Sentences with phrase «term influences on climate»

Other natural events, like El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean, also have large short - term influences on climate.

However, a number of unpredictable influences such as ocean and solar cycles have short - term influences on climate.

Not exact matches

While the new study looks at long - term trends, some scientists have also begun to evaluate the influence of climate change on individual heat wave events — and they're making some worrying discoveries, as well.

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.

Since about 2.5 billion years ago, the mantle has been cooling — a phenomenon that doesn't influence the climate on the surface of the Earth and has nothing to do with the issue of short - term human - made climate change.

«I think that this research is going to have a long - term influence on how the community evaluates air quality and climate models, because the pH of particles is so important, yet mostly overlooked,» said Athanasios Nenes, a professor and Georgia Power Scholar in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and another co-author.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

Methods: While a few studies in the past investigated the influence of climate phenomena such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Madden - Julian Oscillation on the inter-annual variability of tropical cyclones in the post-monsoon Bay of Bengal, changes in long - term cyclone activity are less well understood.

Long - term (decadal and multi-decadal) variation in total annual streamflow is largely influenced by quasi-cyclic changes in sea - surface temperatures and resulting climate conditions; the influence of climate warming on these patterns is uncertain.

This research looked at long - term demographic changes, the long - range transport of air pollutants and the influence of climate change on air quality.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

Pilot study focusing on a region vulnerable to climate change Although the study highlights that long term changes in rainfall intensity are not always» man - made,» it does not necessarily mean that today's weather anomalies across the Indian Ocean rim countries and, in particular, their frequency, are not subject to human influence.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

Human progress (and the resulting climate change, destruction of ecosystems, loss of biodiversity etc.) seems to be operating on its own momentum and our ability to exert influence on the outcome of the situation is debatable at best and only realistic in the long - term.

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.

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

It's a daunting task to try to detect any links between short - term fluctuations in extreme weather events and the rising influence of accumulating greenhouse gases on climate, given that extreme weather is, by definition, rare.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

In the end, such fights can distract from the clarity of the long - term picture of a world in flux for centuries to come under a building human influence on climate (and biology, oceans, and landscapes).

I agree with him on the basic issue that as a scientific question whether human influences on climate have become determinative is not closed (although we would probably disagree as to whether the answer is currently likely, very likely or a slam dunk in IPCC / CIA terms.

From Cape Cod's coast to South Asia's Sunderbans, communities are grappling with an unnerving consequence of trying to build a «good» Anthropocene, the term increasingly applied to Earth's age of humans, in which we've become a powerful influence on everything from the climate system to evolution.

[Response: While I wouldn't quite characterize this in terms of a «permanent El Nino», a reasonably up - to - date discussion of possible climate change influences on ENSO is provided in our previous article El Nino and Global Warming — mike]

-- He has not given a substantial speech focused on the responsibility of the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases to face up to the long - term risks posed by the rising human influence on the climate system and pursue the opportunities that lie in a sustained «energy quest.»

It's important to note that a substantial short - term influence on the globe's average temperature, the cycle of El Niño warmth and La Niña cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was in the warm phase until May but a La Niña cooling is forecast later this year, according to the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Internal variability will continue to be a major influence on climate, particularly in the near - term and at the regional scale.

Characterization of how societal choices influence long - term trends in climate and air pollution (having adverse affects on human health in urban areas, and on agriculture in farming areas) are our primary goals.

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

[click, Image 2] Climate predictions are focused on longer - term influences of the sun, oceans, land, and ice on the atmosphere.

RC is trying to confuse the issue and marginalize the solar influence on climate by using the term «photo voltaic» in place of «solar».

Analyses of ωo from long - term AERONET sites influenced by Saharan dust suggest an average ωo of 0.95 at 0.67 µm (Dubovik et al., 2002), while unpolluted Asian dust during the Aeolian Dust Experiment on Climate (ADEC) had an average ωo of 0.93 at 0.67 µm (Mikami et al., 2006 and references therein).

However I don't see them as having any significant influence on phenomena of duration much more than a decade, and I therefore discount them as having little relevance to long term climate forecasts.

Finally, we will offer recommendations on how to reduce potent, non-CO2 influences on global warming, which can be reduced in the near - term with substantial benefits, while buying us time to decarbonize the energy system and build climate resilience.

The strong influence of natural variability on surface air temperatures is the reason that climate researchers regularly point out that any record shorter than around 20 - 30 years is not useful for detecting long - term trends associated with anthropogenic warming.

Government energy and climate policies seek to influence the scale and nature of investments across the economy, and long - term climate goals depend on their success.

But long before Florida unofficially banned these climate - related terms, other states passed laws attempting to limit the influence of climate change on land policies and education.

Interannual variability of climate is likely to strongly influence the spatial distribution of CO2 sources and sinks, so that analyses based on a few years of data are insufficient to establish a long - term trend.

These nonradiative forcings generally have radiative impacts, but describing them only in terms of this radiative impact does not convey fully their influence on climate variables of societal relevance.

Dr. John O. Roads, the director of the experimental climate prediction center at Scripps, said that new work is showing that there are plenty of other subtle influences on long - term weather that should eventually improve predictions, even in years without the strong influence from the Pacific.

D., A.P.Buccino and E.Flamenco, 2010, Long - term solar activity influences on South American rivers, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics on Space Climate, March 2010.

I would be most interested in your opinion, and those of your readers concerning the influence of the moon on the earth's long - term climate stability.

And in terms of climate shifts, there may be something happening on much longer time scales (e.g. AMOC) that could influence the next climate regime shift.

Marzeion, B. et al. (2018) Limited influence of climate change mitigation on short - term glacier mass loss, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018climate change mitigation on short - term glacier mass loss, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0093-1

Overvaluing the influence of CH4 emissions on climate could easily result in our «locking» the earth into a warmer temperature trajectory, one that is temporarily masked by the short - term cooling effects of the CH4 reductions, but then persists for many generations.

Major volcanic eruptions have a short - term cooling influence on climate due to the particulate haze they cause.

«But when you look at the near term, there's been a lot of melting, a lot of strange things going on with the sea ice that they can't ascribe this particular year to our influence on the climate system.

«Without this long - term storage, there is little influence on atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that impacts earth's climate.»

«Their [climate scientists] actions may have limited discernible influence in terms of «bending the curve» on emissions, but their efforts to «walk the talk» have tremendous symbolic value,» Max Boykoff said.

The science on tropical cyclones is complicated and ultimately unclear in terms of the influence of greenhouse gas emissions, but is quite clear when it comes to the influence of demographics and wealth vs. climate change — the former grossly dominates the latter when it comes to future tropical cyclone disasters.