Sentences with phrase «planetary climate»

Assuming the link between cosmic rays and cloud formation hold true, one can imagine engaging in planetary climate control.

That's compounded by the fact that we don't experience planetary climate change — at best, we're aware of local trends, not global ones.

But it's like I say: as planetary climate systems show all possible signs of disruption, what we get is strange climatic conditions and extreme weather events on a local level, and these conditions and event are conditioned by great variations from continent to continent and from one year to the next.

LONDON, 14 May, 2018 — There is now firm evidence in the ancient rocks of planetary climate influence — a climate cycle that lasts for 405,000 years.

14 May, 2018 — There is such a thing as planetary climate influence which changes the Earth over aeons.

I have found, through careful consideration, that the main cause of this debacle where a majority believe humans can control a complex system like planetary climate is the quality of responses to that pernicious assertion.It is not possible to restore stability to climate research based on contending with people who would literally become ill before they would change their conclusions and it for this reason that people here are more accountable for the material they are responsible for.

I understand that scientists are pretty deep in the weeds of how planetary climate works / develops, and the science in those weeds must be fascinating and intellectually rewarding, but you have to stick your head up above the weeds on a regular basis and check on how we are doing at protecting the ability of the planet to support living things, and when you do that, the facts are pretty bleak.

Fearing that the best efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions may fail, or that planetary climate feedback mechanisms will accelerate warming, some scientists and economists are considering not only what this world of the future might be like, but how it could sustain a growing human population.

For a long time now climatologists have been tracking the global average air temperature as a measure of planetary climate variability and trends, even though this metric reflects just a tiny fraction of Earth's net energy or heat content.

This confirmation of celestial clockwork — the swing in planetary climate happens because the Earth's orbit is periodically distorted by the combined tug of Venus and Jupiter — has been tracked back through evidence in the rocks for the last 215 million years.

Tens of billions of dollars have supported these efforts, while only a few million have been devoted to analyses of all factors — natural and human — that affect and drive planetary climate change.

The first, in September covered how we are influencing planetary climate processes.

JIGSAW (GEO) is designed to produce very high - quality Delaunay triangulations and Voronoi tessellations appropriate for unstructured finite - volume / element type models of planetary climate dynamics.

«The role of GISS in NExSS is to use our climate model to characterize other planetary climates and to help assess their habitability,» said Del Genio.

Their hope is to produce a library of potential planetary climates in the Universe, which can then be used for research on habitability and planet detection.

I am building a new group at Oxford covering a range of projects regarding planetary climate, including both exoplanets, Earth paleoclimate and global change problems.

An example of why I would decouple unproven planetary climate science from what the actual data and proven science tells those who are trained to understand has happened, in particular STOP spending money and making laws based on modellers» guesses that produce no new laws, especially money and policy that makes CO2 emissions worse, etc..

I think we have all heard enough about this subject but I've got to deal with it first before I go on to explain how misleading I believe the concept to have been ever since it was first used in connection with planetary climates.

Defiant Earth goes a long way towards bridging the distance between rival interpretations of this idea in the humanities while generating insights of its own into the meanings of being human in an age of planetary climate change.

The GCM may be one of the most useful tools for studying Earth's own climate, but a great deal of research on other planetary bodies, including Venus, helped shaped the way we now think about planetary climates (see Part I).

There is such a thing as planetary climate influence which changes the Earth over aeons.

The potential negative consequences of geoengineering the planetary climate remain too unclear to risk deployment at this point

Yes we get to Trump, the chances of hope, and the planetary climate emergency.

Is it a planetary climate emergency?

We have a planetary climate crisis that requires urgent change to our energy and carbon pathway to avoid dangerous consequences for young people and other life on Earth.

If it takes 100 plus years to double the concentration of CO2, and if the equilibrium response is a 2C increase (Pierrehumbert, «Principles of Planetary Climate», p 623), and if the increased CO2 produces increased vegetation and crop growth, then the present rate of development of non-fossil fuel power and fuel generation is more appropriate than an Apollo type project or attempt to get rid of all fossil fuel use by 2050 starting now as fast as can be done.

Note that unforced temperature variations are caused by a redistribution of the heat within the planetary climate system.