Back in Kenya Sarah Higgins, a conservationist who runs the Little Owl Sanctuary for injured birds near Lake Naivasha, says she's
seen weather patterns change with the forest's fortunes.
Not exact matches
Awareness of extreme
weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate
change because they
saw variations in
weather on a regular basis and current
weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.
«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and
changes to heat storage will lead to
changes in
weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those
seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»
Not only do the vagaries of
weather patterns and ocean currents make it hard to
see climate
changes, but the variability in what are often termed the Earth System components complicates the picture enormously.
While there is some fluctuation due to
weather and seasonal
patterns, there is typically not a large
change — and that is
seen across all trade channels, including the veterinary clinics and pet specialty retailers.»
As you venture throughout the world you will
see areas that are distinctly different, and fast
changing day / night cycles full of
weather patterns like rain and snow and high winds.
Since the subtropical oceans are favoured regions for low clouds (Figure 2), especially in summer, such
changes in
weather patterns may conceivably affect low cloud cover in the manner
seen in Figure 1.»
On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a
weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a
change in climate (
see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).
Then he says: «We
see the level of sea rise,
changing weather patterns,» «This year we have MORE [rain] than every year and for the last couple of weeks, the heavy rain falls throughout Vanuatu and it EXCEEDED what has happened in the past.»
These environmentally friendly alternative income sources help local families who often run short of money after the annual coffee harvest or have
seen decreasing crop yields due to
changing weather patterns.
Moving on to
weather patterns, he spent more and more time reading reports about El Niño, La Niña, climate
change, and began to
see to his daughters» future.
; what leads you to believe that the physical and biological trends we've
seen / measured are likely to reverse within a mere 20 years, especially if / as we enter a solar upswing; how have you accounted for warming - driven methane release; what credible peer reviewed literature on «the other side» are you describing; what supports your confidence that there is little to no probability that the AGW that you do accept will
change weather patterns enough to disrupt crop planting / growing / harvesting / production severely (or do you classify famine as a natural phenomenon?)?
We
see climate
change everywhere — in
weather patterns, across farmland, throughout plant and animal habitats.
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is a naturally occurring
pattern of sea surface temperature
change that is
seen in the North Atlantic Ocean on decadal timescales and affects
weather and climate.
... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that on top of a whatever local
weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate
change is putting its finger on the scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger
weather event than you would have otherwise
seen.»
But Nam - Young Kang, who now directs South Korea's National Typhoon Center, and James Eisner, a geographer at Florida State University, set about a study of
weather data and hurricane, cyclone and typhoon records between 1984 and 2012 to
see if they could identify a
pattern of
change.
The BBC and The Guardian report Lonsdale's comments that Vanuatu has
seen changing weather patterns, rising seas and heavier - than - usual rain, all of which are influenced by climate
change.
Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a
change in frequency of these naturally preferred
patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such
weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to
see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.
While the world is
seeing real impacts (from ice retreats to
changing weather patterns) from heating, which science links to CO2 (and other) emisssions.
We would not expect to
see any effect on
weather or climate other than that the air circulation
patterns would be in very slightly differing (but still ever
changing) positions than if we had made no difference at all.
If there is a trend I could be convinced otherwise I disagree with Governor Cuomo's comment that «there is a
pattern of extreme
weather that we've never
seen before» — reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that «anyone who says there's not a dramatic
change in
weather patterns is probably denying reality.»
Cuomo said on Monday that «there is a
pattern of extreme
weather that we've never
seen before» — reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that «anyone who says there's not a dramatic
change in
weather patterns is probably denying reality.»
How preposterous it is that we mere humans think that we can
change weather patterns on this earth, given that it has been around for some 3.5 billion years, a span which has
seen innumerable
weather extremes come and go, yet the old girl is still here.
Scientists have recently observed major
changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and
changing ocean circulation and regional
weather patterns.7 (
See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)
From the Alaska Climate Research center site, (which someone linked to on another CA thread yesterday) one can
see the effects of quantum
changes in
weather patterns in Alaska since the mid 1970s.
See, the first thing to do is do determine what the temperature trend during the recent thermometer period (1850 — 2011) actually is, and what
patterns or trends represent «data» in those trends (what the earth's temperature / climate really was during this period), and what represents random «noise» (day - to - day, year - to - random
changes in the «
weather» that do NOT represent «climate
change»), and what represents experimental error in the plots (UHI increases in the temperatures, thermometer loss and loss of USSR data, «metadata» «M» (minus) records getting skipped that inflate winter temperatures, differences in sea records from different measuring techniques, sea records vice land records, extrapolated land records over hundreds of km, surface temperature errors from lousy stations and lousy maintenance of surface records and stations, false and malicious time - of - observation bias
changes in the information.)
Seen over at Inhabitat, their latest development is this fascinating Urban Algae Canopy Module which features bio-digitally activated, micro-algal cultivation that is responsive to various environmental factors like
weather changes, light
patterns and the movements of the visitors who will
see it next year at Expo Milano 2015.
Personally, I can
see where
changes in
weather patterns can drive the averages higher, I am trying to understand how CO2 is driving the
weather patterns.
As we watch the companies try to address
changing weather patterns and increased storm activity we will
see changing products on property insurance.