Second, there is no real likelihood that any attempts to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions can be expected to have any measurable climate influence.
The annual UN Climate Change Conference is a negotiating forum, a climate change expert meeting and a technical conference where debates on methodological issues relating to climate influence political decision-making.
Since these are the models used to predict future climate and influence policy decisions, it is imperative that they can accurately simulate measurements of what is considered to be the driving mechanism behind climate change.
He said: "We have a moral obligation to act on climate change and influence others worldwide to do the same".
Other solar changes occurring at approximate 1, 500 year intervals also influence climate.
He sides with his father, an eminent climate scientist, in believing that the consensus view of climate change, as set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), understates human influence on the climate.
They said glacier wastage had been seriously underestimated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is trying to assess humanity's influence on the global climate.
The nature and extent of solar influence on climate is not fully understood, however, which is where Earthshine comes in.
As climate change begins to influence our lives, it is the poorest women and children who again will pay the highest price.
As in previous years, it heard from researchers whose studies strongly support the idea that human influence on climate is real and growing.
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Here is a tale of natural variations in climate having a practical influence on the lives and travels of Europeans over 5, 000 years.
And another thing to consider is what factors influence the climate.
His conclusion is unambiguous: though reducing carbon-dioxide emissions will not end all human influence on climate, it is a necessary step towards reducing the risk of severe dislocation.
These large warm and cold, high and low sea levels are slow-developing and long-lasting, and will certainly influence global climate and weather for the coming summer and into next fall.
But even if it remains safely locked away in a computer, it gives pause for thought about the extent to which people might influence the climate with a specific end in view.
Human influence on climate change is not accepted by everyone but most scientists now believe that we are responsible for warming the world through the large amounts of gases released by our industries.
Australia is one of the world's worst per capita emitters of greenhouse gases and many believe recent droughts and floods are the result of man's destabilising influence on the climate, the BBC's Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.
Coincidentally, this meeting starts on the day that US President George Bush has chosen to reveal his alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, which most of the other industrialised countries want to adopt to constrain humanity's influence on the climate.
Glory was designed to study the influence of aerosols on climate and measure solar energy.
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The committee rejected this option as it is hard to quantify imported emissions and difficult to influence other nations' climate policies.
Only time will tell, but your correspondent is thankful that any influence of the sun on climate change would be benign.
Blankfein himself has committed to use his influence and wealth to better the climate for same sex marriages, a quite incredibly bold decision on his part.
Recent experiments at CERN have shown the possible powerful influence of cosmic rays on clouds and climate.
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The point that interests me though is what influence this has on the debate about climate change.
Perhaps not surprisingly, their discussions have gravitated to how the Internet and social media can be used to influence policy and drive the quickened uptake of climate best practices globally.
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Written by Paul Brest, of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and his former colleague, Hal Harvey, now of the ClimateWorks Foundation, the book dispenses practical advice to aspiring philanthropists and provides examples of the ways they can influence the world from education to climate change to the arts.
Another tactic is to conflate rejection of unfounded human-caused climate crisis alarmism with an absurd denial that climate changes regularly occur, or that human activities may have some influence (however incalculably minuscule, either with respect to warming or cooling, those effects may be).
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Its data may allow scientists to better understand and predict how various surface features absorb and reflect solar radiation, which influence both short-term weather patterns and longer-term climate trends.
It seems that our transport, health and education systems, skilled work force, benign climate and proximity to customers and suppliers are seen as major benefits and continue to influence foreign investment decisions.
Three factors influence whether a species can adapt to a new habitat - food supply, climate and competition with other species.
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