Sentences with phrase «picture of future climate»

Combining local climate projections with historical observations yields a highly localized picture of future climate impacts.

The modellers draw on science to create equations which, once inside the computer, project a picture of the future climate.

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The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

This new research provides a broad picture of how climate change may alter groundwater recharge in the future, Meixner said.

The IPCC's climate report says that the most extreme scenarios of future warming are looking less likely — but this doesn't change the big picture

No mainstream scientists are advocating using geoengineering techniques right now, but more and more researchers feel that a worsening picture of global climate change warrants studying such interventions in case of a climate emergency in the future.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

It's undoubtedly attractive to picture an «e-science» future, where the impacts of scientific research such as environmental climate change and genomic bioresearch are shared globally with spectrally efficient 100 Gbps transmissions systems.

These models can then be mapped against climate forecasts to predict how phenology could shift in the future, painting a picture of landscapes in a world of warmer temperatures, altered precipitation and humidity, and changes in cloud cover.

The maps could also be useful resources for deciding where to place instruments to monitor ocean oxygen levels in the future to get the best picture of climate change impacts.

But the researchers» work helps to make sense of the noisiness in climate data and helps scientists gain a clearer picture of the future of water, especially in the mountainous west.

Climate science provides another grim, but murky, picture of the future.

Thus to provide the clearest picture of the CO2 effect, we approximate the net future change of human - made non-CO2 forcings as zero and we exclude future changes of natural climate forcings, such as solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols.

Rather than looking at the big picture of global climate change, our time might be better spent looking at how each continent or even each geographic region has already been impacted and how it might be impacted in the future should trends continue or worsen.

It's a dismal picture for the future of humanity, and yet, Trump just announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord because of its «draconian financial burdens.»

And mine was a reply to webby suggesting we pretty much know as much about climate — in a big picture sort of way — as we can know for the foreseeable future.

Divided into three parts — the Present, the Past and the Future — Archer provides a complete picture of climate change now, in the past, and what we can expect in years and centuries to come.

Archer leads the reader to a simple yet accurate picture of climate changes, ranging from geological time scales to current warming, ice ages and prospects for the future.

What may be most galling is that, while Spencer and his study hog the majority of attention, a whole spate of other climate - related developments paint an incredibly bleak picture for the future of our planet.

Climate Change The New Economy All analyses of the global energy picture today say that the wind industry has a «bright future».

Science should not feed the fear of their stakeholders by «producing pictures of how our future climate COULD look like».

We get repeated requests from users not to provide as realistic as possible predictions of the future, but to provide physically realistic pictures that can be understood and interpreted as a possible consequence of altering climate statistics.

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

Secondly, to overcome fear of the unknown, one healthy response is to find out more about climate change and form a clearer picture of the future.

According to Black's un-named climate negotiator, we can't even trust the consensus — represented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — to paint a reliable picture of the climate negotiator, we can't even trust the consensus — represented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — to paint a reliable picture of the Climate Change — to paint a reliable picture of the future.

But we're not doing this when it comes to climate change — and that means we're making decisions based on a flawed picture of future risks.

It paints a bleak picture of a hotter, more unstable future in which the combination of climate change and population growth combine to overwhelm the capacity of natural and human systems, resulting in increased poverty, conflict, and species extinction.

A vivid picture of our climate's future can be found in our past.