Sentences with phrase «describe warming of the climate»

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Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

The surveys asked 84,086 respondents to gauge the level of threat they attributed to climate change (some of the surveys used different words to describe the phenomenon, such as global warming and the greenhouse effect).

«What this study addresses is what's better described as a false pause, or slowdown,» rather than a hiatus in warming, says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

The research team drew information from huge stream - temperature and biological databases contributed by over 100 agencies and a USGS - run regional climate model to describe warming trends throughout 222,000 kilometers (138,000 miles) of streams in the northwestern United States.

Increasing rainfall in certain parts of the tropics, colloquially described as the wet get wetter and warm get wetter, has long been a projection of climate change.

During a Friday morning session titled «Fire and Climate,» Meg Krawchuk, a UC Berkeley «pyrogeographer,» described her efforts to model the impacts of global warming on fire patterns across the world.

When his turn to question Holdren arrived, Rohrabacher began by requesting permission to submit the names of 100 climate scientists who disagree with the consensus on global warming, including people Rohrabacher described as prominent academics.

An analysis using updated global surface temperature data disputes the existence of a 21st century global warming slowdown described in studies including the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment.

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

This is the second in a series of articles that describe how scholars at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing their varied skills to bear on the issue of climate change and global warming.

The paper's lead author describes his findings thus — «Recent observations suggest the expected rate of warming in response to rising greenhouse gas levels, or «Transient Climate Response,» is likely to lie within the range of current climate models, but not at the high end of thisClimate Response,» is likely to lie within the range of current climate models, but not at the high end of thisclimate models, but not at the high end of this range.

NOAA's 2008 State of the Climate report said 15 or more years without global warming would indicate what was delicately described as a «discrepancy» between prediction and observation, we've achieved that length of time now.

Some of the supers talked about «good teaching,» «warm climate,» and «engaging teaching,» while Richard clinically described what he saw: a paraprofessional working on the initial consonant B sound with three students,» Lachman says.

Recommended for its lovely warm climate during the winter months, the Financial Express described Belize as a small country full of amazing attractions, including bird watching, exploring ancient Maya ruins, and snorkeling and scuba diving on its pristine barrier reef.

The atmospheric buildup of long - lived greenhouse gases is setting in motion centuries of shifts in climate patterns, coastlines, water resources and ecosystems, he said — hardly a transformation one would describe with a gentle word like warming.

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

The only major conclusion of the climate panel that is described as «unequivocal» is that the climate has warmed.

Finally, given the limitations of climate science (one Earth and all) they should describe what they would consider convincing evidence in favor of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis.

In the post on research on extreme rainfall and warming, Gavin Schmidt, the NASA climate scientist and Real Climate blogger, described the misinterpretation of some paper abstracts as mainly reflecting a cultural climate scientist and Real Climate blogger, described the misinterpretation of some paper abstracts as mainly reflecting a cultural Climate blogger, described the misinterpretation of some paper abstracts as mainly reflecting a cultural divide:

Global Warming vs Climate Change,» an interesting new study of Americans» perceptions of the two dominant shorthand phrases used to describe the building human influence on the climate Climate Change,» an interesting new study of Americans» perceptions of the two dominant shorthand phrases used to describe the building human influence on the climate climate system.

As the post explains, Broecker's 1975 paper appears to have been the first in the scientific literature to use the term «global warming» to describe climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated carbon dioxide.

We climatologists describe this in terms of the climate sensitivity, the warming that results in equilibrium from a doubling of CO2.

Daniel Crawford, a cello - playing undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, came up with a new way to describe the trend and variations that both characterize our warming climate — a solo composition, «Song of Our Warming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Swarming climate — a solo composition, «Song of Our Warming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space SWarming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The New York Times Magazine is running a long profile of Freeman Dyson, the independent - minded physicist and polymath from Princeton, N.J., who has come into the public eye of late because of his anti-consensual views of global warming — which are also different from the views of many people in the variegated assemblage of climate skeptic / denier / realists (depending on who is describing them) fighting efforts to curb greenhouse gases.

After I gave a talk at Pennsylvania State University not long ago, a professor there asked if I could share the slide I use to describe one source of confusion and disputes when people are yelling about «global warming» or «climate change.»

