Sentences with phrase «if climate change affects»

It is unclear if climate change itself affects the frequency of La Ninas.

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Only if there is a serious attempt, with all countries of the world taking part to fight climate change, will there be a big enough drop in oil consumption to really affect price.

If those facilities and activities are affecting climate change and in a manner that requires action, it is for those regulators to act or, more broadly, for Parliament to act.

Fine if you want to do it, but I wish y» all could keep it to yourselves and knock off the «Climate Change is a Hoax», «Gay is a Choice, and a Sin», «Condoms are Evil», «Government is the Devil», «America is a Christian Nation» nonsense that affects the rest of our daily lives.

Even if by some stroke of luck climate change doesn't affect us during our lifetime (wishful thinking), I would hate to leave this huge burden and mess for our children to clean up.

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

«New framework sheds light on how, not if, climate change affects cold - blooded animals.»

He is an idealist and has repeatedly warned that if there is more destruction in the eastern Amazon, changes in evapo - transpiration could affect the Gulf Stream, and the world's climate.

To investigate if this would affect social recognition in fish, schools were kept under elevated levels of carbon dioxide, similar to those projected for 2100 by models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

For that matter, even if the AO is part of the Arctic climate change, one has to face the possibility that changes in GHG are affecting the AO, a point made by Palmer and Molteni.

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

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

Assuming that changes in the flux of GCRs do affect weather and / or climate — and as far as I can tell, there's little if any evidence that it does — you still have the problem of explaining why & how changes in the flux can have affected the climate for the last 50 years or so when the flux hasn't changed in that period.

I believe the ongoing climate change affects the «smoothness» of the weather and I'm not sure which, if any, of the existing indicators measure smoothness.

What we have here is a situation in which MM05 attempts to make a point to discredit climate warming which — even if they were correct — would not affect the indicated existence of human forcing of climate via GHG emissions / land use changes occurring now.

The two threads of evidence together — from data and from computer models — suggest that climate change is affecting El Niño, rather than a natural variation in El Niño causing trends that may appear as if they are the result of man - made climate change.

For that matter, even if the AO is part of the Arctic climate change, one has to face the possibility that changes in GHG are affecting the AO, a point made by Palmer and Molteni.

Given than attitudes to climate change are often held as part of a political identity, we can not be surprised if people in a politically left leaning area (and much of the affected area is strongly Democrat) are prepared to ascribe extreme weather events to climate change.

If you care about this heated, consequential question, I encourage you to read Annan's full post, which includes a section on a kind of tribalism that takes hold in situations like this and that, he says, could affect the conclusions of the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on the basics of greenhouse heating.

IF malaria were the single disease affected by climate change, these findings may have climate change policy relevance.

And, on the heels of a recent report about the global droughts to be expected due to climate change — one can only wonder if such scenes will become more common elsewhere.Throughout the affected state of Amazonia, rivers provide the only means of access to the outside world for families residing in the regions around the capital of Manaus.

I think that Jeff Trapp (at Purdue) has done some studies showing how vertical shear and buoyant energy (CAPE) may vary in the future based on climate models, but even if the climate models were correct, we simply don't know how the change in the environment would affect tornado intensity.

[Response: If you want to claim that ENSO has been noticeably affected by climate change, I'd like to see the evidence.

If people want to worry about humans affecting the climate they were supposed to address the change we are doing to the landscapes like reducing the infiltration rate of runoff by pavements, clear cutting forest to raise cattle or grow crops, diverting waterways or making dams, etc..

«If you want to claim that ENSO has been noticeably affected by climate change, I'd like to see the evidence.

In fact, on some levels it's not really about the climate at all, because if the climate just changed and that didn't affect people, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

It is also borderline delusional, if Walker believes that ExxonMobil's statements or non-statements about climate change during the period 1997 to 2007 appreciably affected consumer propensity to stop at a Mobil station, rather than tootling down the road to Shell or Chevron, or giving up their car in favor of walking to work.

If and when climate change becomes a known problem that we can affect, I have confidence we will come up with some mitigating solutions.

You may be getting tired of my stories on climate change and food, but I think this is a critical topic already significantly affecting the lives of tens of millions of people (or more) that will become increasingly important in the years to come (if we don't do something to address climate change NOW).

It's as startlingly clear look at how climate change is already affecting us, and what's likely to happen in the future if warming isn't significantly mitigated.

