Sentences with phrase «recent changes in our global climate»

the recent changes in global climate ARE man - induced.

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In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate changIn a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate changin the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian «s Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation: There may be ways of fixing [the current....

In light of recent political decisions to withdraw the nation from global efforts to address climate change, reverting to mother nature may be the...

«The fact that we don't see the presently understood meteorological signature of global warming in changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.

The results suggest that recent changes in global vegetation have had impacts on local climates that should be considered in the design of local mitigation and adaptation plans.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

The basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, but it is in recent decades that the fundamental science of global warming has solidified

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Change, IPCC.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

Our best guess, according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, is that doubling the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere would raise global temperatures between 1.5 and 4.5 °C.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

«Recent advances in understanding coral resilience are essential to safeguard coral reefs: A review of the literature points to the importance of reducing global carbon dioxide emissions in addition to protecting or augmenting resilience mechanisms in the face of increased frequency of climate change impacts..»

The world needs to drop its global warming pollution by 6 percent annually to avoid «dangerous» climate change in the estimation of Hansen and his co-authors in a recent paper in PLoS One.

Sure, global warming is real, said participants in a recent climate change conference, but that doesn't mean we should do anything about it.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

In its recent Assessement Report (AR5), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that global mean temperature may rise up to 5 °C elsius by the end of this century.

The findings show a slight but notable increase in that average temperature, putting a dent in the idea that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, a trend highlighted in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Despite climate change having received considerable attention in recent years, no global assessment of the consequences of sea rising is available for island ecosystems.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquakIn recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquakin Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

We are disappointed that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has chosen to yet again distort the science behind human - caused climate change and global warming in their recent editorial «Kyoto By Degrees» (6/21/05)(subscription required).

I had just been in a discussion of climate change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions about the cause of the global warming here on earth on the basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!

The most recent National Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, part of a government analysis published in 2001, used two models to examine climate in the Southeast.

In its most recent Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC raised the likelihood of changes in several global climate events to «virtually certain» (i.e., 99 - 100 % likelihoodIn its most recent Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC raised the likelihood of changes in several global climate events to «virtually certain» (i.e., 99 - 100 % likelihoodin several global climate events to «virtually certain» (i.e., 99 - 100 % likelihood).

The graphic displays monthly global temperature data from the U.K. Met Office and charts how each month compares to the average for the same period from 1850 - 1900, the same baselines used in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This basic idea has been taken up by a section of the solar physics community, and a good recent summary of the evidence for the proposition that solar variability is an agent, if not the main agent, of the perceived recent climate change associated with global warming, is given in Hoyt & Schatten (1997).

For example, the report summarizes recent research underpinning the scientific rationale for large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce the likelihood of dangerous human - induced climate change.

You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and climate change are playing in burning down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»

Global Warming, Ozone Holes, and Magnetic Poles «An Investigation Reexamining Brewer - Dobson Ozone Theory to Uncover the Atmospheric Role of Paramagnetic Oxygen in Recent Extreme Weather Patterns and Global Climate Change» by Harry Todd

According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.

«The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long - term trends associated with global warming.

Slowed Warming Zeke Hausfather, a data analyst at the Berkeley Earth project, has filed «Examining the Recent Slowdown in Global Warming» at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»

To set the recent trend in broader context, check out sociologist Robert Brulle's graph tracking network news coverage of global warming and the following graph of newspaper coverage of climate change from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate climate change from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate Cchange from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate Climate ChangeChange:

Peter H. Gleick, a water and climate analyst who has been studying aspects of global warming for more than two decades, in recent years became an aggressive critic of organizations and individuals casting doubt on the seriousness of greenhouse - driven climate change.

In its latest report, released in September, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted the recent slowdown in the rate of global warminIn its latest report, released in September, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted the recent slowdown in the rate of global warminin September, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted the recent slowdown in the rate of global warminin the rate of global warming.

Meanwhile, modeling results in this area don't lead to definitive conclusions; as the recent WMO statement puts it, «Although recent climate model simulations project a decrease or no change in global tropical cyclone numbers in a warmer climate there is low confidence in this projection.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening dclimate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening dClimate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening dclimate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

THEN STEFAN SAYS EXACTLY WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS INFERRING IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; and what has been repeatedly said already in the IPCC Reports: «While Pam and Haiyan, as well as other recent tropical cyclone disasters, can not be uniquely pinned on global warming, they have no doubt been influenced by natural and anthropogenic climate change and they do remind us of our continuing vulnerability to such storms.&raquIN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; and what has been repeatedly said already in the IPCC Reports: «While Pam and Haiyan, as well as other recent tropical cyclone disasters, can not be uniquely pinned on global warming, they have no doubt been influenced by natural and anthropogenic climate change and they do remind us of our continuing vulnerability to such storms.&raquin the IPCC Reports: «While Pam and Haiyan, as well as other recent tropical cyclone disasters, can not be uniquely pinned on global warming, they have no doubt been influenced by natural and anthropogenic climate change and they do remind us of our continuing vulnerability to such storms.»

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

And, on the heels of a recent report about the global droughts to be expected due to climate change — one can only wonder if such scenes will become more common elsewhere.Throughout the affected state of Amazonia, rivers provide the only means of access to the outside world for families residing in the regions around the capital of Manaus.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

Sadly, in recent years we have become accustomed to a ritual in which the publication of each new result on anthropogenic climate change is greeted by a flurry of activity from industry - funded lobby groups, think tanks and PR professionals, who try to discredit the science and confuse the public about global warming.

For most recent sampling see: New Peer - Reviewed Study finds «Solar changes significantly alter climate» (11-3-07)(LINK) & «New Peer - Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 — 2002» (LINK) & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period «0.3 C Warmer than 20th Century» (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer - reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see «New Peer - Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears» LINK]

While the anomalous nature of recent trends in global average temperature is often highlighted in discussions of climate change, changes at regional scales have potentially greater societal significance.

Narrator: In order to protect profits, these industries devised a plan, to reposition global warming as a theory and not fact and designed what a recent Greenpeace report dubbed the climate change denial machine.