Sentences with phrase «term human caused climate change»

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«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

One paper found that a 2016 marine heat wave off the coast of Alaska was unprecedented in terms of the temperatures it reached and concluded that it would not have been possible in a world where human - caused climate change was not occurring.

«Even if the recent climate change is human - caused, climate change can't be addressed in the short term.

Scientifically, the meteorologists, climatologists, and atmospheric physicists, who were responsible for «discovering» the human contribution to the terrestrial greenhouse effect, have been the most consistent champions of its importance, while the solar physics community, and especially those interested in solar - terrestrial relations, have increasingly stressed the possible importance of the long - term variations of the solar constant as the chief cause of climate change.

Long - term risks can arise from purely social causes (e.g., those associated with political or economic institutions, violence, and technology), but often arise from the interaction of humans with the Earth system (e.g., climate change; ozone depletion; resource depletion; pandemics; flood and seismic risk in areas subject to increasing development).

The long - term global warming trend is predominantly a forced climate change caused by increased human - made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 [1].

The impact of these hazards is often strongly influenced by human actions that contribute to disaster risk and long - term changes in the global climate; therefore, the causes of these hazards and disasters related to them are often less than «natural».

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

In terms of how to deal with both natural and human - caused climate variability and change, we wrote:

Professor Curry wrote, «If you accept the premise that human caused climate change is dangerous and that we need to rapidly stop burning fossil fuels, then I don't see a near term alternative to nuclear.»

If you accept the premise that human caused climate change is dangerous and that we need to rapidly stop burning fossil fuels, then I don't see a near term alternative to nuclear.

[4] One thing is certain, there is no «scientific proof» as the term is generally understood, that human emissions are the main cause of climate change today.

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«Global warming» is the best term for the current human - caused climate change because it is the main characteristic feature of the change.

Framing the impacts of human - caused climate change in terms of «blame» is limiting.

I think an addition or subtraction of say 100 watts per square meter would cause a slow change in climate and global temperature, and humans could easily mitigate the long term effects fairly easier, or steps could taken to change our world in some manner if that was seen as needed in the future.

The use of the term «climate change» instead of AGW (or any other proper term) for the human caused climate change (GHG warming, mostly CO2) is revealing.

In regards to those climate change proponents, people who believe everyday humans exhaling causes long term detrimental affects to the earth, I say are pathetic in that they don't let everyday humans decide for themselves if it's true.

«While scientists routinely find themselves explaining that day - to - day weather patterns are not the same as long - term climate trends, they also widely agree that human - caused climate change is exacerbating extreme weather.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.

But while the full - on embrace of climate skepticism may make political sense for the White House — only 25 percent of Trump voters think climate change is caused by humans — it likely won't resonate with the Texans who must now live through Harvey and its long - term effects.

This human «commensal» — the term for a species that benefits from another without causing it harm or benefit — has increased in number in recent decades, even without the effects of climate change.

The term sometimes is used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist.

It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human - induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases -LSB-...] Since long - term measurements began in the 1950s, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been increasing at a rate much faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

Even without putting climate change into the mix, recent extinction has proceeded at least 3 - 80 times above long - term background rates (Barnosky et al., 2011) and possibly much more (Pimm and Brooks, 1997; Pimm et al., 1995; WRI, 2005), 17 primarily from human - caused habitat destruction and overexploitation of species.

Putting it into the human - caused «climate change» context, this global mean of long - term sea level trend has clearly not been a function of the rapidly rising CO2 levels (see chart's plot of moving 360 - month average of atmospheric CO2 levels).

Gov. Scott, who won a second term in November, has repeatedly said he is not convinced that climate change is caused by human activity, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

If you mean that human caused climate change should have been better addressed by WG1, I think societies impact on climate is implicit in the physics, at least in terms of CO2 and biome impacts, and WG1 was intended to provide an understanding of the physical science, which I don't find reductionist.

Argues that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist

Communicating the expert consensus is very important in terms of increasing public awareness of human - caused climate change and support for climate solutions.

Dr. Spencer had said he would be using the phrase «global warmng Nazi» to describe anyone who had used the term «deniers» in reference to people's position on human - caused climate change.

The numbers have reversed: only one in three voters (34 per cent) now believe global warming is caused by human activity while almost half (48 per cent) attribute climate change to long - term natural cycles.