Sentences with phrase «towards higher climate»

For the first time, ETP 2017 looks at how far clean energy technologies could move the energy sector towards higher climate change ambitions if technological innovations were pushed to their maximum practical limits.

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She hopes to pursue a higher degree in Food Science and Technology in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic causes of climate change, poor human health, and animal cruelty by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.

Dozens of studies have already demonstrated that species are shifting their geographic ranges over time as the climate warms, towards cooler habitats at higher elevations and latitudes.

Hence over the Plio - Pleistocene, East African climate is best characterised as a long - term trend towards increasing aridity punctuated by periods of precession - forced high rainfall leading to the periodic appearance of deep freshwater lakes.

Predisposing factors towards infection include age (puppies and kittens are at higher risk than adult animals), life - style (free - roaming or hunting animals being predisposed), and local climate (pets living in warmer, more humid climates are predisposed).

For example, who has worked to stop sensible progress restraining carbon emissions and oil demand, muzzled an open scientific debate on on these issues, kept secret the participants in high level meetings to develop energy policy, vetoed one measure after another that would have advanced his country ever so little in a direction towards climate restraint.

But I understand sea level rise right now is actually towards the upper end of estimates so this suggests either climate sensitivity is towards the high end, or ice sheets are very sensitive to low or medium climate sensitivity.

So as you increase the temperature of a system that is defined by a number of different states separated by different energies (a climate system, or perhaps a protein whose configuration in solution may be characterized by a set of fluctuations around the sort of structure one might observe in a crystal), you not only increase the variability by populating more states [*], but the distribution of sub-states shifts towards those that are favoured at higher temperature.

At World Climate Report, we believe, that instead of having an equal likelihood of occurrence, that the temperature rise during the next 50 to 100 years will lie closer to the low end of the IPCC projected range than to the high end of the range and thus the overall impacts will tend towards the modest rather than the extreme.

What I mean by this is: When you plot ocean heat uptake against climate sensitivity, I get the impression that the distribution of good models will be a large clump around a climate sensitivity of 3 but then there is a long tail out towards higher sensitivities.

Actually, there is some interesting work being done by Matt Huber of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role of TCs in transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem» of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.

«If this trend continues and the natural sinks weaken, we are on track towards the highest projections of climate change,» Dr. Le Quéré said.

This support from the highest level reflects the common view that we need to act urgently towards curbing global climate change.

Higher taxes will help, but a solution to our global climate crisis will also require a movement towards voluntary simplicity, as advocated by Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi.

They argued that high CO2 concentrations explained the polar warmth and the decline in CO2 explained the advent of polar ice caps and the 55 million year trend towards our icehouse climate.

The chart below offers an example of this, showing the areas projected to have high levels of migration towards them («in - migration», light and dark pink) and away from them («out - migration», light and dark blue) due to climate change in East Africa in 2030 (left) and 2050 (right).

While animal and plant species in temperate latitudes have the option of following their climate zones either towards the poles or to higher elevations, tropical species can only head to the hills.

Climate models forced with increasing greenhouse gases consistently simulate a trend towards the high index polarity of the SAM.

In the Nordic Seas, on the other hand, the Eemian might have been cooler than the Holocene due to a reduction in the northward flow of Atlantic surface water towards Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean, indicating the complexity of the interglacial climate system and its evolution in the northern high latitudes12, 18, 19.

Most climate change scenarios foresee a shift or expansion of the ranges of many species of plankton, fish and invertebrates towards higher latitudes, by tens of kilometres per decade, contributing to changes in species richness and altered community composition.

In addition, climate change is very likely to lead to more frequent extreme heat events and daily precipitation extremes over most areas of North America, more frequent low snow years, and shifts towards earlier snowmelt runoff over much of the western US and Canada (high confidence).

Clustering algorithms are, however, biased towards high - density regions of climate variable space and tend to select scenarios that describe the central tendency rather than the full spread of an ensemble.

As part of the planet's reciprocal relationship between ocean circulation and climate, this conveyor belt transports warm surface water to high latitudes where the water warms the air, then cools, sinks, and returns towards the equator as a deep flow.»

Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.

Climate models are marginally able to reproduce this level of Eocene warmth, but the models require extraordinarily high CO2 levels, for example 2240 — 4480 ppm [82] and 2500 — 6500 ppm [83], and the quasi-agreement between data and models requires an assumption that some of the proxy temperatures are biased towards summer values.

However, the report is biased towards Lewis» preferred approach, finding poor excuses to reject the many other methods that arrive at higher climate sensitivity estimates.

This could be a substantial contribution, given that the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat projects that in 2030, global emissions will be 22 billion tons of CO2 equivalent higher than the level needed to stay on track towards the 1.5 - degree Paris Agreement target.

Financial support for developing countries will play a vital role in any integrated action and thus the fresh proposals in the new report by the high - level advisory group on climate change financing, which was commissioned by the United Nations secretary - general in February, can help make progress towards agreement in the United Nations conference in Cancún, Mexico, which starts later this month.

The rank histograms using all the climate variables of MMEs have a tendency towards being dome - shaped with a peak around the middle rank, while those of SMEs are U-shape with strong peaks at the highest and lowest ranks (Fig. 1).