Sentences with phrase «influence on the climate as»

It is thus plausible that our species could have begun to have an influence on climate as well.

Respondents who characterized human influence on climate as insignificant, reported having had the most frequent media coverage regarding their views on climate change.

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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.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Businesses can influence government action on climate in many ways — as long as they start by building their own environmental credibility

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?

The models included interactions and competition between predators as well as the influence of climate on vegetation and prey populations.

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.

While the new study looks at long - term trends, some scientists have also begun to evaluate the influence of climate change on individual heat wave events — and they're making some worrying discoveries, as well.

The analysis reveals important new details about the climate history of a region that wields a substantial influence on the global climate as a whole.

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.

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,...

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

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.

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.

However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in emissions from industrial sources — the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed by «greenhouse» gases.

The panel reported that the world is warming throughout the lower atmosphere, as climate models had predicted, and acknowledged «clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.»

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

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.

«As the climate becomes increasingly more variable, we need to provide water resource managers with specific guidance on how individual warm or wet years, which may not coincide, will influence water supply,» said Brooks.

The researchers determined that natural influences on Earth's climate, such as those caused by variations in its orbit around the sun, could affect the strength of El Niño events.

As such, plants exert a tremendous push - and - pull influence on the global climate and are particularly attuned to climate change.

«If we were in a court of law, with human influence on the climate system in the dock, the verdict for Australia's 2013 heat wave would be guilty as charged.

Sure, C02 was increasing as well but no - one claims that C02 is the sole influence on climate, there are always a number of competing influences, but post-1976 C02 has really taken over as the biggest.

Methods: While a few studies in the past investigated the influence of climate phenomena such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Madden - Julian Oscillation on the inter-annual variability of tropical cyclones in the post-monsoon Bay of Bengal, changes in long - term cyclone activity are less well understood.

As supplier of almost all the energy in Earth's climate, the sun has a strong influence on climate.

There is increasing concern that extreme events may be changing in frequency and intensity as a result of human influences on climate.

«The depth and breadth of contribution demonstrates their standing as world - class experts and their influence on the scientific, technical and socio - economic understanding of climate change.»

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.

It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.

In 2014, Climate Central helped create the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a groundbreaking international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and drClimate Central helped create the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a groundbreaking international effort to analyze and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and drclimate change on extreme weather events such as storms, extreme rainfall, heat waves, cold spells, and droughts.

While Pollard's research focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the impact of the ocean and soil on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water on food production.

Since then, anthropogenic influence has also been identified in a range of other climate variables, such as ocean heat content, atmospheric pressure and sea ice extent, thereby contributing further evidence of an anthropogenic influence on climate, and improving confidence in climate models.

As discussed below, this effect of climate has a large influence on the saturated fat content of different traditional diets.

Educational visits can ask the children to explore the journeys their food makes, include learning about food miles and origins, as well as climate influence on crops.

BACKGROUND School climate is well recognized as an important influence on student behavior and adjustment to school, but there is a need for theory - guided measures that make use of teacher

Of the six elements, one — distributed leadership — speaks specifically to the principal's vital role, while the other five refer to elements that principals have significant influence on, such as teaching, climate, and family engagement.

We focus on variables that may contribute to a school «s culture and climate, including (1) variables on which principals can have some direct effect, such as principal - teacher relations, trust, and shared leadership; (2) variables on which principals may have less influence, such as teacher - to - teacher relations in professional communities, and collective responsibility; and (3) variables on which the principal has indirect control, such as teachers «sense of personal efficacy, and the quality of instruction.

The most powerful effects on the student relate to features within the school such as the climate of the classroom, peer influences, and the lack of disruptive students in the classroom, etc..

«While it is perhaps not surprising that artists have found the night such a compelling subject for centuries, Night Vision sheds new light on the technical complexities and personal meanings embedded in its depictions, as well as how the period's unique cultural and social climate influenced subsequent artistic movements.»

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

As a co-director of Mild Climate and Bijan Ferdowsi galleries, he also has been an innovative influence on the Southern art scene.

Anthropocene Relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as a period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

One example of an effective metaphor that he provides (and indeed, which I sometimes use myself) is the notion of «weather on steroids» as a way of communicating the statistical nature of the subtle — but very real — influence that climate change is having on certain types of extreme weather events.

In winter the greenhouse - effect will influence the climate as it conventionally has done the last years, with mild, cloudy weather on the northern hemisphere.

And its influence on the climate change issue as a whole is negligible.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)