Sentences with phrase «changes in weather patterns»

Physical risks can be acute — from severe weather events — or chronic, from long - term changes in weather patterns.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.

-- or chronic, from long - term changes in weather patterns.

This increase is predominantly due to the response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to El Niño — induced changes in weather patterns.

Personally, I can see where changes in weather patterns can drive the averages higher, I am trying to understand how CO2 is driving the weather patterns.

Researchers say that smaller creatures tend to be the most resilient to many habitat changes, and that the loss of their larger predators may actually be a boon to them — but this may matter little if changes in weather patterns come about as climatologists have warned.

As for «supposedly caused», it is exactly the sort of drought that climate scientists have predicted for a generation would result from AGW, it is clearly linked to AGW - driven changes in weather patterns, it continues to worsen and spread as I write, and it is much like similar mega-droughts already affecting major agricultural regions all over the world.

The release of carbon dioxide from the combustion of oil, gas and coal is the main cause of the greenhouse effect, i.e. the global warming and changes in weather patterns experienced over the last decades.

From the controversial subjects of climate change and man made global warming to changes in weather patterns.

The presentation explored ways to help planners, practitioners and policymakers working in agriculture and forestry understand options available for making different landscapes and food systems more climate - smart — important for smallholder farmers and pastoralists in developing countries who are coping with a degraded natural resource base and are being especially hard hit by changes in weather patterns.

When pollsters explicitly asked people what they thought of «increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to changes in weather patterns,» nearly two - thirds replied that the problem was «somewhat serious» or «very serious.»

The past decade has produced noticeable changes in its weather patterns.

From the Alaska Climate Research center site, (which someone linked to on another CA thread yesterday) one can see the effects of quantum changes in weather patterns in Alaska since the mid 1970s.

However, on a time scale of a few years to a few decades ahead, future regional changes in weather patterns and climate, and the corresponding impacts, will also be strongly influenced by natural unforced climate variations.

«Among climate - change activists, the realization is spreading that the combination of political inaction on greenhouse gases, plentiful new petroleum supplies and accelerating changes in weather patterns means there is no escaping more life - altering floods, droughts and fires.

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just a great deal more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns (3).

This leads to both chronic and acute changes in weather patterns and an increase in extreme events such as droughts, floods and storms.»

The issue is that differences in mineral content, salinity, density, and temperature all affect how the ocean reacts to, and drives, changes in weather patterns, climate variations over years or decades, ocean current circulation, etc..

«In my decade - long career in mountaineering so far, I have observed noticeable changes in weather patterns of the high Himalayan region,» said Pasang Lhamu, a 30 - year - old mountaineer from Solukhumbu district.

Due to these changes in weather patterns, the last few winters have been cold and miserable, a pattern which is projected to prevail for the foreseen future.

«The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the «little ice age»... In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns.

Later studies suggested that along with overgrazing, human emissions, not only of greenhouse gases but also of industrial haze, had caused changes in weather patterns that contributed to the disaster.)

The 20 - year horizon is relevant to short - term impacts, such as changes in weather patterns; the 100 - year horizon applies to longer time - scale changes, such as sea - level rise; while 500 years represents the longest time - scale it is felt reasonable to consider given our current knowledge.

DeMenocal (2001) summarizes evidence that suggests that major changes in weather patterns coincided with the collapse of several previously powerful civilizations, including the Anasazi, the Akkadian, Classic Maya, Mochica, and Tiwanaku empires.

Changes in weather patterns, the eruption of volcanos, changes in ultraviolet output of the sun linked to the 10 - 11 year solar cycle and other natural phenomena can, like CFCs, inhibit the production of ozone.»

Thermal mass of the oceans on the other hand is huge, so they follow with some principal lag of decades, but they follow «noisy» as decadal variations like ENSO or changes in weather patterns due to climate change overlay that.

Since the subtropical oceans are favoured regions for low clouds (Figure 2), especially in summer, such changes in weather patterns may conceivably affect low cloud cover in the manner seen in Figure 1.»

Both dogs and cats can react strongly to changes in weather patterns.

«With increasing changes in weather patterns and more frequent severe storms, we need to look at bigger opportunities to create more water storage further up our river catchments.

«This species has the smallest, most restricted habitat of any Amazonian primate, and it has been predicted that the habitat may be drastically altered due to changes in weather patterns as a result of global warming.»

Although the prevailing winds are blowing the bulk of radio isotopes from the plant out over the Pacific Ocean, periodic changes in weather patterns are dumping fallout inland, increasing the doses that residents receive.

Global changes in weather patterns are linked to the equatorial anomalies

If that's true in the Amazon, Saleska says, climate scientists will need to take into account practices like deforestation when predicting regional changes in weather patterns.

«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and changes to heat storage will lead to changes in weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»

«Anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns I think is denying reality.»

Little change in the weather pattern is expected during the next couple of days as the surface ridge to the north remains weak.

I think this would create a bit of thermal imbalance in the climate and also would mean large changes in the weather pattern, which would * not * be limited only in the arctic region...

Dawn: Climate changes have continuously taken their toll on Pakistan over the last few years — whether it's an increase in flooding or a change in weather patterns.

Anyone who says there is not a dramatic change in weather patterns I think is denying reality.»

If there is a trend I could be convinced otherwise I disagree with Governor Cuomo's comment that «there is a pattern of extreme weather that we've never seen before» — reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that «anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns is probably denying reality.»

Cuomo said on Monday that «there is a pattern of extreme weather that we've never seen before» — reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that «anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns is probably denying reality.»

Climate change is the change in weather pattern due to natural, periodic and cyclical swings in temperatures such as the ice age which covers a much longer period of time usually for thousands of years.

It will be too fast for humankind to react with regards to drastic changes in weather pattern and landscape (which affects farming, land use, etc...).

As an hypothetical example, a change in weather patterns due to ocean circulation could result in a multi-decade long drought that overwhelms the culture's ability to adapt, cause starvation and war, and so on.

Many of those they studied, particularly the species endemic to Southern California, are «right on the edge» and could tip into extinction at the slightest change in weather patterns.

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Meanwhile the continuing use of fossil fuels has caused changes in global weather patterns.

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

In an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as droughIn an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as droughin the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.