Sentences with phrase «about changing climate conditions»

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Even climate change, which threatens the living condition of all traditional social orders and civilisations, discloses the scale of calamities brought about by this distinctively novel social sphere.

Research needs still not met Luce said those on the front lines of forest management have a lot to think about, and planning specifically for how climate change will impact drought conditions is «probably at the early stages.»

Whereas it would take about 20 years for the warm permafrost regions to thaw under present climate change conditions, the paper says it could take just five years for that permafrost underneath the disturbed land to reach the melting point.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

John Rennie: Yeah and they are very serious issues about looking into the future about this and possibly a lot of parts of the Southwestern, Western United States, in particular, could really be faced with some very severe drought conditions if the climate starts to the change the way is sometimes feared.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

The newly recovered descriptions could provide valuable perspective about past conditions and possibly help scientists hone computer models that predict changes in the region's climate.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.

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.

The asymmetric effect of beliefs about global warming on perceptions of local seasonal climate conditions in the U.S.» Global Environmental Change 23:1488 - 1500.

Because this climate sensitivity is derived from empirical data on how Earth responded to past changes of boundary conditions, including atmospheric composition, our conclusions about limits on fossil fuel emissions can be regarded as largely independent of climate models.

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).

Project Learning Tree and the University of Florida developed this secondary module to help educators in the Southeast teach about climate change impacts on forest ecosystems, the role of forests in sequestering carbon, and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changing climatic conditions.

Proboscis is today launching the first series of Material Conditions, a set of eight eBooks created with our self - publishing platform bookleteer, asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public seConditions, a set of eight eBooks created with our self - publishing platform bookleteer, asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public seconditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts.

«With increased awareness about climate change and almost daily news stories about extreme weather conditions, consumers want to feed their cats in a way that minimizes their ecological footprint,» she said.

About Heartworm Disease According to the American Heartworm Society (AHS), cases of heartworm have been diagnosed in all 50 states and changes to the environment and natural climate conditions, as well as animal movement, have increased the potential for heartworm infection in more areas around the country.

Despite their status as invasive or dangerous, these plants have immense value and can teach us about climate change adaptation and how to survive NYC's harsh urban conditions.

Secondly, we don't have full information about the current conditions, and so, like for weather forecasts, if there are aspects of climate change that are chaotic, we can't predict those over the long term.

One focus of these self - described climate skeptics, several said, is to reconcile their often divergent assertions about what is, and isn't, driving changes in temperature and other conditions around the planet.

[Response: Well the discussion in the TAR is actually very clear about what can be evaluated (current climate conditions and variability, past changes etc.) and the use of GCM projections of possible future climates, and all of the apparently dramatic points made by Crichton are acknowledged and discussed there.

• Lack of formal model verification & validation, which is the norm for engineering and regulatory science • Circularity in arguments validating climate models against observations, owing to tuning & prescribed boundary conditions • Concerns about fundamental lack of predictability in a complex nonlinear system characterized by spatio - temporal chaos with changing boundary conditions • Concerns about the epistemology of models of open, complex systems

6) Rit Carbone at NCAR (a mesoscale and radar meteorologist expert) has raised the question about whether the environmental conditions might change in ways to greatly reduce the strong summer half year diurnal cycle and associated storms, by dealing with other details not resolved by climate models.

They find that the effects of climate change and the increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide on plants have contributed to them drawing down about 44 more grams of carbon per square metre, every year since the 1980s, compared to pre-industrial conditions.

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

To figure out whether climate change will cause more intense and frequent tornadoes requires asking lots of smaller questions about the atmospheric conditions necessary to produce tornadoes and to determine how climate change will affect each of these various atmospheric conditions that combine to propagate tornadoes.

This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.

As we shall see there are certain aspects of atmospheric conditions necessary to produce violent tornadoes that climate change is enhancing while there are other atmospheric conditions necessary to form tornadoes about which scientists are uncertain exactly how a warming world will affect them.

No - I also don't doubt that ACO2 will warm the climate if all other conditions remain unchanged (which is highly unlikely to happen in the actual system), but am uncertain about the magnitude / timing of the effect in the real climate system and whether any change will lead to conditions that are better or worse for the US or the planet overall.

While the body of scientific knowledge about climate change and its impacts has grown tremendously, future conditions can not be predicted with absolute certainty.

Successful mitigation of climate change is not about finding «a solution,» but developing appropriate institutional and policy options for technological innovation — options that allow experimentation and progress on multiple fronts, tolerate risk, accept that there will be both successes and failures, and focus on creating the initial conditions for progress.

NSIDC: ice extent Dec. 28, 2000 = 13.065 km2, Dec. 28, 2017 = 12.421 km2, about 5 % < ice extent, this is supposed to be a big climate changing condition?

Respondents from each of the six audience segments were randomly assigned to three different experimental conditions in which they read brief essays about climate change discussed as either an environmental problem, a public health problem or a national security problem.

These cuts spell a 46 percent decline in data about the Earth's conditions that these new satellites were designed to provide, and the Government Accountability Office report concluded that because of the trouble - plagued satellite program, «our nation's ability to understand climate change may be limited.»

Because this climate sensitivity is derived from empirical data on how Earth responded to past changes of boundary conditions, including atmospheric composition, our conclusions about limits on fossil fuel emissions can be regarded as largely independent of climate models.

It's now clear that Mitch Taylor was right to be skeptical of sea ice models based on pessimistic climate change assumptions; he was also right to be more optimistic than his PBSG colleagues about the ability of polar bears to adapt to changing sea ice conditions (Taylor and Dowsley 2008), since the bears have turned out to be more resilient than even he expected.

On the basis of current evidence about the observed impacts of climate change on environmental conditions, climate change will be an increasingly important cause of human insecurity globally in the future.

It is true that the model replications of past conditions are not perfect, which is to be expected given the chaotic variations of the climate about its now - changing baseline; however, the ensemble of model simulations has been tested against previously observed perturbations to climate (such as the response to volcanic eruptions) and overall they correspond well with what is observed to occur.

Ideal for youth and adults, FISH TANK, by Scott Bischke, is an insightful allegory about the human condition, tackling issues of politics and power, limited resources and climate change.

Our results show that dust − climate feedbacks can explain the final push into extreme glacial conditions for both GMT and pCO2, thereby explaining about one - fourth of the total interglacial − glacial change for both properties.

It is easy to claim that the conditions experienced by millions, if not billions of people are the result, not of politics and policies, but of climate change, and to promise that policies which will mitigate climate change will bring about world peace, end poverty and create a general sense of well being amongst all people.

They may begin to care about climate change because it is going to make their condition worse in the future.

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.

Fostering a resilient community is about developing a community that can thrive despite the challenges brought to it by changing climate conditions and the consequences of depleting energy resources.

Controlling for observed conditions, beliefs about global climate change had a large effect on perceptions of seasonal temperature, and smaller effects on perceptions of seasonal precipitation.»

Health professionals need to learn about climate change and related risks to be able to identify vulnerable people, such as the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, participate in emergency responses and contribute to health system stewardship.

I've appreciated the no - nonsense tone that some negotiators have taken so far this year, opening meetings that are normally filled with self - congratulation and fake formality are being filled with strong statements about the conditions for success or failure of this meeting, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) stated that if we do not establish a mechanism to address Loss and Damage from climate change that addresses compensation at this meeting they will consider it a failure, I sincerely hope they hold strong to that position.

A limitation of these types of analyses is that they are not based on consistent assumptions about socio - economic conditions, adaptation and sectoral interactions, and regional climate change.