Sentences with phrase «low mean climate»

Thinking about the problem in terms of temperature increase for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (which we will probably exceed with current policies and energy trends), even studies that reinforce the skeptical narrative of low mean climate sensitivity leaves some chance of warming greatly exceeding international goals and historical boundaries (say a 5 percent chance of warming exceeding 4 °C).

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It's not just American companies that have grown lean and mean in this climate of lower oil prices.

A transition to a low - carbon economy is now inevitable, but this transition comes at a cost, and many of the countries and companies under the greatest threat from climate change lack the means to pay for it.

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

Victor Smetacek, the German oceanographer who led the expedition along with Victor Wajih Naqvi, an Indian geochemist, says that result means that iron fertilization has a much lower sequestration potential for atmospheric CO2 and, thus, will play a smaller role in fighting climate change than previously expected.

This new research takes away the lower end of climate sensitivity estimates, meaning that global average temperatures will increase by 3 °C to 5 °C with a doubling of carbon dioxide.»

I don't care about consensus, but for what it's worth: 10 out of 17 means a 59 % consensus that climate sensitivity is likely to be 2C or lower and as such global warming is not dangerous according to UN politically agreed criteria.

The whole CAGW — GHG scare is based on the obvious fallacy of putting the effect before the cause.As a simple (not exact) analogy controlling CO2 levels to control temperature is like trying to lower the temperature of an electric hot plate under a boiling pan of water by capturing and sequestering the steam coming off the top.A corollory to this idea is that the whole idea of a simple climate sensitivity to CO2 is nonsense and the sensitivity equation has no physical meaning unless you already know what the natural controls on energy inputs are already ie the extent of the natural variability.

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I'm not saying that this is impossible, just that until somebody does it there's no basis for concluding that higher past variability means lower climate senstivity.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

If a dominance of La Nina / ocean variability, is causing a hiatus, does that mean climate sensitivity is lower?

That means warming would be 1 C (1.8 F) lower than what would happen if governments did nothing, said Andrew Jones, co-founder of Climate Interactive, but well above the international goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees C (3.6), which is 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) from now.

For example, if tribes migrate (d) to a certain locale or are forced out of an ideal way of life due to cataclysm etc, (such as leaving fruit bearing tropical climates due to sea level rise in ancient prehistory as seen from underwater megalithic stone temples from around the world) then that does nt mean their way of life currently is the most ideal that the body thrives on, such as «paleo» diet or atkins diet or other FAD BULLSHIT low carb, high fat diets that are EXTREMELY HARMFUL AS CITED CONCLUSIVELY.

Ambergris Caye Belize means warm tropical climate, white sand beaches, turquoise waters, thick forests, ancient ruins, low cost of living and friendly people.

The deals are best during the «height» of low tourism season, but the famously temperate climate of the Azores means that an April (or even January!)

The climate is pretty even with average temperatures varying between the high sixties and low eighties — however, make no mistake, when the sun comes out it is HOT and humidty can reach 75 % especially between July - December period which means you need to be well protected against mosquitos.

The lake's high elevation, climate and isolation means the risk of many diseases common in Central America is relatively low.

Climate: Belize is subtropical, with a mean annual temperature of 80 degrees F. Winter storms may bring the temperature down to the low 60s.

Environmetrics http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/env.2140/abstract;jsessionid=38E88DBEDFC0F5214703FE5877A722A3.d03t03?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+17+March+from+10-14+GMT+%2806-10+EDT%29+for+essential+maintenance&userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= [from the Knappenberger piece: «The [climate sensitivity] mean is 2.0 °C... which is lower than the IPCC estimate from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007), but this estimate increases if an extra forcing component is added, see the following text.

«The [climate sensitivity] mean is 2.0 °C... which is lower than the IPCC estimate from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007), but this estimate increases if an extra forcing component is added, see the following text.

Doing nothing until the end of the decade would also likely mean curtains for low - lying areas and small island states, including the Maldives, whose President Mohamed Nasheed I advise on climate change issues.

3) My biggest concern is that the Obama administration is bailing out a non-competitive auto industry that is not addressing climate change, and considers «infrastructure» investment to mean roads and bridges and not a functioning electrical grid that will support renewable energy and other forms of distributed energy like CHP that would greatly lower emissions.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

The world has within its technological grasp, financial means, and know - how the means to mitigate climate change while also ending extreme poverty, through the application of sustainable development solutions including the adoption of low - carbon energy systems supported by information and communications technologies;

Reuters explains: «Subsidies on oil, gas or coal are meant to help the poor by lowering the price of energy but the report, issued on the sidelines of a 160 - nation U.N. climate meeting in Ghana, said they often backfired by mainly benefiting wealthier people.»

