Sentences with phrase «mechanisms of climate»

Scientific confidence with observed data is currently low, though the underlying mechanisms of climate change are expected to play a role.

They might, therewith, miss some important physical mechanisms of climate variability and are, therefore not entirely conclusive.

As I understand your position, there is plenty of room in the mechanisms of climate dynamics for possible positive temperature feedbacks which are larger than the first - order effect of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Since then, despite a massive improvement in models and in our understanding of the mechanisms of climate change, the uncertainty in our projections of temperature change has stubbornly refused to narrow (Houghton et al. 2001).

Halkos, George and Tsilika, Kyriaki (2014): Analyzing and visualizing the synergistic impact mechanisms of climate change related costs.

They also provide a heuristic tool to explore mechanisms of climate variability, with implications for future climate projections [Schmidt et al., 2014].

The GPP response in SENA to remote regional forest loss demonstrates that ecological responses may differ depending on the location of forest loss and associated mechanisms of climate teleconnections.

Something like this would certainly be helpful with regard to things like: 1 — Fundamental mechanisms of Climate Change (with say Hansen and Lindzen acting as the respective experts) 2 — Palaeoclimatology and the «Hockey Stick» — obviusly Mann and McIntyre would be the participants

It is another way of looking at climate — one where powerful internal mechanisms of climate variability change randomly and chaotically according to the rules of the class of dynamic and complex systems.

Great progress has been made in understanding the causes and mechanisms of these climate changes.

This mechanism appears to be an intrinsic mechanism of the climate system as it is found in both control and forced climate simulation (Tsonis et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2009).

«Exploring the Likelihood and Mechanism of a Climate - Change - Induced Dieback of the Amazon Rainforest.»

Well — no it doesn't — it won't — and while is some very basic radiative physics involved — the fundamental mechanism of climate is chaos.

The above observational and modeling results suggest the following intrinsic mechanism of the climate system leading to major climate shifts.

There are numerous studies where regional climate model studies have increased our understanding of the mechanism of the climate system acting on a regional scale.

As far as I know all Universities are, unlike yourself, in basic agreement with the IPCC in their interpretation of the mechanism of climate change.

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate - change - induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

If we develop new concepts because carving the world up in some ways rather than others will help us protect and further our values, then it seems strange that we should prioritize the mechanism of climate system intervention in our concepts.

Therefore, to uncover the underlying MECHANISM of climate change has to be done without statistics.

Not exact matches

For example, they staged a walk - out at COP19 at Warsaw when their proposal for a loss and damage mechanism, which would contribute to addressing damages occurring from adverse effects of climate change, did not receive enough traction.

Carbon trading body argues integration of aviation market - based mechanism and existing REDD + scheme could provide win - win for the climate

The conference set - up favored developed countries and agribusiness corporations and illustrates the critical importance of CSO vigilance and participation that is particularly important given that the forthcoming UNFCCC climate negotiations are considering agriculture in expanded market mechanisms including the CDM.

A second part of RA's climate program is to work to develop a mechanism for producers to receive payments for carbon credits within existing carbon markets.

As of 2016, the mechanism and effects of climate change are integrated into the Massachusetts Science, Technology, and Engineering Frameworks for grades 9 - 12.

It was a platform conceived to enable stakeholders from the legislature, executive / regulators, business and civil society discuss mechanisms for improving the ease of doing business, investment climate and business competitiveness.

European governments and peoples largely approve of President Obama's greater respect for multilateralism, emphasis on non-traditional security areas such as climate change, and attempts to privilege diplomacy over more coercive mechanisms.

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

«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.

In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.

The response of the antarctic system to climate change is just one mechanism by which Earth's system will continue its cyclical evolution, with no concern for man's industrial and political motivations.

Robert Stavins, an economist at Harvard University who has written extensively on carbon markets, noted that during the creation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the United States insisted, over European objections, on inserting market mechanisms into global climate policy.

Incorporating a pricing mechanism into our climate policy would likely be more efficient at driving down greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost than the current policy of regulating such emissions under the Clean Air Act.

No matter what mechanism the United States ultimately decides to employ in addressing climate change, it must be implemented in a way that minimizes costs and recognizes the impacts on different regions of the country, like my home state of West Virginia.

«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.

The causes and mechanisms of natural climate variability, however, are poorly understood.

Filling in all these details will make it possible to refine the accuracy of atmospheric models and help to assess such things as strategies to mitigate specific air pollution issues, from ozone to particulate matter, or to assess the sources and removal mechanisms of atmospheric components that affect Earth's climate.

Funding mechanisms that rely on annual budget approval or short - term grants may result in discontinuity of ocean - climate measurements, reducing the value of the observations made to date and in the future.

Still, there are definitely mechanisms by which this rift could be linked to climate change, most notably through warmer ocean waters eating away at the base of the shelf.»

«There had been a lot of debate about exactly what the mechanism may be for that, and climate was certainly discussed.

Whether it's offsets from no - till farming that would have happened anyway from the Chicago Climate Exchange or offsets from hydropower dams in China that would have been built anyway under the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, it's all a bit of a shell game at present.

But this phenomenon, called «upwelling» has a very variable intensity due to the variability of the currents in the Pacific Basin, to which other ocean and climate forcing mechanisms are added.

Understanding the mechanisms that drive migratory behavior is increasingly important, Beck said, in terms of climate change, as migrating animals rely on multiple habitats.

Scientists discover an important clue in predicting future consequences of climate change: the mechanism that moves ice streams

The researchers believe that whilst being advantageous as a defense mechanism in temperate climates, such an increase will be a potential disadvantage in the arid climate of central Australia.

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.»

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.

«While global temperature tends to be stable due to the Planck Response, there are other important, previously less appreciated, mechanisms at work too,» said Wenhong Li, assistant professor of climate at Duke.

«This cooling reduced precipitation over Africa, and in combination with a range of other complex climate feedback mechanisms tipped the humid system towards aridification,» explains the first author of the study, James Collins from Helmholtz Centre Potsdam — GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Alfred Wegener Institute — Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

«Recent advances in understanding coral resilience are essential to safeguard coral reefs: A review of the literature points to the importance of reducing global carbon dioxide emissions in addition to protecting or augmenting resilience mechanisms in the face of increased frequency of climate change impacts..»