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Reconstructing this spatial variability will help develop a more precise view of how past changes in climate have affected the planet, Briner says, providing a guide for how the current global warming trend may unfold.

Not exact matches

The other, more trustworthy method is to look at how changes in CO2 have affected past climate, from the recent past to millions of years ago.

«If we can get a better understanding of the climate in the past, of the consequences of climate change and of how it shaped communities, then we might be able to interpret the future of biodiversity under the current climate change scenario,» says Guénard.

But in the past several years, such questions have begun to give way to others, such as: How will the world adapt to a changing climate?

In a project focusing on how climate changes in the past affects the evolution of biodiversity, researchers tried to fill this knowledge gaIn a project focusing on how climate changes in the past affects the evolution of biodiversity, researchers tried to fill this knowledge gain the past affects the evolution of biodiversity, researchers tried to fill this knowledge gap.

Eight newfound Martian cliffs made up of layers of ice could tell us how the Red Planet's climate has changed in the past several million years

Armed with new maps and data sets produced in the past six months about how climate change could play out on the ground with infrastructure, local government officials in southeast Florida are starting to ask some tough questions: Will some roads have to be elevated or deemed unusable?

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.

By studying the chemistry of growth rings in the shells of the quahog clam, an international team led by experts from Cardiff University and Bangor University have pieced together the history of the North Atlantic Ocean over the past 1000 years and discovered how its role in driving the atmospheric climate has drastically changed.

Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.

Understanding exactly how such a social transformation occurred in the past may prove key to understanding how individuals might alter their behavior to help combat climate change in the future.

Repairing the climate could be that simple, or at least that is what climate scientist Wallace Broecker and science writer Robert Kunzig propose in Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,climate could be that simple, or at least that is what climate scientist Wallace Broecker and science writer Robert Kunzig propose in Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,climate scientist Wallace Broecker and science writer Robert Kunzig propose in Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang,Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It (Hill and Wang, $ 25).

Bandicoot fossils are important for understanding how Australia's unique biodiversity has reacted to climate change in the past.

In their study of how forests in Central Europe might adjust to climate change, Vitali and Bauhus studied the past growth of more than 800 trees at different altitudes in the Black ForesIn their study of how forests in Central Europe might adjust to climate change, Vitali and Bauhus studied the past growth of more than 800 trees at different altitudes in the Black Foresin Central Europe might adjust to climate change, Vitali and Bauhus studied the past growth of more than 800 trees at different altitudes in the Black Foresin the Black Forest.

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

But one thing hasn't changed: She's still studying climate, only this time through the lens of anthropology, looking at how climate shifts of the past influenced politics in ancient Mayan civilizations.

«To predict how climate change will impact the future, it's important to know what has happened in the past,» said Joshua Feinberg, a University of Minnesota associate professor of Earth Sciences and associate director of the Institute for Rock Magnetism, who supervised the research.

But the questionnaire, which asks for averages based on weather conditions over the past 10 years, does not require cities to anticipate how climate may change in the seven to eight years between bidding and hosting the games.

«Some fungal outbreaks over the past couple of decades, such as Dothistroma needle blight, could likely have been anticipated by tracking how temperature and precipitation were changing together,» said Mahony, who has worked as a forester in British Columbia for 10 years and has witnessed the impacts of climate change on the ground.

By studying the past climate, scientists can understand better how temperature responds to changes in greenhouse - gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

«How the climate has been changing over the past few decades of anthropogenic influence really has manifest itself quite well» in these studies, O'Neel said.

«The new work improves our understanding of history, allowing better model tests and allowing better assessment of how the ice responded to climate changes in the past,» Alley said, «and this will help in making better and more - reliable projections for the future.»

«We want to know if species will be able to adapt to climate change quickly enough based on how they adapted to climate change in the past,» says evolutionary ecologist John Wiens, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new study.

The researchers examined various reconstructions of past temperatures and CO2 levels to determine how the climate system has responded to previous changes in its energy balance.

In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model predictions of past El Niño changes against actual records of past ENSO activity.

Stott plans to investigate how ocean warming led to a CO2 rise in the past, research that could also have implications for present climate change.

Indeed, the main quandary faced by climate scientists is how to estimate climate sensitivity from the Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period, at all, given the relative small forcings over the past 1000 years, and the substantial uncertainties in both the forcings and the temperature changes.

If we can understand how reptiles responded to climate change in the past, we can better predict how climate change will affect reptiles now.

