«Weather whiplash»
triggered by changing climate will degrade Midwest's drinking water.»
Not exact matches
The former
climate change secretary entered the plea alongside his ex-wife Vicky Price at London's Southwark crown court this morning, shortly before resigning as an MP and
triggering a
by - election in Eastleigh.
Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil
by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore
triggering climate change.
Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused
by an environmental
trigger, with
climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
The latter may appeal especially to ranch managers whose grassy pastureland is becoming drier and overrun
by woody plants, a process
triggered by climate change.
Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about
climate change and whether variation in the
climate is
triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.
The collapse of the mountain which
triggered a tsunami that destroyed an Arctic village last month may have been caused
by climate change — and more may follow
By reexamining the timing and connection between magmatism [the movement of magma],
climate change and extinction, we've created a model that explains what
triggered the end - Permian mass extinction.»
The study refutes the notion that
climate change will increase the frequency of civil war in Africa as a result of food scarcity
triggered by rising temperatures and drought.
Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial
Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms
triggering abrupt
changes under current climatic conditions.
If the same processes and threshold govern the future, their results suggest that more widespread die - offs of aspen forests
triggered by climate change are likely
by the 2050s.
The findings made news: «2013's flood -
triggering rains not caused
by climate change,» proclaimed Boulder's Daily Camera.
Vrba postulates that big evolutionary
changes — migrations, extinctions and the creation of new species — are
triggered by climate changes.
Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered
by climate change could
trigger a forest decline on a global scale.
Though crossbreeding between Amazonian butterflies was not
triggered by climate change, it is an example of hybridization that strengthens the survival abilities of a species.
The documents released
by the EPI showed the Edison Electric Institute industry group was warned at its annual convention in 1968
by a member of then - President Lyndon Johnson's administration that carbon emissions from fossil fuels could
change the
climate and
trigger «catastrophic effects.»
It said its research mirrors reporting conducted
by InsideClimate News about Exxon Mobil's early understanding of
climate change, which
triggered an investigation
by New York's Attorney General.
Rapid
climate change triggered by intense volcanic activity could well be to blame.
Climate scientists have long suspected that these glacial cycles are
triggered by changes in our planet's orbit.
You do seem not quite up to date with current thinking on abrupt
climate changes (now I'm referring to your polemic question «Were all of these
triggered by Lake Agassiz dam bursts?»
This in turn, over many thousands of years,
triggered natural
climate change, amplified
by CH4 releases characterised
by a ∂ 13C deficiency.
Members of the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) are developing a model that links ecosystem
changes triggered by ocean acidification and
climate change with their economic and societal consequences.
A model bill for the «Parent
Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted
by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating
climate change denial.
Visitors will use iPads to overlay visualizations onto a 3D printed coral centerpiece,
triggered by real - time hashtags on twitter that represent the views of environmentalists and
climate -
change deniers alike.
You do seem not quite up to date with current thinking on abrupt
climate changes (now I'm referring to your polemic question «Were all of these
triggered by Lake Agassiz dam bursts?»
Five cities and counties in California that are suing fossil fuel companies for damages
triggered by climate change are now at the center of a legal paradox created
by conflicting decisions from two federal court judges reviewing nearly identical claims.
«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of
triggering future
climate tipping points
by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of
climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.
Even the relatively staid IPCC has warned of such a scenario: «The possibility of abrupt
climate change and / or abrupt
changes in the Earth system
triggered by climate change, with potentially catastrophic consequences, can not be ruled out.
One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played
by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims
by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway
climate change»
by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.
This negligence led to forest clearing and peatland destruction and helped
trigger global warming, «causing material and immaterial losses to all the residents of Riau Province who have been affected
by the impacts of
climate change,» Suryadi said.
One of the proofs was that LA was hit with the worst drought in at least 1,200 years in 2014,
triggered by high temperatures and reduced rainfall linked to the
change of
climate and weather patterns.
Similarly, times with especially intense high - latitude NH summer insolation, determined
by orbital
changes, are thought to
trigger rapid deglaciations, associated
climate change and sea level rise.
Our report in this issue, «Global
Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming» was in production when the IPCC released...
This in turn, over many thousands of years,
triggered natural
climate change, amplified
by CH4 releases characterised
by a ˆ «13C deficiency.
I have read the NAS link you provided and I agree with it, especially when it says abrupt
climate change is most likely
triggered by forcing
changes [I said something like that on my first February 10 post here].
Pachauri has admitted to the errors, but said the controversy has been
triggered by vested interests who are out to reduce the importance of the
climate change debate.
A significant and serious concern among mainstream
climate scientists in this regard is the inability of the models to predict
climate surprises, that is, rapid non-linear
changes in the
climate system that have happened in the historical
climate record and that may be
triggered by current human activities.
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the international team lays out its theory that the mass extinctions in North America were caused
by one or more extraterrestrial objects — comets or meteorites — that exploded over the Earth or slammed into it,
triggering catastrophic
climate change.
For most of the 35 years, proponents of
climate change policies have usually responded to these arguments
by making counter «factual» claims such as
climate policies will increase jobs or
trigger economic growth.
Either the
climate changed in the past because it is highly sensitive to external forces, in which case we are facing considerable future warming indeed, or its sensitivity to the forces
triggered by increasing CO2 concentrations is low, in which case the
climate should not have
changed in the past.
The alarming pace of destruction — 51 percent higher than the prior year with a loss of 73.4 million acres (29.7 million hectares), according to data from the University of Maryland — was partially due to
climate change that has increased the risks and intensity of wildfires
by triggering temperature rise and drought in some places, the monitor said.
The scientists stress that more work is needed to determine whether
changes in ocean circulation initiated the abrupt
climate changes or were an intermediary effect initially
triggered by something else.
According to the World Health Organization,
climate change is already claiming more than 150,000 lives annually (Patz, Campbell - Lendrum, Holloway, & Foley, 2005), and estimates of future migrations
triggered by unmitigated global warming run as high as 187 million refugees (Nicholls et al., 2011).
Reducing global warming
by 0.5 °C may not sound like much, but when it comes to
climate change, every tenth of a degree matters, and slowing near - term warming is particularly important to avoid
triggering feedback loops that could accelerate further warming.
But the future
climate of West Antarctica is uncertain, and the physical factors that govern the collapse of outlet glaciers like Thwaites are poorly understood — in particular, a peculiar glacier instability mechanism likely
triggered by warming ocean waters in a
changing climate.
Defined
by the National Academy of Sciences as
climate change that «occurs when the
climate system is forced to cross some threshold,
triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined
by the
climate system itself and faster than the cause.
By the mid 1970s, many experts found it plausible that at some indeterminate point a small push could
trigger severe
climate change.
Previous reviews (6 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 10) have defined «abrupt
climate change» as occurring «when the
climate system is forced to cross some threshold,
triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined
by the
climate system itself and faster than the cause» (8), which is a case of bifurcation (i.e., one that focuses on equilibrium properties, implying some degree of irreversibility).
Such abrupt state
changes are well - documented for ecosystems at many scales, and can be
triggered by a variety of forcing factors — including pollution, resource extraction, deforestation, and other land use
changes — with
climate change being only one of them (Scheffer et al., 2009; Lenton et al., 2008; Barnosky et al., 2012).
Technically, an abrupt
climate change occurs when the
climate system is forced to cross some threshold,
triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined
by the
climate system itself and faster than the cause.