«It is very hard to attribute
a specific human contribution to a change in precipitation, although we do have more confidence in the changes in heat,» Karl said.
Not exact matches
Despite the potential and actual
contribution of capitalistic globalization to improve
human life, the safeguarding of
human rights or the care of nature are not among its
specific objectives.
The disabled are treated as the weak to be served, rather than as fully committed, integral members of the Body of Christ and the
human family; the
specific contribution which they have to give is ignored....
With our
human gut - on - a-chip, we can not only culture the normal gut microbiome for extended times, but we can also analyze
contributions of pathogens, immune cells, and vascular and lymphatic endothelium, as well as model
specific diseases to understand complex pathophysiological responses of the intestinal tract.»
Using this model, they were able to quantify the results of including or excluding different natural and
human contributions to climate change — including the very
specific contributions of emissions attributed to these companies» products.
Suppose we were to take this as a test case, and to try to explore the arguments related not to any arbitrary null hypothesis, but to a
specific question like «to what precision and with what confidence can we estimate the
human contribution to atmospheric CO2 accumulation»?
If by «climate change people», you mean scientists working in the field of climate change with a
specific emphasis on
human contribution, then the ones I listen to don't advocate any change in
human behaviour.
Second, we did look for papers that quantify the
human contribution to global warming, and most are not that
specific.
Some are
specific about quantifying the percentage of
human contribution, others just say «
humans are causing climate change» without
specific quantification.
Myles Allen is the Principal Investigator of climateprediction.net and was the first to propose the use of Probabilistic Event Attribution to quantify the
contribution of
human and other external influences on climate to
specific individual weather events.