Sentences with phrase «influence local climate»

By altering land cover and land use, BCDR may therefore influence local climate directly, intensifying or counteracting the effects of atmospheric CO2 reduction in site - specific ways (Gibbard et al. 2005).

But the researchers found that in the predawn hours, when the atmosphere is less turbulent, a large windmill array could influence the local climate, raising temperatures by about 2 degrees Celsius for several hours.

Studies show that the shape of street canyons (the length of blocks and the height of buildings relative to street width) strongly influence the local climate.

Lake Victoria is BIG so it influences the local climate in a big way.

Not exact matches

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

«San Francisco has these great local food traditions, that Mediterranean climate, an abundance of produce, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse influencing the restaurants here, the farmers» market,» Connors says.

Fundamental processes and principles that influence climate, at scales ranging from local to regional to global.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

Over the past few years, several US states and local school boards have introduced measures that would mean teachers must include the views of those who are sceptical of a human influence on climate change in science lessons.

The researchers further recommend that, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, conservationists should aim for win - win solutions such as the United Nations program REDD + (an extension of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation programme)-- an initiative that protects forests while also creating benefits for local communities and biodiversity.

Lead author of the research Dr Kelly Redeker from the Department of Biology at the University of York said «As microbial activity and its influence on its local environment has never been taken into account when looking at ice - core gas samples it could provide a moderate source of error in climate history interpretations.

These actions produced models that account for the influence of smaller features than can be resolved in a global climate model and yielded composite climate scenarios suitable for analysis of specific local climate impacts.

It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

The impacts of land use and land management for food production and forestry have been shown to have considerable influence on local and regional climate, particularly for climate extremes.

But this strong local - control state doesn't have many of the state policies tracked by Education Week that influence school climate.

The architecture in the Philippines based its principle on the native Nipa hut of the locals who's architecture corresponds to the tropical climate, stormy season and earthquake prone environment of the whole Archipelago and combined it with the influence of Spanish colonizers and Chinese traders.

See also the Commentary on this article in the same issue: Malaria risk and temperature: Influences from global climate change and local land use practices Jonathan A. Patz *, and Sarah H. Olson.

We already know that the local climate is systematically influenced by many factors, such as latitude, distance from the coast, and altitude.

The site location is representative of the climate of the region, and is not heavily influenced by unique local topographic and mesoscale / microscale features / factors.

To avert negative impact of climate change, accelerated adoption of climate - smart agriculture would be necessary which would require dynamic national policies and investment priorities that will positively influence local institutions and interventions to adapt climate change.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Our results also provide a potential explanation of persistent palaeoclimate results showing solar influence on regional or local climate indicators.»

Since the climate is the average of local weather, and weather is the sum of behavior of the surging gases around us, and mankind moves through and modifies these gases, as does every other animal and plant species, it is certain humanity influences the weather, hence climate.

Local climate in the North Cascades influences mean snowpack depth and ablation rate, but does not cause significantly different responses to annual climate conditions within specific elevation bands.

Humanity does influence local, regional, and even global climate, but not in the ways climate alarmists claim.

These are important as they can provide national level evidence of the linkages between climate and health, improve understanding of local and specific health risks and vulnerabilities, provide the opportunity for capacity building, and serve as a baseline analysis to monitor how health risks may be influenced by a changing climate over time.

Forest loss in hotspots around the world impacts not only local climate where loss occurs, but also influences climate and vegetation in remote parts of the globe through ecoclimate teleconnections.

Thus it's applicable to global climate on timescales that are long compared to the time scales needed to spread the influence of a strong local effect to global dimensions.

Climate, like it or not, requires some binding, global decision - making power with sufficient influence on local and individual decisions.

But many climate experts say that the problems are deep - rooted, and that a clearer picture of the local and global impact of coming climate shifts will emerge only if there is a substantial shuffling of the scientific bureaucracy and permanent support for basic monitoring of climate - influencing factors like the ebb and flow of greenhouse gases.

Changes in climate at the local to regional scale can be influenced by natural variability for multiple decades.28 This can affect the interpretation of climate trends observed regionally across the U.S. (see Appendix 3: Climate Science Supplclimate at the local to regional scale can be influenced by natural variability for multiple decades.28 This can affect the interpretation of climate trends observed regionally across the U.S. (see Appendix 3: Climate Science Supplclimate trends observed regionally across the U.S. (see Appendix 3: Climate Science SupplClimate Science Supplement).

Rabbit Flat and Learmonth are located in the hot climates of the Northern Territory and WA's north - west coast, and are used as a variable in this analysis to examine the influence of local climates at new weather locations on Australia's averaged temperature trends.

The impacts of land use and land management for food production and forestry have been shown to have considerable influence on local and regional climate, particularly for climate extremes.

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For more of the details, see this: Influence of landscape structure on local and regional climate http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/r-107.pdf

Describes global research using vegetation shifts to reconstruct local and regional changes in the landscape due to climate and / or anthropogenic influence.

This leveraged local forcing that produces global climate change is also very strongly influenced by the Jekyll and Hyde geographic nature of the north and south hemispheres.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

There are several other issues like natural variation component, solar components, ecological changes components [that influence local and regional climate], physical impacts on ecological sensitive zones like ice, etc..

Evidence that local land use practices influence regional climate and vegetation patterns in adjacent natural areas.

Further affirmation of the reality of the warming is its spatial distribution, which has largest values at locations remote from any local human influence, with a global pattern consistent with that expected for response to global climate forcings (larger in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere, larger at high latitudes than low latitudes, larger over land than over ocean).

Indeed, Americans» beliefs about climate change seem to be more influenced by their local weather than global trends, according to a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Of course human activity can influence climate at least on a local level, eg urbanisation, deforestation, diversion of rivers, construction of dams etc..

In addition, we find that the price premium is influenced by local climate — a green home is worth more in hotter areas where cooling is more important, and thus energy efficiency is more valuable.