Sentences with phrase «dominate changes to climate»

(ii) Other, unrelated effects on temperature will balance out over the next 100 or so years, such that greenhouse gas forcing will dominate changes to climate, resulting in warming.

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Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

«Like every advanced industrial country we are coming to terms with the issues surrounding climate change,» he said, in a monthly press conference dominated by the recent floods.

... in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state....

And in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state.

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.

The economy has dominated the headlines for years, but unforeseen consequences of life sciences and climate change mitigation are also beginning to weigh heavily on people's minds.

We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species» relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creating transient and novel communities dominated by generalist species and interactions.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

Climate change is expected to increase the number of Wisconsin lakes dominated by largemouth bass and decrease those in which walleye — a more popular recreational fishing species — thrive.

Creationism and climate change may have dominated religion - science feuds in the past, but neuroscience will be the great debate of the future, according to William Newsome, a neuroscientist and National Academy of Sciences member from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

Indeed, as India's contribution to a new global climate change agreement in Paris in December makes clear, «coal will continue to dominate power generation in [the] future.»

Passing new laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions remains unlikely, with the House of Representatives still controlled by a Republican majority dominated by climate change sceptics.

The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics and a changing climate have transformed East Africa from a relatively flat, forested region to a mountainous fragmented landscape dominated by the rapid appearance and disappearance of huge, deep - water lakes.

«This is important for regional planning, because it allows policymakers to identify places where climate change dominates the observed sea level rise and places where the climate change signal is masked by shorter - term regional variability caused by natural ocean climate cycles.»

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

[Response: I have high confidence that anthropogenic effects are dominating current climate change and will increasingly do so in the decades to come.

The key issue for climate is whether the net forcing from these gases is likely to continue to grow rapidly and, since this is dominated by the CO2 changes, the likelihood is that it will.

The system can have a net negative feedback and still change very much provided a radiative forcing from sunlight or CO2 is sufficiently large, although for typical changes in these variables that Earth encounters, one would indeed expect only relatively small climate changes to occur if negative feedbacks did in fact dominate.

The I.P.C.C. continues to be dominated by natural scientists who may be well intentioned but seem not to be aware that there are equal level (i.e., academic, «scientific») studies of communication and that such a discipline, together with other social sciences, can give crucial contributions to understanding the current and future realities of climate change.

The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.

Some might see USCAP as being leaders in the industry around climate change - but I think their real goal is to ensure they dominate public discourse and have strong lobbying positions for any future climate / carbon legislation.

Although the simulation conditions in the MMD 20th - century simulations were not identical to those in the CMIP1 & 2 control runs, the differences do not alter the conclusions summarised below because the large - scale climatological features dominate, not the relatively small perturbations resulting from climate change.

«The global - warming / climate - change hysteria was created to empower a few who intend to dominate all mankind.»

Or do you believe this is not possible, and that CO2 dominates anyway, since that's what you've been told to believe (and since that way humans can cause climate changes)?

Despite virtual unanimity among scientists that climate change is real, and that it is caused by human activities, people who cast doubt on climate science continue to dominate the debate.

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

# 3 is an even bigger problem because climate skeptics don't want to accept CO2 can dominate natural causes of global temperature change.

«In responding to those rapid changes in climate, organisms will encounter a highly fragmented landscape that is dominated by a broad range of human influences,» the study said.

Surely the real bombshells here are that skeptics are starting to finally acknowledge man will dominate climate change of the 20th and 21st century.

Barack Obama came fourth, keeping in mind that this was when Obamacare, not climate change, dominated his to - do list.

This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate «the natural factors involved in climate change,» he said.

While the errors are small in absolute terms and do not affect the big picture, they are enough to distort the noisy short term trends which have dominated the public discourse on climate change.

Paul Driessen — September 23, 2013 «The real climate change «deniers» are the alarmists who deny that natural forces still dominate weather and climate events, and refuse to acknowledge that thousands of scientists do not agree with IPCC proclamations and prescriptions.»

Because if the climate system were dominated by negative feedbacks, then it would be insensitive and incapable of responding as observed to what all agree were modest changes in forcing.

Beginning to use plant - based products will certainly help the company achieve its sustainability goals, though LEGO is just doing their part in a global economy still dominated by fossil fuels — finite resources that are the primary contributor to human - caused climate change.

With respect to the way we debate / decide these issues, compared to others, there are commonalities between climate change and other issues which are dominated by emotion (not facts).

SciDev.Net: The interests of rich countries can seem to dominate climate change negotiations, but a study that models such talks as a «bargaining game» shows that side deals among poorer nations could boost chances of an international agreement.

BartH notes that «At relatively short time scales (say, a couple of decades), natural variability will dominate over systematic climate change, and there is more added value to expect from ensuring that the projections reflect natural variability adequately than to assess the degree to which the background climate changes.»

Fortunately, biologists trying to save the frogs understood the real danger and published elsewhere in journals not dominated by climate change advocacy.

Gaps in records from the last century and other issues make it difficult to be precise about the relative influences at this stage, but climate change is expected to dominate in the future.4

At the conference where ideas, actions, innovations and resources were brought in the open to design a roadmap to tackle climate change, the discussions were dominated by ending coal, producing renewable energy and making green technologies more accessible.

In the entire climate change debate the impacts to air have dominated, with water not having featured as a critical medium of impact.

The current stalemate is likely to persist as long as scientists allow climate change to dominate the environmental policy agenda.

A recent paper written by economist Martin Weitzman used an expected utility analysis to argue that the fat tail associated with unexpectedly but not impossibly high values of climate sensitivity dominate climate change economics.

Favourite plays include hyper - focus on one, extremely speculative study (T&S 09); misrepresenting the potential for abrupt cooling in the C21st, dismissing the dominance of the centennial forced trend, misrepresenting deglacial abrupt climate change; grossly over-stating the accuracy and utility of pre-CERES TOA reconstructions (especially the synthetic, non-observational ISCCP - FD reconstruction); hyper - focus on interannual OHC variability; confusion of cause and effect with long - term trends in OHC (CO2 forcing denial) and general inability to see that natural variability from now on will be riding up a forced trend which will increasingly dominate climate behaviour.

Leftists, progressives, Democrats, liberals, socialists, crony - capitalists, communists, politicians, UN bureaucrats, crony - scientists, mainstream journalists and Hollywood celebrities are acknowledged as the world's climate - porn stars, as well as being in dire need of a basic manual titled «Climate for Dummies»... their statements regarding global warming and climate change continue to be living proof that stuck - on - stupid and cluelessness are in a constant battle to dominate the leftward thinking bclimate - porn stars, as well as being in dire need of a basic manual titled «Climate for Dummies»... their statements regarding global warming and climate change continue to be living proof that stuck - on - stupid and cluelessness are in a constant battle to dominate the leftward thinking bClimate for Dummies»... their statements regarding global warming and climate change continue to be living proof that stuck - on - stupid and cluelessness are in a constant battle to dominate the leftward thinking bclimate change continue to be living proof that stuck - on - stupid and cluelessness are in a constant battle to dominate the leftward thinking brain...

«While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» he added.