Sentences with phrase «planetary climate happens»

Not exact matches

This is OK when you can completely control the replicability of a situation (eg changing the CO2 in a glass bottle) but rather more difficult in the case of the planet you are living on, when the inferences have to be made on the basis of both what happens in a glass bottle (physics) and what the observed behaviour of the unique subject (the planetary climate system) has been in terms of recent observations and its geological history.

Now it's time to try and make sense of what actually happened, who did what, and how the results will shape our troubled relationship with the planetary climate.

I don't think all our efforts to get to greater understanding about what's going on in our planetary climate are all good or all bad, but I do think a lot of decsions are heavily impacted by the public's perception and the image of the bear swimming to oblivion, if that's in fact what happens, carries more weight than scientific objectivity.

more stories like this War and peace with the environment Gore completes renovations to Tenn. home Gore: US blocking climate talks progress Keys, Thurman among Nobel concert celebs Gore accepts Nobel Prize, calls for action But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.

This is basic research at a down - to - earth level: climate science can't make sense of what is happening now without a better understanding of what has always happened, and of the swings in planetary temperatures over the past 4.5 billion years.