Sentences with phrase «climate change scenario»

``... among the present generation of global climate models, deep convection is common in the Southern Ocean under pre-industrial conditions, but weakens and ceases under a climate change scenario owing to surface freshening.

Using modelling projections of species distributions for future climate scenarios, Thomas et al. (2004) show, for the year 2050 and for a mid-range climate change scenario, that species extinction in Mexico could sharply increase: mammals 8 % or 26 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), birds 5 % or 8 % loss of species (with or without dispersal), and butterflies 7 % or 19 % loss of species (with or without dispersal).

Those who staked so much on the «Amazongate» story, only to see it turn round and bite them, are now digging a hole so deep that they will soon be able to witness a possible climate change scenario at first hand, as they emerge, shovels in hand, in the middle of the Great Victoria Desert.

Where response patterns are reasonably stable over time, this ratio can be maximised in a climate change scenario by using long (30 - year or more) averaging periods.

How much more depends on your favourite climate change scenario.

Worm greenhouse emissions (primarily methane) from our global ocean sediment buddies could lead to that proverbial tipping point - initiating a runaway global warming and catastrophic climate change scenario.

The likely range of sea level rise in 2100 for the highest climate change scenario is 52 to 98 centimeters (20 to 38 inches.).

Over the next 80 + years these could result in a reduction of atmospheric CO2 by year 2100 of 60 to 80 ppmv, out of an anticipated «business as usual» level of 640 ppmv to a «worst case» high - coal, high - forcing high - end climate change scenario of 750 ppmv (IPCC RCP 8.5).

Under a high climate change scenario, annual expected losses could rise by another 1 to 3 % of GDP by 2030.

Here we present such an assessment and find that a reduction of more than 50 % in Atlantic overturning strength by the end of the 21 s t century is within the likely range under an unmitigated climate change scenario (RCP8.5).

We also distinguish between a climate scenario and a climate change scenario.

A climate change scenario can be viewed as an interim step toward constructing a climate scenario.

In the global warming studies, almost every scientific study jumped on the band wagon and adapted their research to fit the climate change scenario.

Climate change scenario for Costa Rican montane forests.

They added in a middle - of - the - road climate change scenario that caused high - latitude surface soil to rise 8 degrees Celsius by 2100, which is much greater than the global average.

As the current climate conditions now indicate a slow, creeping climate change scenario, it provides policymakers and the public the luxury of time to continue moving to a more carbon - efficient economy, thus improving the environment without needlessly sacrificing quality of life and living standards.

He used simulations that depict a middle - of - the - road climate change scenario, meaning the range of warming by the end of this century is 1.0 °C to 2.6 °C above a 1986 to 2005 baseline.

«However, an important detail about our study is that we assumed the most extreme climate change scenario in which the concentration of greenhouse gases keeps increasing throughout the 21st century.»

To change that the planet would have to turn into a huge desert and there is no credible climate change scenario for that.

For a given climate change scenario, they can use the framework to analyze the chain of physical changes at the regional and sectoral levels, and then estimate economic impacts at those levels.

He says the entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario so beloved of politicians and scientists is the hypothesis that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat our planet to temperatures that would make it uninhabitable.

The most obvious causes of droughts are changes in the winds, what happens with almost any climate change scenario.

In this report, as an alternative to the scenarios of gradual climatic warming that are so common, we outline an abrupt climate change scenario patterned after the 100 - year event that occurred about 8,200 years ago.

It also explores the climate change scenario, considers viable applications of Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) addressed for small - scale farmers and livestock keepers at different levels of the value chain and examines how this can provide multifunctional benefits for households, community and the environment.

The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol from corn.

Density histograms of mean elevation of species ranges in the present (blue) and future (red) for each climate change scenario.

Earlier this year The Observer newspaper in London reported a leaked report titled An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United Sates National Security.

«An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security.»

In terms of climate change model predictions, there is a high degree of uncertainty in both regions as to what comes next in an anthropogenic climate change scenario.

Crops affected in the most extreme climate change scenario (RCP 8.5).

It actually talks about â $ œcommitment to extinctionâ $ ™, that is the commencement of a process by 2050, that would lead to extinction, and the 37 % figure relates to the maximal climate change scenario, rather than the minimal scenario as you misleadingly suggest.

To be fair there are also good things happening (innovations, new determinations followed by effective actions to «do good,» etc), but it seems with all the negative consequences (for humans and other living things), an honest forecast bringining in everything conceivalbe would probably be much much worse than a climate change scenario.....

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Is there a reasonably likely climate change scenario that would reduce atmospheric O2 below the level at which an average human dies within an hour?

The response of the internal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) to enhanced atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations has been estimated from an ensemble of climate change scenario runs.

In the particular simulation shown above, the frequency of the strongest (category 5) hurricanes roughly triples in the anthropogenic climate change scenario relative to the control.

By Supriya Tiwari and Madhoolika Agrawal Abstract The photochemical reactions leading to O3 formation and the variables on which these reactions depend are undergoing rapid alterations owing to the present climate change scenario.

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) took the second - worst climate change scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and identified the regions likely to be hit by a reduction of 5 per cent or more in their crop growing seasons by 2050.

Jerome Amir Singh, a researcher at the Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa and at the University of Toronto, argued in his paper that the economic factors that created the current climate change scenario are unlikely to lead the world to a solution on their own.

Early used a moderate climate change scenario of 2 degrees Celsius warming by the end of the century.

In terms of CO2 emissions, we are following the highest climate change scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September.»

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

The predicted loss of species area in the climate change scenario was only 21 square kilometres per year.

Europe is expected to see a considerable increase in flood risk in coming years, even under an optimistic climate change scenario of 1.5 °C warming compared to pre-industrial levels.

«If we can get a better understanding of the climate in the past, of the consequences of climate change and of how it shaped communities, then we might be able to interpret the future of biodiversity under the current climate change scenario,» says Guénard.

While many other bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have produced consensus reports on climate change scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break through.

In the new study, McGuire and his colleagues used simulations to study changes in permafrost and carbon storage in the northern permafrost region from 2010 to 2299 using two climate change scenarios: One with low carbon dioxide emissions and one with high carbon dioxide emissions.

«The new framework allows us to make those calculations so that the five adaptations in the eight climate change scenarios can be assessed against what the crop yield would be if no adaptations were initiated by farmers.»

The authors found that over 50 % of bird species surveyed are projected to lose more than half of their current geographic range across three climate change scenarios.

To better plan for potential effects due to climate change, scientists using the North American Breeding Bird Survey and Audubon Christmas Bird Count employed correlative distribution modeling, to assess geographic range shifts for nearly 600 North American bird species during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons under a range of future climate change scenarios through the end of the century.