Sentences with phrase «rapid climate»

The kind of rapid climate change which has begun will overwhelm that.

In times of rapid climate change, this is need - to - know information.

Front and center in this excellent book are the data upon which explanations for rapid climate change are built.

A new study suggests it was a one - two punch: rapid climate warming and humans.

I can not believe that any human being would not be concerned at the tragic loss of biodiversity the would result from rapid climate change.

These findings strongly indicate more rapid climate change during the last two centuries, the researchers report.

This might help prepare a species for a rapid response to a changing environment, such as rapid climate change.

So what are scientists to make of emerging data showing rapid climate change on earth 55 million years ago that looks just like what's happening today?

In other words, abrupt climate change would increase rapid climate change.

What strikes me in most discussions regarding rapid climate change is that everyone seems to be looking for «causes» and «effects».

In other words, a DO event (brought on this time by anthropogenic global warming) should be seen as larger and more rapid climate change than anthropogenic global warming.

He describes what is happening as rapid climate change.

Over the decades, many scientists who looked at tree rings, varves, ice layers, and so forth had held evidence of rapid climate shifts before their eyes.

But there are other conversations to be had as well, including the sharply inconvenient one that we begin when we admit that extremely rapid climate stabilization — the kind we need — is going to cost real money.

«The most important thing the President can do is to build on his inaugural comments to heighten the sense of urgency about rapid climate destabilization and clarify its connection to virtually every other issue on the national agenda,» said David Orr, environmental studies professor at Oberlin College.

D - O events are rapid climate fluctuations that occur quasi-periodically with a 1,470 - year recurrance time and which, according to Singer, are «likely caused by the sun.»

Moreover, as Tim Lenton pointed out at CEC14 the tools mathematicians have developed to help predict tipping points rely on signals that are generally overwhelmed by rapid climate forcing in such systems.

«It is interesting to consider how rapid climate change may have impacted past societies, particularly in light of the rapid changes taking place today.»

Dr Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «We found that South Africa experienced rapid climate transitions toward wetter conditions at times when the Northern Hemisphere experienced extremely cold conditions.»

So for this extended period in the evolution of life on this planet, we are only very recently plunging, arguably at an accelerating rate, into previously not experienced degrees of cooling and also probably into new extremes of rapid climate variability.

Suppose, as the Stanford computer study suggested, that very rapid climate change in the next century could result in hundreds of millions of premature human deaths?

These events produce rapid climate warming which is followed by a gradual, steady cooling over many years (centuries, in fact).

Moreover, several intervals of significant rapid climate change were detected during the Holocene at 10.3, 9.3 - 9.5, around 8.2, 6.4 - 6.2, 4.7 - 4.5, and around 2.7 ka BP.

Any sufficiently rapid climate transition will of course seek to leverage these dynamics, but it will also demand the concerted and coordinated efforts of a large number of countries, and these countries must somehow agree to focus their financial and technological resources on investment programs that are designed to further the common goal of extremely rapid emissions reductions.

«Similar to what happened during the Permian period, the Earth's modern oceans are facing rapid climate warming and enhanced nutrient fluxes.»

Under rapid climate change, weeds and invasive plants may have an advantage over desired and native plants because many have evolved to excel at dispersal, establishment, and adapting to new and changing environments (Corlett and Westcott 2013).

Massachusetts, along with other states and nations, has a two - part approach to combating the effects of human - induced rapid climate change: emissions reduction (mitigation) and adaptation.

Northerners are experiencing the most rapid climate change on the planet, and Turetsky's research is helping to address what these rapid changes mean for their land, traditional foods and water quality.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And in the geoengineering scenario they modeled, «we would get rapid climate change at a rate much faster than with global warming.»

These animals» sizes likely resulted from relatively rapid climate change, suggest the authors of a new study published online Thursday in Science.

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The more we know about natural rapid climate change, the better we can help climate modelers forecast how climate might change in the future now that human activity is added to the mix.»

«This implies that a very rapid transmission process must have operated, that linked rapid climate change around Greenland with the otherwise sluggish deep Atlantic Ocean circulation,» said Gottschalk.