Sentences with phrase «climate changes of all sorts»

This is the most important feedback in terms of magnitude and it makes the Earth much more sensitive to climate changes of all sorts by making the OLR vs. T curve a bit more linear than T ^ 4.

All three options undermine the theoretical linkage between [CO2] an Climate Change of any sort.

Not exact matches

For one thing, Francis has the temerity to take the science of climate change seriously, which is the sort of thing that can send a Wall Street Journal conservative frantically groping for his smelling salts, but which I can not help thinking is slightly saner than clinging to the politically inflected obfuscations of the data that so many in the developed world use to calm their digestions and consciences.

For Christian climate skeptics, a sort of Pascal's Wager is the very least that could be considered on the issue of climate change: If your skepticism is right — and despite evidence from countless sources — and climate change is not caused by man in any way, than a lack of action will maintain the status quo.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

It's this sort of sloppy thinking that informs a lot of the Climate Change debate unfortunately.

He added: «The important thing is that you work with people who are like - minded and interested in pursuing the same sort of things where you can, and we will, whether the subject is stem cell or whether the subject is climate change.»

«The Trump administration has sort of studied the playbook of some states,» said Romany Webb, a fellow at Columbia's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

«The issue is not whether Canada's done enough on climate change, it's that energy production is such a huge element of the Canadian economy, there's not much they can do to achieve rapid reductions of the sort that climate activists are demanding.

A different sort of horror held sway in Paris, where big public visualisations of the desperate state of the world's climate occupied the streets during the UN's COP21 conference on climate change.

«The real issue is: Are people making real estate decisions based on climate change futures, rather than sort of normal speculation?»

For example, tobacco smoking has been in a steady decline since the 1960s with all sorts of factors driving this trend — improved science and epidemiology, education through labeling and advertising campaigns, and greater public awareness of risks — all of which could be applied to behaviors that contribute to climate change.

But these sorts of images make people less empowered to take action on climate change.

Climate - change - denying politicians like to point to the cold snaps as some sort of proof global warming is not happening.

But there's nothing in any of these e-mails, despite the claims of those attacking us, that indicate any sort of conspiracy among climate change researchers to commit fraud, that indicate any destruction of data.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

«In general, species have three options with any sort of change in climate: They can adapt, they can move or they can go extinct.

«It's really complicated to sort out how much is attributable to climate change,» said Dr. Mary Wilson, associate professor of global health and population at the Harvard School of Public Health.

There are all sorts of quality control issues with analysing long - term climate records [ie are there biases introduced by changes in the measuring instruments used?]

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

What sort of gargantuan forcing does he believe caused those changes in such a stable climate system?

There was a conference held at the begining of this year that went over this sort of thing, it was subtitled «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» and you can find the presentation [slides] that were presented at http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html There's a lot of interesting things about possible thresholds, stabilisation levels for CO2 and emission reduction pathways and the potential costs.

There have been all sorts of reasons proposed for past changes, but the important thing is that the geological record shows that the climate is sensitive to various factors and it is this which makes it plausible that human influence can effect climate.

For years, perhaps decades, Gray has been ascribing all sorts of climate changes and hurricane cycles to fluctuations in the Thermohaline Circulation (THC), an overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean associated with formation of deep water in the North Atlantic.

This is exactly the sort of solution that GOP politicians claim they are searching for: a way to fight climate change without completely disrupting our existing transportation infrastructure.

«And it has increased our optimism about the ability of coral reef systems to respond to the sorts of changes they are likely to experience under foreseeable climate change.»

«Nuclear weapons and climate change are precisely the sort of complex existential threats that can not be properly managed without access to and reliance on expert knowledge,» the scientists wrote in their report.

Ultimately of course the climate models are essential to provide much more refined projections of climate change than would be available from the global mean quantities that result from an analysis of the present sort.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

Recycling initiatives As well as stocking the right sorts of products within education vending, it has become more and more important for premises to consider recycling initiatives — especially now that issues relating to climate change, carbon footprints and energy management at the forefront of protecting the environment.

This pages recaps the impacts of climate change on water, food and energy security through a supported mind map activity before looking in more depth through an IPCC infographic card sort question and jigsaw activity.

It takes place in 2065, in a sort of dystopian world affected by climate change and new technologies.

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

Eric # 12 This sort of talk simply helps convince others that those on the side of taking the climate change risk seriously are crazy ideologues.

Consider these sorts of questions: Do you know where your water (in your house and / or office) comes from and how those sources would be impacted by a change in sea level or associated climate change?

This is separate sort of issue to climate change, although they overlap in some ways.

But it is also a sort of «cop - out», in the sense that climate is always changing, always has, and always will.

There are some physics - based theories regarding the nature of climate change yes, but the ONLY way to test them is on the basis of the sort of evidence that climate scientists have been collecting for many years now, on, for example, global temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea level, frequency of drought, hurricanes, rainstorms, etc..

There is all sorts of evidence for and against natural climate change at various stages of history (and prehistory) that bears discussing, but we rarely ever get to it because everyone is banging on about the hockey stick being inaccurate or accurate (depending on your point of view).

And yes, things have heated up in the last few years, probably due to an unusually intense El Nino, but that is the sort of thing climate scientists used to refer to as «weather» as opposed to «climate,» though now they seem to be changing their tune.

Those concerned about climate change are frequently described as «fanatical green ideologues out to create a new world order» — or else greedy scamsters out to extract money via evil carbon taxes and redistributive payments of all sorts.

This sort of talk simply helps convince others that those on the side of taking the climate change risk seriously are crazy ideologues.

... not to mention that the continuing explanations of the hockey stick graphs always sorts out in the end to substantiate the alarming trends of anthropogenic climate change.

I think the larger point around this is the media don't really report this sort of research, or that over 90 % of climate scientists think we are causing climate change, because they would rather keep a manufactured pretend controversy going to attract more readers interest.

So, I think the discussion about how public policy on things like climate change should be crafted to also address broader or additional social ills, like income / wealth inequality, or institutionalized oppression of almost any sort....

So all we ordinary folk can do is sort out how to configure our own patches to ensure the survival of our own children in a time of rapid climate and social change.

I had an epiphany of sorts recently which I posted in a forum under the title «Prove man does not cause any climate change!»

Then, usually, one finds out (by listening to the more detailed report, or going to the source document itself) that the scientist involved doesn't really disagree that climate change is happening, that human activity is a substantial cause, and that some sorts of big problems will likely result.

People who want to deny climate change and express racist ideas should feel free to come to my blog, and you can be sure that I'll have a full and frank reply for you, of the sort Revkin can't have because abusing readers is probably against some NYT code of practice;)

Another claim frequently made about peer review is that it keeps out opposing views, not just on climate change but also things like alternative medicine, creationism, all sorts of pseudo stuff.