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«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.»

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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.

Droegemeier does not expect Bridenstine to support slashing the agency's budget, especially given that much of NASA's mission can be framed in terms of collecting data that are as applicable to understanding weather patterns as to understanding climate change.

This lack of diversity threatens the potential of commercial chickpea stock as the conditions in which farmers attempt to grow it — hotter, with a changing palette of pests, diseases, and weather patterns — become less and less like the conditions in which it was originally domesticated.

As climate change alters weather patterns — hastening desertification in some places and sopping others — increases the strength of natural disasters — from cyclones to landslides — and raises sea levels world wide, it will make many areas and livelihoods untenable, say the authors.

World weather patterns will also start to change, as a frigid Antarctic continent and the icy ocean currents that surround it play an important role in global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

Many natural phenomena, like changing weather patterns, are nonlinear in nature — as are human - made systems, like financial markets.

A NASA satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large weather events such as El Niño, with some troubling implications for future climate change.

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

New research suggests that as weather patterns changed some 30,000 years ago in Australia, megafauna went extinct

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

However, the effects of introducing these particles are not expected to be the same across the globe, and the offsetting of human - induced changes in other quantities such as rainfall and weather patterns may not work as well as for temperature.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

As the planet warms, drought, wildfire and changing weather patterns threaten some 400 billion trees in the Amazon, some of which are already at risk from logging and mining.

As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for action to be taken to reduce disaster risk and to help communities adapt to changing and more unpredictable weather patterns, without which much more displacement will occur in the future.

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

For the exhibition Op losse schroeven (On loose screws) organised by Wim Beeren and Edy de Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Boezem hung white bed sheets out of the first floor windows of the museum to function as a wind vane, to indicate the changing patterns of the wind and weather, but also to mock the Dutch habit of placing the bedding in the open window of one's house to dry.

We also anticipate the variability of weather patterns will change dramatically over some parts of the world, such as North America, Europe and Asia, but not in others.»

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.

On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).

As climate change leads to dramatic changes in the day to day weather patterns, with hurricanes and floods frequently headlining the news around the world, it makes you wonder why people are still turning a blind eye to this ginormous issue.

Whether climate change is expressed as a rise in temperatures, or as changing precipitation patterns — it is at the extreme edges of the graph that the frequency of weather events suddenly multiplies dramatically.

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.

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«At the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, the ice sheet went through a period of rapid, sustained ice loss when changes in global weather patterns and rising sea levels pushed warm water closer to the ice sheet — just as is happening today,» NASA said.

Blocking was a significant phenomenon in the weather patterns as the Circumpolar flow changed from Zonal to Meridional in 2013 - 14.

This should be the main priority, including at multi-decadal AMO scales, and with the regular occurrence solar minima, as these govern dominant regional climatic and weather pattern changes, regardless of relatively small increases in non-condensing GHG forcings.

There is concern in the scientific community that the temperature change from now to the end of the century will be roughly the same as the difference between now and the last Ice Age, which occurred 10,000 years ago, resulting in dramatic changes in temperature, weather patterns, water tables, land and biodiversity.

«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 patternIn 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 patternin weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patternin the face of deadly changes in weather patternin weather patterns.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

«Increasing weather volatility or other long - term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients... we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas...» — Chipotle 2013 Annual Report

Changes in the Arctic led by sea ice loss are affecting weather patterns farther south, such as in the lower United States.

4) A change in global weather patterns which I noticed as long ago as 2000 whereby the jet streams moved back towards the equator from the positions they adopted during the warming spell.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populaChange states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populachange» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

The World Health Organisation reports that climate change related variations to weather patterns such as more intense and frequent extreme events, changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, and to ecosystems, agriculture, livelihoods and infrastructure, will all have an impact on health.

This may sound farfetched to those of us who are following the climate change negotiations and have had access to news about weather patterns changing as is reported in the latest IPCC report (hyperlink) but it is these kind of explanations that our communities are using to explain the changing weather patterns and how their hope lies in a far - off stone falling back to its original position.

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

Malaria and other tropical diseases are moving into new areas, and outbreaks are increasing in frequency as the planet warms and weather patterns change.

They face even greater risks in the future as human induced climate change increasingly alters the weather and climate patterns that societies have come to depend on.

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

N (1) Natural mechanisms play well more than a negligible role (as claimed by the IPCC) in the net changes in the climate system, which includes temperature variations, precipitation patterns, weather events, etc., and the influence of increased CO2 concentrations on climatic changes are less pronounced than currently imagined.

Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns increase the frequency, duration, and intensity of other extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and tornadoes.

Climate changes occur over longer periods and can be observed as changes in the patterns of weather events.

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.

«Some of their nations could disappear entirely, and as weather patterns change, we might deal with tens of millions of climate refugees in the Asia - Pacific region.»

On a regional scale, these parameters strongly impact on weather and climate in Europe, determining precipitation patterns and strengths, as well as changes in temperature and wind patterns.

Changes in migration patterns are occurring as populations become displaced due to weather - related impacts.

The Agriculture Department will have to deal with droughts and changing rainfall patterns, but its employees have been barred from even discussing the problem openly, as leadership has instructed them to use «weather extremes» instead of «climate change» in reports.