Sentences with phrase «major driver of climate»

But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change.

«At the same time, the food system is responsible [currently] for more than a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, and therefore a major driver of climate change.»

Negative emission technologies aim to remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a major driver of climate change, from the atmosphere.

In similar manner, it would be astonishing to find a modern climate science paper referencing that CO2 is a major driver of climate, or that changes in CO2 concentration have a direct impact on global mean surface temperatures unless the paper was from an entirely different field (where assumption of such basic knowledge can not be made), or where the reference is not for the fact of influence, but for a specific estimate of the value of the impact.

«Current global warming theory dictates that CO2 has been a major driver of climate change throughout the 20th century (Ref, ref, ref, ref, ref).

«Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, accounting for more than 20 percent of overall global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010,» said co-author Prajal Pradhan.

Burning coal is the single biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally, and so is a major driver of climate change.

In particular, given that there has been no trend in the sunspot count or cosmic ray flux over the last 50 years [1], while the global temperature has increased by 0.5 - 0.6 °C [2], how can one seriously claim that your work shows solar activity to be the major driver of climate change today and over the last 50 years?

Current climate computer models are unsuitable for making reliable climate forecasts mainly because they assume without justification that CO2 is the major driver of climate.

This is the common sceptic claim that «the prediction is that CO2 is a major driver is refuted by the ice core data which shows it isn't, therefore, CO2 is not a major driver of climate change»

Reframing the proposition more correctly it would be something like «The prediction is that CO2 CAN BE a major driver of Climate Change in some contexts INCLUDING our current context.

It's a troubling juxtaposition — coal contributes to 43 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major driver of climate change.

- Solar factors are the major drivers of climate change and grossly overwhelm the human contribution.

A study of coverage of the recent United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate change.