Sentences with phrase «role of climate change»

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

However, an overriding role of climate change is exposed by diverse effects of rapid warming on animals, plants, and insects in the past three decades.

They both sat in Gordon Brown's cabinet, with Ed filling the less high profile role of climate change and energy secretary.

«With hurricane Sandy and [Typhoon] Haiyan, scientists found little contribution [from human activity] to the storm itself, but the main role of climate change was through the higher sea levels.»

What the consensus study does not address is the level of concern about the human role of climate change expressed in the studies surveyed or by the studies» authors.

may give cause for some to question the wider role of climate change and not solely global warming, that are induced by anthropogenic emissions, changes in land use, water quality etc for which there is direct empirical data in the form of images, and not in mathematical treatments of theory and simulated models.

Fine distinctions as to whether the temperature was 42, 44 or 45 degrees C. on those days is as irrelevant as the possible role of climate change in making such conditions more frequent.

However, an overriding role of climate change is exposed by diverse effects of rapid warming on animals, plants, and insects in the past three decades.

What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with...

There are no funds from Australia's current Conservative - led coalition government, which has played down the role of climate change on agriculture.

Australia's current Conservative - led coalition government is playing down the role of climate change on Australian agriculture.

A record written in algal fat reaffirms the role of climate change in determining the fate of Greenland's Vikings and other inhabitants

In a report published last week, researchers from the Center for American Progress, the Center for Climate and Security and the Stimson Center examined the role of climate change in the Middle East's upheaval during 2010 and 2011.

This is the second time the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has collected information on the previous year's weather extremes and tried to tease out the role of climate change in those events.

Debating the role of climate change While the honeybee, whose hived colonies are managed and fed sugar water when the necessary nectar is absent, is adaptable enough and managed enough to survive despite significant losses, the same is by no means true of all the other bees.

What is the role of climate change in wildfires?

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

Storms also a question mark The attribution studies also looked into storms and rainfall extremes, but the complexity of atmospheric processes during such events made it difficult for scientists to decipher the role of climate change.

The studies are from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - led effort to explain the role of climate change in 16 extreme weather events in the United States and elsewhere.

«While acknowledging that climate and environmental shifts may have influenced human subsistence strategies, the research suggests climate change may not have been the driving factor behind cultural and technological innovations in these localities and encourage context - specific evaluation of the role of climate change in driving early human experimentation,» says Henshilwood.

Scientists need to examine such events using many different models to decipher the role of climate change, he said.

But it is less clear what the role of climate change might be in the changing Atlantic pressure patterns, and so whether the flooding trends tied to them will continue.

To keep forage fish abundant, the role of both climate change and commercial fishing will need to be teased out so the populations can be protected from both, he says.

Original Meeting Source: R. Gammariello et al. «The role of climate change in mass extinctions: Using stromatolites to constrain temperatures during times of biotic crisis.»

Science has attributed heavy rain to climate change for decades, but now we can analyze the role of climate change in individual extreme rainfall events.

Cullen is chief scientist for Climate Central and leader of the World Weather Attribution program, an international collaboration that aims to analyze the role of climate change in extreme weather events soon after they happen.

As such, determining the role of climate change in increasing or decreasing the present and future likelihood of a rain storm like Harvey presents a challenge.

Feminization of environmental migration is already underway in South Asia but governments have been slow to recognise the role of climate change

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

, the extent to which this modelling work recognises the role of climate change in extreme rainfall has caused quite a lot of confusion.

However, as Carbon Brief identified, the extent to which this modelling work recognises the role of climate change in extreme rainfall has caused quite a lot of confusion.

The role of the Climate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate scenarios.

Featuring intricate pastel drawings of ice and water in its various, shifting states, SLIP presents a meditation on the role of climate change on Earth's most common element.

The way one frames the questions about the role of climate change matters.

Trends in human activities, health, and society often have many simultaneous causes, making it especially challenging to isolate the role of climate change.

In many ways, the state of knowledge on the role of climate change in driving societal disasters (wars and unrest) is similar to that of its role in driving meteorological disasters (particularly hurricanes).

Why is it difficult to be sure of the role of climate change in observed effects on people and ecosystems?

It may be time to do the same thing for the hybrid debate over the role of climate change in propelling food price spikes and political instability in Egypt and other turbulent places.

The public interest in understanding the possible role of climate change in influencing these kinds of extreme events has inspired concerted effort in the scientific community over the past decade, and that effort has really ramped up over the past few years.

You may have read some of the exchange between Roger Pielke, Jr., and John Holdren regarding the issue of the California drought, and the possible role of climate change.

«The role of climate change in the recent presidential election campaign was interestingly subdued.