Sentences with phrase «normal climate variations»

Hugh Willoughby of Florida International University thinks we are primarily seeing the effects of normal climate variations, like El Niño.

Finney believes that changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.

2 / Do you agree, I asked you before, that even normal climate variation could depending on the world it at the particular time acts on (refering to socioecological resilience) could be alarming, since the threshold for e.g. drought effects is not far awai in places?

Local outlier filter: We tested for and flagged values that exceeded a locally determined empirical 99.9 % threshold for normal climate variation in each record.

Not exact matches

Deutsch's latest research is untangling how much oxygen loss is linked to climate change and how much is due to normal variation in oxygen levels.

He and other scientists emphasized that this year's 50 percent rebound stemmed from normal weather variations, not an unusual climate shift.

The team used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in sea surface temperatures and sea ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.

Coming back on topic: the assertion that climate is within normal limits is both positive and falsifiable — all you need to falsify it is to show that climate has exceeded the bounds of normal variation.

But there remains a vocal defense of the old orthodoxy — climate variation is normal and human activity can play no role.

Not altering the climate, there's nothing happening now beyond normal variation.

Since nothing is happening beyond normal variation in the climate or weather, not even trends (with 1000 year plus cycles a short phase will look like a trend), then there is no measurable basis for claiming CO2 is changing the climate.

Of course the biggy, what evidence do you have that the climate is doing anything more than normal natural variation?

Albeit accurate, this recent 12 month data for each location should be considered statistically unreliable due to its brevity compared with «climate normals» that have typical year - to - year weather variations smoothed over standard periods (commonly 30 years).

My issue with Lindzen's article and other non-alarmist stands is the dissemination of a complacent attitude to climate change: it is just normal variation.

Climate variations were normal, Salinger said, but this did not weaken conclusions about the dangers of burning oil and coal.

Attenborough, as a respected scientific commentator and naturalist in his own right, should know better than to take computer models as gospel while ignoring paleo - geographic evidence from the real world that today's climate variations are well within normal limits.

The Arctic has historically shown regional variations in climate, with one region warmer than normal while another region was cooler, and then after a while flipping to the opposite conditions.

It is somewhat concerning that certain national governments seem to be in a panic over what appears to be perfectly normal variations in climate and using imperfect information on which to make important decisions that will impact on all of us.

It's easy enough to believe that drought, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes are signs of a coming catastrophe from global warming, but these are normal variations of any climate that we — and other forms of life — have survived.

These were used to estimate a normal pattern of seasonal climate variation.

Even if global warming is proved to be within normal long - term climate variations, wouldn't it be nice to breathe cleaner air?

I would expect to see about one degree C of man - made warming between now and 2100, and believe most of the cries that «we are already seeing catastrophic climate changes» are in fact panics driven by normal natural variation (most supposed trends, say in hurricanes or tornadoes or heat waves, can't actually be found when one looks at the official data).

Despite overwhelming evidence, some believe the world's climate is not warming, but undergoing «normal» variation.

But the disrepute into which his study has fallen leaves us wondering just how much variation in climate is normal.

Viewers weren't invited to consider alternative explanations — such as the belief that normal, natural climate cycles are associated with temperature variations in both directions.