Sentences with phrase «climate over thresholds»

It is speculated that this is the straw that pushes climate over thresholds.

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«Finding the thresholds in plant physiology after which climate stress causes tree mortality will allow us to resolve uncertainty over the fate of forest ecosystems in a changing climate,» said lead author Anderegg.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

There was a conference held at the begining of this year that went over this sort of thing, it was subtitled «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» and you can find the presentation [slides] that were presented at http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html There's a lot of interesting things about possible thresholds, stabilisation levels for CO2 and emission reduction pathways and the potential costs.

Accepting that climate is the statistics of weather over some reasonable time period, I want to ask about something that climate modelling does not seem to address — thresholds.

The first report knew, and commented on, the possibilities of gradual climate change pushing ecosystems or economies over thresholds and triggering abrupt responses, but the new report focuses on such tipping points in our societies and environment.

As the Trump administration charges forward with its war on science by canceling a «crucial» carbon monitoring system at NASA, scientists and climate experts are sounding alarms over atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) that just surpassed a «troubling» threshold for the first time in human history.

Prof Adam Scaife, Head of Long Range Prediction at the Met Office and member of the RMetS» Climate Science Communication Group, commented: «These predictions show that 1.5 °C events are now looming over the horizon, but the global pattern of heat would be different to a more sustained exceeding of the Paris 1.5 °C threshold.

Besides, because climate is constantly and widely varying so a variable may become more or less important over time as thresholds change.

One long term example of thresholds are the bounds of the climate over the last 1 million years.

This is just the latest peer - reviewed study finding methane leakage rates well below the threshold for natural gas to maintain its climate benefits over other traditional fuel alternatives.

Without going into the details, the Greenhouse Development Rights Framework (GDR) proposal foresees levying the equivalent of a climate «consumption luxury tax» on every person who earns over a «development threshold» of $ 9,000 per year.

I was pointing out that this is increasingly the challenge to the climate consensus that is voiced in public, per Carlson in the video, and that this approach will increasingly help expose the gap between the narrative of certain calamity (whatever its touted threshold du jour, which has changed over the years and may continue to do so) and the reality of what is knowable even in the way that the IPCC defines this knowability (let alone what is knowable when taking approaches to uncertainty such as that of our host here).

And which ones are the control variables of climate, which push the system over those thresholds?

IMO it's not particularly sensible to frame the entire issue in terms of the small chance of «climate catastrophe» because then we risk having the rug abruptly pulled out from under our policies when someone proves that the catastrophe is less likely than was previously thought: — RRB - Also, arguing over the precise threshold probability for particular outcomes risks turning into angels - on - pins stuff.

Again, all of your social considerations go right out the window when we are talking about culpability for taking us over the threshold of dangerous climate change.

The dynamical mechanism — control variables that push the system past a threshold triggering a cascade of changes — is the key to understanding the changing trajectory of 20th century, the current hiatus, abrupt variability over the Holocene and longer and the uncertainties in anticipating 21st century climate evolution and longer.