Sentences with phrase «induced warming of the climate»

Human - induced warming of the climate system is widespread.

My earlier criticism had been that the IPCC AR4 report was equivocating in not stating clearly and forcefully enough that human - induced warming of the climate system is established fact, and not something to be labeled as «very likely» at the 90 percent probability level.

The second paragraph of the Chapter 9 Executive Summary starts with: «Human - induced warming of the climate system is widespread.

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In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

Taylor also claims that human - induced warming has caused rising sea levels and desertification, hence «climate change refugees» which is an issue of human rights.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

A weaker sun might slow human - induced climate change slightly but when the sun eventually recovers force, global warming would heat up with even more of a vengeance.

The research concludes that for other changes, such as regional warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region

«Currently, our planet is in a warm phase — an interglacial period — and the associated increased climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account for future projections of warming induced by human activities.»

«What we saw was that urbanization - induced warming is just as important as greenhouse gas - induced climate change,» said Matei Georgescu, an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University.

Specifically, the draft report says that «equilibrium climate sensitivity» (ECS)-- eventual warming induced by a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which takes hundreds of years to occur — is «extremely likely» to be above 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), «likely» to be above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and «very likely» to be below 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 Fahrenheit).

Second, because the 1900 - 1950 TSI value was lower than the 1950 - 2000 TSI value, this would induce by alone a solar induced climate warming of the atmosphere during 1950 - 2000 even if during the period 1950 - 2000 the sun was perfectly constant.

There's really no way these results bear on the question of human induced climate warming... I think the sad thing is the a company with the resources of ExxonMobil is exploiting the data for political purposes.»

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

To quantify the impact of human - induced climate change on Harvey and to estimate whether it indeed exacerbated the rainfall thus requires taking into account the atmospheric circulation as well as the overall warming.

Knutson, T.R., and R.E. Tuleya, 2004: Impact of CO2 - induced warming on simulated hurricane intensity and precipitation: Sensitivity to the choice of climate model and convective parameterization.

The results the team found are that human - induced climate change is intensifying both the heat in the Arctic and increasing the frequency of such unusually warm periods.

«Some organizations, like Climate Central and extremists like Bill McGibben, hype every major weather anomaly as proof of the profound effects of human - induced global warming.»

The paper argues that climate sensititvity to CO2 is much lower according to «observation» and that simplified «models» combining PDO and CO2 can «explain» most of 20th century warming through PDO - induced changes in cloud cover.

In contrast, the warming during the most recent period, often used as evidence of human induced climate change, is characterized by temperature moderation — the pattern of temperature rise exhibits a strong, preferential warming of the coldest days of the year.

These results suggest that sea surface temperature pattern - induced low cloud anomalies could have contributed to the period of reduced warming between 1998 and 2013, and offer a physical explanation of why climate sensitivities estimated from recently observed trends are probably biased low 4.

Reliance on global CCS into deep wells to reduce GHG emissions into the atmosphere and effectively addressing the human - induced sources and consequences of global warming and climate change is pure «Greenwash.»

But that's just it, Paul, within the scientific community anthropogenic causation of increasing greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas - induced warming, and potential climate effects and impacts of increased warming are accepted science.

or had a heads up on the following: «Science Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate» «The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human - induced global wWarming Debate» «The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human - induced global warmingwarming.

The science behind human - induced global warming is far stronger, as documented by the latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Walt, if you've ever studied Pleistocene geology and the million year history of glacial advances and interglacial warming cycles you would know human - induced global warming and climate changes are the dominant cause of current and future catastrophic consequences.

This presents a paradox for some skeptics and deniers of human - induced global warming and climate change.

At the same time it will help mitigate and solve catastrophic consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

However climate models from even 20 - 30 years ago [Schneider and Thompson (1981); Bryan et al (1988); Manabe et al (1992)-RSB- predicted that the response of the Antarctic to enhanced greenhouse - induced warming would be much delayed relative to the warming expected to occur in the Arctic.

After seven years, in the White House, is it possible Republicans are finally considering doing something right about the serious consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change in order to salvage the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections?

No matter what short term metrics are applied, the Arctic is undergoing long term rapid melting, dominantly as a result of human - induced global warming and climate change.

Much of the public's misunderstanding of human - induced global warming centers on storm surges and sea levels, and yet this has hardly been the central focus of climate science research over the past 20 years.

CO2 Science misrepresents Doran's study as a «major blow to the CO2 - induced global warming hypothesis... many a climate alarmist jumped on the global warming bandwagon... however, the bottom began to fall out of the poorly constructed bandwagon, as the evidentiary glue that held it together began to weaken.»

This is a fun subject but has little to do with the real consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

I have high hopes President Barack Obama, from my home State of Illinois, will change all that and proceed to execute many promised political reforms in Washington, D. C. High on his list should be implementing immediate and effective Congressional legislation about the consequences of human - induced, global warming and climate change.

Nature is kicking back on us because we're just slow learners about hurricane infrastructure preparations as well as not paying enough attention to the real world consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

A new study co-authored by Francis Zwiers, the director of UVic's Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, suggests that human - induced global warming may be responsible for the increases in heavy precipitation that have been observed over much of the Northern Hemisphere including North America and Eurasia over the past several decades.

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human - induced global warming.

The survey of AMS members found that while 52 percent of American Meteorological Society members believe climate change is occurring and mostly human - induced, 48 percent of members do not believe in man - made global warming.

Climate experts say this is the result of a combination of human - induced global warming and a particularly strong El Nino.

According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic conseqClimate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic conseqclimate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences.

The most rapid warming - induced die - back of the Amazon rainforest probably occurs at a global average temperature rise from 1 to 3 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial climate.

I am convinced next Monday there will be a newspaper explaining the cold and the snow was caused by» extremely dangerous human induced runaway global warming as the driver of climate change».

«In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»

You could add that evidence as to the reality of, and the threat posed by, human - induced global warming has emerged from a well established official expert advisory process, and in particular, within that process, from the series of massive Assessment Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).

Some of these climate drivers result in warming and others lead to cooling, but when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are stacked up and compared to one another, the accumulation of human - released heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere is so large that it has very likely swamped other climate drivers over the past half century, leading to observed global warming.

Comparing model predictions of GHG - induced warming with recent natural temperature fluctuations also indicates the potential scale of man - made climate change.Early modelling experiments focused on the total long - term change resulting from a doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.

«Global warming» is only one of many potential consequences of GHG - induced climate change.

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human - induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat - trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

Trenberth 2015 suggested that for Hurricane Sandy, «the subways and tunnels may not have flooded without warming - induced increase in sea level and storm intensity and size, putting a potential price tag of human climate change in this storm in the tens of billions of dollars.»