Sentences with phrase «trends in a climate context»

Derek Scissors has posted a sobering analysis of coal trends in a climate context.

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But Sizer added that in the context of climate change, the trend is still «very concerning.»

However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades preceding that period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven by carbon dioxide.

Now in its 25th year, the report pulls together hundreds of scientists from dozens of countries to piece together the changes from the previous year in all aspects of the Earth's climate — from carbon dioxide levels to the planet's rising temperature, from glacier melt to change in soil moisture — and puts them in the context of decades - long trends.

This review of historical trends helps us provide context for future climate change scenarios explored in later sections of this chapter.

If it somehow becomes law and its provisions get carried out, will the bill matter in the broader context of global climate change and emissions trends?

To set the recent trend in broader context, check out sociologist Robert Brulle's graph tracking network news coverage of global warming and the following graph of newspaper coverage of climate change from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate climate change from 1980 to 2006 (a separate newspaper sample) from Dr. Boykoff's recent paper in Nature Reports — Climate Climate Change:

I think there is an important context here that is easy to lose in all of the emphasis on the thing that the trees don't appear to be doing well w / (i.e. the response to the high - frequency cooling events associated primarily with explosive volcanic eruptions): that's, the thing that the trees appear to be doing remarkably well with, i.e. capturing the long - term trends and low - frequency variability that is predicted by the climate model simulations.

The study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in climate variability men and women farmers are facing and their responses to ensure food security in the context of larger socio - economic and political challenges to their livelihoods and well - being.

Fan, T., et al. (2014) Recent Antarctic sea ice trends in the context of Southern Ocean surface climate variations since 1950, Geophys.

This page is designed to provide a simple, convenient tool for people to observe temperature trends since weather records began in Western Australia, particularly in the context of perceived climate change.

On a (2011) Climate Etc. post Pondering the Arctic Ocean, I interpreted the record in the context of a (qualitative) change point analysis, defined by changes in trend, mean value, amplitude of the annual cycle, and interannual variability.It looks like 2013 was another change point year, characterized by low amplitude seasonal cycle.

Proxy - based reconstructions of past climate provide insights into externally forced and intrinsic variability over regional to global scales and can be used to place recent trends in a long - term context.

Completely lost in Muller's selective quotation is any nuance or context in what I had said, let alone the bottom line in what I stated: It is in fact too early to tell whether global warming is influencing tornado activity, but we can discuss the processes through which climate change might influence future trends.

Just for one prominent example, when NOAA and / or NASA cite 2014 as being the hottest year on record, in a context of stating their official positions concerning climate change — as were 1998, 2005, and 2010 similarly cited — then for purposes of verifying the AR5 model ensemble, what they are really saying is that the trend of peak hottest years is what matters most to them as climate scientists, not the central trend of observed temperatures.

An important key to success will be developing the capacity to incorporate climate change information into adaptation in the context of other important technological, social, economic and ecological trends.

Just as those of us who were long familiar with Lamb's temperature reconstruction smelt a rat when we saw the hockey stick, so climate knowledge from history and anecdote can help us all appreciate recent trends and climate events in the context of a much longer time frame than our short lives and shorter memories.

It is arguably time to tackle the tropospheric humidity issue, but this should be done from the perspective of comparing multiple data sources and assessing the uncertainty, before publishing trend analyses in the context of saying something about climate change.

The scientists will also discuss the year's most important weather and climate events in context of long - term warming trends.

One might ask why current and recent climate trends aren't more often analysed in the context of the current cycle, say, 1680 to 2010.

Managing Partner Gelu Maravela was invited by the reputed British publication The Lawyer to answer a series of questions related to market trends and debate the business climate for the CEE region in 2016, emphasizing on the Romanian context, alongside other reputed top tier law firm representatives from the aforementioned area.