Sentences with phrase «knowing the climate average»

Knowing the climate average can help determine the productivity of a crop or where the best weather for a beach vacation will be.

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Understanding the climate is a fantastically complicated problem, about which I know only as much as the average scientist, which is to say: not....

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

«Average temperatures don't tell us everything we need to know about climate change,» he said.

«Many studies have looked at average snowfall over a season in climate models, but there's less known about these very heavy snowfalls,» says study author Paul O'Gorman, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the «Hockey Stick» graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.

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Bela Bela IS BEST KNOWN FOR its beautiful malaria free bushveld surrounds and sub-tropical climate that averages 286 sunny days per year and for the fantastic game and Big 5 experiences that are on offer.

Now, clouds do not make heat exchange imponderable, especially in long term trends of climate analysis, the averages due to what we already know about dynamic equilibrium outcomes and what we observe in the feedbacks going back even greater then 30 years.

And, do you know whether 6.7 billion people will be able to maintain any degree of political stability if the climate changes five degrees, globally, on average?

Climate looks at the averages of weather, and climate scientists don't claim to know what will happen in any given time and place in the months and years ahead, just like actuaries don't know what will happen to any individual, but they've studied the average of things like life expectancies among various large Climate looks at the averages of weather, and climate scientists don't claim to know what will happen in any given time and place in the months and years ahead, just like actuaries don't know what will happen to any individual, but they've studied the average of things like life expectancies among various large climate scientists don't claim to know what will happen in any given time and place in the months and years ahead, just like actuaries don't know what will happen to any individual, but they've studied the average of things like life expectancies among various large groups.

These small alterations are taken into account in climate models, with the average of all models (i.e. an ensemble forecast, a term you should know well as a former meteorologist), scientists (like those at the IPCC) can arrive at a sensible estimate of what we are likely to experience in the future.

For climate, you don't, since what you want to know is what happens «on average.»

The scientific community has also known for some time that the predicted future global warming in most climate models (more than 2 degrees C.) would probably be well above the long - term average temperature present at any time during the Holocene.

One thing to remember is that the «equilibrium» temperature of the Earth is roughly 15,700,000 K. I arrived at this number using climate science physics, one simply calculates the «equilibrium» position of the planet Earth, and one finds that it should be in the center of the solar system, not orbiting it, and as we all know there is a star at the center with an average internal temperature of 15,700,000 K

And remember, this is not the result of all of the known problems with the ground based climate records... these three teams, all comprised of well - known climate scientists, are using the same temperature records, and they can't even agree on what the average temperature of the earth is.

No doubt if river flow returns to normal next year, the suspiciously average river flow activity will also be blamed on mankind's unnatural influence on the global climate.

When he presented his misleading graph, when he said 97 % of climate scientists agree, (knowing full well the actual situation that the number is bogus and misleading,) when he mentions adjustments to satellite data but not to surface temperatures with major past cooling and absurd derived precision to.005 * C, when he defends precision in surface global averages but ignores major estimates of temps and krigging in Arctic, Africa, Asia and oceans or Antarctica, he forfeits credibility.

Sure, according to averaged, world - wide records it got a bit warmer and then stopped, but ask any sane middle - aged person whether they feel that their local climate has changed in any kind of devastating way in their lifetime, and they will say no.

Faron also monitors and reports on monthly and seasonal weather averages and places those in the context of the known climate history of British Columbia.

Roger does some good science, but sad to say that despite his pretenses otherwise, he is no less juvenile than your average climate combatant.

Did you know that numerous climate scientists are worried sick that we may be looking at rapid climate change that could raise global average temperatures by 5 - 10 degrees Celsius before the end of this century?

It's not that your average climate blogging bunny does not know the answer, but rather that the explanation has to be on a level that the naive skeptic can grok.

Second, a much more simple method — averaging — show that, no matter what the slight statistical tendency of sceptics is, on aggregate, there is no clear line dividing lunatic sceptics from the enlightened climate scientists and their disciples.

From this post I get the impression the climate scientists measuring the average conditions of weather at discreet time intervals and following the change in the average over time is a very limited approach seeking to identify causes and effects, when we have known for a long time the major inputs in the climate such as insolation, orbital characteristics, evaporation, condensation and etc..

