Sentences with phrase «main driver of»

Compo and Sardeshmukh: Oceans a main driver of climate variability — it's the heat AND the humidity.

Oil palm is currently cultivated on 77,537 hectares of land in the regions of San Martin, Ucayali, Loreto and Huánuco, and is slated to expand exponentially, despite the recent statement by the Government Accountability Office of Peru that oil palm is the main driver of deforestation.

He stressed that this was a correlation, not a time series, and came to the conclusion that temperature is likely to be the main driver of CO2 and not the other way around.

At the 6:20 mark the documentary points out that the climate changes dramatically, and that the main driver of the ice ages is the sun, principally the Milankovitch cycles.

Thermal expansion is the main driver of steric changes (salinity is also a minor factor) so steric sea level rise is another measure of total ocean heat.

The world's leading authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has concluded that human activity is «extremely likely» to be the main driver of warming since the mid 20th century.

Craig Loehle Your still making an assumption that CO2 was the main driver of recent warming when the observations show a 4 - 5 % reduction of cloud cover during the 1990s that was responsible at least 75 % (0.3 degC or 0.7 W / m2) of the observed warming in the satellite period.

On Saturn, the condensation heating is the main driver of the storms, and the sun's heating is not important.

(2) the solar activity is the main driver of the «climate change»; its role (sensitivity in °C / (W / m ²) is understated by IPCC by a factor 10 to 20; IPCC argues from «physical considerations» to restrict the role of the Sun to the sole total solar irradiance (TSI).

His probe follows revelations that Wei - Hock (Willie) Soon of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who disputes the scientific consensus that human activities are the main driver of global warming, failed to disclose research funding from Exxon, Southern Company, and other fossil - fuel industry sources.

This further complicates any attribution of trends in surface pH. For example upwelling of stored CO2 is believed to have been the main driver of the rise in atmospheric CO2 and the fall in ocean surface pH during the transition from the glacial maximum to our interglacial.

Take a ride through the atmosphere to learn about greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, and the greenhouse effect.

Energy production is the main driver of the state's economy, providing more than 80 % of state government revenue and thousands of jobs.168 Continuing pressure for oil, gas, and mineral development on land and offshore in ice - covered waters increases the demand for infrastructure, placing additional stresses on ecosystems.

However, in this highly politicized issue, pure science (whether reviewed or not) is not the main driver of anything... As for conventional wisdom changing, it will take time.

Were the sun the main driver of global temperatures, the planet would have cooled slightly over the past 50 years.

Oil companies are expected to argue human greenhouse gas emissions were the main driver of recent global warming and that it is a problem, but their legal filings contest their liability and the use of courts to settle what's considered a global matter.

It accused three groups, Friends of Science, the International Climate Science Coalition, and the Heartland Institute of making false and misleading claims about climate change, including that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide, and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

Theory, models and direct measurement confirm CO2 is currently the main driver of climate change.

The EPA says carbon dioxide emissions are the main driver of climate change.

Well isn't that great — there is now «uncertainty» if CO2 really is the main the driver of GW on planet Earth.

Roy Spencer commented that «there was a very clever paper published in Science this past week... in an attempt to prove that carbon dioxide is the main driver of the climate system».

More specifically, in the 19th and 20th century, expansion of agricultural land remained the main driver of deforestation, together with the expansion of cities and the development of infrastructure and mining.

Minchin told the ABC he did not accept that carbon dioxide was the main driver of climate change.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from combusting fossil fuels are the main driver of global warming.

I don't think that the aesthetics of the environmentalism movement should be the main driver of people's decisions with regard to the environment, any more than the aesthetics of libertarianism should decide what people do about their civil liberties.

In May, 2015, Advertising Standards Canada, a voluntary industry group that does not enforce its decisions other than through public suasion ruled, following 96 public complaints, that two Friends of Science billboards in Montreal stating: «The Sun is the Main Driver of Climate Change.

With the IEA predicting that China will be the main driver of green spending, the PowerShares Global Clean Energy (NYSE: PBD) could be a great starting point for investors.

«This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70 % CO2,» or carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.

A relatively small group of people was able both to claim that CO2 is the main driver of temperature / climate, and to become dominant in this field.

D'Aleo is a former Weather Channel meteorologist and executive director of Icecap.us, a project that seeks to connect «respected scientists and journalists that are not deniers,» but who don't believe human activity is the main driver of global warming.

Within the restrictions of the model, we compute R c for current monsoon systems in India, China, the Bay of Bengal, West Africa, North America, and Australia, where moisture advection is the main driver of the circulation.

After all, if Uribe hit.650, he really would likely have been the main driver of the team's success.

This thermal expansion was the main driver of global sea level rise for 75 - 100 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, though its relative contribution has declined as the shrinking of land ice has accelerated.

That would make aerosols, and not CO2, the main driver of the climate, would it not?

confuses the question as the main driver of the «thermal» structural changes in the upper troposphere is not the lapse rate changes as such, it is the water vapour itself.

The research is considered one of the pillars of the scientific consensus that human activity is the main driver of climate change.

Perry defiantly insisted that carbon dioxide is not a main driver of global warming and pushed for a RT / BT process, asking, «What's wrong with being a skeptic?»

The IPCC hypothesis is that human produced CO2 is the main driver of climate change (global warming).

«The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86 % of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century,» according to Virginia - based weather forecaster Vencore Weather.

«Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem.»

Ocean heat is the main driver of ice reduction for sea ice and glaciers that run to the sea.

A new Gallup survey showed a sharp rise in the percentage of Americans convinced that humans are the main driver of global warming.

While CO2 atmospheric concentration undeniably remains the main driver of climate change, CO2 is not the only GHG, and peaking and reducing CO2 emissions is not the ONLY policy being discussed.

We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated salty waters deep into the circum polar antarctic bottom waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.

CO2 is far and away the main driver of climate change, as your question implies, the problem being for the planet that once emitted it is very slow to go away, many hundreds or even thousands of years of heating effects.

Simplistically, this means that population is the main driver of emissions growth.

Gavin disputes that the main driver of the sea ice retreat is the albedo flip, but we are seeing not only polar amplification of global warming but positive feedback, which would not be explained simply by radiative forces and ocean currents.

This story from CBS Boston in 2010 said the sun was the main driver of warming and CO2 played a very, very, small part: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2010/10/01/curious-why-the-sun-has-been-so-dim-lately/

You are missing important contexts in your understanding, likely the main driver of your doubt regarding human impact on climate.

On a purely rhetoric point of view, the authors too often jump from «GCR have an influence on climate» to «GCR are the main driver of climate on all timescales».