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It seems likely that changes in solar radiation, linked to long - term variations in solar activity, may have been the dominant climate driver in the period between about AD 1600 and 1850.

The Indian Ocean Dipole, a key climate driver in the oceans around Australia, is related to patterns of a human parasitic infection primarily spread through water.

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In fact, Goleman reported not only that EI - based leadership may be the most important driver of climate but also that climate may account for 20 to 30 percent of organizational performance.

Equity analysts now consider climate change - related factors in company valuations, translating sustainability into a new value driver distinct from a marketing strategy.

Second, right now in the United States we are harming our children because of hostile fuels chemicals, the drivers of climate change.

Key topics discussed are: • Climate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestClimate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestclimate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestration.

The UN Secretary General is quoted in the statement to have said that the summit would chart a new era of sustainable development in which poverty would be eradicated, prosperity would be shared and the core drivers of climate change would be tackled.

«Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface are key drivers of their local tourism economies, and with this commitment they are joining New York's nation - leading efforts to fight climate change, reduce our carbon footprint and foster the development of renewal resources,» Cuomo said in the release.

Tax rates and cost drivers have been cut or tweaked, but New York still ends up near the bottom in many business climate rankings.

The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of climate change, changes observed in the climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future changes.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

In the spring of 2014, Koonin's drafting committee produced a statement that attributed equal weight to human influences and natural variability as a driver of climate change, according to a source who declined to be named.

But climate models predict reductions in dissolved oxygen in all oceans as average global air and sea temperatures rise, and this may be the main driver of what is happening there, she says.

Calling today's coalition «a significant announcement,» Podesta said «there's a considerable win - win» in addressing short - term climate drivers.

The simulations showed that while dingoes had some impact, growth and development in human populations, possibly intensified by climate change, was the most likely extinction driver.

«We find that the position of the North Atlantic Jet in summer has been a strong driver of climate extremes in Europe for the last 300 years,» Trouet said.

Human - induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns, and historically, climate shifts have led to shifts in the geographic ranges of many taxa.

«Given the importance of the snowmobile industry as an economic driver, in Vermont and elsewhere,» Manning said, «this one more reason why we need to do all we can to address the challenge of climate change.»

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

It's unclear whether one of these single policies was the actual driver of the reduction in emissions, or an indicator that a state takes climate change mitigation seriously and is attacking the issue on many fronts, Saikawa says.

According to the report, under a «business as usual» scenario, climate change will be the fastest growing driver negatively impacting biodiversity by 2050 in the Americas, becoming comparable to the pressures imposed by land use change.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house by Harvey's floodwaters.

Gentine and his team are now exploring ways to model how biosphere - atmosphere interactions may change with a shifting climate, as well as learning more about the drivers of photosynthesis, in order to better understand atmospheric variability.

Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

«It is important to begin mechanistic studies of these declines,» the team concludes in a paper presenting the finding published in today's Science, «with habitat alteration, climate change and agricultural chemical usage being potential key drivers of observed shifts.»

This further evidence of episodic emissions of volcanic CO2 as the likely driver of the extinction enhances our understanding of this event, and potentially of other climate change episodes in Earth's history.»

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

«Economic and population growth are drivers for emissions and they have outpaced the improvements of energy efficiency,» said Ottmar Edenhofer, economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Lyons and coauthors, along with research groups from around world over, are focusing current efforts on the timing and drivers of oxygenation in the late Proterozoic, favoring a combination of global - scale mountain building, evolutionary controls on the way carbon is cycled in the biosphere, and concomitant climate events.

«If you address the drivers of climate change, in many regards you are addressing the driver of poor health around the world.»

Kevin Trenbeth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the study didn't account for changes in sea surface temperatures, which are the main drivers of changes in the position of the rain belts (as is seen during an El Nino event, when Pacific warming pushes the subtropical jet over the Western U.S. southward).

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

The oxygen temperature curve said that the climate in central Greenland was colder around 12,000 years ago than around 15,000 years ago, despite the fact that two key climate drivers — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and solar radiation — would suggest the opposite.

The new study aimed to systematically pinpoint the drivers of water demand in the energy system, examining 41 scenarios for the future energy system that are compatible with limiting future climate change to below the 2 °C target, which were identified by the IIASA - led 2012 Global Energy Assessment.

For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.

«Whereas the Pacific was previously considered the main driver of tropical climate variability and the Atlantic and Indian Ocean its slaves, our results document a much more active role for the Atlantic Ocean in determining conditions in the other two ocean basins.

First that CO2 is the main climate driver, second that in calculating climate sensitivity the GHE due to water vapour should be added to that of CO2 as a feed back effect and third that the GHE of water vapour is always positive.As to the last point the feedbacks can not be positive otherwise we wouldn't be here to talk about it.

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Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

The relative atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases as well as aerosol and particulate content coupled with other climate information gives insight into both the importance of these as drivers of temperature as well as how these drivers might couple in either a positive or negative feedback sense (Beckman and Mahoney, 1998).

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».

«Whether its in the natural system or whether it's something beyond that, so is mankind now a climate driver or not»

(A Climate Central analysis conducted in November also found that manmade warming was the key driver of the record heat of 2015.)

Certainly, there is no reason to believe that CO2 as a climate driver has been undermined in any way, especially on shorter time scales.

This new research helps explain the drivers of climate change that impact human subsistence and water resources in the driest region of the country.

This increase in water levels matches an increase in precipitation observed during that same period (Figure 3 - 19) and suggests that climate — and specifically mountain precipitation — as and is the primary driver of Madison Limestone aquifer water levels (i.e., groundwater replenishment and storage).

«We find that the position of the North Atlantic Jet in summer has been a strong driver of climate extremes in Europe for the last 300 years,» said Valerie Trouet, an associate professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree - Ring Research.