Sentences with phrase «of normal climate»

The observed recession of glaciers (Box 1.1) during the last century is larger than at any time over at least the last 5,000 years, is outside of the range of normal climate variability, and is probably induced by anthropogenic warming (Jansen et al., 2007).

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

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That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

What has transformed climate science from a normal intellectual discipline to a matter of so much controversy?

The inundation came because the Bay of Bengal was some inches higher than normal (as climate changes, sea level rises because warm water takes up more space).

Theories of global climate change threaten the energy companies so they manipulate the facts to make it look like a «normal» cycle and their political operatives flood the airwaves and Internet with dubious «proof».

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

Cuomo, who has had to cope with the aftermath of two major storms in his two years in office — Irene in 2011, and now Sandy — says the state could be better prepared for climate change that the governor believes could be the new normal.

The next couple of weeks are expected to be colder than normal across Upstate New York, according to the Climate Prediction Center.

While many in the GOP dispute whether climate change is even happening, Chris Gibson of New York's 19th district says too - frequent damaging storms in his district are enough evidence that we've entered a «new normal.»

Water quality in the Schoharie Valley and the Catskill Watershed has captured the attention of environmentalists and government officials who have joined forces to develop procedures and policies for dealing with «the new normal» climate change seems to have cast across upstate New York.

This means that the ratio between the extremes in the climate over different time periods behaves like the ratio between the more normal ratios of different timescales,» explains Peter Ditlevsen

But with shortened normals comes a risk of underplaying recorded changes to the climate.

Climate Central used data from NASA and NOAA to create an 1881 to 1910 climate normal for the months of January, February, andClimate Central used data from NASA and NOAA to create an 1881 to 1910 climate normal for the months of January, February, andclimate normal for the months of January, February, and March.

Because of globalization and interdependence, the relationship between climate change, migration and security should become the «new normal» in international policy conversations, the panel said.

Predictions of weather and climate for months, seasons and decades ahead lie between normal weather forecasts and climate projections for the coming century — concerning both what influences the climate on these time - scales, and the methods required to make such predictions.

The influence of climate change was evident in areas with either extreme incidents of oxygen depletion or longer - than - normal trends of low oxygen levels.

«One concern is that there is no sign of a switch to El Niño, and thus little prospect of compensation through above - normal rains in October through to November,» says Dan Williams from the UK Met Office, who added that it was not possible — yet — to say if this drought is a result of climate change.

«Of course, weather is naturally chaotic, and extremes are a normal part of our highly variable UK climate, but globally there has recently been an increase in the incidence of high temperature and heavy precipitation extremeOf course, weather is naturally chaotic, and extremes are a normal part of our highly variable UK climate, but globally there has recently been an increase in the incidence of high temperature and heavy precipitation extremeof our highly variable UK climate, but globally there has recently been an increase in the incidence of high temperature and heavy precipitation extremeof high temperature and heavy precipitation extremes.

Every ten years the data center calculates new U.S. «climate normals,» or 30 - year average values, for meteorological elements such as temperature, precipitation, and heating and cooling degree days for thousands of U.S. weather stations.

«The real issue is: Are people making real estate decisions based on climate change futures, rather than sort of normal speculation?»

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

As Earth's climate warms, these balmy years could become the norm, he says, meaning last winter's bird patterns could be a preview of the new normal.

Decades of climate change bring risks that people will accept higher temperatures, with more heatwaves, downpours and droughts, as normal and complicate government plans to do more to cut emissions of greenhouse gas emissions.

«We're seeing 200 to 400 percent of normal for this time of year,» said Michael Strobel, director of the service's National Water and Climate Center.

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.

Does that mean the change we're seeing now is normal, or is the climate behaving in new ways because of human influence?

«Going out to 40 or 50 years, basically the summer we just had will be normal,» says Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick at the Climate Change Research Centre of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

«The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,» David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.

The din makes it difficult for normal people to make sense of climate science, Kahan said.

He believes that changes in ocean circulation have warmed the Atlantic and increased hurricane activity in the past decade and that this is simply the result of normal oscillation in natural climate cycles.

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.

On the other hand, ecosystem productivity had either regained or exceeded its normal level a year after a climate event, regardless of plant diversity, showing that biodiversity has no effect on ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescales.

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

The outlook from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center shows above - normal temperatures are likely to rule for the week of Feb. 17 - 23, with the exception of the West Coast, as a series of storms is forecast to keep things cool there.

For NOAA's Climate Prediction Center to make that declaration, the sea - surface temperature in an eastern - central segment of the ocean called the Nino 3.4 must be 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) above normal for at least a month — and be forecasted to last that way for at least three months.

A research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Beijing Normal University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that increases in air pollution's tiny particles in the atmosphere have a strong influence on cloud development, which affects weather and climate.

John Allen, an associate research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, who, with colleagues, came out with the first seasonal tornado forecast last year, expects a below - normal number of tornadoes in the south central U.S.

So called normal years may return to some places for a year or three, but we are entering a period of severe climate disruption that may extend for the rest of your life, and that of your children.

Unlike Earth or Mars, Pluto has no satellites or ground stations, so the types of data that are used by normal weather and climate people (air pressure, temperature, atmospheric composition, etc.) are not available for Pluto.

The Climate Prediction Center's 8 - 14 day forecast shows the entire U.S. will have increased odds of colder than normal temperatures.

More climate stories ripped out of the back pages of the news: NASA says the record low Arctic sea ice levels in the last few years are the new normal.

El Niño is a Pacific - driven climate pattern that features warmer - than - normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropics of that ocean basin.

La Niña is the opposite end of the natural climate seesaw from El Niño; it is characterized by cooler - than - normal ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, while El Niño features warmer - than - normal.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science by a team of by researchers at the University of Utah and Princeton University, shows that the world's forests take an average of between two and four years to return to their normal growth and carbon dioxide absorption rate following a severe drought — a finding that has significant climate implications.

Bell said that he and his office, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, have been fielding questions about the August lull in Atlantic hurricanes and whether it would cause his forecast team to soften its May and August outlooks, which concluded that the 2013 season had a 70 percent chance of being more active than normal.

According to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the next couple of weeks are likely to be warmer and drier than normal — ideal conditions for expanding and worsening the drought.

Climate is defined as the statistical properties of the atmosphere: averages, extremes, frequency of occurrence, deviations from normal, and so forth.»

Another study, from Geophysical Research Letters in April of 2017, questioned what is taken to be normal climate patterns in the North Pacific, derived from instrument data beginning in the 1950s.

But between climate change and the impact of decades of poor management, such wildfires may be the new normal.