Sentences with phrase «abrupt climate change in our future»

The potential for abrupt climate change in our future was explored by a National Research Council committee and published in a very readable book called Abrupt Climate Change, Inevitable Surprises (2002), published by the National Academy Press.

That would perhaps allay fears that we could be pushing the system towards an abrupt climate change in the future.

Not exact matches

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

Abrupt change is indeed a valid concern for the future, but we shouldn't take the Younger Dryas as an archetype for all abrupt change, or assume that a THC shutdown would have a similar effect on a warm climate as it does in a cold clAbrupt change is indeed a valid concern for the future, but we shouldn't take the Younger Dryas as an archetype for all abrupt change, or assume that a THC shutdown would have a similar effect on a warm climate as it does in a cold clabrupt change, or assume that a THC shutdown would have a similar effect on a warm climate as it does in a cold climate.

There is an increasingly strong case to build into any future regime the ability for an «emergency» response to deal with catastrophic climate change, including the abrupt changes in climate now attracting the attentio n of scientists.

Robert I Ellison: Dynamical complexity explains both persistence and abrupt shifts in climate data — and demands that we change our expectations about future behaviour from slow and gradual to abrupt and potentially large.

Dynamical complexity explains both persistence and abrupt shifts in climate data — and demands that we change our expectations about future behaviour from slow and gradual to abrupt and potentially large.

This failure will not be solved in the near future they determine, which precludes these models being able to «predict» abrupt climate change.

For some contrasts between the Younger Dryas and the most serious droughts since then at 8200, 5200, and 4200 years ago, see Fagan (1999) and Harvey Weiss, «Beyond the Younger Dryas: Collapse as adaptation to abrupt climate change in ancient West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean,» pp. 75 - 98 in Confronting Natural Disaster: Engaging the Past to Understand the Future, G. Bawden and R. Reycraft, editors (University of New Mexico Press 2000), at http://www.yale.edu/nelc/weiss/byd.html.

This talk will draw upon results from ice core research over the past twenty years, as well as a new NRC report on abrupt climate change in order to address abrupt change, as seen in the past in ice cores, as seen today in key environmental systems upon which humans depend, and what may be coming in the future.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that a well - known period of abrupt climate change 12000 years ago occurred rapidly in northern latitudes but much more gradually in equatorial regions, a discovery that could prove important for understanding and responding to future climate change.

Nevertheless, even relatively steady changes in the atmospheric circulation may prove important for understanding past and future abrupt climate change if such changes are coincident with large horizontal gradients in surface climate.

Amazon forests represent the world's largest terrestrial biome and potentially the tropical ecosystem most vulnerable to abrupt change in response to future climate change in concert with agricultural development (e.g., Cox et al., 2000; Lenton et al., 2008; Zelazowski et al., 2011).