Sentences with phrase «dramatic climate shifts»

Himalayan communities are already facing dramatic climate shifts, according to AFP, which interviewed Apa Sherpa while he's participating in a 120 - day hike.

During the last ice age, over 20 abrupt and dramatic climate shifts occurred that are particularly prominent in records around the northern Atlantic (see Section 6.4).

New languages, different customs and dramatic climate shifts are only a few of the challenges immigrants and refugees face upon arrival to Canada.

In the flurry of new research on the rapid decline of Steller sea lions, harbor seals, and northern fur seals, I thought one of the most likely causes was a dramatic climate shift in the region they inhabit.

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The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible based on shifting technologies and changes in human behavior.

Yet in addition to extinctions there are many dramatic, well - documented effects of introduced species, such as shifts in regional climate, reduced groundwater levels, altered nutrient cycling, and reduced oxygen levels in aquatic systems, which affect the abundance and distribution of native species.

«Agathis is a very dramatic example of survival via huge range shifts, from the far south to the tropics, in response to climate change and land movement over millions of years,» said Wilf.

Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»

Scientists are hopeful that the selections portend a dramatic shift away from the way President Bush has handled climate science.

He points out that other data suggest that bison in many places have weathered dramatic shifts in climate just fine.

Many of these dramatic shifts involve climate, planetary and solar system dynamics that until recently played a limited role in exoplanet research.

There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014 said, «I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.

It features some of the most dramatic and rapid climate shifts in Earth's history, as well as tenacious scientists braving the hostile ice and snows of Greenland and Antarctica for years on end to bring home that most precious material: kilometre - long cores of ancient ice, dating back over a hundred thousand years.

Such a dramatic shift in a climate pattern would constitute what climate scientists call a tipping point: a sudden shift from one predictable pattern of weather to another.

«The Uncertain Republican Congressional Trumpet The Dramatic Shift in Democratic Party Climate Policy since 1997»

Climate change causing dramatic Arctic shifts, scientists say — CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-dramatic-arctic-shifts-1.3867298

Troublingly, Audubon's climate model shows a dramatic northward shift in summer range, with only 5 % of its current area remaining stable — something that's already being observed in places like Illinois.

This small forest sprite is forecast to undergo dramatic shifts in its breeding range across both the eastern and western parts of its range, according to Audubon's climate model.

Protecting the planet will require a dramatic shift away from fossil fuels, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasizes.

Famine from abrupt climate shifts has been equally dramatic and even faster, with some isolated populations wiped out entirely on many occasions.

Climate change is making Michigan farmers more vulnerable to dramatic weather shifts, according to a new report.

Most notably, dramatic changes in the MARs of BC, char, and soot occurred when the climate shifted abruptly.

It signalled a dramatic shift in the international debate over climate change, with defence and intelligence experts at the highest level becoming alarmed at the implications for global security.

A survey conducted on behalf of SPIEGEL found a dramatic shift in public opinion — Germans are losing their fear of climate change.

«At medium sea levels, powerful forces − such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting − are not necessary to result in abrupt climate shifts and associated drastic temperature changes.»

Their research suggests our climate is subject to dramatic regime shifts.

This doesn't exclude the possibility, of course, that dramatic shifts in climate could create problems for coffee producers.

Kenneth Towe sent a study by Kenneth Drinkwater showing a dramatic North Atlantic climate shift in the 1920s and 1930s based on temperatures, fish stocks, spawning areas, food biomass, etc..

It would seem, despite the extreme denial of most anti-CO2 activists and UN bureaucrats, that the climate has always changed, frequently making dramatic shifts.

The collapse of the 2009 cap - and - trade bill had more to do with the dramatic rightward shift of the Republican Party — away from its earlier centrist position on climate change — than with Obama's lack of effort to push it through.