Sentences with phrase «by modern climate change»

«All the observations show this region is one of those most affected by modern climate change, and it's predicted to get dryer.

Degradation of near - surface permafrost (perennially frozen ground) caused by modern climate change is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological processes and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

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«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

I was becoming increasingly captivated by climate change — modern and ancient — and the mechanisms used to study it.

A new study by an international team of scientists reveals the exact timing of the onset of the modern monsoon pattern in the Maldives 12.9 million years ago, and its connection to past climate changes and coral reefs in the region.

This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record of river piracy caused by a melting glacier, researchers report online April 17 in Nature Geoscience.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

«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.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

While the Scarisoara ice core has given scientists a window into the Holocene past, its applications for the future have been limited by a very modern problem: climate change.

Explicit recognition of citizen science in published papers could promote the communication linkages necessary for broader impacts by helping shift public discourse associated with modern climate change from controversy to acceptance.

By comparing the bones of modern whales to fossils, a team of scientists has traced the growth spurt to about 4.5 million years ago, when climate change increased the food supply.

KEY FEATURES — Stunningly detailed pixel graphics — 10 challenging, well - designed boss battles — Hypnotic electronic score by composer Karl Flodin — Modern take on the classic Metroidvania genre: Players can freely explore the world at their own pace — Organic storytelling: The environments tell the story, along with some holo - tapes that are scattered around the drowned cities — Plausible plot driven by real - life issues: Explore the effects of climate change and technological progress

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in the meantime, in the absence of reliable climate models or any certainty of «how much climate may change,» how many trillions should we spend and how far backward must modern industrial civilization be propelled by imposing draconian co2 emissions cuts?

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

A book that discusses climate change effects on human history is «Climate History and the Modern World» by Huberclimate change effects on human history is «Climate History and the Modern World» by HuberClimate History and the Modern World» by Hubert Lamb.

One of the most obvious indicators that Earth's climate changes was discovered not by any modern scientist, but by the forefathers of science who first looked to the stars - Kepler, Copernicus and Newton - and realized that Earth's position in space is not fixed.

A climate change documentary that challenges the «scare tactics» employed by the modern environmental movement's activists.

Proposed supporters of climate alarmism methods to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions are not only scientifically unfounded - in the absence of extraordinary characteristics of modern climate change, but also incredibly expensive in economic terms.

«The fact that the Garamantes developed this ingenious irrigation system shows that our ability to apply engineering solutions to deal with climate change is by no means only a modern phenomenon,» said Dr White.

«Researchers first became intrigued by abrupt climate change when they discovered striking evidence of large, abrupt, and widespread changes preserved in paleoclimatic archives... The chapter concludes with examples of modern climate change and techniques for observing it.

Professor Hughes's many papers reporting his results, including those on climate change, were reviewed by independent — and often anonymous — panels of scientists before publication, in the peer - review system that drives modern science.

«Researchers first became intrigued by abrupt climate change when they discovered striking evidence of large, abrupt, and widespread changes preserved in paleoclimatic archives... Modern climate records include abrupt changes that are smaller and briefer than in paleoclimate records but show that abrupt climate change is not restricted to the distant past.»

-- the overall change to the global heat balance climate from basic physics bounded by paleo observations (over time increasingly constrained by modern observations)-- the probable overall patterns of regional change at a large scale — the range of impacts.

A spokesman for ExxonMobil said: «ExxonMobil will not respond to Guardian inquiries because of its lack of objectivity on climate change reporting demonstrated by its campaign against companies that provide energy necessary for modern life, including newspapers.»

The climate - change cooling over the 1940 — 1975 time period of the Modern Warming period was shown to be influenced by a combination of solar factors.

Tim Ball was a student of H.H. Lamb, who pioneered the modern study of climate change before it was taken over by those promoting dangerous global warming caused by carbon dioxide (CO2).

Live Science: «Climate Records Shattered in 2013» — By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer LiveScience.com — July 18, 2014 — «The climate is changing more rapidly in today's world than at any time in modern civilization,» said Thomas Karl, director oClimate Records Shattered in 2013» — By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer LiveScience.com — July 18, 2014 — «The climate is changing more rapidly in today's world than at any time in modern civilization,» said Thomas Karl, director oclimate is changing more rapidly in today's world than at any time in modern civilization,» said Thomas Karl, director of NOAA.

Air pollution caused by fumes from the hundreds of thousands of vehicles on our roads is one of the big killers of the modern age, especially in cities, and is, along with climate change, a serious threat to the future of the planet.

Again, obviously, the modern U.S. climate change has been way over-hyped by politicians and government scientists when put into a historical perspective, as above.

Now compound this massive propaganda failure by the anti-growth Democrats with this week's latest climate science news from the world's premier science journal and a leading global warming alarmist scientist: natural ocean oscillations are responsible for Earth's modern temperature changes, not human CO2.

That collaboration has now been published by Springer; the textbook is Climate Change Science: A Modern [continue reading...]

As emphasized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), modern models faithfully simulate continental to global scale temperature patterns and trends observed during the 20th century.

That collaboration has now been published by Springer; the textbook is Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis (volume one of a two volume set).

«Third, in a period when ocean basins were similar to modern, ice age climate sensitivity to pCO2 changes is underestimated by climate models even when long term changes in solar forcing and ice sheet size and distribution are taken into account, implying that internal positive feedbacks are stronger than previously thought.»

«Modern - day ecosystems could experience a further loss in biodiversity, not only by habitat reduction but also by carbon release - driven rapid climate changes.»

Recently, two science articles based on the latest research belies the notion, held by global warming alarmist proponents, that climate change is only a result of modern human CO2 emissions.

For instance, modern bioenergy in final global energy consumption should increase four-fold by 2060 in the IEA's 2 °C scenario (2DS), which seeks to limit global average temperatures from rising more than 2 °C by 2100 to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change.

Many have credited this article to Roger Revelle, a man described by some as the grandfather of modern climate change science and whose name woul dhave given the article significantly more credence than Singer's alone.

From the article:... Many archaeologists would argue that the potentially most meaningful contribution of archaeology to modern climate change debates lies in the study of the interrelationships between the impact of climate change and the adaptation by communities.

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That might have changed this week with the coverage of announcement of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous» by James Hansen and 16 other eminent scientists.

United Nations commissioned scientists — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Royal Society, the World Academy of Arts & Science, United Nations Population Fund, World Bank, the UN, NASA, 178 countries, The Earth Charter, modern U.S. Presidents, have declared a global emergency... terminal Climate Change caused by humans.