Sentences with phrase «physical consequences of climate change»

We'll present a couple illustrations before we'll get to the actual publication we hope to discuss — one that compares methodology of science - based and «science - denying» climate websites but that also touches on a subject we personally find far more interesting: what's actually going on in the Arctic, an area that is not only experiencing major physical consequences of climate change, but that is subsequently also set to be a stage for a cascade of ecological consequences of this climate change — both in the Arctic tundra biome and in the adjacent Arctic marine ecosystem.

At over 2000 pages and five years in the making, the report represents the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment ever produced on the causes and physical consequences of climate change.

WHEREAS, the physical consequences of climate change are already evident, including rising sea levels, increased hurricane intensity, increased winter storm intensity, and species migration;

Not exact matches

The results affirm the strong and growing scientific consensus developing from the understanding of the physical origins and consequences of climate change, as outlined in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Working Group 1 report last September.

Rather, climate change is a consequence of changed physical conditions...» and further down states this: ``... climate is the same as weather statistics -LSB-...] This statistics, however, -LSB-...](is not) a force that influences the outcomes.»

Scientists already feel that the second part of the IPCC report, which addresses the consequences of global warming, is not as sound as the first part, which deals with the underlying physical factors contributing to climate change.

Though precise consequences can not yet be defined, three main pathways of climate change impact are outlined, affecting fisheries and aquaculture, their dependent communities and their economic activities: direct physical (e.g. flooding, severe droughts), biological and ecological (e.g. productivity of lakes and rivers), and indirect wider social and economic (e.g. fresh water use conflicts).

Getting across the risks of inaction and ill - preparedness, in terms of physical, economic, and geopolitical consequences and in ways people will understand is a requisite first step to dealing with climate change «in a serious way.»

And that's illustrated if you compare how «science - based» and «science - denier» blogs discuss right about any climate - related topic, from actual atmospheric temperature development to its physical manifestations, like sea level rise (see the chart in the middle of this piece) and social and ecological consequences of climate change — including at some point the fate of iconic mammal species that use sea ice as hunting grounds.

As any consideration of the potential economic consequences of climate change depends critically on the physical evidence for this process, my comment is principally concerned with the scientific basis.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.