Sentences with phrase «effect upon climate»

I've said it before and I'll say it again; when you take some type of land and change it into some other type of land, it acts differently, will affect the weather in some way and thus has an effect upon the climate.

So, clouds both warm and cool, and their overall effect upon climate depends upon the balance between albedo cooling and greenhouse warming.

Not exact matches

Officials said the agreement furthers the objectives of the league's 2014 sustainability report, which documented and disclosed the NHL's carbon footprint, and «NHL Green» — a comprehensive sustainability initiative created by the league in 2010 to address the effects of climate change and freshwater scarcity upon ice hockey as a sport.

However, in light of our substantiation of the effects of «grand solar minima» upon past global climates, it could be speculated that the current pausing of «Global Warming», which is frequently referenced by those sceptical of climate projections by the IPCC, might relate at least in part to a countervailing effect of reduced solar activity, as shown in the recent sunspot cycle.»

IISD President Scott Vaughan tells ScienceInsider that he intends to build upon this past research, while looking to expand the scope of the facility's science to investigate the effects of micropollutants and climate change on aquatic systems.

From the romanticism of some of the earliest work exhibited such as George Morland and Walter Langley depicting the human cost of shipwrecks and their aftermath to the effects of climate change upon the sea, coastal erosion and rising sea levels, that is portrayed in work by artists such as Jethro Brice, Simon Read and Michael Porter.

It will feature De St. Croix's new site - specific installation, High Rise, a monumental / miniature sculpture referencing both the beauty and devastation upon the Florida Everglades, including issues of encroachment, climate change and the myriad of ways human behavior effects and modifies the natural landscape.

Climate change is the cumulative effect of thousands upon thousands of individual decisions we collectively have made daily at home, at school and at work over generations.

1 - A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate.

A 3 - day long media workshop, organized by global environment forum Third Pole in Kathmandu, Nepal from 13 - 16 October brought together, for the first time, journalists from China, India and Bangladesh to deliberate upon the effects of climate change in Brahmaputra / Yurlung Zangbo river basin

How emblematic of the «climate science» establishment to rely upon blatant ad hominems in arguing against empirical data that exposes the gross inadequacies of academic conceptions of «the greenhouse effect.»

That land changes over this period may have slightly increased temperature, and has had regional affects upon climate, and multitude undefined possible effects.

The comparison of human and machine capability is appropriate because of the difficulties involved in trying to understand something like the climatic system and determine the effects that anthropogenic climate change will have upon it.

The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.

The ski industry is already hurting from the effects of climate change, with more unpredictable and warmer winters making it increasingly difficult for places dependent upon steady revenue from snow - seeking tourists.

I would love to see more postings about the effects of the oceans upon climate.

Sorry, folks, but humans don't generate enough CO2 to have any meaningful effect upon this planet's climate.

Likewise, on the radio show Breitbart News Daily, host Alex Marlow pushed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to deny the link between climate change and hurricanes, which Pruitt did, stating, «For opportunistic media to use events like this to, without basis or support, just to simply engage in a cause - and - effect type of discussion, and not focus upon the needs of people, I think is misplaced.»

Clear evidence of climate change is based upon «accumulating data from across the globe» that reveals «a wide array of effects: rapidly melting glaciers, increases in extreme weather, rising sea levels, shifts in species ranges, and more,» the AAAS Board reported.

The effects of climate change will actually be upon us faster and in a more intense fashion than we had thought.

In the course of researching a book I wrote on the politics of climate change, I came upon a confidential report prepared by the Office of National Assessments (ONA) entitled Fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect.

Abstract The U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) draws upon the latest scientific understanding of climate and climate change, synthesizing recent advances in the understanding of the science of climate change, and providing a succinct overview of the past and projected effects of climate change on the United Climate Assessment (NCA) draws upon the latest scientific understanding of climate and climate change, synthesizing recent advances in the understanding of the science of climate change, and providing a succinct overview of the past and projected effects of climate change on the United climate and climate change, synthesizing recent advances in the understanding of the science of climate change, and providing a succinct overview of the past and projected effects of climate change on the United climate change, synthesizing recent advances in the understanding of the science of climate change, and providing a succinct overview of the past and projected effects of climate change on the United climate change, and providing a succinct overview of the past and projected effects of climate change on the United climate change on the United States.

