Sentences with phrase «meant climate just»

Some researchers thought that meant climate just isn't that important a factor in tropical flu outbreaks.

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

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agrclimate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris AgrClimate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

I have just wondered what John and Jesus would have done if they had arrived in a climate like mine where lakes and rivers are frozen half the year... or a culture like we have where identifying with an ideology or movement typically means you buy a t - shirt with a catchy saying, or just dress a certain way.

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

Snow has wreaked havoc over the past few days but what if it's just the start and the global warming, sorry, climate change means we're all facing months, years or decades in freezing conditions?

If you live in a cold climate like me, this time of year doesn't just mean shopping for holiday attire or holiday gifts... no, this is the time of year where you have to seriously look at your shoe wardrobe and find out what is going to work for snowy treacherous days (much like the one we are having in Michigan today!).

And climate models predict wet regions will become wetter and dry regions drier, which means more rain for all of the UK, not just the coasts.

«However, our data covers timeframes spanning centuries and millennia — we can't zoom in on just a handful of years, which means we can only draw indirect conclusions regarding the extreme events that shape weather,» explains climate researcher Rehfeld, who is currently pursuing research with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

Bennett: When you say an open mind, you mean you're just not sure whether human activity causes climate change?

The U.S. elected Donald Trump president just two days after United Nations climate talks began in Marrakech, Morocco — a conference meant to turn the December 2015 Paris climate agreement into national action plans.

What it means: «Land use, land - use change and forestry,» which is often abbreviated to just «land use,» is responsible for about a quarter of the climate - changing pollution that's escaping into the atmosphere every year.

It also means that scientists and other experts are going to have to monitor measures other than just atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases to catch catastrophic climate change developing.

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 latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's more likely than not we'll see more intense hurricanes in the North Atlantic and western North Pacific Oceans, but a lack of data means the same can't be said of other regions just yet.

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.

Just because poverty or pollution or climate change happen in another country far away, that does not mean that we are not part of the cause of these problems and their necessary solution.

Reform Means More Than Just Small Research has shown that smaller schools are more effective at meeting students» needs, but just breaking up a school into smaller parts does not necessarily change the climate, according to Indiana University researcher Thomas GregJust Small Research has shown that smaller schools are more effective at meeting students» needs, but just breaking up a school into smaller parts does not necessarily change the climate, according to Indiana University researcher Thomas Gregjust breaking up a school into smaller parts does not necessarily change the climate, according to Indiana University researcher Thomas Gregory.

Considering your destination while packing involves more than just packing for the geographical climate — it also means being aware of the cultural and political climate of your destination, too.

Horta has the typical humid subtropical climate associated with the Azores, with significant oceanic influences, due to the August mean temperature just being above the 22 °C (72 °F) isotherm separating the classifications under the Köppen system.

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.

Using models to distinguish between the forcing histories is thus likely to require a tighter focus on regional changes, or in climate patterns, more than the just the mean temperature.

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»?

In such a case, counting the number of records might not indicate whether the climate was becoming more or less extreme, rather just whether there was a shift in the mean climate.

The book concludes with speculation about the underhanded meaning of the emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in the U.K.. It's really just the same quote - mining and misinterpretation we've heard from many quarters of the so - called «skeptics.»

I am making just another attempt to find a layman's explanation about what climate sensitivity numbers can mean about future world temperatures.

The song took on new meaning for me in 2003, when I accompanied a team of climate and ocean researchers on their annual expedition aimed at studying changes in the Arctic Ocean beneath the shifting sea ice just a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

It would mean that DOE has given up on addressing the challenge of climate change and instead is just focused on the near term goal of reducing oil imports and modestly reducing the expansion the coal fired power plants.

But if the goal of climate policy is to serve as a «Trojan horse» to get at other issues, like sprawl and gridlock (among other causes), then there is a misalignment of ends and means, which often leads to ineffective or just bad policy.

Modelers now are comparing not just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

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Modelers of course do not compare just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

I suspect that the twin threats of climate change and peak oil, amplified by the population overshoot we are in, will mean that we have just one shot at getting our energy systems right and there is little if any margin of error in making the right choices.

(1) In this case even if they were correct and the models failed to predict or match reality (which, acc to this post has not been adequately established, bec we're still in overlapping data and model confidence intervals), it could just as well mean that AGW stands and the modelers have failed to include some less well understood or unquantifiable earth system variable into the models, or there are other unknowns within our weather / climate / earth systems, or some noise or choas or catastrophe (whose equation has not been found yet) thing.

Given that the other important variables (sea surface temps, depth of the warm layer, and atmospheric moisture) are all predicted to increase, it seems hard to make the claim that tropical cyclones will be unchanged, just as it seemed unwise to claim that Lyman et al's «Recent cooling of the upper oceans» meant that climate models had fatal flaws.

also suggsts a higher climate sensitivity than 3C as do a multitude of papers looking at the past climates and there must be a lag in temperature rise and tree invasion of regions which might well mean that Northern areas are actually hotter than they have been for a long time, it just taking time for the proxies to catch up by growing.

As such, this is one of the arguments which supports higher climate sensitivity — in the 3C per doubling of CO2 range, although «per doubling of CO2» is just a metric, but it really means «3C per forcing equivalent to a doubling of CO2» (because, as this example shows, the initial forcing can be something totally unrelated to CO2).

Making a completely mealy - mouthed, noncommital statement: American Association of State Climatologists — they accept that humans are changing climate — just don't know what it will mean.

So the pipeline itself is really just a skirmish in the battle to protect climate, and if the pipeline gets built despite Bill McKibben's dedicated army of protesters, that does not mean in and of itself that it's «game over» for holding warming to 2C.

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.

You might expect to see heat waves on the list — even though climate and weather are two different (but related) phenomena — but the report is a good reminder of the tremendous scope of problems a warming globe can cause; it's not just about an extra couple degrees and wearing fewer sweaters: «With warming temperatures, the breeding cycle of malaria - carrying mosquitoes is shortening, which means more mosquitoes — and malaria — each year.»

That's an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of lobbyists on climate change in just five years, and means that Washington can now boast more than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress.

Realistically, this means planning to deal with inevitable climate trajectories is just as important as transitioning to renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuels.

(2) Irrigating 1 hectare [just under 2.5 acres] in dry climates requires quite a bit of water, which means reasonably high flow rates, which... implies depth limits.

Paul Quencé Merritt (no relation to me) asks why we don't just adapt as best we can to the coming climate changes, since we have neither the will nor the means to prevent them, and our current strategies have failed.

Instead, the tendency has been to just look at static mean geographic patterns of things, which has been shown over and over again not to have much predictive value, with a couple of exceptions (e.g. see a nice 2010 paper by Trenberth and Fasullo [summary here] that relates one chronic model mean cloud error to climate sensitivity).

Which means that Real Climate is NOT about just the science at all — now is it?»

Just because you don't understand how climate scientists and other fields of science use proxy information to get accurate estimates of past temperatures doesn't mean it is not possible for them to do so.

We should be addressing the meanings that divide us on an issue like this, because they divide us on lots of things — not just the use of violence by individuals of one race on those of another, or even the use of it by the police against private citizens, but also matters as diverse as whether climate change is occurring or whether schools should vaccinate pre-adolescent girls against HPV.