Sentences with phrase «major cause of climate change»

If man - made dust is unimportant as a major cause of climate change, then a strong case can be made that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced warming induced by carbon dioxide.

We want a judge to force Shell to stop being a major cause of climate change.

In particular, the Republican party, which controls both houses of Congress and a majority of state capitols, overwhelmingly denies that humans are a major cause of climate change.

Trees absorb excess carbon dioxide — a major cause of climate change — and store the carbon while releasing oxygen back into the air.

Leaking refrigerants are a major cause of climate change because they predominantly consist of two families of synthetic manmade chemicals called hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)-- both ozone depleting substances and super greenhouse gases (GHGs)-- and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- powerful GHGs...

On the other hand, the highly polluting fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidised and is a major cause of climate change and ocean acidification, but this does not seem to concern Mr Taylor.

«[I] f the encyclical identifies man as the major cause of climate change, I doubt it will identify the proper solution.»

Any half reasonable person who after attending Anthony's presentation would have to be sceptical about the claims that carbon emissions are the major cause of climate change.

Burning coal is a major cause of climate change and releases toxic pollution that threatens our air and water.

Tropical deforestation is a major cause of climate change; and, unfortunately, Latin America is no stranger to this issue — more forests have been destroyed in this region than in any other since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992.

«There's a concern that if it turns out that CO2 is not a major cause of climate change, NASA will have put the reputation of NASA, NASA's current and former employees, and even the very reputation of science itself at risk of public ridicule and distrust.»

The letter, widely cast as signifying a «rebellion,» complains about the agency's «unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change.»

And their accelerating loss — from logging, farming, mining and burning — is a major cause of climate change, accounting for one - fifth of all carbon - dioxide emissions.

Only one thing is certain - if it is found that manmade pollution is not the major cause of climate change the environmental movement will be utterly discredited.

This documentary examines the world's diet and points to food choices as the culprits for declining health as well as a major cause of climate change.

Not exact matches

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Severe climate change throughout the Late Pleistocene, going back at least 125,000 years, was «perfectly capable of causing major problems,» he says.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

Dr McIntyre said: «Using data in this way can help us address the major threat of new diseases and the spread of existing diseases caused by climate change.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

Carbon dioxide is the major cause of global warming, and it has been the focus of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and other attempts to corral climate change.

Fossil fuel - based electricity production is responsible for about 38 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions — CO2 pollution being the major cause of global climate change.

Archaeologists continue to debate the reasons for the collapse of many Central American cities and states, from Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Yucatan Maya, and climate change is considered one of the major causes.

«However, the recent climate anomalies as a result of climate change and warming of the Atlantic Ocean have created severe droughts in the tropics, causing major impacts on forests.»

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

As has been seen year after year, the warming of the Earth is causing major changes in many aspects of the planet's climate, and 2014 was yet another year that showed this trend in stark relief, a report released Thursday says.

,» Soon wrote that because he has assembled evidence supporting the hypothesis that the sun causes climatic change in the Arctic it «invalidates the hypothesis that CO2 is a major cause of observed climate change.»

Nowhere in this list are the known causes of major threats to human life of income disparity, endemic disease, resource depletion, or radical climate change.

Second, I hope the military recognizes that climate change is going to be a major cause of instability in much of the world and can find a role in addressing said change in a preventive rather than reactive way.

Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.

A major California drought, also deemed unlikely to have been caused by climate change, according to most of the scientists who studied it.

While no one argues that climate change is, and will continue to affect amphibians, the claim published by Pounds et al. stating that climate change directly caused the chytrid outbreaks has now been dismissed by four major papers, by three unrelated sets of investigators.

The e-mail exchanges among several prominent American and British climate - change scientists appear to reveal efforts to keep the work of skeptical scientists out of major journals and the possible hoarding and manipulation of data to overstate the case for human - caused climate change.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

This is what it said, â $ œThe responsiveness of species to recent and past climate change raises the possibility that anthropogenic climate change could act as major cause of extinctions in the near futureâ $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Here we use projections of the future distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species to provide â $ ˜first - passâ $ ™ estimates of extinction probabilitiesâ $ ¦ â $ ¦.

9/19/16 — Taxing carbon released from burning fossil fuels could be a key part of a comprehensive effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to human - caused climate change, two economists have argued in Issues.

Newsweek is out with a major survey of possible ways to modify Earth's systems to mitigate or avoid human - caused climate change.

Sustained harvesting of any biomass will require large inputs of nitrogen and other fertilizers; nitrogen fertilizer is a major cause of biodiversity decline and increasingly N2O emissions are recognized as a major contributor to climate change.

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that globally climate change could cause an additional 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, not taking into account factors such as the effects of economic damage, major heat wave events, river flooding, water scarcity, or human conflict.

It is apparently now «headline news» that the man who will be in charge of all of our public lands, which are being devastated by human - caused climate change — some of which was caused by fossil fuels extracted from those lands — doesn't believe there is a massive conspiracy carried out by the entire global scientific community and literally every single major government in the world, including our own, to fool the public and media.

Heartland has denied the health effects of tobacco smoke while taking millions of dollars from tobacco corporations, and currently denies the cause and effects of global climate change, while being paid by major carbon polluters like the oil and gas industry and Nucor.

«A new study finds that human - caused climate change was a major trigger of Syria's brutal civil war.

Nevertheless, these results over this long period strongly suggest that the solar magnetic feld / cosmic ray interaction is the primary cause of major climate - change events over the past 9400 years of the interglacial period.

From this post I get the impression the climate scientists measuring the average conditions of weather at discreet time intervals and following the change in the average over time is a very limited approach seeking to identify causes and effects, when we have known for a long time the major inputs in the climate such as insolation, orbital characteristics, evaporation, condensation and etc..

Seventy - nine percent of climate change coverage on the major corporate broadcast TV networks last year focused on statements or actions by the Trump administration, with heavy attention given to the president's decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement and to whether he accepts that human - caused climate change is a scientific reality.

And anthropogenic greenhouse gases may in future perturb the climate system flow sufficiently to cause some or major change in the global pattern of coupled quasi standing waves.

That 40 % number is a falsehood - there is about a 98 % consensus of all scientists who study this phenomena that anthropogenic climate change is a reality, and every major scientific institution in the world supports the conclusion of man caused global warming.

A draft of a major United Nations report leaked to Reuters earlier this week showed that the panel of scientific experts writing the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is at least 95 percent certain that human activity — primarily burning of fossil fuels — is the biggest cause of global warming since the 1950s.

this has evolved into major research ------ as in many people have their fingers into the pie ---- a huge pie ---- billions ---- and all of these will be out of work if the truth was to come out ---- many are blind to the truth and do not want to hear it ------ for it will mean they are out of a job ------ Note the Climate change people do not want to use Satellite data ------ it is not corrected ---- but want to use the ground based monitors ---- which are corrected for location caused errors ---- by humans ------ with their lively hood at risk this adjusted Data is then feed to other researches ---- who take this data as fact --------