Sentences with phrase «on planet climate»

Plus, Tony, on planet climate model you get paid to play supercomputer powered video games all day rather than having to go outside and actually measure something.

I guess they speak completely different languages on planet climate model and planet earth.

«I live on planet Earth observations, and Gavin lives on planet climate model.

On planet climate model, models are a technicolour exciting reality and observations are always merely grey, anecdotal and boring.

But on this planet climate change has gone on for at least a billion years, and the humans have been here for far less a time then that.

Not exact matches

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

Also, while Planet Labs can beat older competitors on price, those expensive features do matter, said David Friedberg, chief executive of Climate, an agricultural data analysis firm owned by Monsanto.

The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.

WASHINGTON — French President Emmanuel Macron irked Republicans during his address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday by mentioning climate science and the need to preserve the planet.

On climate change, Macron predicted the U.S. would return to the Paris climate agreement because «Let's face it: There is no planet B.» On the U.S.'s aluminum and steel tariffs (to which Trump has offered Europe only a temporary exemption), Macron warned against trade barriers, noting that «commercial war is not the proper answer.»

With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

The climate crowd are defending the future of life on this planet, no less, and they can't believe anyone would reduce such a crucial matter to something as crass as gas in your tank.

It's time for real action on climate change to ensure that we leave our children a province, and a planet, as bountiful and healthy as the one we were entrusted with.

Given the presence of Naomi Klein at People and Planet, and the fact Pope Francis has already delivered an extensive message on climate change with his encyclical, it is possible the meeting will be much more policy - focussed, calling for very specific and detailed changes.

1) The biggest problem we have on this planet, affecting wars, famine, polution, and climate change, is overpopulation.

In my last column, «Three Numbers that Predict the Future of the Planet», I wrote about the state of the climate crisis and focused on three key data points that...

The earth is 10,000 years old, it's flat, is the only planet of billions to host life, and humans have NO affect on the climate.

Given its adaptability to various climates, corn was able to firmly establish its place in worldwide cuisine, and has become an important part of sustenance in almost all cultures on the planet, including our own.

The campaign is designed to highlight the connection between what we put on our plate and what is happening to our planet, and to show that changing our diets can help curb climate change.

While Diet for a Small Planet focused on vegetarianism as a way to combat world hunger and climate change, Epicure's message, via its globe - trotting author Anna Thomas, is that being vegetarian is no excuse to not pull off a glamorous dinner party.

Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.

The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern, former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.

The 2015 general election campaign will come at the same time as the next round of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.

«That's not surprising given that, if we carry on treating the planet like a cheap boil in the bag dinner, we risk causing catastrophic climate change.

Tony Blair has praised Britain's role as a global leader on climate change, but insisted he would not penalise people driving cars or taking cheap flights in a bid to save the planet.

Gove said he «deeply regretted» the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, adding: «The world's second biggest generator of carbon emissions can not simply walk out of the room when the heat is on... It's our planet too and America needs to know that we can only resolve this problem together.»

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

On some key issues, New York voters overwhelmingly (by more than three to one) back a party to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and also believe that climate change is a significant threat to the planet.

Northerners are experiencing the most rapid climate change on the planet, and Turetsky's research is helping to address what these rapid changes mean for their land, traditional foods and water quality.

Today's announcement comes on the first day of Climate Week, a summit that will run through Sunday in New York City, where government and private - sector leaders will converge to talk about the warming planet and what to do about it.

«We've run the experiment of climate change on this planet.

The Blue Brain Project Scientists rely on computer models to understand the toughest concepts in science: the origin of the universe, the behavior of atoms, and the future climate of the planet.

Emissions from these fires are thought to have potent effects on the planet's climate.

POSSIBLY the clearest skies on Earth have been found — but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's harshest climates.

Reducing «silly» spending threatens to undermine research on the planet, climate change, other scientific issues

Offering his only climate change policy prescription of the evening, he added, «That's why I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.»

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

The Earth's climate is changing and there is concern about the potentially adverse effects of these changes on life on the planet.

As CO2 changes the climate, one of humanity's biggest impacts on the planet as a whole, these pitted carbon balls mark the potentially irrevocable change.

LAST week's conference of the UN Convention on Biodiversity appeared to ban future efforts to geoengineer the planet to counter the effects of climate change.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

«Climate change will impact both natural and agricultural ecosystems on the planet.

«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.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

Although Proxima Centauri's dimness provides the planet with a balmy climate, the star is prone to outbursts of harsh X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which could damage any chance of life on the planet — X-rays hit the surface 400 times more often than those from the sun pummel Earth.

«There is a potential risk that if you cool the planet by albedo modification, it could provide less incentive to reduce reliance on fossil fuels,» says Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist, current editor - in - chief of Science and chair of a committee that evaluated climate intervention techniques for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

This is a huge gamble to take, for conservation, for climate change, and for some of the most vulnerable human communities on the planet.

New research shows the vital role of oceans in moderating climate on Earth - like planets.