Sentences with phrase «explanation for climate»

Ekholm does not fail to consider astronomical influences as an alternate explanation for climate change.

Let me give you just one possible explanation for climate variability.

Summary of Part 2: Roy Spencer repeatedly claims that most of the rest of the climate science community deliberately ignores natural sources of climate variation, but then contradicts himself by launching an inept attack on the standard explanation for climate change during the glacial - interglacial cycles of the last million years (i.e., they are initiated by Milankovitch cycles).

Indeed, the scope and the character of these climate changes are evidence of greenhouse warming, which is the best explanation for these climate changes.

The question has been looked at quite thuroughly, and it has been shown to not be a plausible explanation for climate forcing.

It is not necessary to provide an alternate explanation for climate change in order to successfully falsify AGW.

Dee Norris (11:34:18) «It is not necessary to provide an alternate explanation for climate change in order to successfully falsify AGW.»

This 53 - minute documentary offers an alternative explanation for climate change that is based upon a relationship between cosmic rays, the sun and the earth's clouds.

There is another explanation for climate change, which I just posted, but it is in moderation..

I don't know, but it is interesting and one can make a case for this.It is more realistic then the CO2 theory, which is the worst theory I have ever come across, as an explanation for climate change.

On a Hypothesis for Self - Destructive Behavior or A Possible Explanation for Climate Skeptics and other Nature Haters.

Sounds like a good explanation for the climate between India and Maldives to deteriorate.

It's shocking when you realize politicians and their government bureaucrat «scientists» simply ignore their track record of 30 years of wrong climate predictions, and their lack of scientific explanations for their climate claims:

Displays at a meeting in Manhattan questioning global warming offered a variety of explanations for climate change.

We see all of the other completely natural explanations for climate change that global warming alarmists ignore.

Working Group 1 is the only Working Group actually looking at the scientific evidence and explanations for climate change (including man - made global warming).

Not exact matches

In a 2015 paper in the journal PNAS, Boris Schmid of the University of Oslo proposed a climate - based explanation for the cyclical epidemics that characterized the disease's presence in Europe.

Their findings offer an underlying explanation for scientific claims that this recent drought was just a taste of what the warming climate may do to pinyon - juniper ecosystems.

Wordsworth and his collaborators looked to these long - lost gases — known as reducing gases — to provide a possible explanation for Mars» early climate.

Some climate change deniers have taken encouragement from the pause, saying they show warming predictions are flawed, but Mann, a co-author on the study, notes that «there have been various explanations for why [the slowdown is happening], none of which involve climate models being fundamentally wrong.»

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

Now, new research suggests a surprising explanation for how those tones arose: a humid climate.

Researchers have offered a number of explanations for the die - off: attacks of parasites, exposure to radiation or ultraviolet light, fungal infections, climate change, habitat loss, competition with exotic species, and pesticides.

For those craving a more technical explanation of the phenomenon, Fred W. Decker of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University offers the following:

But that explanation didn't deflect Posey from making his broader point — that there's nothing unusual about the current climate and that the past holds few lessons for the present.

The explanation for this is thought to be that a stable climate over a long period of time is able to foster both.

The explanation for this could be that the global warming is not yet strong enough to trigger the changes in precipitation patterns that climate models simulate,» reports Charpentier Ljungqvist.

DUMBING DOWN In search of a global explanation for our cranial downsizing, some scientists have pointed to a warming trend in the earth's climate that also began 20,000 years ago.

Now Takamitsu Tanaka at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues have a climate - based explanation.

The NGN article itself gives a good explanation of climate sensitivity and the various studies and estimates of it, and does quote Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois saying that Hegerl's result «means climate sensitivity is larger than we thought for 30 years, so the problem is worse than we thought.

See the RealClimate discussions of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period for explanations of why both the Viking colonization of Greenland and the freezing of the River Thames actually tells us relatively little about past climate change.

As there is no explanation as to how climate changes could possibly affect the intensity of the earth's magnetic field, it was decided that it would be easier to believe that proxy sea floor sediment data should be adjusted («corrected») for sea water temperature.

The U.S. press is either woefully ignorant of the state of the science, or is deliberately trying to find explanations for various regional weather and climate changes that don't involve any mention of «global warming» — and that approach relies on the «natural cycle» argument.

I find the posts (and responses) are best when the reader gets clear explanations of the current understanding of climate phenomena (with the associated uncertainties) and links to sources for further reading.

See Skeptical Science's profile of John Christy for a through explanation of why he is not a credible voice in the scientific community studying climate change, using peer - reviewed climate research as refutation.

The knowledge gap may just have narrowed, however, with the publication of a new study in Nature (one of two we're reporting on this week, as it happens) that appears to move the explanation for one type of climate variability from the natural to the human camp.

Local officials claim this is proof that the government's environmental preservation efforts have been successful, but recent research by climate scientists suggests a more worrying explanation for rising water levels: not only is climate change thought to be responsible for increased rainfall and snowfall in the area, it has also caused, by some estimates, up to a fifth of the permafrost which covers 80 % of the plateau to melt.

Christy and McNider suggest two other possible explanations for the discrepancies between climate model forecasts and reality:

The prize is awarded for «ground - breaking work that provides a powerful estimate of the effects of climate change on the global hydrological cycle, with a clear explanation of the global water budget.»

Designed for use in KS1 / 2 geography and science lessons, the programme begins with an explanation of where Antarctica is, what the climate is like and what it takes to live there.

This parallel evidence from research in similar settings confirms that reference bias stemming from differences in school climate is the most likely explanation for these paradoxical findings.

As I listened to President Donald Trump's explanation of his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Accord on climate change, I began to realize what a political masterstroke it was for -LSB-...]

David Sakmyster's FINAL SOLSTICE has a different explanation for disastrous climate change — Druids!

[3] The importance of this contribution has been rapidly acknowledged within the scientific community and has prompted an entirely new trajectory of kelp forest research, particularly emphasizing the potential for a spatial refuge from climate change also the explanations to evolutionary patterns of kelps worldwide.

The NGN article itself gives a good explanation of climate sensitivity and the various studies and estimates of it, and does quote Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois saying that Hegerl's result «means climate sensitivity is larger than we thought for 30 years, so the problem is worse than we thought.

Proposed explanations for the discrepancy include ocean — atmosphere coupling that is too weak in models, insufficient energy cascades from smaller to larger spatial and temporal scales, or that global climate models do not consider slow climate feedbacks related to the carbon cycle or interactions between ice sheets and climate.

c) Hypotheses get more consistent and coherent, and in this case tend to do away with «climate has changed naturally for millenia before the industrial revolution» as a sole explanation.

The assessment based on these results typically takes into account the number of studies, the extent to which there is consensus among studies on the significance of detection results, the extent to which there is consensus on the consistency between the observed change and the change expected from forcing, the degree of consistency with other types of evidence, the extent to which known uncertainties are accounted for in and between studies, and whether there might be other physically plausible explanations for the given climate change.

This post is exactly why this site is so popular for lay - people: it provides a clear explanation of climate change science and informed debate on current topics.

Actually, what alternative explanation is there for the increase of TC activity but anthropogenic climate change?