Sentences with phrase «influence on the climate system»

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.»

Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents.

The panel reported that the world is warming throughout the lower atmosphere, as climate models had predicted, and acknowledged «clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.»

«The human influence on the climate system has the effect of intensifying precipitation extremes,» Zwiers notes.

«In the case of California's drought, the climate models do not indicate that such extremely low precipitation is an expected consequence of human influence on the climate system,» said

«If we were in a court of law, with human influence on the climate system in the dock, the verdict for Australia's 2013 heat wave would be guilty as charged.

In a November report, the panel observed that «human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents.»

If we wish to assess the future consequences of our influences on the climate system, it is imperative that we understand the interaction between these process and the impacts of climate change.

It concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents.

A group of Australian scientists has begun a new online effort to communicate the body of science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

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.

Did the disclosed information in some substantial way undercut the broad body of evidence pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system?

Global Warming vs Climate Change,» an interesting new study of Americans» perceptions of the two dominant shorthand phrases used to describe the building human influence on the climate system.

When will «the use of the latest information on external influences on the climate system and adjusting for internal variability associated with ENSO» make its way into the projection model?

Realclimate, which was launched largely defensively in 2004 (you can read an explanatory note in, you guessed it, the East Anglia e-mails) has matured into a valuable resource for anyone trying to gauge what science has, and has not, revealed about a human influence on the climate system.

For months, the stasist blogosphere has been aflame with «Gates of various kinds — attempts to spin one or two errors or overstatements on particular issues, along with various comments in the East Anglia e-mail messages, into the unraveling of the many lines of science pointing to a rising, and risky, human influence on the climate system.

One of the toughest realities attending debates over what to do, or not do, about the growing human influence on the climate system is that more science does not necessarily clarify society's, or individual's, responses.

Peter Huybers, a Harvard University researcher focused on ice sheets and influences on the climate system (Huybers made an earlier appearance on Dot Earth):

The documents were posted Thursday at Stopgreensuicide.com, a Web site launched by Alec Rawls, a passionate foe of restrictions on greenhouse gases (with a very quirky pedigree) who signed up — like almost anyone could — to be one of 800 reviewers offering more than 30,000 comments on this draft report, which focuses on the basic science examining the extent of the human influence on the climate system.

When I'm forced to compress it down to just those two words I'm talking about the human influence on the climate system through the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

As part of the trend in higher education toward moving more course offerings onto the Web, the University of Chicago has launched Open Climate 101, an online version of a popular course led by David Archer that explores for non-science majors the body of research pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.

DIAG (2005) Detecting and Attributing External Influences on the Climate System: A Review of Recent Advances, J. Clim., vol 18, 1291 - 1313, 1 May

-- He has not given a substantial speech focused on the responsibility of the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases to face up to the long - term risks posed by the rising human influence on the climate system and pursue the opportunities that lie in a sustained «energy quest.»

It may take another president, or two, before America's energy quest gets into the necessary gear, perhaps driven by a confluence of a new spike in oil prices and rising anger among veterans wounded protecting fuel convoys in Afghanistan and building evidence pointing to a growing, and harmful, human influence on the climate system.

But I wouldn't look for fresh findings there to up - end the basic picture of a growing human influence on the climate system.

Everything laid out above tends to draw attention away from the broad and deep body of work pointing to a growing and long - lasting human influence on the climate system.

The science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system is simply delineating the boundaries of the problem — and they are still very fuzzy boundaries on many important points (the extent of warming and pace of sea level rise, just for starters).

There have been a lot of attempts to categorize the varied assemblage of people with strongly held positions on the scope of, and threat from, the building human influence on the climate system.

What's refreshing is that the building human influence on the climate system is not being portrayed definitively as an unfolding catastrophe, with present - day events cast as the reason for action.

In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences published «Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises,» a valuable report examining whether and how the building human influence on the climate system might lead to disruptive jolts.

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).

The press actually produced quite a bit of nuanced coverage, which explained that while it's impossible to peg any single weather event to climate change, many scientists felt that summer's extremes would not have been possible without humanity's influence on the climate system.

Final Text: The headline message to this section states that human influence on the climate system is clear as it is evident from the increasing GHG concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and understanding of the climate system.

Andrew Revkin: I think it's taken ages for the world to even integrate, meaningfully, the reality that scientists have shown clearly — that humans are a building influence on the climate system.

And the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5, 2013/14) asserted that «[h] uman influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history.»

They also stated that «Human influence on the climate system is clear.»

«Human influence on the climate system is clear,» he said.

The evidence for human influence on the climate system has grown since the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

P.S. I do agree with you also that the policymakers (and Gavin) have made the global average surface temperature anomaly the primary climate metric to show the human influence on the climate system.

Although Pielke accepts that the evidence for human influence on the climate system is robust, he stresses that the goal of cutting global carbon emissions is incompatible with economic growth for the world's poorest 1.5 billion people.

In contrast, the purpose of albedo modification technologies is to introduce a new form of human influence on the climate system by altering the amount of sunlight absorbed by the Earth.

Instead, carbon removal aims to reduce historical human influence on the climate system by decreasing the amount of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — essentially reversing the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

In this regard, carbon removal approaches share a common purpose with conventional climate mitigation technologies, which also seek to reduce human influence on the climate system (by reducing future anthropogenic GHG emissions).

Now their key findings reveal huge concern that human influence on climate systems has increasing impact on every single continent.

«The AASC recognizes that human activities have an influence on the climate system.

The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»

If so, Cooney better keep his day job, since that program recently declared «clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.»

«But when you look at the near term, there's been a lot of melting, a lot of strange things going on with the sea ice that they can't ascribe this particular year to our influence on the climate system.

Moreover, as proof that Cooney could not have been trying to sabotage the CCSP's efforts, Easterbrook pointed to the office's recent report declaring «clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.»