Sentences with phrase «state of a warmer climate»

Tsonis and Swanson suggest an «alternative hypothesis, namely that the climate shifted after the 1970s event to a different state of a warmer climate, which may be superimposed on an anthropogenic warming trend».
However, comparison of the 2035 event in the 21st century simulation and the 1910s event in the observations with this event, suggests an alternative hypothesis, namely that the climate shifted after the 1970s event to a different state of a warmer climate, which may be superimposed on an anthropogenic warming trend.

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New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall invoked the dangers of climate change, noting that severe droughts and wildfires put his state «in the bull's - eye of global warming
I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.
Cunha credits Scott — whose administration famously prohibited references to climate change or global warming in state publications — with «the best of intentions» in issuing mandatory evacuation orders.
Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.
Pawpaw trees thrive in the humid temperate climate of the eastern United States; they love at least 30 inches of rainfall and long, warm summers to ripen, bearing 30 - 40 pounds of fruit per season.
The press conference was held at the State House by Senator Marc Pacheco, chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change and Senate co-chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
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400,000 marched in NYC on September 21 to demand action on climate change - a great march that, unfortunately, has done little to change the politics of global warming at the state or federal level.
Cuomo and fellow Democratic Govs. Jerry Brown of California and Jay Inslee of Washington state have formed a coalition to fight global warming in response to the president's decision to pull the nation out of the climate accord.
«A tremendous amount of Baby Boomers are leaving the state for warmer climates.
The State's Attorney General says the Buffalo snowstorms are more evidence that climate change is happening, and that New York and the nation need to work harder to combat the causes of global warming.
These forcings can be visualized as a tug - of - war, with positive forcings pulling the earth to a warmer climate and negative ones pulling it to a cooler state.
As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countries.
Controversy over «incontrovertible» The roots of the conflict can be traced to 2007, when the APS released a statement on climate change stating, «The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring.»
The study found that none of the «dismissive» group — those who don't think the climate is changing or want legislation — believe global warming will harm the United States in 50 years.
«We found that, apart from slight biases at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, people in Oklahoma — a state where the concept of «global warming» traditionally gets quite a chilly reception — readily perceived feedback from the climate system.»
Declining snowfall in Vermont, a likely byproduct of a warming climate, is sure to negatively affect the state's $ 600 million snowmobile industry.
«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.
Rice said that even the cold weather in the United States this past winter might make sense in relation to climate change because the rest of the globe was warmer.
«What this study addresses is what's better described as a false pause, or slowdown,» rather than a hiatus in warming, says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Stepping into that gap — at the request of the Danish government — will be the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, a collection of the world's top scientists and economists set to meet in Copenhagen in March 2009 to deliver an updated state of the science on global warming.
Here in the United States, politicians and radio talk - show hosts regularly ridicule the notion of global warming and attack the integrity of climate scientists.
The research team drew information from huge stream - temperature and biological databases contributed by over 100 agencies and a USGS - run regional climate model to describe warming trends throughout 222,000 kilometers (138,000 miles) of streams in the northwestern United States.
«In the last 30 years, there's been this growing synchrony where the whole West is getting warmer,» said Philip Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University.
«We don't know if the present state of the climate system might allow for a six - degree warming in East Antarctica,» says Sime, «but it is not impossible.»
There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.
Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact the climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and his colleagues in Great Britain, Norway and the United States.
Thus, a homeowner will probably not be able to show that the hurricane that destroyed his house was spawned by global warming, but the state of Florida may well prove that increased damage to coastal property over several years has a lot to do with climate change.
The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.
None of Cruz's comments disprove climate change, said Richard Alley, a scientist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in the effects of global warming on ice.
While Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he accepts the reality of climate change, he abolished the country's Climate Change Commission in September, and rejected any link that global warming was responsible for a series of bushfires across New South Wales state in Oclimate change, he abolished the country's Climate Change Commission in September, and rejected any link that global warming was responsible for a series of bushfires across New South Wales state in OClimate Change Commission in September, and rejected any link that global warming was responsible for a series of bushfires across New South Wales state in October.
Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.
China: A November report predicts that the coal - powered, populous country will surpass the United States in 2009 as the world's biggest emitter of climate - warming carbon dioxide.
«In other words, although the term matters — climate change versus global warming — an overwhelming majority of Republicans still state that global warming is happening,» he said.
Today's climate models predict a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change.
Instrumental measurements are also too short to test the ability of state - of - the - art climate models to predict which regions of the hemisphere will get drier, or wetter, with global warming,» says Charpentier Ljungqvist.
Marine scientists are warning that if the Trump administration rescinds fishing protections around eight Pacific islands, the United States will lose one of its best laboratories for measuring how a warming climate affects marine life.
Although the scientific credibility of the film drew criticism from climate scientists, the scenario of an abrupt collapse of the AMOC, as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse warming, was never assessed with a state - of - the - art climate model.
While several studies have been conducted in the central and southern United States to compare and evaluate the durability of pavement markings, Zayed points out that the findings don't translate very well given the strikingly different weather conditions between warm versus seasonal climates.
Significantly, there is growing unease about the link between climate change and extreme weather, with 74 per cent of Americans now agreeing that «global warming is affecting weather in the United States».
«What we saw was that urbanization - induced warming is just as important as greenhouse gas - induced climate change,» said Matei Georgescu, an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that continuing on a path of rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 could cause another 4 to 8 ° F warming before the year 2100.»
The Paris climate agreement is better than many expected but it is not enough to achieve the stated aim of limiting warming to 2 °C, let alone 1.5 °C
«The results imply that reforestation projects and efforts to avoid further deforestation are of the utmost importance in our pursuit to limit global warming to below 2oC, as stated in the Paris climate agreement.»
U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend LINK WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.
The U.S. press is either woefully ignorant of the state of the science, or is deliberately trying to find explanations for various regional weather and climate changes that don't involve any mention of «global warming» — and that approach relies on the «natural cycle» argument.
It is this background warming from the heat trapped by greenhouse gases that actually accounts for most of the predictability in future temperature change, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State.
The NOAA State of the Climate 2009 report is an excellent summary of the many lines of evidence that global warming is happening.
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