Ten years ago when I moved to Tennessee
from the warm climate of Florida, my boot collection was pretty thin.
From the warmer climates of Roman times when vineyards flourished in England and Wales to the colder conditions that led to crop failure, famine and pandemics in early medieval times, Europe's climate has varied over the past three millennia.
Not exact matches
For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged
from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say
warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new
climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts
from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp
of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all
of us.»
More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions
of key
climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global
warming from reaching catastrophic levels.
Trump and several
of his cabinet members deny the consensus among
climate scientists that carbon dioxide
from human activity is the primary cause
of global
warming.
WASHINGTON — Biofuels made
from the leftovers
of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global
warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat
climate change.
One problem is that dangerous levels
of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases
from nature due to
warming driven by humans.
European
Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters in Brussels he deeply regretted the U.S. pullout
from the pact to fight the dangers
of global
warming, which was signed by more than 190 countries, and said it could not be renegotiated as Trump has suggested [B5N1G8011].
In a recent analysis
of climate events
from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob»
of unusually
warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced
climate change.
Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its
climate change investigation
of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement
from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global
warming.
Stephen Harper's opposition to remedial
climate measures led to Canada withdrawing
from the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, the immediate cause
of the
warming trend.
Hacked e-mails
from the
Climate Research Unit (CRU) at England's University
of East Anglia (UEA) showed that CRU researchers were defending the thesis that humans are causing global
warming by suppressing contrary evidence... Continue Reading
But over the past two decades an invasion
of foreign restaurants has brought tongue - tingling tastes
from warmer climates to this chilly part
of northern Europe.
A team
of 15 executive chefs lead the food preparation on the 10 ships throughout the year as the cruising season shifts
from warm climates like the Caribbean and Australia in the North American winter to Europe and the Pacific Northwest for the summer.
Chardonnay
from warmer climates like Napa or Paso Robles on the other hand, are boisterous and tropical, like pineapples and peaches sashaying in billowy sundresses to a calypso band
of figs (not entirely out
of the realm
of possibility).
Both capsicum peppers and tea arrived later, also
from the
warmer climates south
of Siberia.
The size
of your abdomen is still quite manageable this week, allowing freedom
of movement, but as your belly grows larger, you may be much more comfortable in less restrictive clothing made
from lighter - weight fabrics, particularly in
warmer climates.
Nor would you get information on global
warming from a
climate scientist because they are «bias» in favor
of anthropic global
warming.
A couple
of weeks later, our main
climate change page jumped
from around position 220 in the results for the search phrase «global
warming» to around position 75.
With Trump taking the US out
of the Paris
Climate Agreement, New York can expect
warmer temperatures, greater flooding and more damage
from storms, and a whole host
of other issues.
Many
of them feel global
warming or man - made
climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away
from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.
The main cause
of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions
from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and
warm the planet.
Notably, the rise and expansion
of both the Indus Valley civilization (
from about 5350 years to about 4600 years ago) and the Vedic civilization (
from about 3450 years to about 3100 years ago) occurred during periods when
climate was relatively
warm, wet, and stable.
The Atlantic Ocean surface circulation is an important part
of the Earth's global
climate, moving
warm water
from the tropics towards the poles.
«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions
from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid
climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department
of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author
of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Researchers
from the Niels Bohr Institute have analysed the natural
climate variations over the last 12,000 years, during which we have had a
warm interglacial period and they have looked back 5 million years to see the major features
of the Earth's
climate.
Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on
climate engineering could become part
of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon
from the atmosphere, or prevent the
warming effects
of solar radiation.
Despite all these variables, scientists
from Svante Arrhenius to those on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change have noted that doubling preindustrial concentrations
of CO2 in the atmosphere
from 280 parts per million (ppm) would likely result in a world with average temperatures roughly 3 degrees C
warmer.
The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the effects
of climate change on the release
of carbon
from soils
of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the potential for a positive feedback
of permafrost carbon release on
climate warming.
«We're glad the governor went to global
warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons
from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director
of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with
climate scientists.
A large number
of additional observations are broadly consistent with the observed
warming and reflect a flow
of heat
from the atmosphere into other components
of the
climate system.
This means that the science
of climate change may partially undergo a shift
of its own, moving
from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough
warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.
From climate campaigners to high - level diplomats, those who are committed to fighting global
warming say making a strong agreement in Paris next year that radically reduces levels
of greenhouse gas emissions is critical.
Now a new analysis is estimating the pace
of species movement because
of both
climate change and land use, revealing new pressures that stem
from local decisions to build, plant and cut on the
warming landscape.
Jochem Marotzke and Piers M. Forster have now explained the
warming pause in terms
of random fluctuations arising
from chaotic processes in the
climate system.
Lead researcher Alex Chepstow - Lusty
of French Institute
of Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, says
warmer temperatures enabled the Inca to build mountainside terraces for growing crops at altitudes previously too cold to support agriculture, and provided meltwater
from the Andean glaciers for irrigation (
Climate of the Past, vol 5, p 375).
About half
of this near - term
warming represents a «commitment» to future
climate change arising
from the inertia
of the
climate system response to current atmospheric concentrations
of greenhouse gases.
Driven by stronger winds resulting
from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively
warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside
of the ice.
Warm water flowing through the Indonesian archipelago
from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean influences the
climate of the surrounding regions.
Recent modelling by researchers
from the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm
Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies
of past
climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm
climate, suggest that the planet will soon have
warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become
warm enough.
Professor Julian Murton,
from the University
of Sussex, who led on the study, said: «As our
climate warms mountain rock walls are becoming more unstable — so working out how to predict rock falls could prove crucial in areas where people go climbing and skiing.
Roy Spencer, a
climate scientist at the University
of Alabama who argued
from the skeptical side, agrees that human contributed carbon dioxide lessens the planet's ability to shed heat, meaning that
warming is likely.
«Moreover, the latest developments in
climate science lend greater urgency to the case for action: Effects on natural systems are already being observed and recent findings concerning the potential scope and magnitude
of damages
from future
warming are increasingly worrisome,» the report says.
Now, research
from the University
of Missouri suggests that even as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere drive the
climate toward
warmer temperatures, the weather will remain predictable.
«We found that, apart
from slight biases at the extreme ends
of the political spectrum, people in Oklahoma — a state where the concept
of «global
warming» traditionally gets quite a chilly reception — readily perceived feedback
from the
climate system.»
Today, as
warming waters caused by
climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk
of losing mass
from rapidly retreating glaciers.
Millions
of US citizens suffer
from neglected tropical diseases that most doctors there have barely heard
of, linked to both poverty and the
warming climate
But researchers
from the University
of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, working alongside the University
of Zurich, discovered that this extinction took place during a short ice age which preceded the global
climate warming.
These findings
from University
of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre
of Excellence for
Climate System Science, reported in Nature
Climate Change, are the result
of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean
warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C
warmer than pre-industrial conditions.
«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 %
of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global
warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg
from the Australian National University Hub
of the ARC Centre
of Excellence for
Climate System Science.