Sentences with phrase «even altered the climate»

We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction.

Not exact matches

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

Even solar power can affect climate, though, because solar panels can alter the reflectivity, or albedo, of the surface.

Yet climate change will alter the timing of those flows even if the levels of snowfall remain the same.

Dr Sarah O'Dea, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and lead author of the study, says: «Our results show that climate change significantly altered coccolithophore calcification rates at the PETM and has the potential to be just as significant, perhaps even more so, today.

As others have suggested, this prehistoric tinkering with the planet may even have altered the climate.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

He pointed to research that showed how wind turbines alter regional temperatures even as they reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global climate change.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

The key source is the altered light frequencies that we have built into our climate in ways that we don't even see.

To provide drivers with an even more responsive driving experience, the E300 4MATIC offers 5 drive modes in its Dynamic Select system in order to alter the car's throttle response, shift points, steering effort, ECO Start / Stop, climate control efficiency and the available air body control suspension.

In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.

You contend that the whole motivation is for governments to extend their power, even though the measures needed to address climate change will alter the very fabric of the economies that have supported governments up to now.

Humans are altering the climate in diverse ways, a variety of human climate forcings are significant, and the effects of these forcings need to be responded to, even if the climate did not warm.

The coup de grace is likely delivered to the old climate via new winds and an altered greenhouse, but ocean changes may be what sets up the flip to a new mode of operation — and, even more ultimately, it may be continental drift that sets up the modes into which ocean circulation can shift.

The findings, published today (Dec. 30) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that climate change could alter ecosystems even more dramatically in the years to come.

Over an even longer - term perspective, a strong case has been made by Ruddiman that humans have been altering the climate of this particular interglacial for many centuries, as he looks at the null hypothesis to this quite closely, here:

They even altered the definition of the term «Climate Change» adding to the misconceptions.

They face even greater risks in the future as human induced climate change increasingly alters the weather and climate patterns that societies have come to depend on.

Even in light of the complexities and uncertainties, Hulme et al. (2001) state that a «warming climate will nevertheless place additional stresses on water resources [in Africa], whether or not future rainfall is significantly altered» and they project reduced precipitation over Tunisia.

If you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that it is «virtually certain» that human activities, primarily the increase in CO2 concentrations, is altering the climate in a measurable way, then there's no other conclusion possible: you are a scientifically illiterate moron, with absolutely no concept of how even the simplest model of a planetary atmosphere works.

Geoengineering to cool the planet by deliberately altering Earth's atmosphere is highly controversial, with sceptics fearing it will fail and mess up the climate even more.

Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses and consumers to alter their behavior in the name of fighting climate change (or «oil dependency»), it is still an unavoidable conclusion that CAFE standards are absurd.

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

Droughts are a natural part of our climate, even without the complication of climate change, which has the potential to significantly alter the patterns of both water availability and demand in the coming years.

Further, as I have pointed out, there is little we could do to alter the climate influence of anthropogenic emissions even if we wanted to.

These climate changes are a result of human and natural climate forcings and feedbacks — the relative role of each in altering atmospheric and ocean circulation features, and even the global annual average radiative forcing, however, is still uncertain.

Janet Larsen from the Earth Policy Institute, says:» «With our human population expanding and resource consumption growing even faster, we are close to hitting the wall in a number of arenas — fresh water, oil reserves, minerals like phosphorous for fertilizer, oceanic fisheries, and nature's ability to absorb climate - altering carbon dioxide, among others.

Also, it's Ruddiman's argument that humans already altered the climate to the extent that we averted another ice age even before the onset of industrialisation.

Apparently climate change is to blame, with the rapidly changing temperatures altering so much that even those acclimated to the area can no longer remain outside or train during the hottest parts of the day, reports Reuters.