Sentences with phrase «changes of climate patterns»

«The main point is that the 2C target — which is almost out of reach now, or quickly becoming out of reach — is itself a dangerous target because it leads to a world that is greatly destabilised by rising sea levels and massive changes of climate patterns in different parts of the world,» said Professor Jeff Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, one of the PLoS paper's authors.

In the summary of climate model performance in Chapter 9 and expected future changes of climate patterns in Chapter 14, the report cites Furtado et al. (2011) for its comprehensive model evaluation of the Pacific modes of climate variability.

Else, we might not be prepared for what most of us aren't counting on ---- a widescale change of climate patterns and life as we know it.

Not exact matches

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

The world - wide phenomenon of climate change, and the devastatingly dangerous weather patterns and storms it produces, must be our fault as well.

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

In the complete change of religious climate after Constantine most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

In the complete change of religious climate most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

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 drought.

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warmingChanging Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warmingchanging patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.

Below is an infographic of why Ghanaians must care about climate change patterns and why they are experiencing the recent developments.

With the effect of climate change, the irrigation dam comes in handy to enable citizens who are predominantly farmers to cultivate crops all year round without depending on the unregularly rain pattern.

Munkaila Jawad, the Municipal Director of MoFA, said climate change has shortened rainfall patterns, caused bush fires, affected forest reserves and has...

Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.

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.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

As Cobb explained, climate scientists still lack a good understanding of how climate change will alter precipitation patterns.

Although no single fire, no matter how severe, can be concretely linked to global climate change, the climatic conditions seen in Colorado this year fit the kind of pattern scientists expect to see in the future.

This data can then be used to analyze the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental conditions, including baseline data for global climate change and their relevance to changes in regional land use patterns.

A new study by an international team of scientists reveals the exact timing of the onset of the modern monsoon pattern in the Maldives 12.9 million years ago, and its connection to past climate changes and coral reefs in the region.

«As climate changes, and even with many of our weather patterns, [it] directly affects the distribution of disease,» Ford says.

The poles are on the front lines of climate change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns, global oceanic circulation and the marine food chain.

«Understanding how biodiversity responds to climate change in freshwater rock pools could provide critical information about potential patterns of biodiversity change both locally and globally,» Nadeau said.

«The climate is changing at a pace and in a pattern that is not explainable by natural influences,» said John P. Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The investigation of self - reported sleep patterns and nighttime temperatures across the United States is one of the first studies to provide evidence that rising temperatures, driven by climate change, could affect human sleep.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

Human - induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns, and historically, climate shifts have led to shifts in the geographic ranges of many taxa.

But the scientist said it's not clear whether the droughts are the product of a random shift in weather patterns or whether they are driven, at least in part, by climate change.

In the denuded branches of New England oaks and hemlocks scientists see a fingerprint of climate change — and a pattern of things to come

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

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.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

«Once you dramatically change the climate and change water patterns, as is now seen in the Three Gorges region,» he says, «you change a lot of environmental variables.

A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible of the impacts of climate change on crop productivity that could have consequences for food availability.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

We have recently been investigating our choice of cropping given the changing weather and climatic patterns, and we are also assessing how better water management may alleviate the pressures of climate change.

In late June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released an assessment of how the consequences of climate change, from rising temperatures and sea levels to changes in precipitation patterns and sea ice cover, might impact the military.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

«This population is clearly on the edge between two extremes, and their life history patterns could shift to complete residency or anadromy depending on climate change and the health of the other species they interact with,» Bond said.

The beginning and end of a glacial period are clearly times of global climate change, but there are also periods of abrupt change in climate patterns within those periods.

«But early indications from one area in Nepal clearly show people are fully aware of changes in climate patterns.»

For her part, Weatherhead said her next step will be examining how climate change affects the persistence of weather patterns around the world.

Petrov examined historical data going back to 1969 and determined that there are ongoing changes in the distribution and migration patterns of the wild reindeer due to climate change and human pressure.

Given the high sensitivity inherent in tornado formation and the lack of any clear pattern in tornado events, scientists have been cautious in linking the storms to climate change in any way.

By next year, the Argo project will have installed 3,000 floating sensors across all the oceans, offering a daily snapshot of global patterns of water temperature and salinity — crucial for predicting the nature and pace of climate change.

The pattern of rapid human colonisation through the Americas, coinciding with contrasting temperature trends in each continent, allowed the researchers to disentangle the relative impact of human arrival and climate change.

«We have now added a view of the climate changes at the end of another ice age, for comparison, and we found that the patterns were different,» said co-author Professor Eelco Rohling, from the University of Southampton and ANU.

This pattern suggests that their sense of understanding about climate change more often has an ideological basis.