Sentences with phrase «relative roles of natural variability»

Population growth coupled to the fact that extreme heat is the leading weather - related cause of death in the US calls for the need to identify the relative roles of natural variability and human - caused climate change on these extremes.

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To me the study of this earlier warming would shed light onto the relative roles of natural long - term variability and the trends of global warming.

Even amongst those IPCC scientists who believe that man - made global warming is a serious concern, there are many who believe that the relative role of man - made global warming have been overestimated, and that the role of natural climate variability has been underestimated

In particular, anthropogenic CO2 inputs may play a smaller role relative to other sources of pH variability, natural and anthropogenic, in the coastal ocean as compared to the open ocean (e.g. Borges and Gypens 2010; Provoost et al. 2010; Cai et al. 2011; Hofmann et al. 2011).

Delineating the relative role of anthropogenic forcing, natural forcing, and long - term natural variability in 20th century climate change presents a significant challenge to our understanding of the climate system (1 — 7).