Sentences with phrase «of human climate»

«Human - caused climate change» is a change resulting from one or more of the human climate forcings.

The IPCC assessments have been too conservative in recognizing the importance of these human climate forcings as they alter regional and global climate.

TMelting of small glaciers and ice caps TSea level rise Predicted changes of human climate change

«My view, is that focusing on a linear trend with respect to a actual nonlinear signal is a substantial oversimplication of how we should expect the climate sytstem to behave both naturally, and in response to the diversity of human climate forcings.»

My bottom line is that while the global climate models, when run with added CO2 and other greenhouse gases, show that this is a warming effect, they are inadequate tools to assess the consequences of these human climate forcings on the regional and local scale.

Even worse, the models inadequately include the diverse myraid effects of aerosols and land use / land cover change on the climate system, so they are already hindered in their ability to accurately represent the real world spectrum of human climate forcings.

Yet here again Trenberth 2015 continues to mislead the public suggesting a storm like Sandy put «a potential price tag of human climate change in this storm in the tens of billions of dollars.»

Trenberth 2015 suggested that for Hurricane Sandy, «the subways and tunnels may not have flooded without warming - induced increase in sea level and storm intensity and size, putting a potential price tag of human climate change in this storm in the tens of billions of dollars.»

What's your view of the human climate influence in the context of both technology and morality?

Humans are altering the climate in diverse ways, a variety of human climate forcings are significant, and the effects of these forcings need to be responded to, even if the climate did not warm.

«We recommend that the next assessment phase of the I.P.C.C. (and other such assessments) broaden its perspective to include all of the human climate forcings.

Of course, the impacts of human climate change will persist over deep geological time, just as for example, the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum warming did.

«Those who continue to talk in certain terms of how local weather extremes are the result of human climate change are failing to heed all the available evidence.»

This may sound like giving support to the denialist brou - haa - haa, but it actually drives home the Fact that the Full Impact of Human Climate Modification is actually staving off that very Ice Age — providing, of course, that we don't turn off the Atlantic Conveyor........

There's no analog event in the past to compare with the rapidity of human climate change.

Using this technique, the researchers detected patterns of human climate drivers (so - called fingerprints) associated with the observed change just like detectives look for fingerprints to catch criminals.

Not exact matches

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

Although there's overwhelming scientific consensus behind the concept that human behavior is affecting the climate, most of the world and the U.S. in particular is still dealing with climate change deniers.

Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

A known sceptic of human - induced climate change, advocate of fossil fuels, and critic of several government - run climate programs, the ex governor of Texas» nomination have many involved parties worried.

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Trump and several of his cabinet members deny the consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide from human activity is the primary cause of global warming.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who say they believe in human - caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

PSS: British Columbia's «sister province» is ready, able and willing to throw her under the bus... along with billions of other human beings that will be negatively affected by global climate change..

... It may have been a strong storm, and it may have caused a lot of problems anyway — but [human - caused climate change] amplifies the damage considerably.»

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

But so many other dimensions of history, law, human rights, justice, finance, and climate change motivate the campaign to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.

West Coast Environmental Law is working to prevent the expansion of the tar sands by opposing pipelines and tanker projects in BC in order to protect our watersheds, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, our climate, and the human communities that rely on them.

Climate Action Network International: Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable Climate Action Network International: Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

This climate of intellectual concern with time and place, for instance, which dominates discussions of «Southern» literature at a largely superficial level, is inescapable to human experience of existence itself, whatever one's «South.»