Sentences with phrase «climate system works»

Scenario simulations of future climate states are useful for testing ideas about how the climate system works.

The way in which GCMs spread globally the effects of local forcings accords quite well with a physical understanding of how the climate system works.

The idea that when things get too hot we can then turn the thermostat down is not how the climate system works.

In conclusion, the thesis advocates that GCMs be used and developed uncompromisingly for «Hypothesis testing, numerical experiments, to understand how the climate system works, including its sensitivity to altered forcing,» such a policy to continue until climate model building becomes better understood.

Skeptics are individuals who wish to better understand how the climate system works, pure and simple.

what Americans understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to global warming.

Complex forecasting methods are only accurate when there is little uncertainty about the data and the situation (in this case: how the climate system works), and causal variables can be forecast accurately.

The basic physics of how the climate system works and the impact of increasing greenhouse gas emissions on the mean climate are generally well understood and well covered in the literature.

They are realising that their old ideas about gradual change - the smooth lines on graphs showing warming and sea - level rise and gradually shifting weather patterns - are not how the world's climate system works.

(Although climate models have critics, they reflect our best ability to describe how the climate system works, based on physics, chemistry and biology.

But fundamentally, I think we don't know squat about how the climate system works.

In the end, climate models are our best tools for understanding how the climate system works.

Observations of the real world behavior of the climate system provide the best tool for understanding how the climate system works.

So let me state my opinion that Roger is absolutely correct when he writes «Observations of the real world behavior of the climate system provide the best tool for understanding how the climate system works.»

«Using climate models to understand how the climate system works does not work is arguably the best use of climate models.»

A wide range of observed climate indicators continue to show changes that are consistent with a globally warming world, and our understanding of how the climate system works.

Using climate models to understand how the climate system works is arguably the best use of climate models.

It does show that we simply don't know how the climate system works and do not have a long enough record to understand the climate and have done virtually no research into how the climate actually works.

there is now pretty good evidence that we do not understand how the climate system works well enough to accurately determine the impact of additional atmospheric CO2.

As a Gedankenexperiment in how the climate system works, I think Willis's thundercloud thermostat and subsequent volcano posts are really quite intriguing.

BBD - With all due respect, the study does nothing to explain how the scientific community has failed to come to grips with the fact that there is now pretty good evidence that we do not understand how the climate system works well enough to accurately determine the impact of additional atmospheric CO2.

Britain's Met Office, for example, while providing detailed climate projections on its website, acknowledges that such predictions are «always subject to uncertainty», thanks largely to the current limitations on scientific knowledge of how the Earth's climate system works and on the relatively - limited amount of data available.

To predict the consequences of carbon emissions, we must therefore rely on climate models built from our best understanding of how the climate system works.

But a carbon tax that increases over time at a persistent and predictable rate would minimize the expected economic cost of achieving any climate target (targets that depend, given the way the climate system works, on cumulative emissions over many decades).

John McCormick, please understand that others do in fact comprehend and fully embrace Wein's Displacement Law and Stefan Boltzmann, but are not yet convinced we completely understand the whole process of how the dynamic earth / ocean / atmosphere climate system works.

This post is, like the majority of posts on RealClimate, not about «views what should be done», but analysis of how the planetary climate system works and what consequences we can expect from our collective actions.

This would give much more clarity about the nature of decade scale fluctuations that may provide important constraints on our understanding of how the climate system works.

Expanding this study to a larger range of sources, and getting more models involved will go a long way toward providing information on how the climate system works and how to better understand climate change.

Studies of the sediment cores obtained during the expedition will focus on understanding how Earth's tectonic plates move and how the global climate system works.

(Although climate models have critics, they reflect our best ability to describe how the climate system works, based on physics, chemistry and biology.

How does the Monsoon climate system work?

Computer models are helpful for improving our understanding of how weather and climate systems work and change over time.

Not exact matches

Since Stalin's death, however, science has been given top priority in financial allotment, in the educational system, and in salaries and public prestige; in addition, the climate of work has improved, and most of those exiled or disgraced have been rehabilitated.

Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.

«Brian Kavanagh has worked hard in the Assembly on issues of critical importance to Brooklyn — affordable housing, reforming our criminal justice system, creating an equitable transportation system and combatting the effects of climate change.

«So what we're saying is that lasting solutions to the climate crisis that we're seeing and to the economic crisis... lasting solutions are our only hope for building a humane economic system because we need to close deep inequalities and we need to generate plentiful work,» Rozum said.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

Through a $ 2.6 million capital project investment, the Erie County Department of Public Works oversaw a complete renovation of the space at 1500 Broadway, including the installation of new electrical and climate systems, leading to the Erie County Health Mall's LEED Silver - certifiable designation.

«For years, Senate Republicans have been one of the main obstacles to progress on some of the issues working families care most about, like fair elections, the DREAM Act, reforming our broken criminal justice system, and fighting climate change,» the email states.

The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.

«I think some of the governor's economic development — the broad - based reforms to the business climate and the more tactical, programmatic work like regional councils and START - UP are taking hold, and you're seeing the positive effect in the vibe of people, in the comments of people,» Adams said, referencing a system of tax - free zones rooted in public universities.

But the agency had already been working on the problem since 2000, building a second temperature system, called the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), intended to provide a rigorous backup.

Climate is only one of our planet's support systems — to keep them all off the critical list, we have to work out how much punishment they can take

I have been encouraged and funded to attend conferences and meetings to develop my understanding of palaeoceanography and the climate system, as well as to practise presenting my work to the scientific community.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

More work is also needed in consulting with polluters under the system, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director for China at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization based in New York.

Better predictions would require improved climate - measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

«If there is a niche for synthetic meats or eggs then that niche is welcome,» Rockström says, «but we can't fall into the trap of screwing with our climate and then ignoring it by creating high - tech food sources — we have to work on the system we've got.»

James Balog, who founded Extreme Ice Survey that uses photography and videography to document the impact of climate change on glaciers — work that was the basis of his 2012 documentary «Chasing Ice» — said his work shows how human activities are transforming Earth's systems.