Sentences with phrase «related influences on climate»

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However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.

So yes, right now the agricultural lobby is exerting a very strong influence on a lot of things affecting biofuel policy, and actually other parts of policies that are related to climate changes, so it's awkward that way.

The most powerful effects on the student relate to features within the school such as the climate of the classroom, peer influences, and the lack of disruptive students in the classroom, etc..

Anthropocene Relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as a period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

Another set of statistical questions relate to a counterfactual — what are the odds of such a record or series of hot years in the absence of human influences on climate?

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.

On election night, Peter Dykstra, writing for The Daily Climate, had posted a thorough critique of false equivalence in stories (including in The Times) equating the two efforts to influence races in which coal, climate change or related issues were reClimate, had posted a thorough critique of false equivalence in stories (including in The Times) equating the two efforts to influence races in which coal, climate change or related issues were reclimate change or related issues were relevant.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

By exaggerating the influence of climate change on today's weather and climate - related extreme events, a part of our community is painting itself into a rhetorical corner.

I sent them four questions «related to the overall question of influence, effort and outcomes after nearly a decade aimed at producing a comprehensive climate bill centered on carbon trading.»

Most of the action in Mexico won't be related to the dominant factor determining the human influence on climate in this century and far beyond — carbon dioxide.

Its report, «The Climate Change Lobby Explosion,» describes how hundreds of companies are trying to influence who wins and loses financially as President Obama and the new Congress try to shape federal legislation and spending on climate and related energy Climate Change Lobby Explosion,» describes how hundreds of companies are trying to influence who wins and loses financially as President Obama and the new Congress try to shape federal legislation and spending on climate and related energy climate and related energy issues.

And let me give you my take on Kuhn's ideas as they relate to AGW — AGW was the paradigm - shift away from the idea that climate was on too massive a scale to be influenced by human activity.

We've learned that we have less and less influence on public discourse relating to climate change.

Socioeconomic development, natural climate variations, and human - caused climate change have an influence on climate - and weather - related disaster risk.

«Previous analyses linking observed impacts to climate change have been generic in nature, addressing whether there is an influence of human - related warming on impacts globally, without an inference to individual impacts,» says Hansen.

But long before Florida unofficially banned these climate - related terms, other states passed laws attempting to limit the influence of climate change on land policies and education.

But, the influence of shareholder resolutions on fossil fuel companies climate - related behavior also has a long way to go.

But the fact of the influence of anthropogenic CO2 on the climate is distinct to facts of the degree of that effect, which is again logically distinct from the facts relating to the effects produced as second, third, and fourth order effects on climate systems, ecosystems, species, primary industry and civil infrastructure, economy, and society.

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

If so, then we can put numbers behind the qualitative discussion on the influence of CO2 on the climate of the Earth since we can now relate the additional heat available due to the absorption of the outgoing radiation by CO2 to the total heat available due to the irradiation from the Sun and the back radiation previously to the enriching of the atmosphere by CO2.

Early work at GFDL relating to carbon focused on CO2 as a greenhouse gas and it's potential for doubling in response to human activities, through water vapor and other atmospheric feedbacks in the context of latitudinal, land - sea and other inhomogeneities influencing climate (e.g. Manabe 1968, 1986, 1987).

The project aims to provide well - verified assessments of the extent to which such weather - related risks have changed due to human influences on climate and to identify those types of weather events where our scientific understanding is not advanced enough to make a robust assessment of attributable risk.

The dynamics of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its influence on climate is hotly debated and evidence for its behaviour during the Last Interglacial may have potential in determining how ocean circulation and related climatic effects may alter in a future warming world.

The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»

Our analysis suggests that in the absence of adaptation, the human influence on climate would have been the main contributor to increases in heat - related mortality and decreases in cold - related mortality.