This suggests that IPCC projections of future global warming, which are based on various
possible human greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, are reliable.
Not exact matches
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the
human right to water»; «a report discussing
possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total
greenhouse gas emissions.»
One will represent conditions and «
possible weather» in the winter 2014, and the second will represent the weather in a «world that might have been» if
human behaviour had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through
greenhouse gas emissions.
Overall, the panel's reports have never focused much on research examining how
humans respond (or fail to respond) to certain kinds of risk, particularly «super wicked» problems such global warming, which is imbued with persistent uncertainty on key points (the pace of sea - level rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of
greenhouse gases), dispersed and delayed risks, and a variegated menu of
possible responses.
By that I mean an unvarnished depiction of what science has, and has not, revealed about the potential for dangerous outcomes from the building blanket of
human - generated
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and about the strengths and limits of
possible responses.
Including the idea of carbon removal enables us to explain climate change in as simple a way as
possible: climate change is caused by the giant (albeit invisible) mess
humans are making in the sky by emitting carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gasses.
In the 1980's,
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
human activity became a worldwide concern and are a
possible cause of climatic changes.
It is not the first such optimistic study: researchers have lately argued that the 2 °C target set in Paris is
possible, if
humans start reducing
greenhouse gas emissions towards zero, and do so within 40 years.
Beginning in the late 1960s, computer simulations indicated
possible changes in temperature and precipitation that could occur due to
human - induced emission of
greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
«[Senator Cruz argues that the] mismatch between modeled and observed tropospheric warming in the early 21st century has only one
possible explanation — computer models are a factor of three too sensitive to
human - caused changes in
greenhouse gases (GHGs)[13, pages 1 and 2].
This will help scientists explore, more accurately than is
possible today, how rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, increasing
greenhouse gas levels, and other natural and
human - induced changes affect tropical forests» influence on Earth's climate.
They also discovered that such a huge shift in the jet stream would not have been
possible without anthropogenic, or
human - caused,
greenhouse gas emissions.
On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that
human - generated
greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains
possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.
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Human Impact on Climate Change The
Greenhouse Effect Is a natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and surface Makes life as we know it possible Major Gases: Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide Humans have added more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fo
Greenhouse Effect Is a natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and surface Makes life as we know it
possible Major
Gases: Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide Humans have added more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fossil
Gases: Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide
Humans have added more
greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fo
greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fossil
gases to the atmosphere in the past 200 years by burning fossil fuels
And if the climate is currently warming, and we can (and have) eliminated other
possible causes for that change, then
human produced
greenhouse gasses are the most likely cause of our current warming.
We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of
greenhouse gases by 80 % by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made
human progress over the last 10,000 years
possible.
They also now realize that other
greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere as the result of
human activity, and that they additionally contribute to global warming and
possible climate change.