If researchers are interested in a link between Sandy's storm track and climate change, then a better question to ask would be «have Greenland blocking events been affected by rising CO2 and climate change?»

Climate - deniers use this to try to knock down evidence of how climate change will affect polar bears and sea ice, since they believe if they can disprove one tiny aspect of climate change, it will result in a domino Climate - deniers use this to try to knock down evidence of how climate change will affect polar bears and sea ice, since they believe if they can disprove one tiny aspect of climate change, it will result in a domino climate change will affect polar bears and sea ice, since they believe if they can disprove one tiny aspect of climate change, it will result in a domino climate change, it will result in a domino effect.

If the public knew the extent of evidence on all the ways climate change is affecting the Earth, Harvey said, «then maybe they would be more convinced.»

If you were to ask bloggers here at Novas if man affects (changes) the climate, 97 % would say yeIf you were to ask bloggers here at Novas if man affects (changes) the climate, 97 % would say yeif man affects (changes) the climate, 97 % would say yes.

If you do not understand how the climate works you can't evaluate how changes that might affect it work.

If people don't already think that climate change will affect them and their family, how do you persuade them they should care?

But it is difficult to tell to what extent, if any, climate change has also already affected past disaster losses around the world.

This means that even if the IPCC was found to be run by a small group of mentally - challenged llamas, this wouldn't affect the science on human - caused climate change.

74 % of people would take immediate action to change their lifestyle now if they knew that climate change would affect their children's lives 52 % of people believe that their actions as an individual can help stop the effects of climate change Only a quarter (26 %) believe that climate change is already impacting on the UK Respondents cited flooding as one of the most common effects of climate change that will happen in the UK (69 %)

Scientific studies show there is little if any linkage between hurricane frequency and severity with CO2 in the atmosphere, but an objective, common - sense, easy to understand analysis of hurricanes over the past 110 years, also demonstrates that climate change is not affecting the number or severity of hurricanes.

There will always be changes that affect our climate, even if we close down all thermal - fired power stations, steel mills and other manufacturing operations, putting employees out of work and drastically changing our way of life.

By picking one specific area of only one of the spheres (surface temperatures), while it might be one piece of interesting information and it certainly it is quite true that surface temperatures have been flat at or near record high levels, focusing on this fact alone and the fact that climate models failed to have forecast it, does very little overall good if the goal is to educate the public about the bigger picture, i.e. anthropogenic climate change as an energy imbalance affecting the whole Earth energy system, including all the spheres discussed above.

«Climate change is already affecting everyone, even if they don't realize it, and this is a perfect opportunity to communicate the science.»

If you don't know these things (and I confess a few scientists who quasi study this issue and generally support the consensus position that we are affecting the climate and our past and present actions present significat risk of major future shifts don't fully) then you don't really know this issue — because it goes to what Climate Change actually is, and why it presents the range of future shift that iclimate and our past and present actions present significat risk of major future shifts don't fully) then you don't really know this issue — because it goes to what Climate Change actually is, and why it presents the range of future shift that iClimate Change actually is, and why it presents the range of future shift that it does.

If you mean that: The first proposition, that the sun affects magnetic field of the earth, is foolish, absurd, false and deviating because it is expressly contrary to rule of science... and the second proposition, that the earth climate change is caused by the sun, is absurd, false in philosophy, and, from a our point of view at least, opposed to the true science.

In regards to those climate change proponents, people who believe everyday humans exhaling causes long term detrimental affects to the earth, I say are pathetic in that they don't let everyday humans decide for themselves if it's true.

This new study suggests that stable effective governance, sustained economic growth and reduced population growth are essential if conflict and forced displacement of people are to be reduced in Africa, which will be severally affected by climate change.

Scientists don't have good enough long - term observational records of tornadoes to tell, if climate change is affecting tornadoes, and climate models don't shed any light on the issue, either.

Therefore, any increase in losses could, more likely than not, be partly related to anthropogenic climate change... we advance the premise that if losses are affected by natural climate fluctuations, they are also likely to be affected by additional global warming due to anthropogenic climate change.

The basic point and the one relevant to climate change, is still relevant — oceans still have an enormous moderating effect on temperature over time (though if there is a huge increase or decrease in re radiated atmospheric heat it is going to then affect the oceans initially).