Sentences with phrase «more about future climate»

That's why I have stopped listening to climate change experts because at the end of the day, they know little more about future climate trends than the average Joe.

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Shultz is concerned, however, about the future of his six - person firm, and the Parkland business climate more generally.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

By learning more about Earth's ancient climate, scientists hope to get a glimpse of what's likely to occur in the future.

The more we know about natural rapid climate change, the better we can help climate modelers forecast how climate might change in the future now that human activity is added to the mix.»

They used two different climate models, each with a different sensitivity to carbon dioxide, to project California's future under two scenarios: an optimistic one, in which we only double the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — since the 19th century we've already increased it by about a third — and a pessimistic scenario, in which we more than triple CO2.

«We came to take a half a degree Celsius out of future warming, and we won about 90 percent of our climate prize,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, who has worked toward the agreement for more than a decade.

The more data we have about what's happened across millions of years of climate, the better our predictions of the future will be.»

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceclimate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceClimate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceclimate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

If scientists could know more about Arctic climate of the past, they could better understand today's changes, and use that knowledge to improve projections for the future.

While the higher levels of acidity predicted under future climate scenarios decreased their overall growth, this was counteracted by Read more about Sea urchins in a climate conundrum - Scimex

I understand it's not an overtly direct extrapolation, but fundamentally it more or less still is if the underlying assumptions about the feedbacks are presumed to not only be correct but also operate proportionally the same to the forcing from the LGM as they do in reponse to future forcings in the current climate.

Learn more about all the ways climate change is threatening our health today and will continue to do so in the future here.

Nevertheless, I hope there will be more discussions about climate indicators and more resources in the future that can offer up - to - date information about the state of the climate, based on these.

Deser et al. imply that information about the future regional climate is more blurred than previously anticipated because of large - scale atmospheric flow responsible for variations in regional climates.

This conclusion holds even if one includes the necessity for mid-course corrections in the future as we learn more about the climate system and more about how the economy will evolve.

It sure looks like few people can afford to care about climate impacts thousands of years and more in the future.

At any rate, the facts as reported ought to be accurate, rather than judging in advance that no one cares about climate impacts that last thousands of years and more into the future.

Would it be worth it to make more intelligent future decisions about climate change?

All in all the science of hurricanes does appear to be much more fun and interesting than the average climate change issue, as there is a debate, a «fight» between different hypothesis, predictions compared to near - future observations, and all that does not always get pre-eminence in the exchanges about models.

It no longer made sense to argue about climate change — we needed to replace the rhetoric with reality, and try to figure out how to face a future in which severe climate events would be stronger and more frequent.

Moving on to weather patterns, he spent more and more time reading reports about El Niño, La Niña, climate change, and began to see to his daughters» future.

The climate issue embodies this challenge of balancing present and future costs more than just about any other, many experts say.

However, advances in climate modelling are enabling researchers to be more confident about forecasting what the future might hold.

Yet, disclosure rules regarding environmental or sustainability issues may become more rigorous in the future as Peabody Energy, the world's largest private - sector coal company, agreed (PDF) in November to provide more information about its risks associated with climate change in future SEC filings.

But what's really obscene is endeavoring to keep young people from learning the truth about climate change — an empirically observable phenomenon that will harm future generations far more than it has already harmed this one.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

I realize I was trespassing with anecdote in a discussion about science and climate, which requires more than a decade to begin to show trends, but it seems to me that as recent incidents display to some extent climate change under way, it is unwise to ignore the future, which might just accelerate rather than boinging back to neutral.

But the scientists who study climate generally are far more concerned about the future.

Based on nothing more than dubious computer models, these people pretend to know what the future holds (climate change of such magnitude that it's worth worrying about).

Join us on a journey to learn why the story of climate change isn't just about melting glaciers or disappearing polar bears, and not just about a more dangerous world for far - off future generations.

«The future challenge, however, is more about climate change.

Why talk about the past fumblings, when the future is promising in terms of getting more complete understanding of climate science?

The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion - makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,» and, that global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»

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It's true that as the ocean warms, it can't absorb as much CO2, but that is a reason to be more worried about climate change, since it means global warming may well speed up in the future.

In as much as none of the model scenarios can be validated, all predictions about future climate conditions amount to nothing more that, «Wait to see if our predictions come true; you'll see then.

I'll look forward to hearing more about what CarbonWA does in the future, and I'll keep holding out hope that my home state can lead the way on good climate policy.

For example, first work on preventing catastrophic climate change, and use the research from that to address the more general problem of getting shaved monkeys to worry about threats they can't see that will kill them in the impossibly far distant future (viz, later than next fiscal quarter).

If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.

And excuse me but climate science is not ONLY about the current significance of warming but it more about the FUTURE.

However, with the number of individual writers involved, not all are consistent in propaganda strategies, and / or the sentence may be left in (since few read more than the hyperpolitical Summary for Policymakers) as a butt - covering tactic, to be taken out of context in future decades to pretend they weren't vehemently trying to prevent spread of knowledge about the GCR - climate link.

We should spend less time worrying about El Niño or La Niña weather patterns and more time dealing with the fact that climate change will be the biggest force in the state's water future, writes scientist Juliet Christian - Smith.

Secondly, to overcome fear of the unknown, one healthy response is to find out more about climate change and form a clearer picture of the future.

If human - induced climate change is responsible, we need to seriously start thinking about decreasing our vulnerability to extreme storm events and pro-actively adapt to a more energetic future wave climate.»

To be prepared, we need to think differently about managing our resources in anticipation of a less familiar and more unpredictable climate in the future.

I came here to learn more about Judith Currey's insights to climate science, which seemed interesting, but instead I found a politically conservative, scientifically stale community stuck in the status quo and unwilling to consider an alternative future.

For instance, because of some of the things on this list, Americans are more likely than they were in previous years to accept the possibility that science has something to say about the Earth's climate and the changes we have experienced or that may be in the future; journalists are starting to take a new look at their own misplaced «objective» stance as well.

That is why all attempts to date at modelling the climate have failed and they will continue to fail for the foreseeable future until we know a great deal more about the oceans.

Question 4, not surprisingly, entails yet more assumptions about how humans will react to future changes in the climate at both global and regional levels.