Instead, there were plentiful predictions of
no change in mean climate, and indeed, persistence is a very standard naive baseline.
Our results reveal a marked increase in the probability of a 30 - day delay in monsoon onset in 2050, as a result of
changes in the mean climate, from 9 - 18 % today (depending on the region) to 30 - 40 % at the upper tail of the distribution.
«Changes in the variability of weather and the frequency of extremes will generally have more impact than
changes in the mean climate at a particular location.
Finally, it remains unclear how
changes in the mean climate will ultimately affect ENSO predictability.
Impacts on agriculture and ecosystems may themselves stem from extreme events like heat waves or droughts, from other forms of climate variability, or from
changes in mean climate conditions like generally higher temperatures.
In other words, under solar or anthropogenic influence
the changes in mean climate values, such as the global temperature, are less important than increased duration of certain climate patterns associated say with cold conditions in some regions and warm conditions in the other regions
Not exact matches
It found the rapid pace of global warming and the slow pace of coral growth
meant the reef was unlikely to evolve quickly enough to survive the level of
climate change predicted
in the next few decades.
A leadership and business perspective can help a lot
in climate change, and I don't
mean by promoting technical innovation.
That
meant a first section with a broad pledge to fight
climate change in general; a separate paragraph carved out that acknowledged the U.S. did not support the Paris deal; and a third paragraph
in which the other 19 members reaffirmed their support for the deal.
Moreover, looking «outside -
in»
means acknowledging that business does not operate
in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play
in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from
climate change to sustainable development.
An LNG industry
in B.C. needs to protect our air, land and water, and that
means honouring our
climate change commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
It
means giving up on B.C. workers, turning back our
climate change commitments, and letting industry call the shots when it comes to setting their tax rate, cutting it
in half.
«An LNG industry
in B.C. needs to protect our air, land and water, and that
means honouring our
climate change commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions,» said Chandra Herbert.
In the Internet age, urban «resilience»
means not only responding to
climate change, but also protecting our ubiquitous networks from both hack and glitch.
This
means it is willing to admit that some of its fossil fuel assets — possibly including the spanking $ 13 billion Kearl tar sands project
in Northern Alberta — could be wiped off its books if governments start taking action on
climate change.»
In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for polic
In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of
climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about
climate change, but they are
in denial about what this scientific reality means for polic
in denial about what this scientific reality
means for policy.
And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's
means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous
climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agr
climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agre
change, the shared goal set out
in the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agr
Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agre
Change and reiterated
in the Paris Agreement.
The ideological
climate is beginning to
change and it is possible to make oneself heard through other
means and to claim the first victories as
in the case of the MAT, a victory which is yet to be confirmed.
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) produced a series of short films on what a
changing climate could
mean for farming communities
in East and West Africa, and South -LSB-...]
In regions with continental
climate, soils are subject to desiccation,
meaning climate change will aggravate problems of salinity, erosion, and desertification.
Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry,
climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades
in freezing conditions?
This proved he was «the most anti-European Tory leader they have ever had - much more so than Margaret Thatcher», the Normanton MP continued, which
in turn
meant he would never be able to agree to deals the world needs to tackle
climate change.
Montreal's perceived success
meant that diplomats turned to it for guidance
in the design of new environmental agreements — and its imprint, for better or worse, can be clearly found
in the shape and structure of the
climate change regime.
But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address
climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so
in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has
changed, which
means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.
Warren Pearce's new «Making
Climate Social» project seeks to investigate the «contributors, content, connections and contexts of social media climate change communications» in order to determine «what the social media revolution might mean for the tricky relationship between science, politics, and publics.
Climate Social» project seeks to investigate the «contributors, content, connections and contexts of social media
climate change communications» in order to determine «what the social media revolution might mean for the tricky relationship between science, politics, and publics.
climate change communications»
in order to determine «what the social media revolution might
mean for the tricky relationship between science, politics, and publics.»
The format of the initiatives
meant that they not only learnt about the science of environmental problems such as
climate change, but were also engaged
in considering solutions and how to bring them about, both
in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.
He argued that
climate change meant more extreme weather is forecast and that recent floods
in Australia, earthquakes
in New Zealand and Haiti and a famine
in Africa were set to be repeated around the world
in the future.
If you
mean scientifically, we are also past the point were we can seriously debate human involvement
in climate change.
Republican state lawmakers
in the Senate are pushing a $ 100 million bailout of the state's nuclear power industry using funds from a
climate change program
meant to cut greenhouse gases from power plants.
Schneiderman and 16 other attorney generals filed the suit Tuesday, claiming that the Trump administration illegally suspended a safeguard
meant to reduce
climate -
changing emissions back
in May.
It also
means seven gubernatorial elections
in states that border the lakes, and growing concern over
climate change.
On
climate change:
In response to extreme weather events, Mr. Cuomo said he will launch Resilient NY, a program
meant to enhance how communities recover after
climate change - related events.
That
means that future
changes to the Gulf's salinity and temperature could be expected to influence the
climate in other ways.
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climate change [June 28
climate change [June 28,
change [June 28, 2016]
Does this
mean that with
climate change, more carbon will stay
in the soil?
The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various
means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols
in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic
climate change.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency recently released a
climate change report that projects a
mean temperature increase of 5 degrees
in the state over the next 50 years.
, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program
in 2012, said, «Leading on
climate change means leading by example
in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»
This
means that the science of
climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.
In 1997, 95 senators voted for a resolution condemning the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, which the Copenhagen meeting was meant to broker a replacement for, in part because of the lack of participation by developing countrie
In 1997, 95 senators voted for a resolution condemning the Kyoto Protocol on
Climate Change, which the Copenhagen meeting was
meant to broker a replacement for,
in part because of the lack of participation by developing countrie
in part because of the lack of participation by developing countries.
Coral cores stretching back more than 6,000 years reveal that
climate change in the Indian Ocean may
mean greater droughts
in Indonesia and Australia
Despite a drop
in coverage, those framed
in a public health context sharply increased, especially
in relation to heat and general health, evidence of public health framing as an effective
means to communicate
climate change.
The result
means some forests
in the eastern U.S. are already starting to look different, but more important, it
means the ability of those forests to soak up carbon is being altered as well, which could
in turn bring about further
climate change.
Those projects are
meant,
in part, to provide data to help understand various aspects of Earth's
climate and how it is
changing.
In conjunction with the National Science Foundation and the San Francisco Exploratorium, DISCOVER brought together four experts to discuss the reality and
meaning of
climate change.
This
means that the sudden appearance of rangeomorphs at large size could have been a direct result of major
changes in climate and ocean chemistry.
«I think that it's important to look at preventing
climate change as a
means rather than an end
in itself,» he says.
Obama said that the US was going to «lead by example» on
climate change, and that
meant «we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels
in the ground ``.
«We know that these large global
mean changes are going to be associated with local and regional
changes that are going to cause real problems
in some areas,» says Andy Challinor, an expert on
climate and agriculture at the University of Leeds
in England.
In fact, climate change may mean migration — and the loss of a sense of place for folks as disparate as Pacific islanders whose homelands drown, to herders forced to abandon their pastoral ways in the Sahe
In fact,
climate change may
mean migration — and the loss of a sense of place for folks as disparate as Pacific islanders whose homelands drown, to herders forced to abandon their pastoral ways
in the Sahe
in the Sahel.