Sentences with phrase «many drivers of climate»

In fact, Goleman reported not only that EI - based leadership may be the most important driver of climate but also that climate may account for 20 to 30 percent of organizational performance.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

Second, right now in the United States we are harming our children because of hostile fuels chemicals, the drivers of climate change.

The UN Secretary General is quoted in the statement to have said that the summit would chart a new era of sustainable development in which poverty would be eradicated, prosperity would be shared and the core drivers of climate change would be tackled.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of climate change, changes observed in the climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future changes.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

In the spring of 2014, Koonin's drafting committee produced a statement that attributed equal weight to human influences and natural variability as a driver of climate change, according to a source who declined to be named.

«We find that the position of the North Atlantic Jet in summer has been a strong driver of climate extremes in Europe for the last 300 years,» Trouet said.

Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house by Harvey's floodwaters.

As the main driver of climate change, the connection between burning fossil fuels and global warming is clear.

«If you address the drivers of climate change, in many regards you are addressing the driver of poor health around the world.»

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

«We started from scratch and she wanted to know glacial cycles, rate of deforesting, solar variability — all of the issues that could impact climate and why I think that humans are the main driver of climate change,» he explained afterward at a debriefing with colleagues at a pub on Capitol Hill.

Methane is a greenhouse gas up to 35 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a driver of climate change over the span of a century, and landfills are the United States» third largest source of methane emissions, according to the EPA.

Climate Change 2007 The Physical Science Basis, the report of Working Group I, «assesses the current scientific knowledge of the natural and human drivers of climate change, observed changes in climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.»

The researchers also compared phytoplankton's response not only to ocean acidification, but also to other projected drivers of climate change, such as warming temperatures and lower nutrient supplies.

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

This new research helps explain the drivers of climate change that impact human subsistence and water resources in the driest region of the country.

«We find that the position of the North Atlantic Jet in summer has been a strong driver of climate extremes in Europe for the last 300 years,» said Valerie Trouet, an associate professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree - Ring Research.

... The finding indicates that the primary driver of climate like the south - westerlies that brings monsoon into the country from South Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO events.

But the vast majority of scientists do not agree that the sun is the main driver of climate change — or that we're on course for a mini ice age.

Update 7 Mar 2010: Real Climate offer some good perspective on methane feedback which echoes the theme in CO2 is not the only driver of climate:

The Observatory will also set out to explain the current drivers of climate change arising from human activities (including industry and agriculture), and how our future actions will depend on our capacity to understand the pace and direction of change.

Population size and composition are among the key drivers of climate change.

Solar irradiance variations are sometimes assumed to be the most likely natural driver of climate change.

Whether you agree with all the conclusions in the World Bank report of not, you can see that livestock is the single largest driver of climate change.

As far as the sun being the primary driver of climate, absolutely.

A common question for example like how can Co2 be the main driver of climate if it lags behind warming in the natural cycle?

The assessment considered the impacts of several key drivers of climate change: sea level change; alterations in precipitation patterns and subsequent delivery of freshwater, nutrients, and sediment; increased ocean temperature; alterations in circulation patterns; changes in frequency and intensity of coastal storms; and increased levels of atmospheric CO2.

CC: Victor refuses to acknowledge that the drivers of climate ARE well understood.

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».

«I am posting this information in advance of publication because of its potential importance to pending EPA regulations or congressional legislation which assume that carbon dioxide is a major driver of climate change.

Update January 27: There is also another recent dog - based animations from Victoria (southeast Australia) explaining some of the key drivers of our climate and how some are changing.

Fires have been largely excluded from the climate change discussions, but fortunately this is changing to include consideration of fire as both a consequence and driver of climate change.

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

While this issue of addressing long - lived vs. short - lived drivers of climate change is often posed as a dichotomy, there is a unifying perspective:

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.

There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.

Using a time period when CO2 did not change at all, to support a general conclusion that «CO2 is not the driver of climate change» and hence is not responsible for the current warming, is hardly logical.

Given that we know there are multiple drivers of climate operating (the sun for sure, but also volcanoes, aerosols, greenhouse gas changes, land use change, etc.) the only way to do attribution properly is calculate the physical fingerprints of each of these drivers across multiple variables and see which combinations provide the best fits.

I agree with Mann that it's unwise for scientists to avoid the public debate over drivers of climate risk and options for reducing it.

It is also a common error to think that these paleo climate studies are the basis for the conclusions of conventional climate science with respect to drivers of climate in the present.

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.

And given the inherent unpredictability of the internal modes of climate variability — as distinct from the external control imposed by the external drivers of climate, which themselves are also uncertain — such attribution statements will always be subject to uncertainty and therefore probabilistic.

I've collected some thoughts from the paper's authors, and also from a batch of other researchers separately studying the interplay of oceans and atmospheres and attempts to sift out different drivers of climate variability and change.

Along with the greenhouse effect worsened by such emissions, the presence of higher levels of particulates are thought to be the primary drivers of climate change today.

Then in the next breath they are saying that Co2 is not the driver of climate that everyone predicts.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man - made greenhouse gases.