I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers
in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.
Edit 2: I completely believe
in human caused climate change and I greatly respect the work that Kerry is doing along with many other climate scientists.
Not exact matches
The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat
human -
caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris
in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack
in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.
According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who say they believe
in human -
caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.
Researchers found that
human -
caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase
in drying out of Western forests, a major factor
in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.
«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that,
in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of
human activity as a
cause for
climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point
in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of
climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of
climate change is clear, and warrants action.»
According to Giberson and Stephens, you might be an anti-intellectual fundamentalist if you are an evangelical who: dismisses evolution as «an unproven theory»; deny that «
climate change is real and
caused by
humans»; think that «the founders were evangelicals who intended America to be a Christian nation»; defend spanking children; believe
in traditional roles for the sexes; think that reparative therapy can «cure» homosexuality; and / or oppose gay marriage.
She hopes to pursue a higher degree
in Food Science and Technology
in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic
causes of
climate change, poor
human health, and animal cruelty by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.
Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just
climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck
in the
human lung and
cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered
in ash).
Later
in the debate, State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan's West Side, grilled Young on investments contained
in the budget resolution that, he argued, acknowledged the
human role
in causing climate change.
The right ignores scientific study, the left ignores the historical perspective that contradicts attributing every negative weather
change to
human causes - drastic
climate changes and bad storms have happened
in pre-industrial times.
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is the latest lawmaker to join fellow GOP lawmaker Chris Gibson
in backing a resolution that acknowledges
climate change is
caused by
human activity and should be combated.
A Washington Post-Stanford University poll
in June found 77 percent of Americans say rising global temperatures are at least partly the result of
human activity, while 22 percent said that
climate change is the result only of natural
causes.
DS: There's broad consensus
in the scientific community that
climate change is real, that it's
human -
caused.
Yet even without a definitive answer, it may be worth keeping the topic
in the news, if only to remind people that
human -
caused climate change is linked to cold snaps as much as to heat waves.
His session allowed him to talk about how
human climate change in national parks is melting glaciers, raising sea level, killing trees, and
causing other impacts.
This magma plume isn't an alternative possible
cause of recent upticks
in melting along the West Antarctic Ice Sheet attributed to
human - generated
climate change.
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climate change [June 28,
change [June 28, 2016]
Pruitt is currently participating
in a lawsuit against the EPA's regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and denies the overwhelming scientific consensus on
human -
caused climate change.
«The strongest factor
in students» belief
in human -
caused climate change was their own knowledge of
climate science.»
And President Obama told Vox
in February that the media «sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism» when compared with the
human suffering that will be
caused by
climate change (Greenwire, Feb. 11).
The highest number of respondents, 35 percent, said
climate change was
caused about equally by natural
changes in the environment and
human causes.
They found a strong positive relationship between trust
in specific groups and whether they agreed that
human activity is
causing climate change.
In September 2014, Koonin wrote an editorial where he acknowledged
human -
caused climate change was happening but wrote that the «impact today of
human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the
climate system itself.»
According to some predictions,
climate change caused by
human activity could
cause mass extinction
in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies.
Australia also experienced record rainfall
in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that
human -
caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.
She also thinks that though
human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional
climate change is probably
caused by many factors, including increased irrigation
in the region.
One paper found that a 2016 marine heat wave off the coast of Alaska was unprecedented
in terms of the temperatures it reached and concluded that it would not have been possible
in a world where
human -
caused climate change was not occurring.
And the number who denied the scientific consensus that
human -
caused climate change is happening declined by 10 percentage points among Catholics and 6 points among the US population
in general.
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction
in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of
climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by
human -
caused increases
in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
But Stone predicts that because species
in hot environments evolve body shapes that radiate heat better,
climate change will
cause humans to grow taller and slimmer.
It was suspected that a harsh drought from about 2000 to 2010 that killed tens of thousands of livestock was unprecedented
in the region's history and primarily the result of
human -
caused climate change.
Despite countless findings to the contrary, a large portion of the population doesn't believe that scientists agree on the existence of
human -
caused climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate
climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate C
change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study
in Nature
Climate Climate ChangeChange.
The message communicated
in the four textbooks was that
climate change is possibly happening, that
humans may or may not be
causing it, and its unclear if we need to take immediate mitigating action, the researchers found.
Understanding these unique areas is important because there are many examples of naturally occurring hybrid zones, and new hybrid zones will form
in the future as
climate change and
human impacts
cause species distributions to shift and come into contact.
After documenting the growing partisan gap
in support for environmental legislation
in the U.S. Congress, it presents data from The Gallup Organization that shows an increasing gap between self - identified Republicans» and Democrats» attitudes towards
human -
caused climate change.
To what extent the 2010 flood disaster was
caused by
climate change versus other
human impacts is a subject of growing debate
in Pakistan.
While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning
in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by
human -
caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.
For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion
caused by
climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors
in the origin of modern
humans» behaviour
in Africa, and
in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.
In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed said they believed
climate change was occurring, with 8 percent pinpointing
human activities as the main
cause.
A limitation of the study, noted by the authors, is that Audubon members and the MTurk population as a whole believe more strongly
in the occurrence of
climate change and its
human causes than the average U.S. citizen.
A report
in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to
human -
caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events
in 2013 — notably heat waves
in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Unfortunately, writes journalist Lois Parshley
in her feature article «Catching Fever,» the common enabler for the movement of each of these ailments is
human -
caused climate change.
Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people
in the agricultural sector
in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about
climate change and whether variation
in the
climate is triggered by
human activities, natural
causes or an equal combination of both.
• GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that
climate change is real, potentially dangerous and probably
caused in part by
humans, has disagreed with many
climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.
That «we can't say with assurance that
human activities
cause weather
changes» and that
climate problems
in Texas are best solved through «days of prayer for rain».
«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of
human -
caused climate change,» he said
in an email.
Another study published online today
in the journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL) directly attributes the rainfall increase to
human -
caused climate change.
Ongoing
climate change caused by
human influences will alter the nature of how rain and snow falls; areas that are prone to dry conditions will receive their precipitation
in narrower windows of time.
There are some parts of the picture which are clear, particularly the way that
climate change is
causing westerly winds to shift southwards, but there are still huge gaps that we need to fill
in order to fully understand how much
human activity is
changing weather
in the region.