Sentences with phrase «dominated years climate»

Is there any reason to believe that after these La Niña dominated years climate warming will «play catch - up»?

Not exact matches

Like popular movements of the past, Trumpism was made possible by a political climate in which — as Lasch put it over forty years ago — our «parties no longer represent the opinions and interests of ordinary people,» while the «political process is dominated by rival elites committed to irreconcilable ideologies.»

... 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.

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.

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.

The list of speakers this year was dominated by environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth, climate researchers, and self - proclaimed activists, so climate change was inevitably high on the agenda.

It's looking to be an El Niño - dominated winter across much of the U.S., as the truly impressive event this year makes forecasters more confident that the climate phenomenon's impacts will show up this coming season.

«Climate models show that ice - sheet melt will dominate sea - level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice - sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary.

Born in Dublin, Scully began his career as a figurative painter in London, in the years when Freud and Bacon still dominated Britain's art climate.

However, we still have some way to go before we fully understand how the climate reacts to this forcing, and in particular why 100,000 yrs has dominated for the last 8 cycles, but before that it was more like 40,000 years.

That's all fine, but this also means that the climate talks, which head to Durban, South Africa, next year, are not the place to watch for the breakthroughs — social, financial or technological — that will be required if the world is serious about providing some 9 billion people mid-century with the suite of services that come with abundant energy (mobility, communication, illumination, desalinated water and more) while also greatly cutting emissions from burning fossil fuels, which still dominate the global energy mix.

The global climate system has been relatively stable for the last 10,000 years because negative feedbacks have dominated.

The outcome will depend on how an atmospheric tussle plays out — one well captured nicely in the title of a post by Brenda Ekwurzel, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists: «El Niño vs. the Arctic: Which Will Dominate This Year's Winter Weather?»

If the process says that each 10 year chunk is dominated by a completely different set of «cycles,» that seems to put the nail in the coffin of the idea that climate is really driven by as yet undiscovered natural cycles and clearly shows that such attempts are just exercises in curve fitting)

The conditions also bolster the views of ice and climate specialists who have stressed that the many factors shaping Arctic conditions year by year, from winds and atmospheric pressure to highly variable ocean currents and soot, still dominate the influence of heat trapped by building greenhouse gases.

For years, skeptics have filled comments with dismissive views of climate science to sow doubts about the consensus that fossil fuels are responsible for global warming — dominating that space, according to the group.

«The American Meteorological Society did their survey and they specifically asked the question, Is man the dominate controller of climate over the last 50 years?

A For years, the Government's energy and climate policy has been dominated by the belief that we need swift, drastic and expensive reductions in carbon dioxide emissions to avert imminent catastrophe.

Dr. Pratt would have done far better service to the climate science if he pursued the idea from his initial draft: The second and third harmonics dominate, are largely untouched by the filtering, and can be associated with ocean oscillations of respective periods 83 and 55 years per our fit (75 and 50 years when fitted with HADCRUT3).

The temperature for a single month or a single year isn't all that meaningful in the context of climate; year to year variations are dominated by things like El Nino, volcanic eruptions, etc..

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global - warming orthodoxy The 20 - year - long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate... Continue reading →

IMO, the climate alarmists have had the running, got all the research funding and dominated the media for 20 years.

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.

Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years.

The story that should dominate every end of year round up from every media outlet on the planet came last month in the form of two reports released at the U.N. climate summit in Bonn.

Moreover, using the average emission scenario (IS92a) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we predict that the calcification rate of scleractinian - dominated communities may decrease by 21 % between the pre-industrial period (year 1880) and the time at which pCO2 will double (year 2065).

«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.

For three years, Abbott has dominated the public climate debate with a relentless negative campaign on Labor's carbon tax, a fig leaf for his long - term climate denialism that «the science isn't settled», is «highly contentious» and «not yet proven», that «it's cooling» and «it hasn't warmed since 1998» and there's «no correlation between carbon dioxide and temperature».

Is Judith's statement about it being «foolish» to think that ACO2 dominates the climate on centennial (or decadal) scale in contradiction to Lewis» 90 % CI that goes up to 3.0 °C per doubling (considering the magnitude of warming over the last 60 years or so projected out another 40 years)?

You say his numbers, in fact, show that ACO2 dominated climate on a decadal scale over the past 6 years.

1) The ~ 1000 - year Eddy solar cycle seems to have dominated Holocene climate variability between 11,500 - 4,000 years BP and in the last two millennia, where it defines the Roman, Medieval, and Modern warm periods.

The ~ 1000 - year Eddy solar cycle seems to have dominated Holocene climate variability between 11,500 - 4,000 years BP, and in the last two millennia, where it defines the Roman, Medieval, and Modern warm periods.

Not long ago a University of Graz Professor called for the death penalty for scientists who did not agree with the visions of alarmist climate scientists, who have dominated the media and public scene with scare stories of super-storms and Biblical sea level rise for 15 years.

The activists who have tried to dominate the discussion of climate change for more than twenty years have insisted that this sensitivity is high, and will amplify the warming caused by CO2 by 3, 4 or even 10 times the 1C of warming provided by a doubling of CO2 alone.

Where are we going, as climate begins to dominate the year's news?

(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.

Negative long - range correlation of the increments during last 22 years means that negative feedback has been dominating in the Earth climate system during that period.