Sentences with phrase «of past climate change»

Studies of past climate changes suggest the land and oceans start releasing more CO2 than they absorb as the planet warms.

Warming can be the result of a number of factors, so that the cause of past climate change is not necessarily implicated in current climate change.

I disagree with your statement that science has a good understanding of past climate changes and their causes.

Thus, an estimate of climate sensitivity from past data requires an estimate of the magnitude of the past climate changes and of the radiative forcings causing the changes.

Is it crazy to expect tiny pockets of natural communities to hold evidence of past climate change?

We urgently need to better understand the causes of past climate change.

A new paper adds another piece of the puzzle to our understanding of past climate change.

There is a great opportunity to use our knowledge of past climate change to test and improve climate models.

However, there are few records of past climate changes in this key region that have the length, resolution and age controls needed to reveal the area's response to abrupt climate change events.

«Records of past climate change show that change starts slowly and then accelerates,» he said.

«Very few studies have attempted to estimate the effects of past climate change on air quality and health.

«This study sets a primer to move the field toward more comprehensive studies spanning larger geographical regions and longer timeframes to ultimately understand in higher detail the effects of past climate change in extinct faunas» adds Ana Rosa Gómez Cano from Institut Català de Paleontologia and coauthor of the article.

Abstract: «Proxy - based indicators of past climate change show that current global climate models systematically underestimate Holocene - epoch climate variability on centennial to multi-millennial timescales, with the mismatch increasing for longer periods.

«We combined these records to create a detailed map of past climate change in the American West.

Proxy - based indicators of past climate change show that current global climate models systematically underestimate Holocene - epoch climate variability on centennial to multi-millennial timescales, with the mismatch increasing for longer periods1, 2,3,4,5.

Only one of those groups, Working Group I (WG I) is assigned to report on the extent and possible causes of past climate change as well as future projections.

The spectacular ice cave at Scărișoara fills a crucial piece of the puzzle of past climate change in recording what happens during winter.»

Emslie's data will now allow geologists to calibrate models of past climate change and so make better climate predictions.

Studies of past climate change indicate that the AMOC has slowed a number of times, in surprisingly short periods, causing substantial cooling of Europe.

This accrued heat is «really the memory of past climate change,» said Kevin Trenberth, the head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and co-author of a new paper on ocean warming.

Should people not use what has been published to get the best characterisation of past climate change?

This enterprise will not only help in understanding the nature of modern climate change, but will permit us to decode the record of past climate changes hidden in tropical glaciers.

Changes in Earth's radiation balance were the principal driver of past climate changes, but the causes of such changes are varied.

This revealed that walrus are among the many that reflect a shift in prey sources as a result of past climate changes.

These climate field reconstructions (CFRs) reveal dynamical signatures of past climate change and variability that are important for diagnosing their underlying causes [Masson - Delmotte et al., 2013].

However, paleoclimate data are used as a foundation for climate scientists by providing crucial information such as rates of past climate change and how vegetation and animal populations responded to the change.

In addition Tony Brown, does not go back far enough to show a fair representation of past climate change.

The variable Sun is the most likely candidate for the natural forcing of past climate changes on time scales of 50 to 1000 years.

Emissions increases, and measured climate damages, are on the high side of past climate change scenarios.

The IPCC continues to undervalue the overwhelming evidence that, on decadal and century - long time scales, the Sun and associated atmospheric cloud effects are responsible for much of past climate change.

Geological evidence from studies of past climate change now suggests that if longer term factors are taken into account, such as the decay of large ice sheets and the operation of the full carbon cycle, the sensitivity of the Earth to a doubling of CO2 could be double that predicted by most climate models.

There is plenty of evidence of past climate change which was abrupt on timescales of 10 - 100 years through the last glacial cycle and beyond.

Sure paleoclimatology can give us a good idea of past climate change but if Gavin thinks that we can know the temperature of the globe 22,000 years ago to within 0.4 of a degree then I have a bridge I would like to sell him

These experiments provide new insight into mechanisms of past climate changes on Earth, which have been driven in part by tectonic changes in ocean basins and consequent changes in ocean circulation and heat transport.

Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change

Indeed, it is likely that the regional patterns of past climate changes, rather than simple hemispheric or global mean temperature trends, will best inform our understanding of the dynamical mechanisms involved.

Quigley: «The instigator of past climate change is irrelevant to your trial and guilt.

However, it is known from estimates of past climate changes and from atmospheric physics - based models that Earth's climate is more sensitive than that.

Science has a good understanding of past climate changes and their causes, and that evidence makes the human cause of modern climate change all the more clear.