Sentences with phrase «linking human greenhouse gas emissions»

The latest en vogue explanation linking human greenhouse gas emissions to strong winter - season East Coast storms involves changes in the characteristics of the jet stream — a river of fast moving air in the atmosphere that influences both the strength and the forward speed of extratropical storm systems.

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Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

German researchers suggest that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are linked to an increase in extreme weather events

The article you linked to at Then There's Physics states «We probably have not been able to definitively demonstrate that the rising cost of weather disasters can be formally attributed to the human emission of greenhouse gases.

Recent scientific studies have made a strong link between the historic California drought and ongoing changes to Earth's climate resulting from human greenhouse gas emissions.

The link between adverse impacts such as more wildfires, ecosystem changes, extreme weather events etc. and their mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas emissions hinges on detecting unusual events for at least the past century and then actually attributing them to human caused warming.

In particular, the EU should take urgent steps to reduce the consumption of commodities, such as palm oil biodiesel, that are linked to rainforest destruction and accompanying greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and human rights violations.»

In his speech, the President served up the usual red meat for climate partisans, restating the well - established fact that climate change has been incontrovertibly linked to human greenhouse gas emissions while offering dubious assertions about the link between warming and present day natural disasters.

While it is generally accepted that the observed reduction of the Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover extent (SCE) is linked to warming of the climate system caused by human induced greenhouse gas emissions, it has been difficult to robustly quantify the anthropogenic contribution to the observed change.

Two weeks ago, The New York Times published an article detailing the results of an investigation into Wei - Hock «Willie» Soon, an aerospace engineer who's published several papers questioning the link between human emissions of greenhouse gases and global warming.

According to Stone, cases where the link between human - generated greenhouse gas emissions and local warming trends were weak were often due to the fact that the climate observational record was insufficient in those regions to build a clear picture about what has been happening over the past several decades.

He also said that Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was «talking through her hat» when she pointed out earlier this week that there was a link between bushfires and human - caused emissions of greenhouse gases.

I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause,» Richard Muller writes in the New York Times as his team, the Berkeley Earth Project, releases a new paper that finds an even stronger link between greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures worldwide than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).