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.»
Not exact matches
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 growt
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 growt
on 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.