We've found that the increase in the frequency of concurrent warm conditions in the west and cool conditions in the east is more likely
with human caused climate change than it would be in a world without climate change.
And what the study found was that, due to continued rising temperatures associated
with human caused climate change, only another 3 percent deforestation would be enough to transform fully half of the Amazon into Savannah.
Not exact matches
Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away
with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from
humans are the main
cause for
climate change.
Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, called today upon Governor Cuomo to acknowledge the
climate change is being
caused by
human activity, starting
with the burning of fossil fuels.
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change [June 28, 2016]
Only 10.4 percent of participants agreed
with the statement, «
climate change is occurring and it is
caused mostly by
human activities.»
And President Obama told Vox in February that the media «sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism» when compared
with the
human suffering that will be
caused by
climate change (Greenwire, Feb. 11).
They agreed
with the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change that
human activity had
caused most of Earth's warming over the second half of the 20th century.
This does not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be said to be simply «
caused» by
human - induced
climate change — usually such events are complex,
with many
causes.
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of
climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known
with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by
human -
caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
Stronger link
with severe weather The report is firm on the science that
humans are
causing climate change.
«
With human -
caused climate change, we're running a vast, unintended ecological experiment,» she says.
But
with the arrival of
human -
caused climate change, this age - old cycle now has a dark side.
In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed said they believed
climate change was occurring,
with 8 percent pinpointing
human activities as the main
cause.
• GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that
climate change is real, potentially dangerous and probably
caused in part by
humans, has disagreed
with many
climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.
That «we can't say
with assurance that
human activities
cause weather
changes» and that
climate problems in Texas are best solved through «days of prayer for rain».
Tanya Steele, CEO of WWF commented: «Within our children's lifetime, places like the Amazon and Galapagos Islands could become unrecognisable,
with half the species that live there wiped out by
human -
caused climate change.
«This quantitative attribution of
human and natural
climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the
causes of past
changes as well as for projections of future
changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor
with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.
This view is at least congruent
with his belief that
human -
caused climate change is a hoax, which puts him at odds
with pretty much every
climate scientist on the planet and the majority of the U.S. public.
That December, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change reported that greenhouse gases were rising,
with human activity the likely
cause and dangerous
changes in the earth's conditions a likely result.
Human - caused climate change has little to do with the human - caused flooding problems, Criss argued last
Human -
caused climate change has little to do
with the
human - caused flooding problems, Criss argued last
human -
caused flooding problems, Criss argued last week.
As for the long - running political controversy about
climate change, especially about the degree to which
human activity
causes it, the scientists said it tends to become relevant mainly when they are dealing
with long time frames — say 30 years or more — and mostly at the top echelons of the political hierarchy.
«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines,
with about 50 % saying they do believe in
human -
caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.
The decades of work that have gone into reducing PM2.5 through environmental regulations and technological improvements are being undermined by the West's worsening wildfire seasons,
with large wildfires being amplified by higher temperatures and drier conditions associated
with human -
caused climate change.
«The main worry is that if deforestation increases, in combination
with the increase fragmentation, increase in drought probability [
caused by
climate change] and the use of fires by
humans, carbon emissions could escalate to proportions never experienced before.»
That said, the overall trend is clear:
with fuel aridity increasing in the western U.S. due in part to
human -
caused climate change, the authors project that both burned area and burn severity will continue to increase under
climate change.
With it the countries of the world have recognised that they all have to work together to tackle the shared problem of dangerous
climate change caused by
human activities.
A:
Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent
with trends
caused by natural forces but are totally consistent
with the increase in
human - induced heat - trapping gases.
With each new report that describes the ballooning effects of
human -
caused climate change it becomes harder to deny that we urgently need to decarbonize our society.
-RRB- project,
with the aim to investigate how life on Antarctic seabeds is responding to
human -
caused climate change.
With regard to health specifically, the state's leaders publicly acknowledge the threats of
climate change and have committed to taking action against them, even in a conservative state that helped elect a federal administration that sees little, if any, danger from
human -
caused climate change.
The trip will carry scientists from our Antarctic Seabed Carbon Capture
Change (ASCCC) project, with the aim to investigate how life on Antarctic seabeds is responding to human - caused climate c
Change (ASCCC) project,
with the aim to investigate how life on Antarctic seabeds is responding to
human -
caused climate changechange.
According to the survey, 87 percent of the scientists questioned by the Pew Research Center said that
climate change is mostly
caused by
human activity, compared
with 50 percent of the public.
But there is growing evidence that pressures on water resources associated
with poor management, increasing populations, and
human -
caused climate changes are now influencing regional security in new and disturbing ways.
The symptoms from those events (huge and rapid carbon emissions, a big rapid jump in global temperatures, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, widespread oxygen - starved zones in the oceans) are all happening today
with human -
caused 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).
Impacts of
climate change cause widespread harm to
human health,
with children often suffering the most.
«Harvey was not
caused by
climate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to human - caused global warming,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in a sta
climate change, yet its impacts — the storm surge, and especially the extreme rainfall — very likely worsened due to
human -
caused global warming,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, a researcher
with the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research, in a sta
Climate Impact Research, in a statement.
Though writers have long warned us about what happens when
humans mess
with nature in general and the weather in particular, We Are Unprepared might be in the vanguard of tales that deal
with the consequences of
human -
caused climate change.
They've thrown $ 1.5 trillion at investments that are aligned
with fighting
climate change, promoting
human rights and other
causes.
However, effec - tive communication
with the public of the urgency to stem
human -
caused climate change is hampered by the inertia of the
climate system, especially the ocean and the ice sheets, which respond rather slowly to
climate forcings, thus allow - ing future consequences to build up before broad public con - cern awakens.
We can argue about how to deal
with manmade
climate change and we can argue about how bad the impacts will be but arguing about whether there is global warming or whether
humans are
causing it is, quite frankly, absurd.
-- At the other extreme, CO2 growth exceeding exponential at 1.5 % / year would be inconsistent
with historical trends and
with the negative feedback
caused by
human concern about
climate change.
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).
But those are all very modest thoughts compared
with the «religiously» held beliefs of the pro / anti
human -
caused -
climate -
change advocates.
With an issue like
human -
caused climate change, or the devastation of ocean - roaming species like bluefin tuna, it seems again that the old kind of framing doesn't work any more.
Live Updates Below and see new post Richard Muller, a cantankerous but creative physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, who once derided
climate change research, then dove in
with his own reconstruction of terrestrial temperature
changes and confirmed substantial warming, has now concluded that recent warming is «almost entirely»
human caused.
The destruction of mountains, streams, rivers and groundwater, the destruction of land laid waste by strip - mining, the loss of wildlife in these areas, the
human illnesses and premature deaths that result from these practices especially in Appalachia, the CO2 emissions and resulting
climate change along
with the havoc this
causes — all of these are externalities that do not enter into the price companies pay to mine the stuff or the costs we pay to turn on the a.c.
We can say
with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were
caused by
human - induced
climate change.»
So wrote Roger A. Pielke Jr. in an op - ed in the Financial Post, a Canadian newspaper
with a doubting stance on dangerous
human -
caused climate change.