"artificial cause" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the deliberate, man-made causes of a certain event or situation. For example, "The new regulations were put in place as an artificial cause to adjust the market."
Though nitrous oxide is not regulated under the Montreal Protocol, the 1987 agreement to limit emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals, the researchers say it is emerging as the leading artificial cause of ozone loss.
Although Miller and his colleagues think they have ruled out an artificial cause for the mud eruption, the company's drilling "was dangerous, in any case," he said.
Counting mutations would be somewhat too simplistic because some mutations at certain positions may be very unstable (because of a site-specific mutation rate that is well above average) and therefore provide little evidence in favor of an artificial cause rather than natural evolution.
Weeds act like a kind of living "plaster" whenever soil is exposed, either by natural or artificial causes.
The new establishment in Dumfriesshire is far removed from all industrial undertakings, and will thus be free from disturbing effects due to artificial causes.
Finally, natural and artificial causes of the change in the object area were examined by comparing the satellite data analysis results with meteorological data and auxiliary sources.
This correlation, however, is somehow artificial, caused mostly by the fact that our set contains several relatively small molecules, and on the other side also rather large molecules, about which, as already discussed, chemists agree very well on.
By the time Europeans arrived on the continents in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, however, many of these civilizations had ceased to function, due to various natural and artificial causes.
An internal control was introduced to exclude any false-negative test resulting from artificial causes.
Will the world order as portrayed in this year's Digital Evolution Index get overturned as transformational technologies, such as artificial intelligence, cause widespread changes or regulatory and political considerations add to the unevenness of digital markets?
WASHINGTON — There is no proof that foods with artificial colorings cause hyperactivity in most children and there is no need for these foods to carry special warning labels, a government advisory panel voted Thursday.
