Sentences with phrase «actual changes of climate»

adaptability the degree to which adjustments are possible in practices, processes, or structures of systems to projected or actual changes of climate; adaptation can be spontaneous or planned, and can be carried out in response to or in anticipation of changes in conditions

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growtOf all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growtof the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growtof actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

Stefan Rahmstorf at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and colleagues, compared the predictions made in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the actual subsequent data.

«With the rise of ecohydrology as a discipline, we can now work across scales — from the individual tree to the mountain stream — to see the actual effects of species change in relation to climate.»

It's unclear whether one of these single policies was the actual driver of the reduction in emissions, or an indicator that a state takes climate change mitigation seriously and is attacking the issue on many fronts, Saikawa says.

The take - home message is that those parts of «reality» that are simply our human constructions — «objects» such that «if everyone stopped believing in them, they would cease to exist» — serve as obstacles preventing us from dealing with the actual realities of climate change, biodiversity loss, and other human - generated threats to our continued existence.

In terms of global climate change, the new studies show that «the actual situation is worse» than policymakers realize, says Peter Griffith, an ecosystems ecologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The IPCC [the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] took a shortcut on the actual scientific uncertainty analysis on a lot of the issues, particularly the temperature records.

In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model predictions of past El Niño changes against actual records of past ENSO activity.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

This statement stands in stark opposition to the actual findings of the world scientific community (e.g. the various National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-RRB-, and the vast majority of actual peer - reviewed scientific studies.

For example, the criticisms of James Hansen's 1988 global warming projections never go beyond «he was wrong,» when in reality it's important to evaluate what caused the discrepancy between his projections and actual climate changes, and what we can learn from this.

The actual climate change in many locations has been relatively small and within the range of known natural variability.

He also conveniently ignores positive feedbacks (e.g. increased water vapor) and most of the actual physics of climate change.

According to a new study co-authored by Allen and published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, the eventual peak level of warming that the planet will see from greenhouse gas emissions is going up at 2 percent per year, much faster than actual temperatures are increasing.

A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.

Drawing from actual recordings of Larsen C — the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, which is rapidly melting — the artists created a haunting, contemplative soundtrack and immersive installation that reminds viewers of the threat of sea level rise and climate change.

Either most of the actual drying was not caused by warming per se, or the models are all significantly underestimating a key aspect of climate change (see section 7) even though many of them are getting the spatial gradients in today's climate about right.»

This inherent trend in the number of record - breaking events confounds the interpretation of actual trends in the presence of any underlying climate change.

As I've reminded Mr. Roger, this discussion is not about me, but about the actual science of climate change.

Shouldn't actual physical evidence be placed ahead of what a climate model states as far as trying to prove that climate change is an actuality?

The evidence from those exercises are pretty convincing that anthropogenic climate change (which is what I presume you mean) is ongoing — but that is a conclusion that comes from consideration of the actual physical evidence.

Forms of international cooperation and harmony in fairness issues and other matters only tangentially related to actual climate change are certainly possible.

In terms of mainstream media, the proportion of stories that question climate change or the «balance» of the stories (e.g. presenting «both sides») is grossly out of proportion to the actual level of scientific consensus.

The public relations efforts of developed nations on climate change are always more effective than ours, but it is more important to look at their actual actions.

This statement stands in stark opposition to the actual findings of the world scientific community (e.g. the various National Academies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-RRB-, and the vast majority of actual peer - reviewed scientific studies.

My blog is a way of focusing on actual arguments about climate change policies as they unfold, teasing out these arguments the often hidden ethical questions, and inviting the world to see these questions not as «value neutral» scientific or economic questions but as ethical issues.

We provided them with statements from actual advocates using a variety of «frames» to describe climate change — as a national security problem, as a business opportunity, as a secular moral issue, as a Christian moral issue, and in terms of the environmental impact.

the fossil fuel industry's climate change denialist propaganda disguised as «science education», and to support actual science (not to mention the survival of the human species) by accepting Laurie David's offer to distribute the DVDs.

When I talk to people about climate change (and the one time that I gave a talk on climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.

Modelers now are comparing not just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

Modelers of course do not compare just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

As usual with any Post article that discusses global warming and climate change, the comments are already dominated by sneering, arrogant deniers who ignore the actual content of the article and launch into their scripted, robotic, idiotic diatribes.

I mean, obviously the actual time and date of ice out reflects changes in (local) climate, but the guesses would reflect what people who live in the region perceive as «normal» which would also be important data.

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

«Because the global earth system is highly complicated, until a relationship between actual storm intensity and tropical climate change is clearly demonstrated, it would be premature to conclude that such a link exists or is significant (from the standpoints of either event or outcome risk) in the context of variability.»

In the fight against climate change, every bit counts, but to make an argument that is based on a leverage ratio of somewhere between 90 and 500 times the actual damage caused by a particular project is not the right way to go about it....

One so misses the days when an actual conversation with someone open - mindedly skeptical of the climate change problem was possible that one tries to engage anyone who seems articulate.

Re: # 1 One trick pony, one trick pony — substitute habitat destruction, energy security, energy scarcity, air and ocean pollution, depletion of ground water, even your coming ice age — you miss the point of this piece in your ongoing devotion to denying climate change in every thread of DotEarth, regardless of the actual topic of Andy's post.

Often these correlations mysteriously change phase with time, which is usually described as evidence of the non-linearity of the climate system, but in fact is the expected behaviour when there is no actual coherence.

Finally, although I'm not a climate expert, I would agree, of course, that there is most likely a large lag time between human action and actual temperature / climate change.

But like Jeff, I would like to know why the Times doesn't believe reporting more on the actual impacts of climate change (higher wheat prices, persistent political destabilization in climate impacted regions, etc....)

In fairness, our science has little ground proofing of theory on climate change because this is our first time having actual field observations.

The physicist affirmed that on the basis of actual scientific fact «it is not possible to exclude the idea that climate changes can be due to natural causes,» and that it is plausible that «man is not to blame.»

The climate system as a whole is one of those topics where complexity is intrinsic, and while the behaviour of simpler systems or subsystems is fascinating, one can't avoid looking directly at the emergent properties of the whole system — of which the actual temperature changes from month to month are but one.

Now for climate change work, we don't care so much about the actual temperature, but do want to know about the trend, so it is possible to create an alternative algorithm that is free from the systemic biases caused by attempts to merge thousands of low grade temperature records together.

Holdren confuses a trend with the overall pattern of the actual climate change.

Our best lab and field studies, as well as a wealth of relevant experience by people who are doing meaningful communciation rather than continuously fielding surveys that don't even measure the right thing, tell us why: «consensus messaging» is unresponsive to the actual dynamics driving the climate change controversy.