Sentences with phrase «induced climate»

In contrast, what can marine life do upon losing 40 % of its primary food source as a result of human - induced climate change?

This more or less restates the IPCC mandate to investigate: «the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

I was also struck in the same conference by the repeated dismissal of the MWP as only a North Atlantic phenomenon while at the same time, and often in the same talk, the melting of Greenland ice was touted as the major threat of CO2 - induced climate change.

Dr. Holmgren reinforces the divide between the carbon role of forests and their place in sustainable development: «Using forests to offset human - induced climate change is an admirable aim, and it is likely that other forestry objectives, such as conserving biological diversity, would benefit from this as well.

For example: «Water vapor is the most abundant heat - trapping gas, but rarely discussed when considering human - induced climate change.

For the last decade or so, we have known that human induced climate change will bring adverse impacts around the world.

Analyses show that human - induced climate change has generally increased the probability of heat waves.1, 2 And prolonged (multi-month) extreme heat has been unprecedented since the start of reliable instrumental records in 1895.

Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

«If your mission is to find human - induced climate change, you better find it.

If the British government really believes the danger from CO2 - induced climate change is dire why hasn't it banned the use of private jets, forbidden government employees from traveling, and fast - tracked new nuclear power plants?

From Curry's place: Mapleleaf «Dr. Curry, I'm sure that you agree (correct me if you don't) that the science behind the theory of anthropogenic induced climate change is a long one, and very well established (I can hear the cries of indignance from those in denial about AGW / ACC already), and borne out by multiple, independent data sets and consilience.

I want to leave a world for them that is not in any danger of human induced climate catastrophe, but is also a world were they will have financial security, and even more importantly a world not dominated by fear.

Human - induced climate change has already increased the number and strength of some of these extreme events.

Another qualification I can offer is that I am father two brilliant children, and I want to leave a world for them that is not in any danger of human induced climate catastrophe, but is also a world were they will have financial security, and even more importantly a world not dominated by fear.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

Yet some of the most frequently repeated claims made by those engaged in the climate change disinformation campaign have been outright untruths about such things as the claim that the entire scientific basis for human induced climate change is a hoax or that there is no evidence of human causation.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Africa could bear the brunt of the damage from human induced climate change, according to Bill Hare, visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Formerly an employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Hansen has devoted much of his career to spreading the word about what he believes to be a human - induced climate crisis.

As a result, we can expect his committee, and perhaps the Senate as a whole, to proceed on the basis that human - induced climate change is nothing but a twisted fantasy concocted by misguided intellectuals.

Of course we can not be 100 % sure that human - induced climate change will, if unchecked, wreak havoc on countless millions of people (any more than people in the 1930s could be absolutley sure of Hitler's intentions).

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

BP may shut down the oil gusher in the Gulf by the end of the summer, yet the harms from human - induced climate change will likely plague the world for centuries.

To understand why these questions should be asked, it is first necessary to review the kinds of arguments that have usually been made in opposition to US climate change policies, programs, and legislation and why these arguments fail to deal with the profound ethical questions raised by the threat of human induced climate change.

These GHG's are internationally recognized as the primary contributors of human induced climate change.

Abstract The Key Role of Heavy Precipitation Events in Climate Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California Climate model simulations disagree on whether future precipitation will increase or decrease over California, which has impeded efforts to anticipate and adapt to human - induced climate change........

The Guardian reported: «Averting the worst consequences of human - induced climate change is a «great moral issue» on par with slavery, according to the leading NASA climate scientist Prof Jim Hansen.»

Human - induced climate change has contributed to changing patterns of extreme weather across the globe, from longer and hotter heat waves to heavier rains.

The IPCC says in its own words: «The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

According to its governing principles, the IPCC is ``... to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

The society has officially taken a position many of us AMS members do not agree with... Instead of organizing meetings with free and open debates on the basic physics and the likelihood of AGW induced climate changes, the leaders of the society... have chosen to fully trust the climate models and deliberately avoid open debate and discussion... My interaction (over the years) with a broad segment of AMS members... have indicated that a majority of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming.»

The researchers found that stronger westerly winds in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, fueled primarily by human - induced climate change, were responsible for the dramatic summer warming that led to the retreat and collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf.

The effects of human - induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat - loving insects.

It is also a problem about which the U.S. Congress has done nothing for twenty years: human - induced climate change.

-- change its brief and focus away from simply investigating human - induced climate change and its impact, consequences plus possible mitigation and adaptation measures to truly researching all aspects of our planet's climate and

Of the other 3 %, they did not refute human - induced climate change, they just did not support the notion that it was human - induced, but happens regardless of humans» intervention.

Research by Park Williams, a Center for Climate and Life Fellow, shows that human - induced climate change doubled the area affected by forest fires in the American West over the last 30 years.

More specifically, the article implicitly attributes many weather events to human - induced climate change, while the influence of human activity on these events is not always supported by science, or is at the frontier of scientific knowledge and still debated.

Anthropogenic induced climate change — > believer 2.

Trees in the tropical regions are dying twice as fast as they did 35 years ago — and human - induced climate change is a factor.

The United States should have acknowledged the duty to fake action on climate change 30 years ago once the US Academy of Sciences and other highly respected scientific institutions stated that human - induced climate change was a growing menace.

The consequence of a layperson falling for the argument is that they will dismiss the threat of human induced climate change altogether.

The authors then asked those scientists whether they were convinced or unconvinced by the evidence for human - induced climate change.

Human - induced climate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society's annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective.

The mock trial provided a way to discuss the threat of human - induced climate change without first having to «prove» it is happening.

---------------------------------------------- ENDS -------------------------------- About Climate Action Network: Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 1200 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Writing in The Conversation CPDN partners David Karoly and Mitchell Black provide a real - time assessment of the role human - induced climate change and the ongoing El Nino are playing in the record breaking October temperatures in Australia.

American Geophysical Union «Human - induced climate change requires urgent action.

Catastrophic anthropogenic induced climate change — > skeptic

1847 «George Perkins Marsh (1801 - 1882) author of the 1847 lecture that predicted — «human - induced climate change» — from multiple historical records Scientists WERE ALREADY LECTURING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING and the resulting Climate Changes, in 1847!