Sentences with phrase «humans are responsible»

This year they claim 95 % certainty that humans are responsible for MORE THAN 50 % of the warming.

You obviously want to imply, like Cook et al, that it means that humans are responsible for most global warming, cause if they ain't nobody cares about the apocalyptic stories.

If we accept the hypothesis that modern humans are responsible for the demise of these species, does that mean the sixth extinction has been happening ever since we came along?

Given their answers on the previous survey, this suggests there are many Democrats who don't know what's causing climate change but still believe humans are responsible for it, and many Republicans who do know yet still deny that humans play a role.

In its strongest language yet, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) affirmed on Friday that humans are responsible for the warming of the planet.

1) Depending on exactly how you measure the expert consensus, it's somewhere between 90 % and 100 % that agree humans are responsible for climate change, with most of our studies finding 97 % consensus among publishing climate scientists.

In short, we've seen about 0.8 degrees of warming globally; yes, this is significant — enough so that it is pushing more of the planet into drought; humans are responsible for nearly all of it, and we will see about 3 degrees of warming for each doubling of CO2 concentration.

It is these multiple lines of evidence that give the scientific community such strong confidence that humans are responsible for the recent unprecedented warming of the surface of the Earth.

«A new survey of over 12,000 peer - reviewed climate science papers [between the years1991 and 2011] by our citizen science team» has found a 97 % consensus among papers taking a position on the cause of global warming in the peer - reviewed literature that humans are responsible.»

Despite the most recent report's shortcomings, «when the IPCC says something declarative, such as that humans are responsible for most of the changes to the climate we are seeing, that means there is tremendous consensus around that,» says Victor.

It is very likely that humans are responsible for most of the recent warming.

If Dr. Hansen is correct and humans are responsible for the recent warming, then what caused earlier periods of dramatic warming — and cooling?

One source says the new draft confirms that humans are responsible for dangerous climate change.

A pair of climate scientists recently had a dispute regarding how much global warming humans are responsible for.

And the best estimate from the body of peer - reviewed climate science research is that humans are responsible for more than 100 % of the global surface warming since 1950, with natural factors probably offsetting a little bit of that with a slight cooling influence.

In fact it's just as likely that humans are responsible for about 160 % of the global surface warming since 1950 as it is that we're only responsible for 50 %.

And research also shows that nearly half of all US citizens think global warming is a reality and humans are responsible, while a similar proportion think it is either from natural causes or not happening at all.

The science is settled when it comes to the cause of global climate change: It's definitely happening and humans are responsible.

A new survey of over 12,000 peer - reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97 % consensus among papers taking a position on the cause of global warming in the peer - reviewed literature that humans are responsible.

Suppose another paper in 2014 said humans are responsible for 50 + % of the observed warming.

Suppose a paper in 1991 said humans are responsible for 50 + % of the observed warming.

We could wind up saying humans are responsible for 400 % of the warming for one decade, 10 % of the warming of the next decade and -200 % of the one after that.

Apparently Plimer, a Professor of Mining and Geology from the University of Adelaide is aiming to «refute every scientific argument that humans are responsible for global warming».

The New York Times reported on what it called the report's «near certainty» that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades and its warning that sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of the century.

Put simply, saying one is 90 + % sure humans caused at least half of the warming since 1950 does nothing to indicate one believes humans are responsible for less than half the total warming since 1850.

As I recall he falls in the Tol / Curry / Lomborg school of focusing on the lower end of estimates of climate change sensitivity and related effects, the «sure, some warming may be happening and maybe humans are responsible for some of it but who's to say it will be bad?»

So IF humans are responsible for warming a) it has been of very small proportions to date b) The warming effect can be observed from 1880.

Humans are responsible for the majority of the unrecycled CO2.

Climate scientists — experts who have devoted their lives to studying and understanding how this all works — agree to an extraordinary degree that humans are responsible for the heating of our planet.

The release last week of Assessment Report 5, a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), bolsters the conclusions of its 2007 report that humans are responsible for global warming, and it highlights...

create a definition of AGW that is actally meaningful, like for a paper to count as supporting AGW it would need to actually state that, and state the degree to which they think humans are responsible, more than 50 %, or less, for example.

More than 91 percent of young people around the world agree that science has proven humans are responsible for climate change — in fact, climate change and the destruction of nature is their top concern three years running.

Any paper that explicitly or even implicitly states that humans are responsible for as little as 5 % would have been classified as either 6 or 7, both of which were «rejection» categories.

All of these studies find that humans are responsible for close to 100 % of the observed global warming over the past 50 years, and human greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for close to 150 % of the observed warming, with human aerosol (sulfur dioxide - SO2) emissions offsetting approximately one - third to one - half of that greenhouse warming.

The findings directly contradict the claim that 97 percent of climate scientists endorse the view that humans are responsible for global warming, as first made by Cook et al in a paper published in Environment Research Letters.

What is the evidence that people, like the proponents here, use to prove that we humans are responsible for global warming and that future warming will be catastrophic if we don't get our act together?

For example, this might be a more accurate way to phrase the idea: «When recently polled, the consensus among Australians was that only 58 % of climate scientists agree that humans are responsible for global warming.»

Humans are responsible for most of the nitrogen introduced into the Earth's atmosphere since the middle of the 20th century, according to another recent study published by researchers from Columbia University and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

It turns out that 97 % of about one - third of the abstracts affirms or implies that humans are responsible for some portion of global warming since 1951.

James Evans pointed out «what part of his comment says humans are responsible for 100 % of the warming.»

The IPCC 95 % confidence that humans are responsible for most of the current global warming is simply a summary of the peer - reviewed scientific research.

If you think otherwise, you ought to explain what part of his comment says humans are responsible for 100 % of the warming seen in the modern temperature record.

Chip's analysis here will do little to quell bias that would have the data confirming belief that humans are responsible for creating a precipitous hell on earth.

Ferdinand Engelbeen: August 22nd, 2011 at 6:19 pm Paul at 714:... One can have a lot of discussion about the science of the effect of CO2 on temperature, but that humans are responsible for the 1.5 century increase of CO2 in the atmosphere still is old fashioned rock solid science.

The fact that humans are responsible for the increase in atmospheric CO2 is settled science.

Here's how we know that humans are responsible for rising CO2.

He then goes on with: In one corner, there are the scientists of the world who overwhelmingly support the consensus that humans are responsible for climate change.

One can have a lot of discussion about the science of the effect of CO2 on temperature, but that humans are responsible for the 1.5 century increase of CO2 in the atmosphere still is old fashioned rock solid science.

But I strongly suspect that it has to do with absence of any temperature increase after 1980; its publication would have created a conflict with the reported (and problematic) thermometer data and with the assertion by the IPCC that humans are responsible for such a temperature rise.

Thus only humans are responsible for near all of the increase in the atmosphere (1.5 % per year!).