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This is a 1995 analysis by Shell International B.V. scientist Peter Langcake of whether climate change was in fact underway and if, as some scientists were suggesting, a «signal» had been detected showing human influence on climate from temperature, weather, polar ice melt and other data.

However, the main contributor to warming over the last 150 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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.

Dr Dudok de Wit's team at the International Space Science Institute in Bern, and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, have been using the datasets identified through the network to describe the Sun's influence on climate from 1850 up to the present day, as well as a forecast up to the year 2300.

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Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

New York Times Washington correspondent David Sanger called Trump's climate decision a «strategic gift to the Chinese, who are eager to fill the void that Washington is leaving around the world on everything from setting the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing the infrastructure projects that give Beijing vast influence.»

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Its influence on infectious disease is considered by Altizer and colleagues, who use examples from a wide range of host - pathogen systems to assess whether we are close to a predictive understanding of climate - disease interactions and their potential future shifts.

However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.

«Our research reveals that a country's climate and geographical location have a startling influence on the burden of liver cirrhosis,» said Dr Neil D. Shah, lead author of the study, and senior author, Dr Ramon Bataller, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States.

To see whether this increase in crops has influenced the region's unusual weather, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge used computers to model five different 30 - year climate simulations, based on data from 1982 to 2011.

For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.

But the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.climate system is clear.»

One of forest ecology's fundamental undertakings has long focused on how tree growth is influenced by a host of environmental factors ranging from soils and elevation to hydrology and climate.

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, members of the PlanetSolar Deepwater expedition, have now succeeded in linking the composition of marine biological aerosols — and therefore their influence on the climate — to that of bodies of water under them within the Atlantic Ocean, thereby paving the way to an indirect study of these aerosols through water analysis.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.

However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in emissions from industrial sources — the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed by «greenhouse» gases.

When the foundation severed ties, its decision was less influenced by the removal of Jewish scientists from major posts than by the destabilising effect that this and other political interventions had on the general research climate.

ARO scientists monitor a range of atmospheric phenomena, from the influence of gases and aerosols on Earth's climate to the impact of pollutants in the atmosphere.

Lead author of the research Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology at the University of York said «As microbial activity and its influence on its local environment has never been taken into account when looking at ice - core gas samples it could provide a moderate source of error in climate history interpretations.

But the paper «Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. states» adds what the MSU researchers say is an important layer to understanding human impact on climate change.

Cultural impacts to tribes from climate change influences on forests.

Human influences on the climate (largely the accumulation of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion) are a physically small (1 %) effect on a complex, chaotic, multicomponent and multiscale system.

Contributions from the following topics (but not exclusively) are invited: • Solar irradiance and energetic particle impacts on the atmosphere • Upper atmospheric dynamical variability and coupling between atmospheric layers • Solar variations and stratosphere - troposphere coupling • Solar influence on climate variability • Solar irradiance (spectral and total irradiance) variations

In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers compared sea level and storm surge heights from 850 to 1800, before significant human influences on the climate, to the period from 1970 to 2005.

Stemming from the issue of when the opening of the Drake Passage took place, is the dispute over how great of an influence the opening of the Drake Passage had on the global climate.

In this short video, Swoon discusses Submerged Motherlands, her installation at the Brooklyn Museum (from April 11 - August 24, 2014) that addresses climate change, and the influence that her Pratt education has on her work.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

Kevin, Dan H. is suffering from an orificial conflation issue pertaining to his locution on climate issues that may be congenital, but most likely includes nurture influences.

You should read some of the work by Dana Royer on the influence of carbon dioxide on climate over geologic time (full text PDF's available from his home page)

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

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Walking through the frozen - food section, I was reminded just how far this country is from being engaged in the «energy quest» that'd be needed not only to wean ourselves from oil but also to limit the human influence on the planet's climate system.

Severe climate changes during the last ice - age could have been caused by random chaotic variations on Earth and not governed by external periodic influences from the Sun.

At the Paris meeting, nearly 2,000 participants, from countries on all continents and at all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progress.

These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.

Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.

A few days before President Obama's release of the final «Clean Power Plan» restricting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Bill Gates posted a Gates Notes essay that helps reinforce an important reality: It will take more than regulation to limit humanity's growing influence on the climate system.

I'm on my way to a meeting in Sicily where several dozen scientists from a variety of disciplines and countries will be exploring the influence of climate change on insect - and tick - borne diseases, the spreading challenge of Internet security, the longstanding challenge of finding safe ways to handle and store nuclear waste and a heap of other pressing subjects.

Using this new information as well as other independent studies on methane emissions published since 2011, and the latest information on the climate influence of methane compared to carbon dioxide from the latest synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridgclimate influence of methane compared to carbon dioxide from the latest synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridgClimate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridge fuel.

In the end, such fights can distract from the clarity of the long - term picture of a world in flux for centuries to come under a building human influence on climate (and biology, oceans, and landscapes).

[ANDY REVKIN says: He was indeed expressing this view at the meeting, but got significant pushback from some participants, while others were clearly invited because they shared his skeptical views — mainly on the certainty of the conclusions, less on whether humans are exerting an influence on climate.

See also the Commentary on this article in the same issue: Malaria risk and temperature: Influences from global climate change and local land use practices Jonathan A. Patz *, and Sarah H. Olson.

Another, of course, is that the science illuminating the extent of the human influence on climate is not «settled» for many specific, and important, points, even though the basic case for rising risks from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is robust enough to merit a strong response, according to a host of experts (even if you take the intergovernmental panel's findings with a grain of salt).

To get a sense of how the views of Arctic experts have coalesced around a rising human influence on the region's climate, you can scan previous stories from 2001, 2005, and 2007 on ice trends and possible causes.

Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

From Cape Cod's coast to South Asia's Sunderbans, communities are grappling with an unnerving consequence of trying to build a «good» Anthropocene, the term increasingly applied to Earth's age of humans, in which we've become a powerful influence on everything from the climate system to evolutFrom Cape Cod's coast to South Asia's Sunderbans, communities are grappling with an unnerving consequence of trying to build a «good» Anthropocene, the term increasingly applied to Earth's age of humans, in which we've become a powerful influence on everything from the climate system to evolutfrom the climate system to evolution.