Sentences with phrase «most significant global warming»

Given its role as the most significant global warming pollutant, this shouldn't exactly come as much of a surprise; what is unusual, however, is that relatively little has been said about some of the other GHG offenders.

Not exact matches

There's no covering the stink: While carbon dioxide gets most of the bad press, cow manure and wind play a significant role in global warming, too.

«The most significant environmental impacts for all three nappy systems were on resource depletion, acidification and global warming,» the authors concluded.

One of the most significant findings is that high percentages of Americans — or roughly a third — say that they could easily change their minds about global warming, said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the pglobal warming, said Tom Bowman, president of the consulting firm Bowman Global Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the pGlobal Change, who has examined how climate scientists communicate to the public.

The international community faces the daunting task of determining which countries face the most significant impacts from global warming

Since 1950, the volcanic forcing has been negative due to a few significant eruptions, and has offset the modestly positive solar forcing, such that the net natural external forcing contribution to global warming over the past 50 years is approximately zero (more specifically, the authors estimate the natural forcing contribution since 1950 at -10 to +13 %, with a most likely value of 1 %).

Amplitude and Duration: The most significant events are terminations of the glacial period and rapid onset of global warming of the interglacial period.

Last week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 10 other leading world bodies expressed the consensus view that «there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring» and that «It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities».

GISTemp will most likely show «statistically significant» global warming since October 1998.

Global warming, both in its most significant drivers and consequences, remains a global Global warming, both in its most significant drivers and consequences, remains a global global issue.

Anyway global warming should not be the most significant concern for Tuvalu.

Not only did acceptance of global warming increase, the most dramatic finding was the neutralization of the effect of worldview, which otherwise had a significant impact.

The Obama administration rolled out a plan Monday to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting in motion one of the most significant actions on global warming in U.S. history.

Nepal 24 Hr: The Doha climate change conference this year was the most significant in nearly 20 years of gatherings under the U.N. Framework Convention process aimed at staving off future global warming disaster.

If current trends in global warming continue unmitigated, some of the world's most well - known and historically significant cultural landmarks — including the Statue of Liberty in New York City, the Tower of London in the United Kingdom, and the archaeological sites of Pompeii in Italy — could be destroyed by rising global sea levels over the next 2,000 years, according to new research.

More Scientific Evidence For CO2's Dubious Climate Impact Emerges Image Source: Robertson and Chilingar, 2017 According to the most basic precepts of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), variations in CO2 concentrations exert significant control on sea surface temperatures, glaciers, sea levels, and generalized climate dynamics (i.e., precipitation patterns).

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

These things conspired to make Gore the most significant force in the promulgation of man - made global warming theory.

Any warming observed prior to WWII is indicative of «global warming» (GW), but (since there were no significant human GHG emissions yet) is counterindicative of anthropogenic greenhouse warming (AGW), since something other than human GHGs caused it, raising the question: if non GH warming caused this warming, could it not also have caused the most recent extended warming period?

Other scientists argue that there has been some man - made global warming, but that most of the global warming is natural in origin, and that man - made global warming will only gradually become significant over the next century or so.

Even if most areas of the U.S. remain «insurable,» many risk management specialists have predicted that global warming will cause significant increase in all types of insurance costs — disaster, auto, health.

since most people who are concerned about it would much rather that global warming be far less significant.

Most models show a progressive weakening of the Gulf Stream as global warming continues, but few have suggested it would be so significant, so soon.

Most of us don't think of food waste as a cause of global warming, but it's a significant one that also contributes to world hunger.

The negative effects of global warming on humans may be most significant on food supplies and security.

This is in strong contrast with the current position of the US National Academy of Sciences:»... there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring... It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities... The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action.»

However, a rate of change of global temperature of nearly zero for 15 years may be the most significant point to make in opposition to the meme that all the global warming is due to CO2 release to the atmosphere.

The global temperature empirical evidence is so clear cut, and verified, that two of the most prominent climate scientists on opposing sides of the global warming issue agree on the science fundamentals: there has been no statistically significant warming over the last 15 years.

In almost every alarmist report about global warming (or «climate change» as it is currently called since the earth has been cooling) they conveniently avoid mentioning the most significant influence of the earth's temperature, The Sun.

In most cases, the net global warming contribution is less than for the fossil fuel combustion, though still significant.

I have used a hybrid version of the Cowtan Way global temperature data set and it definitely shows a significant difference in warming in the Arctic region over the past quarter century when compared to other data sets and most climate models.

While the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the commitments submitted by countries represent a significant step in the fight against climate change, the amount of ambition is still insufficient to keep global warming at a level that is safe for the most vulnerable communities and critical ecosystems on the planet.

It is this increase in warming resulting from the global warming that is most significant, however.

The latest developments highlight the fact that the populations least responsible for the problem of Global Warming are taking the most significant environmental hit.

The blue 1 - year (12 - month) trends show the dramatic global warming trend reversal over the most recent months - from a peak in March 2016 to what now amounts to being a significant cooling trend by October 2016.

Which leads to another observation about natural global warming and climate change: past empirical evidence from earlier in the 20th century confirms that Earth's natural climate oscillations can produce periods of significant temperature change increases that even exceed the most recent temperature climate change.

The global warming impacts «are the most significant environmental problem associated with the project,» Waxman wrote.

In what his aides called one of the most significant policy addresses of his second and final term, the mayor argued that directly taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change will slow global warming, promote economic growth and stimulate technological innovation — even if it results in higher gasoline prices in the short term.

He rightly cited the solid scientific consensus showing significant warming of the climate system, with most global warming in recent decades mainly a result of human activity.

At this point, even the most optimistic scenarios of worldwide reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will not be enough to avoid significant global warming — and thus the concomitant set of climate impacts that will disrupt our way life — according to a study... Continue reading →