Sentences with phrase «mainly by other factors»

To realize that climate is driven mainly by other factors than just some more parts per million of CO2 in the air is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Not exact matches

Its fluctuations are mainly driven by climatic factors and must not be subject to major other influences such as avalanches, calving or surge dynamics, heavy debris cover, artificial snow production or ablation protection.

I lean toward the view that the effect on temperature of the large increase in anthropogenic CO2 is small, barely if at all detectable using present methods, and likely to be overwhelmed by a number of other factors, mainly natural.

The bottom line is that true bumps, dips, and flat times punctuate the climate record, and need not be spurious in order to understand them to be fluctuations around a longer term trend, which for the past 100 years has been upward, with the years since 1950 well explained mainly by GHG - mediated forcing, plus a smaller contribution from other factors.