Not exact matches
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.
Two principal techniques were used to reconstruct
past climates over the
past 3000 years: at close intervals throughout a vertical column of peat, the researchers investigated the degree of peat decomposition,
which is directly related to
climate, and also examined the peat matrix to reveal the
changing amounts of different plants that previously grew on the bog.
In Glacier National Park,
which has been at the forefront of the
climate change response effort, rangers give a weekly «walk - and - talk» program on the
past, present, and future of the park's namesake features entitled «Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?»
The discovery of ice ages in the distant
past proved that
climate could
change radically over the entire globe,
which seemed vastly beyond anything mere humans could provoke.
«A better understanding of the controls on reef development in the
past will allow us to make better predictions about
which reefs may be most vulnerable to
climate change in the future.»
But the AGU believes that a broader solution is needed,
which is why the statement calls on members to become more involved not only in researching the problem but also spreading the word about the urgency of controlling
climate change, something many scientists have been loathe to do in the
past, Killeen admits.
The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project
which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has
changed over the
past 30 years as a result of
climate change and population growth.
But the questionnaire,
which asks for averages based on weather conditions over the
past 10 years, does not require cities to anticipate how
climate may
change in the seven to eight years between bidding and hosting the games.
Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to
past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in
which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.
But the period of time over
which the team analysed the long - term trend in warming was the
past 50 years, in
which this oscillation hasn't
changed significantly — so almost all the warming looks to have been the result of anthropogenic
climate change.
Those thoughts kept going through my head during our recent town hall meeting about
climate change,
which took place at Yale University this
past January (see page 38).
In the
past three months, new studies have been published about killer whales, wandering albatross and trumpeter swans — all of
which appear to be benefiting from
climate change.
«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.
«Also, we feel that if we can understand how fish coped with low - oxygen, high CO2, acidic waters in the
past, it will give us some insight into how they might cope with man - made
climate change which appears to be giving rise to such conditions again,» Dr Rummer says.
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.
Studies of the link between orbital parameters and
past climate changes include spectral analysis of palaeoclimatic records and the identification of orbital periodicities; precise dating of specific climatic transitions; and modelling of the
climate response to orbital forcing,
which highlights the role of climatic and biogeochemical feedbacks.
A sensitivity
which is too low will be inconsistent with
past climate changes - basically if there is some large negative feedback
which makes the sensitivity too low, it would have prevented the planet from transitioning from ice ages to interglacial periods, for example.
«Such insights into the
past may help to separate natural from «man - made» oscillations of rainfall
which is particularly important in view of ongoing
climate change,» says the lead author of the study, Dr. Eva Niedermeyer, LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (Bi
climate change,» says the lead author of the study, Dr. Eva Niedermeyer, LOEWE Biodiversity and
Climate Research Centre (Bi
Climate Research Centre (BiK - F).
On Monday, an eyebrow - raising meeting between Donald Trump and former vice president Al Gore added fuel to recent speculation that the president - elect might be softening his stance on
climate change,
which he's famously referred to in the
past as a...
Add - in the massive 12.3 - inch central screen controlling a seriously strong
climate control system and high - level Mark Levinson audio, and it's almost too good to be true... at least until you try to
change infotainment menus with that overly - sensitive remote touch control system, the frustrations of
which have been well documented in Lexus reviews of the
past.
It's possible that both animals entered the Atlantic via the Northwest Passage,
which has been partially free of ice for brief periods during the
past four years — a phenomenon attributed to
climate change.
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.
There are many things that have caused
climate changes in the
past — in both directions, and man is now adding heavily to the warming, as is possibly the Earth's inconsistent orbit (
which is due about now).
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.
What really concerns me is that I've read a lot about
climate models not being able to replicate the magnitude of abrupt regional temperature
changes in the
past, and Raypierre has said here that he fears that
past climate records point towards some yet unknown positive feedback
which might amplify warming at the northern latitudes.
