Sentences with phrase «planetary climate system»

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.

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

This post is, like the majority of posts on RealClimate, not about «views what should be done», but analysis of how the planetary climate system works and what consequences we can expect from our collective actions.

I do find some hope in that if we were effective enough to screw up the planetary climate system without even trying to do so, we can be equally effective at intentionally correcting the error.

Nevertheless, the concept underlines the fact that these catastrophe points are not, actually, points of no return; they are rather points of not - feasible return, where the energy and time (or any other crucial governing factor) required to revert the system (like a planetary climate system) to a previous state is by far greater than the energy (or time, or...) that initially served as a feedback to drive it to the beyond - catastrophe state.

The price to be paid for not cutting greenhouse gas emissions could push the planetary climate system closer to irreversible «tipping points».

Now researchers from the universities of Exeter in the UK, Zurich in Switzerland and Chicago and Stanford in the US report in Nature Climate Change that they considered the risk that emitted greenhouse gases from fossil fuels would push the planetary climate system closer to what climate scientists call «tipping points.»

Role of the hydrological cycle in regulating the planetary climate system in a simple nonlinear dynamical model.

They call for advanced climate simulation systems that can model outcomes with ever greater precision and ever smaller scales, and for sustained, long - term observation of the machinery of the planetary climate system: among them the complexities of the water cycle, involving the evaporation of soil moisture, the formation of clouds and the conditions for rain and snow fall.