Sentences with phrase «about modern climate»

Using paleoclimate as a grab bag of random, misunderstood factoids to back up wacky ideas about modern climate change is not a good policy.

However, these findings are not relevant to any debates about modern climate change.

How much this tells anybody about modern climate change is open to debate.

However, these findings are not relevant to any debates about modern climate change.

Not exact matches

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

With the current climate in modern day football, huge sums of money are being thrown about, so # 12m for a talent with the calibre of Saido Berahino has got to be worth the risk.

Troublingly, said Evans, when the team compared their data with various modern climate models under Eocene conditions, most models underestimated polar amplification by about 50 percent.

To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation.

As greenhouse gases have piled up in the atmosphere, climate change has shifted from being a theory about a future threat to a hazardous fact of modern life.

The most detailed record of the Earth's climate over the past 250 000 years is making modern climate modellers think again about the implications of a greenhouse world

By comparing the bones of modern whales to fossils, a team of scientists has traced the growth spurt to about 4.5 million years ago, when climate change increased the food supply.

In our modern exhibitions, people can learn about evolution, biodiversity, minerals, Polar Regions, climate, and the human body.

Information packs include facts about the country, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper if needed

For my Modern World History class, I adapted an argumentative writing task about climate change to ask students «How is climate change affecting people around the world?».

In June the group occupied Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for 25 hours and scrawled words of warning about climate change across the floor in charcoal.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

And this should give any reasonable person — and society — concern about the consequences of forcing the climate into a state that is without precedent in modern society.

If you don't know much about climate science, or about the details of the controversy over the «hockey stick,» then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power.

On July 23, I wrote about the rocky rollout, prior to peer review, of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous.»

[Response: I would agree with much of this comment, though I'm far less sanguine about our understanding of D - O events, and I'm far less convinced of their relevance to modern climate.

Warn us that climate change is destroying our planet, and only a small part of our prefrontal cortex (which worries about the future) will glimmer; then we'll go back to worrying about snakes or their modern equivalent — terrorists.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

Modern climate only started to develop about 5 million years ago, with the alternating ice ages lasting roughly 100k years and interglacials lasting 10 — 20k years appearing about 2 million years ago.

Goreham's session was summarized in the NEPPA conference material as offering «a discussion about energy, electricity and modern society, with common sense about climate change, public policy, and implications for the power industry.»

Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.

Building Knowledge to Reduce Uncertainties — Landscape - scale restoration projects like 4FRI present the opportunity to learn about the influence of accelerated thinning on forest water budgets and resilience using modern forestry techniques and under a changing and variable climate.

What can a Medieval climate crisis teach us about modern - day warming?

I think that many non-academic people, who would be put off by technical questions like the validity of principal components algorithms, may very well be interested in what I have learned about these processes as they apply to modern climate studies.

In part, they attribute this lack of coverage to a modern media environment where very few stories can survive more than a few 24 - hour news cycles, which is «prohibitive for raising awareness about slowly growing threats such as climate change.»

As the Post noted («Study Confirms Past Few Decades Warmest on Record», June 2, 2006 [link]-RRB-, the academy study backed up the conclusions my colleagues and I reached more than a decade ago about the unprecedented nature of modern climate change.

To understand this just think in post normal science and «modern» specialization: How in the world a «climate scientist» or an «ecologist» watching 8 hours a day at a computer screen can know about nature.

Our analysis is based on about equal parts of information gleaned from paleoclimate studies, climate modeling, and modern observations of ongoing climate changes.

«The climate has always changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates of change of temperature, of ice volume, of sea level or of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.

If «climate change» alarmists were serious about catastrophies, then the focus would be on preparing for a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) which would destroy most electrical / electronic systems in its path, wiping out modern civilization in that hemisphere.

Worldview 3 Something unusual * MUST * have happened about 1000 years ago (beyond the range of borehole analysis)-- perhaps a Medieval Warm Period — that invalidates modern climate - change science.

It goes deeper, and provides more information on the fact that modern day meat consumption is the leading cause of environmental destruction and human induced climate change on our planet, yet we never hear about it.

But the modern range of estimates is based on more lines of evidence and better methodology (analyzing recent observations, better models, and investigations into pre-human climate conditions), which give about the same picture for now.

In his new book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, he explores how the issue of climate change has come to be such a dominant issue in modern poClimate Change, he explores how the issue of climate change has come to be such a dominant issue in modern poclimate change has come to be such a dominant issue in modern politics.

I'd give it better than 50 - 50 that talking about surface temperature without at least a footnote to UHI — the Urban Heat Island effect — says a lot more about the lack of integrity of modern climate research that anything else.

In short, climate always changes and it is very difficult to see why some people get so excited about the modern era of warming

A typical modern, utility - scale, wind turbine will generate about as much clean electricity as 2000 average roof - top solar installations (around 2012, see here), so you would think that people who want action on climate change would support wind power.

While there is general agreement about the modern global warming trend (since 1850), scientific controversies increase as climate research moves further back in time, and predictions move further into the future.

Modern predictive models require data about the specific mechanisms of change too, in order to better project the response to climate change.

I spoke to Syukuro Manabe, one of the founders of modern climate models and a researcher at the GFDL about this in Atlanta last month.»

As much of this paper is concerned with instrumental records deriving from thermometers it should be noted that in Chapter 5 of his book» Climate History and the Modern World», Lamb makes many good points about the relatively limited accuracy of instrumental records.

However, if there are any «lessons» to be learned from archaeology, these are not about «if» or «how» particular human groups adapted to climate change events or developments at a specific place and time in the past; such an emphasis would fail to recognise the unique nature of modern climate change.

He would have us believe that the modern equivalent of the Inquisition, manipulating the public debate about climate, is the established scientific order, represented in Australia by universities and bodies like the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO.

(Read much more about this in my survey of modern climate skepticism, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their climate skepticism, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds?)

It seems to me that if one wants to make an apples to apples comparison about the relative importance of different climate forcing factors, then one ought to be looking at their differential impact under modern conditions.

Reading the Sierra Club report, I'm inclined to think the risk is less that policy makers will follow its recommendations and more that it will be viewed as evidence that those who care about climate change in rich countries are trying to stop poor countries from developing modern, high - energy lives.