Back in 2009, at the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, nations around the world drew a hypothetical line in the sand, pledging to do everything in their power to prevent the world annual average temperature from warming an additional two degrees Celsius (3.6 °F)- known as the Copenhagen Accord.

Based on current knowledge, however, it appears that achieving a high probability of limiting global average temperature rise to 2C will require that the increase in greenhouse - gas concentrations as well as all the other warming and cooling influences on global climate in the year 2100, as compared with 1750, should add up to a net warming no greater than what would be associated with a CO2 concentration of about 400 parts per million (ppm).

I know NOAA says the decade saw warming of.2 °C, but it's fairly obvious that this number was a result of some major «adjustments» to the models, given that, as noted in the blog above, everyone, including major climate alarmists like Phil Jones and Tim Flannery, had accepted that the planet did not warm, on average, for the decade.

They happen to be a transformation that partials out the local variation from a base climate (ultimately derived from absolute measures and no doubt subject to change as stations come and go) and it therefore depends on a second hidden (but known) averaging process for its accuracy.

That's why I have stopped listening to climate change experts because at the end of the day, they know little more about future climate trends than the average Joe.

It's very reassuring to know how the very average alarmist has such a good grip on climate «problems» whereas the expert sceptic.......

I don't believe climate scientists know any where near as much as they think they do about «global average temperature,» let alone the tenths of a degree change per year they claim to detect.

Yep, no matter how one slices and dices the 5 - year average warming amounts, the modern era's warming represents an increase not even one - tenth of a degree greater than the pre-1950 warming — it is not only a statistically worthless difference, it is completely climate insignificant.

It tells the average visitor much more than he or she would ever want to know about the technical issues involved in climate change, and adds that by donating to the foundation, they can make their lives «carbon neutral.»

For example, we know that if the climate wasn't changing, it would be broken, since the evidence tells us that the climate is in a state of continuous change, moreover; nothing about contemporary change is unusual compared to the paleo record, and this is even true when we compare changes in recent 5 year averages to the changes in multi-century averages recorded in ice cores.

Likewise, the effects on average global temperature and climate of rapidly diminishing albedo evidenced by loss of Arctic sea ice and retreating glaciers, is not accurately known.

If everything is known to man, then surly the average person would be well informed as well, and the debate of future climate change, would be long and over with.

Or is it an average over [1994 — 2023] where 2008 is in the middle in which case I don't know it yet and will need to wait 45 years to get the next climate point?

Climate sensitivity thus makes sense only if one know how T variance change with the average T.

* Sigh... Bob, I know that there is an overwhelming temptation to take three supposedly similar numbers and average them, but it simply is not justified in this or almost any related case in climate science.

The 30 - year averages, known as normals, are used to gain an understanding of how current climate conditions compare with those in recent history.

The implicit assumption underlying all those multi-model projections and averages is that the model physical theory itself is physically complete and would yield a physically true representation of the climate if only the parameters were exactly known, along with the initial conditions.

Climate scientists, knowing that any single year may trend warmer or cooler for a variety of reasons — 1998, for instance, featured an extremely strong El Niño — study globally averaged temperatures over time.

My knowledge of Climate and weather are probably no more than the average person.

If we want to know why, or how, animals have responded to climate in a given area, there is little point in looking at aggregate data — averages of averages of averages.

By 8:40, after being confronted with the facts of the case, and perhaps consulting one of those unread climate science texts that form the theme of my narrative, he wisely retreated from» tiny» to the textbook value he earlier denied, informing those that didn't already know that» annual average at TOA for 90N is 173W / m ^ 2 while at 0 degrees it is 417W / m ^ 2.

15 Humid Tropical Climate No Winters Monthly average temperature above 18ºC (64.4 ºF) Precipitation can exceed 200 - cm Two Types Wet Tropical Tropical Wet and Dry

Therefore no matter which way you cut it, global (massively averaged) temperatures do not reflect the climate that matters — the climate affecting people.

Sadly, even with relatively prime filters we know that some of the components of global temperature are powerfully pseudoperiodic, so even though there are some fifty climate basins averaging out to a global mean we expect distortions in the curve even on spans beyond four decades.