Sentences with phrase «significant than the climate»

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More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

The Paris Agreement — the most significant accord on the issue — will take effect next month after an intense ratification process that lasted less than a year after negotiations concluded, an unprecedented speed in the often slow - moving world of climate diplomacy.

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Voters in the four - county district said they believe that climate change is a significant threat (74 - 20 percent); favor a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (66 - 27 percent), consider themselves 2nd Amendment rather than gun control supporters (54 - 43 percent) and support keeping Obamacare in place (50 - 45 percent).

On some key issues, New York voters overwhelmingly (by more than three to one) back a party to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and also believe that climate change is a significant threat to the planet.

By more than three - to - one, likely New York voters both support a pathway for citizenship for those now here illegally and believe that climate change is a significant threat to our planet.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

More than a third of wheat yield can be lost due to STB and it is the most significant disease of wheat in Europe and many other temperate climates.

By 2100, climate change could also result in the loss of more than half of African bird and mammal species, a 20 - 30 % decline in the productivity of Africa's lakes and significant loss of African plant species.»

Although population is an important factor, demographic trends are more significant for climate change than total population, says the review.

The authors said that the difficulty of retaining students may be a factor more complicated than SAI allows for, noting that improving retention rates requires significant campus resources to address a broad range of factors, including student engagement levels, academic support services, campus climate, student satisfaction, and financial aid.

«I think, first, they are a significant concern because methane emissions are 70 percent more potent than other climate pollutants.

Caldeira said the study's most significant finding is that the carbon released from burning a gallon of gas — or any fossil fuel — heats the climate dramatically more than the heat given off during burning.

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

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

While there was a lot of interesting science in this paper (the new methodology, the range of results etc.) which fully justified its appearance in Nature, we were quite critical of their basic conclusion — that climate sensitivities significantly higher than the standard range (1.5 — 4.5 ºC) were plausible — because there is significant other data, predominantly from paleo - climate, that pretty much rule those high numbers out (as we discussed again recently).

In the geologic past, CO2 levels have been significantly higher than they are today and have had a significant effect on both climate and ecology.

Oregon and Washington are the number one and two softwood - producing states in the nation, respectively; 20 these two states plus Idaho produce more than $ 11 billion in primary wood product sales.21 Our review of existing research suggests the Northwest's forests will experience significant potential impacts from climate change, in particular from wildfire — due to both increased drought and to wood damage from pests surviving warmer winters.

Climate change's effect on the size of waves in the world's oceans could be more significant than sea - level rise, scientists warn.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

All this discussion of the Schmittner et al paper should not distract from the point that Hansen and others (including RichardC in # 40 and William P in # 24) try to make: that there seems to be a significant risk that climate sensitivity could be on the higher end of the various ranges, especially if we include the slower feedbacks and take into account that these could kick in faster than generally assumed.

In a letter being delivered to the White House on Thursday, nearly 400 scientists from more than a dozen countries are urging President Obama to stop future oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean because of the significant environmental and climate risks associated with further fossil fuels exploration there.

With more than 1000bn tonnes of carbon estimated to be locked up in permafrost soils, the impacts for climate could be very significant, says Dr Sarah Chadburn, a specialist in Arctic permafrost modelling at the University of Exeter and lead author on the new paper.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

School climate has a significant impact on student performance and academic achievement, equally to or even more so than academic resources.

Due to its strong measurement qualities and significant impact, more than 70 percent of states will use chronic absence as the «fifth» ESSA indicator, often in combination with factors such as school climate or college and career readiness.

In this way, they in fact train their stochastic engine with significant (if not dominant) low frequency climate signal rather than purely non-climatic noise and its persistence.»

I mean since there is no clear trend (upward or downward) in cosmic ray flux over the period we've been able to measure them directly; and since we do not see a significant difference in climate over the 11 year solar cycle between Solar Max and Solar Min (and this modulation is much larger than the one Svensmark is talking about); and since it is not clear how important the ionization from GCR is in cloud formation; and since the anthropogenic ghg mechanism does just fine reproducing the data, exactly how do you foresee implementing this «effect»?

