Sentences with phrase «climate systems has»

Now their key findings reveal huge concern that human influence on climate systems has increasing impact on every single continent.

The climate system has a carbon budget of one trillion pounds.

And the evidence of change has mounted as climate records have grown longer, as our understanding of the climate system has improved and as climate models have become ever more reliable.

«The natural climate system has changed since the onset of the anthropogenic era,» he said.

But the warming that would result from adding such large amounts of carbon to the climate system would be much greater today than during the PETM and could reach up to 10 degrees.

«The human influence on the climate system has the effect of intensifying precipitation extremes,» Zwiers notes.

«It's important to remember that the climate system has important nonlinearities that are most evident in these abrupt climate events.

So far, the climate system has responded to rising carbon dioxide levels at a fairly steady rate, but many scientists worry about possible nonlinear effects.

The researchers examined various reconstructions of past temperatures and CO2 levels to determine how the climate system has responded to previous changes in its energy balance.

Now, researchers who study the Earth's climate system have extended the state - of - the - art Earth system models for physical and biogeochemical oceanic processes, projecting conditions through 2300.

In that 1st para, they say past human activity has committed us to 0.3 to 0.9 degrees in the next century, as the climate system has a lag.

From studies of changes in temperature and sea level over the last million years, we know that the climate system has tipping points.

Every part of the Earth's climate system has continued warming since 1998, with 2015 shattering temperature records.

The models aimed to simulate how the planet's climate system would react to rising CO2 levels, relying on a combination of mathematics, physics, and atmospheric science.

If everyone turned off all motors and power plants tomorrow, or jumped in Hummers and jacked up thermostats, the climate system wouldn't measurably «notice» the difference for at least a few decades (IPCC fourth science assessment).

The global climate system has been relatively stable for the last 10,000 years because negative feedbacks have dominated.

I also think that a few critical points on the nature of short - term and long - term chaos in the climate system have been lost in the present rambling discussion, and I hope to provide a little focus below.

«Positive feedbacks (self - reinforcing cycles) within the climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.»

What we find is that when interannual modes of variability in the climate system have what I'll refer to as an «episode,» shifts in the multi-decadal global mean temperature trend appear to occur.

«Since the ocean component of the climate system has by far the biggest heat capacity», I've been wondering if the cool waters of the deep ocean could be used to mitigate the effects of global warming for a few centuries until we have really depleated our carbon reserves and the system can begin to recover on its own.

While the definition of a forcing may appear a little arbitrary, the reason why radiative forcing is used is because it (conveniently) gives quite good predictions of what happens in models to the global mean temperature once the climate system has fully responded to the change.

In the same way, a «greenhouse gas only» scenario can not be verified by observed data, because the real climate system has evolved under both greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing.

Events such as this confirm how little we know about the full impacts of the major perturbation of the climate system we've unwittingly set in motion.

[19] The climate system has unsurprisingly responded with storms, droughts, ice - melt, conflagrations and floods.

Even if the Sun was absolutely constant [which it very nearly is] the climate system would probably still have its chaotic swings.

In recent years one of the most important methods of estimating probability distributions for key properties of the climate system has been comparison of observations with multiple model simulations, run at varying settings for climate parameters.

What the industry describes as extreme weather events have increased in number and severity as the global climate system has altered, causing more and bigger hurricanes, typhoons and heatwaves around the world.

It looks as though the Earth's non-linear climate system has two stable states and flops rhythmically from one to the other.

Changes in the global climate system have also affected the seasonal distribution and total precipitation in Maine, the UMaine Climate Future report noted.

Rather, the ice core record shows clearly that changes in temperature precede changes in carbon dioxide throughout the glacial - interglacial cycle (Mudelsee, 2001), and that for the last half million years the climate system has oscillated in a self - limiting way between glacials and interglacials by about 6 deg.

However, his claim that the climate system would be «unstable» otherwise is simply untrue.

And the evidence of change has mounted as climate records have grown longer, as our understanding of the climate system has improved and as climate models have become ever more reliable.

But he and others worry that by covering up the effects of our long fossil fuel bender, oceans are keeping us from realizing just how off - kilter the earth's climate system has become.

Lucky for us the Earth's climate system has negative feedbacks which means, stability.

The activists say, «We know that the climate system has tipping points.»

How and why would this planet's chaotic climate system have such couplings.

The climate system has inertia.

[2] Widespread environmental change within the Arctic climate system has been reported extensively in the recent scientific literature [e.g., Comiso and Parkinson, 2004; Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, 2005; Lemke et al., 2007].

Some of the individual systems (oceans, ice pack, etc.) within the total atmospheric climate system have got to have impulse response tails that range out to a number of centuries.

Meanwhile, warnings of dangerous risks in the climate system have mounted.

Accordingly, the nature of the blogosphere and the workings of the minds of climate sceptics have become the focus of academic research, just as the mechanics of the climate system have been the subject of climate scientists.

Admittedly, part of my confusion is because the climate system has multiple definitions of sensitivity depending on the timescale of interest.

Stephen Hudson — Shows how the climate system has remarkable negative feedbacks to maintain stability.

He says: «The impacts on the Arctic ocean and land systems are transformational, creating huge problems for the circum - Arctic peoples who, on the basis of their traditional knowledge, confirm that the high latitude climate system has already shifted well outside the bounds they have previously experienced.

Drivers of the land climate system have larger effects at regional and local scales than on global climate, which is controlled primarily by processes of global radiation balance.

If understanding of the climate system has increased, why hasn't the range of temperature projections been reduced?

In the case of global climate no unprecedented climate behaviours are observed so the Null Hypothesis decrees that the climate system has not changed.

The climate system has large thermal inertia (mostly from the oceans), and doesn't respond much to the «rapid» signal of an 11 year cycle.

Computer models of the climate system have a difficult time reproducing this sudden melt.

As is apparent from Figure 1, the climate system would cross several tipping points and trigger various feedback effects that would render the climate system beyond human control.