Sentences with phrase «more about natural variability»

The «hiatus» says more about natural variability then whether the models are right.

Not exact matches

While it has gotten about one degree warmer since 1900, there is no clear evidence that current climate is anywhere outside of natural variability, and mankind is, at this time, successfully living in climate extremes ranging from the far North to the Equator where climate differences are much more than 3C.

My colleagues and I were using what we call proxy records, like corals and tree rings, and ice cores to try and extend the climate record back in time so that we could learn more about natural climate variability.

Much of what is of concern to the military is extreme weather events (e.g. Pakistan floods) driven by natural climate variability and random weather roulette (concerns about sea level rise and the opening of the Arctic Ocean are linked more closely to AGW)

A more reasoned approach is to take the full weight of our understanding about the Earth and its systems and go beyond asking if any particular event is due to global warming or natural variability.

Well, maybe there's an element of natural variability in the global climate that doesn't care about your SUV any more than it did back in the medieval warm period.

Your comment about natural variability being such a «wild card» sound much more to belong in the white than in the red box though, so maybe I'm interpreting the flag numbers different than you?

Anyhow, 1 C from CO2 doubling and about.3 C we have already gotten from present rise to around 400 ppm [from 280 to 420 ppm will more than 1/2 of 1 C increase], leaving about.5 C increase attributable to «natural variability».

More importantly, conventional temperature analyses need to incorporate longer term natural variability that appears about twice the conventional standard deviation.

(Perhaps, we would not be greatly concerned about a one degree increase; perhaps the natural variability is more.)

More ominously, a climate with large magnitude natural long - term variability in general is a climate very sensitive to imposed forcings, raising concerns about extreme impacts due to future climate change).

Via Grist via Tom Raftery More on What You Need To Know About Arctic Ice 2009 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Minimum Third Lowest on Record - «Well Outside» Natural Variability Arctic Ocean Ice - Free in Summer by 2015, New Research Shows - Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Rapid Losses, Too Melting Ice Could Lead to Massive Waves of Climate Refugees How Will Global Warming Change Our Oceans?

«Assessing the past response to natural variability of iron will enable scientists to develop more quantitative predictions about the possible efficacy of adding it ourselves in the future,» said Winckler.

So before we demonize anthropogenic CO2 for a new and «unnatural» forcing, how about discovering a little more about the «complex interplay of natural internal variabilities?