Sentences with phrase «scale climate change»

Today we are already in the process to trigger a large scale climate change because of the quantities of CO2 equivalent emissions released and what is projected under business as usual scenarios.

Here we suggest the possibility that a selection bias based upon warming rate is emerging in the enterprise of large - scale climate change simulation.

Primary driver for long scale climate change is orbital configuration.

Another area of research was the much longer - scale climate changes of the long - distant past.

The findings document the key role of orbital - scale climate changes in shaping global population distributions.

Antarctic climate and ice sheet changes and their relationship to global scale climate change over the last 2000 years.

That bodes well for forecasting decade - scale climate change around the North Atlantic.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

Reading this, I am struck by how such small warming changes in the tropics have set off big changes in low - latitude high - altitude glaciers, just as small changes in the Milankovitch variables create large - scale climate changes making the Ice Ages and interglacials over thousands of years.

In conclusion, I suggest moving away from the framework of carbon removal as a «third way» and instead framing carbon removal as a critical yet largely missing piece of «Plan A» to deploy large - scale climate change mitigation strategies.

Professor Solomon Hsiang and colleagues described in the journal Nature in 2011 how they had investigated whether anything linked «planetary - scale climate changes with global patterns of civil conflict».

Centennial - scale climate change from decadally - paced explosive volcanism: A coupled sea ice - ocean mechanism.

Some coverage of our paper in Climatic Change exploring the potential for local scale climate change impacts on malaria transmission:

Decentralised strategies that involve the scientific community are needed to overcome the large scale climate change challenges ahead of us, say experts in disaster risk reduction.

Interpretation of impacts then becomes problematic, requiring a method of relating the large - scale climate change represented in the IAM to the impacts of associated changes in weather extremes modelled offline.

See Swanson (2013) «Emerging Selection Bias in Large - scale Climate Change Simulations.»

Blunier, T. and E. J. Brook, 2001: Timing of millennial - scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period.

The research is unique in linking local population changes for multiple bird species to broad - scale climate changes, says Beatrice Van Horne, a wildlife researcher at the U.S. Forest Service in Arlington, Virginia: «Things that happen at a large scale are hard to see because local variance often confuses us.

The mixture of hot, molten rock and hydrocarbon - bearing coals is thought to have set the stage for massive greenhouse gas release and global - scale climate change.

«With large - scale climate change, the question is: Are these hybrids more well - adapted?»

These trends suggest that large - scale climate changes, rather than local factors, could be driving increases in fire activity, the scientists report.

Conversely, abrupt, millennial - scale climate changes are shown to have a more limited, regional effect.

Climate system inertia also means that, if large - scale climate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many centuries.

Global climate models are thought to be relatively credible at predicting the broad - scale climate changes that we might expect, but lack the resolution to pick out small - scale features like tropical storms.

The Earth system has experienced large - scale climate changes in the past (Chapter 6) that hold important lessons for the understanding of present and future climate change.

Evidence supports the theory that sudden and massive releases of greenhouse gases, including methane, caused decade - scale climate changes — with consequent species extinctions — culminating in the Holocene Thermal Optimum.

Climate system inertia also means that, if large - scale climate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many centuries.

It also shifts funding that might have gone directly to communities to governments and non-governmental organizations focused on tackling large - scale climate change, according to Govan, which leaves communities less prepared to adapt to everything from regional problems such as resource degradation to climate change more broadly.

And the variation that's occurred in the sun's energy over the course of the 20th century just isn't significant enough to account for the large - scale climate change we're seeing here.

So while it may be theoretically possible to predict long - scale climate changes, it may still be impossible to discern the true drivers of these climate systems amidst the chaos, making the long - term prediction problem moot.