Sentences with phrase «weather means no climate»

Not exact matches

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

Now that I live in a warmer climate, I love fall because it means slightly cooler weather and plenty of time spent outdoors.

Being climate resilient means farms are empowered to better withstand and adapt to a changing climate — and be able to bounce back after extreme weather events.

I really mean padding for cold weather protection, wind break materials and covers are handy depending on your local climate.

He argued that climate change meant more extreme weather is forecast and that recent floods in Australia, earthquakes in New Zealand and Haiti and a famine in Africa were set to be repeated around the world in the future.

On climate change: In response to extreme weather events, Mr. Cuomo said he will launch Resilient NY, a program meant to enhance how communities recover after climate change - related events.

«However, our data covers timeframes spanning centuries and millennia — we can't zoom in on just a handful of years, which means we can only draw indirect conclusions regarding the extreme events that shape weather,» explains climate researcher Rehfeld, who is currently pursuing research with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Our native bees are weather - tolerant and inexpensive to keep, meaning we should treat them as an economic and genetic resource as climate change progresses.

The key thing is to look at the climate over long periods of time and not try to find meaning in one weather event, said David Easterling, chief of the Scientific Services Division at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

Smith said his study is not meant to tease out event attribution, and that for many of last year's weather events, it will take months for scientists to determine which variables are linked to certain parts of climate change.

To say hurricane Katrina was an indication of climate change is no more correct than saying the current cold outbreak is evidence against climate change — I mean, that's weather — but it does influence people.

The relationship between climate and the flu looks simple in places like North America and Europe: Winter's colder and drier weather means more outbreaks.

That does not mean that scientists can say with certainty if an individual weather event is or is not due to climate change, notes Karl Braganza, manager of the BOM Climate Monitoring Sclimate change, notes Karl Braganza, manager of the BOM Climate Monitoring SClimate Monitoring Section.

Such trends mean scientists and policymakers will have to factor in how synthetic climate forcers other than greenhouse gases will change temperature, rainfall and weather extremes.

Through the interactive graphic below, Climate Central takes a look at how this major climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on Climate Central takes a look at how this major climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on record.

La Niña — the other side of the El Niño climate coin called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) pattern — tend to mean cooler, wetter weather in the Pacific Northwest.

«Misconceptions about climate science are rife with those who confuse weather with climate... the presence of large El Nià ± o events before 1850 AD does not mean that climate change has no effect.»

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Because climate systems are complex, increases in global average temperatures do not mean increased temperatures everywhere on Earth, nor that temperatures in a given year will be warmer than the year before (which represents weather, not climate).

Because climate studies using multi-model ensembles are generally superior to single model approaches43, all nine fire weather season lengths for each location were averaged into an ensemble mean fire weather season length, hereafter referred to as «Fire Weather Season Length» (See Supplementary Methods).

SUMMARY: Climate scientist Paul Beckwith will tell us why sea ice around the world is in retreat, and what it means for our weather.

But global mean temperature evolution alone can't tell us how climate and weather are changing on the ground, where people live.

While natural climate shifts and weather mean that not every point on the globe is record warm all the time, the overall trend is for the planet to continue to run an ever - higher fever.

Pilot study focusing on a region vulnerable to climate change Although the study highlights that long term changes in rainfall intensity are not always» man - made,» it does not necessarily mean that today's weather anomalies across the Indian Ocean rim countries and, in particular, their frequency, are not subject to human influence.

Climate change could mean England is in for more such extreme rainfall events because of increasing moisture in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric weather patterns, a new study detailed online Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds.

Three - zone automatic climate control means everyone will be comfortable in a variety of weather conditions.

Many people prefer this weather, but in the southern part of the state the climate also means hurricane risk.

Lombok shares the same monsoon climate as Bali, meaning the weather from roughly late October to late March involves quite a bit of rain, while April to September is mostly dry.

Just like the rest of Fiji, Viti Levu has a tropical climate, meaning that the weather is nearly always warm and there is little seasonal variation in temperature throughout the year.

Todd, there is varied weather, and some climate variations, but not quite how you mean it.

Doesn't mean CO2 - related climate change isn't happening, only that «weather» is the sum of more than one input.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

Now lets define weather and climate so that the the next G8 meeting understands what we mean.

Wikipedia at least seems unequivocal: «Climate is the statistics (usually, mean or variability) of weather» [1].

iceman, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) defines climate as «mean regional or global weather over a period of 30 years or more.»

The World Meteorological Organization defines a climate as mean regional or global weather over a period of 30 years or more.

By climate, we mean the statistics of weather, averaged over suitable time and perhaps space scales (more on this below).

I do think that we humans are needlessly speeding things along, but do not think that even if we get the global mean temperature increase below 2 degrees that we can not or will not have widespread droughts and potential world catastrophes in terms of both weather and climate.

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

(1) In this case even if they were correct and the models failed to predict or match reality (which, acc to this post has not been adequately established, bec we're still in overlapping data and model confidence intervals), it could just as well mean that AGW stands and the modelers have failed to include some less well understood or unquantifiable earth system variable into the models, or there are other unknowns within our weather / climate / earth systems, or some noise or choas or catastrophe (whose equation has not been found yet) thing.

In the context of climate and weather, the term convection often is meant to include the conduction and diffusion at the surface; these fluxes heat a thin layer as convection cools it, thus the tendency is that approximately the same flux continues from the surface through a short distance of air, changing from conduction and diffusion into convection along the way.

When speaking of daily forecasts, I meant forecasts of weather, which is a different entity, being a product of but not identical to climate.

«Changes in the variability of weather and the frequency of extremes will generally have more impact than changes in the mean climate at a particular location.

This means that whatever the phenomena of climate dynamics may be, the statistics of weather can be understood (roughly and qualitiatively) from a specification of the instantaneous state of the long time scale phenomena.

You might expect to see heat waves on the list — even though climate and weather are two different (but related) phenomena — but the report is a good reminder of the tremendous scope of problems a warming globe can cause; it's not just about an extra couple degrees and wearing fewer sweaters: «With warming temperatures, the breeding cycle of malaria - carrying mosquitoes is shortening, which means more mosquitoes — and malaria — each year.»

The World Meteorological Organization defines climate as mean regional or global weather conditions over a period of 30 years or more.

I think this would create a bit of thermal imbalance in the climate and also would mean large changes in the weather pattern, which would * not * be limited only in the arctic region...

While the large scales, such as the global mean, provide the best indicators of the state of earth's climate, it is on the local scales we feel a climate change, such as floods and extreme weather events.

You say climate but mean weather / season.

Further to my last post on the climate at Heathrow a couple of hours ago, I have now analysed the weather there and at Oxford since 1958 using annual rather than monthly data on sun, rain, CO2, and mean maximum temperature.