Sentences with phrase «warming affect human»

How will environmental changes such as ozone depletion and global warming affect human health?

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Even Alaska's conservative elected officials can no longer deny that human - induced warming is affecting their state.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Professor Chen remarked, «Among the extensive and far - reaching impacts of global warming, human health and labour productivity are most directly affected by thermal discomfort and heat - related morbidity and mortality.

«The main result supports and extends earlier work, showing that human forcing contributes to changing winds that contribute to subsurface ocean warming, affecting some grounding zones of the ice sheet,» Alley said.

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

Is there dangerous, human - caused global warming affecting the climate of the continental U.S.?

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

Rabies is a viral disease that can affect all warm - blooded mammals, including dogs, cats, wildlife and humans.

Rabies is a viral disease that can affect all warm - blooded mammals, including cats, dogs, wildlife and humans.

Global warming is the subject of «Migrations of the Arthropods», Paul's 2012 photo and video work in which wearable structures are created using recycled plastic bottles to affect a transformation from human to insect, thus re-envisioning Kafka's «Metamorphosis» as an evolutionary survival mechanism.

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

Dr. Sami Solanki — director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who argues that changes in the Sun's state, not human activity, may be the principal cause of global warming: «The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.»

Quoting directly Climate change as a result of human activities, or anthropogenic global warming, is now generally accepted as reality and includes a wide range of climatic processes and impacts in the global system that are affected by human activities.

What we have here is a situation in which MM05 attempts to make a point to discredit climate warming which — even if they were correct — would not affect the indicated existence of human forcing of climate via GHG emissions / land use changes occurring now.

* global warming is not significantly affected by human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce human impact but make no provisions for dealing with the effects of warming.

The authors of the study said the change could be temporary, given the short span of observations, but it matches a slight but steady warming trend in the affected ocean regions and also matches a pattern scientists have predicted would occur under human - caused global warming.

The findings reinforce suggestions that strong positive ice — temperature feedbacks have emerged in the Arctic15, increasing the chances of further rapid warming and sea ice loss, and will probably affect polar ecosystems, ice - sheet mass balance and human activities in the Arctic...» *** This is the heart of polar amplification and has very little to do with your stated defintion of amplifying the effects of warming going on at lower latitudes.

Inhofe went on to argue that human activities can not affect the climate as the atmosphere naturally fluctuates between cooling and warming periods.

A change in local rainfall may affect human society more than a change in global temperature, so we should beware of equating the size of the projected global warming with the potential seriousness of the climate change problem.

The abstract of his paper says: «Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warming...» — nothing about human influence.

Human Health Problems Hotter in cities Longer pollen season - affecting people with seasonal allergies Disease carrying insects may expand their ranges if it stays warmer longer in places that were previously too cold for them.

In May, the U.S. Global Change Research Program published its third National Climate Assessment, which argues that human - induced warming is already affecting a number of regions in the country and that the effects will only worsen.

The overarching science question guiding this Grand Challenge is «how will a warming world affect available fresh water resources globally, specifically in the food basket regions, and how will it change human interactions with these resources and their value to society?»

[18] The report determines that manmade greenhouse gas emissions will accelerate sea - level rise, increase the intensity and frequency of extreme weather, and warm the planet at an unsustainable rate, adversely affecting everything from human and ecosystem health to transportation, forestry, and agriculture.

If warming temperatures affect moose and seabirds and even ticks, it follows that humans would feel effects as well.

And the human emission and rise in global CO2 not appearing to have a measurable affect on global temperature, and is it guessed by some that perhaps a large fraction of late 20th century warming was due to increased CO2 levels.

The White House plans to release a major report Tuesday outlining how human - driven climate change is already affecting the environment in the United States and warning of more warming to come, possibly signaling a more aggressive response to the issue from the Obama administration.

Warming will shift climatic zones by intensifying the hydrologic cycle, affecting freshwater availability and human health.

You need to know this in order to make a judgement of whether today's temperature is warmer that it could / should be and have humans really affected the rise.

First, let me be clear about this reality: Planet Earth is warming because of human activity, because of us, and that is profoundly affecting the climate.

He believes that humans are the main cause of climate change since the Industrial Revolution, and that man - made global warming is dangerously affecting the planet.

Alarming issue of a warming earth is a serious matter, although this is not the latest issue but the continously growing problem for the human and other affected life - forms.

Clearly human activities can affect climates — we all grew up learning that the desertification of much of North Africa was due to goats, and we know that some local climates are determined by human activities in the region — but human activity is unlikely to have caused the Viking period warming, the great cooling after 1300, the Little Ice Age, and such; and the warming beginning in 1800 or so is very unlikely to have been caused by human activities.

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While natural factors certainly affect the climate, human factors are the main contributor to global warming, and carbon dioxide has acted as the «primary control knob» governing the earth's relatively recent uptick in temperature.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recently reconfirmed that human - induced global warming is gathering pace and is affecting many critical aspects of life including food, water, energy and livelihood security.

Therein, Pope Francis echoed President Obama's tune, claiming there exists «solid scientific consensus» that human activities are causing a «disturbing warming» of the climate, which left unchecked will result in a type of planetary Armageddon manifested by escalating temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising seas, more frequent and more severe weather, ecosystem degradation, and plant and animal extinctions, all of which he claimed will severely affect humanity.

Assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the earth's climate warmed 0.85 ℃ (1.53 oF) between 1880 to 2012 and that human activity affecting the atmosphere is likely an important driving factor.

... the following video clarifies how the interplay of natural and human factors have affected the short - term temperature trends, and demonstrates that underneath the short - term noise, the long - term human - caused global warming trend remains as strong as ever.

The insurance industry also isn't paying nearly enough attention to how global warming will affect human health and mortality, Ceres warns.

The Farm Bureau does not share the scientific opinion on climate change, with its official position being that «there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment of the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming or how they will affect future climate changes.»

A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.

So by saying that changing human industry will affect global warming, that implies that only human industry affects global warming?

1) Decrease in earth's albedo 2) Decrease in evaporation (i.e negative factors affecting evaporation) 3) Volcanic activities on earth, e.g. hot lava & hot waters 4) Human activities (AHF), creating heat to move or to stay warm or cold 5) Human activities, e.g. any process to produce energy or cooling causes more greenhouse gases: water vapor and carbon dioxide which trap long wave energy leaving earth.

I agree that global warming could have disasterious affects for humans and other creaters alive today that are adapted to this climate.

And I think you hit the nail on the head with: «5) Once we scientifically - oriented Skeptics accept the reality of the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect» we are, IMHO, better positioned to question the much larger issues which are: a) HOW MUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?»

Beyond affecting the humans and wildlife that call the area home, the Arctic's warmer temperatures and decreases in permafrost, snow cover, glaciers and sea ice also have wide - ranging consequences for the physical and biological systems in other parts of the world.

Future fire regimes will be less affected by global warming than by other global changes, in particular population growth, because over 95 % of ignitions are due to humans.

And it's hard to say how much of the confusion is wilful when some folks, in one breath tell you that it's crazy for «warmists» to think that only humans affect global climate, and in the next claim that an alleged «pause» in warming means that steadily - increasing CO2 levels «can't» be responsible — a claim that could only make sensse if CO2 * were * the only thing affecting the temps.