So, in effect, to pin down the role of human
influence on climate in 2013, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.
Monday 27th February, 18.30 - 20.00 Room 1.07 Western Gateway Building Western Road, UCC, Cork Tickets free Eventbrite Professor Allen will explore the role of human
influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.
Hansen ridiculed the idea of a solar
influence on climate in his talk before the Houston Geological Society (sorry I can not find the link for this).
Most of the action in Mexico won't be related to the dominant factor determining the human
influence on climate in this century and far beyond — carbon dioxide.
Monday 27th February, 18.30 - 20.00 Room 1.07 Western Gateway Building Western Road, UCC, Cork Tickets free Eventbrite Professor Allen will explore the role of human
influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.
Professor Allen will explore the role of human
influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.
Not exact matches
Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable
influence in a global conversation
on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to
climate change.
Instead, scientists will need months to complete
in - depth «attribution studies» to tease out
climate change's
influence on these storms.
APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus
on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise
in offering solutions to Asia's
climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global
influence.
The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad
in any given political
climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend
on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can
influence public opinion.
And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people
in the UK who welcome being
in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely,
influence EU foreign policy and
climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island
on the edge of the continent, with no
influence in Europe let alone the wider world.
Over the past two decades,
in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role
in shaping the
climate change regime,
on the one hand by
influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and,
on the other, by building large coalitions
in support of its views.
The findings, published
on Jan. 26
in Nature Communications, are important because the detailed look into Earth's past
climate and the factors that
influenced it could help scientists understand how these same factors may
influence our
climate today and
in the future.
Businesses can
influence government action
on climate in many ways — as long as they start by building their own environmental credibility
Environmental factors like rainfall and temperature
influence the ratios of male - to - female caiman hatchlings, making the gender balance dependent
on shifts
in climate.
The Earth's axis fluctuates between having a tilt of 22 degrees and 24 degrees and when the tilt is 24 degrees, there is a larger difference between summer and winter and this has an
influence on the violent shifts
in climate between ice ages and interglacial periods.
That so - called «hockey stick» diagram became a lightning rod
in the debate
on whether humans were
influencing the
climate.
The
influence of
climate on agriculture is believed to be a key factor
in the rise and fall of societies
in the Ancient Near East.
We already know that
climate change has a hold
on Earth's surface processes, such as erosion and fluctuations
in sea levels... but do surface processes
in turn have an
influence on volcanic activity?
These results, which you can read all about
in the journal Nature Geoscience, reveal the
influence of surface processes — largely controlled by
climate —
on volcanic activity.
Climate change
influences magmatic production,
in particular via the effects
on erosion and hydrology, which modify the pressure exerted at Earth's surface
on the deep layers.
Although the ions are originally involved
in the development of almost one third of all newly formed particles, the concentration of the large cloud condensation nuclei
in the course of the 11 - year cycle changes by only 0.1 percent — not enough to have any sizeable
influence on the
climate.
However,
in a new paper published
in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely
climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong
influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.
To see whether this increase
in crops has
influenced the region's unusual weather, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge used computers to model five different 30 - year
climate simulations, based
on data from 1982 to 2011.
In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the
influence of
climate change
on a variety of recent extreme weather and
climate events, including marine heat waves.
They said the real strength of the Jacobson study — now
in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres — is that it relies
on a new computer model of
climate, air pollution and weather that accounts for several different ways black carbon
influences the environment.
In particular, the
influence of warmer temperatures
on moose nutritional condition and moose parasites, including a fatal brain worm parasite that is spread by white - tail deer, which have moved farther north into moose territory as the
climate has gotten milder.
Many other studies
on black carbon's
climate influence have used models that have been used in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
climate influence have used models that have been used
in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Climate Change.
Since this would also result
in more particulate matter entering the atmosphere which
in turn has an
influence on cloud formation, regional and global
climate models might have to be adapted accordingly.
For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence
in data from volunteers and revealed that the
influence of citizen science
on the study of birds and
climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.
But the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.
Climate Change — the evidence of 600
climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.
climate researchers
in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas —
in 2013 stated «human
influence on the
climate system is clear.
climate system is clear.»
The evidence supports the need for considerable investment
in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a «
climate - smart food system» that is more resilient to
climate change
influences on food security.
At this point, the Earth is probably
on the threshold of an entirely new epoch
in which the global
climate and the distribution of life will be strongly
influenced by a single species: humans.
Environmental management can potentially devise separate strategies to target key phases
in the lifecycle of males and females, respectively, with the aim of minimising the
influence of
climate change
on their development and ultimately the success of the species.»
Inhofe's attacks
on climate change science have been so engrossing that until recently I was unaware of his
influence in Uganda.
A report
in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused
climate change as a significant
influence on some extreme weather events
in 2013 — notably heat waves
in Europe, Asia and Australia.
Iron can fuel plankton blooms and
influence how the ocean responds to
climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution
on the ocean and continuing contamination
in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.
In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the natio
In an age when science
influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of
climate change and the economy — and
in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the natio
in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government
on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views
on the major science questions facing the nation.
Scientists must sharpen their message and do more to engage the public as they seek to
influence policy
on issues such as
climate change, representatives of AAAS and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre said
in report issued 3 July at the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 (ESOF2010)
in Turin,...
But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, members of the PlanetSolar Deepwater expedition, have now succeeded
in linking the composition of marine biological aerosols — and therefore their
influence on the
climate — to that of bodies of water under them within the Atlantic Ocean, thereby paving the way to an indirect study of these aerosols through water analysis.
The newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion
in the polar regions and could have a significant
influence on the future
climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution
in South East Asia.
In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based
on historical
climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural
influences and how much was due to human
influences.
Dr Dudok de Wit's team at the International Space Science Institute
in Bern, and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, have been using the datasets identified through the network to describe the Sun's
influence on climate from 1850 up to the present day, as well as a forecast up to the year 2300.
But a study published online today
in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly
influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of
climate change or its effect
on the poor.
An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation
in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation,
influencing climate on regional and global scales.
«I think that this research is going to have a long - term
influence on how the community evaluates air quality and
climate models, because the pH of particles is so important, yet mostly overlooked,» said Athanasios Nenes, a professor and Georgia Power Scholar
in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and another co-author.
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.
Because ocean currents play a major role
in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's
influence on global
climate and the melting of ice
in polar regions.
As Dr. Mackey cited
in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global
climate fluctuations
on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that
influenced what grew there,» she recalls.