Sentences with phrase «natural drivers of climate change»

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.

This brochure briefly discusses the human and natural drivers of climate change, direct observations of recent climate change, projections of future changes in climate, and climate change and desertification.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

The model also accounted for natural drivers of change, including the direct influence of increased carbon dioxide on ocean - carbon uptake and the indirect effect that a changing climate has on the physical state of the ocean and its relationship to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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NEWS: Climate change rather than natural causes is the main driver of state's glacier loss, which is set to speed up, US scientists say

The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.

The new directive is the culmination of an extensive interagency review process undertaken in response to rapid changes taking place in the Arctic, the principal drivers of which are climate change, increasing human presence in the region, and the growing demand for Arctic energy deposits and other natural resources.

And when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are compared to one another, the dramatic accumulation of carbon from human sources is by far the largest climate change driver over the past half century.

However there are other first order drivers of climate including natural ones like solar variation and human driven ones like land use change, aerosols and soot.

Scientists have examined several important strands of evidence about the LIA, including the activity of the sun, of volcanoes, and ocean heat circulation, principle drivers of natural climate change.

Secondly, city governments are the drivers for addressing risks through ensuring basic services, which are the first line of defense against the impacts of climate change and natural hazards.

«The additional burden of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities... leads to the current «perturbed» global carbon cycle... These perturbations to the natural carbon cycle are the dominant driver of climate change because of their persistent effect on the atmosphere.»

«This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70 % CO2,» or carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.

Your side, the side that says human emitted CO2 is the primary driver of climate change, and which (hubristically) says that natural variation can not explain all the warming we've seen, can not explain why the warming has apparently stopped for almost two decades.

Those changes are not easy to measure or reproduce with climate models, and some researchers think natural variability or changes in the tropics are more important drivers of weather extremes in the mid-latitudes.

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.

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).

Hence, changes in temperature due to climate change are expected to be one of the important drivers of change in natural and managed systems.

Uncertainty in natural climate drivers, for example how much solar output will change over this century, also affects the accuracy of projections.

His research concerns natural and human drivers of climate change, linkages between air quality and climate change, and the interface between climate change science and policy.

Friends of Science Society says natural factors like solar cycles and ocean fluctuations are the main drivers of climate change.»

It is a bit surprising that scientists attempt to write a supposedly «serious» paper estimating degree of the climate's natural against the anthropogenic change with this state of knowledge: The nature and origin of the AMO is uncertain, and it remains unknown whether it represents a persistent periodic driver in the climate system, or merely a transient feature.

Indeed, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), an international organisation of more than 30,000 Earth scientists, has formally rejected the view that anthropogenic factors are the main drivers of global warming, stressing: «The earth's climate is constantly changing owing to natural variability in earth processes.

NEWS: Climate change rather than natural causes is the main driver of state's glacier loss, which is set to speed up, US scientists say

From the chart, it is clear there are very abrupt changes in acceleration and deceleration of temperatures, which strongly suggest powerful natural climate factors are in the driver's seat, not human CO2 emissions.

But you also stray beyond this @ 87 where you talk of the question of identifying the different drivers of climate change — human activities & natural cycles.

Astronomical phenomena are obvious natural factors to consider when trying to understand climate, particularly the brightness of the sun and details of Earth's orbit because those seem to have been major drivers of the ice ages and other climate changes before the rise of industrial civilization.

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.