Sentences with phrase «reconcile climate»

There is no way to reconcile climate mitigation with the building of a new pipeline.

3) The EU should make an effort to reconcile climate change, energy and trade policies, both at domestic level (e.g. though inter-service consultations) and at international level.

«Reconciled Climate Response Estimates from Climate Models and the Energy Budget of Earth.»

Here we show that accounting for recent cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific reconciles climate simulations and observations.We present a novel method of uncovering mechanisms for global temperature change by prescribing, in addition to radiative forcing, the observed history of sea surface temperature over the central to eastern tropical Pacific in a climate model.

Here we show that accounting for recent cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific reconciles climate simulations and observations.

Not exact matches

Avance Coffee Conference October 11 - 12, 2017 - Guatemala City, Guatemala Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director of Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods, will be a speaker on Climate Change: Reconciling Global and Local Actions at this conference hosted by the Specialty Coffee Association.

Polly and his co-author A. Michelle Lawing, a doctoral candidate studying biology and geological sciences at Indiana, looked at 11 species of rattlesnakes across North America, tracking where they lived and how much they vary from one another, reconciling their movements with the climate several million years in the past.

Under Obama the CEQ is moving forward with plans formulated during his predecessor's tenure for a U.S. policy on oceans — from newly protected areas to reconciling competing authorities and laws — along with continuing the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate as a way to address global greenhouse gas emissions.

A more detailed investigation of the satellite observations and climate models helped the researchers finally reconcile what was happening globally versus locally.

(1) How does he reconcile his belief about the climate being so stable... i.e., having strong negative feedbacks... with the ice age — interglacial oscillations?

With climate change deniers saying the cold temperatures contradicted the idea of global warming and some climate scientists suggesting that cold extremes could have a counterintuitive warming link, researchers wondered, «how can we reconcile this idea of global warming with these really extreme cold temperatures?»

The point of the paper was to apply those results to improve calculations of climate sensitivity from the historical record and see if they can be reconciled with other estimates.

And if we pass a bill in the Senate, reconcile it with the House, that says we are going to invest in wind energy and solar energy and we're going to be the guys who are producing wind turbines, and we're going to be the folks who are producing solar panels on rooftops, and we're going to be the country that is retrofitting all its homes and businesses so that we are 30 percent more energy - efficient than we are right now, that produces jobs that can't be exported; it reduces our dependence on foreign oil; it is good economics; it will increase our exports — oh, and by the way, it also solves the climate problem.

First, how do you reconcile a high climate sensitivity (say 3 - 5 C / doubling) with the fact that there is very low correlation between CO2 and climate in the 500 million time scale?

One focus of these self - described climate skeptics, several said, is to reconcile their often divergent assertions about what is, and isn't, driving changes in temperature and other conditions around the planet.

It also seems to be tricky to reconcile radiosonde data with the climate models for the 1979 - 2000 period, although the agreement between surface and upper air trends is considered to be good for the 1958 - 2000 (Angell, 2003).

But I find it hard to reconcile the group's financial support for Climate Depot with its rhetorical embrace of Richard Smalley's vision of a sustainable energy future — which was premised on an inevitable transition away from carbon - rich fuels and included a modest tax on liquid fuels.

Allen and Frame's suggestion that we should «resist the temptation to fix a concentration target early on» because «Once fixed, it may be politically impossible to reduce it» seems hard to reconcile with their faith in «our descendants [having] the sense to adapt their policies to the emerging climate change signal...».

I have no problem reconciling the IPCC definition of «the climate system» to include (eg) interations with the cryosphere, with the use of fixed icesheets in models when considering how the climate will evolve over the next decades.

If aerosol forcing is high, then reconciling with recent warming demands very high climate sensitivity (which you see realized after the aerosols go away)-- and that would indeed mean we may have already passed the threshold for 2C warming.

Last week, in writing about James Hansen's essay on why he became a climate campaigner after decades working as a NASA climate scientist, I promised to post a lecture I gave in 2005 at Willamette University explaining how I reconciled personal passions with the professional detachment that comes with life as a journalist.

I have long suspected that efforts to «reconcile», «build bridges» or «stabilise» climate science may be not merely futile, but rather pernicious as well.

