Sentences with phrase «evaluating future impacts of climate change»

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It takes into account both the duration and intensity of heat waves and can serve as a benchmark for evaluating the impacts of future climate change.

The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment: Evaluating Washington's Future in a Changing Climate - Executive Summary, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

You would think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided research with an analysis of the natural causes of climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.

NIPCC scientists concluded the IPCC was biased with respect to making future projections of climate change, discerning a significant human - induced influence on current and past climatic trends, and evaluating the impacts of potential carbon dioxide - induced environmental changes on Earth's biosphere.

«Studies linking emissions to climate change impacts provide the most stringent test available for evaluating the accuracy and confidence of our projections of impacts in a future warmer world,» says Wolfgang Cramer, Director of the Mediterranean Institute for Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology in Aix - en - Provence, France.

The climate feedbacks involved with these changes, which are key in understanding the climate system as a whole, include: + the importance of aerosol absorption on climate + the impact of aerosol deposition which affects biology and, hence, emissions of aerosols and aerosol precursors via organic nitrogen, organic phosphorus and iron fertilization + the importance of land use and land use changes on natural and anthropogenic aerosol sources + the SOA sources and impact on climate, with special attention on the impact human activities have on natural SOA formation In order to quantitatively answer such questions I perform simulations of the past, present and future atmospheres, and make comparisons with measurements and remote sensing data, all of which help understand, evaluate and improve the model's parameterizations and performance, and our understanding of the Earth system.