Not exact matches
«As Earth continues to warm, it may be approaching a critical
climate threshold beyond which rapid and potentially permanent — at least on a human time - scale —
changes not
anticipated by climate models tuned to modern conditions may occur,» the report says.
What's lost in a lot of the discussion about human - caused
climate change is not that the sum of human activities is leading to some warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been
anticipated by the collection of
climate models upon whose projections
climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.
These activities can be grouped under the following areas: improve our knowledge of Earth's past and present
climate variability and
change; improve our understanding of natural and human forces of
climate change; improve our capability to
model and predict future conditions and impacts; assess the Nation's vulnerability to current and
anticipated impacts of
climate change; and improve the Nation's ability to respond to
climate change by providing
climate information and decision support tools that are useful to policy makers and the general public.»
His end of the tutorial focused on the
changes we can
anticipate as average temperatures go up around the world, noting that
models have become more robust and that scientists are zeroing in on the harms that will be caused
by unmitigated
changes to the global
climate.
It is traditional to use moving averages of the data to smooth out year - to - year
changes that can not be
anticipated by any
climate model.