Please say a special prayer for the survival of science as a process of «truthing» on this last day of the Lisbon Workshop to try to reconcile dishonest climate predictions with basic principles of science.

For example examining changes in Cenozoic climate Thomas (2014) concluded, «Stronger vertical mixing within the oceans potentially reconciles several long - standing greenhouse paleoclimate problems.

Panel on Reconciling Temperature Observations, Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources.

To reconcile China's need for more cheap energy with its climate goals, the plan calls for a major pilot project to study carbon capture and sequestration, a technology intended to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants and either bury it underground or repackage it for use as an industrial chemical.

It also incorporates the idea first introduced in the 1985 Hansen et al paper pointing out that the oceanic mixed layer can be expected to delay global warming, a phenomenon that explains why people have had difficulty in the past reconciling observed and predicted climate sensitivity.

This technical guidance note presents orientation for project teams and clients on how to reconcile the financing of chemical plants with climate change objectives.

Yesterday's publishing of the innocuous - sounding «Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998 - 2008», in the journal PNAS, kicked off a veritable storm of comment and debate.

Lips, K., et al. (2008) Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

As a changing climate impacts more communities, reconciling health, safety, and welfare considerations with people's emotional attachment to a place will become an even greater challenge.

It is about time that we all reconciled ourselves to the projections of Climate damages made by the IPCC and other collective bodies of scientists and knuckled down to roll back Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gas emissions.

«Causes of differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates» «Comparing tropospheric warming in climate models and satellite data» «Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures» «Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends» «Reconciling warming trends» «Natural variability, radiative forcing and climate response in the recent hiatus reconciled» «Reconciling controversies about the «global warming hiatus»»

(4) The observed trends have been partially, but not fully, reconciled with climate model simulations of human - induced climate change.

China's recent history exemplifies both the historic tension between development and climate and a pathway to reconcile them.

However, these claims do not seem to reconcile with results from the DICE - 2013R model, developed by the highly respected and cited climate economist, William Nordhaus.

Rud M Huber and Reto Knuttti just published a Nature Geosciences paper 17 Aug «Natural variability, radiative forcing and climate response in the recent hiatus reconciled» vol 7 Sep 2014 that purports to analyze the hiatus vs CMIP5 models and finds the pause consistent with a reduced complexity model and mean of models.

How do you reconcile very large uncertainty re climate science in general with apparently very limited uncertainty re ECS and impacts (you seem very sure both are small)?

One of the big reasons I wrote this book was to try and reconcile the need to deal with climate change with the different developments that are happening.

If political conservatives have so far not found environmental policies to their liking, then a priority for everyone who cares about climate change, whatever their political leaning, is to find a way of reconciling the values of the right with policy responses to climate change that are sustainable and just.

At any reasonable level of the latter (i.e., a plausible effective climate sensitivity value), the OHC data can't be reconciled with more than a small contribution from internal variability.

See also the 2006 US Climate Change Science Program «Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere - Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences», authored in part by Dr. John Christy (of the UAH data).

Given the substantial OHC rise during the interval, It would require an extremely high climate sensitivity to allow for more than a 0.1 C contribution, and that would itself be hard to reconcile with the total temperature rise and CO2 forcing data.

However, an important new paper just published by Drew Shindell at NASA GISS reconciles the difference between the climate sensitivity estimates in these varying approaches, but not in the direction advocated by the GWPF report.

A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions We examine tropospheric temperature trends of 67 runs from 22 «Climate of the 20th Century» model simulations and try to reconcile them with the best available updated observations (in the tropics during the satellite era).

«The advances can not be reconciled with a climate similar to that of the twentieth century, which has been argued to be an analog, and LIKELY were the result of increased winter precipitation due to prolonged La Niña - like conditions that, in turn, MAY be linked to elevated solar activity.

The paper primarily reconciles various estimates of climate sensitivity.

How do I reconcile that view with your discussion above which seems to suggest that hot weather is actually caused by climate change?

I don't know how the climate models can reconcile their prediction of a 4.2 watt / metre ^ 2 increase in the tropopause radiation results in a 3.0 C increase in surface temperatures (and a new surface radiation level of 406.5 watts / metre ^ 2).