Sentences with phrase «mostly by human activities»

And around half believe that it is caused mostly by human activities.

A 2011 survey by Leiserowitz et al revealed (Q31) that only 15 % believed that a large majority (> 81 %) of climate scientists think that global warming is caused mostly by human activities.

The percentage of Americans who think global warming is caused mostly by human activities has dropped 10 points, to 47 percent.

Asked about the cause of global warming, on the assumption that it is happening, 58 % of respondents said that it is caused mostly by human activities, 28 % said that it is caused mostly by natural changes in the environment, 7 % opted for «neither because global warming isn't happening,» and 5 % volunteered that it was a mix of human activities and natural causes.

The percentage of those that believe it is caused mostly by human activities has declined from 57 % to 47 %.

Since June 2010, public understanding that global warming is happening rose three points, to 64 percent, while belief that it is caused mostly by human activities declined three points, to 47 percent.

Over the long term, the size of the ozone hole is governed by emissions of chlorine and bromine containing compounds, for example chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), generated mostly by human activities.

Likewise, only 15 percent correctly understand that the great majority of climate scientists think that global warming is caused mostly by human activities, while 32 percent say they don't know.

Forty - seven percent of Americans say that if global warming is happening, it is caused mostly by human activities.

Only 10.4 percent of participants agreed with the statement, «climate change is occurring and it is caused mostly by human activities.»

It's great to see that the leaders of both parties are at least saying that global warming is real, driven mostly by human activity, a big problem, and something that we need to promptly address.

In its most comprehensive study so far, the nation's leading scientific body declared on Wednesday that climate change is a reality and is driven mostly by human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

Not exact matches

If climate change is mostly caused by human activity, then climate change can be managed using the same mechanisms.

While the findings clearly show that most Brits think the climate is warming, only 31 % of the people surveyed thought that this was caused mostly or entirely by human activity; 47 % of the people polled think that a combination of natural processes and human activity are to blame.

37 - percentage point gap over whether climate change is mostly caused by human activity — 87 % of AAAS scientists say it is, while 50 % of the public does.

While Tillerson has advocated for the US to keep a seat at international climate talks, he has also disputed the scientific consensus that global warming is mostly caused by human activity.

According to the survey, 87 percent of the scientists questioned by the Pew Research Center said that climate change is mostly caused by human activity, compared with 50 percent of the public.

I'm thinking of things like the last IPCC report saying that they were 90 % confident that the warming of the 20th century was mostly caused by human activity.

The 2007 IPCC report, compiled by several hundred climate scientists, has unequivocally concluded that our climate is warming rapidly, and that we are now at least 90 % certain that this is mostly due to human activities.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Cook is the bête noire of denialists, being the lead author of a science study finding that 97 per cent of peer reviewed studies on climate change agreed that it was mostly caused by human activity.

Long - term sustainability for the maximization of human survival has been eclipsed by global business for the expediency of large gains in short - term periods, where mostly tactical activities predominate in both emerging and developed markets, instead of focusing on strategic alternatives and activities that would sustain life on earth in a symbiotic, negentropic relationship between global business, Nature as Earth, government, and consumers or the general public.

According to the «consensus on consensus» paper, for instance, I noticed that 88 % of members of the AMS surveyed whose area of expertise was climate science, agreed in 2014 that half or more of the warming was caused by human activities, including 78 % who agreed that «the cause of global warming over the past 150 years was mostly human».

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.

The scientists pointed out that the company still supported, for instance, the American Enterprise Institute, whose fellow, Jonah Goldberg, falsely told Fox News in 2014 that it was «utterly fraudulent» that 97 percent of scientists actively doing research into climate change back the theory that it is driven by human activity, mostly fossil fuel use.

In July of that year, 79 % believed there was evidence of global warming, and half (50 %) said it was mostly caused by human activity.

50 - 50 in this context would be that alarmists now are willing to say — e.g.,... it's even money we're wrong to believe all global warming since 1950 is mostly caused by human activity.

1) Negatively: Clouds and cloud formation, mostly 2) Positively: Shallow waters caused naturally or by human activities such as putting up dams in rivers and making shallow pools & reservoirs for irrigation and water consumption.

Viewers of the station were less likely to agree that «most scientists think global warming is happening» and less likely to think global warming is mostly caused by human activities, among other measures.

Knowledge of Global Warming Causes & Effects Weak At Best Though 87 % of Americans have heard of the greenhouse effect, only 57 % of people know that it refers to gases in the atmosphere trapping heat, with 13 % never having heard the term; 50 % of people know that global warming is mostly caused by human activity; 45 % of people understanding that CO2 traps heat; just 25 % of people have even heard the terms coral bleaching or ocean acidification.