Sentences with phrase «likely cause of climate change»

The next biggest spikes in coverage in the past three years included the week of April 1 - 6, 2007, (5.3 % of the newshole) when the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate car emissions, and the week of January 28 - February 2, 2007, when a UN climate report found that humans were very likely the cause of climate change (4.9 %).

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This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

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.

Since 2001, greatly improved computer models and an abundance of data of many kinds strengthened the conclusion that human emissions are very likely to cause serious climate change.

Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it — by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more precipitation and flooding.

Infections lurking on the margins of civilization are becoming more likely to cause outbreaks as the climate changes, researchers say.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

They have concluded that climate change from about 4000 years ago, in particular more drought - prone seasons caused by the onset of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation, was the likely main cause of mainland extinction.

Climate change research here is in its early stages, and scientists are still teasing out which changes in the high mountains are the result of climate change and which are more likely the result of other human - caused changes, namely, agriculture, ranching and Climate change research here is in its early stages, and scientists are still teasing out which changes in the high mountains are the result of climate change and which are more likely the result of other human - caused changes, namely, agriculture, ranching and climate change and which are more likely the result of other human - caused changes, namely, agriculture, ranching and mining.

«I do think there's an opportunity, if the president chooses to take it, to show leadership and get attention on the cost that climate change is likely to cause,» says Kevin Kennedy, who heads the US climate initiative of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC.

As the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report notes, models predict that increasing temperature ought to cause greater precipitation extremes in both directions — both drought and flooding, though there are likely more areas of heavy precipitation.

Namely, climate change is likely to cause the dry season to become longer and more intense across all parts of the island.

Now the new study says the drought had a catalytic effect on the unrest in Syria, and human - caused climate change has made the chances of such a severe drought between two and three times more likely.

Even when they teach, over 30 percent of the teachers surveyed provide misinformation to their students, claiming that recent climate change is «likely due to natural causes.»

Human activities have very likely caused most of the well - documented change in global climate over the last half century.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Climate science has correctly (IMO) highlighted (for instance) the role of increasing CO2 emissions in causing climate change that will likely be deleterious in years and decades tClimate science has correctly (IMO) highlighted (for instance) the role of increasing CO2 emissions in causing climate change that will likely be deleterious in years and decades tclimate change that will likely be deleterious in years and decades to come.

A devastating heat wave in Russia that killed tens of thousands — yet was very likely NOT caused by climate change, according to the scientists who methodically investigate that event.

Thanks Gavin, I get the point (in your response to my comment # 14) that your intention here is to discuss changes in the ocean / atmosphere system that could cause a cooling of European climate, and that both observational and model evidence point to a weakening of THC as the most likely candidate.

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).

«Numerous experiments have been conducted using climate models to determine the likely causes of the 20th - century climate change.

Then, usually, one finds out (by listening to the more detailed report, or going to the source document itself) that the scientist involved doesn't really disagree that climate change is happening, that human activity is a substantial cause, and that some sorts of big problems will likely result.

Perhaps the increasing SSTs due to climate change is the most likely cause of this increasing frequencies and intensities.

a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.

Schmidt: Since, in my opinion, 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.

Most likely we are already committed to at least some of these climate changes, and even if the models are wrong and these increased numbers of intense hurricanes fail to emerge in the future, Knutson and his colleagues believe that society still needs to work harder at minimizing the damage hurricanes cause.

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.

The science is clear to me and to most experts in the various fields associated with climate science: Humans are causing most of the observed global warming in the past several decades and, if we continue emitting GHGs under a «business as usual» scenario, it will become increasingly difficult and costly to adapt to the changes that are likely to occur.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»

Moreover, notice that many sceptics do not take issue with the propositions that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, much of the increase in atmospheric CO2 can be attributed to industry, that this warming will likely cause a change in the climate, and that this may well cause problems.

The trend in rising average temperatures in Australia in the second half of the 20th century is likely to have been largely caused by human - induced climate change.

In 2007, Gov. Martin O'Malley established the Maryland Commission on Climate Change to address the causes of climate change and to help us prepare for the likely conseqClimate Change to address the causes of climate change and to help us prepare for the likely consequChange to address the causes of climate change and to help us prepare for the likely conseqclimate change and to help us prepare for the likely consequchange and to help us prepare for the likely consequences.

Thirty - seven percent of Americans reject this consensus, saying that climate change is most likely caused by natural fluctuations.

There is compelling evidence that the atmosphere's rising CO2 content - which alarmists consider to be the chief culprit behind all of their concerns about the future of the biosphere (via the indirect threats they claim it poses as a result of CO2 - induced climate change)- is most likely the primary cause of the observed greening trends.

This is the belief backed up by the scientific evidence; in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in September 2013, scientists agreed that it is «extremely likely» that human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing the planet to warm.

Overall, Democrats and liberals are more likely than Republicans and conservatives to say the Earth is warming, human activity is the cause of the change, the problem is serious and there is scientific consensus about the climate changes underway and the threat it poses to the planet.

According to new research, drought damage will likely cause widespread forest death by the 2050s as a result of climate change.

Commenting on the likely cause, Prof Steig told BBC News: «A fingerprint of forced climate change - that is, anthropogenic (man - made) forcing of climate by greenhouse gases - is that it will warm in most places at the same time.

US researchers say climate change, not random chance, is likely to be causing California's long drought, one of the worst on record.

The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes.

There's a widely held belief that when it comes to human - caused climate change, you're far less likely to accept the science if you lean toward the right of the political spectrum.

We believe it does not because those causing climate change have had clear ethical duties to reduce the threat of climate change once they were put on notice that their actions were likely putting others at great risk.

Any attempt to solve one of these problems (such as climate change) without addressing the others is likely to fail, since these ecological crises, although distinct in various ways, typically share common causes.

Looking at all of the various inputs to global climate - including CO2 and SO2 emissions from man, and natural cycles like La Nina / El Nino, as well as changes in the sun - they believe that the rising sulfate emissions is the most likely factor to have cause the global warming slowdown, between 1998 and 2008.

But the expected acceleration due to climate change is likely hidden in the satellite record because of a happenstance of timing: The record began soon after the Pinatubo eruption, which temporarily cooled the planet, causing sea levels to drop.»

Obama's disingenuous Tweet, whether it be «dangerous», «catastrophic» or «apocalyptic» — and he did use the word dangerous — is disingenuous because there is no such consensus on the dangers of climate change, only that climate is changing and it is likely caused, at least in part, by humans.

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Would you consider adding a chapter addressing the likely efficacy of various policies that have been proposed to prevent / reduce sea level rise caused by man made climate change?

``... 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.»

Carbon Brief mapped studies of extreme weather events around the world and found that 63 % of those studied were made more likely or more severe by human - caused climate change.