This may sound farfetched to those of us who are following the climate change negotiations and have had access to news
about weather patterns changing as is reported in the latest IPCC report (hyperlink) but it is these kind of explanations that our communities are using to explain the changing weather patterns and how their hope lies in a far - off stone falling back to its original position.
Not exact matches
The most profound
changes may come from the development of a truly intelligent car — vehicles with increasing levels of knowledge
about the driver and driving conditions, from the road itself to traffic
patterns to even the
weather.
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.
«They were questions
about how ice sheets relate to sea level,
changes in the ocean,
changes in the atmosphere and also
changes in
weather and long - term climate
patterns,» says Dr Kennicutt.
«Drought years» happen on average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result of
changes to wind and
weather patterns brought
about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events of the climate phenomenon El Niño.
«Weekly or daily
weather patterns tell you nothing
about longer - term climate
change (and that goes for the warm days too).
I am most concerned
about wide scale
weather pattern changes in West Central Canada and the Northern Plains states and find virtually no new investigation expect for the news reports of record breaking high temperatures in some of the coldest regions of the world..
Moving on to
weather patterns, he spent more and more time reading reports
about El Niño, La Niña, climate
change, and began to see to his daughters» future.
Climate alarm depends on several gloomy assumptions —
about how fast emissions will increase, how fast atmospheric concentrations will rise, how much global temperatures will rise, how warming will affect ice sheet dynamics and sea - level rise, how warming will affect
weather patterns, how the latter will affect agriculture and other economic activities, and how all climate
change impacts will affect public health and welfare.
«There are ominous signs that the earth's
weather patterns have begun to
change dramatically and that these
changes may portend a drastic decline in food production — with serious political implications for just
about every nation on earth,» began the article titled «The Cooling World.»
There are ominous signs that the earth's
weather patterns have begun to
change dramatically and that these
changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just
about every nation on earth.
Reading them, you come to realize how frequently
weather stories you hear — whether
about storms in the Northeast, or droughts in the Southwest — all fit within the
pattern of how our climate is
changing.
We can opine
about changes in sea level, salinity, ocean currents,
weather patterns, etc..
There are three large average surface wind
patterns few know
about: the tropical easterlies (tradewinds), the midlatitude westerlies and the polar easterlies, but variability results in significant
weather changes.
Further information
about Arctic
weather patterns and climate
change will help scientists predict how the Arctic is impacting climate
change globally, as well as how the Arctic contributes to uncertainty within climate models.
However, because we're talking
about larger
patterns, the drought isn't «proof» of climate
change — just as cold
weather isn't «proof» that it's a hoax.
But Nam - Young Kang, who now directs South Korea's National Typhoon Center, and James Eisner, a geographer at Florida State University, set
about a study of
weather data and hurricane, cyclone and typhoon records between 1984 and 2012 to see if they could identify a
pattern of
change.
Meanwhile, USA Today also cited Shepherd, who stated that daily or weekly
weather patterns «say nothing
about longer term climate
change,» something one never hears during the summer months when news outlets are falling over themselves to point to «yet another» indication that burning fossil fuels is making the earth a hotter place.
Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [
About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between
changes in sea ice extent and
weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.
They are realising that their old ideas
about gradual
change - the smooth lines on graphs showing warming and sea - level rise and gradually shifting
weather patterns - are not how the world's climate system works.
We should spend less time worrying
about El Niño or La Niña
weather patterns and more time dealing with the fact that climate
change will be the biggest force in the state's water future, writes scientist Juliet Christian - Smith.
There is still a lot to understand
about how the dramatic
changes occurring in the Arctic will affect
weather patterns further south — in particular, if and how the jetstream might be affected will be vital.
Where is Donahue in talking
about the implications of Global Warming and the costs of species going extinct, agricultural production distrupted through
weather pattern changes, and dealing with the impacts of rising ocean levels and more severe
weather?
The positive side of the destruction wrought by tropical cyclones in recent years — if one is to be found — is that there is a growing interest in learning more
about the connections between
weather patterns and climate
change.
And as loudly as they shout «all lives matter» they would shout for world leaders to stop environmental racism, and shout
about the severe
weather patterns that are already affecting people all over the world because of anthropogenic climate
change.
If they heard
about the
changing weather patterns affecting agriculture in India and actually cared
about the livelihood of farmers there (who rely on steady rains) then would they move faster?
Widespread networks of observers are especially well - suited to detecting global
change — shifts in
weather patterns; movements in the ranges of species; large - scale transformations of eco-systems — and that, unfortunately, is something we will need to know far more
about if we are to mitigate and adapt to the fateful effects we are having on the planet.
Researchers say that smaller creatures tend to be the most resilient to many habitat
changes, and that the loss of their larger predators may actually be a boon to them — but this may matter little if
changes in
weather patterns come
about as climatologists have warned.
The
changes brought
about through human activity will influence and are influencing regional
weather patterns.
If it is not immediately obvious the «recent research» analysis
about the cold
weather is trying to make an argument
about weather patterns as an indicator of longer - term climate
change.