Sentences with phrase «mechanisms behind climate»

But the agreement to the fundamental mechanisms behind climate change now will give way to the thornier legal debate of establishing blame.

Furthermore, unraveling the causes of sea ice retreat should help us understand the mechanisms behind climate change on a global level, which is interrelated to the ice reduction in the Arctic ocean.»

Not exact matches

«We knew that forests have a role in regulating surface temperatures and that deforestation affects the climate, but this is the first global data - driven assessment that has enabled us to systematically map the biophysical mechanisms behind these processes,» explains Gregory Duveiller, lead author of the study.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

And while the scientists who conducted the study are still investigating the atmospheric mechanisms behind this change, the trend seems consistent with a warming climate.

It complements previous research that already linked such phenomena to climate change, but did not yet identify a mechanism behind it,» says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK and co-author of the study.

«The study provides new insights into evolution and genetic adaptation, and establishes a framework for investigating the biological mechanisms behind disease resistance and adaptation to climate, knowledge that could be vital for protecting honeybees in a rapidly changing world,» says Matthew Webster.

Anyone who has visited this website will have seen discussions of the mechanisms behind our changing climate.

Funny that Warren showed up here, because I was just stopping by the comment section to note that his paper demonstrates another manner in how people are confused about the mechanisms behind how the public formulates opinions (or gets confused about) climate change:

Dan is heavily at odds with quite a few members of the group that you (vaguely) describe as the «calamitous climate change culture,» yet not only do you place him into that group (without specifying how or why), you even go so far as to, with complete certainly, explain a causal mechanism behind a putative bias in his work on the basis of his strong identification with that group.

Greenland's many supraglacial lakes have been seen suddenly and mysteriously draining as climate change causes this region to warm, and now scientists have finally explained the mechanism behind this phenomenon.

The mechanisms behind these hyperthermals are poorly understood, as discussed below, but they are characterized by the injection into the surface climate system of a large amount of carbon in the form of CH4 and / or CO2 on the time scale of a millennium [205]--[207].

«The absence of an independent accountability mechanism puts the CDM significantly behind other multilateral and some bilateral financing institutions» commented Filzmoser, adding that, «To increase the credibility of the CDM as a viable climate finance instrument in the future, the CDM Board's only sensible choice is to adopt rules that ensure that the CDM applies appropriate human rights standards in line with the most advanced relevant standards applicable to climate related programmes and projects.»

That climate cycle's timing is fairly well understood to be caused by changes in the orbit of the earth, though the mechanism behind the response has not been conclusively established.

More likely the oceans on our 70 % water covered world, which absorb heat energy from the sun (for which we have some data), and geothermal energy (for which we have virtually no data), and release it over long periods of time by poorly understood mechanisms that are possibly the real driving force behind climate.

Since much of the uncertainty in future projections relates to regional climate change impacts, it makes particular sense to focus on those changes in the past that involve regional changes and the underlying mechanisms behind them.