Sentences with phrase «induced climate change»

This means that only two emission targets — the peak rate and cumulative carbon emissions — are needed to constrain two key indicators of CO2 - induced climate change (peak warming and peak warming rate), as evidenced by the maximum - likelihood estimation method used above.

Indeed, federal research finds that human - induced climate change «will have the largest health impact on vulnerable populations including... some communities of color, limited English proficiency and immigrant groups, Indigenous peoples,» and others.

MR:... The first thing developed country governments should do is *** provide resources for adaptation so that people do not have to leave the homes of their ancestors due to human induced climate change.

risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

Hoerling: «We can also say with high confidence that no appreciable trend toward either wetter or drier conditions has been observed for statewide average precipitation since 1895» — «At present, the scientific evidence does not support an argument that the drought there is appreciably linked to human - induced climate change... In short, the drought gripping California has been observed before.

Focusing on the climate change «controversy», the expert he chose on that particular matter was Climate Communication's Science Director, Richard Somerville, featured in a clip from last year discussing human - induced climate change.

A new study argues that human - induced climate change may have led to the record - high temperatures.

New research by a team of international scientists reveals that the effects of human induced climate change began much earlier than originally thought.

But, in the region where human civilisation began, already in the grip of its worst drought for 900 years, it is a reminder of how bad things could get, and, less certainly, a guide to how much worse human - induced climate change could become.

This puts me roughly in the same camp as James Annan, though possibly I am less skeptical that there could be benefits for moderate warming, and I am probably more skeptical of claims about the supposedly significant level of damage from the current level of anthopogenically induced climate change.

But there was human induced climate change over that century and a half.

While this is certainly a true statement, it does not follow that we should increase the frequency and magnitude of water resource stress by increasing evaporation, drought frequency, water loss from plants, etc., as the USGCRP report notes will occur as human - induced climate change increases.

My understanding at that point, which I believe was coming to be more widely shared, both inside and outside the program, was that the Administration was uncomfortable with the mainstream scientifically based communications suggesting the reality of human - induced climate change and the likelihood of adverse consequences.

The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.

This is a reprise of an increasingly familiar story: human - induced climate change, along with other human bequests such as pollution and habitat destruction, have begun to threaten the wild things everywhere.

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.

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

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.

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 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.