Sentences with phrase «climate of the last few years»

In the economic climate of the last few years, in Ireland & elsewhere, companies have obviously avoided permanent hires.

hunter Why put so much effort and time into parsing the climate of the last few years?

Not exact matches

«If you look at the chaos in Albany the last few years, it's given the state a bad image on top of the bad business climate,» Law said.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

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.

One week ago, we published a paper in Nature Climate Change (which had been in the works for a few years) arguing that the cold in the subpolar North Atlantic is indicative of an AMOC slowdown (as discussed in my last post).

The last few million years have been generally colder with ice ages, but if you go way back in time for many millions of years, there are much warmer climates on Earth and we are very interested in modelling these.

«After a flurry of documentaries like «The Cove» and «Blackfish,» we'd seen a decline in films about the climate over the last few years,» recalled John Cooper, the festival's director.

But in the last few years, we've also seen a growing number of unique, self - built tiny homes that don't look anything like the original Tumbleweeds, showcasing people's individual creativity in building for their own needs and their particular climate, whether they are modern, eclectic or just plain out of this world.

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.

Unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases (at least over the last few hundred thousand years) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and the global climate (land surface, ocean, glaciers, stratosphere) continues to respond as predicted by theory and models.

It is to be noted here that there is no necessary contradiction between forecast expectations of (a) some renewed (or continuation of) slight cooling of world climate for a few decades to come, e.g., from volcanic or solar activity variations; (b) an abrupt warming due to the effect of increasing carbon dioxide, lasting some centuries until fossil fuels are exhausted and a while thereafter; and this followed in turn by (c) a glaciation lasting (like the previous ones) for many thousands of years.»

The latest evidence has come in the last few days, with the release of «Before the Flood,» a sobering new climate film (watchable in full online) featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the second season of «Years of Living Dangerously,» a series of celebrity - guided, but substantive, pieces on human - driven climate change and the clean - energy challenge.

Whilst this is the basic cause of the cyclical nature of the ice age and the warmer inter ice age climate of the earth in the last few million years at least, there are natural «feedbacks» in the earth which then exaggerate this climatic change.

As I've said before, the last few years of public discourse on climate has been akin to water sloshing in a shallow pan.

A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic variability than already assumed, and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced climate changes are irrelevant for the last few decades.

Tobacco funding is down, so in last few years he's been doing the adjacent market of climate anti-science, using all teh PR machinery and contact lists built over decades.

I simply can't see how a detached observer could possibly believe hundereds of thousands of man - years, numerous sattelites, and billions of dollars have been spent looking at our climate over the last few decades but for some reason nobody spotted that it was all based on the rings of 5 fossilised trees.

Finally, note that the effect of the last few years of data is smaller on the transient climate response than on climate sensitivity.

Andersson's puzzlement is understandable, given the plethora of articles over the last few years that have tried to big up ocean acidification as the «evil twin» of climate change and inevitably trying to pin the blame on man.

He is a retired geophysicist who has worked on the climate issue through his involvement with the Friends of Science group over the last few years.

In the U.S., where last year's Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulated climate - change research to the tune of $ 35.7 billion, there exist few enforcement mechanisms for those seeking to examine the fruits of that investment.

The speed of this change is probably representative of similar but less well - studied climate transitions during the last few hundred thousand years.

Only a few months ago researchers warned that climate change could put Ethiopia's harvests at risk and last year scientists warned that extreme weather conditions and high temperatures could threaten 50 % of Brazil's crop.

Our monopolist will have definitive explanations for the Younger Dryas, the 2200 BC cooling / drought, the great monsoon failures of eg 1770s, 1790s, 1870s, the great pluvials of eg Genghis Khan period, Peru AD 1100... and all other major climate shifts within the last few thousand years.

Over the course of the last few years a robust and formalised dialogue between the bodies with responsibility for the specification of climate observations and space agencies has led to a coherent set of requirement, agreed globally.

