Sentences with phrase «overall climate»

When related climate affects are taken into account, methane's overall climate impact is nearly half that of carbon dioxide.

One cold (or warm) year or season has little to do with overall climate.

More than 3 billion years ago, the planet's overall climate began to cool and dry out, but these zones show warming over a shorter period of time.

But though their probability is difficult to assess, state shifts are a potentially large contributor to overall climate risk.

The best measure of overall climate for glaciers is the Pacific Northwest Index developed by Curtis Ebbesmeyer (PNI DATA) at the University of Washington.

Cloud responses are more uncertain and that feeds in to the uncertainty in overall climate sensitivity — but the range in the AR4 models (2.1 to 4.5 deg C for 2xCO2) can't yet be constrained by paleo - climate results which have their own uncertainties.

Climate change may cause changes in migratory patterns, destroy habitat (particularly in nutrient - rich polar seas), and drastically change ocean circulation, vertical mixing and overall climate patterns.

It is essential that cities consider how prospective strategies add up to overall climate goals, how to achieve those goals in partnership with the private and nonprofit sector, and how to fund implementation in context of budget constraints.

While Nature failed world leaders for overall climate action, they gave them «As» on tracking greenhouse gas emissions and sinks, advancing climate research and policy, and establishing a diplomatic process.

This gradual shift in the Sahara's overall climate contradicts a common theory that the region dried rapidly over a few hundred years, and provides clues about a potential re-greening triggered by global warming, Kröpelin says.

The oil and gas industry is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, a much more potent climate - warming pollutant than carbon dioxide pound - for - pound, and the oil and gas sector is the second largest industrial contributor to overall climate pollution.

NGOs and the UK government said this would have reduced the EU's overall climate ambition because carbon absorbed by forests could be offset against reduced efforts in other parts of the economy.

While the study — «The hidden risks of climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the condition that will «magnify these risks as factors such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil conditions.»

Although it directly affects the livelihoods of billions of people, agriculture has long received only a fraction of overall climate finance.

Each of the 22 indicators is individually aggregated from various data sources and models and then combined to determine a country's overall climate vulnerability, measured by impact to share of GDP and mortality (as these impacts are comparable across the wide range of countries).

With each desecrated acre of forest land, the earth suffers potential overall climate changes, as forests are key to carbon dioxide intake from the air.

And if the models are good enough to accurately model the effects of geoengineering, then perhaps we should trust what they tell us about addressing global climate disruption, namely that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the best way to curtail overall climate disruption.

The largest «alternate fact» in the debate about AGW is that it will result in a worst overall climate for the planet overall.

Recent evidence suggests that adopting a multi-tiered approach similar to public schools, but intensifying practices at each tier, may be effective in creating a more positive overall climate, leading to concomitant changes in challenging behavior.

«Key among these challenges are the announced nuclear phase - out, reform efforts in electricity and natural gas markets, and overall climate changes policies.»

«We need to be able to measure overall climate action effort can be measured and countries need to be able to contrast and compare each others» effort,» Morgan said.

Weather intensities are driven by natural variations and overall climate forcing.

For instance the European beech tree has good overall climate research data, with high data quality for mechanisms of environment, physiology, demography and species interaction, but omissions (medium quality) for specific data about beech tree evolution and dispersal changes under climate change.

Such strategies, added Rees, not only help teachers: they help change a school's overall climate for the better.

The overall climate, however, is one of heightened uncertainty.

«As we move forward to the next election, I will continue to hold Christy Clark accountable for failing to keep her promises to British Columbians, and I will be putting forward a diverse economic platform that will bring jobs to every region of the province and a comprehensive climate plan, that incorporates LNG within the context of our overall climate goals.

«While the attacks occurred in the context of general episodes of violence confronting the entire country, the overall climate for religious freedom continues to deteriorate.

The ethos of civil religion continues to affect the overall climate of many schools.

However, success can be measured by cultural change too - changes in society that affect the overall climate in which we all live and work.

It states: «For the government to deliver its overall climate objectives, a retrofit programme for all housing will need to be implemented, with public and private sector investment totalling somewhere between # 3.5 billion and # 6.5 billion per year every year until 2050.»

Education leaders from across New York said Wednesday they'll need more money than what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside for schools next year in order to avoid cuts and improve the overall climate.

He called for a national fracking ban, charging that the controversial drilling practice poses a risk to the country's drinking water supply and the overall climate.

And yet, the overall climate for science is more difficult than I have ever seen in my scientific career.»

Polar ice reflects more sunlight back into space than polar oceans or continents, helping to cool the overall climate.

«In Wisconsin, we might have a winter that is very cold, even though the overall climate is slowly and steadily warming,» McKinley explains.