This is a bit surprising — I wonder if this is why the Russian astronomer predicts a drastic
change in climate in the next few decades?
Two: assessing changes in forcings associated
with changes in climate — using data sufficient to do the statistics.
I'm visiting my parents later this month in the countryside, so I'm excited
for change in climate once more.
Question 4, not surprisingly, entails yet more assumptions about how humans will react to
future changes in the climate at both global and regional levels.
Together they have used traditional methods from climate research to study how animals are affected
by changes in the climate.
I am concerned with
how changes in climate affect glacial mass balance and the physical and chemical properties of snow.
The increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration probably will have significant direct effects on vegetation whether
predicted changes in climate occur or not.
In addition to
causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct effect on the world's oceans.
A human forced
change in climate patterns is neither widely discussed, accepted, nor understood on the islands where people are far removed from the lifestyles causing global warming and sea level rise.
According to the study, the number of these deaths that can be attributed to
changes in the climate since the industrial era is, however, relatively small.
This is a strong indication that agriculture, and not changing sea surface temperature, caused the
regional changes in climate during the last third of the 20th century, the researchers say.
They claim that it is necessary in order to avoid
catastrophic changes in climate, but the scientific case for this does not survive application of the scientific method.
In essence, their reconstruction appears to tell us about
past changes in climate with a resolution of about 400 years.
These extreme
changes in the climate do not only impact our land; they affect how much we earn and what food we put on the table for our children.
Only a persistent series of unusual events taken in the context of regional climate parameters can suggest a
potential change in climate has occurred.
The study's results are, therefore, «likely to mainly
reflect changes in climate features, rather than the full response from vegetation», they note.
Therefore scientists look to what's called paleo proxy data to evaluate
changes in climate based on what we know about the time periods and on fossil evidence.