Proxy - based indicators of
past climate change show that current global climate models systematically underestimate Holocene - epoch climate variability on centennial to multi-millennial timescales, with the mismatch increasing for longer periods1, 2,3,4,5.
«Records of
past climate change show that change starts slowly and then accelerates,» he said.
«Records of
past climate change show that change starts slowly and then accelerates,» he said.
Not exact matches
Research on these pastures also
shows that the management practices developed over the
past 80 years has resulted in higher levels of biodiversity and soil quality than in comparable privately - owned lands - factors that may become increasingly important with the advent of
climate change.
Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest,
Climate Change, Water, Waste and People),
shows that over the
past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.
David Cameron has
shown in the
past that he understands the risks posed by
climate change and that he's prepared intervene to ensure we tackle it.
Diffenbaugh and Field review the physical conditions that are likely to shape the impacts of
climate change on terrestrial ecosystems,
showing that they will face rates of
change unprecedented in the
past 65 million years.
Their field - based data also suggest that during major
climate cool - downs in the
past several million years, the ice sheet expanded into previously ice - free areas, «
showing that the ice sheet in East Greenland responds to and tracks global
climate change,» Bierman says.
Lenoir notes, for instance, that even though tree species did not
show much sign of movement over the
past century, that
climate change may affect the next generation.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications,
show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the
climate system functions, and how climatic
changes impacted
past human societies.
Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to
climate change, while the lead images
show the impact of
past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.
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.
The findings
show a slight but notable increase in that average temperature, putting a dent in the idea that global warming has slowed over the
past 15 years, a trend highlighted in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change report.
A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine,
shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt,
changes in weather and
climate over the
past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.
There have been all sorts of reasons proposed for
past changes, but the important thing is that the geological record
shows that the
climate is sensitive to various factors and it is this which makes it plausible that human influence can effect
climate.
They explore data
showing temperature
changes over the
past 120 years and data illustrating
climate trends over different time scales.
Scientific analysis of
past climates shows that greenhouse gasses, principally CO2, have controlled most ancient
climate changes.
Celebrating art as activism, artwork in the
show tackled controversial subjects such as immigration rights, reproductive rights,
climate change, transgender rights, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the
past year.
In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group
show «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care,
climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the
past year.
Hung as a trio, the arrangement recalls a scene from the early aughts
climate -
change disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004), which
shows a fictional radar image of three major tropical storms raging across the globe, a fiction that became a reality this
past September.
In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group
show «Uprise / Angry Women,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition One Year Of Resistance features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care,
climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the
past year.
«To the contrary, our analysis
shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent
past, there is virtually no explanation other than
climate change.»
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the
climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal
climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL
showing evidence in both
climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the
climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006
showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST
changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in
showing how
changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval
Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the
climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate changes of
past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
My own efforts will be giving talks on
climate change (and its reasons) over the
past 500 million years to local folks in this very rural region of upstate New York (before
showing them the
changes occurring recently and the reasons behind them).
In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of
climate change,
showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly
shown by the
past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.
«Over the
past few years, our surveys have
shown that a growing number of Republicans want to see Congress do more to address
climate change,» said Mason professor Edward Maibach, director of 4C.
Climate estimates compiled by geochemists from past periods with large changes (e.g. ice ages) show that the climate is a highly non-linear system, with thresholds and sudden dramatic c
Climate estimates compiled by geochemists from
past periods with large
changes (e.g. ice ages)
show that the
climate is a highly non-linear system, with thresholds and sudden dramatic c
climate is a highly non-linear system, with thresholds and sudden dramatic
changes.
See e.g. this review paper (Schmidt et al, 2004), where the response of a
climate model to estimated
past changes in natural forcing due to solar irradiance variations and explosive volcanic eruptions, is
shown to match the spatial pattern of reconstructed temperature
changes during the «Little Ice Age» (which includes enhanced cooling in certain regions such as Europe).
I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial
climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful
climate and sea - level
change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful e
change,» an important new Nature
Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful
Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful e
Change analysis reinforcing
past work
showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.
