Sentences with phrase «other drivers of climate change»

Nor that there are other drivers of climate change.

The study estimates climate sensitivity — how much the world will warm when carbon dioxide levels increase * — from changes in observed temperatures and estimates of the warming effect of greenhouse gases and other drivers of climate change, from the mid / late 19th century until 2016.

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Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

This further evidence of episodic emissions of volcanic CO2 as the likely driver of the extinction enhances our understanding of this event, and potentially of other climate change episodes in Earth's history.»

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

The researchers also compared phytoplankton's response not only to ocean acidification, but also to other projected drivers of climate change, such as warming temperatures and lower nutrient supplies.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

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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.

There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.

I've collected some thoughts from the paper's authors, and also from a batch of other researchers separately studying the interplay of oceans and atmospheres and attempts to sift out different drivers of climate variability and change.

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.

This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.

«Many other important impacts of climate change are difficult to quantify for a given change in global average temperature, in part because temperature is not the only driver of change for some impacts; multiple environmental and other human factors come into play.»

Although carbon dioxide increases are the largest driver of modern climate change, changes in the abundance of many other compounds also play a role.

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

In May, 2015, Advertising Standards Canada, a voluntary industry group that does not enforce its decisions other than through public suasion ruled, following 96 public complaints, that two Friends of Science billboards in Montreal stating: «The Sun is the Main Driver of Climate Change.

The Migration Policy Institute writes: «The impact of climate change as a driver of human migration is expected by many to dwarf all others.

He states «Global Warming is over and there is no evidence that CO2 ever was, is or will be a driver of world temperatures or Climate Change - indeed evidence is the relationship is more the other way around».

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

All absorbed radiation must be returned to space, except for very minor imbalances (e.g., of the order of currently estimated 0.9 W / ^ 2) during forcing by CO2, solar changes, aerosols, or other climate drivers.

«Whilst there are certainly other potential drivers of changes in the climate we know that over the last century we have greatly increased the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and, through detection and attribution analyses, we know that the rising levels of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases have driven the rise in global temperature,» King said.

is the all - important driver of climate change that the President and others attending COP21 make it out to be.

A critical consideration is that the biotic pressures induced by climate change will interact with other well - known anthropogenic drivers of extinction to amplify what are already elevated extinction rates.

Climate change is also predicted to interact with other drivers of biodiversity change such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, or the introduction of foreign species.

At the time that he denied the waiver (acting against the better advice of his staff, which had strongly urged him to grant it), Johnson claimed that California's law was unnecessary because of the recently enacted energy bill, which would do more to mitigate climate change than «a confusing patchwork of state rules» — this despite the fact that 13 other states, representing about half of the country's drivers, were also on board with the plan.

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.

Developments in major infrastructure like this have to be planned long term and decided according to time frames which may be determined by other drivers of risk (e.g. urban development), as well as climate change.