Sentences with phrase «influence of a warming planet»

But throughout it all, there were no mentions of the dramatic increases in extreme weather and no mentions of the influence of a warming planet on extreme storms like Sandy.

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Given that many claim humans are influencing global warming and the number of people that now are on the planet I do not know how a thinking person can not see that most of us have to change our focus on consuming animal products.

Through the scenario of an adventure game, pupils make lifestyle choices which can influence global warming, air pollution, deforestation and the future of planet Earth.

James E. Hansen, the head of Goddard and an outspoken campaigner for prompt cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions, explained that the decades - long global warming trend and patterns of warming remain consistent with a growing influence on climate from the planet's building blanket of heat - trapping greenhouse gases.

As I wrote in my first book on global warming, in 1992, we are the first life form we know of on Earth that has risen to be a planet - scale influence and is also aware of that fact — or slowly absorbing it.

In environmental circles there is a clear and correct recognition of the fact that the planet is warming at an astounding pace, yet, there is a perplexing denial of the ongoing climate engineering insanity (which is mathematically the greatest single negative influence on the climate system overall).

Somehow, I don't think that's what you're saying when you write things like «The true null [is] that there is no evidence of human influence warming the planet dangerously.»

The true null — that there is no evidence of human influence warming the planet dangerously — may be compatible with «natural variation drives the climate», and indeed incompatible with «human activity is dangerously warming the planet» but they are not logically identical.

Brooke C. Medley, a postdoctoral fellow with NASA who contributed to one of the new papers on Antarctic ice loss, said the findings demonstrate that the planet's large ice sheets, which were once thought to be stable, are responding to global warming and other influences at a rapid rate.

To express uncertainty over humans» influence on the climate, Foran points out, is to be out of line with 97 percent of scientists — those forming the overwhelming consensus — who agree that the planet is warming and that humans are the primary cause.

The Great Plains States in the middle of the US, in a warming planet that is under the influence of an amplified Hadley Cell) would need to get its precipitation from the Subtropical jet.

In 1995, the IPCC had already concluded — based on work by Ben Santer and other leading climate scientists working on the problem of climate change «detection and attribution» — that there was already now a «discernible human influence» on the warming of the planet.

In its first comprehensive report since winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, the IPCC is unequivocal about the influence of human activity, the progressive warming of the planet, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the rise in sea level.

But this cooling influence was offset by CO2 levels estimated to have been in the range of 1,200 to 1,800 ppm, enough to keep the planet very warm indeed.