``... estimates of future rises remain hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack of data on what ice sheets did in the
past to predict how they will react to warming, insufficient long - term satellite data to unpick the effects of natural
climate change from that caused by man and a spottiness in the degree to
which places such as Antarctica have warmed....
However, they ignore the work scientists have done examining the
past climate record in the 90's and 00's
which gives us a real comparison of today's
changes against the record of the
past.
Surprises that could
change this include going into a glacial
climate state,
which had the mysterious ability to draw down CO2 in the
past, or uptake by the terrestrial biosphere.
Second, there are confounding factors such as
climate change, the effects of
past fire exclusion, and increasing development in the wildland - urban interface,
which contribute to higher wildfire spending.
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).
eg pg xii To improve our predictive capability, we need: • to understand better the various
climate - related processes, particularly those associated with clouds, oceans and the carbon cycle • to improve the systematic observation of
climate - related variables on a global basis, and further investigate
changes which took place in the
past • to develop improved models of the Earth's
climate system • to increase support for national and international
climate research activities, especially in developing countries • to facilitate international exchange of
climate data
«Researching Don't Even Think About It,
which I see as the most important book published on
climate change in the
past few years, George Marshall discovered that there has not been a single proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward during international
climate negotiations.
Past warmings are not an analogue for our present situation,
which to my mind places a greater burden of proof on
climate scientists regarding evidence for
climate change.
I would like to read a book about how the rate and degree of warming expected to take place over the next couple centuries compares with global warming episodes in Earth's
past, and how today's plants and animals might not survive
climate change and heat waves more severe than experienced during the
climates in
which their species evolved.
Concerning the «debate» highlighted by the above exchanges between Pielke and Holdren, the issue isnt about analogues to
past droughts (
which, by the way, the California resource managers were more interested in), but about the scientific evidence that California droughts have become more severe due to
climate change.
Scientific evidence indicates that the global
climate is moving outside the bounds of
past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world, prompting examination of a variety of plausible scenarios through
which climate change might pose or alter security risks for the United States.
Is the
past 10 to 15 years —
which have seen little net
change in the average surface temperature of the Earth despite ever - larger carbon dioxide emissions — an indication that
climate change will not be as bad as previously projected?
The United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) was expected to delivery its fifth Assessment Report (AR5) next month, but over the
past weekend, a draft of that report was leaked to Reuters,
which reported the early findings.
Scientists quoted in a
past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity
which they claim is a much larger driver of
climate change than man - made greenhouse gases.
Climate models, run on powerful computers which use decades of past and present climate data to simulate how climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate
Climate models, run on powerful computers
which use decades of
past and present
climate data to simulate how climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate
climate data to simulate how
climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate
climate will behave, or has in the
past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future
climate climate change.
This
past November, the UNEP released the 2014 edition of their annual «Emissions Gap Report,»
which highlighted the important role that carbon dioxide removal («CDR») solutions are likely to play in preventing
climate change.
...
climate change is hitting home in more ways than the heat wave we experienced this summer... the giant Australian cuttlefish,
which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the
past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.»
In selecting his team to carry us forward into a future in
which the weather and
climate patterns of the
past can no longer be assumed to be valid indicators of future
climate conditions affecting the economy and society, we hope the next President will swiftly and skillfully select a set of strong «
climate leaders» with honesty, integrity, and dedication to bringing the best scientific and technological intelligence we can muster to bear on the host of
climate change challenges we face.
On October 19, EPA announced the activation of the agency's revamped
climate change Web site,
which (although the EPA news release doesn't mention this) had been essentially moribund for the
past four years.
Your incorrect claim that the current
climate change «is unprecedented perhaps over the
past 100,000 years» is incorrect, because it ignores that huge, incredibly rapid
change at the end of the ice age,
which was survived by all of the species that we know and love.
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And for a little historical perspective: «It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable
change of
climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by
which the severity of the cold that has for centuries
past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.