Sentences with phrase «like planetary climate»

I have found, through careful consideration, that the main cause of this debacle where a majority believe humans can control a complex system like planetary climate is the quality of responses to that pernicious assertion.It is not possible to restore stability to climate research based on contending with people who would literally become ill before they would change their conclusions and it for this reason that people here are more accountable for the material they are responsible for.

Not exact matches

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

But it's like I say: as planetary climate systems show all possible signs of disruption, what we get is strange climatic conditions and extreme weather events on a local level, and these conditions and event are conditioned by great variations from continent to continent and from one year to the next.

This post is, like the majority of posts on RealClimate, not about «views what should be done», but analysis of how the planetary climate system works and what consequences we can expect from our collective actions.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

more stories like this War and peace with the environment Gore completes renovations to Tenn. home Gore: US blocking climate talks progress Keys, Thurman among Nobel concert celebs Gore accepts Nobel Prize, calls for action But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.

The OP is making an assumption that volcanic eruptions apply a force to planetary temperature, which is then free to do as it likes within the reference frame of the planetary climate system and that appears to be causing it to flip back into place.

What began with climate studies of Venus continued for planets like Mars as new space missions sent back huge amounts of data about Earth's other planetary cousin.

But for people who would like more technical detail, «Principles of Planetary Climate» by Ray Pierrehumbert is excellent and is coming out in December this year; and many other textbooks cover this as well.

Although one of the ES components mentioned above, the global economy, is about to inadvertently transform that face through massive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the so - induced planetary warming, one other crucial component, the human brain, struggles to advertently preserve it by constructing clumsy institutions like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf).

The planetary boundaries hypothesis, first introduced by a group of leading earth scientists in a 2009 article in Nature, posits that there are nine global, biophysical limits to human welfare: climate change, ocean acidification, the ozone layer, nitrogen and phosphate levels, land use change (the conversion of wilderness to human landscapes like farmland or cities), biodiversity loss, chemical pollutants, and particulate pollution in the atmosphere.