Sentences with phrase «climate stasis»

Or do they deny that man completely controls the climate and there is some knob we can turn to turn climate change into climate stasis?

We might value economic prosperity more than some increment of climate stasis.

PBS NewsHour dug in tonight on Al Gore's Rolling Stone essay blaming climate stasis on deniers, the muddling media and a hesitant President Obama.

This is about Brown's ego and a whimsical an irrational urge on the part of scientists, who have painted themselves into a corner prematurely, for climate stasis.

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That means it will serve any faction in the climate policy fight — providing uncertainty to be sprinkled by those seeking energy stasis and reasons for concern for those pushing for action.

This phenomenon is different from the «false balance» issue that many environmental campaigners have focused on lately in blaming the media for stasis on climate policy.

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Many of those promoting stasis in the face of a clear need for a global energy quest have used this saga as a kind of «blackwash» that will long linger like a cloud, tainting public appreciation of even the undisputed basics of science pointing to a rising human influence on climate.

(The stasis is on vivid display in Doha, Qatar, at the current round of climate treaty talks; track #cop18 on Twitter for the latest.)

If you have a dark sense of humor and need a chuckle to deal with such news, particularly in light of the ongoing stasis over international and United States policy on climate and energy, have a look at Marc Roberts's latest cartoon posting, which is from his archives but all too relevant.

[It must have been the «intentions» that caused the stasis, because all other possibilities have been eliminated by the climate models.]

The net radiation at the TOA (RT) was on the order of 1 W m - 2 into the climate system, yet there was a stasis in warming at the surface.

Economic stasis continues in Europe, previously the most vocal advocate of action on climate change.

The fact is that climate is never in stasis such that change in itself is not climate change.

How on earth can you claim that I have said that climate is in stasis?

And the world's climate often varies as it is not normally in stasis as you imply.

Climate modelling has singularly failed to predict the stasis in temperatures for the last two decades, despite rapidly rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

This highlights the thinking of some that weather and climate can have some sort of spurious stasis condition.

You would end up with stasis and a climate sensitivity of zero but not negative at least for any length of time.

The correct timescale of climate change studies seems closer to 100 years than 30 years and events such as the observed current stasis in regional and global temperature series or any observed increase or decrease in the prevalence of storms are merely weather.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

But state and city climate ordinances laying the groundwork, and climate conscious businesses helping to redirect the flow of capital away from fossil fueled - stasis.