Sentences with phrase «climate new record»
It is worth noting that even in a warming climate new record lows are still set, though fewer in number, due to natural variation even as the climate warms.
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The U.S. endured 16 separate weather and climate disasters with losses that each exceeded $ 1 billion last year, with total costs of about $ 306 billion, a new record for the country.
A new study that looks at climate change over the past 11,300 years — a record length of time for any study — suggests that the current trend of global warming is unprecedented.
As of October 2016, the project has enrolled 7,000 farmers (88 % of the project's total target), who are registered in the Olam Information System (OFIS); completed basic training in order to optimize sustainable yields and other income opportunities; introduced record keeping practices by distributing log books to 1,000 farmers; promoted farmer group development in a Training of Trainers (ToT) session; trained 10 new lead farmers on best agricultural practices that were then integrated with climate - smart agricultural Practices (CSA) and the Sustainable Agricultural Network (SAN) Standard; as well as conducted a baseline sampling monitoring survey that is currently being analyzed by the program team.
The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.
ALBANY — New York has spent $ 161 million on ads promoting tourism and its business climate since Governor Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, records released to Capital late Thursday show.
«As the hottest year in recorded history comes to a close, New York has a unique responsibility to step into its leadership to fully divest and take meaningful action on climate,» said Beta Coronel, 350.org Reinvestment Coordinator.
Dani Lever, the governor's press secretary, also defended Cuomo's record, saying, «Given the current political climate in Washington and the genuine frustration that progressive policies can no longer be achieved, New York State gives the rest of the nation hope.
New York has spent $ 161 million on ads promoting tourism and its business climate since Cuomo took office in 2011, according to records released late yesterday.
Rocks and sediments that have recorded conditions millions of years ago could be the key to predicting the future of climate change, according to a new National Academy of Sciences report
On 4 November, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a subpoena for documents, including financial records and emails, from the multinational relating to climate change research and advocacy.
Those heat extremes, the hottest in the country's observational record, were likely caused by man - made climate change, according to a new study accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
«This new temperature record provides a direct link between the volcanism and impact events and the extinction pulses — that link being climate change,» said Sierra Petersen, a postdoctoral researcher in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.
More precisely monitoring dolphins with seafloor recordings could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long - term effects of climate change.
Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday.
«The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,» David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.
A new record melt would allow scary satellite images of an even bluer Arctic to coincide with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's next assessment, due in September (though a draft has been leaked — see «What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change «Climate Change's next assessment, due in September (though a draft has been leaked — see «What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change «climate change «-RRB-.
Since trends in convective rainfall are not easily detected in daily rainfall records, or well - simulated by global or regional climate models, the researchers created a new tool to assess the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns and trends in dryland areas.
It's possible to compare this new generational chronology directly against the climate record, which researchers can also measure on a finer scale by examining changes to tree rings, lake sediments and other materials.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.
Events like record - setting heat, extreme rainfall and drought will happen more frequently around the world even if global climate targets are met, new research suggests.
The consensus stems from new evidence (among other things, proxies that extend the climate record back in time and six more years that are among the hottest ever recorded) brought forward since the last assessment in 2001.
Some researchers had suggested that these hills also record the influence of climate cycles on sea floor eruptions — but a new study finds this tectonically unlikely.
The Montreal Protocol has a proven record, and an HFC amendment could avoid 0.5 C of warming by the end of the century,» he wrote, adding, «It would also show the world that we are ready for a new chapter in the climate fight.
When the researchers compared their results with the output of a number of climate models, they found that several of the newer models that have higher resolution and use updated ice sheet configurations do «a very good job» of reproducing the patterns observed in the proxy records.
Understanding how that would affect the climate will require going beyond historical records of climate change, or even the information encoded in tree rings or ice cores, to what scientists call «deep time» records of conditions on Earth, according to a new NAS analysis.
Including the new logbooks, the Old Weather effort has scanned more than 500,000 handwritten pages from historic ship logs, and Old Weather volunteers have so far transcribed almost 3 million historical weather records for use in climate and environmental research.
«We predict a rapid recovery from Pinatubo cooling and new record temperatures within the 1990s, despite the conventional wisdom that natural climate variability prohibits reliable forecast of the short - term climate trend,» he says.
«There are also new high resolution climate records available that have not yet been capitalized on by archaeologists.»
A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago.
New evidence of Holocene climate and atmospheric circulation variability, inferred from lacustrine stable isotope records from Gotland, southern Sweden Francesco Muschitiello, Dan Hammarlund, Barbara Wohlfarth
A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged.
These results demonstrate again that climate change is having a major influence in setting new heat records.
That doesn't mean every year will set a record, but «it seems to me quite likely that we have taken the next step up to a new level,» National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told Climate Central lastclimate scientist Kevin Trenberth told Climate Central lastClimate Central last month.
Scientists are trying to predict this new, warmer state by looking into the record of past eras of climate change.
U.S. and global crop yields are setting new records almost every year as our climate modestly warms.
To understand the role of human - induced climate change in these new records they compare simulations of the Earth's climate from nine different state - of - the - art climate models and the very large ensemble of climate simulations provided by CPDN volunteers for the weather@home ANZ experiments for the world with and without human - induced climate change.
But alas, as much as it would help the climate change cause to link yet another heat wave to global temperature rise, a new study says that Russia experienced a fluke unrelated to the trend last year that made 2010 the hottest on record.
Sigl, M., J. R. McConnell, L. Layman, O. Maselli, K. McGwire, D. Pasteris, D. Dahl - Jensen, J.P. Steffensen, R. Edwards, R. Mulvaney (2013) A new bipolar ice core record of volcanism from WAIS Divide and NEEM and implications for climate forcing of the last 2000 years, J. Geophys.
The increasing depleation of ozone over the Pole regions, Real Climate (6 May 2005) Record Artic Ozone Loss, has at least coincided with decreased temperatures, comment 5, and increased snow falls in the Antartic continents interior, New Scientist (28 May 2005) in Brief, p. 17.
Calcification in the Ocean, Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Calcification (Coral Reefs and Shellfish), Ocean Acidification, Records of Climate Change in Coral Skeletons, Geochemistry of Calcium Carbonate Shells and Skeletons, Development of New Proxies for Ocean Climate
Over the past decade, however, the number of new record highs recorded each year has been twice the number of new record lows, a signature of a warming climate, and a clear example of its impact on extreme weather.20 (See Figure 3.)
In contrast, the balance shifts in a warming climate, and on average more new records highs than new record lows are set over any time period.
More climate stories ripped out of the back pages of the news: NASA says the record low Arctic sea ice levels in the last few years are the new normal.
Figure 4 illustrates that during the 1950s in the U.S. about as many new record highs were recorded as new record lows, roughly consistent with expectations of an unchanging climate.
However, in 2009, 2010, and 2011, roughly twice as many new record highs were recorded compared to record lows, qualitatively consistent with a warming climate.
As emissions hit new record, Citizens Climate Lobby Exec.
A new bipolar ice core record of volcanism from WAIS Divide and NEEM and implications for climate forcing of the last 2000 years.
While the record 13.9 foot storm tide in New York Harbor during Superstorm Sandy was primarily due to the coincidence of the strongest winds with high tide, sea - level rise driven by historical climate change added more than one foot to that total.