Sentences with phrase «global weather patterns»

This does not sound like much but that all it takes to make significant changes in global weather patterns over time.

These problems range from the disruption of global weather patterns and a global rise in sea level to adverse impacts on human health, agriculture, and animal and plant populations.

Scientists just now are starting to understand how these phenomena affect global weather patterns.

In just a few million years from now, entire continents and oceans can be destroyed or created new, changing the flow of air and ocean currents and altering global weather patterns.

Meanwhile the continuing use of fossil fuels has caused changes in global weather patterns.

You can't change weather patterns over one region without affecting global weather patterns.

(6/3/2007) The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate.

During La Niña, cooler - than - average Pacific Ocean temperatures influence global weather patterns

That much warming could raise sea levels several feet, flooding the world's coastlines and shifting global weather patterns in ways that could cause massive recurring crop failures.

In association with El Niño, the heat redistribution in the ocean creates a major reorganization of atmospheric convection, severely disrupting global weather patterns from Australia to India and from South Africa to Brazil.

In the Arctic, that melts sea ice, thaws permafrost and disrupts global weather patterns.

Changes in global weather patterns As ocean heats up, hurricanes & typhoons will become more common Cause changes in ocean currents, which cause changes in weather.

While following climate change news for the past year, I have marveled at the lack of attention given scientific specialties outside of «climate science», despite the fact the foci of those studies could significantly impact global weather patterns.

Their model centers on the relationship between two well - known global weather patterns: the Madden - Julian Oscillation and the quasi-biennial oscillation.

As Cobb explained, the tropical Pacific, through phenomena like El Niño, plays a very large role in precipitation and global weather patterns like monsoons today.

Changes in global weather patterns Human health problems Agricultural impacts Changes in plant & animal behavior Rising sea levels

Admittedly, that was before a science qualification was required, but nonetheless I have been a weather and climate enthusiast for over 60 years and have observed the differing global weather patterns across three so called «climate regimes».

At first, all I was pointing out was my observation of a change in global weather patterns around 2000 from a warming mode back to those more like the cooling mode of the 60's and 70's.

4) A change in global weather patterns which I noticed as long ago as 2000 whereby the jet streams moved back towards the equator from the positions they adopted during the warming spell.

The first program predicted global weather patterns from 2050 to 2054.

During the positive phase, El Niño is the dominant global weather pattern, and during the negative phase, La Niña is dominant.

But he said further warming from rising levels of these gases could further stir El Niño and La Niña, and thus global weather patterns.

Climate News Network: El Niño, the mysterious meteorological phenomenon that periodically upsets global weather patterns, bringing catastrophic flooding to the arid lands of North and South America, and forest fires to South - east Asia, turns out to be more complicated than anyone had thought.

Starting from two distant and distinctive perspectives, precise and well defined solar system organization, and the nearly chaotic global weather patterns, intend to interweave a path of cause - consequence via loose correlations, to prove a cohesion between two.

She also highlighted these regions» impact on global weather patterns.

Proponents of NASA's Earth - studies programs said the space agency has contributed a great deal to scientists» understanding of global weather patterns and trends, including the effects of climate change on the environment.

That ice loss is shifting global weather patterns, making the Arctic ocean more acidic and threatening Arctic wildlife and communities, he said.

The other major stretch of tropical forest, in southeast Asia, is understood to be less significant to global weather patterns as it is surrounded by oceans.

El Niño is a warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific that influences global weather patterns.

Changes in the Arctic are also impacting other parts of the world as melting glaciers contribute to global sea - level rise and warming temperatures in the Arctic latitudes affect global weather patterns.

Those changes distort the airflow aloft five to 10 miles above thousands of square miles of the Earth's surface, causing a ripple effect that typically causes major shifts in global weather patterns.

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

This has created a broader understanding of what causes climatic shifts and a greater appreciation for the ocean's role in global weather patterns.

The experiment will run until early 2017 and help climate modelers determine how warming at Earth's poles could change global weather patterns.

A chapter of the study, led by Professor Grant Bigg and Professor Edward Hanna from the University of Sheffield's Department of Geography, has revealed how this increase in sea temperatures has changed global weather patterns.

It remains unclear, however, whether the effects of sulphur on global weather patterns can be predicted or controlled.

These high - resolution images — 2,000 x 2,000 pixels - document Earth's global weather patterns and other climate - related phenomena.

Through a project called KnowGlobe, they regularly talk with students on other continents, learning in the process about time zones, cultural differences, global weather patterns, and the state of education worldwide.

However, changes in global weather patterns have uprooted these trends in recent years, making the weather more difficult to predict.

There, one of the main drivers of global weather patterns --- the El Nino / La Nina cycle - shows itself in pulses of warmer (El Nino) and cooler (La Nina) sea - waters.

The latest assessments remain bleak, even with the chance that a change in global weather patterns — which many scientists say is long overdue — could bring rain and snow to Afghanistan this winter.

«At the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, the ice sheet went through a period of rapid, sustained ice loss when changes in global weather patterns and rising sea levels pushed warm water closer to the ice sheet — just as is happening today,» NASA said.

Just a few degrees can mean large changes in global weather patterns and subsequently the global climate.

He argued that cloud formation was a much better predictor of temperature, and that random cloud generation — dictated by the chaos of global weather patterns, not by greenhouse - gas emissions — is what really drives changes in temperature.

There is a huge influence of the Arctic on global weather patterns.

La Niñas change global weather patterns and are associated with less moisture in the air, resulting in less rain along the coasts of North and South America.

At the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, the ice sheet went through a period of rapid, sustained ice loss when changes in global weather patterns and rising sea levels pushed warm water closer to the ice sheet — just as is happening today.