Sentences with phrase «of warm climates like»

And remember that they can happen even in the midst of warm climates like our present one.

Coastal national parks are taking the brunt of a warming climate like few others.

Not exact matches

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Climate change is set to make Miami warmer and wetter for more of the year, making the region an even more friendly home for mosquitoes, some of whom could bear diseases like Zika, Yellow Fever and Dengue.

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

In youth and health, in summer, in the woods or on the mountains, there come days when the weather seems all whispering with peace, hours when the goodness and beauty of existence enfold us like a dry warm climate, or chime through us as if our inner ears were subtly ringing with the world's security.

nce heard someone say they like that warmed dust smell, and I thought they were a little crazy, but after nearly 15 years of calling this colder climate home, I get it now.

A team of 15 executive chefs lead the food preparation on the 10 ships throughout the year as the cruising season shifts from warm climates like the Caribbean and Australia in the North American winter to Europe and the Pacific Northwest for the summer.

This allows for the growing of both cool climate varietals such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay as well as warm climate varietals like Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel.

Chardonnay from warmer climates like Napa or Paso Robles on the other hand, are boisterous and tropical, like pineapples and peaches sashaying in billowy sundresses to a calypso band of figs (not entirely out of the realm of possibility).

Decorating the backyard can seem like a waste of money (especially when you are on a budget and you don't live in a year - round warm climate.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

We really like the 4 - panel canopy of this model that's so useful for warm climates.

The researchers say that countries must also tackle short - lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons that accelerate warming greatly in the near term, and take some of the carbon that is currently in the atmosphere out.

Until now, it had only been possible to sequence the genomes of hominin fossils found in cold climates; DNA breaks down faster in warmer climates like Spain's.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

Hundreds of global warming skeptics are in Washington to hear attacks on mainstream climate science and responses to it, like renewable energy programs and federal initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

Like the climate and global warming, there is no single organisation whose job it is to secure the various components of the internet.

That desire of balance lead the program's creators to avoid terms like «climate change» or «global warming» in lesson plans, Rowe said, «which would have sent a biased point of view.»

With warmer temperatures will come more floods like the ones that have buffeted Australia over the past year, but the other half of the climate equation is making itself abundantly felt as well.

The warming of the world's climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes.

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

According to some climate scientists, the cold in places like Florida actually could be a sign of warming, rather than an argument against the phenomenon.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

Infection rates of diseases like malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus are likely to rise as a warming climate creates more mosquito - friendly habitats

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

Other Earth - like planets may be caught in a dilemma — they need stable, warm climates to support complex life, but a lack of life may preclude this

If you listen to global warming deniers, or even much of the public, it seems like there is some stack of scientific studies somewhere that refute anthropogenic — human - caused — climate change.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

The bones of this 43 - foot, one - ton, crocodile - munching behemoth — found amid the remains of an ancient rain forest — are helping scientists understand what the earth was like when the climate was much warmer.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Climate - change - denying politicians like to point to the cold snaps as some sort of proof global warming is not happening.

The meeting coincides with a gathering of climate change skeptics in New York City, who are debating topics like «Global warming: Was it ever a crisis?»

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

This suggests that the research community has a sound understanding of what the climate will be like as we move toward a Pliocene - like warmer future caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

The research team also assessed whether climate sensitivity was different in warmer times, like the Pliocene, than in colder times, like the glacial cycles of the last 800,000 years.

Enabling the poor to be resilient in the face of challenges like climate change may require a fundamental rethinking of the methods used to address both poverty and global warming.

For decades, research on climate variations in the Atlantic has focused almost exclusively on the role of ocean circulation as the main driver, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which carries warm water north in the upper layers of the ocean and cold water south in lower layers like a large conveyor belt.

Gentlepeople, well done on nipping any controversy in the bud — as usual; though I'm left wondering if the warming trend isn't related to a subject that i'd like to see Real Climate Address more often; The possible shut - down of The North Atlantic Conveyor — as extreme warming of the Southern Oceans, along with the plunging of Europe into a new Ice Age would be the result of this, as I'm sure you all know.

But despite that steady climb, not every year is warmer than the one before it, thanks to the vagaries of weather, the influence of natural climate cycles, and the effects of events like volcanic eruptions.

I say «may» because research that tries to take gaps in measurement into account (particularly in the fast warming Arctic) or that takes into account temporary phenonomena (like volcanoes, solar variability, etc) show that there has barely been any slowdown in this one aspect of climate change.

Empirically, we know that for a particular model, once you know its climate sensitivity you can easily predict how much it will warm or cool if you change one of the forcings (like CO2 or solar).

The goal is to capture natural variations in the climate, like changes in ocean circulation or features like the El Niño Southern Oscillation, that are swamped by the signal of human - caused warming when looking out to the end of the century.

I'm not saying that greenhouse gases isn't a player, but I'd like the IPCC and the climate community to work towards understanding the other potential causes of warming, before jumping to conclusions on the impact of greenhouse gases.

This is probably because the preservation of the organic materials - bone and charcoal - that are normally radiocarbon dated is really poor in warm climates like southern Spain.»