Therefore, the cyclicity observed in the successions was most likely climate-controlled.
Unfortunately if Ridley is wrong about the climate and the worst case (or even most likely case) climate scenario comes to fruition, there will be nobody to bail out the planet.
In the most likely scenarios, climate change would cause some kind of regional or continental disruption, like a major crop failure; this disruption would cascade through the world's tightly connected economic and political systems to produce a global effect.
It disappeared from its mainland range at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago, most likely through climate change and consequent shrinkage of its habitat, hunting by humans, or a combination of the two.
Changes in α are most likely when climate change alters the resources for which species compete.
The complex dynamics governing high plague incidence in this region are not fully understood despite extensive research but most likely involve climate, mammalian reservoirs, vector species, and habitat ecotypes (4, 7, 14 ).
Scientists believe that an extreme drought between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate change.
The scientists conclude that warmer air temperatures, most likely caused by climate change, are responsible for the decline of the multiyear sea ice at a rate of 8.6 percent a decade and "may soon result in an ice-free Arctic Ocean".
