Sentences with phrase «as cold climate»

Also, I've no doubt there were tremendous storms in the past, especially during times of climate shifts as cold climate patterns clash with warm climate patterns.
But chemicals have hitched rides on winds and waters that have carried them there, as the cold climate acts like a sink for pollutants.
Many things can upset baby's breathing such as cold climate with constant use of heaters, dry climates with little humidity and the common cold virus.
An analysis of the historical data suggests a strong correlation between the solar activity and the natural climate variations on centennial time - scales, such as the colder climate during the Maunder (about 1650 − 1700 AD) and Dalton (about 1800 − 1820 AD) minima as well as climate warming during the steady increase in solar activity in the first half of the twentieth - century (Siscoe 1978; Hoyt & Schatten 1997; Solomon et al. 2007; Gray et al. 2010).

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However, in cold climates these energy - efficient light bulbs create a new problem: the new bulbs don't generate as much heat as the traditional ones.
As we near the winter months and temperature begins to drop across various parts of the world, Tesla owners living within cold climates...
But you can swing private lifeguarding as a seasonal business if you live in a cold climate, as long as you're supplementing this service with another stream of income — just take your pick from any of the other 40 small business ideas on this list.
As word of their plight spread, a number of companies stepped up and donated supplies, including the Levi Strauss company who gave much needed clothing so that the refugees could endure the cold, mountain climate.
If you want to worry about the climate, worry about colder weather and lower crop yields as the sun remains unusually quiet.
In tropical climates, there is nothing quite as refreshing as an ice - cold lager beer.
While many of us in the U.S. are shivering through one of the coldest and snowiest winters in recent memory, we need to keep in mind that weather is not the same as climate.
River Road Vineyard is located at the northern end of Santa Lucia Highlands classified as cold Region I, where ocean breezes create superior cool - climate Burgundian varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
These trees thrive in cold climates and so in countries of the Baltic, like Poland, this kind of amber has actually been used as a pain relief remedy for centuries.
The super soft micro fleece construction of this sleepsack makes the Puppy Pals ideal for families living in colder climates, but with the added benefit of superior breathability, which will stop your baby from overheating as they dream of butterflies and puppies all night long.
It's best for cool weather, but if you live in a climate where it's cold most of the year, then you can easily buy a this as your winter cover up option, then use it as a scarf after you no longer need it for breastfeeding!
The same goes for colder climates as well — though many pregnant women feel warmer when pregnant, making it less risky.
All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.
Yet even without a definitive answer, it may be worth keeping the topic in the news, if only to remind people that human - caused climate change is linked to cold snaps as much as to heat waves.
«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.
The weather fluctuates from one year to another and individual cold snaps in the Arctic area are not, as such, proof of the progression of climate change.
It is well established that cold - blooded species get smaller as the climate heats up, says Andrew Hirst of Queen Mary, University of London — 1 °C of warming reduces their adult body mass by 2.5 per cent on average.
The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.
In a paper published in 2015, d'Alpoim Guedes and Bocinsky found that foxtail and proso millet, which fell out of cultivation on the Plateau 4,000 years ago as the climate got colder, could soon be grown there again as the climate warms up.
Climate change is aiding shipping, fisheries and tourism in the Arctic but the economic gains fall short of a «cold rush» for an icy region where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the world average.
With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.
The project is also made up of the research institutes: the Interactive Institute (Swedish ICT) and SP Processum, as well as of companies such as Revenues, White Architects, and the Network for sustainable building and administering in cold climates.
Despite cold, snow, and three months of darkness every winter, life thrived here, as it does today in parts of Alaska with a similar climate.
«This climate outlook provides the most likely outcome for the upcoming winter season, but it also provides the public with a good reminder that winter is just up ahead and it's a good time to prepare for typical winter hazards, such as extreme cold and snowstorms,» said Mike Halpert, deputy director, NOAA's Climate Prediction climate outlook provides the most likely outcome for the upcoming winter season, but it also provides the public with a good reminder that winter is just up ahead and it's a good time to prepare for typical winter hazards, such as extreme cold and snowstorms,» said Mike Halpert, deputy director, NOAA's Climate Prediction Climate Prediction Center.
As is typical when cold weather strikes, climate skeptics, including Donald Trump, pounced on the weather as proof that global warming is not happeninAs is typical when cold weather strikes, climate skeptics, including Donald Trump, pounced on the weather as proof that global warming is not happeninas proof that global warming is not happening.
As if poaching, logging, habitat loss and climate change aren't bad enough, wild chimpanzees now face a new, deadly peril: a virus that causes common colds in people.
In the Arctic, the cold water has so far prevented harmful low latitude species from establishing themselves but this will change as the climate becomes warmer.
As historian Sam White explains in A Cold Welcome, most early attempts were doomed by fatally incorrect assumptions about geography and climate, poor planning and bad timing.
«As they did so, they passed through distinctly different climate states — warm in the north, and cold in the south.
Climatologists have suggested that the winds, known as the Greenland tip jet, could be a key force in driving the world's climate and the global ocean circulation by pushing cold, dense water to the ocean floor and triggering the thermohaline circulation.
This suggests more precipitation fell away from the tropics in a colder climate, the opposite of what is expected as the world warms.
Other research in Europe has shown that plants can shift another mechanism that controls their response to climate: vernalization, or the length of the cold snap required before a plant will respond to a warm spell as a growth signal.
So the climate experience was colder, as the atmospheric records from Greenland ice cores show.
The warm climate probably allowed early humans to migrate northwards without the need to develop technology such as fire and clothing or to adapt to a colder climate, says Anthony Stuart of University College London, who coordinated the project.
Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.
These changes enlarged a cold pool of water the penguins rely on for food and breeding — an expansion that could continue as the climate changes over the coming decades, the study's authors said.
Neanderthals were adapted to the cold, as shown by their large braincases, short but robust builds, and large noses â $» traits selected by nature in cold climates, as observed in modern sub-arctic populations.
Climate - change - denying politicians like to point to the cold snaps as some sort of proof global warming is not happening.
Interestingly, the expansion of farming to 3400 - plus meters happened just as the climate in Tibet was getting colder — not optimal conditions for settling already chilly higher altitudes.
These remnants of the Cold War are also an example of an unanticipated political issue that could arise because of the effects of climate change, particularly as countries seek to establish a presence in the Arctic as warming makes it increasingly accessible.
Heartland Institute: «Cold kills far more people than heat» This administration has long used public health risks as a backdrop for its climate policies.
Figuring out just how long the continent has been a barren, cold desert of ice can give clues as to how Antarctica responded to the effects of past climates and can perhaps also indicate what to expect there in the future as Earth's atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide grows.
Other populations, such as people in colder climates who keep windows closed or use more mothballs in coat closets, also might be at higher risk.
For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.
Kilpatrick explained that the effects of climate change are expected to be seen at the edges of species» geographic ranges, as species adapted to warm climates move further north and cold - adapted species retreat from the southern parts of their ranges.
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