Sentences with phrase «other climate drivers»

Some of these climate drivers result in warming and others lead to cooling, but when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are stacked up and compared to one another, the accumulation of human - released heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere is so large that it has very likely swamped other climate drivers over the past half century, leading to observed global warming.
Now to quantify their relative contribution to global warming, we need to find a way of putting all of these individual gases (and other climate drivers) on an equal — or equivalent — footing.
Lumped together, they make up what is called the sensitivity of the climate system: the number of degrees that the mean - surface temperature will be raised or lowered in response to a given change, up or down, in solar radiation or any other climate driver.
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