«Also, we feel that if we can understand how fish coped with low - oxygen, high CO2, acidic waters in the past, it will give us some insight into how they might cope with man - made climate change which appears to be giving rise to such conditions again,» Dr Rummer says.

Folk and coauthors built a new set of computational tools to infer how past climate change would have created new plant communities in the past where hybridization was possible.

A missing link in the story of how the fishes triumphed over toxic oceans and past climate changes has been revealed by an international team of scientists.

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In addition to exploring how the past climate has changed and its effects on Montana, the MCA explored how future projected climate change would also affect water, forests, and agriculture across the state.

Our framework links innovative approaches for (1) generating high - resolution, probabilistic projection of future climate and sea - level changes and (2) empirically identifying robust statistical relationships characterizing how humans have responded to past climate variability and past climate change, in order to (3) project how humans may respond to uncertain future changes.

Set in a futuristic world, the game will address climate change and feature newer technology, as well as a vault where players can discover how past events shaped the existing universe.

Presenting strong symbols of civilizations through visual and written material, the works in the exhibition investigate the rituals of our daily life through the figurative meaning of an artefact and question, in the current climate of constant change, what should be conserved from the past for future archaeologists and how does this influence our historiography.

I have posted on RealClimate about 4 times in the past 5 years regarding the potential thaw of the methal hydrate deposits at the bottom of the oceans.I stated in my posts on your website that I believe firmly that those deposits are in quite a good bit of danger of melting from climate change feedback mechanisms.On Nov 8th, ScienceDaily posted a huge new study on the PETM boundary 55 million years ago, and some key data on how the methane at that point may very well have melted and contributed to the massive climate shift.I am an amateur who reads in the new a lot about climate change.I'd now like to say «I told you so!!!»

In fact, these past climate changes allow us to learn how sensitive the earth's climate system is to the known radiative forcing that we are producing by increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmospherIn fact, these past climate changes allow us to learn how sensitive the earth's climate system is to the known radiative forcing that we are producing by increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmospherin the atmosphere.

Carbon Brief has posted an excellent piece by Roz Pidcock putting the new Nature Climate Change paper in broader context: «Beneath the waves: How the deep oceans have continued to warm over the past decade.»

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureClimate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measureclimate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Around the 13th minute in the recording, we shift to discussing how studies of past climate help build understanding of human - driven climate change and the built - in variability in the climate system that can occasionally produce extraordinarily potent droughts and floods.

``... estimates of future rises remain hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack of data on what ice sheets did in the past to predict how they will react to warming, insufficient long - term satellite data to unpick the effects of natural climate change from that caused by man and a spottiness in the degree to which places such as Antarctica have warmed....

Indeed, the main quandary faced by climate scientists is how to estimate climate sensitivity from the Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period, at all, given the relative small forcings over the past 1000 years, and the substantial uncertainties in both the forcings and the temperature changes.

The director of the program, Anthony Leiserowitz, was explaining how President Obama's focus on climate change in the past couple of years likely helped move global warming up a notch in public concern.

I would like to read a book about how the rate and degree of warming expected to take place over the next couple centuries compares with global warming episodes in Earth's past, and how today's plants and animals might not survive climate change and heat waves more severe than experienced during the climates in which their species evolved.

Their findings have stirred a lot of skepticism in the community of specialists examining ancient records of past climate changes and how they might relate to variations in Earth's orbit and orientation toward the Sun and other factors.

Climate models, run on powerful computers which use decades of past and present climate data to simulate how climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate Climate models, run on powerful computers which use decades of past and present climate data to simulate how climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate climate data to simulate how climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate climate change.

«It is interesting to consider how rapid climate change may have impacted past societies, particularly in light of the rapid changes taking place today.»

This past summer, a disconcerting new scientific study by the climate scientist Michiel Schaeffer and colleagues — published in the journal Nature Climate Change — suggested that no matter how quickly we cut this pollution, we are unlikely to keep the seas from climbing less than fivclimate scientist Michiel Schaeffer and colleagues — published in the journal Nature Climate Change — suggested that no matter how quickly we cut this pollution, we are unlikely to keep the seas from climbing less than fivClimate Change — suggested that no matter how quickly we cut this pollution, we are unlikely to keep the seas from climbing less than five feet.

With climate change already impacting various parts of the world, scientists have started looking into Earth's past in order to better predict how it will affect our future.