Sentences with phrase «climate effects like»

«Reducing the amount of sunlight we get is really problematic... it won't do anything about [other climate effects like] ocean acidification,» she said.

If so, that variable drop will likely be enough to produce measurable climate effects like happened in the early 1800s.

Not exact matches

Because, if it were «affected», then it would be more like «having an affect on» on or «contributing to», whereas «effected» you would be saying the subject (man) caused or implemented or brought about the object (global climate).

Henriette: «Good agricultural practices farmers can adopt to better cope with the effects of climate change include things like planting shade trees, implementing efficient irrigation methods and covering the soil with compost to make it more resilient.»

The summit, jointly organised by the United Nations, the World Bank Group, and the French Government in partnership with non-governmental organisations concerned about reversing the negative effects of climate change, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, holds at the eco-friendly La Seine Musicale, situated on the picturesque Seguin Island in western Paris.

«I think some of the governor's economic development — the broad - based reforms to the business climate and the more tactical, programmatic work like regional councils and START - UP are taking hold, and you're seeing the positive effect in the vibe of people, in the comments of people,» Adams said, referencing a system of tax - free zones rooted in public universities.

A recent Princeton study looks at the effects of climate change like erosion, deforestation and mega-droughts will have on our future.

«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

«It's easier in places like the dry valleys to isolate the effects of climate change, or to isolate how one species responds to climate change in one way,» he said.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

«Although two degrees may not sound like a lot, the resulting deviation in temperature and rain patterns will have a significant effect on climate zones,» he adds.

Seasonal changes in precipitation and water storage make it difficult for modelers to estimate water availability and impacts of interventions, and the effects of climate change can be difficult to tease out from other impacts like human activities.

Hugh Willoughby of Florida International University thinks we are primarily seeing the effects of normal climate variations, like El Niño.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

Neighboring towns like Hillwell and Quendale weren't similarly abandoned, Bigelow says, which suggests that the effects of climate change can vary widely even among places just a few kilometers away from one another — something modern climate modelers should consider, he says.

The study also finds that Tea Party supporters with higher levels of education are less likely to trust scientists or accept scientific consensus on topics like evolution or climate change, which runs opposite to the positive effect education has on trust in science among Independents and Democrats.

With many Americans choosing to eat less meat in recent years, often to help reduce the environmental effect of meat production, UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin began to wonder how much feeding pets contributes to issues like climate change.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

Eberle and Kim said the early - middle Eocene greenhouse period from 53 to 38 million years ago is used as a deep - time analog by climate scientists for what could happen on Earth if CO2 and other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere continue to rise, and what a «runaway» greenhouse effect potentially could look like.

Policymakers tend to think about climate change in «very confined areas» without considering the ripple effects, King said, so it's important to demonstrate the links between things like climate change, droughts and conflicts.

«As their science curiosity goes up, the polarizing effects of higher science comprehension dissipate, and people move the same direction on contentious policies like climate change and fracking,» Kahan said.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

His model also makes specific predictions about the effect these clouds will have on the planet's climate and the types of information that future telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope, will be able to gather.

Adaptation The Kyoto Protocol, like the Convention, is also designed to assist countries in adapting to the adverse effects of climate change.

By using climate models to simulate what air pollution was like in 1850 and 2000, Jason West at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues have estimated its effect on current death rates.

The whole CAGW — GHG scare is based on the obvious fallacy of putting the effect before the cause.As a simple (not exact) analogy controlling CO2 levels to control temperature is like trying to lower the temperature of an electric hot plate under a boiling pan of water by capturing and sequestering the steam coming off the top.A corollory to this idea is that the whole idea of a simple climate sensitivity to CO2 is nonsense and the sensitivity equation has no physical meaning unless you already know what the natural controls on energy inputs are already ie the extent of the natural variability.

Students can opt for choices that mitigate the effects of climate change, like putting housing next to transit, while «if you make other choices, you end up with waterfront property» because of flooding, he said.

But despite that steady climb, not every year is warmer than the one before it, thanks to the vagaries of weather, the influence of natural climate cycles, and the effects of events like volcanic eruptions.

Venus is like a greenhouse effect on steroids; by studying what happened to the planet's climate in the past, scientists hope to better understand climate change on Earth.

I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.

The possibility of things like El Nino is why I left myself an out with the rather cryptic phrase to the effect that SOMETIMES the reason for the climate change can be set off from the collective behavior of the system and considered as an external forcing.

These climate changes have measurable effects, like reductions in ground and surface water resources due to changing timing of precipitation and snowmelt, and measurable impacts like declining forest health and more wildfires, to altered crop seasons and greater irrigation demand.

Still, it should be recognized that pulse crops, like commodity grains, will experience a combination of climate change effects, some of which may counteract each other.

Over the last 30 years of direct satellite observation of the Earth's climate, many natural influences including orbital variations, solar and volcanic activity, and oceanic conditions like El Nino (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) have either had no effect or promoted cooling conditions.

Volcanic eruptions and impacts from celestial bodies, like asteroids, have a near instantaneous effect, but very few of these one - time events are of sufficient size to impact the global climate for more than a few years.

While the culture and climate for stem - cell therapies is improving, Roop said, more research, like Colorado State University's stem - cell work on dogs and horses, is needed to ensure safety and learn long - term effects of stem - cell therapies.

The fact that the climate record shows a strong correlation between temperature and CO2 certainly seems to tell us that the balancing effects don't add up to enough to prevent the changes, because if they did, then the climate wouldn't have oscillated like it did.

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Sometimes various factors like aerosols or vegetation change aren't considered, and thus whatever effect they might have would just be lumped into the value of climate sensitivity value that emerges from this method.

(which I assume is intended to be read by someone with technical knowledge of climate modeling jargon) is that I've started wondering about how climate models handle volcanoes or geology like the Yellowstone caldera — regularly emitting «point sources» that transfer their climate effects globally.

Absent understanding of cloud feedback processes, the best you can really do is mesh it into the definition of the emergent climate sensitivity, but I think probing (at least some of) the uncertainties in effects like this is one of the whole points of these ensemble - based studies.

That girl - narrated backstory at the beginning sounds like it would have made a more interesting piece of thorny geopolitical sci - fi than the CGI glop we get instead: How do 18 countries, led by the U.S. and China, come together to battle horrible climate change effects by installing a galactic safety net of thousands of satellites with the ability to balance extreme weather conditions around the world?

Like most of the folks on the trip that were new to New Zealand schools, I wondered just what «morning tea» might look like and what its effect was on school climate and cultLike most of the folks on the trip that were new to New Zealand schools, I wondered just what «morning tea» might look like and what its effect was on school climate and cultlike and what its effect was on school climate and culture.

Sit all day at a steady 70mph and select the goody - two - shoes Eco Pro mode (softening the effect of the accelerator, making the Optimum Shift Indicator more keen and reducing the power consumption of the climate control and heated mirrors and seats) and I'm sure it'd easily nudge up towards 50mpg and something like 600 miles on a tank.

The wave - like seats are done up in high - end leather with a Chesterfield finish, with built - in sensors that can scan occupants» vital functions to adjust massage or climate controls, while light sensors can read your clothing color or ambient temperature to trigger appropriate interior lighting effects.

But, like all marine animals, the health of dolphins is vulnerable to the effects of pollution, climate change and emerging diseases.