fuels is negligible.
It concluded that the global average temperatures seen in recent years would be highly unlikely in a world without human influence on the climate.
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.
Even granting the maximum uncertainties to these estimates, however, the increase in human influence on climate exceeds that of any solar variation.
And of course there's plenty here on the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.
The choice of 1960 as the ending date of this period was based on past changes in human influences on the climate system.
The potential consequences of climate change are great and the actions taken over the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.
For example, in a 1999 paper based on a speech to Exxon's European affiliates, Flannery derided the second IPCC assessment that concluded in 1995 that the scientific evidence suggested «a discernible human influence on climate
Collects and analyzes climate data to develop conclusions regarding human influences on climate.
Nearly 16 years after Mr. Bush's father signed the first treaty aimed at limiting dangerous human influence on the climate, the biggest questions remain unanswered:
«If we were in a court of law, with human influence on the climate system in the dock, the verdict for Australia's 2013 heat wave would be guilty as charged.
Almost all the experts I've talked to in 20 years of exploring the entwined climate and energy challenges agree that satisfying global energy demand while limiting human influence on climate will require revolutionary advances in both policy and technology.
This is a 1995 analysis by Shell International B.V. scientist Peter Langcake of whether climate change was in fact underway and if, as some scientists were suggesting, a «signal» had been detected showing human influence on climate from temperature, weather, polar ice melt and other data.
It is utterly amazing to me that some people deny human influences on climate while others profess that political events influence plate tectonics, i.e. earthquakes.
A friend told me there was a global conspiracy involving nearly all of the world's governments, most of the world's scientists and the media to convince the public that there is a major human influence on climate when they were well aware there was no evidence for this.
The following figure shows changes in climate «forcings» or factors that have contributed to climate change since 1750, before human influences on climate were very significant.
Dr. Schlesinger is an atmospheric scientist and engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign who for three decades has been studying human influence on climate and what to do about it.
And earlier again, Mass blogged on July 15th about Rupp et al 2012, «Did human influence on the climate make the 2011 Texas drought more probable?»
The National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.
In the end, such fights can distract from the clarity of the short - term picture of a world in flux for decades to come under building catastrophic human influence on climate and its inhabitants (our children, our grandchildren and countless generations to come).»
The journal Science has published a letter signed by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel laureates, that pushes back sharply after months of assaults on evidence pointing to a growing and disruptive human influence on the climate and some of the researchers who've done important work on global warming.
This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.
Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.
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