Sentences with phrase «other climate changes before»

Astronomical phenomena are obvious natural factors to consider when trying to understand climate, particularly the brightness of the sun and details of Earth's orbit because those seem to have been major drivers of the ice ages and other climate changes before the rise of industrial civilization.

Strange that all the other climate changes before that, the sun was always to blame.

Not exact matches

2008: A month before Exxon's annual meeting, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune held a press conference to publicly express their concern about the company's attitude toward climate change and other issues.

Previewing his campaign before an election night audience Tuesday, Suozzi said, «People have been screaming at each other for 30 years on issues like gun control, immigration, and climate change.

That means the future of agriculture as the climate changes could be even worse than this prediction — and that's before taking into account other factors such as the effect of pests.

«The quality of the southern African data allowed us to make these correlations between climate and behavioural change, but it will require comparable data from other areas before we can say whether this region was uniquely important in the development of modern human culture» added Professor Stringer.

Worldwide, most reefs were «substantially degraded before 1900,» they report, long before recent episodes of coral bleaching caused by climate change or other factors began.

Because the brown cloud appears to be at least as important, eliminating it could buy time to implement more far - reaching solutions before catastrophic glacial melt and other climate change impacts occur, Ramanathan argues.

A revision could require companies to disclose far more about climate change and other environmental risks than ever before.

We've covered other instances in which climate change had profound effects on ecosystems before, including one instance that almost wiped out all life on Earth.

Professor Franklin said further research on other crocodile performance traits that could influence the ability to survive future climate change was needed before scientists could fully understand the effects of elevated water temperatures.

Professor Franklin said further research on other crocodile performance traits that could influence the ability to survive future climate change was needed before scientists could fully understand the effects of elevated water temperatures.University of Queensland News, 16 Dec 2015

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

«In other words, the projections shown here were made before the observations confirmed them as being correct, striking at the heart of the argument that modellers tune their models to yield the correct climate change results.»

After 30 years of learning (and unlearning) about climate change science and policy, as many know, I've tended to give extra weight to the argument for greatly intensified research pressed by Gates, and before him Richard Smalley, John Holdren, Martin Hoffert and Ken Caldeira, the Deep Decarbonization team, the Breakthrough Institute and many others.

Although some earlier work along similar lines had been done by other paleoclimate researchers (Ed Cook, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Ray Bradley, Malcolm Hughes, and Henry Diaz being just a few examples), before Mike, no one had seriously attempted to use all the available paleoclimate data together, to try to reconstruct the global patterns of climate back in time before the start of direct instrumental observations of climate, or to estimate the underlying statistical uncertainties in reconstructing past temperature changes.

Before The Flood feels like every other climate change documentary, full of spectacular sweeping panoramas of melting Arctic ice, burning rainforests, flooding South Pacific islands, dead coral reefs, and smoggy Chinese cities.

On the Russian heat wave, Marty is citing a single paper that claims it had nothing to do with climate change, but there are other papers that purport to demonstrate that events of that magnitude are now three times more likely than before the industrial era.

But the talk about water withdrawal is genuine, even if like other long - time - coming environmental and climate changes, the river will see plenty of seasonal ups and downs before and end comes.

I am writing to pick back up on some themes your postings explored before Hurricane Sandy hit — one on the role of certification in climate change and hunger and others on individuals or groups battling long odds to effect positive change in their communities.

In other words, I was not terribly worried about runaway climate change before this.

My fear is candidates turned president will buckle like all those before them, and the medicine for our energy, environment, and climate woes, whatever it is, will be tossed in favor of some quack cure, or rather a whole bevvy of subsidies and other favorites that do not confront all of us with the need to changes technologies, adjust how we live and reformat our expectations.

It is exactly that social meaning that must be removed from the climate change question before people can answer it with what they know: that their well - being and the well - being of others they actually care about requires doing sensible things with the best available current evidence.

