Crudial Question What Bayesian weight should Climate Etc readers assign to the postulate «The long -
term effects of climate - change will be appreciably worse that IPCC projections ``?
CSIRO's Dr Leon Rotstayn said that further research into how aerosols are influencing climate and rainfall patterns across Australia is critical to scientists» ability to more accurately predict the longer -
term effects of climate change.
Burt and Layo Nathan of Coffs Harbour, said they were worried about the long -
term effects of climate change.
Solutions: ways to prepare for the possible long -
term effects of climate change.
Record - breaking droughts, fires, and hurricanes have made the near -
term effects of climate change a front - and - center issue across America.
But in Issues, analysts have identified a more fundamental problem — the social cost of carbon dioxide is the wrong guide to follow — and they proposed an alternative method that better reflects what is known about long -
term effects of climate change and how these effects should be valued by today's decision - makers.
More precisely monitoring dolphins with seafloor recordings could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long -
term effects of climate change.
Professor David Schultz, one of the authors of the guest editorial, said: «One of the long -
term effects of climate change is often predicted to be an increase in the intensity and frequency of many high - impact weather events, so reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen to be the response to the problem.
It can be very difficult to replicate the long -
term effects of climate change over very large geographic areas in the laboratory or field.
The Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long -
term effect of climate warming on forest ecology.
We see the long -
term effect of climate change on society, and it really frightens us.»
«Long -
Term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico».
Not exact matches
It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside
climate change and, if nothing else, think
of industrial toxicity at the scale
of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north
of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long -
term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.
My own inclination is to think that the attention given to certain new developments, and their
effect on the general theological scene, are largely explicable in
terms of the social
climate, but that the ideas themselves can only be understood by study
of their separate histories.
Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial»
effect in
terms of mitigating their contributions to
climate change.
A new paper published by scientists in the Northeast finds that long -
term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately predict and manage the
effects of climate change.
WHEREAS, in furtherance
of the united effort to address the
effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session
of the Conference
of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate
climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other
terms (the «Paris Agreement»);
At present, the long -
term recovery
of the Ozone Layer from the
effects of CFCs is still on track, but the presence
of increasing dichloromethane will add some uncertainty to our future predictions
of ozone and
climate.»
Short - and long -
term impacts The American economy is already beginning to feel the
effects of climate change, the report says, and «these impacts will likely grow materially over the next 5 to 25 years and affect the future performance
of today's business and investment decisions.»
«We should be thinking
of ways to reduce our negative
effects on the natural environment and these results show that if we do basic conservation and management, it can make a big difference in
terms of how ecosystems will weather
climate change,» Harley said.
«Because the complexity
of the
climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the
effects of human activity on the Earth's
climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the
climate challenge in the near and longer
terms.
At present, the long -
term recovery
of the Ozone Layer from the
effects of CFCs is still on track, but the presence
of increasing dichloromethane will lead to uncertainty in our future predictions
of ozone and
climate.»
CUMULUS CAUSALITY In «A Formula for Economic Calamity,» by David H. Freedman, David Colander
of Middlebury College asserts that
climate models often have no
terms to account for the
effects of clouds.
According to McFadden, not only does this analysis demonstrate that wintertime
climate can be important for northern cities, it also shows the
effects in
terms of flood risks.
The State
of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate
effects of climate change, although the longer -
term influence
of population growth on
climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.
But on the ground, the
effects of climate change sometimes appear in pulses, or what scientists
term «disturbance events.»
Archer has come to realize that the proliferation
of oddball animals offers a unique showcase
of the long -
term biological
effects of climate change.
«With the potential negative
effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study
of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long -
term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University
of Illinois.
A decade in the planning, NEON hopes to collect long -
term, continent - wide measurements
of the
effects of climate change, land usage, and invasive species.
The paper, «The
effects of habitat,
climate and barred owls on long -
term demography
of northern spotted owls,» was published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications and authored by Katie M. Dugger, USGS, Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oregon State University Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife; Eric D. Forsman, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Alan B. Franklin, USDA APHIS National Wildlife Research Center; Raymond Davis, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, and 33 others.
«Often, we think
of climate change and air toxics in
terms of effects on adults,» she said.
Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding
of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long -
term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that
climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range
of effects of temperature increases.
«We have seriously underestimated the
effects of climate change on the most well - known groups, which means those other groups, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, the story is going to be much, much worse in
terms of what we think the threat is from
climate change already,» he said.
The researchers suggest that modeling the
effects of future
climate variations should focus on human response to transient short -
term changes in addition to the traditional focus on long -
term mean changes in
climate.
The study
of planetary atmospheres other than the Earth's, and in particular the study
of the role
of plasma - neutral interactions in their evolution, could contribute to our understanding
of the long -
term space weather (referred to also as space
climate)
effects and finally the origins
of life itself (Yamauchi & Wahlund 2007).
But in general
terms how would you compare the potential
effects of these industries on
climate change?
• There is massive evidence that we are already suffering the negative
effects of human - induced
climate change; yet some argue that action to tackle
climate change could be postponed since it would only happen in the long -
term.
-- 4) Improved fire models and projections directly related to Montana's forests; 5) Long -
term monitoring
of forest insect and pathogen response to recent
climate changes and improved projections
of likely future impacts; 6) Better understanding
of disturbance
effects on microclimates and refugia and implications for forest productivity, mortality, and adaptation.
-- 1) Improved understanding
of adaptive genetic and phenotypic forest characteristics that would provide better guidance for breeding programs and management actions to maximize resilience to both direct and indirect
climate impacts to forests; 2) Long -
term studies to better understand
effects of CO2 fertilization in Montana's forests; 3) Improved models
of climate and vegetation
effects on evapotranspiration and water balances throughout forested systems.
In a long -
term trend that demonstrates the
effects of a warming
climate, daily record - high temperatures have recently been outpacing daily record lows by an average
of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the
climate continues to warm.
Though the ecological
effects of these
climate oscillations have been described in various settings, the influence
of decadal indices to long -
term marine turtle population trends is largely unexplored.
While the culture and
climate for stem - cell therapies is improving, Roop said, more research, like Colorado State University's stem - cell work on dogs and horses, is needed to ensure safety and learn long -
term effects of stem - cell therapies.
Scientifically, the meteorologists, climatologists, and atmospheric physicists, who were responsible for «discovering» the human contribution to the terrestrial greenhouse
effect, have been the most consistent champions
of its importance, while the solar physics community, and especially those interested in solar - terrestrial relations, have increasingly stressed the possible importance
of the long -
term variations
of the solar constant as the chief cause
of climate change.
In a long -
term trend that demonstrates the
effects of a warming
climate, daily record - high temperatures have recently been outpacing daily record - lows by an average
of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the
climate continues to warm.
Her research interests include how to measure and grow effective school leadership, understanding teacher mobility from an organizational perspective, the antecedents and
effects of school
climate and safety for both students and school staff, and the
effect of student course taking in high school on students» short and long
term outcomes.
This document provides basic information on projected future
climate change
effects (changes in temperature, precipitation, storm activity and sea level rise) over the near
term, mid-century and end -
of - century.
The evening
of conversation will include a panel organized around the concept
of «Imaging Futures», which will consider macro-scale observations on Earth landscapes, the long -
term effects of anthropocentric
climate change, and the possibility
of inter-planetary migration.
His main focus was the use
of the
term by the media, but he provided a very useful deconstruction
of various
climate - related risks and whether they had that «little nudge, big
effect» quality.
But in general
terms how would you compare the potential
effects of these industries on
climate change?
The long
term effects of dams can be difficult to visualize, especially when the future includes a changing
climate.