Sentences with phrase «global climate system»

BTW — these are not independent phenomenon but linked in the dynamic and complex global climate system.

Using technofixes to tinker with global climate systems is an excuse to avoid unpopular but necessary measures to reduce carbon emissions

«It's the whole global climate system,» NCEI director Thomas Karl said.

«Imagine basing a country's energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory — a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable (CO2) is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.»

SUMMARY NOTES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CCl - XII FROM MEETINGS CONVENED TO PREPARE FOR PUBLISHING THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM REVIEWS AND FOR A PUBLICATION ON THE CLIMATE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, July 1997

Entering the 21 st century TRL science has returned to study ecological impacts on tree - growth and the pursuit of reconstructing global climate system dynamics.

The current global climate system must adjust to rising greenhouse gas levels and, in the very long term, the Earth must get rid of energy at the same rate at which it receives energy from the sun.

The world is perilously close to, or passed, tipping points which will create major changes in global climate systems.

«At the same time, we will continue to resolutely be a protector and promoter of the global climate system process, proactively participating in the multilateral climate change process,» Hua said.

These extreme weather patterns make this area an ideal location for climate scientists to study the delicate interconnected web of the global climate system.

In particular, the connection between rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and the increased warming of the global climate system is more certain than ever.

Global warming skeptics crowed, and scientists delved into the global climate system to find out where the missing heat had gone.

Despite the region's importance in the global climate system, not much is known about its own climate history, says James Russell, associate professor of geological sciences at Brown.

The global climate system is very interconnected.»

«We wanted to assess long - term climate variation in the region,» Russell said, «not just to assess how global climate influences Indonesia, but to see how that feeds back into the global climate system.»

«Because of this important role that aerosols play in distributing energy within the global climate system, we need to understand their distribution with very high accuracy,» said Mishchenko.

Studies of the sediment cores obtained during the expedition will focus on understanding how Earth's tectonic plates move and how the global climate system works.

«These new findings help us understand how the global climate system works over scales of decades to millennia and give us a new perspective from the distant past on recent and future climate changes.»

Although the rising average global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the global climate system, what's actually happening involves changes in circulation patterns, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes.

In a separate study published Wednesday, researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan, said aerosols in the Arctic have a «profound» impact on the global climate system.

«At the same time, we will continue to resolutely be a protector and promoter of the global climate system process, proactively participating in the multilateral climate change process,» Hua said.

They caution of a global climate system that's capable of drawing decades» worth of hoarded heat out of the Pacific Ocean, and belching it back into the atmosphere.

But the goal for Mr. Corless and his team is to separate CO2 from air using a method that can be scaled up to make a difference to the global climate system.

But that science is clear — human activities are disrupting the global climate system, and that poses risks to people and institutions of all political persuasions.

The SciencePoles portal communicates on scientific research from the Polar Regions; essential for greater public understanding the Earth, its ecosystems, and the global climate system.

They are the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

They are the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate system — including processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface — to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

During the years to come, his interests remain focused on ice sheet climates and the interactions with the remainder of the global climate system, using fully coupled climate models.

Using computer models of the global climate system, researchers estimated that climate change, if left unadressed, is expected to cause roughly 60,000 additional deaths globally in the year 2030.

Scientific research in the Polar Regions is essential to understanding the Earth, its history, regional ecosystems, and the workings of the global climate system.

Together, these ice sheets offer researchers a comprehensive record of Earth's climate history and play an important role in the future of the global climate system.

He estimates the heat capacity of the global climate system, and uses historical temperature data to estimate the «characteristic timescale» of temperature change.

The rapid growth of large trees means that, relative to their numbers, they could have a disproportionately important role in forest feedbacks to the terrestrial carbon cycle and global climate system.

START was founded in 1992 to respond to the need for stronger involvement of developing countries in conducting regionally based research to better understand the global climate system.

Other indicators such as ocean acidification, increasing deep ocean heat, melting ice and permafrost, shrinking snow pack, and sea level rise further make the case that the additional carbon dioxide is affecting the global climate system.

«The Arctic is home to vibrant communities of indigenous peoples, provides vital marine habitats for iconic wildlife such as beluga whales, walruses, and ice seals found nowhere else in the United States, and plays a critical role in global climate systems,» the letter said.

Global climate models are the scientific community's best tools for understanding the detailed dynamics of the global climate system and the way those dynamics change in response to greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities.

Coccolithophores, single - celled phytoplankton, which plays a vital role in marine biogeochemical cycling, in marine food webs and in the global climate system, has developed a variety of calcareous shells to protect itself against predation and damage.

The tropics play a critical role in the global climate system, in part because they are the origin of weather extremes such as El Niño and the monsoon.

One of WRI four key goals is to protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.