Inbetween, Curry's argument that the temperatures 1920 - 1960 are currently not explained
by known climate forcing is thus well illustrated by the «disconnect» between 1920 & 1960.
The model simulations (upper right panel) driven
by all known climate forcings over the period in question show a very similar pattern of weakening.
Not exact matches
Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «
No, New York Mag:
Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable
by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.
Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off
climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally
known as the Clean Water Rule.
Months after the language of a global
climate treaty
known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained
by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about
climate change into K - 12 materials.
You wouldn't
know it from the lacklustre media response, but Monday's signing of the Pacific Coast Action Plan on
Climate and Energy,
by the elected leaders of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, is a big deal.
The district is currently represented
by former Wildrose and current UCP MLA Don MacIntyre (
known for his
climate - change denying views).
Not to mention praise the
climate change plan has received from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and a little
known political figure
by the name of Barack Obama.
But here the thing: We don't yet currently
know, conclusively, that the storms we saw were made larger and nastier
by climate change.
«We
know that inaction
by Christy Clark's government means BC will miss its 2020
climate change targets.
Like popular movements of the past, Trumpism was made possible
by a political
climate in which — as Lasch put it over forty years ago — our «parties
no longer represent the opinions and interests of ordinary people,» while the «political process is dominated
by rival elites committed to irreconcilable ideologies.»
As long as Christians seek to present a strong and vital testimony of their faith, they must
know that the world of which they are a part is influenced
by an atheistic
climate.
I can explain
climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused
by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing
climate change idiots simply because I
know what actually causes it.
Quite obviously, we do not
know all that he meant
by it — we can not hope to, separated as we are
by twenty centuries from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are
by no means altogether in ignorance of his meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental
climate of Jesus» environment, our understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.
Cases of melancholy appear to have been not uncommon, stemming in part, perhaps, from that general sense of the decay of the world which was a familiar feature of the Elizabethan
climate of opinion, in part from the sense of rootlessness and estrangement which is characteristic of a transitional society, and aggravated
no doubt
by the searching, pointed preaching of the time.
Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he
knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden
by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success
by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't
know how to proceed in the present economic
climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!
With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official,
knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply
by virtue of having already come so close considering the current
climate of the Spanish game.
Whilst these blogs are popular - in terms of unique visitor numbers (and before Unity has a go at me, I
know there are weaknesses in those numbers)- they tend to be written
by people who write about a large number of issues and
climate change is not their principle topic (or even one that they discuss very often).
Delaying infrastructure decisions is
no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected
by the adverse consequences of
climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science
«New Yorkers
know too well the devastation caused
by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.
He said
no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced
by the depletion of the lake due to
climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.
We would be free to fish in our own waters and would
no longer be constrained
by EU
climate change rules.
Nations could help
by cutting funding on
climate research, and boosting funding for the solution to
climate change, which we already
know: use less fossil fuel.
They are
known, to some, for their ability to survive cold
climates by literally freezing until spring and producing a natural antifreeze that keeps their cells de-iced all winter long.
«If we are to use that authority arbitrarily or to withhold these certifications where we should be granting them, what then can happen... is there is an opportunity for the federal government to just take that process over from us and then we
no longer have that authority,» Snyder said at a roundtable discussion on
climate change Monday sponsored
by the state Assembly.
The President made this
known on Tuesday in his statement
by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, at the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change taking place in Marrakech, Morocco.
Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform
by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to
know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and
climate.
Supported
by NASA and NOAA, this effort is also producing assessments that educators can use to get a better picture of what students
know and don't
know about weather and
climate concepts.
«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.
It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (
known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year
by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of
climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.
Those who
know more about
climate science, for example, are slightly more likely to accept that global warming is real and caused
by humans than those who
know less on the subject.
«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.
She has had experiences with reporters who thought the scientific community «didn't
know anything» when she expressed caveats and uncertainty around a complex topic (such as how mosquito - borne diseases in the U.S. - Mexico border region may be affected
by climate change).
If these
climate scenarios are confirmed, the study conducted
by Maeda and collaborators indicates that the hydroecological system would
no longer have time to recover.
In a 2003 email, Mann discusses encouraging colleagues to «
no longer submit [papers] to, or cite papers in»
Climate Research, after it published papers
by known sceptics «that couldn't get published in a reputable journal».
But one of the things that I have been very impressed
by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat
climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you
know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you
know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.
Knowing how to grow plants in environments degraded
by climate change will be crucial to feeding an exploding human population.
In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these,
known as
climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected
by climate change.
So, what tourism is impacting and actually what
climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you
know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you
know,
by inches and feet, you
know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded
by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of
climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have
known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained
by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded
by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly
known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of
climate change on these peatland bird species.
«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we
know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report
by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, IPCC.
The period
known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was triggered
by massive releases of carbon into the atmosphere and
climate researchers have long identified it as a time that could in some ways be analogous to today's global warming.
Future scarcity affected
by climate change will most likely lead to different water pricing needs than the schemes we
know from the past.»
One of nature's premier survivors is facing its sternest test yet: Hammered
by an array of threats that includes overfishing, pollution, and
climate change, populations of freshwater eels, also
known as river eels, have fallen to catastrophic lows.
After the UK was hit
by three storms in quick succession, everyone wants to
know if
climate change is to blame.
While previous indexes have mostly stressed progress made
by some of the world's best -
known brands in addressing the complex challenges around
climate change, the latest report also sounds a cautionary note about how much more needs to be done to make meaningful change in the world's
climate profile.
New weather conditions brought on
by climate change may help spread a fungal disease endemic to the Southwest
known as valley fever
IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988
by the United Nations, is best
known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing
climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.
However, a lack of traits
known to be under direct selection
by anthropogenic
climate change has limited the incorporation of evolutionary processes into global conservation efforts.