Sentences with phrase «major influence on the climate»

These processes have a major influence on the climate and are therefore of special scientific interest.

Internal variability will continue to be a major influence on climate, particularly in the near - term and at the regional scale.

The sinks have a major influence on climate change and are important in understanding the link between anthropogenic CO2 emissions and atmospheric CO2 concentration.

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There are clearly other factors that could have a major influence on the storyline, including how geopolitical tensions are resolved and how we adjust to climate change.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

* Correction, 14 December, 11:42 a.m.: New information has been added to note the major influences that global climate and continental drift have had on the diversity and distribution of bird species.

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

When the foundation severed ties, its decision was less influenced by the removal of Jewish scientists from major posts than by the destabilising effect that this and other political interventions had on the general research climate.

Through the interactive graphic below, Climate Central takes a look at how this major climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on Climate Central takes a look at how this major climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on record.

This major finding may help climatologists to distinguish between solar and man - made influences on climate....»

These systems play a major role in transporting heat and carbon, and are therefore indispensable to understanding the ocean's influence on climate.

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.

The ecosystems chapter concludes that, «Human - induced climate change, in conjunction with other stresses, is exerting major influences on natural environments and biodiversity, and these influences are generally expected to grow with increased warming.»

While climate change was found to make drought in East Africa both more likely and stronger, it wasn't found to be a major influence on the drought that has caused severe water shortages in Brazil.

By Andrew Rhodes The ocean is a major influence on the world's climate and must be included in modelling to predict future climate change.

That's when I learned about geomedicine — a branch of medicine concerning the influence of climate and other environmental factors on health — and how it was a major player in my personal health.

The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate.

This was a major influence on the country's artists - many of whom still remembered The Great Depression and its relief programs like the Works Progress Administration which had afforded them the opportunity to develop a painting career, and they began searching for ways of responding to the uncertain climate.

By Gray's very clearly articulated reasoning, there should have been a downturn, not the observed upturn in major Atlantic hurricane activity over the past several decades (in the absence of other — including anthropogenic — influences on tropical Atlantic climate) if Bryden et al.'s results are correct.

As part of the trend in higher education toward moving more course offerings onto the Web, the University of Chicago has launched Open Climate 101, an online version of a popular course led by David Archer that explores for non-science majors the body of research pointing to a rising human influence on the climate Climate 101, an online version of a popular course led by David Archer that explores for non-science majors the body of research pointing to a rising human influence on the climate climate system.

The IPCC process is a major effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of climate science, though as is evident even from the Summary — which, due to the necessity for brevity, tends to downplay uncertainties — there are still many difficult obstacles and uncertainties to overcome in determining the influence of human activities on the climate.»

But it is surely likely that, in a sample of scientists that contains a minority that outright denies the major human influence on climate, there may also be a few who are genuinely uncertain about it.

In her role, she ensures that all program analyses reflect robust and relevant climate science, and researches the influence of major carbon producers on rising global average temperatures and sea level.

Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years.

Nobody denies the existence of a solar influence on climate, indeed it seems to have been a major cause of the LIA, and to have played a part in early 20th century warming, but Mike Lockwood showed that all the possible solar influences were of the wrong sign to explain recent GW.

Research has shown that extreme weather events, such as droughts, will become more frequent in the future due to climate change, although it was found to have «not [been] a major influence» on a severe drought in southeastern Brazil in 2014 - 15.

And so that's why fire has such a major influence now on accelerating climate change: Humans have unleashed what they thought was something tamed only to discover it remained feral.

«A narrow focus on the factors that influence plant growth has led to major underestimations of the potential impacts of climate change on plants, not only at higher latitudes but more severely in the tropics, exposing the world to dire consequences.»

I came to the conclusion that one of the major failures of the models & IPCC climate projections is to think that the «inside» part of the atmosphere is a constant heat transfer with no influence on the climate.

A friend told me there was a global conspiracy involving nearly all of the world's governments, most of the world's scientists and the media to convince the public that there is a major human influence on climate when they were well aware there was no evidence for this.

He recalled that in its last major statement on this topic, the IPCC noted that «our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is currently limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability and because there are uncertainties in key factors.»

In a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinion.

Indeed, this dynamics suggests a major multiple harmonic influence component on the climate with a likely astronomical origin (sun + moon + planets) although not yet fully understood in its physical mechanisms, that, as shown in the above figures, can apparently explain also the post 2000 climate quite satisfactorily (even by using my model calibrated from 1850 to 1950, that is more than 50 years before the observed temperature hiatus period since 2000!).

Representing 250 airlines, or 94 percent of scheduled international air traffic, the IATA has a huge influence on the aviation sector, and it's great to see this organization at least recognizing climate change as a major problem, though disagreements remain, both within the industry and from outside pressure groups, as to the way forward in tackling this issue.

It concludes that establishing the links between former government officials and the fossil fuel industry highlights «the major potential for conflict of interest», adding: «When one takes into account what is at stake for large fossil fuel companies, and how much lobbying they conduct on climate policy more generally, weak revolving door policy provides another avenue of influence for private fossil fuel interests to exploit».

Major volcanic eruptions have a short - term cooling influence on climate due to the particulate haze they cause.