Sentences with phrase «leading cause of climate change»

-- Excerpt: Nitrous oxide is nearly 300 times as potent as carbon dioxide — considered the leading cause of climate change — and the third most threatening greenhouse gas overall.

Yet although eating flesh and animal secretions is another unhealthy habit as well as a leading cause of climate change, it has so far escaped being taxed.

Not exact matches

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

«Given that the leading cause of power outages is extreme weather — which is exacerbated by climate change — the Trump administration's head - in - the - sand approach would actually undermine grid resiliency and reliability while promoting climate change and its catastrophic impacts,» he said.

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Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Soot is a strong, light - absorbing aerosol that caused global climate changes that triggered the mass extinction of dinosaurs, ammonites, and other animals, and led to the macroevolution of mammals and the appearance of humans.

The researchers suggest the cause may be a change to a warmer, wetter climate, which reduces tree growth and may lead to a thinner layer of leaf litter, where the animals live.

«Environment Magazine is pleased to publish an updated and detailed paper, led by the distinguished sociologist Riley Dunlap, on the increasing partisan polarization of American attitudes to climate change, its causes, and consequences.

The September report raised the probability that human actions, led by the use of fossil fuels, are the main cause of climate change since 1950 to at least 95 percent from 90.

His discoveries have also revealed how warming ocean temperatures and acidification of ocean water caused by climate change lead to coral bleaching and death.

The study, led by Dr Julie Jones from the University of Sheffield's Department of Geography, has revealed that limited data on Antarctica's climate is making it difficult for researchers to disentangle changes caused by human activity from natural climate fluctuations.

Climate change is the leading cause of coral - reef degradation.

Fifty years later, the reality of human - caused climate change has been reaffirmed by virtually every leading scientific organization as well as the vast majority of individual climate scientists worldwide.

«Finding the thresholds in plant physiology after which climate stress causes tree mortality will allow us to resolve uncertainty over the fate of forest ecosystems in a changing climate,» said lead author Anderegg.

Moreover, we found that when respondents» perception of the level of scientific agreement increased, this led to significant changes in other key beliefs about the issue, such as the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused and a worrisome problem.

Asteroid impacts that cause global catastrophe are climate - changing events, and most of the resulting fatalities would be due to that change (which would cause social disruption that is expected to lead to starvation, disease and violence).

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

Emissions from wildfires totalled more than 1bn tonnes of CO2 from 2003 - 2015, the lead author tells Carbon Brief, and climate change, along with forest fragmentation, could cause a further increase in the number of forest fires in the coming decades.

For example, the extreme drought that gripped Indonesia during summer and fall (leading to an intense wildfire season) was caused by a dearth of rainfall linked to El Niño and higher temperatures linked to climate change, one study in the report found.

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.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

For example, a growing scarcity of fossil fuels and the need to stem the environmental damages caused by climate change will undoubtedly lead to a substantial increase in the use of public transportation.

As for the main threats to wildlife, leading biologists and environmental watchdogs agree: human - led activities — including climate change, habitat destruction, and development — are far and away the number one cause of wildlife depletion.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

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Emphasizing that developed countries bear the overwhelming historic responsibility for causing anthropogenic climate change and must therefore take the lead in responding to the challenge across all four building blocks of an enhanced international climate change regime — namely mitigation, adaption, technology and finance — that builds - upon the U.N.F.C.C.C. and its Kyoto Protocol.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

Maybe it is frustration with that experience which has led Schmidt to the conclusion that the causes of conflict in the climate change debate relate almost entirely to politics and not the MWP, climate sensitivity or «ice», dismissing this from any discussion did not seem likely to be to help foster any reconciliation.

Likewise, when climate sensitivity is low, emissions drive less temperature change and cause less damage, leading to lower estimates of the SCC.

«Our findings prove that there is a strong scientific agreement about the cause of climate change, despite public perceptions to the contrary,» lead author John Cook with the University of Queensland said.

States are not equal in the international system and international law is frequently used by the North to discipline the South — in the specific case of the UNFCCC it's pretty easy to imagine that «non compliance» by a Southern country would lead to them being excluded from the finance and technology transfer that the North owes them for their climate debt... so why should those who have not caused climate change sign up to a scheme where the polluters always get off scot - free but they may have to pay a price?

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they... Read more

In June 2016, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific associations sent a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers that reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they

He was the lead author of a 2013 analysis that found 97 percent of all scientific papers expressing an opinion about climate change concluded it was human - caused.

This negligence led to forest clearing and peatland destruction and helped trigger global warming, «causing material and immaterial losses to all the residents of Riau Province who have been affected by the impacts of climate change,» Suryadi said.

What's lost in a lot of the discussion about human - caused climate change is not that the sum of human activities is leading to some warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of climate models upon whose projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.

It holds that countries that historically caused the recent atmospheric carbon dioxide build - up must lead in cutting their emissions, while helping developing countries eventually do likewise, by pouring trillions of dollars in cash and free technology into the Green Climate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compenClimate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compenclimate change adaptation, mitigation and compensation.

Just this May the United States Academy of Sciences concluded once again that humans are causing climate change and this will lead to harsh impacts for the human race and ecological systems unless steps are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

While recent headlines about the woes of U.N. - led efforts to assemble a comprehensive picture of the science have caused gleeful headlines on The Drudge Report and other skeptical media outlets, the vast weight of the evidence — from melting glaciers to warming oceans to satellite temperature readings, and much more — still points to a changing climate caused by human activity.

Here is what one study (co-authored by Kim Cobb, Dr. Curry's colleague at Georgia Tech) says: «Climate change is now the leading cause of coral - reef degradation and is altering the adaptive landscape of coral populations.»

Cook is the bête noire of denialists, being the lead author of a science study finding that 97 per cent of peer reviewed studies on climate change agreed that it was mostly caused by human activity.

We don't get any closer to science by denying the significant possibility that we are causing significantly adverse changes in climate than we do by the ridiculous assertion that we understand the chaotic complexity of climate well enough to say with certainty how many parts per millions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to how many degrees of global warming.

According to Dr. James Hansen (formerly of NASA) and 97 % of climate scientists worldwide, manmade production of CO2 is the leading cause of global warming and climate change.

NPR «All Things Considered» interviewed CSW director Rick Piltz, Rep. Bob Inglis (R - South Carolina), and environmentalist Bill McKibben for an October 23 lead story on Republicans and denial of the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change.

But neglecting causation in the opposite direction (clouds cause temperature) can lead to large errors in our understanding of how and why the climate system changes, as well as in our diagnosis of how sensitive the climate system is to human influences.»

Hansen has explained it clearly for his faithful followers: human CO2 is the cause of all «deleterious» climate change leading to sea level rise «that can be measured in meters».

Describing him in her speech as «one of the leading sources of reasoned and factual information in Australia on global warming and climate change» she didn't mention that Professor Plimer has never published a single peer - reviewed paper on human - caused climate change.