Sentences with phrase «stable climate conditions»

«Having plate tectonics complete the cycle is absolutely essential to maintaining stable climate conditions on earth,» Dr. Schlesinger said.

During the Little Ice Age phase 1 (LIA 1 — AD 1400 — 1620), the abundant occurrences of wetland plant (Cyperaceae) and diatom frustules imply less flood events under stable climate conditions in this period.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

Not exact matches

Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

So in order to constrain the climate sensitivity from the paleo - data, we need to find a period under which our restricted subsystem is stable — i.e. all the boundary conditions are relatively constant, and the climate itself is stable over a long enough period that we can assume that the radiation is pretty much balanced.

On the longest timescales a climate model with constant boundary conditions is stable — that is, the mean properties and their statistical distribution don't vary.

Global warming of 2 °C would leave the Earth warmer than it has been in millions of years, a disruption of climate conditions that have been stable for longer than the history of human agriculture.

Stable Arctic Climate Conditions No Longer Present These changes were described as «massive and disturbing» by the director of the Center for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec.

I've never ever seen any climate feedback equation that includes the time dependent response; just a static condition, without any proof that the feedback system is stable.

Climate can be rather stable if nothing is causing it to change, but when the climate is «pushed» or forced to change, it often jumps suddenly to very different conditions, rather than changing graClimate can be rather stable if nothing is causing it to change, but when the climate is «pushed» or forced to change, it often jumps suddenly to very different conditions, rather than changing graclimate is «pushed» or forced to change, it often jumps suddenly to very different conditions, rather than changing gradually.

And by pushing the climate rapidly into unstable states, we may be accelerating things into even less stable conditions.

Its location next to a subtropical high - pressure belt of descending air produces stable atmospheric conditions over most of its surface area, and the climate generally is dry.

If, as Willis suggests, they are acting as negative feedbacks which make a significant contribution to the stability of the climate system (and it has proved to be remarkably stable to massive changes in conditions historically) then incorreclty assuming it is a random, mean zero process will lead to incorrect conclusions.

In the future, climate change could hurt krill numbers because they have a complex life cycle that is dependent on stable ocean conditions, according to a recent study.

Forest disturbance did not increase much beyond present levels in their simulations while climate conditions remained stable.

«In this respect, the Holocene shows a stable SST trend similar to those in previous interstadial stages, tending toward progressively cooler climate conditions in accordance with the slow decrease in summer insolation in the Northern Hemisphere and the minimal eccentricity of the Earth's orbit.

A climate in which conditions are changing that fast just isn't suitable for stable human civilization (or for the continued existence of a majority of the planet's species).

Although climate throughout Earth's history has varied from «snowball» conditions with global ice cover to «hothouse» conditions when glaciers all but disappeared, the climate over the past 10,000 years has been remarkably stable and favorable to human civilization.