Sentences with phrase «role of greenhouse gases»

The modern scientific understanding of the complex and interconnected roles of greenhouse gases and aerosols in climate change has undergone rapid evolution over the last two decades.

But a trio of research papers published Monday in an annual extreme - weather edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society were inconclusive, to various degrees, regarding the precise roles of greenhouse gases in contributing to the devastating drought.

We criticized William Broad previously (Broadly Misleading) for a piece that misrepresented the scientific understanding of the factors that drive climate change over millions of years, systematically understating the scientifically - established role of greenhouse gases, and over-stating the role of natural factors including those as speculative as cosmic rays (see our recent discussion here).

Researchers were already exploring the role of greenhouse gases in Earth's long - gone ice ages, but an English engineer named Guy Callendar took it one step further.

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

But he soon realized that he had overestimated the amount of aerosols in the air and underestimated the role of greenhouse gases.

This could be explained by the role of the greenhouse gas CO2, which varies in abundance in the atmosphere in sync with the glacial cycles and thus acts as a «globaliser» of glacial cycles, as it is well - mixed throughout the atmosphere.

I have seen some brief mention in biology texts to climate change, including the role of greenhouse gases, but I don't know whether there are more extensive descriptions in texts relevant to middle school and even more particularly, high school.

It remains to be seen whether the series draws a substantial and sustained audience, but the Showtime team, at least in episode one, deserves plaudits for taking a compellingly fresh approach to showing the importance of climate hazards to human affairs, the role of greenhouse gases in raising the odds of some costly and dangerous outcomes and — perhaps most important — revealing the roots of the polarizing divisions in society over this issue.

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While the Bush administration «takes climate change very seriously and recognizes the role of greenhouse gases in climate change,» Mr. Kempthorne said, it was not his department's job to assess causes or prescribe solutions.

And in recent years, many scientific papers have been published that question the fundamentals of not only the Earth's hypothetical greenhouse effect, but the role of greenhouse gases for other planets with thick atmospheres (like Venus) as well Hertzberg et al., 2017, Kramm et al., 2017, Nikolov and Zeller, 2017, Allmendinger, 2017, Lightfoot and Mamer, 2017, Blaauw, 2017, Davis et al., 2018).

In 1859, already a celebrated year in the history of science, the role of greenhouse gases in controlling the temperature of the planet has been identified.

The history of climate change goes back much further: in the 19th century, physicists theorised about the role of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, and several suggested that the warming effect would increase alongside the levels of these gases in the atmosphere.

The geographer also has conducted research on the role of greenhouse gases in precipitating the end of the last Ice Age some 9,000 years ago.

Applying the «corrected non-linear function» reduces this available budget to just «280 GtC» — this figure does not account for the role of greenhouse gases other than CO2, including the potential impact of thawing permafrost or methane hydrates.

While the GCC distributed a «backgrounder» to politicians and media in the early 1990s claiming «The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» a 1995 GCC internal memo drafted by Mobil Oil (which merged with Exxon in 1998) stated that: «The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and can not be denied.»

There is another indication to the statement that the sun's role in warming is limited compared to the role of greenhouse gases: fingerprints.

Tom Mitchell, head of climate change at the Overseas Development Institute, tells Carbon Brief that he would have liked to see «clearer recognition» of the role of greenhouse gases in driving disaster risk.

[PUBLIC, early 1990s] «The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» the coalition said in a scientific «backgrounder» provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that «scientists differ» on the issue.

The role of greenhouse gasses in climate change ARE NOT well understood, even if the POTENTIAL impact of human emissions has been documented.

[Published, early 1990s] «The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» the coalition said in a scientific «backgrounder» provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that «scientists differ» on the issue.

«The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» the coalition said in a scientific «backgrounder» provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that «scientists differ» on the issue.

But a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.

He had studied the role of greenhouse gases as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Some important aspects were not understood back then, like the role of greenhouse gases other than CO2, of aerosol particles and of ocean heat storage.