Sentences with phrase «when changing climate conditions»

Not exact matches

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Chris Pincher Conservative MP and member of the energy and climate change select committee Policing policy Westminster recently witnessed a huge demonstration when thousands of police officers protested against the arbitrary changes the government is bulldozing through on their working conditions.

Importantly, when modern climate models — the same as those used in the United Nations» recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these ficlimate models — the same as those used in the United Nations» recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these fiClimate Change reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these findings.

Bowern hopes to also mine the cognate database for insights into pronouns, color terms, and changes of meaning that may give clues to ancient ways of life when climate conditions changed or trading intensified.

In his 1864 book Man and Nature (original title: Man the Disturber of Nature's Harmonies), George Perkins Marsh catalogued numerous examples of changing climate conditions on losing forests and wrote, «When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold [humus] is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mold has been converted.

«Climate change researchers know that when we look out over the next 100 years, things will get warmer and, on a per - person basis, use of air conditioning will rise.

One of the main ways wildlife will survive climate change is to move to new areas when climate conditions become intolerable for them.

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

Post-glacial conditions changed to a cool, temperate climate by ~ 15,000 cal BP, slightly cooler and wetter than today [31 — 33,48], a time when the Chinchihuapi Creek formed.

It would be really great if you could write a separate article about skincare, especially in extreme conditions (when camping or changing climates or long flights).

[2011 Paper — Cited by 493 times] Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient Two conditions set the stage for transformational adaptation to climate change: large vulnerability in certain regions, populations, or resource systems; and severe climate change that overwhelms even robust human use systems.

When the disbelievers attending and participating in these events are finally forced to function under the «real» dire weather related conditions where climate change is happening now and most prevalent, perhaps then we can hope for them to move toward «action» and farther away from their empty «talk».

Motivated reasoning is a condition of how we all reason - particularly when we are heavily identified within an ideological or cultural framework, as you no doubt are within the taxonomy of climate change culture.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet got a warm round of applause when he announced at Carbon Expo in Melbourne that Australia was prepared to sign up to the second round of the Kyoto Protocol — subject to certain conditions.

Climate can be rather stable if nothing is causing it to change, but when the climate is «pushed» or forced to change, it often jumps suddenly to very different conditions, rather than changing graClimate can be rather stable if nothing is causing it to change, but when the climate is «pushed» or forced to change, it often jumps suddenly to very different conditions, rather than changing graclimate is «pushed» or forced to change, it often jumps suddenly to very different conditions, rather than changing gradually.

Climate - driven changes in air conditioning can have an out - sized impact on the electric power sector, forcing utilities to build additional capacity to meet even higher peak demand when temperatures rise.

A 2017 disclosure by San Francisco reads: «The city is unable to predict whether sea level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect on the business operations or financial condition of the city and the local economy.»

To present regional multi-decadal climate projections to the impact communities as part of their driving forces and boundary conditions (for their models and process studies), when there is NO skill on this time scale at predicting changes in climate statistics, is a serious misleading application of the scientific method.

Once such an IPCC exposition of the assumptions, complications and uncertainties of climate models was constructed and made public, it would immediately have to lead, in my view, to more questions from the informed public such as what does calculating a mean global temperature change mean to individuals who have to deal with local conditions and not a global average and what are the assumptions, complications and uncertainties that the models contain when it comes to determining the detrimental and beneficial effects of a «global» warming in localized areas of the globe.

«Climate change researchers know that when we look out over the next 100 years, things will get warmer and, on a per - person basis, use of air conditioning will rise.

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..

Analogies of getting a heart condition checked out by a motor mechanic are relevant when comparing the findings of Cook et al (ie 97 % of expert climate scientists agree that climate change is caused by human activity) versus the OISM petition, signed predominantly by non-climate, possibly non-practising, unpublished, general scientists.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Major innovational pulses occurred at times when South African climate changed rapidly towards more humid conditions, while northern sub-Saharan Africa experienced widespread droughts, as the Northern Hemisphere entered phases of extreme cooling.

When extreme environmental conditions occur, questions often arise regarding the potential role of human - caused or natural climate change.

The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.

All that can be told — and certainly should be told — is that climate change brings new and changed risks, that these risks can have a range of significant implications under different conditions, that there is an array of political considerations to be taken into account when judging what needs to be done, and there are a portfolio of powerful, but somewhat untested, policy measures that could be tried.

This includes identifying the values that may be at risk; synthesizing information on how climate risk management problems can be prioritized and manageably bounded; providing concrete options for managing risks, including how to create or identify such options; summarizing lessons learned in how to defensibly select among options by making explicit the inevitable tradeoffs that will arise when objectives conflict; evaluating the conditions under which such actions would be more or less effective; and providing guidance on how to manage continuous change over time, since climate risks are unlikely to be static.

Perhaps most important, we can slow down the dangerous amplification that is created when forest fires and melting permafrost emit more and more carbon, leading to hotter conditions, which favor more fires and melting permafrost, and so on in a loop that locks in more severe changing climate.

While extreme events per se are not abrupt climate changes as defined in this report, changes in extreme events could lead to abrupt changes in two ways: (1) an abrupt change in a weather or climate extremes regime, for example a sudden shift to persistent drought conditions; or (2) a gradual trend in the frequency or severity of extremes that causes abrupt impacts when societal or ecological thresholds are crossed, as illustrated in Figure 2.10.

The potentially large impact of climate change on dust emissions shows up in particular when comparing present - day with LGM conditions for dust erosion (e.g., Werner et al., 2002).

Addressing the first question in Nature Climate Change, Obermeier et al. (2017) find that the carbon dioxide fertilization effect in C3 grasslands is reduced when conditions are wetter, dryer or hotter than the conditions to which the grasses are adapted.

When we speak of hotter periods in the paleoclimate record or more absorption of radiation and other historical - pre-historical climate conditions, keep in mind that 6.6 billion people were not here and that the conditions needed to sustain such a global population (with advent of agriculture, and urbanization) both in way of climate and economics has changed dramatically.

In a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Science, Geerat Vermeij of UC Davis and Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences write that climate change is creating conditions in the Arctic similar to those found during the warm mid-Pliocene epoch, about 3.5 million years ago, when a number of favorable factors helped many North Pacific mollusk species invade the warming Arctic Ocean and, eventually, the North Atlantic.

Climate change models predict that the Middle East will get warmer and drier, similar to the conditions during the last interglacial period when the Dead Sea dried up.