Sentences with phrase «predicted consequences of climate change»

One of the predicted consequences of climate change is a shift in body mass distributions within animal populations.

«Studies that aim to predict the consequences of climate change on insect populations should consider additional factors that may ultimately limit growth and survival, such as the risk of being eaten by a predator,» Culler says.

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Scientists discover an important clue in predicting future consequences of climate change: the mechanism that moves ice streams

Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate - driven extinction, or to predict its consequences for ecosystems.

Farmers, working with scientists, should be able to use this information to predict the consequences of global climate change on agricultural yield.

But mentioning that in the context of Hurricane Sandy is an attempt (or at least has the effect) to minimize the concern about the documented changes to the climate we have already made and the predicted catastrophic consequences of staying on the fossil emissions path we are on.

What geologists can't do is predict current and future consequences of global warming and climate changes through our expert knowledge of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

Study of Earth's climate extremes through history — when climate was extremely cold or hot or changed quickly — may lead to improved climate models that could enable scientists to predict the magnitude and consequences of climate change.

Time is not on our side and we are going to see the consequences of climate change faster than predicted by scientists at the cost of mankind.

Extreme weather events are known to have serious consequences for human health and are predicted to increase in frequency as a result of climate change.

That is why I am sceptic of catastrophic consequences of predicted climate change as a consequence of man's actions.

My position is the following: 1) the extent of past human interference with global climate is likely somewhat exaggerated, 2) the dangers of future human - induced climate change are greatly exaggerated (for example, I heard Ira Flatow a couple of weeks ago talking about the East coast being under water in 50 years — which is complete piffle), 3) the numerical global climate do a poor job of past reconstruction and are unlikely to be very reliable in predicting the consequences of future human activity.

The Arctic climate is changing so quickly that science can barely keep track of what is happening and predict the global consequences, the UN says.

However, GCMs are not proof of climate theory, but they are the best we have for predicting what the consequences of various policy options will be - far ahead of examining entrails or assuming nothing will change.

An unintended consequence of this strategy is that there has been very little left over for true climate modeling innovations and fundamental research into climate dynamics and theory — such research would not only support amelioration of deficiencies and failures in the current climate modeling systems, but would also lay the foundations for disruptive advances in our understanding of the climate system and our ability to predict emergent phenomena such as abrupt climate change.

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.

These are just some of the dire consequences that Chinese scientists predict for their country this century if current climate change is not addressed.

These cloud changes are, of course, hardly without consequence — the growth of so - called dry zones or drylands, as the planet warms, has been long predicted and indeed, observed by climate scientists.