Sentences with phrase «alter climate cycles»

It also backs up other research: that human artefacts are now embedded in geological strata, while human action is beginning to alter the biological cycles and atmospheric patterns in dangerous ways and has certainly begun to alter the climate cycle.

Not exact matches

If the climate were to shift rapidly, as happened after the mid-Holocene period, it could alter the insect's life cycle again, said John Cooley, a professor at the University of Connecticut's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Because nitrogen and carbon cycles are tightly coupled, the team's discovery might also alter projections of carbon storage or release from arctic ecosystems as the climate warms.

That's a growing problem, because in many places, finding water for energy isn't easy - and it's bound to get tougher as energy demands soar and climate change alters hydrological cycles in already arid regions.

Yet in addition to extinctions there are many dramatic, well - documented effects of introduced species, such as shifts in regional climate, reduced groundwater levels, altered nutrient cycling, and reduced oxygen levels in aquatic systems, which affect the abundance and distribution of native species.

Anthropogenic climate change will mean an increased average temperature for the oceans and possible changes in current systems that could locally amplify or reduce warming and can alter nutrient cycling resulting in changes in the amount of nutrients available for the growth of phytoplankton, the plant plankton that are the base of the food chain.

For a description of how variability in the size and speed of the water cycle and of the positions, sizes and intensities of the permanent climate zones work together to alter the rate of energy flow from surface to space to maintain Earth system stability, click the link below:

In the natural cycle regarding long term natural climate change caused by Milankovitch cycles, at least for the past million years or so, the sensitivity response to changes is indicated to alter the global temperature by 6º Celsius between warm periods and glacial periods.

Climate change could involve changes in the water cycle, thereby altering how much and how long water stays on land instead of in the sea, i.e., the amount of ground water and soil water.

However the natural climate is always changing due to cycles of the sun, ocean oscillations like El Nino and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation that alter the direction and strength of the winds, or natural landscape successions.

Another outcome is the change in carbon - absorbing plant communities, which can extensively alter the local carbon cycle, and reduce sequestration capabilities, contributing to climate change.

Excellent work as usual, Bob, but you won't be surprised that I'm still trying to see how your ENSO material can be worked into the climate cycling from MWP to LIA to date without some other force altering the relative strengths of El Nino and La Nina over longer timescales than the multidecadal.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in 2007 that computer model projections did not indicate the weather cycle's strength or frequency would alter during the 21st century.

Wind energy is emission - free so that it does not pollute the environment or contribute to climate change — the single biggest threats to wildlife in that climate change can disrupt reproductive cycles, shift ranges, alter hibernation habits, and impact the availability of prey.

But human - caused climate change is altering this cycle.

This altered the natural balance of trace gas concentrations, which has interrupted the natural climate forcing cycles.

As changing climate alters the behavior of water, climate science is called upon to provide information about the future of the water cycle.

But the role of climate change in causing the drought itself is unclear — the more immediate cause is an intermittent weather pattern called La Niña, and research is still under way on whether that cycle is being altered or intensified by global warming, as some researchers suspect.

If you plot average annual temperatures on Earth, solar cycles and mankind's supposed most significant climate altering activity, the burning of fossil fuels, the solar cycles and temperatures match and the use of fossil fuels seems to be unrelated.

These cycles play out on a continuum and the interplay of these cycles is constantly altering our climate.

Although natural events like the solar cycle alter climate, these occurrences alone can not account for the rate of change that scientists see today.

Absorbing aerosols heat the air, alter regional atmospheric stability and vertical motions, and affect the large - scale circulation and hydrologic cycle with significant regional climate effects.

Variations in ocean circulation speeds account for significant instances of climate change, changing the hydrological cycle and altering atmospheric circulation patterns as well.

Suppose Tinker Bell really does exist and has great power to alter Earth climate, and every so often in regular cycles does so...

(PS note «CO2 feedbacks» could refer to the feedbacks (to climate change or to CO2 changes) to the C - cycle that alter amounts of CO2.

Natural climate variation and anthropogenic stressors alter biochemical cycling, food web dynamics, and the fitness of species [1]--[3].