Sentences with phrase «in climate patterns»

This trend, combined with the expectation of some events becoming more extreme because of changes in climate patterns, challenges the human capacity to adapt.

Such a dramatic shift in a climate pattern would constitute what climate scientists call a tipping point: a sudden shift from one predictable pattern of weather to another.

A growing number of scientists have predicted that, if present trends continue, there will be significant alterations in climate patterns from the beginning of the twenty - first century onward.

The beginning and end of a glacial period are clearly times of global climate change, but there are also periods of abrupt change in climate patterns within those periods.

A human forced change in climate patterns is neither widely discussed, accepted, nor understood on the islands where people are far removed from the lifestyles causing global warming and sea level rise.

Also, it may be that a change in the air currents caused by global warming represents a fundamental yet poorly understood shift in climate patterns.

This website is dedicated to exploring oxygen's involvement in climate patterns associated with Earth's wandering magnetic poles.

The dominant, though subtle, change in the climate pattern of Antarctica has been a gradual increase in the westerly circumpolar winds.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

The worrying point is that including a rough estimate of permafrost - methane based forcing, what we'll get until 2100 is pretty close already to being the largest fluctuation in climate patterns ever since the start of human civilization, i.e. it will probably be outside everything we take for granted and the basic «natural laws» (which they are not, obviously) that every civilization on earth was based on.

Willie Soon the astrophysicist from Harvard has done some research where he finds a solar signature in climate patterns over the last century or two (nothing original there) but further, he finds a correlation between temporal patterns of solar input at the Arctic and high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, and tropical Atlantic ocean heat and SST patterns a decade or so later.

The atmospheric buildup of long - lived greenhouse gases is setting in motion centuries of shifts in climate patterns, coastlines, water resources and ecosystems, he said — hardly a transformation one would describe with a gentle word like warming.

«But early indications from one area in Nepal clearly show people are fully aware of changes in climate patterns.»

Forests play a critical role in mitigating climate change because they act as a carbon sink — soaking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise be free in the atmosphere and contribute to ongoing changes in climate patterns.

A host of surveys show that most Americans remain doubtful, disengaged, or confused about the basic science pointing to centuries - long changes in climate patterns and coastlines if greenhouse gas emissions from burning fuels and forests are not reduced.

Because the shift in pore water chemistry that doubled methane production zones happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, the researchers warn that peatlands may be even more sensitive to changes in climate patterns than was originally thought.

We present an integrated modeling study designed to investigate changes in ecosystem level phenology over Europe associated with changes in climate pattern, by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

Claim: «[in] ability to adapt to changes in climate patterns» is causing losses in third world countries

Abstract: Loss and damage is already a significant consequence of inadequate ability to adapt to changes in climate patterns.

Three of the five scientists affirmed that changes in climate patterns are driven by natural cycles and are not impacted by humans.

What we're seeing is changes in climate patterns that are on the more pessimistic end of what was possible — the ranges that had been discerned or anticipated by our scientists — which means we're really in a race against time.

Both are observed fluctuations in mid-ocean temperatures in the Pacific that are the signal for changes in the climate pattern: both are natural, both occur as part of a cycle, and both can be traced back through human history.

Impacts: Half of all Haitians work in agriculture, which is becoming increasingly unstable with changes in climate patterns.

Changes in climate patterns may alter the synchronization of bird migrations, such as the arrival of Red Knots on traditional feeding grounds on the Delaware Bay.