Sentences with phrase «warming climate change related»

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But «Weather to Climate: Our Changing World,» a new exhibit opening at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Saturday, April 2, is taking on the daunting task and making «the talk,» as it relates to global warming, easier on youngsters and their caregivers alike.

«Part of the challenge Syracuse faces is directly related to climate change, with colder winters, warmer summers, and more dramatic freeze - thaw events happening both earlier and later in the season,» she said.

So, how exactly, I mean everybody hears about global warming or climate change and rising levels of greenhouse gases — how are the two actually related?

They are using the simulation, detailed in a new paper in Royal Society Open Science, to determine how drought, warmer weather, more frequent wildfires and other climate - related changes will affect forests across North America.

This is because warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur chemical reactions that lead to ozone.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

These largely unsubstantiated claims are polarizing the public discourse on climate change and drawing attention away from climate impacts that are more directly related to global warming and ultimately much more damaging to our planetary life support system.

What kinds of international agreements could effectively limit risks related to human - driven global warming, either by blunting human contributions to climate change or building resilience to hazards related to changing conditions?

NWS management did not allow work in evaluating Urban Heat Island (UHI), mainly because of the stigma of being related to what NWS viewed as the political and controversial nature of the climate change / global warming subject.

The second is related to the Storms and Climate Change post and is a perspective by Kevin Trenberth on the potential for a hurricanes and global warming link.

Postscript, June 25, 2:15 p.m. Greg Laden has doubled down in an update, completely missing that we agree on the climate change basics, and completely missing that nearly all policy - relevant questions relate to the pace of sea - level rise or warming, not the simple fact that both are occurring.

There is no denying that the arctic is melting at a record - setting pace and that this is related to global warming and climate change, but Box is pursuing a theory that soot from wildfires and burning coal in power plants is making Greenland's glaciers melt even faster than they would because of global warming alone.

Andy, this is a very important and interesting post, and I hope we can learn about more and more emerging experiments out there related to climate change, sustainability and global warming.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

Off the coast of Washington we also see shifts in fish species for probably different reasons than the Bering Sea, i.e., warm waters moving north, rather than changes in primary production (but both likely related to anthropogenic climate change).

Climate change related to a global warming is more than just temperature and precipitation - massive atmospheric circulations change too, and these changes can have consequences.

In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most studies project likely climate - related yield increases of 5 - 20 % over the first decades of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources.»

Paul Voosen, one of the most talented journalists probing human - driven climate change and related energy issues, has written an award - worthy two - part report for Greenwire on one of the most enduring sources of uncertainty in climate science — how the complicated response of clouds in a warming world limits understanding of how hot it could get from a given rise in greenhouse gas concentrations:

In the 2,275 questions posed, the phrases «climate change» or «global warming» were used three times, and a total of 24 questions indirectly touched on climate or related issues, the group said.

While industrial stacks belch greenhouse gases, and holiday - makers everywhere race crazily around in cars, boats and planes — total mentions of «climate change», «global warming» and «record - high carbon emissions» in press stories relating to major fires now burning in three provinces, Alaska and Siberia...?

The first of these special reports, to be finalized in September 2018, is Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate pWarming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate pwarming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

A. Voorhees, S., N. Fann, C. Fulcher, P. Dolwick, B. Hubbell, B. Bierwagen, and P. Morefield, 2011: Climate change - related temperature impacts on warm season heat mortality: A proof - of - concept methodology using BenMAP.

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The economic costs of natural disasters related to global warming are adding up; some of the largest effects of these catastrophes can be felt in the United States, where politics and policies are not keeping pace with the physical realities of climate change.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

People who have doubts or are skeptical about various aspects related to global warming / climate change / extreme climate are not a monolithic lot.

Although some important future effects of climate change are difficult to quantify, there is now increased confidence in how global warming of various levels would relate to several key impacts, says the report.

Trump, though he does not list specific environment and climate change - related policies on his website, tweeted in the past that «the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to keep U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.»

But that and other high - profile climate change - related events in and around Washington this week and next suggest there's growing international awareness that much more research is needed on the warming Arctic.

As Indur Goklany has shown, even assuming that the climate models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to cclimate models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to cClimate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to climateclimate.

She has been working through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and on December 7, 2005, she filed a climate change - related petition with to the Commission as an urgent message from the Inuit «sentinels» to the rest of the world on global warming's already dangerous impacts.

People's political orientations are strongly related to their perception of the scientific consensus on climate change.4 In this survey, a strong majority of liberal Democrats (88 %) say most climate scientists think the Earth is warming due to human activity.

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This book presents an overview of the science related to global warming and explains climate projections (what they are and how they are made), presenting observed changes in the natural world which are in line with the projections.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has accepted the invitation from the UNFCCC to provide a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and on related global greenhouse - gas emission pathways.

An important point, easily missed: What Brulle measured was each group's total income, not its spending, much less its actual spending on the Global Warming / Climate Change issue or, more broadly, on matters related to energy and the environment.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.

The purpose of this report is to quantify, with the most robust projections possible, the related climate impacts (including changes to climate extremes) associated with warming.

«Any climate change legislation must prevent the export of jobs and related greenhouse gas emissions to countries that fail to take actions to combat the threat of global warming comparable to those taken by the United States,» they said.

«While these increases are most likely due to Earth's changing climate, uncertainty exists as to whether they are the product of human - induced greenhouse warming or represent variations related to natural multi-decadal climate cycles,» Ruggiero's study said.

Major websites and blogs that post articles on global warming, climate change, weather and related topics are now well known to scientists and researchers and have a world - wide audience, many of which are pretty picky reviewers.

Cholera and malaria are not related to climate change and refuse to follow global warming predictions.

«Here we present an analysis based on sea - level data from the altimetry record of the past ~ 20 years that separates interannual natural variability in sea level from the longer - term change probably related to anthropogenic global warming... Our results confirm the need for quantifying and further removing from the climate records the short - term natural climate variability if one wants to extract the global warming signal.»

«Besides being a good summary of the massive controversy behind the scenes in the climate science research community about the causes of the past century's modest warming, Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.climate science research community about the causes of the past century's modest warming, Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.Climate Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.&Change Reconsidered could make a good text book for university (and advanced senior high school classes) climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.climate change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.&change courses as well since they do an easily understood and accurate review of the related basic science at the beginning of each of the topic - specific chapters.»

Our findings relating to the rates of warming also show that only two emission targets (peak emission rate and cumulative carbon emissions to 2200) are needed to constrain two key indicators of CO2 - induced climate change: peak warming and maximum rate of warming.

At these outlets, relevant climate change - related articles were identified by searching LexisNexis between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2010, retrieving all articles that in the headline or lead paragraph included «climate change» or «global warming.»

But there's another takeaway, this one related to one of the reasons the preferred nomenclature switched from «global warming» to «climate change.»

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