Sentences with phrase «see climate change happening»

It'll say that we can see climate change happening already, sometimes, like in the Arctic, much faster than scientists predicted previously.

In the same email, Jones wrote: «If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences.»

Not exact matches

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.

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secClimate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuChange; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

For example, El Niño generally makes wet regions wetter and dry regions drier, so when scientists see that happening, it has been difficult to say whether it is climate change or simply El Niño.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

«People see that climate change is happening right now, and a lot of them are looking to do something» to help reduce or mitigate greenhouse gases that scientists have linked to the problem, she said.

«For many people, climate change is something that happens, or not, in places that are far away, at scales that are difficult to see or understand through personal experience.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

For each 15 - year period, the authors compared the temperature change we've seen in the real world with what the climate models suggest should have happened.

I don't see how calling it climate change instead of global warming would make people more accepting of what is really happening.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

While Donald Trump denies the climate change, for the others climate change is happening and it can be seen.

We see [climate change] happening all over the world, and it affects everyone at every level.

I see this likely happening in the fields of genetics, robotics, climate change, and energy.

I have a question for you — as you know, «climate change» is happening... whether human caused or not, it certainly feels like we are seeing more extreme weathers of late.

It reminds us that while the climate might be getting better for women, those outside the culture can't see any of the changes that are happening.

From the data they collected, we can see that, overall, 70 % of Americans believe climate change is currently happening but that number varies when looking at individual counties.

Many paleoclimate archives document climate changes that happened at rates considerably exceeding the average rate of change for longer - term averaging periods prior and after this change... A variety of mechanisms have been suggested to explain the emergence of such abrupt climate changes (see Section 12.5.5).

Some might say it's boring, nitty - gritty, nuts and bolts stuff, but it's in the implementation that happens at the city level where we're going to see the most action on climate change in the near future.»

One can look at our history and see that the climate has changed and that earthquakes have happened.

It's true that it would be very informative to get together a group to submit, say, a dozen sound - science climate change op - eds to the WSJ over the coming month, and see what happens.

Andf as we have seen, «climate change» is probably a better description of the process than global warming anyway, since warming temperatures aren't all that is likely to happen over time.

Fires in the West, droughts in the Southwest, melting snowpack in the Northwest, flooding and heavy rainfall in the Northeast, the much stronger coastal storms and hurricanes that we've seen in the Gulf: we've gotten to the point where we can all point to something that's happening and say: «This is what climate change is doing to our region.»

In the meantime, it gives clear insights into what scientists see happening to the planet's climate as human industrial activities, as well as land - use changes, pump increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air.

«It's very connected with climate change and when people see it's connected, people will make sure it happens,» he says.

More than half of USers agree with the statement: «The climate change we are currently seeing is a natural phenomenon that happens from time to time.»

This article is in no way denying that climate change is happening, that we can see, instead, we are exploring what truly might be causing it and ultimately what we can do to prepare for a serious climate shift.

Another 23 percent of the country is «cautious» — they believe climate change is happening, but are uncertain and tend to see the threat as distant.

I do not see people in the field of climatology stepping up to the plate and swinging at these transparently invalid methods, although a lot has changed in climate science since the blog started, so who knows what will happen.

Do you have any credible projections while we wait, or should we just wait to see it unfold and react to things as they happen, assuming a no - change climate for planning purposes?

«It seems clear that climate change is happening, we continually have record temperatures for the time of year, there is no return of temperatures to «below average» which we would expect if this was just statistical variation, there is increasing turmoil in the weather, the barrier reef is bleaching to an extent not seen before and so on.»

One other point - I do like the argument that we're living in the Anthropocene such that but for climate change, the individual weather events we see wouldn't have happened.

What we're seeing is that climate change is happening even faster than the predictions would have told us five years ago or 10 years ago.

Climate models are what happens when you calculate changes over a long enough period of time for the fluctuations in weather to average out so that you can see the underlying trend.

«We were able to confirm that climate change is having an effect on pollen, that it is happening in real time, and we are seeing a real signal,» said Ziska.

I see no difference between what is happening in the climate change debate courtesy of nutters like Lew and Oreskes and what is happening in the wider community, where the unwitting use of politically incorrect words and phrases is increasingly becoming the subject of ludicrous and lengthy official investigations which amount to little more than officially sanctioned witch hunts.

That almost 100 % of those getting money and power and recognition for that catastrophic view believe that «climate change» or «global warming» is happening is besides the point... we all believe that (see above).

«I don't think there was a serious prospect of it happening, seeing as how the whole tax package is mostly a way to reward the rich — and especially campaign contributors, a significant portion of whom are in the fossil - fuel business,» says Michael Gerrard, the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

Surely, we see this a lot with climate change, when «skeptics» see scientific overconfidence when actually what is happening is that they didn't understand (or ignored, or filtered out) uncertainty that was quantified and stated.

Who knows, perhaps the assertion was doubly reinforced to Gansler if he happened to see California Governor Gary Brown's pages about climate change, and what they specifically said about «deniers»:

So I'd like to hear you tell us how we'll deal with crop failure, disease, famine and all the other nasty things we get to see happen whenever these Climate changing events happen.

One significant factor, he suggests, is that Americans can finally see and feel climate change happening.

Yet, this post will argue that Cancun must be seen in the context of what has failed to happen in the last twenty years on climate change and not only on the basis of the very limited positive steps made in Cancun.

That is, it is not sufficient to simply examine what happened in Cancun without seeing Cancun in the context of the twenty - year negotiating history whose goal has been the prevention of dangerous climate change and the harms that each year of delay in agreeing to a global deal exacerbate.

In my mind, I think the next 5 years will be sufficient to determine the seriousness of climate change if any and I want to see what happens before committing all resources.

Should this happen — it is difficult to see why these major climate movements wouldn't overwhelm minor changes in temperature from greenhouse gases.

I don't know if Mr Ridgway has grandchildren, but suppose that he does and consider what might happen if they look into the history of climate change in fifty years time when everyone has seen how much harm it has done and is continuing to do.

If climate scientists are right, then the world faces a stark choice: either undertake fundamental changes in the way that almost every economy operates, imposing substantial costs on almost every country and society in the world, or roll the dice and see what happens with the Earth's climate.»

Climate change isn't something that can be either demonstrated or falsified without waiting to see what happens.