Sentences with phrase «primarily by human activity»

They show a record - high share of Americans stating that climate change poses a threat to them and their way of life; a record number agreeing that climate change is caused primarily by human activity; and climate concern climbing across the political spectrum.

There's a lot in there, but, the authors write, the compilation of peer - reviewed scientific observations and models together «tell an unambiguous story: the planet is warming, and over the last half century, this warming has been driven primarily by human activity.»

Indeed, unless I heard her incorrectly, candidate Palin doesn't even believe that climate change is caused primarily by human activity.

The latest IUCN reports are very depressing in this regard — as I said yesterday, 10 - 40 % of well known taxa (fish, birds, mammals, reptiles etc.) are endangered, primarily by human activities.

'' Even among the Alarmed and Concerned, however, awareness of the strength of scientific agreement is low: While approximately 97 % of publishing climate scientists agree that climate change is occurring and that it is caused primarily by human activities»

Compare this with the unequivocal findings of the scientific community regarding ongoing warming: climate change now is global and in all likelihood driven primarily by human activities.

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In 2011, 10.5 percent of survey respondents agreed with the statement that climate change was occurring and primarily due to human activity; by 2013, that figure had gone up slightly to 16.4 percent, according to preliminary data.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

(The ocean currently absorbs roughly half of the greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, that are released by human activity.)

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

In Section 2331 of Chapter 113 (A), defines terrorism as activities that: involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (B) ``... activities that involve violent... or life - threatening acts... that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and... appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and... (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States...» (10) Subsequently paper will go deeper in counter-terrorism legislation of US.

These changes are part of the pattern of global climate change, which is primarily driven by human activity.»

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

The enhanced Greenhouse Effect we are now measuring is a human fingerprint because the source of it is the continued emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, produced by industrial activity.

Global warming is driven by emissions of heat - trapping gases, primarily from human activities, that rise into the atmosphere and act like a blanket, warming the earth's surface.

Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems.

The findings will show that the sharp «hockey blade shape» downward trend in sea ice, while having some natural variability, has been very likely to be PRIMARILY caused by human activity.

NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and mainstream scientists in general have reached wide agreement that global warming is primarily caused by CO2 emissions into the atmosphere resulting from human activity, as this Associated Press article makes clear.

There is now widespread agreement among climate scientists that the earth is warming as a result of human activity, primarily due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping atmospheric gases created by burning fossil fuels.

Global warming, the gradual heating of Earth's surface, oceans and atmosphere, is caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

In 2007, the Nobel - Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that global warming is primarily caused by human activity and, if left unchecked, will threaten communities with worsening heat waves, drought, sea - level rise and extreme weather by the end of the century.

What they do — and have done at length in one form since 2009 — is dispute in massive detail how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to make the case that what little global warming we've seen over the last 150 years is primarily driven by human activity.

As human activity — primarily dumping 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year — causes the Earth's surface temperature to go up, a lot of that energy is absorbed by the oceans, causing them to expand.

«It is virtually certain that this is caused by human activities, primarily by the increase in CO2 concentrations.

regarding the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and is primarily driven by human activities.

The only way to do that is to reduce the output of so - called greenhouse gasses, caused primarily by carbon dioxide emissions from industry, automobiles and other human activities, Horton said.