Sentences with phrase «climate change in the past»

«We've seen the effects of climate change in the past few months.

Still, Cuomo has been hesitant to discuss the cause of climate change in the past, referring to it as a «political debate» that he has tried to avoid while speaking at a State Police graduation in Albany earlier this summer.

Particles of sulfuric acid — injected by volcanoes or humans — have slowed the pace of climate change in the past decade

He has made statements about climate change in the past.

In a project focusing on how climate changes in the past affects the evolution of biodiversity, researchers tried to fill this knowledge gap.

Bandicoot fossils are important for understanding how Australia's unique biodiversity has reacted to climate change in the past.

Still, cold - blooded tropical animals have survived climate changes in the past and may be able to once again adapt, acclimate, migrate or even change their behaviors.

«The new work improves our understanding of history, allowing better model tests and allowing better assessment of how the ice responded to climate changes in the past,» Alley said, «and this will help in making better and more - reliable projections for the future.»

«We want to know if species will be able to adapt to climate change quickly enough based on how they adapted to climate change in the past,» says evolutionary ecologist John Wiens, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new study.

Title: Merging information from different resources for new insights into climate change in the past and future Author (s): Huang SP Source: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 31 (13): Art.

It is well - established in climatology that different causes and mechanisms have caused climate changes in the past (orbital variations, plate tectonics, solar variability, volcanic eruptions, etc.), so that a cause - effect relationship has to be determined for each individual case, rather than looking for one overall «driver».

For the non-scientist or non-ecologist, climate change in the past has led to geographical sifts in ecological communities, some species adapting, others not.

If we can understand how reptiles responded to climate change in the past, we can better predict how climate change will affect reptiles now.

The planet that neighbors Earth «underwent a major climate change in its past,» said Jim Green, director of the planetary science division at NASA headquarters.

«Cooperation and resilient social networks were really key in helping people ride out dramatic climate change in the past,» said Riel - Salvatore

Has done research in ozone, UV, aerosols, climate change in the past 30 years.

They can test hypotheses for climate changes in the past and so on.

There are many things that have caused climate changes in the past — in both directions, and man is now adding heavily to the warming, as is possibly the Earth's inconsistent orbit (which is due about now).

The small amount of climate change in the past 150 years has been all good news: (1) We've had mild warming at night, and (2) We've had greening of our planet from more CO2 in the air.

Climate changes in past centuries were significant in some parts of the world, but they were often opposite (e.g. warm vs. cold) in different regions at any given time, in sharp contrast with the global synchrony of 20th century warming.

These is output from the large scale global models used to assess climate change in the past, and make projections for the future.

For the non-scientist or non-ecologist, climate change in the past has led to geographical sifts in ecological communities, some species adapting, others not.

Those concerned about global warming (including at least one study author) are stressing that a longer evolutionary timeline implies the bears» adaptation to climate change in the past was a slow process (meaning the speed of change now poses new threats).

Modelers now are comparing not just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

Modelers of course do not compare just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

My oenological research project has not then lead me to any profound insights into climate change in the past, but it has given me a little more respect for the dedication of my winemaking compatriots.

Thirdly, demonstration that there have been large climate changes in the past without humans in no way demonstrates that humans are not now responsible.

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

Perhaps you should study history and see that our planet under went many major climate changes in the past millions of years.

[Response: With regard to checking with real world data, you might want to watch my AGU New Fellows talk next week [Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02, Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM, Presentation Length: 20 minutes, Session Title: A32D.

I hope you and your colleagues will watch my AGU New Fellows talk next week [Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02, Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM, Presentation Length: 20 minutes, Session Title: A32D.

Tune in to my AGU New Fellows talk next week [Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02, Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM, Presentation Length: 20 minutes, Session Title: A32D.

It's interesting and all that there weren't mass extinctions due to climate change in the past, but I'm not sure it really matters.

«Researching Don't Even Think About It, which I see as the most important book published on climate change in the past few years, George Marshall discovered that there has not been a single proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward during international climate negotiations.

Title: Merging information from different resources for new insights into climate change in the past and future Author (s): Huang SP Source: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 31 (13): Art.

The director of the program, Anthony Leiserowitz, was explaining how President Obama's focus on climate change in the past couple of years likely helped move global warming up a notch in public concern.

The very strong evidence from Greenland ice and other sources of large, rapid, widespread climate changes in the past, and the fairly clear evidence that freshening of the north Atlantic could trigger a large climate shift, had raised LOTS of big questions, and at the time of Inevitable Surprises, many of those questions were poorly answered.

«Researchers working at the Australian National University Research School of Earth Sciences have discovered century - scale patterns in Pacific rainfall and temperature, and linked them with global climate changes in the past 2000 years.

I recognise there have been rapid climate changes in the past and there will be in the future, no matter what we do.

The fact that natural factors caused climate changes in the past does not mean that the current climate change is natural.

Many Jewish groups and individuals have been addressing environmental issues for years, but they have only started making official statements and calls to action on climate change in the past several years.

Hansen, Schneider and other alarmists say we must drastically reduce GHG emissions, because we did nothing to tackle climate change in the past (1988 - 2008), due to American sabotage.

PETM, large abrupt climate change in the past.

The Earth system has experienced large - scale climate changes in the past (Chapter 6) that hold important lessons for the understanding of present and future climate change.

But it makes no sense to reject CO2 as a primary driver of climate change today because it looks, through the foggy glasses of time, like CO2 has not always completely controlled climate changes in the past.

There has been considerable interesting work on climate change in the past four years, but the progress of climate science has been fitful.

The fact that climate changed in the past due to cause «A» does not mean it can only change through cause «A.» [110]

«Cooperation and resilient social networks were really key in helping people ride out dramatic climate change in the past,» said Riel - Salvatore

It's a strange irony of the «climate change» campaign that its advocates are the ones who deny the existence of climate change — or at least, they deny the existence of climate change in the past.

Science: Climate changes in the past suggest that our climate reacts to energy input and output, such that if the planet accumulates more heat than it gives off global temperatures will rise.