Sentences with phrase «about planetary climates»

If you are concerned about planetary climate, then it behooves you to consider the «history» of the planet before singling out something as paltry as the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age.

Not exact matches

Cutting a hole in the pool table won't win favour at your local bar, but it can teach us more about chaotic systems such as the climate or planetary motion

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

«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.

Frank Shu, who has done pioneering research in astronomy on planetary disks, the origin of meteorites and the evolution of stars, will talk about reversing climate change.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

Amid nonstop work tracking developments at the climate talks in Paris, I had to slip in a note about the Planetary Health Alliance, an important new initiative aimed at mixing disciplines in ways that can bolster human health by considering its relationship to the health of ecosystems.

This post is, like the majority of posts on RealClimate, not about «views what should be done», but analysis of how the planetary climate system works and what consequences we can expect from our collective actions.

I don't think all our efforts to get to greater understanding about what's going on in our planetary climate are all good or all bad, but I do think a lot of decsions are heavily impacted by the public's perception and the image of the bear swimming to oblivion, if that's in fact what happens, carries more weight than scientific objectivity.

Your spurious sarcasm language aside the increase in knowledge about climate science over the last 25 years has been truly impressive (for example our understanding of how the increased heat retention gets moved around the planetary system).

In summary, precipitous decline in the growth rate of GHG forcing about 25 years ago caused a decrease in the rate of growth of the total climate forcing and thus a flattening of the planetary energy imbalance over the past two decades.

However, even a smaller figure (I had calculated about 0.17 W / m ^ 2 based on your inflated figure for total planetary albedo, but you can check it out) is still significant when compared with the total flux imbalance, which I think is a more informative comparison than an arbitrarily selected change in cloud cover, because it compares the sea ice reduction with the effects of all climate variations that have been operating in recent years..

His talk, which was recorded and has been posted to the TEDx YouTube page, addressed the idea of climate scientists as «planetary physicians» who can provide the public with factual information and useful advice about human - caused climate change.

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The impacts of climate change are becoming more frequent and devastating [1], and the world's leading scientists have issued stark warnings about the scale of the planetary emergency.

Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to that one, as you are talking about a complete planetary climate system on an imaginary planet, and the pressure would have a host of different effects on winds, evaporation, all kinds of things.

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

I think we have all heard enough about this subject but I've got to deal with it first before I go on to explain how misleading I believe the concept to have been ever since it was first used in connection with planetary climates.

What began with climate studies of Venus continued for planets like Mars as new space missions sent back huge amounts of data about Earth's other planetary cousin.

There has been a lot of speculation about various complex periodic changes in climate and possible linkage to planetary orbital periods.

The physics relevant is what astrophysicists use to describe the atmospheres of stars, to gather information about Venus, or to explain the evolution of planetary climate.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.

If the 195 nations that signed a climate accord in Paris in 2015 actually honour their collective vow to contain planetary average warming to about 1.5 °C above historic averages, there will still be record - breaking temperatures and more intense extremes of wet and dry — but over a smaller proportion of the globe, according to a new study.

Although one of the ES components mentioned above, the global economy, is about to inadvertently transform that face through massive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the so - induced planetary warming, one other crucial component, the human brain, struggles to advertently preserve it by constructing clumsy institutions like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf).

Leicester, England About Blog A blog about exploring the alien weather and climate on planets beyond Earth, including a random collection of ideas and ramblings from a University of Leicester planetary scienAbout Blog A blog about exploring the alien weather and climate on planets beyond Earth, including a random collection of ideas and ramblings from a University of Leicester planetary scienabout exploring the alien weather and climate on planets beyond Earth, including a random collection of ideas and ramblings from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.