Sentences with phrase «primary drivers of climate change»

These cycles are clearly the primary drivers of climate change on the scale of roughly 100,000 years, 40,000 years and 20,000 years.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I, too, believe the oceans might well be a primary driver of climate change, but whether the human / nature ratio is 50/50, or less, or more than that is up for debate.

The outlandish attempt to make fracked gas the new, holy version of Freedom Fries seems dumb until you remember Rick Perry is the guy who said fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault in Africa and falsely (and I would add, incoherently) said that «the ocean waters and this environment that we live in» are the primary driver of climate change.

Warmista must adjust downward all historical data of new highs taken from the decades when, according to them, manmade CO2 had become the primary driver of climate change.

As a candidate and as President, Donald Trump has rejected clear scientific evidence that climate change poses a serious global threat, and has populated his cabinet with those who deny that fossil fuel emissions currently are the primary driver of climate change, and reject imperatives to cut carbon emissions and prepare for dangerous climate change impacts happening now.

«The Sun is a primary driver of climate change — and has a far greater impact than changes in CO2,» he said, in a slide presented to the packed audience of about 100 conservatives.

, voted in favor of the amendment — but made clear he doesn't believe humans are the primary driver of climate change.

Not exact matches

... 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Many aspects of the global climate are changing rapidly, and the primary drivers of that change are human in origin.

The chemical compound carbon dioxide (also known by its shorthand CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas and driver of climate change.

«It is high time the ocean, as the primary driver of the planet's climate and attenuator of climate change, becomes a central part of climate change discussions.»

Closely tied to the oil and gas industry in his home state, Pruitt rejects the consensus of scientists that emissions from burning fossil fuels are the primary driver of global climate change.

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.

Of course, we have to prepare for the trend to continue, since climate change is a primary driver, and nobody seems to want to do anything serious to work towards averting that trend.

Mitigation scenarios (also known as climate intervention or climate policy scenarios) are defined in the TAR (Morita et al., 2001), as scenarios that «(1) include explicit policies and / or measures, the primary goal of which is to reduce GHG emissions (e.g., carbon taxes) and / or (2) mention no climate policies and / or measures, but assume temporal changes in GHG emission sources or drivers required to achieve particular climate targets (e.g., GHG emission levels, GHG concentration levels, radiative forcing levels, temperature increase or sea level rise limits).»