Optimum crop selections and rotation planning are not trivial to optimize under
such changing climate conditions.
Not exact matches
The combined pressures of
climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture
such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and
conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.
It follows that, under the present
conditions, to remain relevant in increasingly important policy areas
such as
climate change, the EU must reinforce its negotiating capacity.
Carbon pollution coming from traditional fuel sources
such as coal and gas directly contributes to
climate change and is associated with asthma and other lung
conditions.
It remains too soon to tell exactly how this
climate system will work under
changed conditions and other environmental factors —
such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.
With
such episodes projected to occur more often even if
climate change is mitigated, researchers are redoubling efforts to identify the factors that can make a reef resilient to harsh
conditions.
The hourlong documentary examines how Arctic warming may be increasing storms» intensity and altering their paths, and how countries
such as the Netherlands are creating
climate - adaptive cities to respond to
changing conditions
The distribution of wildlife on Earth is
changing with the
climate, making
conditions more favorable to odd species
such as trumpeter swans, beetles, marmots, albatross, killer whales and white - tailed deer
A hardier corn plant could also bode well for well - established row crop areas, including portions of the U.S. Corn Belt, where
changing climate conditions are producing environmental stressors
such as prolonged drought.
Climate conditions in Kansas have already been noted to have
changed in noticeable ways, and many
such conditions are known to favorably affect tick phenology and spatial distribution.»
«These findings add to mounting evidence suggesting that there are sweet spots or «windows of opportunity» within
climate space where so - called boundary
conditions,
such as the level of atmospheric CO2 or the size of continental ice sheets, make abrupt
change more likely to occur.
Also,
climate change may allow some tropical and subtropical crops to thrive at mid-latitudes where they previously did not grow, but
such changes could also improve
conditions for crop pests and the spread of plant and animal diseases.
Climate models
such as the one by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change predict that with rising temperatures, the
conditions that favor insect vectors
such as the mosquito will allow disease transmission to become more prevalent.
Now for the really bad news: the Asian Tiger mosquito has a special affinity for the hotter, wetter
conditions that
climate change will bring to places
such as the northeastern U.S.
«The chances of correctly predicting
such variations are much better than the weather for the next few weeks, because the
climate is far less chaotic than the rapidly
changing weather
conditions,» said Latif.
Scientists are reluctant to directly link
climate change with extreme weather events
such as storms and drought, saying these fluctuate according to atmospheric
conditions, but green groups link the two in their calls for action.
«Also, we feel that if we can understand how fish coped with low - oxygen, high CO2, acidic waters in the past, it will give us some insight into how they might cope with man - made
climate change which appears to be giving rise to
such conditions again,» Dr Rummer says.
Direct effects of
climate change on trees and forests,
such as warmer, wetter
conditions improving forest productivity or warmer, drier
conditions increasing tree mortality, will be secondary to the impacts of altered forest disturbance regimes,
such as
changes in forest fire behavior and area burned.
«Under
such conditions,
climate change would possibly lead to premature death of the weakest — namely children and the elderly,» the researchers concluded.
indirect effect A secondary impact to a system from a
change that was caused by shifting
climate conditions,
such as increased fire frequency, which is a result of drier
conditions caused by an increase in temperature.
At present, we are facing the third global coral bleaching event due to
climate change, and the discovery of more robust reefs in unusual place
such as the mouth of the Amazon River can greatly help researchers better understand which organisms can tolerate harsher
conditions.
The researchers use computer models to forecast future ocean
conditions such as surface temperatures, salinity, and currents, and project how the distribution of different fish species could respond to
climate change.
This novel approach finds local populations in the North Pacific and Northwest Atlantic are regionally synchronized and strongly correlated to ocean
conditions —
such that
climate models alone explain up to 88 % of the observed
changes over the past several decades.
There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales,
changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political
conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors
such as severe weather, unusual
climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.
The A+RC's program will feature application - based, graduate - level workshops and public presentations by leading thinkers and theorists in the humanities and social sciences, exploring themes
such as
climate change and social justice that impact the
conditions from which contemporary art emerges.
Fine distinctions as to whether the temperature was 42, 44 or 45 degrees C. on those days is as irrelevant as the possible role of
climate change in making
such conditions more frequent.
There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between
climate and fields
such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary
condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the
climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.
While the study — «The hidden risks of
climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall
climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the
condition that will «magnify these risks as factors
such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil
conditions.»
