Sentences with phrase «shifts from warm climates»

A team of 15 executive chefs lead the food preparation on the 10 ships throughout the year as the cruising season shifts from warm climates like the Caribbean and Australia in the North American winter to Europe and the Pacific Northwest for the summer.

Not exact matches

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

In 100 characters: Researchers uncover vying forces originating from climate warming to cause a shift in the jet stream

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Can we shift from unintended global warming to managing climate by design?

Given the number of ways that things can go wrong with continued CO2 emissions (from ocean acidfication and sea level rise to simple warming, shifting precipitation patterns, release of buried carbon in perma - frost, and the possibility of higher climate sensitivities — which seem to be needed to account for glacial / inter-glacial transitions), crossing our fingers and carrying on with BAU seems nothing short of crazy to me.

The administration continues to align itself with their global warming disinformation campaign, which is shifting from outright denial to seeking to divert attention from adverse implications of global climate disruption.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

It is whether the earth's Northern Hempishere climate will shift into a new regime and whether repeated warmer summers in the Aractic are freeing up more CO2 and methane from the melting permafrost.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

«In the past five years, the dynamic of the global warming debate has shifted away from exaggerated acceptance of the worst possible implications of what a majority of climate scientists tell us, towards a more balanced and questioning approach.»

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

Now if there's a correlation, it must be so that in general global climate shifts from warming to cooling at maximum CO2 «forcing» and vice versa.

Thus we have presumably some warming from greenhouse gases that can't effectively be distinguished from a backdrop of large and abrupt shifts in a dynamically complex climate system.

lolwot, the ice core records show that climate shifts from warming to cooling at maximum CO2 and from cooling to warming at minimum CO2.

Exploitation of fear about environmental problems kept shifting from ozone depletion, acid rain, desertification, rainforest destruction, global warming, sea level rise, climate change, and climate crisis, among others.

It was then called the Great Pacific Climate Shift but since that time it has been subsumed into the PDO phase shift from cool to warm phase that supposedly has a thirty year peShift but since that time it has been subsumed into the PDO phase shift from cool to warm phase that supposedly has a thirty year peshift from cool to warm phase that supposedly has a thirty year period.

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

When global warming demagogues argue climate change has now resulted in 5 times more fires than observed in the 1970s, they fail to inform the public this increase is largely due to a shift away from the previous complete fire suppression policy to selectively allowing fires to burn.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

That means climate shifts from warming to cooling at the highest concentrations and vice versa, by definition.

About 14,500 years ago, the Earth's climate began to shift from a cold glacial world to a warmer interglacial state.

In SW — seen here as a cloud cover — a warming trend from reducing cloud between the mid 1980's and 1990's equivalent to about 2 W / m ^ 2 change, a step change in the late 1990's in the 1998/2001 climate shift and a plateauing since.

I predicted non warming a decade ago very publicly — and have suggested that the next climate shift in a decade to three is likely as not to be to yet cooler conditions as the Sun cools from the modern grand maxima.

Wu, Lee, and Liu (2005) said: «The 1970s North Pacific climate regime shift is marked by a notable transition from the persistent warming (cooling) condition over the central (eastern) North Pacific since the late 1960s toward the opposite condition around the mid 1970s... This large - scale decadal climatic regime shift has produced far - reaching impacts on both the physical and biological environment over the North Pacific and downstream over North America.»

This was created when they shifted the focus from global warming to climate change because CO2 continued to increase while temperatures stopped increasing.

The gap at the end of the 70's is due to the step in temperature caused by the PDO phase shift and is known as the Great Pacific Climate Shift; but it is clear that the rate of increase is declining from the 90's to the noughties; the statement that the noughties is the warmest is therefore misleading; but what else is new withshift and is known as the Great Pacific Climate Shift; but it is clear that the rate of increase is declining from the 90's to the noughties; the statement that the noughties is the warmest is therefore misleading; but what else is new withShift; but it is clear that the rate of increase is declining from the 90's to the noughties; the statement that the noughties is the warmest is therefore misleading; but what else is new with AGW.

Worst idea: 2009 seems to have been the year that global warming deniers shifted from claiming that climate disruption is a hoax to claiming that climate disruption is too big and too far along to stop, so there's no point in doing anything about it.

Compared to temperature increases without geoengineering, rapid climate warming from a sudden termination would require species to shift their distributions almost three times as fast to remain in their climate niches.

You can add the climate shifted abruptly from the Little Ice Age to the modern warm period in a decade around 1845 A.D.

These glaciers are being eaten away from underneath due to warm ocean waters that have been driven toward the continent by shifting wind patterns that have in turn been linked to manmade global warming, as well as natural climate variability.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

While Republican lawmakers in Washington have fought to protect coal - fired power plants, opposing President Barack Obama's efforts to curtail climate - warming carbon emissions, data show their home states are often the ones benefiting most from the nation's accelerating shift to renewable energy.

Climate advocates, including former NASA scientist James Hansen, have shifted away from the anti-nuclear stance of the 80s and 90s, now believing it to be part of the global warming solution.

The study also found that soil in high - latitude regions could shift from being a sink to a source of carbon dioxide by the end of the 21st century as the soil warms in response to climate change.

«We have analyzed the transition from the last glacial period until our present warm interglacial period, and the climate shifts are happening suddenly, as if someone had pushed a button,» said Dahl - Jenson.

Shifting from «global warming» to the undefined, undimensioned «climate change» allows them to ascribe EVERYTHING to climate change.

PARIS (Reuters)- A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday.

Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, with state - wide average annual air temperature increasing by 3 °F and average winter temperature by 6 °F, with substantial year - to - year and regional variability.1 Most of the warming occurred around 1976 during a shift in a long - lived climate pattern (the Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO]-RRB- from a cooler pattern to a warmer one.

The classic one was the shift from global warming to climate change.

A full reading of Tsonis and Swanson's research shows that internal variability from climate shifts merely cause temporary slow downs or speeding up of the long - term warming trend.

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At key moments, the climate shifts from a warm regime to a cool regime, or vica versa.

Granted, the «great climate shift» of 76 - 77 occurred as well about this time, and many would say that warm period of the PDO is really the caused of the warming in the late 20th century, but it would be interesting to hear your rationale for choosing the early 1950's as the beginning of your measurement period for looking for anthropogenic effects, as from 1950 to about 1980, we have no need of an anthropogenic explanation, as the length of the solar cycle can fit the temperature curve quite well.

Unfortunately, this is shifting the focus away from the most important element of the climate debate: the scientific reality of global warming.

Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Davey says these proposals are «a radical shift» away from old policies of «tinkering at the edges» without tackling fuel poverty's root causes — homes that are too energy inefficient to be kept warm on a budget.

False solutions are solutions that are promoted as effective means to fight climate change when in fact not only they do not help in cutting emissions and slowing down warming (in some cases even worsening the already precarious situation), but they shift the focus away from real solutions.