1:29 p.m. Updated below An earnest non-scientist probing the relationship of people, climate and energy travels the globe describing his menu for avoiding dangerous global warming.

It's a superb examination of what's known, and unknown, about what James Hansen, Susan Solomon and other climate scientists have described as a pause or hiatus in warming.

James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has long had a habit of pushing past where many colleagues dare go in describing the risks posed by global warming, has done it again.

But Perry joins a growing list of increasingly mainstream candidates who hold extreme views about climate that aren't anchored in reality: Michele Bachmann is a famous climate naysayer, and Ron Paul has also described global warming as a hoax.

Gavin, I agree completely with the standard picture that you describe, but I don't agree with the claim that ``... as surface temperatures and the ocean heat content are rising together, it almost certainly rules out intrinsic variability of the climate system as a major cause for the recent warming».

Lewis's letter contained a long list of complaints, ranging from the group's lack of a response to his efforts to convene a committee to assess evidence for a human link to climate change to its defense of choosing the word «incontrovertible» to describe the evidence for global warming in its statement on climate science and policies in 2007.

«Climate dice,» describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons relative to climatology, have become progressively «loaded» in the past 30 years, coincident with rapid global warming.

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

In a news release, Peter Stott of the climate center described how the odds toward having warm years have been progressively tipped by the buildup of greenhouse gases: «As a result of climate change, what would once have been an exceptionally unusual year has now become quite normal,» Dr. Stott said.

Just as missing data in some areas of climate science does nt prevent us from making rational statements about global warming, so to the fact of missing mails does not prevent us from describing clearly what we do know about the mails.

What is happening here is that the two (Hansen and Trenberth) whom you describe as «not, in fact, fanatics blinded by dogma» were surprised by the recent «lack of warming» (i.e. slight cooling) of the atmosphere as well as the upper ocean, despite CO2 increase to record levels, as this does not provide much support for the premise that human CO2 is driving our climate.

[4] In it, Hileman described «a systematic campaign of disinformation» being conducted by a small group of scientists calling themselves the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) whose work is funded by coal, oil, utility, automobile, and chemical companies — the corporations whose profits might decline if Congress took global warming seriously.

Whenever I talk about Global Warming, I generally try to stress that «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» describe different parts of an overall effect that we tend to lump together.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a United Kingdom think tank founded by climate change denialist Nigel Lawson with the purpose of combating what the foundation describes as «extremely damaging and harmful policies» designed to mitigate climate change.

The document also provides short synopses of the status of the climate in different regions, and describes the impacts of continuing and increasing global warming on the regions, including increased incidences of extreme weather events, as well as the loss of lives and livelihoods caused by these events.

HAPPI provides a framework for the generation of climate data describing how the climate, and in particular extreme weather, might differ from the present day in worlds that are 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

Ross Gelbspan, as a self - described reporter who was angered by the discovery of skeptic climate scientists being «paid sort of under the table by the coal industry» to spread «false information,» has had entire second career promoting the idea that we could be making better headway in stopping man - caused global warming it it weren't for the industry funded coordinated misinformation campaign.

I will here try to flesh out these starting points by describing how the last 100 years of warmer climate influenced the Swedish mountain nature.

The Sweeney Agency describes Lomborg as an «Author and Speaker on the Environment and Climate Change,» noting that one of the topics Lomborg speaks about is «The Truth About Global Warming»: [3]

Describing him in her speech as «one of the leading sources of reasoned and factual information in Australia on global warming and climate change» she didn't mention that Professor Plimer has never published a single peer - reviewed paper on human - caused climate change.

FORTRAN source code and documentation for the 1980s version of the GISS global climate model, used in the original NASA GISS global warming simulations described in Hansen et al. (1988).

As described in the paper, climate warming specifically refers to the slow time evolution of the local July temperature as described by a smooth non-linear trend line, which reveals a significant climatic warming over the last three decades.

-LSB-...] Velasco Herrera described as erroneous predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pursuant to which the planet is experiencing a gradual increase in temperature, the so - called global warming.

The model that I have described, warming due to the removal of anthropogenic SO2 aerosols, largely due to clean air efforts, perfectly matches the behavior of climate change over the past 40 years.