Sentences with phrase «complicated by the changing climate»

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Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

Whether they will actually lead to a greater incidence of the disease will be complicated by factors including control measures, the availability of drugs, and even other indirect effects of climate change, such as population changes, migration and urbanization.

Aerosols in the tropopause also complicate climate projections; they are not taken into account in the latest assessment released in 2013 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says Yu Gu, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Aclimate projections; they are not taken into account in the latest assessment released in 2013 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says Yu Gu, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los AClimate Change, says Yu Gu, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Aclimate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

On the other hand, such urban areas are unencumbered by the complicated international negotiations that hamper climate change action at the international level.

The actual large - scale climate changes during these intervals were complicated, and not easily summarized by simple labels and cherry - picked anecdotes.

(My reasons are complicated, and I'll write them up in an upcoming paper I'm putting on arXiv.org, that being a critical review of the statistics in the recent NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE paper by Fyfe, Gillett, and Zwiers, shared first with those authors.

It is interesting that while the Higgs is «new physics», and demands experimental confirmation, climate change prediction and explication is the application of really well understood physics, by experiment, theory, and in engineering, albeit to complicated systems.

The attribution of the term at regional scales is complicated by significant regional variations in temperature changes due to the the influence of modes of climate variability such as the North Atlantic Oscillation and the El Nino / Southern Oscillation.

As an example, discussions of «climate change» have become complicated by confusion about definitions offered by various groups, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Framework Convention on Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by climate change» have become complicated by confusion about definitions offered by various groups, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Framework Convention on Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by Rchange» have become complicated by confusion about definitions offered by various groups, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Framework Convention on Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by Climate Change and the Framework Convention on Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by RChange and the Framework Convention on Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by Climate Change [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by RChange [link], as emphasized by a previous «Dot Earth» story written by Revkin.

Attribution of any observed changes to climate trends are further complicated by the fact that models linking climate and agriculture must, implicitly or explicitly, make assumptions about farmer behaviour.

Policy uncertainty within government surrounding climate change complicates efforts by carbon - intensive companies to develop a long - term strategy.

The greatest fire management challenges lie in addressing simultaneously the threat to human well - being posed by fires, particularly at the wildland - urban interface; the uncertainties associated with various fire - related land - management practices, such as thinning and controlled burns; and the complicating factor of climate change.

A careful analysis of this report produced by a team of scientists assembled by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) finds it does not provide reliable guidance to the complicated issues of measuring, forecasting, and responding to sea - level rise.

Yet action to address the risk is complicated because of what Wagner and Weitzman call the Big Four problems: Any one country's effort to prevent climate change alone would be ineffective; political systems struggle to address long - term challenges; by the time humanity decides to act aggressively, it may be too late; and the risks are highly uncertain, which makes them easy to dismiss.

12) Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds

Translating the above to climate science, if you tell me that in 100 years earth inhabited by your children is going to hell in a handbasket, because our most complicated models built with all those horrendously complicated equestions you can find in math, show that the global temperatures will be 10 deg higher and icecaps will melt, sea will invade land, plant / animal ecosystem will get whacked out of order causing food supply to be badly disrupted, then I, without much climate science expertise, can easily ask you the following questions and scrutinize the results: a) where can I see that your model's futuristic predictions about global temp, icecaps, eco system changes in the past have come true, even for much shorter periods of time, like say 20 years, before I take this for granted and make radical changes in my life?

This is my point — we don't need a complicated model of the earth's climate because it is clear from historical data that the earth's climate is in a powerful negative feedback loop which keeps the clmiate very stable, and we can find out all sorts of things about how this negative feedback loop responds to changes at its inputs by looking at past data.

The good news is (at least from the perspective of science) that the role of carbon dioxide in climate change is very well established — at the theoretical level in terms of quantum physics, at the experimental level in terms of the study of the absorbtion and re-emission of radiation by carbon dioxide, at the numerical level (when equations get a little too complicated — but a good approximation can result from intensive computation by means of our fairly advanced computers), in terms of historical trends going back more than 500,000 years — and countless studies.