Sentences with phrase «affect climate on earth»

However, it is very far from «the last piece of the puzzle explaining how particles from space affect climate on Earth».

While it is theoretically possible for human and animal activities to affect the climate on Earth, the main factor causing fluctuations in temperatures on this planet, as on Mars, is variability in energy output from the Sun.

«Finally we have the last piece of the puzzle explaining how particles from space affect climate on Earth.

Scientists have long suspected that the sun affects climate on Earth, but that connection has proved hard to pin down.

If interception by solar wind of extrasolarsystem alien space invading cosmic rays affects climate on earth, where we have thick layers of ionosphere, stratosphere & troposphere, can climatic cycles here be compared & contrasted with those on Mars, the density of whose atmosphere resembles our stratosphere & of course whose composition is largely of «greenhouse gases»?

Not exact matches

The earth is 10,000 years old, it's flat, is the only planet of billions to host life, and humans have NO affect on the climate.

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

According to Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, cosmic rays have a major affect on the Earth's climate.

«Significant increases in summer temperatures will affect the carbon cycling in the lakes, with potential consequences on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the Earth's climate,» he added.

Further to Fred Pearce's editorial on the outcome of the Rio +20 Earth Summit (30 June, p 3), the disarray in international politics that he highlighted with regard to climate change is now so potentially dangerous that no one can affect to be a disinterested observer.

«As we consider how humans may be affecting climate, dissecting what was going on tens of thousands of years ago in all regions of the globe can help scientists better predict how the Earth will respond to modern climate forcings.»

Understanding how that would affect the climate will require going beyond historical records of climate change, or even the information encoded in tree rings or ice cores, to what scientists call «deep time» records of conditions on Earth, according to a new NAS analysis.

The researchers determined that natural influences on Earth's climate, such as those caused by variations in its orbit around the sun, could affect the strength of El Niño events.

«If we know the drawdown in the Gulf of Mexico caused that, we can better understand how natural events on earth can affect the climate.»

In particular, we should make sure of our discoveries on life in various environments on Earth, our knowledge of how our planet and its life have affected each other over Earth history, and our satellite observations of Earth's climate.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

How these cyclical climate take place is still unknown, but they «are most likely caused by variations in the solar wind and associated magnetic fields that affect the flux of cosmic rays incident on cloudiness, and thereby control the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface and thus the climate.»

Svensmark (1998) later proposed that changes in the inter-planetary magnetic fields (IMF) resulting from variations on the sun can affect the climate through galactic cosmic rays (GCR) by modulating earth's cloud cover.

As I mentioned in an earlier post... current climate change affects every climatic system on earth to varying degrees.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released the most comprehensive synthesis of what climate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's cClimate Change has released the most comprehensive synthesis of what climate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's cclimate scientists know about how we're currently affecting the Earth's climateclimate.

A scientist would never focus on ONLY one variable, CO2, probably a very minor variable with no correlation with average temperature, when there are dozens of variables affecting Earth's climate... and then further focus only on manmade CO2, for political reasons (only that 3 % of all atmospheric CO2 can be blamed on humans... which is the goal of climate modelers... along with getting more government grants.)

It goes on to say: «On a global scale, climate is determined by the sun's energy affecting materials such as soil, rocks, and water at and near the Earth's surface.&raquon to say: «On a global scale, climate is determined by the sun's energy affecting materials such as soil, rocks, and water at and near the Earth's surface.&raquOn a global scale, climate is determined by the sun's energy affecting materials such as soil, rocks, and water at and near the Earth's surface.»

If the public knew the extent of evidence on all the ways climate change is affecting the Earth, Harvey said, «then maybe they would be more convinced.»

«(We) support the findings of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which states that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that these changes will negatively affect public heClimate Change report, which states that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that these changes will negatively affect public heclimate change and that these changes will negatively affect public health...

Anthropogenic climate change, primarily from burning fossil fuels, already affects health in every region on earth.

«The Polar Bear, the largest apex predator on Earth is affected by climate change that has led to the loss of 2 million m2 of sea ice.

Shukla» s rationale is based on a false assumption: «Now we have before us, thanks to IPCC, a third discovery: humans are affecting the Earth» s climate.»

«A report in the December 3, 2010, issue of Science has reinforced what many scientists have suspected all along: variation in the Sun's output causes significant change in Earth's climate... This new work indicates that even small variations in the Sun's output can have significant affect here on Earth.

