Sentences with phrase «such kind of climate»

(d) Scherhag stressed: «such kind of climate changes as could now be observed in Spitsbergen and along the western coast of Greenland were certainly not restricted to a small region but must be global» (Scherhag, 1937).

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Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

This association of the feminine with weakness or vulnerability may be objectionable in a cultural climate where criticasters monotonously beat the drum for the Strong Female Character, but Denis is an artist, not a sloganeer, and as such she has always been gifted with the only kind of strength that matters — the guts to speak hard home truths and not give a fuck about how they might be received.

Ongoing debates of this kind include topics such as climate change and renewable energy.

Tinos is an ideal destination for every traveller because it combines various contrasting natural elements such as hills and plains, mountain and sea, fertile and infertile soil.The mild climate of the island favours any kind of activity, while the strong summer winds justify the naming of Tinos as «The island of Aeolus».

Could the climate forcing itself, such as increasing GHGs, affect parameterizations independently of the larger scale climate changes (for example, by changing thermal damping of various kinds of waves, or by changing the differences of radiative effects between different amounts and kinds of clouds)?

In other words, it is possible that the the climate system does exhibit some kind of long - term chaos in some circumstances, but that the forcing is strong enough to wipe out any significant uncertainty due to initial conditions — at least if one is content to forecast statistical quantities such as, for example, decadal mean January temperatures in some suitably large region, or perhaps temperature variances or quartiles taken over a similar period.

But I think such a study would also find that essentially all the journalistic accounts said it was all speculation and admitted that scientists had no consensus, indeed little understanding of climate, and were not making any kind of firm prediction — that is the most important difference from the current situation.

Face it, somethings are not knowable in simple straightforward terms, and the planet's climate, considering the huge number of variables and the timespan and sparse data sets for such a huge system is a perfect example of that kind of «impossible to summarize in a single sentence» scenario that you seem to think it «should» be.

By far the most frequent arguments made in opposition to climate change policies are economic predictions of various kinds such as claims that proposed climate change legislation will destroy jobs, reduce GDP, damage US businesses such as the coal and petroleum industries, or increase the cost of fuel.

So for example a forecast of average climate over 2029 - 2031 would be less believable than one over 2020 - 2040, because 20 - year averaging would remove many of the kinds of unpredictable phenomena such as volcanoes that could have a much bigger influence on the 2029 - 2031 average than on 2020 - 2040.

The phenomenon of climate change, he added, should include other kinds of factors, both internal, such as volcanoes and the very human activity, and external, such as solar activity.

She cited as motivation for quitting her objection to «the kind of vehemence and aggressive attack strategy that Exxon has executed over the last year» toward state attorneys general with open investigations of ExxonMobil and over a dozen non-for-profit groups (such as the Union of Concerned Scientists) and individuals who have been in communication with them over the corporation's decades - long role as champion of climate denial.

Before discussing tornadoes, it is important to note that it is scientifically uncontroversial to conclude that climate change is causing more violent weather particularly in the form of: (a) more damaging thunder storms, (b) the kind of devastating flooding we have seen this year in Australia, Pakistan, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, along the Mississippi and the Tennessee valleys, and (c) more severe droughts such as those experienced this year in China, Brazil, and Texas.

This kind of argument has taken several different forms such as, climate policies simply cost too much, will destroy jobs, harm the economy, or are not justified by cost - benefit analyses just to name a few cost - based arguments made frequently in opposition to climate change policies..

In this document, the term climate models is used for all kinds of models used for studying the global climate system, such as Earth - System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs), Atmosphere - Ocean coupled Global Circulation Models (AOGCMs) and Earth System Models (ESMs)(see for the definition of some of these model categories (Meehl and Hibbard 2006; Randall et al. 2007).

Working for years in a sector with such low standards of accountability and diligence does little to encourage the kind of rigorous approach that we all need to start requiring of climate science.

Aside from hydrologists, soil scientists and climate change scientists, we may see other kinds of users such as land developers, infrastructure developers, conservationists and engineers.

«There's such a general consensus in the scientific community that climate change is real, but then in so many other areas it's kind of split, so we were curious to see how Twitter responded to the issue,» says Emily Cody, lead author of the study.

Even if we think the danger of climate change to be unlikely — what kind of risk assessment would say that even a small chance of dangerous climate change would not merit such an expenditure?

The third is less widely known but should be front - and - center: It is well - known among people who study such things that, human civilization has seen several warm periods and several cold periods all within the span of recorded history and the archeological record timeframe, so we have a pretty good understanding of what each kind of climate change bodes for mankind.

I wonder what kind of professional liability insurance coverage your precious «climate scientists» have engaged, and whether such policies are «claims - made» or «occurrence» based?

Such rebuttal material was probably viewed as potentially fatal for enviro - activists, and from all I've found, it appears they took a practically unknown pilot project PR campaign from the Western Fuels Association and blew it out of all proportion in order to have some kind of plausible - sounding «evidence» for their claim that skeptic climate scientists were no different than the paid shill experts who claimed cigarette smoking was not especially harmful.

Secondly, focussing on delivering turnkey hybrid power solutions, which is of immense requirement in remote power installations such as island nations, most of which either can not afford the kind of diesel or fuel import costs that exist at this particular stage, or have mandates to move away from heavy carbon footprint in order to meet climate change goals.

Such losses of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk of extinction due to causes other than climate change by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.15 The second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss of the last individual of a species.

Extreme heat events, such as this heat wave, are the kind of weather events that increase the most as the climate warms.

Wheelan may phrase his «modest proposal» as a kind of inexpensive climate «insurance,» but the extreme costs of implementing such an agenda — such as the 2015 Paris Climate Accord — are verclimate «insurance,» but the extreme costs of implementing such an agenda — such as the 2015 Paris Climate Accord — are verClimate Accord — are very real.

This is an important number because it'll be used in all kinds of other research, such as climate models, studies on animal and plant habitats and biodiversity, etc..

No one has ever completed this kind of climate analysis at such a high resolution.»

Given the uncertainties that exist in such kinds of preliminary studies, I believe it is more useful to point out that climate on decadal timescales may be quite different from that expected only considering external radiative forcing (as in the IPCC).

This is not perfect because it is likely that climate effects such as ocean currents and oscillations, changes in biology, ice extent and volume changes, cloud cover variations, etc... are causing a kind of climactic Brownian Motion, hiding the signal in what, lacking deep understanding of these issues, we can only call noise.

Clients answer 15 questions about their home, such as what kind of air conditioning the home has and the climate the home is situated in, to help the app determine what kind of reminders they'll need.