Sentences with phrase «think about global climate»

«Once we know how the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere were relating for the same event, then we can start to think about global climate change for these really big climate events that we see,» Ukstins Peate says.

«It's not going to change the way we think about global climate change.

The impact of these results is wide - reaching, and Dr Pullen suggests that it may even change how we think about global climate data: «Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.»

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I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

For a baby to be comfortable, we need to think not just about their global climate, but about their microclimate as well.

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

PROVIDES A COMFORTABLE MICROCLIMATE: For a baby to be comfortable, we need to think not just about their global climate, but about their microclimate as well.

«I think it is a very serious value statement about whether you will fight against global climate change,» she said.

«We are working with the Chinese about how they're thinking about climate change and energy security within a global context.

Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.

«People have thought about how forest loss matters for an ecosystem, and maybe for local temperatures, but they haven't thought about how that interacts with the global climate,» said co-author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and of biology.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

WITH a global economic meltdown on the cards, it is hardly surprising that most people are distracted from thinking about what the climate will be like in a century's time.

«When we think about global warming, what we should really thinking about, to be honest, is ocean warming,» said Paul Durack, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

«If you ask people what they think about climate change — not global warming — we find that the partisan gap shrinks by about 30 percent,» he said.

It's now commonplace to talk about global warming and carbon footprints, so much so that it's easy to forget that until quite recently few thought it was even possible that the actions of our species could have a potentially catastrophic effect on the Earth's climate.

Appell's commentary summarizes Gavin Schmidt's RealClimate responses to both writers, condemns Crichton's and Will's errors, and ends by promising that why «the world is willing to pay attention to what novelists and political pundits think about the complex science behind global climate change is a subject for another day.»

I think your discussion about anthropogenic global warming is a little «off topic» in this blog entry, which is about due diligence in climate science, but with the permission of those running the blog, I'd like to explore it a little further.

In 1998, as the United States was considering signing the international Kyoto Protocol treaty to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, Southern was part of an initiative called the Global Science Communications Team that brought together industry, public relations and think tank leaders to devise a plan to confuse the public about the state of climate scglobal greenhouse gas emissions, Southern was part of an initiative called the Global Science Communications Team that brought together industry, public relations and think tank leaders to devise a plan to confuse the public about the state of climate scGlobal Science Communications Team that brought together industry, public relations and think tank leaders to devise a plan to confuse the public about the state of climate science.

«What the World Thinks about Climate Change in 7 Charts» is a good place to get some key facts about the global issues.

, ask students, «What would César Chávez think about global warming and climate change?»

His basic message — don't think about it as global warming, or even climate change.

According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.

As you point out other studies agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global climate shift would be of major interest to climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.

I think we need to be concerned about where meteorologists, and many people who listen to them, are getting their educations about climate change and global warming from.

If there is one thing that I think is clear about the science of global climate change, it is that it will never be certain.

Mr Revkin I saw you on C span and I THINK you said There is about a 20 year gap between rhat we do here and it's global climate effect.

Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through, claim that the existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval Warm Period «was obviously warmer than the current climate (and by implication that human - caused global warming is not occuring).

Anyone who thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.

If I were to think about it as looking at regional as well as global climate, I would probably alter much of what I said previously in this post.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.

Much has been made this week of the gap between what the public thinks about the consensus among climate scientists over the human factor in global warming and the actual level of consensus.

Sadly, in recent years we have become accustomed to a ritual in which the publication of each new result on anthropogenic climate change is greeted by a flurry of activity from industry - funded lobby groups, think tanks and PR professionals, who try to discredit the science and confuse the public about global warming.

And the new Yale / George Mason poll, which is the first I have seen to prove the views of Tea Partiers, shows that Tea Party members (12 % of the public) feel they are very well informed about climate science and more than half think global warming will never hurt anyone.

The realization that CO2 emissions seriously impact global climate ought to transform how we think about energy use.

Asked to clarify his position on climate change the following day, Graham said that the «science about global warming has changed» and that he thought it had been «oversold.»

Computer scientists that do global - climate modeling are fairly well set up to deal with thinking about that sort of thing.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

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They know what they should think about global warming climate change, but have no idea why they should think it.

Regardless of what you think about CO2, global warming, or climate change, this is a disaster that may make anything in the past pale in comparison and I'm all for whatever will stop this.

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I asked him for his thoughts about climate change, after noting that we'd been through a year of record global temperatures, floods, and the Paris climate accord.

Big Oil and Big Coal funded sympathetic think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also outright front groups with names like Friends of Science and the Global Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done aboGlobal Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done aboglobal warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done about it.

Brad DeLong expresses qualified Skepticism Toward the Skeptical Environmentalist I think there's a much more fundamental problem in Lomborg's argument about global warming, as I argue here The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites a range of model estimates of the costs of implementing Kyoto using market mechanisms.

My focus has been on recent global climate change and I have not thought much about the damage function, decarbonisation rate, and expectations for proposed solutions, which I'm happy to leave to others.

If you want to argue with people about the «accuracy» of global temps, present day and in the past, I think that you should take that up with someone like Judith, who thinks that the records are accurate enough to determine that there has been a trend of rising global SATs that has «paused,» and that the measurements are accurate enough to determine a «wave,» and to determine a range of the climate's sensitivity to ACO2.