One of the most significant signs that this round of talks was different than in previous years came when Climate Nexus, a climate communication initiative set up in 2011 by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, launched a website on the talks called TheRoadThroughParClimate Nexus, a climate communication initiative set up in 2011 by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, launched a website on the talks called TheRoadThroughParclimate communication initiative set up in 2011 by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, launched a website on the talks called TheRoadThroughParis.org.

Assuming a climate sensitivity of 0.7 K / W / m ^ 2, this would contribute less than 0.06 C of the estimated 0.6 C mean global warming between the Maunder Minimum and the middle of last century, before significant anthropogenic contributions could be involved.»

While there was a lot of interesting science in this paper (the new methodology, the range of results etc.) which fully justified its appearance in Nature, we were quite critical of their basic conclusion — that climate sensitivities significantly higher than the standard range (1.5 — 4.5 ºC) were plausible — because there is significant other data, predominantly from paleo - climate, that pretty much rule those high numbers out (as we discussed again recently).

With the warming already committed in the climate system plus the additional warming expected from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Arctic will experience significant changes during this century even if greenhouse gas emissions are stabilized globally at a level lower than today's.

... we were quite critical of their basic conclusion — that climate sensitivities significantly higher than the standard range (1.5 — 4.5 ºC) were plausible — because there is significant other data, predominantly from paleo - climate, that pretty much rule those high numbers out...

I suspect that there will be considerably more uncertainty attached to this activity than there was to the attribution of climate change to anthropogenic activity — in part because the only guides we really have are the models and paleoclimate studies, both of which are subject to significant uncertainties.

Actually, there is some interesting work being done by Matt Huber of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role of TCs in transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem» of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.

Now a study in this week's edition of the journal Nature, «Climate Change and the Global Malaria Recession,» squarely concludes that the ongoing shrinkage of areas where the disease is endemic is many times more significant than any expansion of the potential malaria threat from climate Climate Change and the Global Malaria Recession,» squarely concludes that the ongoing shrinkage of areas where the disease is endemic is many times more significant than any expansion of the potential malaria threat from climate climate change.

It is possible, therefore, that the effects of recent accelerations in climate change have not yet started to have a significant contribution to or impact on current sea levels; but based on international scientific opinion, it is more a case of when, rather than if.

Even if CO2 Scorecard is correct that the effect of natural gas on emissions has been less than previously believed, delivering one quarter of U.S. carbon cuts is still «pretty significant,» said Michael Tubman, a senior fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), a nonprofit policy organization.

«While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to no more than 2 °C (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts of carbon removal) raises questions with respect to how the issue of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) technologies may be addressed under the Paris Agreement.

This is particularly significant because many climate - change alarmists conjecture that the reason global temperatures of the 21st century are lower than their faulty climate models originally predicted is that the Earth's oceans are absorbing all the excess heat.

Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat of significant climatic shift in response.

To me, given the history of climate change, the answer is less significant than the result.

Elsewhere in this thread, I have predicted that Kevin Trenberth will not focus on the definition of a null hypothesis, but will instead cite climate data as evidence that it is wiser to assume significant human effects, unless proven otherwise, than to assume the lack of these effects.

If their results show a better correlation than the «climate models» the AGW hypothesis (I'm not even dignifying it by calling it a «theory», which implies they have significant supporting evidence) is based on, then I'd conclude that ExxonMobile researchers have a better understanding of «climate change» than AGW proponents.

However, even a smaller figure (I had calculated about 0.17 W / m ^ 2 based on your inflated figure for total planetary albedo, but you can check it out) is still significant when compared with the total flux imbalance, which I think is a more informative comparison than an arbitrarily selected change in cloud cover, because it compares the sea ice reduction with the effects of all climate variations that have been operating in recent years..

The answer is: almost nothing for more than 10 years... The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has made it more difficult for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned.»

I am curious where this is going as Fred Moolten has said on Climate Etc. that Issac Held thinks anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 may have had a more significant role earlier than current science indicates (hope I haven't botched this.)

Current research, thus, indicates that the sun's TOTAL effect on climate appears to be more significant than previously thought, and that human CO2 effects are not detectable.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.