Sentences with phrase «main causes of climate change»

True to form, they continue to mindlessly support the coal industry (one of the main causes of climate change and the increasingly frequent violent weather events) and denigrate renewable energy.

Burning fossil fuels causes millions of deaths each year from air pollution, is one of the main causes of climate change and it causes ocean acidification.

Australia's biggest export is coal and the burning of coal is responsible for millions of deaths each year due to air pollution (and of course it is one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification).

Even more importantly, if we replace coal fired power stations with renewable energy, we will greatly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification.

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel fired power stations are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification and these are far greater threats to the Australian environment than are wind farms.

We are running out of liquid fuel and the burning of liquid fuels is one of the main causes of climate change.

Plus, meat consumption is one of the main causes of climate change.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

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.

[4] One thing is certain, there is no «scientific proof» as the term is generally understood, that human emissions are the main cause of climate change today.

The study also found that about 97 percent of all the comment articles published in the Herald Sun newspaper either rejected or questioned the views of the vast majority of climate scientists that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change.

He believes that humans are the main cause of climate change since the Industrial Revolution, and that man - made global warming is dangerously affecting the planet.

Tol claims the economic impacts of climate change will be minor and has attacked studies showing the vast majority of climate scientists agree that humans are the main cause of climate change.

Humans are the main cause of climate change because were the one who burn fossil fuels that contribute large amount which releases carbon dioxide gas to the atmosphere and clear trees that absorb carbon dioxide, sending heat trapping gases into the atmosphere.

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday that he doesn't believe man - made carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of climate change, contradicting virtually all of the world's climate scientists.

Response: Suggest you ask «If CO2 is the main cause of climate change, in ppercentage terms, how much CO2 is in the atmosphere when compared to all other gases in the air, and what proportion of this total CO2 amount is man - made?»

We hold that the capitalist system and the developed capitalist countries as the main cause of climate change generated climate debt.

We're looking into Energy Secretary Rick Perry's recent claim that the main cause of climate change is most likely «the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»

Scientists agree the main cause of climate change is human activities which magnify the «greenhouse effect» — a natural process in which gases in the atmosphere warm the Earth by trapping heat that is radiating towards space (2)(4).

We've asked the Department of Energy why Perry disagrees with the IPCC that human activity is the main cause of climate change; we've received no response so far.

Even scientists who think human activity is the main cause of climate change don't deny that natural changes will cause temperature fluctuations on Earth.

The main cause of the climate change we're seeing now is greenhouse gas pollution, which we put into the air when we burn dirty energy like oil and coal.

The main cause of the climate change we're seeing now is carbon pollution, which we put into the air when we burn dirty energy like oil and coal.

Several recent studies [Cook et al, Tol, Verheggen et al] show that more than 90 % of climate scientists agree that the main cause of climate change is human activity.

Not exact matches

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with 8 percent pinpointing human activities as the main cause.

The University of Surrey has developed a new and cost - effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change — carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

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.

«The main worry is that if deforestation increases, in combination with the increase fragmentation, increase in drought probability [caused by climate change] and the use of fires by humans, carbon emissions could escalate to proportions never experienced before.»

NEWS: Climate change rather than natural causes is the main driver of state's glacier loss, which is set to speed up, US scientists say

Perceptions of where the scientific community stands on climate change have fluctuated from a low of 44 % in 2010 who said that scientists agree about human activity as the main cause of warming temperatures to a high of 57 % saying this today.19

Humans are now the main cause of changes of Earth's atmospheric composition and thus the drive for future climate change [1].

But the annual amount of human - caused global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, is now about 50 percent larger than in 1992.

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.

Prove me wrong and state unequivocally that you think humans are at least the main cause of recent climate change, — or even just a large part of the cause.

42 nigelj, quote «Prove me wrong and state unequivocally that you think humans are at least the main cause of recent climate change, — or even just a large part of the cause.

For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (big pdf file) and other climate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main inflClimate Change (big pdf file) and other climate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main inflclimate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main inflclimate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main influence).

The main point of inquiry that Carlson was attempting to have Nye answer was specific proof that human beings are the cause of the climate changes that are allegedly occurring.

Thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence and improved computer models that can project climate changes more accurately and in much finer detail, each report has proclaimed with greater and greater certainty that human activity is the main cause of global warming.

«Global warming» is the best term for the current human - caused climate change because it is the main characteristic feature of the change.

Changes in atmospheric composition from human activities are the main cause of anthropogenic climate change by enhancing the greenhouse effect, although with important regional effects from aerosol particulates (IPCC 2007).

The main goal of WRI is to protect the global climatic system from further harm caused from greenhouse gas emissions, and assist in human adaptation to climate change that seems to be unavoidable.

The main argument for a carbon tax rather than a trading scheme is that, if there is a lot of uncertainty about the cost of reducing emissions, and not much uncertainty about the damage caused by climate change, a fixed price for emissions (that is, a tax) will get closer to the optimal outcome than a fixed quantity.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

Such circulation changes are the main cause of variations in climate elements on a regional scale, sometimes mediated by parallel changes in the land surface (IPCC, 1990, 1996).

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

Mr Miller highlights a World at One report in September of a landmark UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research project which found concluded with 95 per cent certainty that the climate is changing and that human activity is the mainClimate Change (IPCC) research project which found concluded with 95 per cent certainty that the climate is changing and that human activity is the mainclimate is changing and that human activity is the main cause.