Sentences with phrase «extreme climate change»

Several scripts were set in the future against a backdrop of extreme climate change.

I'm hoping next year to begin some experiments of my own in cooling and adapting a garden for extreme climate change.

Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Thünen - Institute compared the losses due to deforestation with those that would result in extreme climate change scenarios in Ecuador.

The web of satellites designed to protect the Earth from extreme climate change begins attacking it.

«However, an important detail about our study is that we assumed the most extreme climate change scenario in which the concentration of greenhouse gases keeps increasing throughout the 21st century.»

In the face of more extreme climate change - induced droughts, water managers often underestimate worst - case scenario low flows because the most extreme naturally occurring events are rarely captured within short instrumental records.

However, there are significant differences and uncertainties among the various climate models and their projections, and current knowledge on the potential for and implications of such extreme climate changes over the twenty - first century is limited.

The lack of major hurricanes making direct landfall on the continental U.S. over the last 8 + years is a classic example of extreme climate change not happening as predicted.

Doing so would represent a fairer share of global emission reductions, ensure the country takes full advantage of its mitigation potential, and increase the chance of limiting warming to below 2 degrees C, to help avoid the most extreme climate change impacts.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

These fast - growing, adaptable creatures are perfectly equipped to exploit the gaps left by extreme climate changes and overfishing, according to a study colleagues and I published in the journal Current Biology.

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

Over the last three years, 109 corporations — from Ford to Google — have dumped ALEC after the public learned more about this shadowy group, particularly its role pushing national model bills like the «Stand Your Ground» law cited for exonerating Trayvon Martin's killer, along with bills that make it harder for Americans to vote and peddling extreme climate change denial.

As for the «cash spigot», the pot of money and prestige available to research supporting extreme climate change scenarios is orders of magnitude larger than the pot available to research supporting moderate scenarios.

More extreme climate change contrarians have seized upon this so - called «pause» as a sign that global warming has stopped altogether, or that we are headed into a period of global cooling.

Out of the nine crops, six crops - groundnut, pearl millet, cassava, finger millet, yam and sorghum - are expected to remain stable even after extreme climate change situations in the future.

Hat - tip: Die kalte Sonne A new study by German GFZ research institute finds that extreme climate change also happened in the past before humans began emitting CO2 in to the atmosphere.

In saying that IPCC reports issued over the past 20 years had «created an ever - broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming,» the Committee linked those reports to potential violent conflict and wars that could result should extreme climate change occur.

Instead of including projections for extreme climate changes as a result of continued human emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from our production of energy, the high - end projections would have featured relatively modest changes and the low - end projections would have been completely unremarkable.

«NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration's extreme climate change agenda,» Smith, who has received funding from the oil and gas industry, including ExxonMobil, added.

In a recently published study in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, projected both mean and extreme climate changes using the ensemble mean of CMIP5 models.

Such extreme climate changes in just 10 years were a real challenge for their hunting - oriented society.»

The animals Neanderthals hunted — mostly bison and giant deer — died off from extreme climate change.

Crops affected in the most extreme climate change scenario (RCP 8.5).

Marjory is way ahead of us on that, and I hope to get her back to talk about ways to prepare your food production for extreme climate change.

Immersing yourself in the impacts of extreme climate change can give rise to a certain amount of gallows humor.

That ancient cataclysm might have been lucky for us, as the moon helps to stabilise the axial tilt of Earth, removing one source of extreme climate change that might otherwise have afflicted our planet.

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

In the course of millions of years, these minerals could often have been exposed to immense temperature fluctuations, due to extreme climate change or volcanic activity, for instance.

Paul has two Masters Degrees, he's working on his PhD on extreme climate change.

We appear to be initiating an extreme climate change right now, although in a different direction.

this is also a case study of extreme climate change.

Anti-corrosion protection in anti-freeze will break down due to extreme climate changes, heating and cooling of the engine.

There's value in this; the specter of extreme climate change should weigh heavily on our minds as we formulate climate policy.

«The prospect of extreme climate change and its potentially devastating economic and social consequences are of great concern to the insurance industry.»

If we do not leave all Arctic oil and gas buried in the ground, there will be no way to avert temperature increases that bring on extreme climate change.

The scientists explain how Earth's history of climate change is precisely why scientists are so worried, since it shows both that rapid and extreme climate change has happened before and that it could easily be triggered now by human heat - trapping emissions.

They also found a lower chance of extreme climate change — upwards of 18 degrees Fahrenheit — than some other papers have found.

But, there is another view of extreme climate change that can be examined to ascertain whether it has become a modern era problem or not.