Sentences with phrase «of human impacts on climate»

Ultimately, the alleged effects of human impacts on climate are not creating new weather - related hazards.

Air pollution, ozone depletion, acid precipitation, global warming, desertification, smog production, and deforestation are but a few of the human impacts on the climate system that arise from the alteration of the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere.

In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton, note that so - called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of «alarmism» and «overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system.»

«If human activities are starting to impact this system, it is a worrying sign that the scale of human impacts on the climate system may be reaching a critical point.»

In western New York, officials and environmental advocates hope the Trump administration won't suppress a report that warns of the human impact on the climate.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds that climate change is unequivocal and that humans influence climate, while the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate change.

Most notable is the discussion of the human impact on climate change in Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist Inez Fung.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

In its 2012 statement on Climate Change, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has reconfirmed that there is compelling evidence of human impact on the climate system with potentially far - reaching consequences for ecological and political systems.

I do not object to scientific efforts to measure the extent of human impact on climate.

It shows the number of articles along the y - axis, the total number of citations along the x-axis, color codes whether an individual is one of the «concerned signers» who signed any of 20 declarations affirming the mainstream view of human impact on climate and the need to limit greenhouse emissions, was one of the 619 contributing authors to IPCC AR4 wg1 (2007), «non-signer» who is one of the non-AR4-wg1 authors on climate who signed neither statement a statement of concern nor skepticism, or one of the 495 individuals who signed any of 16 declaration skeptical of mainstream climate science or of the need for GHG cuts.

More confirmation of the human impact on the climate.

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«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.

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.

This lead Deya to Beyond Meat, a company focused on improving human health, positively impacting climate change, conserving natural resources and respecting animal welfare through the innovation of plant based meat products.

DELHI - In an effort to slow down the impacts of accelerated climate change due to human activity, five area women, Janet Tweed, Kathy Mario, Lisa Robinson, Bonnie Seegmiller and Irene Berkowitz, combined their efforts to facilitate a rally to show support for the National People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square inclimate change due to human activity, five area women, Janet Tweed, Kathy Mario, Lisa Robinson, Bonnie Seegmiller and Irene Berkowitz, combined their efforts to facilitate a rally to show support for the National People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square inClimate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square in Delhi.

Leading U.S. scientists have complained about threatening communications and abusive e-mails as a result of their research on the climate impact of heat - trapping gases from human activity.

She is also CEO of ATMOS Research, a scientific consulting firm that assesses the potential future impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human welfare.

For example, the International Panel on Climate Change, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» hClimate Change, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» hclimate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» he said.

«We created the largest database of surface ozone from hourly observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»

«We can use this information to look at questions about climate change or human impact on environments by seeing how, over time, the ranges of insect species have changed.»

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

Dr. Martin added: «These are just few of the human responses to climate change that, if left unchallenged, may leave us worse off in the future due to their impacts on nature.

Agent - based modeling is also used to explore the impact humans can have on their environment during periods of climate change.

A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

Smoke from wildfires, which are becoming more frequent and intense in the U.S. West as the climate changes, contains large amounts of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which can have profound impacts on human health.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

James Balog, who founded Extreme Ice Survey that uses photography and videography to document the impact of climate change on glaciers — work that was the basis of his 2012 documentary «Chasing Ice» — said his work shows how human activities are transforming Earth's systems.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

The Big Picture RT The impacts of human - caused climate change are happening faster than scientists previously assumed, the AAAS CEO said on 6 July, during an appearance on The Hartmann Report, a radio and television talk show.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

The study supports calls for improved monitoring of wetlands and human changes to those ecosystems — a timely topic as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to examine land use impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, says Prof. Merritt Turetsky, Department of Integrative Biology.

She then spent 3 years in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, assessing the impact of global climate change on human health.

In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earth's climate.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

He, Ziska and nine coauthors included nutritional erosion in the 2016 U.S. scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change on human health.

«Such long - term insights are crucial in helping with current conservation efforts, laying a foundation for future research on impacts of island formation, climate change and human occupation on animals and their habitats.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

The better scientists can pin down natural influences on climate, he says, the better they can understand the impact of human activities.

«We started from scratch and she wanted to know glacial cycles, rate of deforesting, solar variability — all of the issues that could impact climate and why I think that humans are the main driver of climate change,» he explained afterward at a debriefing with colleagues at a pub on Capitol Hill.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Jaap Nienhuis, a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics, says the effects of climate change, and the human efforts to combat these effects, are already making an impact on river deltas around the world.

Revkin is among those credited with developing the idea that humans, through growing impacts on Earth's climate and other critical systems, had created a «geological age of our own making,» known increasingly as the Anthropocene.

-- The Secretary of Health and Human Services, within 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, on the basis of the best available science, and in consultation pursuant to paragraph (2), shall publish a strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change on public health in the United States and other nations, particularly developing nations.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

We conclude that the hypothesized «volcanic winter» that followed the Toba eruption did not have a significant impact on the climate of East Africa and was not the cause of a human bottleneck in Africa around 75 ka B.P.

The Foundation seeks to bring about a keener appreciation of the role of science, particularly research in the Polar Regions, through a re-examination of the planet's interconnections, its fragility, the impact of human actions on the environment, and the evolution of millennial climate cycles.