Sentences with phrase «other types of climate»

While the immediate focus is flooding, a warming climate is increasing many other types of climate - related risks.
Additional research is examining other types of climate extremes in precipitation and event intensity.
Tree - ring records have greater replication (both within a site and between nearby sites) than other types of climate proxy.

Not exact matches

He added: «It's one of those things with the climate of what's happening in Europe and you hear of those types of things happening in other cities, you wonder if it will ever happen in your city.
First of all: Every Vertical Farm is different and Construction and Operation costs depend on city location, availability, technology used, local laws and Policy, energy source, climate, type of building and many other variables.
Although baby slings aren't for everyone, you can have a lot of success just from making sure you choose the right sling for your baby's size, your body type, and the climate where you live, among other details.
Many politicians and climate reports now talk about risk, which works for some audiences — particularly in the business sector — who deal every day with assessing investment, insurance and other types of uncertain outcomes.
Stanford professor's calculations indicate that wildfires and other types of fires involving plant matter play a much bigger role in climate change and human health than previously thought.
Still, factors other than climate fluctuations, such as hominid population declines or surges, may also have spurred ancient tool innovations to acquire more or different types of food, cautions archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany.
Joint research from the Monash branch of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) and NASA published in Nature found even though other types of rainfall has decreased in frequency and the total number of thunderstorms remained the same, the increase in big storms had elevated total rainfall.
There are many types of HFCs, and some are worse for the climate than others.
«But natural gas plants would help reduce other types of air pollution that damage our health, and would be somewhat better for climate in the long term.»
This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.
In the climate context, it's the question of resilience of energy infrastructure against, well, Sandy, and other things of that type.
They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.
Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.
(iv) the potential for conservation of species or habitat types at serious risk due to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors.
Scientists are still looking into how climate change might affect other types of extreme weather, such as hurricanes and tornadoes.
The PNNL team is currently applying the approach, which grew out of the Aerosol Climate Initiative, to other types of simulations, so that future high - resolution climate models will solve the mystery surrounding aerosol - cloud interaClimate Initiative, to other types of simulations, so that future high - resolution climate models will solve the mystery surrounding aerosol - cloud interaclimate models will solve the mystery surrounding aerosol - cloud interactions.
Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate climate system.
Now that the work has been done to combine these airborne measurements, Schroeder said he plans to expand this type analysis to other glaciers, a move that could improve scientists» understanding of the hidden ways climate change is affecting ice.
People who live in these type of settings often have BMR's that are 5 - 20 % higher than those in other climates.
The type of decision facing Los Angeles and New York and other districts in recent days seems unique and new because of the threat of political, mass violence — and because it's happening in a climate that is highly sensitized to that threat of violence.
On the other, you have those who say these types of disciplinary actions are necessary to sustain a safe and productive school climate.
So one thing — one other thing is in the climate training, we handed schools their individual data, one of the things that dr. Alonzo also did was built a data system that could track suspensions, not just to the type, but the location.
Add to that an updated suite of Prius Prime Apps that manage vehicle charging, climate control, location services and other vehicle functions, and owners will experience a new type of connection to their vehicles.
Children can stay for free if they are under twelve although there is a charge for an extra bed and with Indonesian and Singaporean currency excepted, you can enjoy the tropical climate, beautiful scenery and culture from Bintan Lagoon Resort all day long.The rooms include a number of different types from the deluxe rooms to the suites as well as some other more exclusive options which are considered to be among the very best resort rooms on the island.
Still, given the fact that China is rapidly becoming a world leader in clean tech industries, that it is flexing its muscle in terms of international climate leadership, and that other cities around the world suffer from the same types of diesel - driven air quality problems that China has become known for, I think we can expect China's success story to translate into rapid adoption elsewhere.
The assessment based on these results typically takes into account the number of studies, the extent to which there is consensus among studies on the significance of detection results, the extent to which there is consensus on the consistency between the observed change and the change expected from forcing, the degree of consistency with other types of evidence, the extent to which known uncertainties are accounted for in and between studies, and whether there might be other physically plausible explanations for the given climate change.
Our study does not address how the magnitude of the source types that we present translate into an overall climate impact for natural gas vs. other fuel types, nor does it address implications for natural gas as a bridge fuel.
The problem here is that the «forcings» are in fact some other inherent variables of the very same climate - bearing system, but there is no clear separation of time scales that allow for any sort of coherent theories like «averaging of fast motion» that results in Landau - Ginzburg - type equations for «slow envelopes».
There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.
Other nonradiative forcings modify the biological components of the climate system by changing the fluxes of trace gases and heat between vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere and by modifying the amount and types of vegetation.
a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.
In other words, they fail the most basic type of test imaginable; and in the words of Li et al., this finding suggests that «global climate models should better integrate the biological, chemical, and physical components of the earth system.»
is there any precedent of any other type of govt employed scientists, other than climate scientists, thinking their work email is somehow not covered by basic employment law i.e disclosable in the absence of it being classified secret?
These types of initiatives can not only inspire action in other communities, regions, and states, they can help guide and complement climate action at the national level.
Trenberth says man's role in warming is proven (at least 0.35 degC, anyway) and we are making to many Type II errors not attributing other forms of climate change to man.
In Bangladesh, for example, a country which the report says could have more internal climate migrants than other types of internal migrants by 2050,
It is important to note that as the planet continues to warm, new high temperature records and some other types of extremes will increasingly occur, but where they occur in a given year will not be predictable due to natural modes of climate variability.
The intention is that by not incorporating such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental conditions described in the SSPs.
In addition to examining the physical and biological aspects of Arctic change, we need more attention to the social dynamics that shape human responses to climate and other types of change.
True skeptics understand that given the type and level of uncertainty (arguably most of what we deal with in climate other than direct observations), uncertainty is not «quantifiable» as in a pdf or something, but should be characterized in other ways.
What I want to say is only that empirical evidence of the type that F+G 06 or any other of these analyses of climate sensitivity or related variables is information on the likelihood function (or equivalently conditional probability), and that this information alone can not provide any PDFs of confidence intervals for the climate sensitivity or a functionally related parameter like Y. To get a PDF or a confidence interval, a prior must be assumed and plausible alternative priors give in this case significantly different results.
As I will discuss in Parts II and III of the Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty series (I will get back to that soon I hope), there are a lot of other types of studies and analyses that climate scientists might be doing to support decision making, that the current focus of the IPCC is arguably distractinClimate Uncertainty series (I will get back to that soon I hope), there are a lot of other types of studies and analyses that climate scientists might be doing to support decision making, that the current focus of the IPCC is arguably distractinclimate scientists might be doing to support decision making, that the current focus of the IPCC is arguably distracting from.
Many other examples of this type of test can be found in chapter 8 (Climate Models and Their Evaluation) of IPCC / AR4, which assesses both model successes AND model failures.
A homogeneous climate record is one in which all observed climate variations are due to the behaviour of the atmosphere, not other influences, such as changes in location, exposure of the observation site, instrumentation type or measuring procedure.
(iv) the potential for conservation of species or habitat types at serious risk due to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors.
Climate change, caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases humans have emitted, is expected to increase certain types of extreme weather, leading to more disasters, according to a report being assembled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
We note with grave concern and alarm how other international financial institutions include these types of projects in their climate and energy financing, under the logic of «lower carbon» energy and switching to «lower emissions» fuels.
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