Sentences with phrase «nature of abrupt climate change»

Hypotheses and inferences concerning the nature of abrupt climate change, exemplified by the Dansgaard - Oeschger (D / O) events, are reviewed.

Hypotheses and inferences concerning the nature of abrupt climate change, exemplified by the Dansgaard - Oeschger (D / O) events, are reviewed.

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Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age, Nature, 520, 661 - 665, doi: 10.1038 / nature14401.

Andy — As far back as Severinghaus et al (Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice, 1998, Nature), the ice - core data showed clearly that the abrupt climate changes (end of the Younger Dryas in that case) were faster than the methane changes.

A far better term is «climate disruption», which captures the real nature of the vast array of changes, many of them abrupt and unexpected, that are occurring.»

This has created much confusion about the nature and causes of Holocene abrupt climatic changes and has given many the false impression that the Holocene is characterized by long periods of climate stability.

Such losses of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk of extinction due to causes other than climate change by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.15 The second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss of the last individual of a species.

I tend to agree with the conclusions of Carolyn Ruppel [see above] and USCCSP SAP 3.4 Chapter 5 [the abrupt climate change report mentioned above] that increases in emissions as large as those suggested in the Nature article are unlikely.»