Sentences with phrase «what about global climate»

So if new microclimates create new opportunities for diversification: what about global climate change?

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Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.

He launched his manifesto today about the role of the UK at Copenhagen and what needed to be achieved at the conference to reach a new global climate agreement.

Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.

According to Bill Hare, founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which oversees the Climate Action Tracker to monitor countries» measures, all of the INDCs released so far, which account for about a third of global emissions, are in what he calls the «medium» ambition range.

He wants to know why Earth's global climate models break down on Venus, which has an atmosphere composed of 97 percent carbon dioxide — and what that reveals about the hidden fine - tunings of Earth models.

But early on Jenkins realized that the global climate models are too coarse to tell much about what's going to happen in the Sahelian zone.

WITH a global economic meltdown on the cards, it is hardly surprising that most people are distracted from thinking about what the climate will be like in a century's time.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

«When we think about global warming, what we should really thinking about, to be honest, is ocean warming,» said Paul Durack, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

«If you ask people what they think about climate change — not global warming — we find that the partisan gap shrinks by about 30 percent,» he said.

As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

Still, the increase is about what's predicted by computer models of global climate.

«The Paris agreement has not yet been sealed, but is already raising our sights about what's possible,» Jennifer Morgan, global director of the World Resources Institute's climate change program, said in a statement.

I don't care about consensus, but for what it's worth: 10 out of 17 means a 59 % consensus that climate sensitivity is likely to be 2C or lower and as such global warming is not dangerous according to UN politically agreed criteria.

Appell's commentary summarizes Gavin Schmidt's RealClimate responses to both writers, condemns Crichton's and Will's errors, and ends by promising that why «the world is willing to pay attention to what novelists and political pundits think about the complex science behind global climate change is a subject for another day.»

What about his role in ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability, of which climate change research and mitigation is listed as a top priority?

The goal of the Integrated Scenarios project is to use the global climate models to describe as accurately as possible what the latest science says about the Northwest's future climate.

«What the World Thinks about Climate Change in 7 Charts» is a good place to get some key facts about the global issues.

That's what Eugene Linden tells us in his formidably researched Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, a cautionary document that challenges public complacency about global warming.

, ask students, «What would César Chávez think about global warming and climate change?»

Given the facts about global warming, that seems to be exactly what continuing to burn coal will do, as long as we use existing technologies that mean that burning goal contributes to, and will accelerate, climate change.

As you point out other studies agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global climate shift would be of major interest to climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.

We used it heavily as part of a Global Climate Processes course at UW - Madison for later undergrad and grad students, so it has a good deal of flexibility in what you can test (though the model blows up for extreme forcings like snowball Earth, I used CO2 at about 140 ppm and couldn't get much lower than that).

For a start, based on what we know about the forcings and the observed evolution of global mean temperature, why would one expect climate change to be a linear warming since 1880 in Moscow?

If I were to think about it as looking at regional as well as global climate, I would probably alter much of what I said previously in this post.

What we know about global warming comes from thousands of scientists pouring over countless data sets, conducting experiments to figure out how the climate works and scrutinizing every aspect of each other's work.

While others argue endlessly about what are the «appropriate» words and phrases what can be said and not said about «climate change» and «global warming» and their now obvious inter-connectedness and systemic causation regards 21st century «extreme weather events».

I sincerely hope that you are not serious in maintaining the following: The peak warming is linearly proportional to the cumulative carbon emitted It doesn't matter much how rapidly the carbon is emitted The warming you get when you stop emitting carbon is what you are stuck with for the next thousand years The climate recovers only slightly over the next ten thousand years At the mid-range of IPCC climate sensitivity, a trillion tonnes cumulative carbon gives you about 2C global mean warming above the pre-industrial temperature.

I am shocked by the reality of where we are and what we are faced with: global warming, climate change, poverty... The articles show us different perspectives, even divergent views, which promote us to come up with our own ideas about the meaning and vision of sustainability... It's time for us to take responsibility on our shoulders... We can make a big difference together.»

Under a 1990 law, presidents must submit a report to Congress every four years summarizing what is known about impacts of climate change and other global environmental problems on the United States.

The team ran a suite of 400 computer simulations incorporating both what is known about how the climate could react to a greenhouse - gas buildup and a wide range of variations in the global economy and other human factors that might affect the outcome.

When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.

Much has been made this week of the gap between what the public thinks about the consensus among climate scientists over the human factor in global warming and the actual level of consensus.

The study, by British and American scientists, found that the observed peaks in extreme rain events are about twice as high as what global climate simulations produce.

«INDIA»S ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.CLIMATE: BENEFITS OF GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.&GLOBAL WARMING As a weather & climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.climate scientist, what impressed me was the fact that India's strong economic progress has come about in an increasingly warmer world of the last forty years or so, completely defying the projections of deleterious impact of Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.&Global Warming by IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.Climate Change, a United Nations Group of Scientists) and its supporters.»

When asked what got him started on the movie project, Roddy replied: «I've been reading up on global warming for about ten years and published an article last year about deforestation and climate change in the USA.

What is distinct about global warming is that the basics of 100 - year - old theory have stood the test of time (more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas and lots of climate change).

But until climate and energy analysts get realistic about conveying the full scope of what's needed, including a sustained investment in energy science sufficient to build the basis for a grand energy transition, the global slumber party, and global warming, will continue.

that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.that century - scale variations in tropical Pacific climate modes can significantly modulate radiatively forced shifts in global temperature.»

Just as missing data in some areas of climate science does nt prevent us from making rational statements about global warming, so to the fact of missing mails does not prevent us from describing clearly what we do know about the mails.

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near - term stability of global sea levels.

If the MWP did exist then what would be falsified is not just an hypothesis about global temperature but the entire meme of the special intuition of the consensus in climate science.

We find this to be well - argued and in line with what we have been saying about global warming denialist interventions to manipulate the communication of climate change research.

I suspect that it looked OK in your view or you didn't check; «the paper i cited talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

It's about what could be expected from an establishment candidate that believes human - caused climate change is a growing threat to global stability, but nowhere near what science and international equity dictates is necessary.

There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.