Sentences with phrase «questions about future climate»

The American Southwest has experienced a series of severe droughts interspersed with strong wet episodes over the past decades, prompting questions about future climate patterns and potential intensification of weather disruptions under warming conditions.

Since about year 2000, however, the upward tendency appears to have slowed or possibly stopped, raising questions about future climate inputs to regional agricultural yields.

Not exact matches

The report details how climate change affects human health and can impact our future, but the question remains: What can we do about it?

One of the lowest points may have come last November when President Obama formally, and forcefully, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, citing climate change priorities that raised questions about the future U.S. appetite for Canadian crude.

Yesterday's surprise announcement that the Chancellor is to remove the Climate Change Levy exemption for renewable energy poses questions about the future of environmental taxation which the Government needs to address, says the CIOT.

The intergovernmental science panel faces questions about its future role in addressing climate change

The two studies improve our understand of Greenland's deep past, while raising questions about both the past and future of its giant ice sheet in a changing climate.

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

Students are introduced to the unanswered question about the future of Earth's climate.

Children, already susceptible to age - related insecurities, face additional destabilizing insecurities from questions about how they will cope with future climate change [138]--[139].

In an e-mail message, Kenneth Caldeira, who studies climate for the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University (and who is a participant in some of the panel's assessments), used the post as an opportunity to examine a broader question about the panel's role and future.

Conversely, any future decision about albedo modification will be judged primarily on questions of risk, and there are many opportunities to conduct research that furthers basic understanding of the climate system and its human dimensions — without imposing the risks of large - scale deployment — that would better inform societal considerations.

Not to mention raising questions about the confidence that we should place in the IPCC's projections of future climate change.

«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»

How about this question: How many American jobs are you willing to sacrifice now in an attempt to prevent what is still an unknown amount of climate change in the future?

The ability of climate science to probe and answer questions about the Earth system, the changes it has undergone, and the potential for change in the future has been (in my opinion) very successful in exploring the scope and limits of climate system predictability.

Question 4, not surprisingly, entails yet more assumptions about how humans will react to future changes in the climate at both global and regional levels.

This is his most recent comment on Collide - a-scape Blog on the post which was an interview with him: «Furthermore, your question appears to imply that you think that our concern about future climate change is related to the changes we have seen already.

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More ominously, it raises very serious questions about the future of the USGCRP, which in early November is expected to release its Climate Science Special Report, the public review draft of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, and the public review draft of the State of the Carbon Cycle Report.

And in case you get any funny ideas about questioning this supposedly settled science, there's the ever - present threat of being smeared by future generations as a climate denier to silence dissent.

We run climate models on people's home computers to help answer questions about how climate change is affecting our world, now and in the future — Sign up now and help us predict the climate.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.