I personally believe we are getting close to that point at which one can say that AGW has been shown not to be
the principal driver of our climate.
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2,
the principal driver of climate change, have climbed from nearly 280 parts per million (ppm) when the Industrial Revolution began around 1760 to 387 ppm in 2009.
In March 2005, Jan Veizer, one of Canada's top Earth scientists, published a comprehensive review of recent findings and concluded that «empirical observations on all time scales point to celestial phenomena as
the principal driver of climate, with greenhouse gases acting only as potential amplifiers.»
At present, atmospheric temperature is decreasing and CO2 is increasing again showing that CO2 is not
the principal driver of climate change.
This research also confirms that the IPCC's insistence that human CO2 is
the principal driver of climate change is seriously wrong, beside being hopelessly outdated.
Not exact matches
Principal items
of standard equipment * 9J x 19» Five spoke alloy wheels with 255/35 R19 tyres * Acoustic Parking System - front and rear * Alcantara headlining and rear parcel shelf (saloon only) * Auto dipping rear view mirror * BOSE Sound System * Carbon fibre fascia and door trim inserts * Cruise control *
Driver, front passenger and front side airbags * Driver's Information System (DIS) * Dynamic Ride Control (DRC) * Electric windows (front and rear) * Electronic Brake - Force Distribution (EBD) with Brake Assist * Electronic climate control with individual driver and passenger controls * Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) * Heated front and rear seats * Leather upholstery - Valcona * quattro permanent four - wheel - drive system * Recaro electric front sports seats with 3 - way adjustment * Remote control central locking * Satellite Navigation System Plus with 5» Colour screen and TV Function * SIDEGUARD head airbag protection system * Symphony II audio system with boot mounted CD autochanger * Thatcham 1 approved anti-theft device with interior ultrasonic protection * Tiptronic automatic transmission with Sport setting * TRACKER «Retrieve» Service (no cost dealer fit option - can be upgraded to «Monitor» service for # 150 inc VAT) * Three spoke sports steering wheel with shift paddles * Xenon Plus headlights (including headlight wa
Driver, front passenger and front side airbags *
Driver's Information System (DIS) * Dynamic Ride Control (DRC) * Electric windows (front and rear) * Electronic Brake - Force Distribution (EBD) with Brake Assist * Electronic climate control with individual driver and passenger controls * Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) * Heated front and rear seats * Leather upholstery - Valcona * quattro permanent four - wheel - drive system * Recaro electric front sports seats with 3 - way adjustment * Remote control central locking * Satellite Navigation System Plus with 5» Colour screen and TV Function * SIDEGUARD head airbag protection system * Symphony II audio system with boot mounted CD autochanger * Thatcham 1 approved anti-theft device with interior ultrasonic protection * Tiptronic automatic transmission with Sport setting * TRACKER «Retrieve» Service (no cost dealer fit option - can be upgraded to «Monitor» service for # 150 inc VAT) * Three spoke sports steering wheel with shift paddles * Xenon Plus headlights (including headlight wa
Driver's Information System (DIS) * Dynamic Ride Control (DRC) * Electric windows (front and rear) * Electronic Brake - Force Distribution (EBD) with Brake Assist * Electronic
climate control with individual
driver and passenger controls * Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) * Heated front and rear seats * Leather upholstery - Valcona * quattro permanent four - wheel - drive system * Recaro electric front sports seats with 3 - way adjustment * Remote control central locking * Satellite Navigation System Plus with 5» Colour screen and TV Function * SIDEGUARD head airbag protection system * Symphony II audio system with boot mounted CD autochanger * Thatcham 1 approved anti-theft device with interior ultrasonic protection * Tiptronic automatic transmission with Sport setting * TRACKER «Retrieve» Service (no cost dealer fit option - can be upgraded to «Monitor» service for # 150 inc VAT) * Three spoke sports steering wheel with shift paddles * Xenon Plus headlights (including headlight wa
driver and passenger controls * Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) * Heated front and rear seats * Leather upholstery - Valcona * quattro permanent four - wheel - drive system * Recaro electric front sports seats with 3 - way adjustment * Remote control central locking * Satellite Navigation System Plus with 5» Colour screen and TV Function * SIDEGUARD head airbag protection system * Symphony II audio system with boot mounted CD autochanger * Thatcham 1 approved anti-theft device with interior ultrasonic protection * Tiptronic automatic transmission with Sport setting * TRACKER «Retrieve» Service (no cost dealer fit option - can be upgraded to «Monitor» service for # 150 inc VAT) * Three spoke sports steering wheel with shift paddles * Xenon Plus headlights (including headlight washers)
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.
Humanity today, collectively, must face the uncomfortable fact that industrial civilization itself has become the
principal driver of global
climate.
Changes in Earth's radiation balance were the
principal driver of past
climate changes, but the causes
of such changes are varied.
Unlike modern human made
climate warming, the
principal driver of warming at that time was the change in Earth's orbit around the sun.
This idea, first proposed six years ago and formally endorsed by the International Energy Agency in 2011, has been gaining traction because
of the ever - stronger scientific consensus that carbon emissions from human activity is the
principal driver of destructive
climate change.
As the Director
of GISS and
Principal Investigator for the GISS ModelE Earth System Model, I am interested in understanding past, present and future
climate and the impacts
of multiple
drivers of climate change, including solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases.
The extremist green movement is the
principal driver behind the story that recent
climate change is the result
of humans - more specifically, the result
of consumer / industrial fossil fuel emissions.
Unless these data can be refuted they represent a falsification
of the premise that CO2 is the
principal driver of our planet's
climate and that AGW is, therefore, a serious potential threat to humanity or our environment.
Nevertheless, the idea that the sun, more so perhaps than humans, is the
principal driver of terrestrial
climate has been gaining ground in recent years.
Its president, David Grimes, said: «The Arctic is a
principal, global
driver of the
climate system and is undergoing an unprecedented rate
of change with consequences far beyond its boundaries.
The Arctic is a
principal, global
driver of the
climate system and is undergoing an unprecedented rate
of change with consequences far beyond its boundaries.
Pablo was a
principal driver behind the 2010 World People's Conference on
Climate Change and the Rights
of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Because the
drivers of surface temperatures and
climate are multifaceted and somewhat complex, Victor invokes «Occam's razor» like it is some magical
principal that prevents the physical world from being complex.