Sentences with phrase «about extreme climate»

Can someone please answer the following questions about extreme climate events?

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Another expert, University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd, said that «while we have to be careful about knee - jerk cause - effect discussions, the National Academy of Science and recent peer - reviewed literature continue to show that some of today's extremes have climate change fingerprints on them.»

There's still a lot we don't know about why some weather is so extreme and how much climate change is to blame (especially when it comes to hurricanes).

Whether or not farmers agree about the causes or even existence of climate change, researchers agree that farmers still have to prepare their farms for the consequences of rising temperatures, increased atmospheric CO2 and more extreme weather events.

Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.

Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

In today's climate, about 2 percent of the Indian population sometimes gets exposed to extremes of 32 - degree wet - bulb temperatures.

They bust myths about climate change, and explain the links between climate and extreme weather.

But Foley hopes that, after the election, Hurricane Sandy will spur a long - term discussion about climate change and extreme weather events.

«We recommend for the folks that are talking with farmers one on one, it's probably a more effective communication strategy to talk about more extreme weather rather than saying, «Let's take care of anthropogenic climate change,»» said J. Gordon Arbuckle, a sociology professor with Iowa State University who helps conduct the survey.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

Carolyn Gramling writes about studies that, for the first time, blame specific extreme weather events on human - caused climate change — certain to be a hot topic in 2018.

The extreme events induced by climate change will have drastic consequences on forest functions and services and may bring about important drought - induced die - off events.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

This approach should be useful to managers who must decide how much water to release for agricultural use or to conserve behind dams, especially as climate change is expected to bring about more frequent and extreme floods and droughts.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

Significantly, there is growing unease about the link between climate change and extreme weather, with 74 per cent of Americans now agreeing that «global warming is affecting weather in the United States».

That may be true if you are talking about climate models, but in determining the impact of higher temperatures on ecosystems and agriculture, knowledge about the MWP and other past temperature extremes is likely very interesting.

The thing about climate change: it doesn't hit home, until it (literally) hits home — extreme storms, droughts, flash floods and accelerating sea level rise triggering more frequent coastal flooding.

Just days later, a real - time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent — a small, but clear, effect, the scientists say.

Join us for this urgent and important discussion about climate extremes in Texas.

record climate extremes — indeed, it is only through using proxies that scientists know about past extremes, he says.

Marjory is way ahead of us on that, and I hope to get her back to talk about ways to prepare your food production for extreme climate change.

Dr Kevin Anchukaitis, associate professor of paleoclimatology at the University of Arizona, who also wasn't involved in the study, disagrees that proxy records can't record climate extremes — indeed, it is only through using proxies that scientists know about past extremes, he says.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

«In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

«The field of extreme event attribution is not just about anthropogenic climate change,» Sobel said.

What are top world scientists telling government about climate extremes?

«For a long time, the standard answer of climate scientists to an extreme event was «we can't attribute single events to climate change», which when you think about it is an incredibly naive position.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

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).

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A story published Monday by The Blade, a Toledo, OH, daily newspaper, says auto makers are finding EVs lose about 30 % of their range in extreme hot and cold climates, citing sources at BMW AG's Mini and Tesla Motors Inc..

«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.

Well I wanted to let you know that Petcurean has recently launched a brand new line of pet food called «Gather», and the idea behind Gather is to provide food for dogs and cats with sustainability and transparency and organic ingredients are the key aspects of the brand, and we know that one of the biggest trends right now in both the human and pet food arenas are... global warming, climate change, extremes in weather, it's all on their minds, so we just launched Gather in August of this year and we'll be starting to stress the food to reach all stores in October, so we're really excited about that.

These good house dogs can adapt to just about any living space, although in terms of climate, they can not handle extreme temperatures.

Co-opting what winter - gear manufacturers know about keeping people warm and dry in extreme climates, pet apparel companies are applying similar technology to gear for dogs, while taking into account the physiology of dogs, as well as their comfort, the way they move and the winter activities they are likely to engage in.

Come listen to Dr. Shepherd speak about climate change, extreme weather and the importance of conservation over drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

There are two new papers in Nature this week that go right to the heart of the conversation about extreme events and their potential relationship to climate change.

There's been a lot of noise about extreme weather the past few months, and it frustrates me, because I think that too much jumping up and down about it does a disservice to the science, and to future expectations of immediate, in - your - face evidence of climate change.

-- At the other extreme, CO2 growth exceeding exponential at 1.5 % / year would be inconsistent with historical trends and with the negative feedback caused by human concern about climate change.

Joanna Walters links extreme weather events with climate change in a recent article in the Guardian, however, some reservations have been expressed about such links in past discussions.

While it has gotten about one degree warmer since 1900, there is no clear evidence that current climate is anywhere outside of natural variability, and mankind is, at this time, successfully living in climate extremes ranging from the far North to the Equator where climate differences are much more than 3C.

SPIEGEL / Axel Bojanowski claim that the Science world is upset about a recent Munich Re study, when it comes to extreme weather and growing cost from climate change.

A story in The Times of London examines new expressions of concern by scientists about the perils of overstating the links between extreme events and climate change.

Oxfam America and other groups working to limit vulnerability to disasters, including those related to climate extremes, were cautiously upbeat about the analysis.