Sentences with phrase «on climate normals»

Not exact matches

The business climate index fell thirteen points to 7.7, signaling that firms, on balance, regarded the business climate as better than normal, though to a lesser extent than last month.

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 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.

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 timescaleOn 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 timescaleon ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescaleon annual timescales.

«But if we reduce emissions drastically to the lowest pathway recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (RCP2.8), then we will never enter a new normal state for extreme seasons at a regional level in the 21st Century.»

He has repeatedly claimed that this constitutes a peer - reviewed scientific publication about climate change, but the fact is that society newsletters are not typically «peer - reviewed» in any normal sense, and the newsletter editor appended a notice on Monckton's article saying it was not peer - reviewed.

Severe coastal flooding and widespread power outages have prompted many to ask if it's a new normal brought on by climate change.

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.

NORMAL mode balances the operation of the IMA system, climate control and throttle between maximum economy and driver enjoyment, this is the mode the CR - Z defaults to on start - up.

The Hybrid A / C mode favors more fuel efficient performance by limiting the draw on the hybrid powertrain, while the normal mode provides maximum passenger comfort in hot climates and enhances defogging performance.

The Honeymoon suite comprises a large king sized bedroom, situated on the first floor of the Heritage Wing, free Wi - Fi, en - suite bathroom with a bath and shower, twin vanity and toilet, small lounge area, two flat screen TV's, satellite TV, climate control, under counter convenience fridge, espresso machine as well as normal tea and coffee facilities, and electronic safe.

Given that the writers are on strike anyhow (but even if they weren't), perhaps the TV media should give us a «time out» from their normal entertainments and cover basic statistics, risk assessment, climate science, and related matters for the public good?

The National Academies, fulfilling a congressional request, have issued a trio of invaluable reports affirming the scientific case for a growing and largely harmful human influence on climate; proposing a path and strategies for curbing American emissions of heat - trapping gases; and urging the country to work to cut risks attending life with no new «normal» climate patterns or coastlines.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

On this particular issue of climate change, the Times will have to shift, in my view, from the normal journalistic paradigm (e.g., try to give equal coverage to both «sides» of a story; communicate stories in a muted way by avoiding most words that convey passion and weight; rotate the news so that even important topics only see the front page once in awhile; keep views to the back pages; avoid upsetting big advertisers too much; and so forth) to what might be called a «wisdom paradigm» (face problems, understand problems, communicate your views loudly and up front, address problems, and so forth).

Michael Lemonick at Climate Central writes on new research finding it's unlikely that the recent surge of ice flowing into the sea from Greenland's glaciers is the new normal (the work syncs with earlier analysis by Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado):

More on Global Climate Change Climate Change to Spur Major Rise in Heat Wave Deaths in Chicago From Hot Nights To Dusty Days - Broken Weather Records Are The New Normal

Thanks for posting Hansen's own graph — which actually shows only normal warming due to natural climate variability [but the red line on the exaggerated x-axis does make it scary, huh?]

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.

This isn't «normal» but the result of humanity putting its thumb (or 7 billion thumbs) on the climate scale.

The burden of proof is on the alarmists, and their proposed AGW hypothesis — not on the accepted paradigm that the climate is well within normal historical parameters.

Smokey: «The burden of proof is on the alarmists, and their proposed AGW hypothesis — not on the accepted paradigm that the climate is well within normal historical parameters.»

Prior to AGW, one could happily conclude that any climate change was within normal parameters, but now that AGW is on the table, previously accepted understandings, such as what constitutes «normal» climate change, have become open to challenge.

The model simulates most of the main physical processes in the climate system in a very simplistic way and therefore allows very fast and simple climate model simulations on a normal PC computer.

No doubt if river flow returns to normal next year, the suspiciously average river flow activity will also be blamed on mankind's unnatural influence on the global climate.

If they are approaching «normal», then you can figure out what impact changing the atmospheric chemistry may have on the «climate».

Also, Inside Climate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emiClimate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emiclimate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emiclimate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

Sea ice extent, thickness and volume are all normal, yet the Flat Earth Society of climate scientists drones on endlessly about an ice - free Arctic — which they will never live to see.

Michael E Mann, an eminent person terrified of impertinent Tweeters, is a big part of the shut - up culture that has so deformed «climate activism» that calling on the state to criminalize dissent now seems entirely normal to them.

Geoengineering «turns the normal debate over climate change on its head,» he and some co-authors wrote recently in Foreign Affairs.

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What I think Steve was trying to say (and I know he said something like this on numerous occasions in other forums as well as in an email to me on Wednesday, July 14, 2010) is that deciding what to do about climate is a choice that is value - laden (as all choices are) and that the normal political processes for each society must come into play in deciding what to do.

The old record was set just last December and the last three months have been the most above - normal months on record, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden.

I'm afraid that this kind of threads, however needed by the oppressed «climate realists» will have an adverse effect on getting back to normal.

In the absence of large negative volcanic forcing on the climate system (which can not presently be forecast), it is predicted that the global mean temperature for the decade 2000 — 09 will lie above the 1970 — 99 normal with a probability of 0.94.

For a useful critique of model - starting - points which bear no relation to the real - world, see: D. Koutsoyiannis et al (2008) «On the credibility of climate predictions» in Hydrological Sciences 53 (4) August 2008 671-684, who conclude that the GCM models defy normal assessments of validity and should not be relied upon to predict future climate change.

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?

Call the rest of the Green People to follow you, so that normal people on the earth can build extra dams and save more storm - water, to IMPROVE the climate on this planet.

We have now passed over 30 consecutive years of above normal temperatures on planet Earth, and even now, individuals from the climate science / meteorological communities are actively propagating the blatant lie that climate engineering / solar radiation management will save us from planetary incineration (which geoengineering is making far worse, not better).

But painting this as the «normal», opinion - based sort of consensus is a good denial tactic, as is highlighting the views of the very few contrarian climate scientists (who are in the same boat as the people who authored negative trials on aspirin, if there are any - they're destined for the dustbin of science history.)

On the Indian subcontinent and in the African tropics normal climate change would lower the rice yield, while adding SRM geoengineering would be beneficial.

They did a feature on their website on Climate Reality Leader Carolyn Treadway, from Normal, Illinois.

If climate change were a more «normal» crisis, the sides would be more willing to compromise on the low / no regrets path instead the strange nonsense we have going on now.

He added that in the tropical Andes, according to Polissar et al. (2006), the normal state of all but the very highest peaks had been ice - free; therefore, it could not be said for certain that our influence on climate was causing any change that might not have occurred naturally anyway.

Climate change is normal based on our planets history.

Severe typhoons like Haiyan may be the «new normal» for the region, said Simon Allen from the University of Bern in Switzerland, one of the authors of a recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

On a normal climate change thread, sceptics pick up 4 or 5 times more recommendations than warmists.

New Report: «Extreme Weather Report 2012»: «Latest peer - reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is «unprecedented» or a «new normal» — Climate Depot's New 35 - Page Report: «Current weather is neither historically unprecedented, nor unusual» — «Extreme weather events are ever present, and there is no evidence of systematic increases» — Presented at UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 6, 2012

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.