Sentences with phrase «record of changing climate»

Scientific American: A record of changing climate in the Olduvai Gorge suggests early humans had to adapt to shifting ecosystems.

A record of changing climate in the Olduvai Gorge suggests early humans had to adapt to shifting ecosystems

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What followed was a series of statistics and dollar figures showcasing Alberta's record on climate change and environmental protection.

April 7, 2016 - Climate Change 2016: As Proxy Season Arrives, Shareholder Activists File Record Number Of Environmental Resolutions - International Business Times

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

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 change.

In British Columbia, we see the effects of climate change in the growing number of powerful storms that pummel our coast, record wildfires that destroy our forests, and water shortages that harm our agricultural sector.

A new study that looks at climate change over the past 11,300 years — a record length of time for any study — suggests that the current trend of global warming is unprecedented.

In 2015, the planet reached «alarming» and «unprecedented» rates of climate change, according to the United Nations — and 2016 is set to be another record - breaking year.

The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.

ALBANY — Actress and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon led a march Monday of more than 1,000 environmental activists to the State Capitol, saying Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's climate change record lagged behind his rhetoric.

Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growtOf all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growtof the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growtof actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.

Greenpeace accused Mr Gove of having a poor record on environmental issues and Sir Ed Davey, the former Liberal Democrat energy and climate change secretary, said his appointment was «like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse».

Republicans on a congressional science committee are asking state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to fork over a number of records related to his probe of climate change and what Exxon Mobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

AG Eric Schneiderman has shot down a request from Republican members of a congressional committee that he turn over a number of records related to an investigation into climate change and what ExxonMobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

My opponent George Amedore has a long record of blocking environmental protections and won't even recognize that climate change exists.

House Republicans have sought records from both Schneiderman and the offices of the Massachusetts and Maryland attorneys general pertaining to the probe of whether ExxonMobile understated the impact of climate change from its operations.

Up until this point, Democratic members of the panel haven't been part of the committee's investigation into the climate change case, nor did they vote to subpoena records related to the efforts by Schneiderman's office and other attorneys general around the country.

The ads, airing Tuesday through Oct. 23 on Syracuse broadcast and cable television stations, will inform voters of Buerkle's environmental record, according to the group.The League said it will spend $ 2 million on its «Flat Earth Five» campaign against Buerkle and four other House members who deny the existence of climate change.

The bill will go through under Gordon Brown's premiership, which is a source of worry precisely because the chancellor's record on climate change is lamentable.

Australia is often considered the poster child for climate change because of its record heat waves, prolonged droughts, monsoon flooding, wildlife extinction, and mosquito - born illnesses.

Their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, also found evidence that climate change is skewing the proportion of record high temperatures to record low temperatures in the continental United States, with extremely hot days now outnumbering extremely cold days by 2 - to - 1.

We expect to see a beautiful record of climate change in our cores.

But with shortened normals comes a risk of underplaying recorded changes to the climate.

Peter Bromirski, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, says that seismic listening stations provide a long - term record of how the amount of energy reaching the world's shores is changing with climate change.

Rocks and sediments that have recorded conditions millions of years ago could be the key to predicting the future of climate change, according to a new National Academy of Sciences report

And the evidence of change has mounted as climate records have grown longer, as our understanding of the climate system has improved and as climate models have become ever more reliable.

These sediments hold historic records of climate change and monsoon activity during the last 15 million years.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

One of the most important continuous records of climate change — nearly four decades of satellite measurements of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice — might soon be interrupted.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

This phenomenon, almost certainly the result of climate change, is the first modern record of river piracy caused by a melting glacier, researchers report online April 17 in Nature Geoscience.

«Traces of pollution, fly ash particles coming in, evidence of recent climate change — all the records from that site basically look like hockey sticks.»

It's OK to state that, «The common belief that carbon dioxide is driving climate change is at odds with much of the available scientific data: data from weather balloons and satellites, from ice core surveys, and from the historical temperature records» when this is clearly untrue.

To get to the bottom of things, he mapped the ages and locations of 1,323 woolly mammoth remains and 576 archaeological sites, and he merged them with data from plant and pollen records, and climate change information from ice cores in Greenland.

The value of this information is illustrated by the results of a study published May 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Oster's group, working with colleagues from the Berkeley Geochronology Center, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge titled «Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India.»

After record - breaking downpours fell on parts of the UK, some blame climate change, which is expected to make storms more frequent and intense

Pakistan's Ministry of Environment suspects climate change is to blame, through record high surface temperatures on land.

When comparing the history of hydrological changes in the region with artifacts from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt climate change» as seen in the marine core, the study states.

NASA's Global Climate Change Program has reported that «the 10 warmest years in the 134 - year record all have occurred since 2000, with the exception of 1998,» and the year 2015 ranks as the warmest on record.

«This new temperature record provides a direct link between the volcanism and impact events and the extinction pulses — that link being climate change,» said Sierra Petersen, a postdoctoral researcher in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region

This research has shown that the climate changes coincided with increases in population, activity and production of technology on the part of our ancestors, as seen in the archaeological records.

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

I think it would just be tragic if what is now a 40 - year record of land - use change and climate change were to end with Landsat 8.

Closer to the poles the emergence of climate change in the temperature record appeared later but by the period 1980 - 2000 the temperature record in most regions of the world were showing clear global warming signals.

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

And the dismal track record of global climate talks inspires little confidence that nations can agree to make the huge changes required to stop treating the atmosphere like a carbon sewer.

«We're near record devotion of acres to corn right now,» said Schnoor, who also headed the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council in 2007.