Sentences with phrase «less stable climates»

In regions with less stable climates, females were laying more eggs that lacked their spouse's DNA, and birds were swapping mates more often between breeding seasons.

There would be more variability in an African population because Africa has a less stable climate and environment.»

Not exact matches

«The focus now should be creating a stable investment climate for renewables, making longer - term commitments to support less mature technologies, and putting in place incentives to deliver significantly increased investment in renewable power and heat generation required over the next decade.»

The findings indicate the ice sheets are less stable than previously thought, and could be strongly affected by climate change.

The analysis clearly shows that the research is biased towards countries that are wealthier, better educated, more stable and less corrupt, emit the most carbon, and are less vulnerable to climate change.

«While global temperature tends to be stable due to the Planck Response, there are other important, previously less appreciated, mechanisms at work too,» said Wenhong Li, assistant professor of climate at Duke.

The aim is to better understand economic flows and to thereby induce a transformation of our supply chains into a stable, climate - smart network that renders our societies less vulnerable to future climate impacts.

Of course, our study looks back in time and the future will be a very different place in terms of ice sheets and CO2 but it remains to be seen whether or not Earth's climate becomes more or less stable as we move forward from here.»

The East Antarctic ice sheet has long been considered relatively stable because most of the ice sheet was thought to rest on bedrock above sea level, making it less susceptible to changes in climate.

«That will only make the inevitable shift to renewable energy less effective in maintaining a stable climate system throughout the lives of children already born.»

A new study shows Earth's oceanic conveyor belt, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, may be less stable than thought, posing a risk of abrupt climate change.

The latest findings stem from an ongoing collaboration that is ultimately aimed at bringing farmers a more stable breed of the plant that has less reliance on water and is less vulnerable to climate change.

These types of RVs seemed more suitable for less people or shorter trips with stable temperate climates where you can live outside 90 percent of the time.

It wouldn't be surprising if models tended to have Atlantic THC that were too strong or stable if the current climate, that they are being tested and developed against, is less stable than had previously been thought.

But I can't think why there should be any doubt that our climate problem would be far less serious if the global population were stable at, say, one billion.

But it's the groups well stated explanation of why systems like aquaponics will become increasingly important as our climate becomes less stable that left me most impressed:

It suggests that the real climate system may be less stable than [the models] think,» Delworth told me.

Similarly, a colder climate with generally decreased humidity q O could be closer to the critical threshold, which might be the reason for less - stable monsoon circulations during glacial periods.

During the Little Ice Age phase 1 (LIA 1 — AD 1400 — 1620), the abundant occurrences of wetland plant (Cyperaceae) and diatom frustules imply less flood events under stable climate conditions in this period.

What's truly remarkable when you think about it is how all these self - regulating heat engines work together to produce such a remarkably stable climate that sometimes persists in more or less the same steady with no major perturbations for tens and hundreds of millions of years at a stretch.

With less pollution in the air and a more stable climate, the plan was projected to prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children, 300,000 missed work and school days, and up to 3,600 premature deaths by 2030.

BUt human civilization, carefully built to support 8 billion people in a relatively stable climate, would not survive a rise of 4C in less than 100 years.

And by pushing the climate rapidly into unstable states, we may be accelerating things into even less stable conditions.

I am having trouble conjuring a situation in my mind where in a stable system the climate sensitivity could be less then zero.

If the Earth seems to be locked on a path leading to a very different climate, a new and much less stable era lasting many centuries before natural processes eventually establish some sort of equilibrium, how do we respond psychologically to the 12 scientific warnings?

But if Obama and others focus first on consumption subsidies the motives look less like fiscal responsibility and a stable climate, and more like a finger pointing exercise or negotiating tactic designed to show that the developing world has plenty of funds available to adapt to climate change and invest in clean energy, if only they would stop making energy affordable for their populations.

Really, I don't need Mark Steyn's judicial martyrdom, the Pause or the East Anglia emails to know that the hockey stick is a joke and that the «stable» or less «extreme» era of climate has not been named because it has never existed.

And as the oceans rise due to the other greenhouse gasses, more of the water moves into the air, the climate becomes less stable, and traps more heat.

* YET THE 2ºC GOAL IS NOT AN OPTION EITHER, BECAUSE, WITH CLIMATE AND CARBON CYCLE POSITIVE FEEDBACKS IN FULL SWING, IT IS LESS A STABLE DESTINATION THAN A SIGNPOST ON A HIGHWAY TO A MUCH HOTTER PLACE.