{"id":5484,"date":"2019-09-20T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"how-much-of-climate-change-is-natural-how-much-is-man-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/20\/how-much-of-climate-change-is-natural-how-much-is-man-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much of Climate Change Is Natural? How Much Is Man-Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\nMark New<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As someone who has been working on climate change detection and its causes for over 20 years, I was both surprised and not surprised that I was asked to write on this topic by\u00a0The Conversation. For\u00a0nearly all\u00a0climate scientists, the case is proof that humans are the overwhelming cause of the long-term changes in the climate that we are observing. And that this case should be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite\nthis, climate denialists continue to receive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg\">prominence<\/a>&nbsp;in some\nmedia which can lead people into thinking that man-made climate change is still\nin question. So it\u2019s worth going back over the science to remind ourselves just\nhow much has already been established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Successive\nreports by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\">Intergovernmental Panel on\nClimate Change<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 mandated by the United Nations to assess scientific\nevidence on climate change \u2013 have evaluated the causes of climate change. The\nmost recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">special report on global\nwarming of 1.5 degrees<\/a>&nbsp;confirms that the observed changes in global\nand regional climate over the last 50 or so years are almost entirely due to\nhuman influence on the climate system and not due to natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/climate-explained-how-much-of-climate-change-is-natural-how-much-is-man-made-123604\">Continue\nreading\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark New As someone who has been working on climate change detection and its causes for over 20 years, I was both surprised and not surprised that I was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}