Sentences with phrase «term human impact on our climate»

Specifically, there's a case for avoiding continued dependence on fossil fuels that persuades me regardless of what scientists think they know about the long - term human impact on our climate.

Not exact matches

In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earth's climate.

«Such long - term insights are crucial in helping with current conservation efforts, laying a foundation for future research on impacts of island formation, climate change and human occupation on animals and their habitats.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

The Division conducts research on the longâ $ term impact of human activities on climate and natural resources using a research strategy that starts with measurements and carries that information into models, with a goal of improving the nation's ability to predict climate change.

For example, we could describe climate change primarily in terms of the physical processes: carbon emissions, the radiative balance of the atmosphere, average temperatures, and impacts on human life and ecosystems.

Climate and environmental scientists have frequently invoked the term Anthropocene to highlight the impact of humans on the planet, and even started to think about how and when to date the most significant evidence of change.

Pekka - I hope you noticed that I have in no way denied the basic point that humans are emitting large amounts of CO2 and that those emissions might possibly have an impact on the planets long term climate.

On a scale from 1 - 10, where 1 is not at all important and 10 is of the highest importance, where would you rank global climate change in terms of its likely impact on human developmenOn a scale from 1 - 10, where 1 is not at all important and 10 is of the highest importance, where would you rank global climate change in terms of its likely impact on human developmenon human development?

So — and this is the reason, because we have the short - term climate fluctuation, therefore, it doesn't make sense to look at short periods to assess the human impact on climate.

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

This long - term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond.

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

While climate effects are often measured in terms of its financial impacts on countries» Gross Domestic Product, that doesn't capture the full human cost, says report author Stéphane Hallegatte, a World Bank senior economist.

He acknowledges that human activity is likely having an impact on climate, but adds «Nobody has ever proven for 100 percent that the long - term warming is man - made.

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.

But the potentially calamitous impact of clearance for mining, logging and ranching, combined with the longer - term impact of human - induced climate change, driven by fossil fuel combustion on a global scale, had to be identified by complex computer simulations.

This reflects the large impact of PM2.5 on near - term human health via air quality and the substantial impact of BC on climate.