Sentences with phrase «altering the climate in»

But along with the notorious polar vortex, the year also brought new evidence that human activities are altering the climate in ever more obvious ways — and that the risks of severe impacts rise with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.

In a study published in May, meteorologists Eugenia Kalnay and Ming Cai of the University of Maryland reported that current land - use practices are altering the climate in a manner similar to that of the emission of greenhouse gases from factories and automobiles.

I'm not qualified to judge if the proposed wager is sound scientifically, or statistically, but as long as neither side has the power to alter the climate in order to win the bet, I'm confident the bet will have absolutely no impact whatsoever on the earth's climate.

Humans are altering the climate in diverse ways, a variety of human climate forcings are significant, and the effects of these forcings need to be responded to, even if the climate did not warm.

With all the interest in alleged misdeeds of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hacked email exchanges among climate scientists, it is easy to lose track of the compelling strands of scientific evidence that have led almost all climate scientists to conclude that mankind is altering climate in potentially dangerous ways.

That's an odd stance to take, because the first claim in the Boulder lawsuit states that the «Defendants» actions have altered the climate in Colorado.»

That hamstringing our economy coupled with a massive redistribution of wealth to carbon profiteers and moribund autocracies will not alter the climate in any meaningful way?

If you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that it is «virtually certain» that human activities, primarily the increase in CO2 concentrations, is altering the climate in a measurable way, then there's no other conclusion possible: you are a scientifically illiterate moron, with absolutely no concept of how even the simplest model of a planetary atmosphere works.

the compelling strands of scientific evidence that have led almost all climate scientists to conclude that mankind is altering climate in potentially dangerous ways. . .»

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What's still not known: Did climate change alter the odds of seeing three incredibly strong storms — Harvey, Irma, Maria — in a row this season?

There is the possibility of a change in the Gulf Stream that could dramatically alter the climate of Europe, for example.

Wheat is simply one of many seeds that has been altered to grow in today's compromised soil climates.

It's easily driven in daylight and dry weather, but night and Wyoming's mercurial climate alter the equation.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

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;

In his State of the State address, the governor committed to lowering emissions of climate - altering pollution from power plants.

For instance, climate warming can alter the balance of heat between the Arctic and the tropics near Earth's surface, which in turn can influence the jet stream.

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

In this issue, a special report reveals how we have fundamentally altered Earth — its climate, its resources, its ecosystems — and offers ideas for what we can do about it.

Jonathan Nichols, a Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory Research Professor at Columbia University who specializes in climate science, focuses his research on whether warming temperatures will cause Arctic peat bogs to decay or expand due to improved growing conditions, a question that could alter the levels of carbon the bogs have long absorbed.

«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.

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.

These vectors — for instance, birds — also face climate effects and can alter exposure patterns in humans depending on when and how they cross paths.

This new research provides a broad picture of how climate change may alter groundwater recharge in the future, Meixner said.

The result means some forests in the eastern U.S. are already starting to look different, but more important, it means the ability of those forests to soak up carbon is being altered as well, which could in turn bring about further climate change.

The capacity to cope with altered conditions is becoming increasingly important in the face of climate change.

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.

These declines in rainfall could potentially alter the region's climate, disrupting rainforest ecosystems and impacting local economies, according to the study's authors.

Yields of many key crops in the region, including maize, beans, and a kind of grass used for feeding cattle, would drop significantly in an altered climate, the scientists determined.

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.

While many in the bird world are convinced that climate change is a major culprit for altering flowering times and therefore the relative abundance or lack of food sources, in the somewhat fustier apiarian world, the jury is out.

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).

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.

As climate change alters weather patterns — hastening desertification in some places and sopping others — increases the strength of natural disasters — from cyclones to landslides — and raises sea levels world wide, it will make many areas and livelihoods untenable, say the authors.

If that turns out to be the case, it's likely that temperature changes on the scale of the Eocene to Oligocene could occur — but in the other direction, toward a much warmer climate that could again fundamentally alter living things on Earth.

Climate change has altered the plants found in the woods near the pond, according to Charles Davis, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University.

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

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.

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

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.

USGS researchers found that climate change would alter conditions in the Bay Delta, affecting the fish that also are part of the current fight over protections.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Often, say specialists, climate is not the sole reason or the driving factor in people altering their way of life.

«We're altering the environment far faster than we can possibly predict the consequences,» says Stephen Schneider, a climate modeler at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

The model suggests that the distribution of blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean may shift seasonally, following their food as monsoon climate patterns alter the most productive habitat.

Understanding exactly how such a social transformation occurred in the past may prove key to understanding how individuals might alter their behavior to help combat climate change in the future.

The climate was cooling, sea levels were retreating, and huge volcanoes in India were belching out lava and lots of atmosphere - altering gases.

A major challenge in predicting Earth's future climate state is to understand feedbacks that alter greenhouse - gas forcing.

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.

Climate change can push species to move in order to stay in their climatic comfort zones, potentially altering where species live and how they interact, which could fundamentally transform current ecosystems.