Sentences with phrase «climatic change we have seen»

Not exact matches

Studies show that the steady reduction of the Aral Sea (seen in Landsat photos over 27 years) has brought about devastating climatic changes.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

And like most people we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change [my emphasis].

I have no problems with such analysis and was glad to see it'll be published in the journal Climatic Change.

As you can see in the National Climatic Data Center records for March, a cool (or hot) spring in one place and year has little meaning if your concerns are with long - term climate change, so let's not get into that in the comments here, please.

This is a point that Roger Pielke has often made (see here and here), and it's one that a recent paper in Climatic Change by Fabian Barthel and Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics appears to confirm.

So the climate has in one sense actually changed and we are now entering a new series of climatic conditions that we just haven't seen before.»

David has assumed scale k = 1, which is not a climatic scale, but I do not see any reason that his question whether or not there is a significant change at the global temperature in July during the last 30 years can not be asked / tested.

This insight, backed by the palaeo - climatic record (see Chapter 2, Section 2.4), is a new challenge for global change science because now thresholds have to be identified and their values need to be estimated using the entire hierarchy of climate models.

By contrast, Vaganov et al. (1999) have presented evidence that such changes may actually be climatic and result from the effects of increasing winter precipitation on the starting date of the growing season (see Section 2.7.2.2).

And like most people we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change.

The simplest explanation is that the warming we've seen over the past century is due largely to the usual contingencies attendant on climatic change generally.

V: The simplest explanation is that the warming we've seen over the past century is due largely to the usual contingencies attendant on climatic change generally.

However, we are waiting for a concrete (ie sensible) definition of what climate change means on planet that has seen a massive range of climatic variation over 4.6 billion years.