Sentences with phrase «climate background state»

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Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

The atmospheric circulation response seems to be sensitive to the magnitude and geographic pattern of sea - ice loss and, in some cases, to the background climate state.

It is this background warming from the heat trapped by greenhouse gases that actually accounts for most of the predictability in future temperature change, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State.

These intervals are taken to represent discrete background states in the functioning of the basin or of the climate system in general

School Climate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national avClimate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national avclimate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national averages.

They define the probability of development of these vorticies into TCs through a «genesis» model that conditions the favorability of development on various characteristics of the background climate state, and they use a theoretical model to predict TC intensities.

There's no doubt that Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University is right when he says «climate change is present in every single meteorological event» — in the sense that the buildup of greenhouses gases is a background nudge everywhere.

For more background on the climate conference from the United States delegation, here's a transcript of a Thursday news conference and an archive of other statements.

That historical background, I think, is essential to understanding not just the backlash that Obama is facing on climate action, but the generally very poor record that the United States has had on climate action.

This, it says, «is against the background of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] stating that there is a 90 % certainty that the causes of global warming are man - made, it follows that there is a 10 % uncertainty.

As a climate scientist, I am quite familiar with the background facts that Prof Michael E. Mann (now at Penn State U) so shamelessly distorts in his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Frontclimate scientist, I am quite familiar with the background facts that Prof Michael E. Mann (now at Penn State U) so shamelessly distorts in his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the FrontClimate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.

When I rephrased my question and gave some background to my reason for asking it, you went way outside your area of expertise and turned to stating your opinions (based on you ideological beliefs) about how much your tool says the planet will warm by 2100 (4.4 C you said based on 3.2 C equilibrium climate sensitivity).

I would probably generally state it as «human CO2 activity has a measurable warming impact on global average temperature that can be readily discerned from the background of natural climate change and other human effects that may cause cooling, and this warming impact will be, in general, neutral in impact for humanity and the biosphere».

I was noodling over some legal background relative to Exxon today when the NY State Attorney General trumped me, announcing an investigation into whether Exxon lied to the public or its investors about the relationship between the oil business and climate.

In addition, the mechanisms could depend on the background state of the climate system, and thus on other forcings (e.g., due to well - mixed gases, Meehl et al., 2004), or interact with each other.

It's not that there aren't perturbations from other sources, it is that those sources or sinks are orders of magnitude less important and are themselves nearly steady state phenomena, forming a nearly constant background correction, not something that contributes to active average temperature changes in climate.

This difference suggests that the impact of freshwater input to the North Atlantic varies depending on the background state of the climate.

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

First, some background on Conn. v. AEP: in 2004, the states of Connecticut, New York, California, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont, three environmental groups, and the city of New York sued six electric utilities for supposedly contributing to climate - related injuries.

Hull's research focuses on the relationship between open ocean life and the environment during mass extinctions, abrupt climatic events, and changes in background climate state.

In addition, the mechanisms could depend on the background state of the climate system, and thus on other forcings (e.g., due to wellmixed gases, Meehl et al., 2004), or interact with each other.

One is that climate sensitivity, at least in some climate models, is not fixed but rather depends on the background climate state, increasing rapidly with temperature.

I do have a science background (long time ago) but do not have sufficient knowledge of climate science to be able to instantly spot the problems in the non-science stuff posted at places like WUWT (and even worse, I lack the confidence in my own ability to state what I believe to be the problems without confirmation from another source).