Sentences with phrase «if weather patterns change»

Therefore, if weather patterns change, this could also influence local sea levels.

Not exact matches

If that's true in the Amazon, Saleska says, climate scientists will need to take into account practices like deforestation when predicting regional changes in weather patterns.

If climatologists» warnings are correct, a changing climate could produce more extreme weather patterns, which could then have an effect on opioid overdoses and deaths, said Goetz, who worked with Meri Davlasheridze, assistant professor in marine sciences, Texas A&M at Galveston.

This may differ from region - to - region if weather patterns, ocean currents, etc, change due to GW, but it should hold true in general in a GW world.

The researchers claimed that changing weather patterns would commit up to 37 percent of the world's species to extinction by 2050 — far more than would go extinct if we continued at the current rate of habitat destruction.

This may differ from region - to - region if weather patterns, ocean currents, etc, change due to GW, but it should hold true in general in a GW world.

It doesn't make sense; if global warming means only higher oceans and «only» changed weather patterns, then only life as we know it is threatened, not life iself.

A climate change involves a changing weather pattern, and if one event is part of an emerging new pattern — a trend — then one may with hindsight say that it fits the picture.

The researchers want to know if the whales have enough to eat, especially as El Niño changes weather patterns and could decrease the number of salmon the whales will have to hunt.

... if predictions of climate change prove true, more erratic weather will bring more frequent droughts, with changing weather patterns bringing more rain to some portions of the world while possibly turning others into deserts.

I agree with him on this although one probably has to keep an eye on both of course because if TCR is low but ECS is (very) high, lots of heat goes in the oceans which is relevant for sea level rise and probably for other things (changing weather patterns maybe?).

A lot of what the report covers is familiar, if grim, to people who haven't had their fingers in their ears for the past few years; ocean levels are rising, the water in those oceans is becoming more acidic, weather patterns are changing, we can expect more torrential rains in some locations and drought in others, and on and on.

; what leads you to believe that the physical and biological trends we've seen / measured are likely to reverse within a mere 20 years, especially if / as we enter a solar upswing; how have you accounted for warming - driven methane release; what credible peer reviewed literature on «the other side» are you describing; what supports your confidence that there is little to no probability that the AGW that you do accept will change weather patterns enough to disrupt crop planting / growing / harvesting / production severely (or do you classify famine as a natural phenomenon?)?

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

But Nam - Young Kang, who now directs South Korea's National Typhoon Center, and James Eisner, a geographer at Florida State University, set about a study of weather data and hurricane, cyclone and typhoon records between 1984 and 2012 to see if they could identify a pattern of change.

We would not expect to see any effect on weather or climate other than that the air circulation patterns would be in very slightly differing (but still ever changing) positions than if we had made no difference at all.

If there is a trend I could be convinced otherwise I disagree with Governor Cuomo's comment that «there is a pattern of extreme weather that we've never seen before» — reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that «anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns is probably denying reality.»

First, if you want to convince me that climate change is involved then you have to prove to me that weather patterns have changed.

Shifting weather patterns to accomodate this change would undoubtedly provide warmer summers, if not winters.

Therefor, if we get to the point of understanding that ENSO factors along with atmospheric oscillations are the major metrics and drive all climate change / weather pattern variations, future scenarios are very difficult to determine.

There is still a lot to understand about how the dramatic changes occurring in the Arctic will affect weather patterns further south — in particular, if and how the jetstream might be affected will be vital.

The positive side of the destruction wrought by tropical cyclones in recent years — if one is to be found — is that there is a growing interest in learning more about the connections between weather patterns and climate change.

If they heard about the changing weather patterns affecting agriculture in India and actually cared about the livelihood of farmers there (who rely on steady rains) then would they move faster?

Widespread networks of observers are especially well - suited to detecting global change — shifts in weather patterns; movements in the ranges of species; large - scale transformations of eco-systems — and that, unfortunately, is something we will need to know far more about if we are to mitigate and adapt to the fateful effects we are having on the planet.

On the shorter term, fluctuations occur because a state would not be in equilibrium if it were constant, but the change in external forcing means that with the same climate, the shorter term imbalances would be changed, so the weather patterns even in the shorter term would evolve differently.

Researchers say that smaller creatures tend to be the most resilient to many habitat changes, and that the loss of their larger predators may actually be a boon to them — but this may matter little if changes in weather patterns come about as climatologists have warned.

If anything, the dust storm in Arizona and the attention it brought to climate change and shifting weather patterns has helped to highlight the complexity of our planet, and the many factors that come together to create, or avoid, one giant haboob.

In order to prove otherwise historical weather patterns would have to be evaluated to determine if there was a change over time.

If relatively small changes in CO2 levels have big effects — meaning that we live in a more sensitive climate system — the planet could warm by as much as 6 degrees Celsius on average with attendant results such as changed weather patterns and sea - level rise.

If it is not immediately obvious the «recent research» analysis about the cold weather is trying to make an argument about weather patterns as an indicator of longer - term climate change.

The researchers claimed that changing weather patterns would commit up to 37 percent of the world's species to extinction by 2050 — far more than would go extinct if we continued at the current rate of habitat destruction.

Shifting jetstream patterns, which have a strong influence on weather patterns in western Europe are one important component of a weather system, but only represent a change in climate if there is an apparently permanent shift north or south.