Climate change is having, or will have, the effect of lowering the carrying capacity, at least for normal human timeframes; so, that means that whatever the overshoot is, it will be greater with greater effects of climate Climate change is having, or will have, the effect of lowering the carrying capacity, at least for normal human timeframes; so, that means that whatever the overshoot is, it will be greater with greater effects of climate climate change.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

IPCC AR5 WG1 Ch.5 says: «The PETM was marked by a massive carbon release and corresponding global ocean acidification (Zachos et al., 2005; Ridgwell and Schmidt, 2010) and, with low confidence, global warming of 4 °C to 7 °C relative to pre-PETM mean climate (Sluijs et al., 2007; McInerney and Wing, 2011).

In terms of advocacy, this is tricky; people in the fossil fuel sector will doubtless claim that lower climate sensitivity means rapid reductions in fossil fuel use are not necessary, so they can go on with their plans for more gas and oil development without breaching the Paris Agreements, etc..

I'm not saying that this is impossible, just that until somebody does it there's no basis for concluding that higher past variability means lower climate senstivity.

«The first nonlinearity we consider is that at higher temperatures the T4 dependence of the Stefan - Boltzmann equation means the climate system is able to more effectively compensate for radiation perturbations than at lower temperatures.

Accordingly, let's look at the relative changes in SCC between low and high climate sensitivity to see what it would mean if we really live in a low - sensitivity world.

All three are among more than 20 national and sub-national governmental agencies around the world that have incorporated voluntary climate - change solutions into their formal strategies — creating in the process a means of developing the tools and procedures that will be needed in a low - carbon economy.

The pledges and determination shown by world governments at the Paris climate change talks in Paris meant there would likely be «further policies aimed at shifting the fuel - mix towards cleaner, lower - carbon fuels, with renewable energy, along with natural gas, the main beneficiary,» said Dale.

More generally, increased vegetation cover lowers albedo, meaning that more of the sun's light is absorbed which in turn warms the climate locally (another positive feedback), as well as increasing evapotranspiration and carbon uptake.

The implications are still that a lower estimate of climate sensitivity means «there is a reason to act».

Yet recent studies have found that company compliance is low, so shareholders are continuing to push individual companies to take a hard, data - driven look at what climate change will mean for them.»

DK12 used ocean heat content (OHC) data for the upper 700 meters of oceans to draw three main conclusions: 1) that the rate of OHC increase has slowed in recent years (the very short timeframe of 2002 to 2008), 2) that this is evidence for periods of «climate shifts», and 3) that the recent OHC data indicate that the net climate feedback is negative, which would mean that climate sensitivity (the total amount of global warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels, including feedbacks) is low.

Shell has gone farther than many of its peers in analyzing what a 2 °C or lower scenario would mean for its business, addressing mainstream investor expectations such as the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate - Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Easier to understand is a claim by Climate Interactive (and used by Joe Romm of Climate Progress) that the policy proposals would mean that global emission in 2100 would be 40 % lower than without them.

With the lower net ocean to atmosphere heat flux during this La Niña like condition, it means measuring the climate response to GH forcing based on tropospheric temperatures alone is a weaker and less accurate measurment tool.

This means that: 1) the annular modes vary on timescales as fast as weeks; and 2) the high and low index polarities of the annular modes do not reflect two distinct states of the climate system, but rather the wings of a normally distributed frequency distribution.

The latest example comes in an article in today's Times, which claims a new low climate sensitivity estimate means «Climate change could be slower than forecast&climate sensitivity estimate means «Climate change could be slower than forecast&Climate change could be slower than forecast».

On a (2011) Climate Etc. post Pondering the Arctic Ocean, I interpreted the record in the context of a (qualitative) change point analysis, defined by changes in trend, mean value, amplitude of the annual cycle, and interannual variability.It looks like 2013 was another change point year, characterized by low amplitude seasonal cycle.

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

«Winding back the climate agenda means that the U.S. will be left behind in the clean energy transition as other global players, such as in Europe and China, demonstrate greater commitment to deploying low carbon and job - creating solutions to climate change,» said Peter Kiernan, of the Economist Intelligence Unit.

If emissions stay as high as they are, that means even a low value of climate sensitivity would see a significant amount of warming by the end of the century.

The Sierra Club and a large coalition of groups — including Earthjustice, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Patuxent Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, Shenandoah Riverkeeper, and Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper — have been fighting this plan since its announcement because it means a massive expansion of natural gas fracking.

The report noted that although carbon dioxide is an invisible «trace gas» — meaning it comprises a small percentage of the Earth's atmosphere as a whole — it can nevertheless have significant impacts on the climate at these seemingly low levels.