Sentences with phrase «natural changes in the climate system»

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«The research fills an important gap in our understanding of the vulnerability of tropical river - forest systems to changes in climate and land cover,» said the project's leader, Leandro Castello, assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

In September 2014, Koonin wrote an editorial where he acknowledged human - caused climate change was happening but wrote that the «impact today of human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the climate system itself.»

They concluded that the heavy rains in Europe last year were likely due to natural variability in the climate system rather than climate change.

«This system is a starting point for being more transparent, because the more transparent we are, the more opportunities for financing further actions we will have in the international arena,» said Juan Mata Sandoval, director - general of climate change policy at Mexico's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

«We have added another piece of information showing that the timescales on which humans have changed the composition of the atmosphere are extremely short compared to the natural time cycles of the climate system,» says Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern in Switzerland, who led the research.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

«It suggests that similar underlying processes drive how natural systems respond to climate change and provides a glimpse of what could be in store for the future.»

Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.

These variations originate primarily from fluctuations in carbon uptake by land ecosystems driven by the natural variability of the climate system, rather than by oceans or from changes in the levels of human - made carbon emissions.

«It shows that this climate system in the model is sensitive to a variety of different natural climate changes that occurred over the last 21,000 years.»

An assessment of climate effects on Montana agriculture is complex because of uncertainties inherent in the timing and manifestation of climate change, and because of complexity in how natural systems, agricultural producers, and market processes will react.

This indicates that summer sea ice in the Antarctic is heavily influenced by natural fluctuations in the climate system, which can mask the impact of human - caused climate change, says Day:

What remains unclear is precisely what fraction of the observed changes in these climate - sensitive systems can confidently be attributed to human - related influences, rather than mere natural regional fluctuations in climate.

The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.

Enjoy the natural underwater reef systems in the Garrafon Park — Punta Sur and the underwater sculpture Museum from MUSA, which is an innovative project that's designed to help counteract the climate change effects on our reef systems.

The smallest warming / sea level rise in TAR figure 5 will place a wide range of human and natural systems under very considerable pressure (and based on estimates of the melt - down point for greenland place us teetering on the edge of dangerous climate change).

To help «climate change communication» in the public debate, I have been trying to create a natural - language - style flow - chart cartoon language that illustrates the principles of the lack of precise prediction in complex systems, for purposes of elementary pedagogy.

Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for — and in many cases is already affecting — a broad range of human and natural systems.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

Attribution of observed impacts in the WGII AR5 links responses of natural and human systems to climate change, not to anthropogenic climate change, unless explicitly indicated.

Let's assume these studies somehow greatly underestimated natural variability in the climate system, so that the «signal» of anthropogenic climate change has not yet emerged from the «noise» of natural variations (i.e., the above - cited «discernible human influence» had not been detected after all).

However, when you look at all the «big picture» evidence of the global system it is clear that there is nothing «natural» about it, in fact it appears that the planet is in early stages of an abrupt change of climate from our «normal» system to one that is much warmer and tropical like.

If you can't keep up with annual - decadal changes in the TOA radiative imbalance or ocean heat content (because of failure to correctly model changes in the atmosphere and ocean due to natural variability), then your climate model lacks fidelity to the real world system it is tasked to represent.

In short: the larger past natural climate changes have been, the more vulnerable is the climate system, and the more it will react to the greenhouse gases that humans are adding to the system.

The strongest internal variability in the climate system on this time scale is the change from El Niño to La Niña — a natural, stochastic «seesaw» in the tropical Pacific called ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation).

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protectinIn fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protectinin combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protectinin a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protectinin addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceanIn recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceanin climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.

Climate change is only one of many types of environmental change effecting Earth's life support systems — in fact, there is now a serious risk that the dramatic gains to public health made since the 1950s could plateau or even reverse as a result of human degradation of a myriad of natural systems.

Having better constraints on the timing and magnitude of past climate changes should ultimately lead to better constraints on climate sensitivity and the role of natural variability in the climate system.

