Sentences with phrase «shift in climate»

The model accounts systematically for key sources of uncertainty stemming from human emission pathways, global climate sensitivity and regional shifts in climate change.

However, as shifts in climate «push the climate envelope,» yields will generally decline.

The result could mean major shifts in climate and in the polar ecosystem.

Such a dramatic shift in a climate pattern would constitute what climate scientists call a tipping point: a sudden shift from one predictable pattern of weather to another.

Also, it may be that a change in the air currents caused by global warming represents a fundamental yet poorly understood shift in climate patterns.

A small shift in climate leads to a dramatic increase in the frequency of temperatures at the high end.

Even something as big as a sharp shift in climate as a result of human pollution can be hard to see immediately.

Someone entitled to a «stable climate» has as much a complaint about a natural shift in climate as he does about a hypothetical anthropogenic one.

Not only do they verify the larger core done in 1992, but also they provide a more detailed record of certain key shifts in climate.

When you visit these schools, you'll see a profound shift in the climate, from the classroom to the school as a whole.

Depending on the order of bosses defeated, some stages would even shift in climate, unlocking new pathways for hidden collectibles or generally making them easier to tackle.

With the world's population now so high, the results of even minor year - to - year shifts in climate could be catastrophic, they say.

But despite major shifts in the climate over the period she studied, Hönisch found that overall concentrations of the gas remained remarkably constant.

The atmospheric buildup of long - lived greenhouse gases is setting in motion centuries of shifts in climate patterns, coastlines, water resources and ecosystems, he said — hardly a transformation one would describe with a gentle word like warming.

One finding Smith called surprising was that those trends didn't appear to be affected by shifts in climate during that period.

I always believed that the oceans were an important element in localised weather conditions over the short term but feel that relatively sudden shifts in climate occur through external forcings such as volcanic eruptions, meteor strike and the effects of changes in cosmic rays and sun spot activity, which are, unfortunately, all chaotic by nature and unpredictable.

Many large shifts in climates in the past seem to be synchronized with climate in the poles as expressed in ice core records.

That annual scourge of the hay fever sufferer, ragweed, is benefiting greatly from shifts in the climate in some parts of North America, according to a new study from scientists at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

At the scale of the 20th century — we can see 4 shifts in the trajectory of surface temperature associated with shifts in climate state at multi-decadal periods.

«That will be a paradigm shift in climate modeling.

Sudden shifts in climate occurred at the end of the last ice age, according to American researchers studying sediments from the bed of a dry lake in New Mexico.

With such old origins, the creature must have weathered extreme shifts in climate, researchers report online July 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As a result, in an ethical outrage as big as all outdoors, the coming shifts in climate and sea level will most harm the world's poor, who are least responsible for the atmosphere's composition, and will least harm the wealthy, who bear the biggest responsibility.

4) If humanity stays stuck on the coal rung of the «heat ladder» for another generation, there's an unacceptable risk of driving disruptive, long - lasting shifts in climate through the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In looking at longer time scales, major shifts in climate such as the ice ages are easily recognizable, and viewing a long - term data set can provide the observer with a sense of the «big picture» of the climatic trends.

The Agency reminds us that small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather.

Environmental factors like rainfall and temperature influence the ratios of male - to - female caiman hatchlings, making the gender balance dependent on shifts in climate.

The Earth's axis fluctuates between having a tilt of 22 degrees and 24 degrees and when the tilt is 24 degrees, there is a larger difference between summer and winter and this has an influence on the violent shifts in climate between ice ages and interglacial periods.

The story of the 2010 flooding in Pakistan is a warning to other vulnerable nations that experts believe will bear the brunt of the gradual shifts in climate and weather patterns expected over the coming decades.

Rapid shifts in climate, however, are nothing new.

He points out that other data suggest that bison in many places have weathered dramatic shifts in climate just fine.

There are many health - boosting GMOs in development, including bananas with increased iron; plants that make omega - 3 fish oils and rice, sorghum and cassava enriched with vitamin A. New crops, such as those engineered to tolerate drought or excess salt in the soil, could play a crucial role as shifts in climate threaten the farming status quo and in turn, food supplies.

We are still in a car hurtling toward the cliff of a terrible shift in climate.

To compare a modern Ice Age (repeatedly referred to as a permanent shift in climate (was it ever)-RRB- to 9/11 is inelegant but, in the long run, perhaps ideologically accurate.

His most ambitious project to date, British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah's Purple is an immersive, six - channel video installation which charts the incremental shifts in climate change across the planet and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.