Sentences with phrase «less dramatic climate change»

The alternative view he advances sees a less dramatic climate change that would allow the world to adapt without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.
At first glance, the impacts of climate change in the United States might seem less dramatic than melting icebergs in the Arctic.
The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.
If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.
I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.
-- reasonably well - informed people are actually LESS interested in dramatic interventionism to combat «climate change»...
The most dramatic climate extremes were less associated with prolonged multiyear periods of cold than with year to year temperature changes, or even particularly prominent individual cold spells, and these events were often quite specific to particular seasons.
In contrast, the risk of extinction without climate change was calculated to be less than 1 %, suggesting that climate change will cause a dramatic increase in extinction risk for these taxonomic groups over the next century.
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