Sentences with phrase «significant effects on global climate»

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

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The summary has already contributed to current policy documents and like the NAS report on global climate change, will have significant effects on policy documents if not actual policy and dedisionmaking.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growtOn the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growton economic growth.

While natural sources of climate variability are significant, multiple lines of evidence indicate that human influences have had an increasingly dominant effect on global climate warming observed since the mid-twentieth century.

Therefore, ending their financing for fossil fuel projects would have a significant effect on mitigating climate change — an important piece of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius and honoring the commitments made as part of the Paris agreement last year.

And scientists see that deforestation has a significant effect on climate change, or global warming.

Global warming is already having significant and costly effects on our communities, our health, and our climate.

Also, as anyone who has tried to grow something would tell you, weather (and not climate) has significant effects on how things grow; therefore, unless the climate scientists can accurately predict how variations in the global climate (which the AGW statement addresses) manifest themselves in the behavior of raw proxy data, the proxy data becomes highly suspect.

If possible at all, delaying the rise by storing water on Antarctica would only show significant effects in a scenario of ambitious climate policy, strictly limiting global warming.