Sentences with phrase «past climate change events»

Scientists continue to investigate past climate change events to better understand modern climate change, including extreme drought.

Their research gives us more clues about past climate change events on Earth and the impacts these have had through time.

Obviously if you load and unload active faults, then you're liable to trigger earthquakes,» McGuire told LiveScience, noting that there is ample evidence for this association in past climate change events.

Note also that the Earth System Sensitivity is deduced from various past climate change events like the Paleocene — Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), but the qualitative estimates of longer - term climate sensitivity are less precise than the HS12 fast feedback sensitivity estimates.

Not exact matches

Defenses against storms and floods, built on past events, will fail unless emergency planners use forward - looking data that account for rapid climate change

Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

«In the past, many scientists have been cautious of attributing specific extreme weather events to climate change.

The researchers are convinced that insight into events in the past will contribute to better understanding of the impact of today's climate changes on ecosystems.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

However, there are few records of past climate changes in this key region that have the length, resolution and age controls needed to reveal the area's response to abrupt climate change events.

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

News about EPA's climate change website «confirmed our fears,» said Jerome Whitington, a faculty member in New York University's anthropology department who has attended multiple data rescue events over the past two months and is organizing a New York City event in February.

We emphasize that because of the significant influence of sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (in space and time) sea - ice extent for past climate - change events.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

Trends in extreme events during the past decade constitute a facet of climate change that requires rigorous detection and attribution.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

There's no analog event in the past to compare with the rapidity of human climate change.

Two speakers from the Geological Society conference «Past Carbon Isotopic Events and Future Ecologies» came to the SMC to discuss climate clues from the geological record and what they can tell us about present and future changes to the climate.

«In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

Set in a futuristic world, the game will address climate change and feature newer technology, as well as a vault where players can discover how past events shaped the existing universe.

The Baths» conditions act to disrupt the narrative flow of the drama so that scenes play out in fits and starts, to incite a profound level of disorientation and to conjure memory where notions of time and space become confused — past historical events and climates arrive in the present much like a sudden change in the weather.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

We emphasize that because of the significant influence of sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (in space and time) sea - ice extent for past climate - change events.

Furthermore the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era in the past with possible exception of unhappy events like the Great Permian Extinction.

I am not sure I understand Andy's question number (5), but «nature» involves many species: even if some parts of «nature» may survive global warming at the end (as parts of it have survived natural climate change events in the past), many parts of it are already going extinct and we are to blame this time around.

Joanna Walters links extreme weather events with climate change in a recent article in the Guardian, however, some reservations have been expressed about such links in past discussions.

«The ability to understand and explain extreme events in the context of climate change has developed very rapidly over the past decade.

«one would expect to see more new record - breaking events in a changing climate: when the mean temperature level rises new temperatures will surpass past record - highs.»

On the other hand, one would expect to see more new record - breaking events in a changing climate: when the mean temperature level rises new temperatures will surpass past record - highs.

In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given extreme weather event was, «We can not attribute any single event to climate change.»

Most importantly they do not reproduce the rapid climate change events that have happened in the past.

Formerly known as «Eco-Cell at St. John's,» the group has grown over the past five years to include a core group of 12 along with a wider involved community of 40 members who organize meetings, community events and maintain an email list focused on climate change and other environmental issues.

«British Columbia is one of the provinces that has felt the full effects of climate change over the past few years with the mountain pine beetle as well as increases in flooding events and other impacts.»

A new report on climate change and sports finds that only six of the past 19 Winter Olympics host locations may remain cold enough to hold similar winter sporting events in the future.

The so - called 100 - year flood is likely to become more frequent.4 Because transportation planners use such events to determine infrastructure needs, future plans based on the past are likely to become less reliable — and planners will need to develop models that reflect the effects of climate change.7

Climate change sceptics suggest that because the climate has changed dramatically in the past — and without man's intervention — it is possible that current changes to the Earth's climate are also a naturalClimate change sceptics suggest that because the climate has changed dramatically in the past — and without man's intervention — it is possible that current changes to the Earth's climate are also a naturalclimate has changed dramatically in the past — and without man's intervention — it is possible that current changes to the Earth's climate are also a naturalclimate are also a natural event.

In summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changes.

His interest in climate came via investigating severe weather events and their aftermath and seeing the massive changes that past climate shifts have brought to the Welsh landscape.

«Paul Ehrlich has never been able to learn from past experience,» he said, then launched into the Cornucopian line on the greenhouse crisis — how, even in the unlikely event that doomsayers are right about global warming, humanity will find some way to avert climate change or adapt, and everyone will emerge the better for it.

Meanwhile, this brochure illustrates a qualitative fit between the facts observed about extreme events over the past decade, and the IPCC projections regarding the consequences of climate variability and change.

The report, written by 220 experts from 62 countries, finds that climate change has already contributed to changes in extreme events — such as heat waves, high temperatures, and heavy precipitation — in many regions over the past 50 years.

Nevertheless, these results over this long period strongly suggest that the solar magnetic feld / cosmic ray interaction is the primary cause of major climate - change events over the past 9400 years of the interglacial period.

Few people have read paleo - climatology text books, are aware of the glacial / interglacial cycle, are aware that the paleoclimatic record has unequivocal evidence of cyclic gradual changes and cyclic abrupt climate events, are aware that the abrupt climate change events such as the abrupt termination of the last 22 interglacial periods lacks an explanation, are aware that all of the past interglacial periods are short (roughly 12,000 years) and that they have ended abruptly, and so on.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday that past year was the warmest on record by a wide margin, stoked by greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather event that released heat from the Pacific Ocean.

Past rapid rapid climate change events are marked by mass extinctions such as the End Permian.

Throw in past droughts and floods in Australia, Russia and Pakistan and of course Katrina and the evidence became overwhelming that «weird» weather events all over the globe proved the climate had changed.

The past cycles and abrupt climate change events occurred for a reason.

And, more recently, the massive Tibetan earthquake of this past weekend, resulting in the loss of 4,000 lives, has called into question current human climate change's role in geological upheaval events.

Over the past 6 years, we organized various climate change meet up events in the St. Louis area with various well - known climate change scientists and communicators speaking to us via Skype.