By picking one specific area of only one of the spheres (surface temperatures), while it might be one piece of interesting information and it certainly it is quite true that surface temperatures have been flat at or near record high levels, focusing on this fact alone and the fact that climate models failed to have forecast it, does very little overall good if the goal is to educate the public about the bigger picture, i.e. anthropogenic climate change as an energy imbalance affecting the whole Earth energy system, including all the spheres discussed above.

However, despite the shocking revelations of how climate change has affected life on Earth, the study says that these responses or distress in nature could be observed and used to create ways on how nature could adapt to the warming climate.

Brook Riley, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Our governments are sitting on their hands while climate change is already affecting more and more people across the globe.

Climate change affects all of us and all the systems on planet Earth - from natural disasters to disrupted growing seasons, our changing climate is having widespread eClimate change affects all of us and all the systems on planet Earth - from natural disasters to disrupted growing seasons, our changing climate is having widespread eclimate is having widespread effects.

My particular topic of research is the sun, how it changes over time and how those changes affect the space environment, the weather and the climate on Earth.

Given that mainstream climate change scientific view holds that the Earth could experience rapid non-linear climate change impacts which outstrip the ability of some people and nations to adapt, should this fact affect whether nations which emit high levels of ghgs should be able to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for non-action on climate change?

Do you notice how these «scientists» (they are more akin to grant money «gold diggers») fail to mention the affect the wobbling tilt of the earth has on climate?

So that we can fight climate change — a change in climate temperatures that may or may NOT be affected by man's activities on this earth.

Earth Focus is an environmental news magazine that features investigate reports on how changes to the Earth's resources and climate are affecting everyday people all over the world.

'' trying to come up with or re-post every possible argument under the sun to all but argue against the basic concept that radically altering the atmosphere on a multi million year basis is going to affect the net energy balance of earth, which over time is going to translate into a very different climate (and ocean level) than the one we've comfortably come to rely on.

«More CO2 promotes more plant growth both on land and throughout the surface waters of the world's oceans, and this vast assemblage of plant life has the ability to affect Earth's climate in several ways, almost all of them tending to counteract the heating effects of CO2's thermal radiative forcing.»

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While actual scientists are trying to piece together every little part of an otherwise almost un-piecable long term chaotic and variable system in response now to a massive increase in net lower atmospheric energy absorption and re radiation, Curry is busy — much like most of the comments on this site most of the time — trying to come up with or re-post every possible argument under the sun to all but argue against the basic concept that radically altering the atmosphere on a multi million year basis is going to affect the net energy balance of earth, which over time is going to translate into a very different climate (and ocean level) than the one we've comfortably come to rely on.

And noting «zonal mean - winds constitute an important element of global atmospheric circulation,» they go on to suggest,» if the solar cycle can influence zonal mean - winds, then it may affect other features of global climate as well, including oscillations such as the NAO and MJO, of which zonal winds are an ingredient» Thus, «the cause of this forcing» as they describe it, «likely involves some combination of solar wind, galactic cosmic rays, ionosphere - Earth currents and cloud microphysics.»

All creatures on Earth are exposed to the climate and are affected by it, so they will change when the climate changes.

Besides the evolving and increasing human influence on the climate, we also know that plenty of other natural factors can affect Earth's temperature.

This will help scientists explore, more accurately than is possible today, how rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, increasing greenhouse gas levels, and other natural and human - induced changes affect tropical forests» influence on Earth's climate.

Climate change will affect all of life on earth.

But here on earth, 93,000,000 miles away from the sun, we can and in fact have, affected our own climate system.

Assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the earth's climate warmed 0.85 ℃ (1.53 oF) between 1880 to 2012 and that human activity affecting the atmosphere is likely an important driving Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the earth's climate warmed 0.85 ℃ (1.53 oF) between 1880 to 2012 and that human activity affecting the atmosphere is likely an important driving climate warmed 0.85 ℃ (1.53 oF) between 1880 to 2012 and that human activity affecting the atmosphere is likely an important driving factor.

On time scales of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years, variations in the earth's orbit affect climate.

13 How Moving Continents Affect Climate (Page 275) Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's outer shell (the lithosphere) that move around on the slowly flowing underlying rock layer (the asthenosphere).