Sentences with phrase «small effect on climate change»

Changes in solar radiation, known as solar forcing, have had only a very small effect on climate change, a member of the UN's top panel of climate scientists said today.

PHYS.org: Changes in solar radiation, known as solar forcing, have had only a very small effect on climate change, a member of the UN's top panel of climate scientists said today.

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One might also point out that due to Canada's small size, our actions have negligible effect on the path of future climate change.

It shows that changes in Earth's climate and sea level are closely linked, with only small amounts of warming needed to have a significant effect on seal levels.

Thanks for publishing this, there are folks who denigrated the work of scientists that claimed a solar - climate (temperature) link because the variability in solar energy output just wasn't enough to explain the temperature swings, and perhaps they now realize that there could be another mechanism - similar to a transistor where small changes in gate voltage can affect large changes in power transmission - whereby solar activity can create significant effects on temperature.

Some links on planetary motion and climate — this stuff isn't big news; the effects are extremely small and change very slowly, compared to the rate of CO2 increase from fossil fuel use.

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).

Some attribution assessments that link events to dynamically driven changes in circulation have been criticized on the grounds that small signal - to - noise ratios, modeling deficiencies, and uncertainties in the effects of climate forcings on circulation render conclusions unreliable and prone to downplaying the role of anthropogenic change.

At about 0.04 %, carbon dioxide is a very minor contributor to global warmth, and its effect via level changes on climate are even less — immeasurably small.

Researchers also aim to determine the effects of climate change and smaller herds on the winter tick.

The company's support for a small, but influential, group of climate skeptics has damaged the United States» reputation by making our government appear to ignore conclusive data on climate change and the disastrous effects climate change could have.»

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

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..

«Those who work on the ocean day - to - day live with effects of small changes in climate, while observing the subsequent changes in habitat and species behaviors.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detailed new research into when global warming will start to have a serious effect on local climates has produced the shock finding that it could happen much sooner than scientists have previously predicted London, 9 October — Catastrophic climate change may begin sooner than anyone expected --- and the first place to feel the heat could be a small but important city in Indonesia.

This confirms that our impact on the climate began just decades after we started burning fossil fuels — about 180 years earlier than traditional climate change graphs have shown — and that even the smallest amount of carbon dioxide can have an effect on how fast global temperatures increase.

For example, our results corroborate with others by showing that high impact journals typically report large effects based on small sample sizes (Fraley and Vazire 2014), and high impact journals have shown publication bias in climate change research (Michaels 2008, and further discussed in Radetzki 2010).

Model studies show that land - use changes have a small effect on annual runoff as compared to climate change in the Rhine basin (Pfister et al., 2004), south - east Michigan (Barlage et al., 2002), Pennsylvania (Chang, 2003), and central Ethiopia (Legesse et al., 2003).

Importantly, whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect of these policies, if implemented, would be a change in the earth's temperature almost too small to measure.

Integrated physiological and economic models (e.g., Fischer et al., 2005a) allow holistic simulation of climate change effects on agricultural productivity, input and output prices, and risk of hunger in specific regions, although these simulations rely on a small set of component models.

The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation estimates the net effect on yields to be small worldwide at 2 °C, although regional changes are possible.

Whereas the reports of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well asClimate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well asclimate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs.

Uncertainty in these projections due to potential future climate change effects on the ocean carbon cycle (mainly through changes in temperature, ocean stratification and marine biological production and re-mineralization; see Box 7.3) are small compared to the direct effect of rising atmospheric CO2 from anthropogenic emissions.

Small changes in moisture have dramatic effects on climate.

No one on the planet is more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than the citizens of small island nations.

Controlling for observed conditions, beliefs about global climate change had a large effect on perceptions of seasonal temperature, and smaller effects on perceptions of seasonal precipitation.»

If relatively small changes in CO2 levels have big effects — meaning that we live in a more sensitive climate system — the planet could warm by as much as 6 degrees Celsius on average with attendant results such as changed weather patterns and sea - level rise.

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) argues, «The human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs.»

These stratospheric changes may have a small effect on surface climate over the 11 year cycle.

However, human activity may have already caused some some changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observation limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate).

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Because utility exhibits diminishing returns to increasing consumption, economic damages of climate change on a richer generation will have smaller negative effects on welfare than on a poorer generation.

Weaver argues that the climate effects of oil sands development will have only a small effect on global temperatures and that the potential of coal and gas consumption to contribute to serious climate change is much greater.

He clarified to Campus Reform that many scientists do not argue against slight warming of the Earth after the Little Ice Age (the unusually cool period of the Earth around the 1700s A.D.), nor do those critical of anthropogenic climate change argue that humans have made no impact on the planet, merely that the effect has been small and largely beneficial.

Former teacher and founder of two Caribbean - based youth organizations, Andrew Simmons (1994, St. Vincent and the Grenadines) always knew that the effects of climate change on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can not be addressed without the participation of young people:

I was publishing my interviews of statesmen and ambassadors about the effects of climate change on their small island states.