Sentences with phrase «really know our climate»

How do we really know our climate is changing permanently, rather than just going through a normal period of flux?

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Some climates can really affect the integrity of the fabric and not knowing where a carrier I bought was stored makes it even more important to test the carrier.
The fact that nobody really knows or understands the complex factors that are involved in climate change.
Also, if you are busy proving that humans are causing climate change, you can probably pinpoint which humans are causing climate change and then we really know who to «blame» and make pay for it.
If you live in a humid climate, you know that humidity makes warm temperatures even worse so this is a really awesome feature.
Friedman: Absolutely, because without it, if we aren't Noah and we don't build the ark, we could — and I think this is so important for our Scientific American's audience to really understand, because I know they appreciate it — and that is that we could actually save the climate and kill the planet.
«We don't really know the future of forests in a changing climate,» said lead author William Anderegg, an associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and an incoming assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah.
And they really don't know a lot about climate change; or they don't know a lot about evolution, or they don't know a lot about biodiversity.
They say that these debates about climate change and teaching evolution in schools, you know, really comes down, it really blurs the lines; it confuses the public about the kind of the boundaries between science and ideology.
Want to know what climate change really means to people?
And there was this great, it was my favorite moment of the weekend and it was this very dramatic moment, when basically Emanuel was complaining a little bit, very politely, and smiling about the fact that journalists still are doing stories about, you know, the debate around climate science, but there's not really, of course, there's not a debate, there's consensus that anthropogenic global warming is happening and that, why are you still doing these stories, asking questions?
To reconstruct accurate climate records for the past and forecast climate changes for the future, modelers need to know just how passive trees really are when it comes to air temperature.
It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.
Trump falsely claimed during an appearance on Fox News over the weekend that «nobody really knows» whether climate change is real.
In the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate change).
«What we really don't know is what the long - term consequences of climate change are,» explained Curtis.
«The Mammoth steppe is an environment that we don't really understand because it no longer exists due to climate change and megafauna extinction.
We won't really know unless and until a new climate accord is signed in Paris next year.
«Climate change is a persistent global stressor, but the consequences of it appear to be slowly evolving; they're fairly certain to happen — we know that, now — but the impact on individuals seems to be growing really slowly and needs to be taken very seriously,» said Helm, whose co-authors include UA Norton School researchers Melissa Barnett, Melissa Curran and Zelieann Craig, along with UA alumna Amanda Pollitt.
«There's so much organic carbon trapped in permafrost,» she said, «and we don't really know what's going to happen as the climate warms.»
But what it sees it sees in detail, showing the capabilities we need to know what is really happening on Earth, as we shift the climate into a new state.
President - elect Donald Trump said Sunday that «nobody really knows» whether climate change is real and that he is «studying» whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.
It's ridiculous enough politicians are blaming the refugee crises on man - made climate change, even though everyone knows they are really caused by foreign policy ineptitude and debacles.
Sure, C02 was increasing as well but no - one claims that C02 is the sole influence on climate, there are always a number of competing influences, but post-1976 C02 has really taken over as the biggest.
Although they've made a lot of progress over the last decades, we still do not really know how climate is changing on a local scale.
As far as I know, Lindzen doesn't really have any solid evidence to support his claim that climate models are flawed, or that CO2 is a weaker climate forcer than believed.
The warmth really seems to soothe my sore joints — I do not know how my friends with psoriatic arthritis who live in New York and northern climates do it!
I enjoy hearing what other people do, and it really comes down to knowing one's own skin and how it performs in various climates / situations.
It really is the best piece for layering your fall wardrobe no matter what your climate.
She had never been that interested or engaged in the issues surrounding sustainability and climate change - mainly, she says, due to a lack of knowledge: «I didn't really know what was going on so you can't have an opinion on it.»
Even in the current climate, savvy organizations know you still need - more than ever, really — to attract and...
Even in the current climate, savvy organizations know you still need - more than ever, really — to attract and retain great people.
«What really makes a strong administrative climate is when the principal also knows the academic content well and can work with the beginning teacher on curriculum and instruction.»
Well I wanted to let you know that Petcurean has recently launched a brand new line of pet food called «Gather», and the idea behind Gather is to provide food for dogs and cats with sustainability and transparency and organic ingredients are the key aspects of the brand, and we know that one of the biggest trends right now in both the human and pet food arenas are... global warming, climate change, extremes in weather, it's all on their minds, so we just launched Gather in August of this year and we'll be starting to stress the food to reach all stores in October, so we're really excited about that.
I think it was very important for myself, the curators and the trustees of the museum, the founders of the museum, to really give the creators from Africa an equal playing ground, you know, you have the Whitney Museum of American Art, you have the Tate Britain of British art, you know these are institutions which take as their motivation to collect and record and position artists from their Nations and we felt it was very important for us to be able to create that same platform on a high level, so that our artists can compete in some way and also have the resources, financial, space, logistics, climate control, to be able to give them the freedom to imagine the dreams and visions that they want to execute and they want to make reality.
Jacob wrote: ``... we don't know, maybe even can't know, if models really represent climate, and what the relation is between model and nature (climate), i.e. what is the extent of the match, or, in which area is the model more reliable and in which less»
If people really want to know what our energy and climate strategy will look like, they're going to need to look at people like Larry Summers and Pete Orszag, not just Carol Browner and Steve Chu.
I don't know how much Americans * really * spend on climate research.
I think climate scientists know about these, but can't really make definitive claims, so they don't get into peer - reviewed articles much... or else other scientists might attack them with ferocity (even substracting denialists from the equation here).
For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.
Who knows, maybe in another 10 years or so, the WSJ editorial page will be claiming that they were never really against actions to deal with climate change but they just felt the science needed to be more certain first.
: How do we know that the climate is really warming up?
TSI estimates are completely unknown and we don't really know what the climate response will be.
Here's all you ever really need to know about CO2 emissions and climate:
As far as I know, the climate in California is much like it was in the 1850's, and are things really much different??
We do know that there are trends in temperature extremes and precipitation extremes (which are backed solidly by physics in a warming climate), but for the other metrics we don't really see trends at all.
I know that modelling always plays an important role in science and global climate change, such a vast phenomenon needs all the relevant research that is available, for the blind men (people in general) to understand the elephant:) The models are a necessary component, and interestingly some of these assumptions are based upon physics and chemsitry just the same, otherwise the models would be really far off.
Finally, we know that the warm pool can't really be thermostatted, since the tropical ocean gets as high as 35C during past high - CO2 climates like the Eocene.
Sure, we need to learn how to deal w / natural variations in water availability, but it doesn't make sense to make the challenge even more daunting, particularly if we don't yet really know how much climate - induced water supply reduction is truly adaptable.
The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year on options for mitigating emissions concluded that stabilization of greenhouse gases could be accomplished with known technologies, but the new paper contends that the panel's assumptions about technological innovation made a daunting challenge look far more doable than it really is.
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