Sentences with phrase «mean the climate there»

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He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

«We should treat every person who works here with respect and dignity, and that means creating a climate where there is accountability, fairness, respect, and access to justice if sexual harassment takes place.

Risk — that the reality of climate change means that there are climate change impacts we can expect, but we also must consider what might happen, especially the small, but real, chance that we may face abrupt changes with massively disruptive impacts.

That means that there is room for a shifting of the numbers, particularly if the news media would make it clearer that there was high agreement among climate scientists, he said.

We are all hopeful that there will be some really significant common lessons learned, and that at a minimum, we may draw some common understanding about what climate - sensitive parameters in fragile states might mean,» said Cynthia Brady, a senior conflict adviser at USAID.

While many of the Liberals» plans remain unclear, and there is the prospect of a messy coalition government, analysts say a Trudeau government would mean less of a focus on Canadian oil and a stronger push for clean energy and action on climate change.

Before we can understand what past climate change meant for more animals — «there needs to be a lot more work on modern animals,» Secord says.

Kadribasic: That's basically [what] I tried to do, to see if there has been any change, if there has been any change in these factors, which could mean that there is a change in climate, which could then finally mean that there has been a change in tornado numbers.

However, there is a still a knowledge and communication gap as to how the various climate change scenarios can be interpreted, and what they really mean for European forests.

If there was a 4.5 °C global mean temperature rise, the climates in these areas are projected to become unsuitable for many the plants and animals that currently live there meaning:

There are about 30 climate models available today, and each has slightly different physics, which means their forecasts do not always match.

But for Elizabeth Austin, the project's chief scientist, there's another thrill: the glider will carry scientific instruments for climate, aerospace and stratospheric research that can not be done using other means.

«Arctic climates are particularly unstable and are changing rapidly today,» Mann said, «This means the Arctic is an interesting place to study how climate changes cause extinctions, and the past gives us many interesting examples of extinction there.

Climate change «threatens our planet, our only hope,» said Thomas Stocker, co-chair of Working Group I. And that means, according to IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri, that «there is a need for us to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases if we really want to stabilize climate.Climate change «threatens our planet, our only hope,» said Thomas Stocker, co-chair of Working Group I. And that means, according to IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri, that «there is a need for us to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases if we really want to stabilize climate.climate.»

This rapid turnover means that even if human activity was directly adding or removing significant amounts of water vapour (it isn't), there would be no slow build - up of water vapour as is happening with CO2 (see Climate myths: Human CO2 emissions are tiny compared with natural sources).

Again this has been commented on by real climate and there appears to be no real evidence of thermohaline slowdown being caused by these means.

Hi, I don't mean to turn this into yet another sceptic thread, but I've read in another site that there apparently are doubts about current models assuming that climate sensitivity is constant.

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.

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

The threat of climate change means that there is an urgent need to find cleaner, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels that do not contribute extensive amounts of greenhouse gases with potentially devastating consequences on our ecosystem.

At the time, he said «the stunning finding that forests can also feed on nitrogen in rocks has the potential to change all projections related to climate change,» because it meant there could be more carbon storage on land and less in the atmosphere than climate models say.

As long as there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than before, it will reduce the percentage of thermal radiation which is able to leave the atmosphere, which means that the climate system must heat up if the rate at which energy leaves the climate system is to equal the rate an which energy enters the climate system.

There is a signal - to - noise problem evident in climate models which means that, in some mid-latitude regions, predicted climate signals are too weak.

There are many great deals to be had in these countries on clothing designed for their climates... but that means you have to take time away from doing other things to go shopping, which you may not want to do.

I know that they are trendy (which is not necessarily important, it just means that there will be many to choose from) and in certain climates they are practical... but still.

The climate here in Helsinki must be pretty similar to what you have there in MN, which means winters are COLD.

It means that we must not wait until there are financial / economic, the food, the energy, and the climate, crisis to resolve and take measures to make do.

The layout takes a bit of getting used to, especially the rather vague climate controls, but there's no faulting the driving position, while the clear view out and well weighted controls mean the Cayman is surprisingly easy to drive.

the digital reading revolution opened up readers» eyes to the potential for screen reading, authors may have believed they were limited to self - publishing their work via a dedicated e-reader platform, at least in the early days of this current climate of digital publishing, in actuality, publishing has taken on a whole new meaning and there are unique copyright issues that go along with it.

The investing climate has suddenly turned scary, but that doesn't mean there aren't good stocks to buy.

The rain shadow effect means a drier climate more like the Mediterranean, so during summer months there is a gold color in the grass with green trees and a brownish color rocks in the background.

There was an excellent talk by Emily Levine, Interpretive Supervisor at Muir Woods, about the health of redwoods and how the science and study of these beautiful trees is helping us learn about the effects of climate change and what it means for our collective future.

The climate here is very humid and there is rainfall the whole year through meaning that the plant life thrives all year round.

Although Vietnam has a temperamental climate that inundates the country with plenty of rain that doesn't mean that there aren't beautiful beaches to enjoy.

The city has a tropical desert climate which means that there is very little rainfall.

Just like the rest of Fiji, Viti Levu has a tropical climate, meaning that the weather is nearly always warm and there is little seasonal variation in temperature throughout the year.

Phuket's has a tropical climate which means it is warm all year long and there is plenty of sunshine.

Being discovered in today's art gallery climate often means having a huge influx of cash for a few years, then getting dropped when your art falls out of favor, or when the market inevitably corrects because collectors realize that there are other artists doing interesting things.

The means you use to organize it are the same: the same structure, the same contrasts... But there is a difference in what I call the climate.

Todd, there is varied weather, and some climate variations, but not quite how you mean it.

Then 20 years of massively funded climate - specific denial playing to the vulnerabilities created by those years of framing plus the constant childhood attachment problems linked inextricably with those frames means there's no magic method.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

There may be reason to strongly suspect that in any sufficiently complicated dynamical system model (such as climate) with stochastic parameters (e.g., exactly when and where a lightning strike starts a major wildfire or a major submarine earthquake perturbs ocean circulation in a region or a major volcanic eruption introduces stratospheric aerosols), it is almost certain that any given run of the model will have periods of significant deviation from the mean of multiple runs.

The fact that there is little recent trend in the GCR and solar activity does not mean that solar activity is unimportant for earth's climate.

I mean since there is no clear trend (upward or downward) in cosmic ray flux over the period we've been able to measure them directly; and since we do not see a significant difference in climate over the 11 year solar cycle between Solar Max and Solar Min (and this modulation is much larger than the one Svensmark is talking about); and since it is not clear how important the ionization from GCR is in cloud formation; and since the anthropogenic ghg mechanism does just fine reproducing the data, exactly how do you foresee implementing this «effect»?

Again this has been commented on by real climate and there appears to be no real evidence of thermohaline slowdown being caused by these means.

There's scant evidence that well - meaning efforts to raise public awareness and will around the climate challenge will engender willingness to abandon the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — particularly where expanded energy use matters most, in the fast - growing nations of the developing world.

You'll find people who will tell you the flaws in a lot of methods (for example, issues in Mg / Ca temperature proxies) but that doesn't mean they dismiss everything out of hand, or that there views on Mg / Ca somehow means they don't believe in climate change.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

[Response: I suspect another common confusion here: the abrupt glacial climate events (you mention the Younger Dryas, but there's also the Dansgaard - Oeschger events and Heinrich events) are probably not big changes in global mean temperature, and therefore do not need to be forced by any global mean forcing like CO2, nor tell us anything about the climate sensitivity to such a global forcing.