Sentences with phrase «important driver of climate change»

is the all - important driver of climate change that the President and others attending COP21 make it out to be.

Not exact matches

«It is important to begin mechanistic studies of these declines,» the team concludes in a paper presenting the finding published in today's Science, «with habitat alteration, climate change and agricultural chemical usage being potential key drivers of observed shifts.»

Analyses show that climate shocks are important drivers of the expansions and contractions seen here, suggesting a large and previously overlooked negative impact of climate change on food production.

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

Climate change is only one of the drivers motivating agricultural innovation, but it will become more important as warming continues into the future.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

Scientists have examined several important strands of evidence about the LIA, including the activity of the sun, of volcanoes, and ocean heat circulation, principle drivers of natural climate change.

«Many other important impacts of climate change are difficult to quantify for a given change in global average temperature, in part because temperature is not the only driver of change for some impacts; multiple environmental and other human factors come into play.»

According to the report, if current trends are not reversed, the Asia - Pacific region could be the most important driver of global resource use and related environmental impacts, including resource scarcity and climate change.

Those changes are not easy to measure or reproduce with climate models, and some researchers think natural variability or changes in the tropics are more important drivers of weather extremes in the mid-latitudes.

Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change.

The results confirm greenhouse gases produced by human activities are the most important driver of global climate change, according to the researchers.

Hence, changes in temperature due to climate change are expected to be one of the important drivers of change in natural and managed systems.

The Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network measures the atmospheric distribution and trends of the three main long - term drivers of climate change, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), as well as carbon monoxide (CO) which is an important indicator of air pollution.

This will only be meaningful if climate science returns to Square One and reexamine what drivers are important in a theory of abrupt climate change.

The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five drivers of global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate change, land use change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use change — not climate change — is predicted to be the most important (Sala et al. 2000).

Fuel combustion — fossil fuel combustion in high - income and middle - income countries» is a key driver of pollution and that «coal is the world's most polluting fossil fuel, and coal combustion is an important cause of both pollution and climate change.»

«There have been many attempts to determine TCR and ECS values based on the history of temperature changes over the last 150 years and the measurements of important climate drivers, such as carbon dioxide.

Verification of these forecasts will provide an important opportunity to test the performance of models and our understanding and knowledge of the drivers of climate change.

The most important driver for anthropogenic (human - induced) climate change is the consumption of fossil fuels for heat and electricity, oil for transport, industrial production, agricultural activities and waste generation.

This policy document highlights that climate change will be an important driver of genetic erosion in the future.

Agriculture and food consumption are identified as one of the most important drivers of environmental pressures, especially habitat change, climate change, water use and toxic emissions.