Sentences with phrase «term climate change»

The flaw in this interpretation is in drawing conclusions about long term climate change over a relatively short period of 13 months.

Global climate is a good example — not today's global warming episode, but long - term climate changes on the scale of many millions of years.

This paper shows the importance of including region - specific circumstances in long - term climate change mitigation strategies, by example of a modeling exercise of the transport sector.

The flaw in this interpretation is in drawing conclusions about long term climate change over a relatively short period of 13 months.

But it's being layered on top of a long - term climate change signal, which has seen the world get hotter and hotter since record keeping began in the late 1800s.

Researchers and practitioners should attend to and clarify the roles of emotions and emotion - based messages for different forms of short - term and long - term climate change engagement.

Can green bonds help the industry address long - term climate change problems?

It's difficult to measure shifts in resilience to long - term climate change if we don't know what people will need to be resilient to in, say, 20 years.

Long - term climate change fueled by a buildup of atmospheric carbon emissions is a controversial notion politically, but it's one accepted as fact by most scientists.

However, long - term climate change over many decades will depend mainly on the total amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases emitted as a result of human activities.

The IPCC chapter on long - term climate change projections that Wehner was a lead author on concluded that a warming world will cause some areas to be drier and others to see more rainfall, snow, and storms.

The conclusion of Emanuel at first sight appears to contrast with the a recent statement from NOAA that a 20 -30-year reoccurring cycle is the dominant climate factor that controls Atlantic hurricane activity and that any potentially weak signal associated with longer - term climate change appears to be a minor factor.

Interpretation of global warming Global warming is a long - term climate change which raises the temperature.

Prof Piers Forster, professor of climate change at the University of Leeds, said the paper was «another a nail in the coffin of the idea that the hiatus is evidence that our projections of long term climate change need revising down».

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 — 14).

The significance of attributing the role of climate change in an extreme event comes from situating that hazard in the context of long term climate change for a country or region, and thus creating a robust narrative for decision - makers and the public around the degree to which a disaster of this type will represent the «new normal».

An analyst involved with the CIA program said that the Center will provide the U.S. government with national security insights in assessing the threats and opportunities of longer term climate change impacts.

-- the Samanta et al paper, based on a three - month drought response, says not one word about long - term climate change scenarios reviewed in IPCC (but they advertise their analysis as «reject [ing] claims» put forward by the IPCC).

18 April 2018 — The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group welcomes announcement made by the UK government setting out measures to examine how they plan to raise long - term climate change targets to align with the Paris Agreement.

The study was conducted as part of a long - term climate change experiment in Minnesota, USA.

A long - term climate change study site in New Mexico would be one of many areas affected by the 3,500 - foot -(915 - meter --RRB- wide corridors.

Every two to seven years, an unusually warm pool of water — sometimes two to three degrees Celsius higher than normal develops across the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean to create a natural short - term climate change event.

Jerry was Contributing Author (1990), Lead Author (1995), and Coordinating Lead Author (2001, 2007) for the first four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate change assessment reports, and is currently a Lead Author on the near - term climate change chapter for the IPCC AR5.

Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near - term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls.

Better still, get rid of the (weather and El Nino influenced) short - term five year averaging and show long term climate changes by putting ten and twenty year moving averages on the data.

From a near - term perspective, however, the short - lived forcers are the only real lever we have, and near - term climate change matters too.

Let's face it, Earth has experienced drastic short term and long term climate changes numerous times over hundreds of millions of years without any human activities and, whether we like it or not, the same will happen again.

But the ERAINT describes the atmospheric state only since 1989, and in isolation, it is not the ideal data set for making inferences about long - term climate change because it doesn't go all that far back in time.

Sea surface temperature (SST) measured from Earth Observation Satellites in considerable spatial detail and at high frequency, is increasingly required for use in the context of operational monitoring and forecasting of the ocean, for assimilation into coupled ocean - atmosphere model systems and for applications in short - term numerical weather prediction and longer term climate change detection.

Urban gardens can also serve as multi-benefit spaces that build long term climate change resilience, food security, and job training.

But Nelson also acknowledged that salt can't solve Earth's long - term climate change challenges.

The long - term climate change across the continental U.S. as represented by the precipitation, hurricane landfall events and drought are much more difficult to discern from their respective fitted trends (objectively, they are rather climatically insignificant overall).

Documented long - term climate changes include changes in Arctic temperatures and ice, widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones.

The creation of the GCOS Surface Network is one example of a specific attempt to both enhance data exchange around the world and to identify and select the «best» stations for long - term climate change purposes.

(a) state the country endorses the Framework for the Coalition (b) state the country endorses meaningful action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (c) identify particular areas of interest related to short - lived climate pollutants and any specific actions taken or planned to address near term climate change, and (d) identify a primary point of contact, with name, title and email address for communication.

A good summation of what we observe and a sensible general hypothesis but restricted very much to short term climate changes.

Extremes of drought and heat present one kind of threat, and long - term climate change − driven by rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, as a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels − is another.

Long - term climate change commitment and reversibility: an EMIC intercomparison.