Doesn't mean the climate models are bad or aren't useful; it does mean they aren't up to this particular job.
But while piles of snow blocking your driveway hardly conjure images of a dangerously warming world, it doesn't mean that climate change is a myth.
USA Today ran a defensive piece titled «It's cold outside, but that doesn't mean climate change isn't real.»
Two years ago the fecal stain method identified several large, hitherto unknown colonies and nearly doubled our estimate of the world's Emperor Penguins.1, 2 That didn't mean climate change had necessarily increased penguin numbers, but a larger more robust population meant Emperor Penguins were far more resilient to any form of change.
It's cold outside, but that doesn't mean climate change isn't real Sammy Roth,...
One day, or week or even month of unusually cold weather doesn't mean climate change isn't happening.
That doesn't mean that climate change has nothing to do with it.
Certainly you can't mean the climate science community?
Climate scientists caution that this does
not mean climate change is not real.
«Misconceptions about climate science are rife with those who confuse weather with climate... the presence of large El Nià ± o events before 1850 AD does
not mean that climate change has no effect.»
That does
not mean climate change is about to be recognised as a security concern in its own right, but each step taken is valuable and the council is certainly on the right path to identifying climate change as the security threat it so clearly is.
Let me make this clear: this does
not mean that climate change isn't an issue.
PNS to me seems more of a science / policy interface challenge, and should
not mean climate science can take short cuts, or try to game the system.
However, with all the above stated, this does
not mean that climate change is not happening; that human activities have no influence on weather and climate; nor that global warming won't occur in the near future.
This guideline does
not mean that climate change is harmless below 2 C, or that it suddenly becomes so catastrophic above 2 C that further efforts at limiting warming are pointless, but like a highway speed limit, it serves as a useful benchmark for where you start to worry about things being really bad.
That range measures our ignorance; it does
not mean that climate response from a specified state is stochastic with such inherent uncertainty.
If there was a MWP, that does
nt mean that climate sensitivity is greater than 3 C.
Not exact matches
A leadership and business perspective can help a lot in
climate change, and I don't
mean by promoting technical innovation.
That
meant a first section with a broad pledge to fight
climate change in general; a separate paragraph carved out that acknowledged the U.S. did
not support the Paris deal; and a third paragraph in which the other 19 members reaffirmed their support for the deal.
Moreover, looking «outside - in»
means acknowledging that business does
not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from
climate change to sustainable development.
It's
not just American companies that have grown lean and
mean in this
climate of lower oil prices.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did
not agree to the new
climate framework, and said the likely direction of U.S.
climate and energy policy under president - elect Donald Trump
means we need to be very cautious about adopting
climate policies in Canada.
In the Internet age, urban «resilience»
means not only responding to
climate change, but also protecting our ubiquitous networks from both hack and glitch.
Acting according to
climate science and our Paris commitments does
not, however,
mean we have to turn off the oil sands tap tomorrow.
He has
not really addressed the fact that the notion of
climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is
not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are
not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical
meaning,
not the common one of «
not religious»).
Quite obviously, we do
not know all that he
meant by it — we can
not hope to, separated as we are by twenty centuries from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are by no
means altogether in ignorance of his
meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental
climate of Jesus» environment, our understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.
The interviewer asks if this wouldn't make us less than human, which was the question we would have asked, and Vatinno answers: «Becoming less human is
not necessarily a negative thing, because it could
mean we are less subject to the whims of nature, such as illness or
climate extremes.»
We must note immediately that by tolerance we do
not mean pervasive indifference leading to a
climate of relativistic pluralism.
While oats thrive in temperate
climates all across the world, they particularly enjoy cooler temperatures and some rain -
meaning the growing season in Finland is
not as short as you might think, and even a «bad» Finnish summer can be a good summer for oats!
Because the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation,
climate change (I
mean, what isn't?)
«With the unpredictability of the changing
climate, farmers have no
means of telling whether or
not their farms will be affected.
Heidi — so jealous of your SF
climate which
means not only your access to more local fresh veggies in season but also the ability to turn on your oven in July!
maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which
means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic
climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think
That being said, in this latitude, in this
climate we don't see a whole lot of, I
mean, I've never seen Rickets but, in terms of deficiency, may be it will be something which has more often which, actually this guideline talks about testing pregnant women which I know my OB / GYN hasn't tested me but, that's interesting to me.
If you live in a cold
climate like me, this time of year doesn't just
mean shopping for holiday attire or holiday gifts... no, this is the time of year where you have to seriously look at your shoe wardrobe and find out what is going to work for snowy treacherous days (much like the one we are having in Michigan today!).
But «let's try
not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address
climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which
means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.
(I take your point that failure to achieve this might legitimate peaceful civil disobedience; I wouldn't see that it could legitimate prioritising
climate change over democratic
means, which has been argued eg by Mayer Hillman).
«If we don't rapidly transition off of fossil fuels, the resulting
climate catastrophe
means mass extinctions, the collapse of ocean and land ecosystems, and flooding of the world's cities and bread - basket deltas,» Hawkins said.
Plans call for the building to include geothermal
climate control, solar - powered electricity and other features that will render it «net - zero for living,»
meaning that tenants will
not have to pay utility bills.
The format of the initiatives
meant that they
not only learnt about the science of environmental problems such as
climate change, but were also engaged in considering solutions and how to bring them about, both in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.
Different circumstances within different countries
mean that one size very definitely does
not fit all - as local disease, animal husbandry, economic and
climate conditions will impact on countries abilities to change existing practices».
I
mean John Katko, when he ran he didn't even, you couldn't say that
climate change was man made.
«In the current economic
climate, every penny counts and for small businesses a late invoice can
mean not being able to pay their staff.
If you can then show that humans don't cause
climate change, then only # 2 (and possibly # 4, which has the same conclusion) is left, and it
means that we have no obligation to try and do anything about it.
«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future
climate and socio - economic conditions, we do
not only need robust projections of
mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.
That
means finding ways to convey the issues that don't instantly clash with the cherished values of those they are trying to persuade (see «
Climate science: Why the world won't listen «-RRB-.
The pending Paris
climate deal may
not keep the world from warming by 2 degrees Celsius — does that
mean it would be a failure?
This does
not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be said to be simply «caused» by human - induced
climate change — usually such events are complex, with many causes.
«If the Senate bill in its final form does
not allow companies to use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and
Climate Coalition,
meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.
And
climate models predict wet regions will become wetter and dry regions drier, which
means more rain for all of the UK,
not just the coasts.