Sentences with phrase «century climate change»

Meanwhile we are safe to conclude it's a very threatened region — and one of the most notable hotspots of 21st century climate change.

21st century climate change affects the entire globe: every ecosystem, every mountain range, all the glaciers, all the land, the oceans.

Bottom: The velocity of climate change required to maintain the current annual temperature should the late - 21st - century climate change occur.

«We're using the same climate models that we use to project 21st century climate change on Earth to do simulations of specific exoplanets that have been discovered, and hypothetical ones.»

Last, once we take the solar contribution into account, a much more consistent picture for the 20th century climate changes arises, one in which the climate drivers (humans AND solar) are notably larger, and the sensitivity notably smaller.

Delineating the relative role of anthropogenic forcing, natural forcing, and long - term natural variability in 20th century climate change presents a significant challenge to our understanding of the climate system (1 — 7).

«We're using the same climate models that we use to project 21st century climate change on Earth to do simulations of specific exoplanets that have been discovered, and hypothetical ones.»

Our regional model projects that Atlantic hurricane and tropical storms are substantially reduced in number, for the average 21st century climate change projected by current models, but have higher rainfall rates, particularly near the storm center.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

Many species have altered range limits and phenotypes through 20th - century climate change, but responses are highly variable.

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

The near - global retreat of mountain glaciers is among the most visible evidence of 20th - and 21st - century climate change (see Chapter 4), and the question arises as to the significance of this current retreat within a longer time perspective.

Bate's exhibition Lament, which reinvigorates Canadian landscape painting in the face of 21st century climate change and environmental destruction, will open on Saturday, May 24 from 2 to 6 pm, and runs May 24 to June 21.

There are four independent instrumental records of sufficient length and potential accuracy to tell us about 20th - century climate change.

«Numerous experiments have been conducted using climate models to determine the likely causes of the 20th - century climate change.

O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2009: The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st - century climate change.

Clear decrease in average rainfall over Central America as a consequence of 21st century climate change, depending on the height of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions.

We may now, at long last, be moving closer than ever in our effort to understand the importance of the sun in driving 20th century climate change.»

By the end of this century climate change will result in more frequent and more extreme heat, more drought, and fewer extremes in cold weather in the United States.

In particular, a number of the observed 20th - century climate changes can be viewed in terms of changes in these patterns.

As a result also the total Central American rainforest cover is likely to decrease considerably under the influence of 21st century climate change — with a biome shift to either grassland or savanna climate suitability.

Are the models capable of giving us a correct answer in a probabilistic sense about the attribution of 20th century climate change, or sensitivity to CO2 doubling?

Uncertainty and the IPCC (brings back the monster metaphor in a minimal way) Uncertainty in the attribution of 20th century climate change (blog post earlier in the week, monster metaphor lightly sprinkled in) Taming the uncertainty monster

Orr et al. (2005) estimate that 21st century climate change could possibly counteract less than 10 % of the projected direct geochemical changes.

Although projected increases in greenhouse gas concentrations caused by fossil fuel combustion are expected to dominate 21st century climate change, some studies suggest that anthropogenic land use may yet be at least as important and may remain so in the near future (8).

Distribution modelling of vascular plants, butterflies and grasshoppers in central Europe suggests that habitat - based conservation strategies will be insufficient to save species from regional extinction under twenty - first - century climate change.

«By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.»

Shindell, D., G. Faluvegi, A. Lacis, J. Hansen, R. Ruedy, and E. Aguilar, 2006: Role of tropospheric ozone increases in 20th century climate change.