Sentences with phrase «in normal climate»

He emphasizes ythat the chief concern about global warming is not the increase in temperatures but the resultant disruption in normal climate, that in turn leads to damaging events.

In a normal climate the probability for extreme events can be visualized like a traditional bell curve.

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That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

I live in a cooler climate (Western Maryland in the Applachian mountains growing zone 5) where summer temps rarely makes it to 90 degrees - 80's is the normal highs during the summer.

Even normal rain won't end California drought, expert says: California will likely remain in a drought this winter even if most areas receive normal rainfall, according to an expert from the federal Climate Prediction Center...

We don't have a clothes dryer and live in a colder climate which this past year has been wetter than normal.

Cuomo, who has had to cope with the aftermath of two major storms in his two years in office — Irene in 2011, and now Sandy — says the state could be better prepared for climate change that the governor believes could be the new normal.

While many in the GOP dispute whether climate change is even happening, Chris Gibson of New York's 19th district says too - frequent damaging storms in his district are enough evidence that we've entered a «new normal.»

Water quality in the Schoharie Valley and the Catskill Watershed has captured the attention of environmentalists and government officials who have joined forces to develop procedures and policies for dealing with «the new normal» climate change seems to have cast across upstate New York.

This means that the ratio between the extremes in the climate over different time periods behaves like the ratio between the more normal ratios of different timescales,» explains Peter Ditlevsen

Every decade, in accordance with international agreements, the National Climate Data Center releases new temperature and rain and snowfall normals for 10,000 regions across the country.

Deutsch's latest research is untangling how much oxygen loss is linked to climate change and how much is due to normal variation in oxygen levels.

Because of globalization and interdependence, the relationship between climate change, migration and security should become the «new normal» in international policy conversations, the panel said.

The influence of climate change was evident in areas with either extreme incidents of oxygen depletion or longer - than - normal trends of low oxygen levels.

«One concern is that there is no sign of a switch to El Niño, and thus little prospect of compensation through above - normal rains in October through to November,» says Dan Williams from the UK Met Office, who added that it was not possible — yet — to say if this drought is a result of climate change.

«Of course, weather is naturally chaotic, and extremes are a normal part of our highly variable UK climate, but globally there has recently been an increase in the incidence of high temperature and heavy precipitation extremes.

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

Finney believes that changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.

Does that mean the change we're seeing now is normal, or is the climate behaving in new ways because of human influence?

«Going out to 40 or 50 years, basically the summer we just had will be normal,» says Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick at the Climate Change Research Centre of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

Four tanks had a «normal» Dutch climate, and in four other tanks the average temperature was 4 degrees Celsius higher.

«Aardvarks» fate points to worrying consequences for wildlife, due to climate change: Hot, dry conditions that are expected to become the new normal in this elusive African mammal's habitat, my prove disastrous..»

«The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,» David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.

Indeed, many climate scientists caution that extreme weather events resulting from climate change is the new normal for farmers in North America and elsewhere, requiring novel agricultural strategies to prevent crop losses.

He believes that changes in ocean circulation have warmed the Atlantic and increased hurricane activity in the past decade and that this is simply the result of normal oscillation in natural climate cycles.

The tracking revealed «a climate system still in transition in 2017,» as surface ocean conditions return to near normal.

The team used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in sea surface temperatures and sea ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

«But if we reduce emissions drastically to the lowest pathway recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (RCP2.8), then we will never enter a new normal state for extreme seasons at a regional level in the 21st Century.»

For NOAA's Climate Prediction Center to make that declaration, the sea - surface temperature in an eastern - central segment of the ocean called the Nino 3.4 must be 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) above normal for at least a month — and be forecasted to last that way for at least three months.

He has repeatedly claimed that this constitutes a peer - reviewed scientific publication about climate change, but the fact is that society newsletters are not typically «peer - reviewed» in any normal sense, and the newsletter editor appended a notice on Monckton's article saying it was not peer - reviewed.

The phrase the «new normal» is one that climate scientists have used to describe what will happen in the future.

A research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Beijing Normal University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that increases in air pollution's tiny particles in the atmosphere have a strong influence on cloud development, which affects weather and climate.

John Allen, an associate research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, who, with colleagues, came out with the first seasonal tornado forecast last year, expects a below - normal number of tornadoes in the south central U.S.

Climate conditions favor warm water growth — as measured by sea surface temperature (SST)-- later in the year, suggesting that normal climate conditions effectively nipped the nascent El Niño in tClimate conditions favor warm water growth — as measured by sea surface temperature (SST)-- later in the year, suggesting that normal climate conditions effectively nipped the nascent El Niño in tclimate conditions effectively nipped the nascent El Niño in the bud.

Above - and below - normal temperature and precipitation years associated with natural climate oscillations may determine whether growing seasons lengthen, contract, or shift in time.

More climate stories ripped out of the back pages of the news: NASA says the record low Arctic sea ice levels in the last few years are the new normal.

El Niño is a Pacific - driven climate pattern that features warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropics of that ocean basin.

La Niña is the opposite end of the natural climate seesaw from El Niño; it is characterized by cooler - than - normal ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, while El Niño features warmer - than - normal.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science by a team of by researchers at the University of Utah and Princeton University, shows that the world's forests take an average of between two and four years to return to their normal growth and carbon dioxide absorption rate following a severe drought — a finding that has significant climate implications.

Bell said that he and his office, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, have been fielding questions about the August lull in Atlantic hurricanes and whether it would cause his forecast team to soften its May and August outlooks, which concluded that the 2013 season had a 70 percent chance of being more active than normal.

Another study, from Geophysical Research Letters in April of 2017, questioned what is taken to be normal climate patterns in the North Pacific, derived from instrument data beginning in the 1950s.

Normal to extra dry skin types — this serum is year - round TLC for dehydrated skin (and especially comforting in colder climates).

In a normal cinematic climate, this wouldn't be a novelty, but sci - fi action has so degenerated in recent years that to see one that's not a succession of undifferentiated explosions feels almost nostalgic, like a throwback to the 1990s (think «Jurassic Park»In a normal cinematic climate, this wouldn't be a novelty, but sci - fi action has so degenerated in recent years that to see one that's not a succession of undifferentiated explosions feels almost nostalgic, like a throwback to the 1990s (think «Jurassic Park»in recent years that to see one that's not a succession of undifferentiated explosions feels almost nostalgic, like a throwback to the 1990s (think «Jurassic Park»).

Teachers who manage to transcend the normal student - teacher relationships can benefit everyone in school — particularly the «challenging» students — and, along the way, prevent school violence, support school safety, improve school climate, and promote learning.

The Hybrid A / C mode favors more fuel efficient performance by limiting the draw on the hybrid powertrain, while the normal mode provides maximum passenger comfort in hot climates and enhances defogging performance.

The climate control setting felt fine, but in areas with temperatures above 100 degrees you would probably want to use the car's Normal setting, which runs air conditioning at higher power.

Coming from a colder climate, I put it in 4 wheel high and drove it like a normal winter day from my home state while everyone was stuck inside.

Apart from the normal climate control etc, that most high - end cars offer, the S650 energises the driver in monotonous driving situations i.e it produces targeted well - being atmosphere.