Sentences with phrase «alter global climate»

The overwhelming majority of the world's scientists agree that any increase in average world temperatures that exceeds 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial era — some opt for a rise of no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius — will alter the global climate system drastically.

Humans have begun to alter the global climate, as well as to bring fishing on an industrial scale to a once isolated ocean.

I still have not yet seen any credible evidence for man ability to alter global climate patterns.

In the mid 1980s, detailed studies confirmed that a nuclear war would probably alter global climate temporarily.

Although continuing research will deepen this under - standing and require the report to be updated at frequent intervals, basic conclusions concerning the reality of the enhanced greenhouse effect and its potential to alter global climate are unlikely to change significantly

The same fossil - fuels that power our economic engine also produced greenhouse gases that retain heat and thus threaten to alter the global climate.

This is because the time scales for it to «rain out» and the amounts involved are such that humans can not, at least at this point, put enough of it in the atmosphere directly to significantly alter the global climate (although we may be able to have some local effects).

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?

«We are on a path to fundamentally alter our global climate state,» says Hren.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

Humans are significantly altering the global climate, but in a variety of diverse ways beyond the radiative effect of carbon dioxide.

The sedimentary record of climatic change is critical because of the possibility that human industrial development is altering the global climate system.

The damage is being done by politically motivated think tanks that are trying to «balance» credible scientific evidence with fringe rhetorical arguments designed to deny that human changes to the environment are altering the global climate.

Not exact matches

Wisconsin utility regulators removed references to climate change from their website months before state environmental officials altered global - warming language on their own site.

As a result, more of human emissions would remain in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect that contributes to global warming and alters Earth's climate.

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

For millions of years global climate change has altered the structure and internal movement of mountain ranges, but the resulting glacial development and erosion can in turn change a mountain's local climate.

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.

The researchers warn that failure to curb climate change, causing global temperatures to rise far above 2 °C, will radically alter tropical reef ecosystems and undermine the benefits they provide to hundreds of millions of people, mostly in poor, rapidly - developing countries.»

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

It is considered one of the least altered marine ecosystems and provides a global reference point for assessing the consequences of climate change.

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

People have been talking about deliberately altering climate to counter global warming, he says, for as long as they have been worrying about global warming itself.

He pointed to research that showed how wind turbines alter regional temperatures even as they reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global climate change.

Ocean acidification and other aspects of global climate change are about to alter the food web — with consequences for all life on earth.

How will plants and animals react when global climate change alters their environment?

Global climate change and ocean acidification may alter many of these «services».

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

Climate engineering in an enticing way to alleviate global warming but altering the composition of the Earth's atmosphere could be more dangerous.

As a result of global warming, our Earth's changing climate will continue to profoundly alter national parks including Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

``... as sea ice melts, Arctic waters warm, greatly altering ocean processes, which in turn have an effect on Arctic and global climate, says Michael Steele, senior oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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.

In terms of how we are altering the climate, it is these sudden transitions that we need to understand, rather than focus so much of our resources on assessments of the global averaged temperature trend.

TreeHugger has noted, somewhat light - heartedly, that among the myriad effects of global warming are likely reductions in wine and beer production; as global warming alters the planet's regional climates, it affects the crop yields

The most indirect impact of all is coming through the global buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are altering the climate and ocean chemistry with long - lasting repercussions.

Efficacies can vary because different patterns of RF can alter the climate response with some global average effect.

If I were to think about it as looking at regional as well as global climate, I would probably alter much of what I said previously in this post.

But when the global order already places America at No. 1, why would we want to run the run the risk of climate change that alters that order?»

Although these climate forcings may not alter the global mean surface temperture, they are first order climate forcings in terms of their substantial role in influencing the climate system including the planetary atmospheric circulation.

Idiosyncracies in the forcings may alter the 4 - dimension structure of the climate response so as to change the global average feedback.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

Scientific evidence indicates that the global climate is moving outside the bounds of past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world, prompting examination of a variety of plausible scenarios through which climate change might pose or alter security risks for the United States.

TreeHugger has noted, somewhat light - heartedly, that among the myriad effects of global warming are likely reductions in wine and beer production; as global warming alters the planet's regional climates, it affects the crop yields used for brewing up our favorite libations.

For most recent sampling see: New Peer - Reviewed Study finds «Solar changes significantly alter climate» (11-3-07)(LINK) & «New Peer - Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 — 2002» (LINK) & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period «0.3 C Warmer than 20th Century» (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer - reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see «New Peer - Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears» LINK]

Since these droughts appear linked to changes in the Atlantic — both in post - and pre-industrial times, we should be concerned that ongoing --- human - caused — changes to the global climate system could alter the Atlantic in such a way as to transition North Africa back into severe drought that could last decades to centuries.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&climate change as: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&climate variability observed over comparable time periods».

«a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over considerable time periods.»

But ultimately, the pope's views on climate science will do little to alter the opinions of Catholics about global warming.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

Today, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.