Sentences with phrase «than climate shifts»

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«While it's easy to assume Millennials are willing to job hop because they're less loyal to their employers than previous generations, you have to really look at the current economic climate to understand why that attitude has shifted over time,» said Lydia Frank, Editorial Director, PayScale.

And the brouhaha shifts the national discussion to divisive social issues that could repel swing voters rather than economic ones that could attract them in a climate of high unemployment and stumbling recovery, the GOP officials said.

Evidence shows shifts that last for centuries, suggesting these tropical climate patterns have varied more radically and for longer durations than previously believed.

The ADT program «has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records; shifting farmers from growing opium poppy to saffron; and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.»

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a «normal» climate, scientists said.

«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

The program has spent $ 42 million on more than 680 projects, such as coring trees for climate records, shifting farmers from growing poppy for opium, and assessing the Taliban's potential to generate income from mining in their strongholds.

In a study published September 13 in the journal Science, researchers from the U.S. and Canada suggest that climate velocity — the rate and direction that climate shifts in a particular region or landscape — explains observed shifts in distribution far better than biological or species characteristics.

The current shift back to SUVs that guzzle much more petroleum than other cars, prompted by low gasoline prices, is a more worrisome sign for future climate change.

A new study published in Scientific Reports finds that bandicoots are not only more ancient than anyone thought, they're probably no strangers to the pressures and shifts brought on by climate change.

«The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Niña conditions less likely» says corresponding author de Freitas.

The earth sciences field in particular has seen a big shift in how researchers study the climate, with chemists, biologists and ecosystems experts collaborating more closely than in the past.

In contrast, the balance shifts in a warming climate, and on average more new records highs than new record lows are set over any time period.

Tierney and her colleagues found that around 70,000 years ago, climate in the Horn of Africa shifted from a wet phase called «Green Sahara» to even drier than the region is now.

The odds may have shifted to make some of them more likely than in an unchanging climate, but attribution of the change in odds typically requires extensive model experiments, a topic taken up in Chapter 9.

Humans may adapt to shifting climate zones better than many species.

Wild species have responded to climate change, with three - quarters of marine species shifting their ranges poleward as much as 1000 km [44], [103] and more than half of terrestrial species shifting ranges poleward as much as 600 km and upward as much as 400 m [104].

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Sure it won't look quite as pretty, but in this climate it'd definitely shift more than a few units.

Now we are a smart species and our agriculture science and production has substantially reduced famine on our planet and has given us more time than most species have before these population reductions occur (although global climate shift and higher energy costs are wildcards in food production and availability in the future).

This is nowhere more pressing than in sub-Saharan Africa, where exposure to climate - driven hazards, particularly drought, is acute even now, let alone with whatever shifts may come through the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Some years back, we hypothesized that changes to climate variability, rather than changes to mean climate, might tip the balance towards the chytrid fungus because all pathogens are smaller and have faster metabolisms than their hosts, and thus might acclimate more quickly following short - term temperature shifts [link].

But it was only starting in 2006 that I shifted increasingly into exploring behavior and climate and began learning why we split into factions on climate policy shaped more by worldviews than data.

Off the coast of Washington we also see shifts in fish species for probably different reasons than the Bering Sea, i.e., warm waters moving north, rather than changes in primary production (but both likely related to anthropogenic climate change).

Even a cursory glance at what we know about the geologic past reveals that this lovely little planet has been through much, MUCH worse than anything we can throw at it; massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes, radical climate shifts to both extremes of hot and cold, and yes, several mass extinctions.

The uncomfortable reality: Outside the basics (more CO2 = warming world = many climate shifts + less ice + rising seas) more research on complex scientific questions often leads to more questions rather than resolving the one at hand.

The assumption that these climate shifts between quasi equilibrium states cancel out over less than centennial to millennial scales is astonishingly ill founded.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, concluded that drastic shifts are happening more rapidly than predicted.

In this climate of crisis and shifting political winds it is all the more important to keep faith with those who share our values and our visions and who strive and struggle to build that different world created by community rather than privilege.

«Thus, if climate change effects are anticipated, or detected in basin - wide storm statistics, sensible policy decisions should depend on the projected overall shift in the probability of damage rather than on a high - threshold criterion for trend emergence.»

If climate change's quantifiable effects other than hurricanes are not enough for a policy shift in themselves, they shouldn't be with the consideration of hurricanes.

Domestically it would appear that major shifts in the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions will come as a result of the larger scale development and deployment of lower emitting sources of energy rather than through a climate bill that constrains emissions.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

As a region historically responsible for climate change, Europe needs to shift to an energy system free from fossil fuels much faster than currently forseen.

Because the shift in pore water chemistry that doubled methane production zones happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, the researchers warn that peatlands may be even more sensitive to changes in climate patterns than was originally thought.

Imperceptibly, decades of climate change have shifted the natural boundary between the dry west and the fertile farmlands of the eastern states by more than 225 kilometers (approximately 140 miles), according to a new study by U.S. scientists.

Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat of significant climatic shift in response.

When global warming demagogues argue climate change has now resulted in 5 times more fires than observed in the 1970s, they fail to inform the public this increase is largely due to a shift away from the previous complete fire suppression policy to selectively allowing fires to burn.

The money is readily available to launch such an initiative in an area such as Chicago, both from government agencies which in recent years are investing more than $ 20 million annually in climate change education initiatives and from private foundations which as I detail in the Climate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or prclimate change education initiatives and from private foundations which as I detail in the Climate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or prClimate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or prclimate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or projects.

These are measurements of sea surface temperature and atmospheric pressure over more than 100 years which show evidence for abrupt change to new climate conditions that persist for up to a few decades before shifting again.

According to Climate Communication, «All weather events are now influenced by climate change because all weather now develops in a different environment than before... climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.Climate Communication, «All weather events are now influenced by climate change because all weather now develops in a different environment than before... climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.climate change because all weather now develops in a different environment than before... climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.»

Now, more than ever, we need your help to shift the conversation on climate.

As I detailed in last year's Climate Shift report, Robertson, who has a net worth of $ 2.2 billion, gave the Environmental Defense Fund more than $ 40 million between 2005 and 2009 to support the group's efforts to pass cap and trade legislation, accounting for almost one - third of the $ 144 million that EDF spent on climate change during the Climate Shift report, Robertson, who has a net worth of $ 2.2 billion, gave the Environmental Defense Fund more than $ 40 million between 2005 and 2009 to support the group's efforts to pass cap and trade legislation, accounting for almost one - third of the $ 144 million that EDF spent on climate change during the climate change during the period.

When shifting winds caused open water to form 50 to 70 kilometers away, accessing food became more demanding, and their breeding success plummeted.7 Yet Barbraud et al absurdly argued that a reduction in sea ice extent, for unknown reasons, had lowered the penguin's survival.9 It was catastrophic climate change speculation based on nothing more than a meaningless statistical coincidence.

We have a novel perturbation across the globe and each chaotic climate system on the globe; it is bigger and more persistent, and in nearly every measure a perturbation can generally be defined as more likely to upset a dynamic equilibrium or shift or radicalize attractors is larger than any perturbation for the past half million years.

Even the latter might in theory lead to tipping points with abrupt climate shifts, but based on paleoclimatologic history, these are far more likely to be in the same direction as the trends than in the opposite direction.