But none of these natural climate drivers reproduced the long - term observed drying, indicating
this trend is due to human activity.
There is very little room for doubt that observed climate
trends are due to human activities.
Not exact matches
Gallup's
trend data show that Republicans have become less likely
to accept the idea of
human contributions
to global warming over the past half - decade — the percentage believing that global warming
is due more
to «the effects of pollution from
human activities» has declined by 10 percentage points, from 52 % in 2003
to 42 % in 2008.
The accompanying abstract tells us it
's likely that a temperature
trend is «partially
due to human activities, although many uncertainties remain...» (my emphasis).
We have
been investigating the causes and impacts of these
trends, with a focus on determining if the regional warming and cooling patterns result from natural variability or
are due to human activities.
Contrary
to the book's premise, multiple studies and surveys have shown that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate warming
trends over the past century
are due to human activities (NASA for example).
According
to NASA, «Multiple studies published in peer - reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate - warming
trends over the past century
are extremely likely
due to human activities.»
While the observed
trends may
be «consistent with» the NCA authors» «expected changes
due to human activities,» in actuality they
are, in fact, not caused by
human activities.
While the NCA authors coyly admit that the region's «climate
trends include contributions from both
human influences (chiefly heat - trapping gas emissions) and natural climate variability» they
are quick
to add «[t] hey
are also consistent with expected changes
due to human activities.»
The currently observed change in climate (ie the long term
trend) since 19th C however
is mostly if not all
due to human activity.
«Multiple studies published in peer - reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 % or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate - warming
trends over the past century
are very likely
due to human activities.
«We have concluded close
to all of the recent
trends in global temperature
is due to human activity, and CO2
is the dominant factor,» Schmidt said, referring
to carbon dioxide.
97 % of climate scientists agree that global warming
trends are clear and «extremely likely»
due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
«Multiple studies published in peer - reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate - warming
trends over the past century
are extremely likely
due to human activities.»