At the 10th International Congress of Ecology in Brisbane, new research presented
shows that the average snow cover at Spencers Creek, in the Snowy Mountains, has declined 30 - 40 % in the
past 50 years and
climate change is to blame: Though Catherine Pickering of Griffith University, presented that stat as being a threat to the ski industry — Pickering is an associate professor in Griffith's International Centre for Ecotourism Research — the greater threat is really to plant life in Australia's Snowy Mountains.
Show me your proof and I'll show you some historical records in Calif. that says it's always changing, and has been drier, wetter, hotter and colder in periods in the past, will be in the future, and all AGW agenda is going to accomplish is to destroy whatever monetary reserves this nation has left to cope with changing clim
Show me your proof and I'll
show you some historical records in Calif. that says it's always changing, and has been drier, wetter, hotter and colder in periods in the past, will be in the future, and all AGW agenda is going to accomplish is to destroy whatever monetary reserves this nation has left to cope with changing clim
show you some historical records in Calif. that says it's always
changing, and has been drier, wetter, hotter and colder in periods in the
past, will be in the future, and all AGW agenda is going to accomplish is to destroy whatever monetary reserves this nation has left to cope with
changing climate.
Or you could
show that CO2 played little or no role in
past climate change.
«At the same time we constrained the methane emissions from biomass burning (wildfire activity) and
showed that those did not
change drastically in the
past — irrespective of
climate conditions.»
* There is too much conflicting evidence about
climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change
and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change
Historical temperature time series and series of atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements
show clearly how
climate has
changed over the
past 100 years.
Historical datasets
show large regional variations in
climate changes over the
past millenium.
This is the heart of
climate science: understanding today's
climate via instrumental observations and comparing it to the
past via proxy data to
show how
climate has
changed over time.
Observational records
show that anthropogenic - influenced
climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season
climate over the
past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..
«Researchers first became intrigued by abrupt
climate change when they discovered striking evidence of large, abrupt, and widespread
changes preserved in paleoclimatic archives... Modern
climate records include abrupt
changes that are smaller and briefer than in paleoclimate records but
show that abrupt
climate change is not restricted to the distant
past.»
It is
shown that, over the
past ∼ 10000 years (the Holocene), deep Maunder type solar minima have been accompanied by sharp
climate changes.
Scientific studies
show there is little if any linkage between hurricane frequency and severity with CO2 in the atmosphere, but an objective, common - sense, easy to understand analysis of hurricanes over the
past 110 years, also demonstrates that
climate change is not affecting the number or severity of hurricanes.
And indeed, over the
past four years, Exxon has reduced its grants to prominent
climate change deniers from the peak spending in 2005 of over $ 3.5 M. Greenpeace's research
shows a $ 2.2 million reduction in annual funding to these organizations, down to roughly $ 1.3 million in 2009.
«The partnership between Brazil and Norway through the Amazon Fund
shows intensified support for one of most impressive
climate change mitigation actions of the
past decades,» the Secretary General said.
The geology professor's 1998
climate study, which
showed a sharp increase in the world's temperatures in the
past century, Â was seen by many as proof that
climate change was rapidly occurring and that humans played a significant role in the
change.
The more you exaggerate
past or future
climate change or its impacts, the more important your research looks and the more likely it is to get funded («Look, my research
showing that millions could die by 2050 has been reported in the Guardian!
I have devoted a good portion of my writing over the
past decade to
showing how insufficient and ineffective emission trading is and also a diversion from leaders» and citizens» primary ethical duties to act on
climate change.
The
past seven days have
shown clearly how Lord Lawson and a small clique of other
climate change sceptics are able to use their political and media networks, as well as family ties, to distort so effectively the UK public debate.
Some of this
climate change may be due to the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels over the
past century, although an inspection of regional
climate data
shows most of the Sierra warming occurred from 1910 through the early 1930s, long before the major emissions.
While scientists continue to refine projections of the future, observations unequivocally
show that
climate is
changing and that the warming of the
past 50 years is primarily due to human - induced emissions of heat - trapping gases.
At the same time, the number of moderate Republicans that accept humans are causing
climate change has
shown a pretty notable uptick in the
past year, so maybe we're not totally doomed to a lifetime of squabbling over basic science.