Sentences with phrase «driven by climate»

The big drivers in how individuals in more rural or remote areas are situating themselves are driven by climate change and geography, says Lawby.

[JR: Ultimately cofiring will be driven by climate regulations and whatever price for carbon is established.]

Nor would all transformations necessarily be driven by climate change — though they would reinforce its negative effects.

«The increase in bark beetle activity hasn't fundamentally changed the potential for fire because fire is being driven by climate,» said Veblen.

Its all about thinking through the implications of CO2 levels being driven by the climate rather than the other way around.

When someone says that climate science shows that the latest cold air outbreak was partly driven by climate change, people need to know what's wrong with that statement.

The sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by burning carbon fuels — including harm caused by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.

The increasing normalized trends in the U.S. were evident in convective storms, winter storms, flooding events and high temperature - related losses, and were almost statistically significant for hurricanes at the conventional 95 percent confidence level.3 In view of data like this, it's very hard to accept Pielke's confident assertion that «[n] o matter what President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron say, recent costly disasters are not part of a trend driven by climate change.»

And just to make things more complicated, there is the question of snow cover, which may be thought of as a being driven by climate, but is a also driven by weather in a very real way.

These events typify the on - going trend driven by climate change.

Growing capital costs are partly a result of unprecedented demand for gear such as wind turbines driven by climate and energy security policies.

It doesn't drive climate, but is driven by climate.

It would take decades to pump all that oil and gas — enough time for the loss of sea ice driven by climate change to make a dent in the economics of Arctic shipping.

Hydrologic modeling is performed by the variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model at a 1/8 ° resolution and the model is driven by climate scenarios provided by the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) including nine regional climate model (RCM) simulations.

The authors similarly surveyed on - line abstracts from which they extracted only papers suggesting ecological changes were driven by climate change.

Australia's food supply chain is highly exposed to disruption from increasing extreme weather events driven by climate change, with farmers already struggling to cope with more frequent and intense droughts and changing weather patterns.

«What we've done is we've taken a model that was once tied to plant phenology and adapted it to be more tuned to the atmospheric component so that we can isolate the part that's driven by the climate system or is driven by the atmosphere.»

An article in the New Orleans Times - Picayune reports that sea level rise driven by climate disruption is expected dramatically affect the port of New Orleans.

Evidence suggests that the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation was driven in part by warm air (air warmed by the dramatic seasonal loss of Arctic sea ice) 9 as well as by changes in snow cover over Eurasia driven by climate change.10 This event is part of an emerging trend in which a warming climate may paradoxically bring colder, snowier winters to northern Europe and the eastern United States.11

California is experiencing warmer baseline conditions, driven by climate change, that have increased the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California, and increased the chance that low rainfall years will produce drought.

California has recently seen an uptick in extreme heat events and warmer baseline temperatures, driven by climate change.

Driven by the climate science, the international community is increasingly concerned about the need to set a long - term emission reduction strategy so as to me et a target that will prevent dangerous climate change, or at least, as some dangerous climate change appears unavoidable, limiting the damage.

Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum.

«This research is of particular importance as it can help Pacific coastal communities prepare for the effects of changing storm regimes driven by climate oscillations like El Niño and La Niña.

The piece is a close - up view of the global issue of migration driven by climate change.

For example, the United Kingdom's Met Office sells weather forecasts driven by its climate model.

Still, driven by a climate of mistrust and doubt, many questioned the sincerity of the letter written by Rand Suffolk, Nancy & Holcombe T. Green, Jr., Director of the High Museum.

Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

But in addition to the longer growing seasons, which may be driven by climate change (see Climate chapter), this improved feasibility of corn production in Montana is due in part to new, shorter - season corn varieties.

Drought is a complex phenomenon driven by both climate, but also affected by human - related factors (e.g., land use, water use).

Driven by climate change and enhanced by a powerful El Niño, the ongoing mass bleaching event hasn't just impacted the Great Barrier Reef, but every major reef region in the world.

«Understanding such processes is especially important today since oxygen in the ocean is decreasing, largely due to the warming of ocean waters driven by climate change,» said the study's lead author Andrew Margolin, a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science and an alumnus of the UM Rosenstiel School.

Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum.

That's because hot temperatures, which are being driven by climate change, are worsening and extending wildfire seasons.

These migration events were driven by climate change connected to variations in Earth's orbit.

Or it could be that methane variations are mostly produced by wetland emission, driven by climate change as well as land use decisions, according to another set of papers.

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OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.

The warmest winter on record — driven by climate change — is also driving down the need for wintertime electricity required for home heating, which drives down the need for more coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster said in the report.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

And the demand for cooling is being driven both by climate change and global population growth.

«We tend to think that the factors that determine where forests are on a landscape are largely driven by climate, but what these data show is soils and the soil microbiome community might be a lot more important than we have appreciated in the past,» she said.

Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change.

Young says that elements of the recent drought are consistent with what is expected from an event that is driven by climate change.

«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

The payoff will be a clearer sense of the future: whether the methane rise is a long - term trend, driven by climate change, or a blip that could reverse next year.

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The investigation of self - reported sleep patterns and nighttime temperatures across the United States is one of the first studies to provide evidence that rising temperatures, driven by climate change, could affect human sleep.

Or, he says, it may reflect a real shift in polar weather, driven by climate change.