Sentences with phrase «how planetary climate»

This post is, like the majority of posts on RealClimate, not about «views what should be done», but analysis of how the planetary climate system works and what consequences we can expect from our collective actions.

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The section of the «Impossible is a Dare» chapter that proves we already know how to turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

Dr Nathan Mayne, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «This research is not only important in developing our understanding of this exotic class of planets, but also represents the first steps to building a deeper understanding of how planetary atmospheres and climates work across a range of conditions, including those more conducive to life.

Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study how water vapour and sea salt thrown up from an impact will affect ozone levels for years after the event.

«The tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system has been called a sleeping dragon because of how it can influence climate elsewhere,» said lead author Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in the departments of Earth, planetary and space sciences, and atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

The Coming «Instant Planetary Emergency» How will climate change affect the future of the planet?

Forget climate change, has anyone even consider a back of the envelope calculation on how much longer the planetary auto - catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons can occur?

Now it's time to try and make sense of what actually happened, who did what, and how the results will shape our troubled relationship with the planetary climate.

As Andy heads abroad for a conference on «planetary emergencies», I'll be bringing you occasional updates from the consumptive heart of the nation's desert West, Las Vegas, where clean energy prophets and political luminaries are gathered to discuss how the imperatives of climate change, fossil fuel scarcity and national security ought to reshape our energy future.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

But climate change is a planetary problem, and it's not easy to capture its dynamics in one photograph, no matter how wide - angle the lens.

Your spurious sarcasm language aside the increase in knowledge about climate science over the last 25 years has been truly impressive (for example our understanding of how the increased heat retention gets moved around the planetary system).

Listening to Navarro Llanos describe Bolivia's perspective, I began to understand how climate change — if treated as a true planetary emergency akin to those rising flood waters — could become a galvanizing force for humanity, leaving us all not just safer from extreme weather, but with societies that are safer and fairer in all kinds of other ways as well.

Then I explained how I read in 1999 my first book on climate change, Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose by the late Dr. Stephen Schneider of Stanford University.

Thus the two types of energy exchange are governed by different rules and it is the failure to realise how the two sets of rules interact within a planetary atmosphere that has caused climate science to get bogged down in a conceptual impasse.

The same is true of «we're just recovering from the LIA» and «It's planetary cycles» hypotheses — each fails to explain critical components of how the Earth's climate is changing.

The first, in September covered how we are influencing planetary climate processes.

If you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that it is «virtually certain» that human activities, primarily the increase in CO2 concentrations, is altering the climate in a measurable way, then there's no other conclusion possible: you are a scientifically illiterate moron, with absolutely no concept of how even the simplest model of a planetary atmosphere works.

Professor Solomon Hsiang and colleagues described in the journal Nature in 2011 how they had investigated whether anything linked «planetary - scale climate changes with global patterns of civil conflict».

I think we have all heard enough about this subject but I've got to deal with it first before I go on to explain how misleading I believe the concept to have been ever since it was first used in connection with planetary climates.

This is how we can calibrate past climate indices and the potential planetary relationships have tantalisingly close correspondences and offer potentially strong predictive power if we can crack the code.

-- John Rowley, founder / editor www.peopleandplanet.net «Lester Brown has produced another «planetary survey» book that tells us how to get off the wrecking train we are on by courtesy of a dozen environmental assaults such as climate change.

«Lester Brown has produced another «planetary survey» book that tells us how to get off the wrecking train we are on by courtesy of a dozen environmental assaults such as climate change.

The head of The Planetary Society and former Boeing engineer released a new book last month called Unstoppable, which outlines how the current generation of young people — dubbed the «Next Great Generation» — can use science to curb climate change within their lifetime.

The report — Europe's Share of the Climate Challenge: Domestic Actions and International Obligations to Protect the Planet — takes a close look at Europe, showing exactly how it can show leadership in keeping global climate change within the necessary planetary Climate Challenge: Domestic Actions and International Obligations to Protect the Planet — takes a close look at Europe, showing exactly how it can show leadership in keeping global climate change within the necessary planetary climate change within the necessary planetary limits.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.