Sentences with phrase «primary climate driver»

Nothing in the stratosphere is the primary climate driver, so that we agree on.

The second bombshell is that at 1.6 C per doubling of CO2, the primary climate driver of the 20th and 21st century will almost certainly be man.

http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu/Includes/Documents/Publications/gray2012.pdf The Physical Flaws of the Global Warming Theory and Deep Ocean Circulation Changes as the Primary Climate Driver The water vapor, cloud, and condensation - evaporation assumptions within the conventional AGW theory and the (GCM) simulations are incorrectly designed to block too much infrared (IR) radiation to space.

There can not simultaneously be both «significant uncertainty» about primary climate drivers and 95 % certainty that anthropogenic GHGs are causing any observed warming, yet EPA concludes there is.

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Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

President - elect Donald Trump's choice as Energy secretary also told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considering his nomination that he has changed his view on climate change, now viewing human activity as a contributing factor while not stating that it is the primary driver.

Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house by Harvey's floodwaters.

Climate change and energy security concerns are tidal energy's primary drivers, Collar said.

Primary driver for long scale climate change is orbital configuration.

This increase in water levels matches an increase in precipitation observed during that same period (Figure 3 - 19) and suggests that climate — and specifically mountain precipitation — as and is the primary driver of Madison Limestone aquifer water levels (i.e., groundwater replenishment and storage).

... The finding indicates that the primary driver of climate like the south - westerlies that brings monsoon into the country from South Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO events.

This also tends to support the general concept that changes in the tropics (30N - 30S) are the primary drivers of global climate change; processes in the North Atlantic and North Pacific seem to respond to changes in the tropics, not the reverse — i.e. the concept of climate controlled by a global oceanic conveyor belt driven by a North Atlantic gear mechanism can probably be discarded.

Climate change and primary and higher - order effects of climate change are a main driver of Arctic change, but it is not the only Climate change and primary and higher - order effects of climate change are a main driver of Arctic change, but it is not the only climate change are a main driver of Arctic change, but it is not the only driver.

«Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver,» the letter states.

Climate change is also seen as the primary driver of melting ice and rise in sea level that threatens to submerge coastal cities and island nations.

The new study points to the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere, rather than the amount removed from it, as the primary driver of Earth's climate.

There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that human activities are the primary driver.

When discussing the ongoing success of the pet care market, even in the thick of a troubled economic climate, many industry observers are quick to point to the love that pet owners have for their companion animals as the primary driver of this trend — and rightfully so.

As far as the sun being the primary driver of climate, absolutely.

Although the primary driver of glacial — interglacial cycles lies in the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of incoming solar energy driven by changes in the geometry of the Earth's orbit around the Sun («orbital forcing»), reconstructions and simulations together show that the full magnitude of glacial — interglacial temperature and ice volume changes can not be explained without accounting for changes in atmospheric CO2 content and the associated climate feedbacks.

All of the models ca 2007 that the IPCC used to forecast climate change predicted a steady increase in temperature (based, as they were, on the assumption that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature) and yet global temperatures have remained essentially flat since then.

Look at the results at CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate for example, especially figures 1 and 2 (GSA Today, March 2004).

The primary drivers of loss of biodiversity on land are well recognized to be habitat conversion / destruction, invasive species and now climate change.

Along with the greenhouse effect worsened by such emissions, the presence of higher levels of particulates are thought to be the primary drivers of climate change today.

Since a primary driver of the Earth's climate from year to year is the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) acts on time scales on the order of 2 - 7 years, and the fact that the bulk of the Southern Hemisphere hurricane season occurs from October — March, a reasonable interpretation of global hurricane activity requires a better metric than simply calendar year totals.

So, we can choose to believe a commenter on a political blog claiming people who understand that there is a broad, clear understanding of the primary driver of the observations are «alarmists», «climate cult ``, «duped doomsday climate cultist», «real deniers, of the science and empirical data»,» peddlers of CatastrophicAGW - by - CO2 ``,.

c) the recent cooling of our planet, despite CO2 concentrations increasing to record level, has tended to falsify the premise that CO2 is a primary driver of our climate; until this apparent falsification can be scientifically refuted, the «dangerous AGW» premise remains an uncorroborated hypothesis at best; if this cooling should continue for another few years, the «dangerous AGW» hypothesis will become a falsified hypothesis.

'' It has never made sense to me for climate change to be the primary driver for energy policy.

But it makes no sense to reject CO2 as a primary driver of climate change today because it looks, through the foggy glasses of time, like CO2 has not always completely controlled climate changes in the past.

He says he believes natural fluctuations in the climate system could be the primary driver of global warming.

I would assume that you don't reject that Milankovitch cycles are understood to be the primary driver of climate changes over the past few million years.

For example, the United States Enviornmental Protection Agency regulates several pollutants affecting air quality but does not currently regulate carbon dioxide, the primary driver of modern climate change.

Environmental groups, both national and local, are opposing coal plants because they are the primary driver of climate change.

Jul 14, 2014 — Analysis: Solar activity & ocean cycles are the 2 primary drivers of climate, not CO2... The correlation of CO2 alone to global temperature is poor at only 44 %, not... The coefficients of determination are a measure of how accurately the....

Your side, the side that says human emitted CO2 is the primary driver of climate change, and which (hubristically) says that natural variation can not explain all the warming we've seen, can not explain why the warming has apparently stopped for almost two decades.

The primary driver of Earth's hydrological cycle is more evaporation from a warming planet and warming seas (which climate engineering is making worse overall, not better).

It has pumped millions of dollars into research projects to cast doubt on mainstream climate science showing that the primary driver of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels.

Climate change is also seen as the primary driver of melting ice and rise in sea level that threatens to submerge coastal cities and island nations.

Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver.

Carbon dioxide can cause temperatures to rise without being the primary driver, or even a significant driver, of climate change.

And as a layman, the effects on the Earth's climate of the Big Ball of Fusion in the Sky, seems a more likely primary driver of climate, than a trace gas increasing at 4 ppm per year..

The evidence suggests a strong statistical relationship for the SO being the primary driver of temperatures and potential climate change.

Climate scientists know the world is warming and human activity — particularly burning coal and oil — is the primary driver.

The conclusion that human influences are the primary driver of recent climate change is based on multiple lines of independent evidence.

Royer, D.L., R.A. Berner, I.P. Montañez, N.J. Tabor, and D.J. Beerling, CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate, GSA Today, in press.

The scientific consensus that human activities are the primary driver of global climate change is now unequivocal.

markus October 26, 2014 at 10:58 am Reality: There is a consensus among climate science experts that man is the primary driver of global warming.

I ask for empirical evidence that human GHGs (principally CO2) have been the primary driver of past climate and therefore constitute a serious threat to humanity and our environment (the IPCC CAGW premise as outlined in its AR4 report).

Oil used for transportation and coal used for electricity generation are the largest contributors to the rise in carbon dioxide that is the primary driver of observed changes in climate over recent decades.

The three primary drivers of our climate are: 1.