Markus leads the effort at PCIC to quantify the direct and indirect effects of climate change and variability upon the various components of hydrologic cycle at the local and regional scale.

The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.

If humanity could have an effect upon global climate events at all, it still does no good to destroy world liveliehoods for the sake of making matters worse by implementing good intentions which prove to be horribly fatal mistakes.

Other climate scientists, such a Richard Lindzen, have stated that based upon their empirical research the warming will be dampened by other climate effects, a net negative feedback.

But if we are to indulge in pigeonholing, I might tentatively identify a fourth category (a third type of climate sceptic) as one who considers natural factors to be overridingly dominant in climate change (past, present and future) but who nevertheless is willing to entertain the twin possibilities that CO2 may have a weak effect upon global temperatures, or none at all — with general disinterest regarding which possibility actually applies!

This new NASA paper builds upon those previous studies by better quantifying the efficiencies of different forcings over the historical period and the effect this has on energy budget approach climate sensitivity estimates.

On December 7, 2009, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will begin a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark where President Obama intends to consent to an operational agreement with immediate effect if the proposed treaty canâ $ ™ t be agreed upon.

I had not even paid attention to claims of global warming myself before late 2009 (I don't know if I even heard of it before that), yet within a year I had disproved the «greenhouse effect» being foisted upon the people of the world as «settled science», and shown that climate scientists should have done the same 20 years ago, if any had been competent in their field.

Introduction Over the past 20 years, global efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change have increasingly relied upon the implementation of local mitigation projects.

Even in the best - case scenario, the one seized upon by Gardner in Brown, in which humans turn out to have the least possible effect on the climate, we'll still only be able to avoid the most dangerous effects of warming if our extremely good luck is coupled with aggressive steps taken to reduce emissions.

Since the tropical Pacific Ocean has a profound influence upon global climate, this relative warming of the West Pacific had substantial atmospheric effects around the world.

However, having relied upon two anthropogenic processes to explain observations he then goes on to say that human activity has no effect on climate.

Stephen Wilde says: April 25, 2010 at 2:26 pm However, having relied upon two anthropogenic processes to explain observations he then goes on to say that human activity has no effect on climate.

«Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate» and «substantially founded upon scientific research and fact.»

Perturbations to the atmospheric inventory of radiatively active species may have a significant impact on the climate of Venus and upon the stability of the greenhouse effect.

The most widely quoted estimates, like those in the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy, known as DICE, used by Yale's William Nordhaus and colleagues, depend upon educated guesswork to place a value on the negative effects of global warming in a number of crucial areas, especially agriculture and coastal protection, then try to make some allowance for other possible repercussions.

As an index calculation — that Climate Etc readers are encouraged to repeat for themselves — let us calculate the effects of an energy imbalance of 1 $ / m ^ 2, sustained for one millenium, upon a fully mixed ocean.

@John Coochey You can prove that Monckton has a case by presenting a list of his most central claims that bring down the foundations of climate science as it concerns the specific issue of enhanced greenhouse effect due to fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions, and an accompanying list of evidence directly relevant to these central claims, and an accompanying logical argument based upon the current state of scientific knowledge.

That it will soon lessen as it always has, and so will its effect upon the Earths» climate?

This lack of «completeness» of the physics is my primary issue with AGW predictions — I am certain that climate models (at least the source code I've examined in GISS ModelE) do not capture very important parts, namely clouds and evaporation effects as they are exceptionally dependent upon many factors that are too small to model.

Climate change is upon us, and is causing devastating effects already, with more to come.

This is despite significant potential for strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change creating or supporting economies for our peoples or alternatively, for our traditional practices to be severely impacted upon by mitigation strategies.