Sentences with phrase «natural pinning points»
I understand that acceleration of the Pine Island glacier has been observed, and there seem to be no natural pinning points.
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Most projections suggest that that point will be reached sometime in the middle of the century, and, as another recent paper found, scientists» ability to pin down that date is limited by the natural variability of the sea ice system to within a couple of decades.
One of the key problems in climate science is distinguishing between natural variation and human causes, to the point where even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to use measures of probability to pin the blame on humans («it is highly likely that humans are causing....»).