Sentences with phrase «remarkably stable climate»

What's truly remarkable when you think about it is how all these self - regulating heat engines work together to produce such a remarkably stable climate that sometimes persists in more or less the same steady with no major perturbations for tens and hundreds of millions of years at a stretch.

On your other point, yes, the Holocene had been a period of remarkably stable climate.

Not exact matches

THE Holocene, with its mild climate so remarkably stable and good for us, is over.

Notwithstanding these insights, numerous discussions of contemporary geopolitics and scenarios for future conflicts in part caused by climate change still assume a remarkably stable geography as the appropriate context for planning and strategy.

It is unlikely that natural climate variability was the cause of declines in Caribbean reefs during recent decades, as coral reef community composition had remained remarkably stable for the prior 220,000 years [34].

Surely, given the remarkably stable nature of our climate, the larger the forcing, the larger the probability of a significant feedback event occurring.

The 10 Must Knows report says the Earth's climate has been remarkably stable since before the dawn of civilisation, but this stability is now at risk.

FWIW my take on climate change is that such change is an inevitable consequence of the many dynamics inherent in the various Earth systems in play and that the trajectory of Earth's climate over many millions of years has been remarkably stable.

The climate record kept in ice and in sediment reveals that since the invention of agriculture some 8,000 years ago, climate has remained remarkably stable.

If, as Willis suggests, they are acting as negative feedbacks which make a significant contribution to the stability of the climate system (and it has proved to be remarkably stable to massive changes in conditions historically) then incorreclty assuming it is a random, mean zero process will lead to incorrect conclusions.

I believe that the Earth's climate has moved through the last 50 million years within remarkably stable bounds and that Alex's hypothesis is a good match with current observations and even back many hundreds of thousand years from paleo reconstructions.

Our sun is without doubt the single greatest force impacting the global climate, but it is a remarkably stable star — which is why we're all here to have this conversation.

I suppose that another way of expressing all this is to say that the climate seems to be a remarkably stable system and that it is puzzling that so many people are so certain that it is unstable.

This is the «tipping point» theory, and we can throw this one out because in billions of years the Earth's climate has been remarkably stable.

The predicted value for the climate sensitivity and its intermodel spread have remained remarkably stable throughout the modern assessment era from the National Research Counsel (NRC) in 1979 (22) to the anticipated results in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (foreshadowed, e.g., in ref.

Chris Colbert (86) and all those who use the argument that climate has always changed naturally, and that there is no «ideal» stable climate, overlook, deliberately or naively, a very important fact: Earth's climate has in fact been remarkably stable for the past 10000 years, long enough that every single thing we know as civilization, including agriculture and all technology beyond simple stone and bone tools, has been developed during that period.

Although climate throughout Earth's history has varied from «snowball» conditions with global ice cover to «hothouse» conditions when glaciers all but disappeared, the climate over the past 10,000 years has been remarkably stable and favorable to human civilization.