The papers questioned everything from the relative role of natural mechanisms in changes to the climate system vis - à - vis increased CO2 concentrations, the allegedly «unprecedented» nature of modern climate phenomena such as warming, sea levels, glacier and sea ice retreat, and the efficacy and reliability of computer climate models for projecting future climate states.

The disagreement arises from different assessments of the value and importance of particular classes of evidence as well as disagreement about the appropriate logical framework for linking and assessing the evidence — my reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of observational evidence and understanding of natural internal variability of the climate system, whereas the IPCC's reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of climate model simulations and external forcing of climate change.

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

Because the planet does not have a natural system capable of cleaning the atmosphere of excess carbon dioxide in a human - relevant timescale, it makes the development of solutions that hold the potential of removing and sequestering large volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere a key priority if we want to avoid climate change.

There is also a natural variability of the climate system (about a zero reference point) that produces El Nino and La Nina effects arising from changes in ocean circulation patterns that can make the global temperature increase or decrease, over and above the global warming due to CO2.

IN this case, Judith's explains her own «bias» (what could be fairer that that) thusly: «my reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of observational evidence and understanding of natural internal variability of the climate system, whereas the IPCC's reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of climate model simulations and external forcing of climate change.&raquIN this case, Judith's explains her own «bias» (what could be fairer that that) thusly: «my reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of observational evidence and understanding of natural internal variability of the climate system, whereas the IPCC's reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of climate model simulations and external forcing of climate change.&raquin favor of observational evidence and understanding of natural internal variability of the climate system, whereas the IPCC's reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of climate model simulations and external forcing of climate change.&raquin favor of climate model simulations and external forcing of climate change.»

They are used to investigate the processes responsible for maintaining the general circulation and its natural and forced variability (Chapter 8), to assess the role of various forcing factors in observed climate change (Chapter 9) and to provide projections of the response of the system to scenarios of future external forcing (Chapter 10).

The Commission's Subcommittee on Fish, Wildlife, and Habitat Restoration completed this report to outline a plan for preparing for climate change in natural systems.

Global Green is a national leader in advancing sustainable and resilient communities to green cities, schools, and affordable housing to help protect human health, improve livability, and support our planet's natural systems in an effort to stem climate change.

In my earlier posting, I tried to make the distinction that global climate change (all that is changing in the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trenIn my earlier posting, I tried to make the distinction that global climate change (all that is changing in the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trenin the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trenin greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trend.

This process involves statistically linking climate change simulations from climate models with the observed responses in the natural or managed system.

In the 2003 IPCC paper «A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems.»

Field, in the school's Department of Global Ecology with the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science, reviewed and synthesized existing research on climate change for a special issue of Science: «Natural Systems in Changing Climates.»

The overarching goal of this WCRP research effort, led by WCRP's Core Project «Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change» (CLIVAR) as a Research Focus, is to establish a quantitative understanding of the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of regional to local sea level variability; to promote advances in observing systems required for an integrated sea level monitoring; and to foster the development of sea level predictions and projections that are of increasing benefit for coastal zone management.

They lead international research in climate change, natural hazards and volcanology, geography, atmospheric and ocean sciences, geochemistry, natural resource management, ecology, biodiversity conservation, environmental biology, environmental policy, environmental economics, sustainability and geographical information systems.

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On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

The study claims to have measured feedback, and have found feedback to temperature changes in the natural climate system to be negative — opposite of the assumption of strong positive feedback in climate models.

Based on evidence from Earth's history, we suggest here that the relevant form of climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene (e.g. from which to base future greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization targets) is the Earth system sensitivity including fast feedbacks from changes in water vapour, natural aerosols, clouds and sea ice, slower surface albedo feedbacks from changes in continental ice sheets and vegetation, and climate — GHG feedbacks from changes in natural (land and ocean) carbon sinks.

Genetics - based approaches seek to harness the natural genetic variation that exists in wild - populations to restore damaged natural systems and mitigate climate and other global change impacts.