Yet, we explained there is also reasonable basis for concern that a warming world may at least temporarily increase tornado damage including the fact that oceans are now warmer, and regional ocean circulation cycles
such as La Nina / El Nino patterns in the Pacific which affect upper atmospheric
conditions appear to becoming more chaotic under the influence of
climate change.
The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences
such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production;
conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and
climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.
Furthermore,
such an increase might be enough, the Stern Review explains, to trigger a shutdown of the ocean's thermohaline circulation warming Western Europe, creating abrupt
climate change, thereby plunging Western Europe into Siberian - like
conditions.
The intention is that by not incorporating
such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of
climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental
conditions described in the SSPs.
Yes conservation is important, not least in ensuring that species can migrate to deal with
climate changes and other environmental disruptions, but the scale of human activity is
such that we are collectively making the future ecological
conditions of the planet.
They provide exact necessary and sufficient
conditions for these characteristics for all linear systems and some nonlinear systems... Now I am merely trying to acquaint
climate change scientists, physicists, lawyers and politicians promoting
such things as Kyoto Protocols that chemical process control system engineering has a useful voice, weak as it is, in
climate control engineering....
A 2017 disclosure by San Francisco reads: «The city is unable to predict whether sea level rise or other impacts of
climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any
such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect on the business operations or financial
condition of the city and the local economy.»
I have been keeping notes on significant cold weather anomalies since appox 2014 and I will paste them below, obviously the low solar activity is the principle cause of these anomalies but does human activity
such as pollution - aerosals that humans emit make the
conditions worse — that can not be proven but it's obvious that most of the
climate change, whether it's cooling or warming is natural not»cause d' by human activity.
In order to generate
such enormous losses (of 50 % to 70 % of crop yields), the study not only has to focus on a very unlikely
climate outcome, but also has to assume that farmers stupidly ignore the
changing conditions for the next 85 years.
Once
such an IPCC exposition of the assumptions, complications and uncertainties of
climate models was constructed and made public, it would immediately have to lead, in my view, to more questions from the informed public
such as what does calculating a mean global temperature
change mean to individuals who have to deal with local
conditions and not a global average and what are the assumptions, complications and uncertainties that the models contain when it comes to determining the detrimental and beneficial effects of a «global» warming in localized areas of the globe.
From this post I get the impression the
climate scientists measuring the average
conditions of weather at discreet time intervals and following the
change in the average over time is a very limited approach seeking to identify causes and effects, when we have known for a long time the major inputs in the
climate such as insolation, orbital characteristics, evaporation, condensation and etc..
This suggests the tendency for recurrent dry
conditions is less related to variations
such as El Niño, and more due to other
changes in the
climate system.
By definition micro
climates are different to one another so you may get different readings that could be exacerbated by local
conditions - land use - or by climatic
changes such as an alteration in the prevailing wind direction.
In regions around the world,
such knowledge is commonly used in adapting to environmental
conditions and is directly relevant to adaptation to
climate change.
In other words, under solar or anthropogenic influence the
changes in mean
climate values,
such as the global temperature, are less important than increased duration of certain
climate patterns associated say with cold
conditions in some regions and warm
conditions in the other regions
«In order to develop
climate models, we have to consider microphysical processes,
such as how a cloud droplet gets formed and how
such droplets and physical
conditions inside and outside of a cloud are
changed by the presence of aerosols,» she said.
I always believed that the oceans were an important element in localised weather
conditions over the short term but feel that relatively sudden shifts in
climate occur through external forcings
such as volcanic eruptions, meteor strike and the effects of
changes in cosmic rays and sun spot activity, which are, unfortunately, all chaotic by nature and unpredictable.
«
Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industria
Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of
change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The
climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industria
climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current
climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industria
climate; (5) global
climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industria
climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this
condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of
such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializ
such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to
such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializ
such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with
such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializ
such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10)
Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializ
Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.
Such climate scenarios should represent future
conditions that account for both human - induced
climate change and natural
climate variability.
The SAP 3.1 report describes complex mathematical models used to simulate the Earth's
climate on some of the most powerful supercomputers, and assesses their ability to reproduce observed
climate features, and their sensitivity to
changes in
conditions such as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
The placements for the four Bren School students are: Paige Berube is at the Ocean Protection Council, where she will focus on the effects of
climate change on ocean
conditions,
such as sea - level rise, ocean acidification, and El Niño.
It is true that the model replications of past
conditions are not perfect, which is to be expected given the chaotic variations of the
climate about its now -
changing baseline; however, the ensemble of model simulations has been tested against previously observed perturbations to
climate (
such as the response to volcanic eruptions) and overall they correspond well with what is observed to occur.