Sentences with phrase «effect on the weather»

We may not yet be able to control the weather, but our collective activities now have subtle but serious effects on weather patterns.
We can now say that all these sacrifices in convenience and economic welfare would have no significant effects on the weather or climate.
That includes accelerated warming, effects on weather at lower latitudes, and associated impacts on plants and animals in the region.
They see forests as having a beneficial effect on weather and agriculture, the value of which can hardly be estimated.
Meteorologists and climatologists who study the Arctic pay attention to the Arctic Oscillation, because its phase has an important effect on weather in northern locations.
As a result they have a direct effect on the weather of all the planets in our solar system, and the Earth's own magnetic field.
El Niño and La Niña are climate features that have a direct effect on weather patterns over the U.S. and the world.
During an El Niño, the ocean releases its energy into the air, warming surface temperatures, having a knock - on effect on weather patterns around the globe, including weaker monsoons in India and more hurricanes over the Pacific.
Known as the Roof of the Earth, the Tibetan Plateau rises to altitudes of up to five miles and as well as a mystical magnet for travelers of all sorts it has a major effect on the weather of much of Asia.
It has been observed since 2013 and has had a strong effect on the weather over the Pacific Northwest region since then.
But when we speak of growth of Gross Domestic Product we do not subtract the negative effects on weather and water supply or the loss of recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual values.
Two of the study's authors, climatologist Judah Cohen of the Massachusetts - based climate and weather risk assessment group Atmospheric and Environmental Research and atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, have long been proponents of the hypothesis that the warming Arctic is having profound effects on weather at the midlatitudes (SN: 3/12/15), from severe snowfalls to heat waves.
«Distant tropical storms have ripple effects on weather close to home: Researchers describe a breakthrough in making accurate predictions of weather weeks ahead.»
The tree - induced rain clouds could have other domino effects on the weather.
It also has large effects on weather outside the tropics, triggering and strengthening hurricanes, monsoons, and heat waves in higher latitudes.
Differing from the majority of scientists, meteorologist Bastardi presented his «global cooling» theory in a December AccuWeather video arguing that carbon dioxide is a trace gas that has less effect on weather than forces such as the sun.
This pressure difference that oscillates over time, has a direct effect on the weather conditions in the Iberian Peninsula.
The jet stream is strongest in winter, when it has the greatest effect on weather in more densely populated parts of North America and Eurasia.
Humans are changing the atmosphere in many different ways — emitting greenhouse gases, aerosols and smoke, changing the reflectivity of the land, and so on — each of which has different effects on the weather.
In addition to the direct impacts of rapid Arctic warming — most notably the loss of sea ice — scientists also think that it could be having an indirect effect on weather patterns in the mid-latitude regions of the northern hemisphere.
The atmosphere S6E4a: Demonstrate that land and water absorb and lose heat at different rates and explain the resulting effects on weather patterns.
The two that come to mind related to the «blacktop» effect on weather station reporting (higher ground temperatures in the immediate vicinity of urban weather stations that were only at or immediately near ground level due to urban development) and problems with ocean surface temperature measuring methods.
These changes have strong effects on weather that covers much of North America, particularly the continental west coast.
It's well documented that solar activity has a direct effect on weather here on Earth, and that comet activity has a direct effect on solar weather.
The British Isles are not only tucked beside a vast Atlantic Ocean whose temperatures have a powerful effect on our weather, they are also at the receiving - end of the jetstream.
Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»
From the world of the physicist Freeman Dyson, we learn of the butterfly effect: a butterfly, taking off from a flower in Beijing, has an effect on the weather patterns of mid-America.
In quiet solar years, the storms are shifted to the south, but it remains unclear exactly how solar activity has these effects on the weather.
The new study shows that, in Europe, the effect on weather is still stronger in fall.
If the Arctic region becomes warmer in the future, do you think that will have — no effects on the weather where you live; minor effects on the weather where you live; or major effects on the weather where you live?
2 Bad astronomy: Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, but it is just one 10 - billionth as bright as the sun and has no effect on our weather.
The loss of sea ice does not directly raise global sea levels, but it is already affecting us all through its effects on the weather.
Year by year, it's slipping into a new state, and it's hard to see how that won't have an effect on weather throughout the Northern Hemisphere,» Ted Scambos, an NSIDC lead scientist, said in a statement.
They have also concentrated on the effects on weather during winter, when the Arctic warming signal is strongest.
That finding was a certainty given that the Act defined «welfare» to include «effects on weather and climate.»
Climate is always changing and always having an effect on the weather.
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