Sentences with phrase «of sudden climate»

It is also quite interesting to note that you by introducing a stable climate in the sense of smooth - response actually do remove the threat of sudden climate changes.

Farmers now get an alert on their mobile phones of sudden climate variations that can harm their crops.

The extension of meteorological modelling (good for 7 to 10 days) toward regional forecasting (hopefully good for up to 30 days) and applied over interlocking areas of the Earth's surface and stratosphere, would be most useful for humanity in its quest to ameliorate the effects of sudden climate change.

Juakola — Thanks for the provocative reference, and its description of the nature, magnitude, and unpredictability of sudden climate changes.

Regarding your response # 2, there are numerous examples of sudden climate transitions of different spatial and temporal time scales.

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«At some point, the cost of capture intersects with the cost of carbon, and all of a sudden you don't have to subsidize industry to do it,» explains Rob Savage, director of Alberta Environment's Climate Change Secretariat.

What set this in motion is uncertain, but we think it has something to do with major climatic shifts that were happening around that time — a sudden cooling in the Earth's climate driven by the onset of one of the worst parts of the last Ice Age.

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

The immediate reasons for the low expectations of England are well - trodden, but to quickly recap: the sudden resignation of Fabio Capello and the timescale for locating his replacement; the reported fissures in the squad stemming from the pending court case against John Terry; the litany of injuries that denied Hodgson the services of, among others, Jack Wilshere, Gareth Barry, Kyle Walker, Frank Lampard, and Gary Cahill; the climate created by the cries of knicker - twisted horror that arose from various of the commentariat at the appointment of Not Harry Redknapp; and Wayne Rooney's two - game suspension.

Statistical analysis revealed a pattern: Each documented introduction of plague in Europe was preceded by a significant climate event in Asia, such as a sudden shift in the annual monsoon pattern in the mid-14th century, which pushed the northern border of activity from China to Siberia.

But, says Axel Timmermann, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, «None of these snapshots were able to capture abrupt climate change and transition,» thereby making them less useful for predicting coming sudden shifts.

This means that the sudden appearance of rangeomorphs at large size could have been a direct result of major changes in climate and ocean chemistry.

A sudden halt to the use of such methods, due to issues such as major negative effects, would also lead to rapid climate change, to which ecosystems and societies would have difficulty in adapting.

The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.

Climate changes that began ~ 17,700 years ago included a sudden poleward shift in westerly winds encircling Antarctica with corresponding changes in sea ice extent, ocean circulation, and ventilation of the deep ocean.

For the climate - related causes of food shocks, the researchers analyzed rainfall, temperature and — importantly — the international prices of food, including sudden increases in prices.

Scientists have speculated about famine, warfare, climate change, epidemics, invasion and even mass suicide to explain the sudden collapse of the Maya civilisation, but no one has ever found a convincing explanation.

Sudden shifts in climate occurred at the end of the last ice age, according to American researchers studying sediments from the bed of a dry lake in New Mexico.

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evidence of this oceanographic event and an earlier sudden sea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Sea.

And with a turn of climate in 1214, those resources may have been in sudden abundance.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

While it's true methane is not YET tipping us toward a sudden change of climate — it has more than enough potential to do so.

The whole of the last several million years has been a classic two state climate, oscillating between ice ages and warm periods, with sudden changes between the two.

We were driving down the road and all the sudden a puff of smoke came from ignition area, and the climate control stopped working.

For this exhibition, a sudden and peculiar pleasure, a feeling of protection, Lovey Town has become a hideout for tenderness amidst a shifting, scary social and psychological climate in our world.

The Baths» conditions act to disrupt the narrative flow of the drama so that scenes play out in fits and starts, to incite a profound level of disorientation and to conjure memory where notions of time and space become confused — past historical events and climates arrive in the present much like a sudden change in the weather.

As you point out other studies agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global climate shift would be of major interest to climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.

1965 At a Boulder, Colo., meeting on the causes of climate change, Lorenz and others point out the chaotic nature of the climate system and the possiblity of sudden shifts.

Observations show chaotic behavior of the climate system on all time scales, including sudden regime transitions, as we documented in Rial, J., R.A. Pielke Sr., M. Beniston, M. Claussen, J. Canadell, P. Cox, H. Held, N. de Noblet - Ducoudre, R. Prinn, J. Reynolds, and J.D. Salas, 2004: Nonlinearities, feedbacks and critical thresholds within the Earth's climate system.

I think some further explanation of the statement, «Observations show chaotic behavior of the climate system on all time scales, including sudden regime transitions» is warranted.

In terms of how we are altering the climate, it is these sudden transitions that we need to understand, rather than focus so much of our resources on assessments of the global averaged temperature trend.

It supports the hockey - stick representation of shallow fluctuations of climate over the past 1000 years and points to the sudden «unprecedented» increase in 20th century temperatures as evidence that increased CO2 levels are the main contributory factor.

On the other hand, there is no reason to believe that the Walker circulation should change smoothly as a function of climate forcings; perhaps the potential for change builds up over many years, and manifests itself all of a sudden, in the fashion of an avalanche.

The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane clathrate deposits in runaway climate change could be a cause of past, future, and present climate changes.

As can be seen, people adapt themselves to local / regional climate, but feel the impact of sudden changes either way out.

For a 60 - year cycle, if the forcing appeared very quickly, effectively as a step change, this sudden appearance would give the climate all of the 30 - year half - cycle of BNO (R) to react, 30 - years to create the 0.31 °C change in temperature.

The whole of the last several million years has been a classic two state climate, oscillating between ice ages and warm periods, with sudden changes between the two.

Any abrupt release of concentrated CO2 could have serious impacts on those exposed, as well as contributing a sudden spike of CO2 to climate.

Such a dramatic shift in a climate pattern would constitute what climate scientists call a tipping point: a sudden shift from one predictable pattern of weather to another.

However, a major sudden cold event did probably occur under global climate conditions similar to those of the present, during the Eemian interglacial, around 122,000 years ago.

The Science March on April 22, and the Climate March a week later, are examples of a much larger and growing movement opposing the sudden and unexpected rise in power and influence of a group of people who play fast and loose with the truth.

Climate - change deniers aren't quite on the same page yet — perhaps the sudden announcement of the agreement prevented them from huddling with their messaging team.

UMFULA is focussing on opportunities for anticipatory adaptation practices that will enable Malawi to deal with some of the shocks (sudden events) and stressors (long term trends) of climate change.

Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary Abstract The time span of the past few million years has been punctuated by many rapid climate transitions, most of them on time scales of centuries to decades or even less.

The record tally of tornadoes in 2011 had people wondering then whether climate change was to blame, and the sudden dearth of the storms has people again wondering the same thing.

Mr. Watts, While there has been some talk of sudden changes in the weather, climate etc — I feel drawn to say that you really do set an impossible standard for the rest of us.

We can think of this as sudden climate brake and steering failure where the problem and its consequences are no longer something we can control.»

As the Migration Policy Institute elaborates in an article examining the complexities of climate change and migration, a weather - related event — whether it's gradual glacial melting or a sudden superstorm like Sandy — can increase pressures on land, food, and water resources.

Michael Mann, another prominent climate scientist, recently said of the unexpectedly sudden Atlantic slowdown, «This is yet another example of where observations suggest that climate model predictions may be too conservative when it comes to the pace at which certain aspects of climate change are proceeding.»

«But with the polar bears, all of a sudden you could see the results of climate change.»