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Scientists have studied and ruled out natural climate drivers as the main cause of global warming since the preindustrial era.

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President - elect Donald Trump's choice as Energy secretary also told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considering his nomination that he has changed his view on climate change, now viewing human activity as a contributing factor while not stating that it is the primary driver.

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.

Global temperatures could break through the 1.5 °C barrier negotiated at the Paris conference as early as 2026 if a slow - moving, natural climate driver known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) has, as suspected, moved into a positive phase.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

CO2 getting pushed aside as a climate driver by natural climate factors like solar activity.

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At that time, my position was that most of the 20th century warming was natural because as a geologist, I was well aware of climate (climate is a subset of geology because when we study rocks and their depositional history, climate is a huge driver of how and why different rocks were deposited).

As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA's advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate.

bob said «it is a bit harder to predict future trends in climate since you also have to predict future trends in emission as well as future trends in the natural drivers.»

The current models actually do a decent job modeling climate but it is a bit harder to predict future trends in climate since you also have to predict future trends in emission as well as future trends in the natural drivers.

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.

When models only include natural drivers of climate change, such as natural variability and volcanic eruptions, they can not reproduce the recent increase in temperature.

As Skeptical Science readers are undoubtely well aware, the impact of natural climate drivers has been very thoroughly studied, and they simply can not account for the observed global warming or climate change, especially over the past 50 - 65 years (Figure 1).

Bearing in mind their previous hubris about short - term cycles being manmade, their gross, unproven assumption about CO2 as a climate driver and the fact that the signal is far less than the error bars in the noise then why would anyone think that the long - term trend is anything other than just a separate upswinging natural cycle?

The IPCC AR5 Technical Summary does not even mention the PDO, AMO or ENSO as being natural climate drivers during the industrial era.

Over the period the known natural drivers of climate have been flat or slightly negative, which leaves just 2 possibilities: some as yet undiscovered natural cause or that, as the IPCC conclude, the dominant factor was anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gas concentrations, which are after all, at least 35 % higher than at any time in the last 600K years.

The impacts of natural drivers on climate disruption have been investigated repeatedly and in detail, as the two figures (from the Skeptical Science website) below show.

The real deal, say Lüning and Vahrenholt, is that natural climate factors have been known as real drivers for over a decade, and activists, scientists and the IPCC continue to cover them up.

While the Earth's atmosphere has seen higher levels of carbon dioxide than it does now, as well as higher temperatures and far greater sea levels, those instances were due to natural drivers of climate change, such as periodic variations in the planet's orbit and in solar energy output.

The study shows that there are four regions of the US where human - caused climate change will ultimately overtake natural variability as the main driver of heat waves in the coming decades.