Sentences with phrase «climate of the north»

It is no doubt appropriate that, since the golf cart has been slowly coming into its own — and even creeping inexorably into the hardier climates of the North — it should attain full flower in Palm Springs, that burgeoning California desert resort area that refers to itself as The Winter Golf Capital of the World.

The results from the study tell scientists how the climate of the North Atlantic region, which includes the U.S., varies on long time scales.

The researchers» results, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, could help reveal how the climate of the North Atlantic region, which includes the U.S., varies on long time scales.

The researchers found that climate during the last 70 to 130 thousand years, including during the last interglacial as recorded in the interior of the Middle East, is closely linked to the climate of the North Atlantic region.

The AMO is likely to be a driver of multi-decadal variations in Sahel droughts, precipitation in the Caribbean, summer climate of both North America and Europe, sea ice concentration in the Greenland Sea and sea level pressure over the southern USA, the North Atlantic and southern Europe (e.g., Venegas and Mysak, 2000; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Sutton and Hodson, 2005; Trenberth and Shea, 2006).

The increases reflect the climate of the North American bond market, where financial institutions borrow money to lend to mortgage customers.

These versatile dogs pulled sleds, herded livestock, hunted, and provided companionship in the harsh climate of the north.

He said: «In our study we see very rapid changes in the climate of the North Pacific that we think are linked to past changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic.

Our research team has spent the past two decades examining the chemical composition of the longest - lived animal that doesn't live in a colony known to science — the ocean quahog clam — to find out how the climate of the North Atlantic ocean has changed in relation to the atmosphere.

A close look at the changes of the Geomagnetic field at Svalbard (and the nearby North Pole) may finally give us a clue what drives climate of the North Atlantic.

The regional climates of the North Pacific and North Atlantic fluttered between synchrony and asynchrony during the last deglaciation, with correspondingly more and less intense effects on the rest of the world, researchers have found.

Abstract: Decadal fluctuations of the ocean and atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean significantly affect the weather and climate of North America and Eurasia.

The AMO is likely to be a driver of multi-decadal variations in Sahel droughts, precipitation in the Caribbean, summer climate of both North America and Europe, sea ice concentration in the Greenland Sea and sea level pressure over the southern USA, the North Atlantic and southern Europe (e.g., Venegas and Mysak, 2000; Goldenberg et al., 2001; Sutton and Hodson, 2005; Trenberth and Shea, 2006).

These days when one goes to hear a talk on ancient climates of North America, one is likely to learn that the speaker was forced into early retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey by budget cuts.

Not exact matches

Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, led a delegation that made a three - day visit to the opening of the Olympics and the North Korean leader later said he wanted to boost a «warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue».

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Laurence C. Smith, a UCLA earth sciences professor and author of The World in 2050, a 2010 book that examines how demographics, natural resources, globalization and climate change will transfer economic might to the north, says, «In Canada in particular, all four factors line up very powerfully.»

Over the coming decades, Smith expects an influx of immigrants into the north, drawn by a milder climate and jobs in the resource sector, helping to deliver «an unprecedented economic jolt» to countries like Canada, Russia and Scandinavian nations.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

Across North America — and around the world as well — one of the most important ingredients for successful climate action is clean electricity.

After spending $ 2.5 million renovating the Arctic Institute of North America's Kluane Research Station, the Harper government just eliminated the funding for the global leader in climate change and boreal mammal research.

The initiative is also made possible through the support of sponsors including the North Growth Foundation, Bullfrog Power, the Great Climate Race, and the Community Energy Association.

As North American producers massively ramp up plans to export coal to Asia, B.C. figures large in their plans — and in opposition efforts of citizens worried about climate change.

So, what do North American executives think of Europe's business climate today?

The Solar Now Creekside project was made possible through collaboration between the City of Vancouver and the North Growth Foundation, with support from Clean Energy Canada (a project of the SFU Centre for Dialogue), the Great Climate Race, Bullfrog Power and the Community Energy Association.

From left: Dale Littlejohn, Community Energy Association; Great Climate Race Co-Founders Mari McMillan and Ben West; Merran Smith, Clean Energy Canada; Michael Wiebe, Vancouver Park Board; Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver; Rudy North, North Growth Foundation; Bill Swan, Solar Now.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

HashChain taps low - cost North American power, cool climate and high - speed Internet: the trifecta most critical to mining success, to create a competitive position for maximizing the number of mining «wins.»

Dakota Access, for its part, has been the subject of clashes between First Nations and climate activists camped at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota since last spring.

The Solar Now paddling centre installation was made possible through a collaborative effort between the City of Vancouver, the North Growth Foundation and Clean Energy Canada, along with support from community sponsors the Great Climate Race, Bullfrog Power and the Community Energy Association.

A couple of days before is going to be what promises to be the largest climate march in North American history.

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

Throughout most of the current geological era North America was a sheet of ice, but the global climate changed; mostly due to solar activity.

A team of 15 executive chefs lead the food preparation on the 10 ships throughout the year as the cruising season shifts from warm climates like the Caribbean and Australia in the North American winter to Europe and the Pacific Northwest for the summer.

Our food celebrates premium cool climate wines made by Tallagandra Hill in the Yass Valley, just north of Canberra.

It was and remains the original North Coast ocean - exposure area, allowing for high acidity along with the growth restraints from the climate and soil type to force lots of flavor in the grapes.

Cacao trees are found only in hot, rainy, tropical climates, 20 degrees north and south of equator, just like vanilla.

Representing North America's pre-eminent cool - climate region for this aromatic white wine, 13 wineries from the Finger Lakes AVA came together at the Grand Tasting to pour a selection of their best Rieslings, including some of their 2015 vintages that few had had the privilege of tasting before.

My most recent collection of work is called «Eyes of Arctic Ice» and it's all about climate change in the far north.»

There, staff members from the Park District's Heller Nature Center dished out samples of both the just - tapped sap and the good stuff along with such facts as: Only the maple trees in North America grow in the right climate to produce the properly sweet sap that can be turned into maple syrup.

The normalisation of climate security issues may open windows of opportunity for new kinds of emergency interventions, most likely by the Global North in regions of the Global South.

The agency's main thrust is to promote sustainable development using the notion of a forested and green north to catalyze climate change reversal and improve livelihoods of the most vulnerable citizens in the area.

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

Ghana is located on the Gulf of Guinea, only a few degrees north of the Equator, therefore giving it a warm climate.

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

«They didn't sign up for budget deficits... They didn't sign up for science being pushed out of the way by ideology... They didn't sign up for the denial of climate change... They didn't sign up for North Korea getting nuclear weapons...»

Onuigbo, representing Ikwuano / Umuahia North / South Federal Constituency of Abia State, said the bill would address challenges of climate and environment in the country.

The important stream was stationary for 10 days, and it was high in the hemisphere, stalling heat from the South.The stream has moved lower, and is allowing cooler air from Canada and the north to move into the states.But nobody on the tube really explains the behavior of the jet stream and how it is linked to climate change.It would be good if that attractive ABC meterologist Ginger Lee would explain it to us.

Northern voters want more than climate change: «The people of the North do care about climate change.