Sentences with phrase «direct effect on the climate»

This is the additional concentration of CO2 that would have approximately the same effect on the radiative properties of the atmosphere - and thus the same direct effect on climate - as the concentrations shown of those GHGs.

However, as noted energy economist Mark Jaccard has pointed out, building new oil infrastructure does indeed have a direct effect on climate change.

Not exact matches

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

For instance, the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture could be counterbalanced by the indirect effects on fuel structure.

A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.

The model also accounted for natural drivers of change, including the direct influence of increased carbon dioxide on ocean - carbon uptake and the indirect effect that a changing climate has on the physical state of the ocean and its relationship to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

On the seriousness of climate change: Among people who were aware of the encyclical, there was no direct effect on people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate changOn the seriousness of climate change: Among people who were aware of the encyclical, there was no direct effect on people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate changon people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change.

Nitrogen compounds have a direct and indirect effect on our environment and climate.

«This is just a bizarre paper,» climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, adding that the effect of direct heating from burning fossil fuels is «completely trivial» on a global scale.

The total energy in these particles is insignificant compared to the energy in the form of light from the sun, so the variation of the magnetic field will not have a direct effect on Earth climate.

If you want to estimate climate sensitivity to doubling CO2, don't you need to estimate as precisely as possible the direct and indirect effects of each forcing on temperature trends?

This mis - representation and can have significant ramifications for estimating the direct and indirect effects of aerosols on climate.

Positive: Few opportunities for reduced direct climate effects on mortality but possibility for reduced mortality from indirect effects

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

-- 1) Improved understanding of adaptive genetic and phenotypic forest characteristics that would provide better guidance for breeding programs and management actions to maximize resilience to both direct and indirect climate impacts to forests; 2) Long - term studies to better understand effects of CO2 fertilization in Montana's forests; 3) Improved models of climate and vegetation effects on evapotranspiration and water balances throughout forested systems.

Direct effects of climate change on individual trees will be driven by temperature in energy - limited forests and moisture in water - limited forests.

Direct effects of climate change on trees and forests, such as warmer, wetter conditions improving forest productivity or warmer, drier conditions increasing tree mortality, will be secondary to the impacts of altered forest disturbance regimes, such as changes in forest fire behavior and area burned.

Indirect effects of climate change on forests include disturbance — a key component of forest ecology — and may be more important, immediate, and longer lasting than direct effects.

The direct effects of climate change on forests include increased temperatures and shifts in precipitation that together alter humidity, soil moisture, and water stress.

In addition, we do not detail potential responses of individual tree species to climate shifts in this assessment; instead, we focus on the direct and indirect effects of climate change on forests.

The results of this analysis on the direct effects of climate change on Montana's forests produced several key messages, some of which are shown below (for a complete list of key messages, see the Forests chapter):

We focus on variables that may contribute to a school «s culture and climate, including (1) variables on which principals can have some direct effect, such as principal - teacher relations, trust, and shared leadership; (2) variables on which principals may have less influence, such as teacher - to - teacher relations in professional communities, and collective responsibility; and (3) variables on which the principal has indirect control, such as teachers «sense of personal efficacy, and the quality of instruction.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

Solar activity impacts on climate are a fascinating topic, and encompass direct radiative processes, indirect effects via atmospheric chemistry and (potentially) aerosol formation effects.

It's also probable that soot / ozone reduction would have some direct beneficial effect on regional climate.

«This is just a bizarre paper,» climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, adding that the effect of direct heating from burning fossil fuels is «completely trivial» on a global scale.

Plus, there's the direct effect of climate change (and associated sea level rise) on agriculture and infrastructure and living.

But as with CO2, those lags are related to the climate effect on sources and don't have anything to do with the GHG effect on climate which is known from lab measurements and direct observations.

First is that it is highly unlikely that climate warming, alone, will have substantial direct effects on hot wars and other national security risks.

We know why CO2 is increasing now, and the direct radiative effects of CO2 on climate have been known for more than 100 years.

What climate models assume is a wide - ranging compendium of physical processes that are either well known but too complicated to incorporate into the climate model (for example the direct radiational effect of Carbon Dioxide on greenhouse warming is considerably * simplified * compared to the most sophisticated «line - by - line» radiation models that are available, simply because there isn't enough computer power to make the line - by - line calculation at every location on Earth at every time step within in a GCM), or are not sufficiently well - known to treat them with complete certainty.

Professor William Happer of Princeton, one of the world's foremost physicists, says computer models of climate rely on the assumption of the CO2's direct warming effect that is about a factor two higher, owing to incorrect representation of the microphysical interactions of CO2 molecules with other infrared photons.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

This «climate sensitivity» not only depends on the direct effect of the GHGs themselves, but also on natural «climate feedback» mechanisms, particularly those due to clouds, water vapour, and snow cover.

Climate change impacts on aquaculture have both direct effects, for instance through physical and physiological processes, and indirect effects, for instance through variations in fish meal supplies and trade issues.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populClimate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populclimate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

In contrast, climate models, useless as they may be in other respects, can at least pretend to indicate specific impacts on the world, from which direct inferences may be made about effects on humans and the environment.

Roberts didn't make it clear how it was «clear» that «obese people are having a direct impact on the climate», nor what the climatic effects of fat people were supposed to be.

«Here we quantify the direct climate effects of sugar - cane expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado, on the basis of maps of recent sugar - cane expansion and natural - vegetation clearance combined with remotely sensed temperature, albedo and evapotranspiration over a 1.9 million km2 area.

All these impacts are the direct result of human greenhouse gas emissions and their forcing effect on the world's climate.

Organisms less likely to shift to higher latitudes because they are more tolerant of the direct effects of climate change or less mobile may also be affected because climate change will alter the existing food webs on which they depend.

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneClimate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneclimate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11

In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct effect on the world's oceans.

Effects of climate change, including higher temperatures, have direct effects on public health, but historically it's largely been framed as an environmental issue.

The impacts of climate change on public health will extend beyond the direct effects of temperature on human physiology.

Climate change has both direct and indirect effects on agricultural productivity including changing rainfall patterns, drought, flooding and the geographical redistribution of pests and diseases.

This review paper outlines the rationale for long - term monitoring of the global distribution of natural and anthropogenic aerosols and clouds with specificity, accuracy, and coverage necessary for a reliable quantification of the direct and indirect aerosol effects on climate.

Zouabi, Oussama and Kahia, Montassar (2014): The direct effect of climate change on the cereal production in Tunisia: A micro-spatial analysis.

However, model complexity is necessary to quantify the anthropogenic impact on climate via the aerosol direct and indirect effects.