Sentences with phrase «term future climate»

The mid-Pliocene (∼ 3 to 3.3 Ma ago), is a period of sustained global warmth in comparison to the late Quaternary (0 to ∼ 1 Ma ago), and has potential to inform predictions of long - term future climate change.

«None of the above» might be the best description of near - term future climate.

The method is not predictive in the deterministic sense, but rather attempts to characterize uncertainty in near - term future climate, taking into account both forced trends and unforced, natural climate fluctuations.

From these data, we obtained four near - term and four long - term future climate scenarios by adding the differential between future time periods and the baseline time period for each model and emission scenario to each current monthly baseline climate map.

Cochelin et al used a model of intermediate complexity to show that the orbital variations over the next 100,000 years are weak enough that even a little human CO2 remaining in the atmosphere is enough to keep the earth out of an ice age («Simulation of long - term future climate changes with the green McGill paleoclimate model: The next glacial inception»).

Armed with these tools, Zeebe was able to make new predictions about long - term future climate change.

Our record is also of interest to climate policy developments, because it opens the door to detailed comparisons between past atmospheric CO2 concentrations, global temperatures, and sea levels, which has enormous value to long - term future climate projections.»

Not exact matches

Again, shifts in the Market Climate are not forecasts about future returns, except in the broadest terms of average return to market risk.

Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long - term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region.»

Mayor Bloomberg created a taskforce to develop a long - term plan for the city based on expected future climate change, severe weather occurrences, and how to rebuild better.

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.»

When modelers want to predict the future movement of a particular species, they first establish a set of conditions — in terms of climate, soil quality and other variables — under which that species is likely to thrive.

While many previous studies predicted a future increase in humus levels as a result of climate change, based on their current findings, the TUM scientists are critical of this assumption: If the input of organic matter stagnates, soil will lose some of its humus in the long term.

About half of this near - term warming represents a «commitment» to future climate change arising from the inertia of the climate system response to current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Future field experiments that can manipulate all three conditions at once will lead to better models of how long - term climate changes will affect ecosystems worldwide.

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.»

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.»

Funding mechanisms that rely on annual budget approval or short - term grants may result in discontinuity of ocean - climate measurements, reducing the value of the observations made to date and in the future.

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.

Scientists like Zeebe also study the PETM to better understand long - term changes in Earth's future climate.

The payoff will be a clearer sense of the future: whether the methane rise is a long - term trend, driven by climate change, or a blip that could reverse next year.

The results are extremely important in terms of discerning how changes in the North Atlantic Ocean may impact the climate and the weather across the Northern Hemisphere in the future.

Of course, our study looks back in time and the future will be a very different place in terms of ice sheets and CO2 but it remains to be seen whether or not Earth's climate becomes more or less stable as we move forward from here.»

«Such long - term insights are crucial in helping with current conservation efforts, laying a foundation for future research on impacts of island formation, climate change and human occupation on animals and their habitats.»

Even if climate negotiations in Paris are successful, the planet is locked into long - term warming and an uncertain future.

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.

However, if changes in climate and / or future development result in higher demand and higher capacity withdrawals, we may begin to see long - term declines, regardless of precipitation patterns.

If small domestic withdrawals continue to characterize use in the Madison Limestone aquifer, we can expect the Madison Limestone aquifer to follow short - and long - term patterns in mountain precipitation that result from future climate change.

-- 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.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

New statistical innovations use cross-country variability in short - term responses to different levels of exposure to estimate how vulnerability will evolve under future socio - economic and climate scenarios.

It faces the problems of the future of the planet in terms of climate change.»

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

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 online Facebook campaign will focus on attracting working holiday makers to Australia, highlighting the benefits of working abroad in terms of future employability in the current economic climate.

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.

WEST Summit (CA), National Call for Art: The Future of Silicon Valley Deadline: March 19th, 2014 The WEST (Water, Energy, Smart Technology) Summit presents actions to create long - term regional sustainability and resilience to climate change.

re: # 34 John Philips As it happens, in the near future, you may want to revisit the Wegman Report... — For example, Wegman & co were so expert at Social Network Analysis that pp.17 - 22 of the WR bear «striking similarity» (that's the legal term, most people say plagiarism) from Wikipedia, Wasserman & Faust (1994) and deNooy, Mrvar, and Bateglj (2005), as shown by Deep Climate in April.

The present and the future climate are therefore presented in terms of median and quantiles.

Ice - sheet responses to decadal - scale ocean forcing appear to be less important, possibly indicating that the future response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be governed more by long - term anthropogenic warming combined with multi-centennial natural variability than by annual or decadal climate oscillations.»

The long term effects of dams can be difficult to visualize, especially when the future includes a changing climate.

He said, quote, «The forcings that drive long - term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change», end quote.

Hi, when I am discussing with climate skeptics, they often refer to the third report of the IPCC (page 774): «In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long - term prediction of future climate states is not possible.»

Organized by the new climate justice initiative Commit2Respond, participants will make commitments to new long - term actions that will help us collectively shift to a low carbon future, advance human rights, and grow the climate justice movement.

Being an engineer, and at least having a slight appreciation for the complexity of the global climate and associated feedback systems, and the challenges of long term future projections, I couldn't help but wonder if there might be some other climate systems in play that have not yet been discovered.

The whole problem of how much warming will occur convolves lots of questions involving how the climate reacts to greenhouse gases, the carbon cycle, and our future path as societies in terms of our energy use (and other emissions).

In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long - term prediction of future climate states is not possible.

``... estimates of future rises remain hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack of data on what ice sheets did in the past to predict how they will react to warming, insufficient long - term satellite data to unpick the effects of natural climate change from that caused by man and a spottiness in the degree to which places such as Antarctica have warmed....

Those adverse climate consequences are always framed in terms of the distant future.

Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.