Sentences with phrase «unchanging climate»

The mistaken idea of stable, unchanging climate underpins the AGW scare.

This makes the use of paleo reconstructions as the basis for far reaching policy changes somewhat problematic and counter intuitive as it is based on a belief that the past comprised of a relatively unchanging climate.

In an unchanging climate both new record highs and new record lows are set regularly, even while the total number of new records set each year may decrease as time goes on.

Figure 4 illustrates that during the 1950s in the U.S. about as many new record highs were recorded as new record lows, roughly consistent with expectations of an unchanging climate.

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.

In an unchanging climate, record - breaking temperatures are expected to decrease in frequency over time, as established records become increasingly more difficult to surpass.

Before anybody begins yapping about specific attribution (sophisticated meteorologists tell us that such record - breaking sequences are perfectly in keeping with an unchanging climate), I mention this as an example counter to Jim's implication that living in a place with a torrid climate toughens the local culture.

A wide range of extreme weather events is expected in most regions even with an unchanging climate, so it is difficult to attribute any individual event to a change in the climate.

In an unchanging climate, we would expect record - breaking temperatures to get rarer as the observation record grows longer.