Sentences with phrase «local climate»

This is a critical question with huge implications for public policy, climate adaptation, and scientific understanding of local climate change.
The researchers ran about 800 computer models to complete the most comprehensive and specific analysis to date of how personal experience and perceptions of local climate anomalies affect beliefs about climate change.
The results suggest that recent changes in global vegetation have had impacts on local climates that should be considered in the design of local mitigation and adaptation plans.
These letters do not, by themselves, force fossil fuel companies to pay for local climate impacts.
But regardless of that detail, and consistent with local climate warming, the ice break - up date have advanced about 7 days over the last century.
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.
Along with expanded state and local climate policies, these actions can put the country on a pathway to emissions reductions of 80 percent or more.
I hope this will lead to a broader discussion about the contribution of natural variability to local climate trends and to the statistics of extreme events.
Local climate variations are generally much larger than global ones.
In short, not even the most robust federal climate mitigation policy is likely to pay for local climate adaptation.
Enjoy a free day to relax and unwind in the warm local climate.
Factors that determine car insurance premiums include local climate, economic stability, percentage of uninsured drivers, availability of insurance carriers, population density and average commute times, for example.
But variation in local feedbacks (and hence in local climate sensitivity) does seem to have more local effects.
The idea is to assign a zero to heat change in oceans at local climate ocean heat means — about the middle of an annual cycle.
Such communities have become institutions of high quality living precisely because of the ideal local climate.
These include basic services, implementation of state academic standards, parent engagement, and local climate survey.
If you need to «select» various trees that match local climate to use as a temperature proxy, then this obviously raises two points.
The lessons learned benefit local climate - change - mitigation practitioners, donor agencies, and international institutions involved in capacity building or in the design and implementation of mitigation actions in developing countries.
Local climate studies are critical for designing adaptation plans.
As indicators, the proxies duly represent local climate.
In addition, effects tend to vary across regions, depending on local climate and other characteristics, making global comparisons very difficult.
A vet can inform you of changes in local climate that will affect your pet, as well as inform you about how to adapt to these changes.
Local climate change adaptation: moving from adjustments to transformation?
The whole point is there are many regional and local climate effects.
The uniquely rich data source - combining health, a wide range of socio - environmental information with local climate conditions - as well as its large spatial and temporal scale, make it possible to address limitations in current research in the area of health and climate linkages.
This piece was first published on Euractiv on 9 October 2017 EU member states can enable the upscaling of good examples of local climate action by closing loopholes in the Effort Sharing Regulation, a centerpiece of the EU's climate policy, write Claire Roumet and Femke de Jong.
You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.
and focus on how local climate variations, UHI and genuinely dangerous atmospheric pollutants can be tackled in practical ways that might actually affect our everyday lives.
The results of that survey also illuminated the barriers that were impeding weathercasters from reporting local climate change stories, things like lack of access to local data and lack of time to do the necessary research.
For example, the Fritts 1969 baseline study refers to a field study deducing wild - type growth response from local climate variables.
Since 2009, with funding from the National Science Foundation — and in partnership with Climate Central, the American Meteorological Society, NASA, NOAA, and Yale — we have been exploring and helping develop the potential of TV weathercasters as local climate educators.
Discover how global climate patterns like the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO) have historically affected local climate conditions and crop yields across the U.S. Corn Belt.
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).
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