Sentences with phrase «known cause of climate change»

This leaves the solar cycle the only known cause of climate change on large scale, up to modern times where there is a documented antropogenic contribution.

Not exact matches

We also know CO2 causes climate change - but vented gas (methane - the prime component of your home heating gas) is many times stronger as a greenhouse gas.

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

«We know that these large global mean changes are going to be associated with local and regional changes that are going to cause real problems in some areas,» says Andy Challinor, an expert on climate and agriculture at the University of Leeds in England.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

«My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet, and the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try and reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us,» he told an audience in Pittsburgh, then advocated for aggressive oil drilling.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change,» he said in an email.

«I don't know enough about climate change to say if that is the direct cause, but the way we have farmed has steadily evolved,» Ireland told ClimateWire on a visit to his Grange Farm about 130 miles north of London.

It's better known as the greenhouse effect — the cause of global climate change.

(Reuters)- The U.S. electric industry knew as far back as 1968 that burning fossil fuels might cause global warming, but cast doubt on the science of climate change and ramped up coal use for decades afterward, an environmental watchdog group said on Tuesday.

We have known the region is a climate warming hotspot for a while, but we couldn't explain what was causing the pattern of glacier change.

«If you're wondering why so many politicians and news sources deny that dangerous human - caused climate change is real, and you want a relatively short and easy - to - read summary of the issue, look no further than The Madhouse Effect»

The best estimates of the forcings — literally how hard we're pushing on the climate over the period from 1750 to 2005, both human causes and the principle known natural caused changes in the amount of sunlight reaching the earth over this period — overwhelming the human causes are prevailing.

We know, based on the work and expertise of the vast majority of climate scientists and virtually every leading scientific organization in the world, that human - caused climate change is real and dangerous.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

NPR has always struck me as fairly balanced in that they always give both sides of the story, no matter how nutty or fucking ridiculous the other side is (like those who still believe abortions cause cancer, climate change isn't real because there's still ice in the oceans, etc).

I have a question for you — as you know, «climate change» is happening... whether human caused or not, it certainly feels like we are seeing more extreme weathers of late.

Nowhere in this list are the known causes of major threats to human life of income disparity, endemic disease, resource depletion, or radical climate change.

I know that you won't publish this but the amount of abuse for Dr. Curry that you are allowing to be published here is counterproductive to the cause of climate change.

We know that greenhouse gases are heavily implicated as a cause of 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.

Holdren says it's no longer realistic to focus on mitigating the causes of climate change — efforts such as limiting carbon emissions from fossil - fuel combustion.

Now for climate change work, we don't care so much about the actual temperature, but do want to know about the trend, so it is possible to create an alternative algorithm that is free from the systemic biases caused by attempts to merge thousands of low grade temperature records together.

The problem is that you can not determine that — unless you know the amount and cause of natural climate change.

Do you think (not only you, but almost all scientists of the world), you can come up with some results that you might be hidden in your team combinatorics which have no true foundation in nature, nor do you know what causes climate change and all other phenomena on the planet.

Finally, as I noted before, all of this is just a very roundabout way for you to avoid saying «No, I don't know of one single extinction caused by climate change».

For example, the skill in simulating the climate of the last century when accounting for all known forcings demonstrates the causes of recent climate change (Chapter 9) and this information can be used to constrain the likelihood of future regional climate change (Stott et al., 2006; see also Section 11.10.2).

Other possible causes of climate change, particularly the sun, will continue to be judged by the traditional standards despite what we know about: the modest but statistically significant 20th - century solar forcing, the cooler young sun, and climate during the Dalton and Maunder minima.

But Tolstoy knew better: Put simply: I think that climate change was one of many causes contributing to the rise of IS in Iraq and Syria, and that if we permit climate change to continue unchecked we will see more such instances in the future.

The two nations are the largest producers of the materials known to cause global climate change.

Internally, it has known about the causes and effects of climate change since the 1970s.

Reducing the impacts of human - caused climate change through the use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage — better known as BECCS — could... Read More

In fact, it is precisely because «the discussion about the causes of global warming was to a very great extent settled by the date of broadcast», meaning that climate change was no longer a matter of political controversy, that a programme claiming it is all a pack of lies could slip past the partiality rules.

«agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

Scientists know that climate change is being caused by people, and that people are at the heart of its solution.

We know from earlier work that uncertainty is no cause for inaction — on the contrary, greater scientific uncertainty should make us worry more, not less, about the potential consequences of climate change.

We can do that by internalizing the known costs of global warming and climate change and sea level rise that are not currently reflected in the price of the products that are causing them.

If the sun is primarily responsible for observed global air temperature changes (even if heavily modulated by ocean behaviour as I contend elsewhere) then we need to know sooner rather than later otherwise a misdiagnosis of the causes of climate change could cause unimaginable disruption and hardship through the imposition of incorrect remedies.

Reports such as those of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) demonstrate that science is far too immature to know what, if any, GHG concentrations would cause «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.Climate Change (NIPCC) demonstrate that science is far too immature to know what, if any, GHG concentrations would cause «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.climate system.»

... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that on top of a whatever local weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate change is putting its finger on the scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger weather event than you would have otherwise seen.»

When life on Earth ends, however, no one will know what caused it — the cause could have been ANY of the MANY environmental threats we were told were going to end life on Earth as we knew it, starting in the 1960s with DDT... then other pesticides, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, global cooling, climate change, etc..

``... it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing and very likely that it is not due to known natural causes alone.»

Doesn't fit the AGW message pounded into pliable brains... most the MSM are cheerleaders for the warmists and a troubling percentage of them are forgetting the message change to well, climate change vs the old too narrow warming schtick... of course we know that the sun's solar minimum is caused by big oil.

And on the causes and possible consequences of climate change, the scientific truth is there's too much we just don't know.

For my whole life, the federal government has known that climate change, caused by our carbon emissions, would endanger generations of Americans.

So, meteorologists should know the science behind the causes of climate change better than most other scientists.