Sentences with phrase «why human influence»

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That's why some scientists dedicate their careers to figuring out what influences human behavior.

Using human and animal models, these studies may help explain why position in social hierarchies strongly influences decision - making, motivation, and altruism, as well as physical and mental health.

I wanted to combine the personal with policy and describe not just what happened but also why and how events were influenced by human relationships.

It doesn't have any influence on the attribution of current climate changes to human forcings, it doesn't impact the radiative properties of CO2, so really, why do you care so much that you are willing to just make up stuff?

This all also illustrates why I trust the process of climate science (as I wrote recently in an otherwise pretty lousy post) and why I have faith in the established, though still imprecise, picture of a building human influence on an inherently turbulent climate.

Only then will we be able to discern and separate significant human influences — and begin to predict why, when, how and where Earth's climate is likely to change in the future.

But neglecting causation in the opposite direction (clouds cause temperature) can lead to large errors in our understanding of how and why the climate system changes, as well as in our diagnosis of how sensitive the climate system is to human influences.»

And so that's why fire has such a major influence now on accelerating climate change: Humans have unleashed what they thought was something tamed only to discover it remained feral.

Why does Koonin claim that «human influences on the climate were much smaller»?

It's also unclear why Dr. Pielke chose to make this «no trend in 13 years» argument in a post commenting on Santer et al. (2011) to begin with, since the paper demonstrates that at least 17 years of data are necessary to evaluate the human influence on the TLT trend.

It is likely, though, that the main reason why these authors chose to aggrandize the influence of methane emissions on climate is because it is not currently acceptable to claim that human activity plays only a small role (< 25 %) in temperature variations.

This is * exactly * why they say «human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.»

Why not make the human influence on the planet restorative, vital and good?

That's Why the Cause of Global Warming is a Fundamental Concern If global warming is only part of a greater climatic fluctuation, perhaps partially influenced by human activity, then there is less need to address human - caused carbon emissions.

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.

Trenberth spews: «So why does the science community continue to do attribution studies and assume that humans have no influence as a null hypothesis?»