Sentences with phrase «from known climate»

Therefore there is considerable merit in also pursuing a complementary approach that estimates climate sensitivity empirically from known climate change and climate forcings.»

Being completely divorced from the known climate science facts has (thank goodness) seriously undercut their credibility and trustworthiness.

2 / You can infer the answer from known climate behaviour.

Not exact matches

Everyone knows there's a red - hot war on among U.S. startups to secure the best talent, but new numbers from U.K. startup recruitment event company Silicon Milkroundabout and job search engine Adzuna.co.uk suggest that the British climate for startup hiring has now moved from simmering to boiling as well.

A group of cities from different parts of the world came together in 2005 to discuss climate action at the municipal level, later becoming a powerful network known as C40.

We know from experience that B.C. can lead on climate and enjoy a thriving, resilient economy.

You wouldn't know it from the lacklustre media response, but Monday's signing of the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, by the elected leaders of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, is a big deal.

Not to mention praise the climate change plan has received from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and a little known political figure by the name of Barack Obama.

The greatest threat is not from climate change but from the hubris to build so much in regions where we know hurricanes will continue to land.

To the surprise of everyone who knew about the strong evidence for the little ice age and the medieval climate optimum, the graph showed a nearly constant temperature from the year 1000 until about 150 years ago, when the temperature began to rise abruptly like the blade of a hockey stick.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

I suppose that it's possible that a guy over 500 years old would know enough from following the seasons and climate in his little region to predict a major flood, and then just assume that some god put that thought into his head.

Quite obviously, we do not know all that he meant by it — we can not hope to, separated as we are by twenty centuries from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are by no means altogether in ignorance of his meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental climate of Jesus» environment, our understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.

Left - leaning blogs and sites like ThinkProgress and Huffington Post jumped on Rubio's comments, with the Zack Beauchamp from ThingProgress writing, «To suggest we can't know how old the Earth is, then, is to deny the validity of these scientific methods altogether — a maneuver familiar to Rubio, who also denies the reality of anthropogenic climate change.»

Perhaps it's no longer surprising in the current climate, but yet another mosque construction project is coming under increased attack from critics this month.

Cases of melancholy appear to have been not uncommon, stemming in part, perhaps, from that general sense of the decay of the world which was a familiar feature of the Elizabethan climate of opinion, in part from the sense of rootlessness and estrangement which is characteristic of a transitional society, and aggravated no doubt by the searching, pointed preaching of the time.

Ancient Grape «Solution'to Climate Change: Wine cooperative Plaimont may have found a solution to a demand for less alcoholic reds from hot wine regions — an ancient grape currently known as Pedebernade 5...

They want to know that the issues they care about, from animal welfare to climate change, have been taken care of,» said Jan Potter, Food for Thought's chairperson and headteacher at Belle Vale Primary School.

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With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

With a year - round temperate climate, there is no better way to experience the magnificence of Temecula Valley Wine Country than from the vantage point of a hot air balloon.

The seminar will showcase wines from cooler climates such as Canberra, Beechworth, Heathcote and Eden Valley alongside better - known regi...

Known for its mild, coastal climate, pristine coastal grassland, and fresh marine air — with virtually no pollution from traffic or factories — the area is a quiet escape from city life.

Chenin blanc, or «chenin,» hails from the Loire Valley, a cool climate wine region in Northwest France known for being a stronghold of the natural wine movement.

With the exception of Neymar, who was new in town and perhaps did not fully understand the situation (though the match official, knowing better, offered the Brazilian winger no quarter from the heavy Atletico challenges throughout the game), the rest of the Barcelona side appeared to play with the awareness that the rightful champions of Spain were the blue collar grafters from Madrid, simply by virtue of having already come so close considering the current climate of the Spanish game.

We also know that it is from the humours that are cold and moist, and thus, those suffering from the flu must spend the Winter months in a Hot and Dry climate, until Cured of all symptoms.

«We all know how tough the economic climate is at the moment; therefore what is particularly galling is that this is money that is being taken away from front line services.

AG Eric Schneiderman has shot down a request from Republican members of a congressional committee that he turn over a number of records related to an investigation into climate change and what ExxonMobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

Gove said he «deeply regretted» the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, adding: «The world's second biggest generator of carbon emissions can not simply walk out of the room when the heat is on... It's our planet too and America needs to know that we can only resolve this problem together.»

Science could no longer be detached from society, he said, arguing: «Think of the big questions of our time - climate change, the spread of infectious diseases, water supply, biodiversity, terrorism.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

«Why hasn't Donald Trump come forward and said, «You know what, in this climate, at this point in this country, I'm going to resign from my position just like Al Franken,» Booker told Vice.

Siena College poll shows Hillary Clinton losing some ground to Donald Trump in their shared home state of NY, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer widening his lead over his little - known challenger, Wendy Long, and voters» opinions on key issues from gun control to climate change.

«If we are to use that authority arbitrarily or to withhold these certifications where we should be granting them, what then can happen... is there is an opportunity for the federal government to just take that process over from us and then we no longer have that authority,» Snyder said at a roundtable discussion on climate change Monday sponsored by the state Assembly.

President Muhammadu Buhari will attend the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also known as COP - 22, in Marrakech, Morocco, from November 14 to 16.

Greens have never known a Climate Secretary superior to Miliband, while he has had affinity with those that life has dealt a tough hand, who the SNP and UKIP argue Labour has distanced from, since his days at Haverstock School.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lead - author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.

Investigators knew from ocean floor sediments that the climate was unstable at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs were making their last stand.

He described climate as a straightforward scientific issue that's based on well - known principles: Carbon dioxide prevents heat from escaping.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

The majority of the US public are known to largely gain their understanding of climate change from the mass media.

Studies have suggested that leaks of methane during production from oil and gas wells are so high that the fuel may be no better for the climate than coal.

No one knows whether the sum of all the carbon emissions from such fires adds up to anything of consequence for climate change.

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

Trees perform three major climate functions: They absorb carbon, which they pull from the atmosphere, creating a cooling effect; their dark green leaves absorb light from the sun, heating Earth's surface; and they draw water from the soil, which evaporates into the atmosphere, creating low clouds that reflect the sun's hot rays (a mechanism known as evotranspiration that also leads to cooling).

«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Future scarcity affected by climate change will most likely lead to different water pricing needs than the schemes we know from the past.»

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

«A reminder: virtually all we know about Earth's atmosphere & oceans comes from sustained decades of government - funded scientific research,» tweeted Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate researcher.