Sentences with phrase «induced by human action»

It would be President Obama, standing alone, breaking a campaign promise to act to protect the climate from chaos induced by human action.

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«Without urgent action, the expansion of logging operations and the spread of wildfires fuelled by human - induced climate change mean that tropical forests are likely to become increasingly degraded, conserving only a fraction of the breath - taking diversity they once harboured.»

The rate and magnitude of future human - induced climate change and its associated impacts are determined by human choices defining alternative socio - economic futures and mitigation actions that influence emission pathways.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

Brandon Gates's commentary as in point 1) is based the premise that dangerous human - caused global warming requiring immediate radical mitigating action is occurring and has been since ~ 1800 and any observations that do not accord with or contradict that a priori assumption are airily dismissed by «that is the way CO2 induced warming occurs».

The calls for action to prevent further human - induced global warming, by contrast, are based on an enormous body of research by thousands of scientists over more than a century that has been subjected to intense — and sometimes ferocious — scrutiny.