Sentences with phrase «climate change scenarios»

This review of historical trends helps us provide context for future climate change scenarios explored in later sections of this chapter.
To change that the planet would have to turn into a huge desert and there is no credible climate change scenario for that.
Direct model simulations of hurricane activity under climate change scenarios offer another perspective on the problem.
However, the future state and health of reef ecosystems depends not only on climate change scenarios, but also on the trajectory of existing natural and anthropogenic stressors at a local scale.
In order to provide coastal planners with credible projections of the rising seas, scientists will need to develop and validate coupled glacier - ocean models, forced under various climate change scenarios.
The intent is for that to be used as an ecological response model for assessing the effects of possible climate change scenarios.
A number of papers were written, people thought about it, but it never gained the acceptance that the current climate change scenarios have.
According to the report, up to 90 % of corals will suffer severe degradation by 2050, even under conservative climate change scenarios.
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.
Also climate change scenarios exploiting snow information as input data can be enhanced.
And most models looking at future climate change scenarios did not account for aerosols in the stratosphere.
Early used a moderate climate change scenario of 2 degrees Celsius warming by the end of the century.
Scientists have examined climate change scenarios to the year 2100.
Understanding the economic effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions is essential to assessing climate change scenarios.
In fact, possible climate change scenarios vary so widely that impacts researchers sometimes need to forget about trying to choose among them.
Such results are strongly dependent on model assumptions regarding climate change scenarios, ice dynamics and other factors.
Usually, the current climatic range of a species is used to predict where it will occur under future climate change scenarios.
Our models yield projections of future diversity under a range of climate change scenarios (Fig. 1, C through J).
We then repeated these steps, but with the environmental conditions predicted to occur under climate change scenarios to get a picture of how the situation could change.
However, there is a still a knowledge and communication gap as to how the various climate change scenarios can be interpreted, and what they really mean for European forests.
PNNL climate physicist Dr. Ruby Leung and atmospheric scientist Dr. Yun Qian developed one of the two regional climate change scenarios used in the assessment, which was released in February 2009.
«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.»
The damaging climate consequences of carbon emissions will grow and persist for millennia without a dramatic new global energy strategy, according to a new set of research - based climate change scenarios developed by an international team of scientists.
In terms of CO2 emissions, we are following the highest climate change scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September.»
While the most likely climate change scenario, given business - as - usual greenhouse gas emissions, is a global average increase of 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, the Antarctic is predicted to warm eventually by around 6 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit).
The study uses an extensive suite of existing simulations with the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model driven by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) climate simulations to train and evaluate the nonlinear and nonstationary Generalized Extreme Value conditional density network (GEVcdn) model of Fraser River streamflow extremes, and subsequently applies the model to project changes in Fraser River extremes under CMIP5 based climate change scenarios.
Foci of highly climate change vulnerable amphibians under three IPCC SRES climate change scenarios for 2050 and 2090.
Holthaus» actions earned the respect of Dave Tolleris, a Richmond - based meteorologist skeptical of catastrophic climate change scenarios.
Even with the absolute worst case climate change scenario painted by alarmists, CO2 should be allowed to increase anyway.
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.
With this context, my company Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) has signed a new contract to develop regional climate change scenarios as part of a large, complex project.
«For preparing climate change scenarios for Argentina, the Global Model HadCM3 (UK) on IPCC scenarios has been utilized.
The IPCC and other outlets frequently indicate how much sea levels will rise under given climate change scenarios [1].
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 Republican Part Platform devotes a paragraph to the issue and states that «Republicans caution against the doomsday climate change scenarios peddled by the aficionados of centralized command - and - control government.
Key cultivating regions could become unviable in the coming decades under projected climate change scenarios, according to research published in Nature on Monday.
Shell recently published a «radical» new climate change scenario, showing how the world could meet the «well - below 2C» goal of the Paris Agreement.
«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»
Mr Jarraud stressed the need for better observations and more downscaled climate change scenarios and modeling to underpin climate knowledge and action, as embodied by the WMO - spearheaded Global Framework for Climate Services.
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