Sentences with phrase «changes in weather patterns means»
«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.
https://www.climateinteractive.org/ Not exact matches
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.
Climate change could mean England is in for more such extreme rainfall events because of increasing moisture in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric weather patterns, a new study detailed online Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change change could mean England is in for more such extreme rainfall events because of increasing moisture in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric weather patterns, a new study detailed online Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change Change finds.
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...
Just a few degrees can mean large changes in global weather patterns and subsequently the global climate.
Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)
On the shorter term, fluctuations occur because a state would not be in equilibrium if it were constant, but the change in external forcing means that with the same climate, the shorter term imbalances would be changed, so the weather patterns even in the shorter term would evolve differently.
If relatively small changes in CO2 levels have big effects — meaning that we live in a more sensitive climate system — the planet could warm by as much as 6 degrees Celsius on average with attendant results such as changed weather patterns and sea - level rise.
That will mean changes in sea levels, rainfall patterns, extreme weather, and so on.