Over the last few years, two key environmental issues, have been on the top of the environmental agenda: climate change and deforestation

For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday.

If you want to obtain a view of the climate of the past you either seek someone experienced in paleo studies for the distant past, or a historical climatologist for more recent stuff, say the last few thousands of years.

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

Based on the last few million years of climate it seems that there are two dominant attractors; ice age and interglacial.

This period, known as the «last deglaciation,» included episodes of abrupt climate change, such as the Bølling warming [~ 14.7 — 14.5 ka], when Northern Hemisphere temperatures increased by 4 — 5 °C in just a few decades [Lea et al., 2003; Buizert et al., 2014], coinciding with a 12 — 22 m sea level rise in less than 340 years [5.3 meters per century](Meltwater Pulse 1a (MWP1a)-RRB-[Deschamps et al., 2012].»

Few people have read paleo - climatology text books, are aware of the glacial / interglacial cycle, are aware that the paleoclimatic record has unequivocal evidence of cyclic gradual changes and cyclic abrupt climate events, are aware that the abrupt climate change events such as the abrupt termination of the last 22 interglacial periods lacks an explanation, are aware that all of the past interglacial periods are short (roughly 12,000 years) and that they have ended abruptly, and so on.

Last month, the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association published its second annual «Not Long Now» survey, stating that «The fund management sector is clear that international oil companies will be negatively revalued within a few years because of climate change related risks.»

Some climate scientists have been retrospectively trying to come up with possible explanations for this «pause», e.g., maybe the «missing» heat for the last few years has been going into the deep oceans, and the climate model developers had neglected this possibility... But, the panel probably thought that a lot of people would think this sounded a bit like saying «the dog ate my homework».

As explained last week, I believe this «no significant effect» finding is the most important finding of climate research in the last few years.

In the uk at least public concern that climate change is a worrying issue has gone down from 85 % to 60 % in the last few years mainly I think because none of the dire threats that have been repeatedly made have come true.

1.2 c of climate evolution over a century is not catastrophic and is well within the envelope of natural variation seen over the last few thousand years.

Human civilisation has thrived in warmer times — but warmer relative to various colder periods during the last few thousand years but not warm relative to today (and certainly not compared with the much warmer climates of millions of years ago).

This view is unsupported, he says, by data for the past hundred years analyzed by the US National Climate Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - termClimate Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - termclimate, not a long - term trend.

All told, Brulle has provided statements or been cited as an authority in dozens of posts at Climate Progress over the last few years.

It has been warmer than the present for much of the ten thousand years since the last big ice age: it was a little warmer for a few centuries in the medieval warm period around 1100 (when Greenland was settled for grazing) and also during the Roman - Climate Optimum at the time of the Roman Empire (when grapes grew in Scotland), and at least 1 °C warmer for much of the Holocene Climate Optimum (four to eight thousand years ago).

They only appear new because of the black hole that politicians, aided by a few climatically uneducated political scientists, have dragged climate science into over the last 30 years.

Given the likelihood that internal variability contributed to the slowing of global temperature rise in the last decade, we expect that warming will resume in the next few years, consistent with predictions from near - term climate forecasts (Smith et al. 2007; Haines et al. 2009).

And this is borne out by the evidence of US international action on climate change in the last few years,» said Hobley.

The stability of the last ten thousand years of theHolocene climate is NOT the result of some mystical inherent quality of «homeostasis», it is the inevitable outcome of very few, and small forcing factors on the climate.

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

The last post on sea level rise emphasised that when analysing sea level rise (or any climate trends for that matter), it's inadequate to use just a few year's worth of data.

For the last few years I have been working on a book - length manuscript describing everything touched on here and much more, including my skeptic efforts, how the environmental movement lost its way since my days as a Sierra Club activist and leader, and the main legal, journalistic, governmental, scientific, environmental, and economic aspects of the climate issue.