Sentences with phrase «main role of climate change»

«With hurricane Sandy and [Typhoon] Haiyan, scientists found little contribution [from human activity] to the storm itself, but the main role of climate change was through the higher sea levels.»

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In 2009, when Ravelo led an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea (with co-chief scientist Kozo Takahashi of Kyushu University, Japan), one of her main goals was to investigate the role of the North Pacific Intermediate Water in climate change.

Jeffrey Kargel of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said in a press conference Monday that the role of soot «adds a new wrinkle» to the story of glacier melting, but that in the big picture of climate change the main villains are still gases such as CO2.

They need to know: what a GHG is and how the GHE works; the carbon cycle; how climate has changed over the entire geologic history of the planet; how the climate has changed recently (relatively speaking); the main variables of climate like temperature, rainfall, etc.; the role of the sun, atmosphere and oceans on climate.

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 News: The ever - increasing roles of the private sector and businesses in protecting coastal areas and maintaining their ecological integrity were the main topics of discussion at a learning event of the ninth regional meeting of the Mangroves for the Future initiative titled «Resilience, Climate Change and the Private Sector in Sustainable Coastal Management».

The document covers four main topics: major roles for gender, youth and business; adaptation: infrastructure, slums and deserts; how coastal cities face up to climate change; and enhancing and spreading awareness of climate change.

The main conclusion of the study is that by modulating meridional overturning circulation Arctic sea ice can play an active role in ocean and climate change.

(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).

Also changes in levels of oxygen should affect levels of ozone that is the main greenhouse gas in the stratosphere and is thought to have a very important role in climate.

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

This briefing note illustrates the role and logic of Cost - Benefit Analysis (CBA) in the evaluation of climate change adaptation policies and projects in the agriculture sectors and describes the main analytical steps for conducting it, providing practical examples.