Sentences with phrase «modern climate extremes»

Dr. Huybers» research involves the causes of glacial cycles, evaluation of modern climate extremes, and the implications of climate change for food production.

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As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

The modern, domesticated chickpea has an extreme lack of genetic diversity, leaving it vulnerable to climate change, prompting scientists to seek out wild varieties for crossbreeding programmes.

The thorns and the extreme climate have kept the modern world out until now — but no longer.

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

Besides outstanding members of the scientific association that gathers as the Mummy Congress, Pringle limns the many varieties of mummies, from the world's oldest, preserved by the high - altitude climate of the Andes, to modern Communist dictators, self - mummifying Buddhists, and the subjects of extreme cosmetic surgery.

Over all, in considering policy options related to African progress, it's vital to keep in mind that the climate history of peri-Saharan regions includes millenniums - long patterns of mega-drought far more extreme than anything experienced in modern times.

The World Meteorological Organization says the planet «experienced unprecedented high - impact climate extremes» in the ten years from 2001 to 2010, the warmest decade since the start of modern measurements in 1850.

Secondly, I see climate science as an extreme example of problems that affect much of modern science — and perhaps even our society as a whole.

This past U.S. climate experience of extreme warming provides unequivocal evidence that natural climate change is variable and strong enough to easily explain the milder modern warming trends over the last 30 years.

But, there is another view of extreme climate change that can be examined to ascertain whether it has become a modern era problem or not.

... growing human CO2 emissions have caused a greater frequency of extreme climate incidents during the modern era?

«The climate has always changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates of change of temperature, of ice volume, of sea level or of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.

This analysis suggests that modern climate is less volatile, and temperature extremes less severe, than in the past.

First, because extreme climate phenomena represent rare events and modern climate records made by instruments are short, the modern record may capture only a few instances of these extreme events.

These extremes even took place eons «Before Exxon» (BE), the fossil fuel giant that Democrats routinely blame for modern climate change and global warming.

As the vast majority of climate peer - reviewed studies confirm, there were multiple periods in the geological and ancient past that exhibited, not only extreme climate change, but also hotter temperatures prior to the modern era's huge industrial / consumer greenhouse gases.

Scientists continue to investigate past climate change events to better understand modern climate change, including extreme drought.

Past extreme drought events are clear examples of continuous natural climate change that the modern era can not escape.

Under climate change, modern droughts are expected to be even more extreme than historical ones.