Sentences with phrase «changing on a local scale»

Although they've made a lot of progress over the last decades, we still do not really know how climate is changing on a local scale.

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Okeechobee, FL, routinely closes and hands over entire public side streets to allow expansion of church campuses / At urging of local monied «fundamentalist believers» including major insurance agency heads and realtors, city just approved a full scale commercial restaurant open to public on COG campus without changing tax status or collecting fees.

These sanctuaries provide insight on how climate change will affect their communities, bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

In the wake of that decision, 247 mayors across the U.S. announced that they would step up their cities» own efforts to combat climate change, and adopt the Paris climate agreement on a local scale.

The entrenched views of local parties, councillors, and council officials are often a barrier to even minor change; so change on this scale is always likely to meet opposition.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is planning to make sweeping changes to media - ownership rules next month, eliminating or scaling back longstanding limits on local ownership of TV stations and newspapers, its chairman said Wednesday.

Until now, those landscape changes have never been studied on a national or international scale, Schimel said, adding that research suggesting a climate impact, either global or local, is «kind of a new thing.»

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric - and continental - scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

January 2004: «Directions for Climate Research» Here, ExxonMobil outlines areas where it deemed more research was necessary, such as «natural climate variability, ocean currents and heat transfer, the hydrological cycle, and the ability of climate models to predict changes on a regional and local scale.»

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

We believe in passionate individuals and projects that can effect change on a local or global scale.

Our mission is to connect teachers to information and each other so they can create local change on a global scale.

Its response to an ongoing crisis has been on a scale far too modest to achieve effective change and has failed to collect the basic information which would allow it to address acute local - level problems.

Starting your own organization to help outdoor cats is a demanding, but rewarding way to effect change at the local level on a greater scale.

On the other side of the scale playing local play alone is still somewhat satisfying with the ability to change the difficulty of enemy AI to provide a challenge.

We can also compare with model - generated data (re-analyses), keeping in mind that one must be very careful with these data since they are not appropriate for studying long - term climate change (they give a misrepresentation of trends — at least on a local scale).

Seen from that perspective the regional change becomes part of changes on a much larger scale, even though proximate causes are by definition always local.

I think that a more scientifically justifiable statement, at least for the U.S. and extratropical land areas is that daily weather noise continues to drum out the siren call of climate change on local, weather scales.

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

While the large scales, such as the global mean, provide the best indicators of the state of earth's climate, it is on the local scales we feel a climate change, such as floods and extreme weather events.

A first step towards planning adaptation policies of SLR would be the projection of SLR at the local level at different time scales and at its different scenarios, as devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.&Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.&change on malaria at local and global scales.»

A key issue (uncertainty) is the extent to which the nation, states, communities and individuals will be able to adapt to climate change because this depends on the levels of local exposure to climate - health threats, underlying susceptibilities, and the capacities to adapt that are available at each scale.

Global and regional climate models have not demonstrated skill at predicting regional and local climate change and variability on multi-decadal time scales.

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that on top of a whatever local weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate change is putting its finger on the scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger weather event than you would have otherwise seen.»

After reading «Landscapes and Cycles: an Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism», I am convinced that Jim Steele's view of climate change caused by multiple factors, including naturally occurring cycles between warmth and cold in the world's oceans and changes in land use on a local scale, are a much more realistic explanation than the prevailing hypothesis.

(C) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor the effects of climate change on fish and wildlife at national, regional, and local scales; and

(A) coordinate programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to ensure the timely production and distribution of data and information on global, national, regional, and local climate variability and change over all time scales relevant for planning and response, including intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and multidecadal time periods;

The model must also provide accurate predictions of changes in climatic conditions (i.e. the climatic statistics) on the regional and local scale?

Also we analysed UK contributions to international initiatives for climate resilience and finance mechanisms and realised that they have so far not provided funds for local community - led projects; with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on forests.

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on icecaps and the retreat of glaciers around the world, which in many cases appear to be unprecedented during at least the last 2000 years.

The resultant local changes in microclimate can have broader - scale impacts on climate and vegetation elsewhere via «ecoclimate teleconnections» [12,13].

229 Time resolution on the scale of a year or two can be obtained from semi-fossil trees, e.g., Roig et al (2001) have a 1229 - year - long stretch of tree - ring widths from the middle of the last ice age at 40 ° S that shows abrupt droughts with abrupt recoveries (tenfold changes in yearly accumulation), but they are floating in absolute time and such local records can not yet be matched to events in the ice - core records.

There is a need to scale up our national and local programs on climate change adaptation and disaster risk management with urgency,» Lucille Sering told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.

Take a look at Kerr's article of today's Science (Climate Change Hot Spots Mapped Across the United States) to understand why it important to know that the models are poor (or rubbish, as you say) on a local scale.

There is no doubt that human activity can change local conditions, but on a global scale natural processes including variations in solar output and ocean currents control climatic conditions.

There is a major industry that involves taking GCM output and using that to evaluate local impacts on crops, endangered species, and ecosystems, and often what gives the biggest impact is changes in the extremes, but even the mean climate at a local scale has not been demonstrated to be accurately simulated.

«Losses or gains in forest cover shape many important aspects of an ecosystem including, climate regulation, carbon storage, biodiversity and water supplies, but until now there has not been a way to get detailed, accurate, satellite - based and readily available data on forest cover change from local to global scales.»

Some coverage of our paper in Climatic Change exploring the potential for local scale climate change impacts on malaria transmiChange exploring the potential for local scale climate change impacts on malaria transmichange impacts on malaria transmission:

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Such projects have a broad range, and may include things such as: the construction and interpretation of climate change scenarios on local to national scales, the study of changes in extremes, the evaluation of impacts on infrastructure, forests, agriculture, and energy production and distribution.

Subsidy won't change the weak, intermittent and cubicly variable with velocity renewable energy sources on a global or local scale.