Models have typically attributed half of the loss of ice to greenhouse gases and half to natural variations in the climate cycle.
If that idea is confirmed, it will need to be incorporated into the computer models used to understand the Earth's carbon cycle and its effect on the climate.
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Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources.
Scottish Labour MSP Malcolm Chisholm questioned the minister about how Scotland's climate change targets could possibly be met when cycle and walking infrastructure budgets had been cut.
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That will help those who seek to understand the carbon cycle and with it, the consequences of greenhouse-gas-induced climate change.
"As each year passes and we hear that a warming record has been broken, or nearly broken again, it provides further evidence that unfortunately we are not just seeing a natural cycle of global warming, and that instead humans are having an effect on the climate, " said Dr Huntingford, who works with climate models to understand the implications of increased levels of greenhouse gases.
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Many scientific studies indicate that the global climate will soon enter a substantial cooling phase attributable to a weak new solar cycle.
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Regarding the possibility that the global climate will soon enter a substantial cooling phase attributable to a weak new solar cycle, this may ultimately prove true also.
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Climate scientists have already looked at changes related to Sun spot activity - a cycle of approximately 11 years - and long-term changes in the Sun's brightness, which has a cycle that lasts for centuries.
He argues that the most-cited climate models misjudge factors such as the effects of clouds, aerosols and the solar cycle.
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