A public relations firm touted the study before Valentine's Day with the headline, «Climate Change Could Explain the Personality of Your Significant Other.»

2008: A month before Exxon's annual meeting, heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune held a press conference to publicly express their concern about the company's attitude toward climate change and other issues.

As I said before why do we have to wait for the climate change induced natural disaster that could happen that will make the bean counters put the climate before the cost instead of the other way round.

That year, a month before climate talks in Copenhagen, the group partnered with the U.N. and other faith groups and announced a five - year plan to help curb climate change.

A recent study for Friends of the Earth Europe by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research found that EU countries can afford just nine more years of burning gas and other fossil fuels at the current rate before they will have exhausted their share of the earth's remaining carbon budget for maximum temperature rises of 2 °C.

Heartland, along with scores of other think tanks and a majority of the American people, is saying we need to figure out the very complicated science of climate change before we spend trillions of dollars fixing a problem that may not exist.

John Christy has testified on numerous occasions against the mainstream scientific views on man - made climate change including testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, House Committee on Government Reform, House Ways and Means Committee, and others.

Roger has gone so far as to claim in his recent TNR essay that climate change does not increase extremes, and that»... our research, and that of others, suggests that assuming that these projections are accurate, it will be many decades, perhaps longer, before the signal of human - caused climate change can be detected.»

The People's Climate March came two days before the US president, Barack Obama, and about 120 other world leaders gather for the UN meeting on climate Climate March came two days before the US president, Barack Obama, and about 120 other world leaders gather for the UN meeting on climate climate change.

Darwin saw that climate had repeatedly changed but, unlike others before him, he successfully figured out a mechanism whereby animal species could change with it, to adapt body and behavior to the new climate regime.

Those who push using RICO laws against «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («other organizations» meaning conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their accusation.

Myth: Even before SUVs and other greenhouse - gas spewing technologies, Earth's climate was changing, so humans can't be responsible for today's global warming.

The Russian heat wave, Marty cites is a single paper that claims it had nothing to do with climate change, but there are other papers that purport to demonstrate that events of that magnitude are now three times more likely than before the industrial era.

Before today's researchers can build a tower to celebrate their theories of anthropogenic climate change, they first need to tear down the Great Wall that Lamb and others constructed demonstrating thousands of years of natural, often dramatic, climate change.

This incredibly thorough book delves into the link between capitalism and climate change like no other I've read before.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; when you take some type of land and change it into some other type of land, it acts differently, will affect the weather in some way and thus has an effect upon the climate.

Tim, perhaps you should learn about how temperature scales work before lecturing others on climate change.

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other vchange policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other vChange and at colleges, churches, and other venues.

The president of Palau says his small island nation and others threatened by rising seas and climate change h are seeking to take the issue before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Mark your calendars now and plan to call your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative on or before Friday, June 9, to support Citizens Climate Lobby's «carbon fee and dividend» proposal and other action to address climate Climate Lobby's «carbon fee and dividend» proposal and other action to address climate climate change.

Before the show had even gone to air, the program was causing controversy with commentators — myself and others including Clive Hamilton, Stephan Lewandowsky and Michael Ashley — pointing out its format gave the false impression of there being a legitimate scientific debate about fossil fuel burning causing climate change.

That's why we are focused on conserving habitat and reducing other threats that have the potential to reduce bird populations even before the impacts of climate change are fully realized.

«Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that «climate change» was «the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.»

If we're conferring the benefit of the doubt onto these teachers, he says, it's worth noting that many of them learned about climate change when the science was still relatively new and subject to frequent updating — in other words, before consensus had been reached.

But long before Florida unofficially banned these climate - related terms, other states passed laws attempting to limit the influence of climate change on land policies and education.

They have found a paper by James Hansen and others from 1981, before climate change was even an occasion for political disagreement.

In the first project of its kind, scientists are drilling deep into the bed of the fast - shrinking Dead Sea, searching for clues to past climate changes and other events that may have affected human history back through Biblical times and before.