Sentences with phrase «alter climate by»

The CO2 doesn't alter climate by affecting thermal mass; it affects climate by retarding the efficiency of infrared radiation, and it has important IR absorption bands in places where water is ineffective.

That's part of the reason why the IPCC included a final paragraph on geoengineering, or large - scale attempts to alter the climate by either blocking sunlight or removing CO2 (or other greenhouse gases) from the atmosphere.

«Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent: Engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30 % of precipitation and surface radiation variance; study reveals large potential for improving seasonal weather predictions.»

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«Howard Thurman could not have foreseen the extent to which humans have used their power to unravel the original harmony of creation, most notably by significantly altering the climate of the planet.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of a united effort to address the reality and ramifications of climate change, nations of the world assembled in Rio de Janiero in 1992 and proposed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change («UNFCC») in an effort to stabilize concentrations of climate - altering gases in the atmosphere, which UNFCC was adopted in 1994, and has since been ratified by 197 nations, including the United climate change, nations of the world assembled in Rio de Janiero in 1992 and proposed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change («UNFCC») in an effort to stabilize concentrations of climate - altering gases in the atmosphere, which UNFCC was adopted in 1994, and has since been ratified by 197 nations, including the United Climate Change («UNFCC») in an effort to stabilize concentrations of climate - altering gases in the atmosphere, which UNFCC was adopted in 1994, and has since been ratified by 197 nations, including the United climate - altering gases in the atmosphere, which UNFCC was adopted in 1994, and has since been ratified by 197 nations, including the United States;

Climate change is having a dramatic impact on Earth's biodiversity, by causing rapid fluctuations in temperature and precipitation that alter species» environments.

«We are well into a world that's been altered by climate change.»

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

In his latest book, New York 2140 (Orbit Books, 2017), the acclaimed novelist Kim Stanley Robinson presents a dark - but - hopeful vision for humanity a dozen decades from now, on an Earth radically altered by climate change.

But beauty won't save the pinyon jay nor will blandness work against its cousin when climate change raises temperatures and alters bird habitats in the southwestern United States, according to research sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey.

To predict which creatures are in danger of extinction, the teams used computer modeling and information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate climate change.

The direction, frequency, and intensity of biotic interactions can in turn be altered by climate change.

Does one major volcanic eruption generate more climate - altering gas than that produced by humans in their entire history?

By bridging the perceived divide between religion and science, these unique voices have the potential to fundamentally alter the climate debate.

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

Ongoing climate change caused by human influences will alter the nature of how rain and snow falls; areas that are prone to dry conditions will receive their precipitation in narrower windows of time.

To get around those problems in relating tornadoes to climate, the Columbia team shifted its focus from the tornadoes themselves to the atmospheric factors that are crucial for tornado formation, factors that are themselves altered by the ENSO pattern.

They found mechanisms by which solar variation can alter climate variability regionally, but none that would trigger global warming.

The research is helping scientists better understand how animals survive under drastic temperature changes, information that's critical in a world being altered by climate change.

«Alberta's boreal forest could be dramatically altered by 2100 due to climate change: Model by UAlberta biologists predicts big changes due to climate change and wildfire.»

While it's possible that «climate change has changed the playing field by altering temperatures that now favor the pathogen,» research hasn't proved that, he said.

Co-author and UQ researcher Dr Justine Shaw said, while Antarctic was one of the planet's last wildernesses, research showed — like elsewhere — it has been altered by climate change.

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: How will our deepest thoughts at the end of 2017 be altered by the intellectual climate of 2018?

In his new book, The Planet Remade, Oliver Morton asks the question: If we can alter global climate in one direction by burning hydrocarbons, can we reverse it by doing something else?

She's covered the bromine releases spewed by erupting volcanoes, which may have climate - altering impacts.

Selective harvesting may have substantially altered the presence of rare genetic characteristics (Cheliak et al. 1988; Schaberg et al. 2008), which are often those needed by a species to adapt to climate change.

Better understanding the mechanisms by which such gases migrate will therefore help scientists understand how Mars's atmosphere — and hence its climate — has altered over time.

Seasonal patterns of temperature and precipitation may be altered by climate change where you live.

For example, changes in Earth's atmospheric composition (especially the concentrations of greenhouse gases) may alter the climate, while climate change itself can change the atmospheric composition (for example by changing the rate at which weathering removes CO2).

Results: Ubiquitous carbon - rich aerosol particles created by emissions from cars, trees, and other sources alter our climate and affect air quality.

This topic has become particularly important as many environmental disruptions including climate change, habitat loss and species introductions act by radically altering species distributions.

Water is also strongly influenced by climate, as changes in temperature and precipitation consistently alter patterns of water availability and quality throughout the state.

Climate oscillations evident in Fig. 4 of Hansen et al. [52] were instigated by perturbations of Earth's orbit and spin axis tilt relative to the orbital plane, which alter the geographical and seasonal distribution of sunlight on Earth [58].

And nobody — at least, at the time — seemed to be saying that these steering winds were being altered by climate change.

Methane leaks increase the climate impact of shale gas, but whether the leaks are sufficient to significantly alter the climate forcing by total natural gas development is uncertain [164].

This unique feature allows the driver to choose between three driving modes, which alter the responses of the throttle, steering, climate control and the level of assistance provided by the IMA system.

The new feature enables the driver to choose between three driving modes which alter the responses of the throttle, steering, climate control and the level of assistance provided by the IMA system.

The Drive - by - Wire throttle system provides more gradual response, and to save additional energy, the climate control's fan speeds are lowered incrementally and other climate control system characteristics are altered based on the conditions.

The Navigation and GPS location finder link up to improve various systems; for example, altering the climate control by closing the air recirculation flap when driving through a tunnel.

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality.

Dressed in street clothes, often adorned with neon glow sticks, the dancers (the main protagonists are played by Corey, Jay Donn, and Marty McFly) masterfully engage in movements of «flexing,» «bone breaking,» «pauzing,» and «glytching» to portray what at times feels like a new species of human, impacted both by our ever - increasing reliance on technology and by the altered landscape of a changing climate.

And especially now with human development and climate change, the world is being altered at an incredible pace — from rising seas, disappearing polar ice, to our major rivers and estuaries and how they have been changed by us.

You can not and will not alter the reality of climate change by ad hominem attacks on those who bear the bad news.

One interesting theme batted around by that group of late concerns the name of this climate - altering enterprise.

In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.

By altering climate, landscapes, and seascapes as well as flows of species, genes, energy, and materials, we are sealing the fates of myriad other species.

In an overview of the issues raised by climate - altering technologies, Dale Jamieson, the director of environmental studies and a law professor at New York University, warns of the hazards attending intensified research.