Sentences with phrase «what kind of climate»

``... What do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want...» is no more an issue for geoengineering than it is for truly effective Kyoto - like agreements.

Who knows what kind of climate our «great grandchildren» will want in 100 years even if we were able to change it, which itself is far from certain?

And for all its complexity, the core of this problem can be stated simply enough what kind of a climate transition would be fair enough to actually work?

The third is less widely known but should be front - and - center: It is well - known among people who study such things that, human civilization has seen several warm periods and several cold periods all within the span of recorded history and the archeological record timeframe, so we have a pretty good understanding of what each kind of climate change bodes for mankind.

«Our results can be used as a tool in climate modelling to show us what kind of climate we can expect at the turn of the next century.

9th GCF Board meeting in Songdo, South Korea: Why 2015 will determine what kind of climate fund the GCF will be

The important question isn't what impact will climate change have on geopolitics, but rather how geopolitics will shape what kind of climate change we get.

And once you open the Pandora's box of geoengineered climate, what do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want, or if some poor nation objects to suffering drought in order to cancel heat waves in Chicago?

Do the like a warm or cold climate or do they have to accept our view what kind of climate they should like?

What kind of climate does it like, etc..?

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For the 2018 letter, the couple opted to organize their thoughts in the form of frequently asked questions about their priorities, how the current political climate is impacting the organization, how they decide where to donate funds and what kind of thought goes into their corporate partnerships.

It was this period where the larger firms were trying to figure out what to do in this kind of economic climate.

He usually wants to know two kinds of things: factual information about the child, and what the emotional climate of the home is like — its positive resources and its problems.

Well, maybe not all those drastic moves but what you're about to read will probably make you a little scared for the kind of social climate our kids will face as they enter high school.

Topics • Positive home climate • Simple rules to help stop trouble before it starts • Power struggles — what, how, why and when not to engage • Six critical life messages • Discipline and punishment — why one works and the other only appears to work • RSVP — reasonable, simple, valuable, practical consequences • Mistakes, mischief and mayhem • Three kinds of families — brick wall, jellyfish and backbone • Keeping your cool without putting your feelings on ice • Buffering children from sexual promiscuity, drug abuse and suicideType your paragraph here.

Now it may not be, you know, the solution to climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

The Problem: Project organizers would love to collect climate data in each of the 1,000 homes where volunteers are sampling microbes, to see how environmental conditions affect what kind of microbes they find.

«Because of Australia's isolation it becomes a tool to make predictions about what kinds of things are likely to happen during climate change,» Archer says.

The research group will further investigate what kind of microclimates the species need for survival.The maps can be used not only for further climate and forest research, but also for conservation and land - use planning.

Roe and his U.W. co-author, atmospheric physicist Marcia Baker, argue in Science that, because of this inherent climate effect, certainty is a near impossibility, no matter what kind of improvements are made in understanding physical processes or the timescale of observations.

«Before we go looking for life, we're trying to figure out what kinds of planets could have a climate that's conducive to life,» del Genio said.

Keen not to jump to conclusions about the source of the warming in the early 1830s, Abram and her colleagues used climate models to examine what kinds of external factors could be responsible.

«What our research shows is that this kind of heat has become more common and will continue to get more common in the future,» said Andrew King, a fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science in Melbourne and one of the report's authors.

AP: I think there are elements of this business that are inherently local, and our philosophy of designing and assortment is to design a global assortment that is a super set of what a different geography might actually need, in terms of fashion trends, sensibility, climate and those kinds of things.

What's more is that debt becomes manageable in this kind of climate, until of course, it's not.

But after about maybe a month of talking, we found that there were a lot of similarities in what we were thinking about the state of the world: The environment, the political climate, all those kind of things.

So the title Fast Forward came in part from an article I read on Keith Haring, that was talking about the climate, this moment, in the early 1980s in particular and more generally, and that there was this idea that there was suddenly a kind of new freedom for artists to paint what you want.

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?

What kind of effect do fires, like the current one in Australia, have on climate.

In light of what it considers national security risks posed by climate change, the government of Nicaragua has formed the Ecological Battalion, a first - of - its - kind team of soldiers dedicated to combating against environmental threats.

[Response: I wasn't trying to suggest that tacit knowledge was some kind of opinion that all scientists must agree with, but rather it is the shared background that, say, everyone using climate models has — i.e. why we use initial condition ensembles, how we decide that a change in the code is significant, what data comparisons are appropriate etc..

This is exactly what Climate Change looks like as it's IMPACTS are happening in the real world (versus in the scientific theory papers)-- all kind sof unexpected unplanned for extreme events and a built infrastructure and building not up to the extreme demands of topdays extreme weather events across an entire Continent.

This debate is about your pocketbook, it's about your job, it's about whether you can still afford health care, whether we're going to do something about climate change or not, what kind of world your kids are going to be living in in ten or fifteen years, how are we going to respond to peak oil, where is the next transistor economy going to come from?

What's important, to my mind, is not to confuse this kind of normal, healthy scientific debate with more basic understanding of human contributions to, and responses to, climate change.

We are talking about what I call a climate change of the second kind: a change in how heat is moved around the climate system.

Owners can choose what kind of insulation and heating and cooling options suit them and their local climate, whereas RVs are generally not built to be lived in during the winter (though of course, one could tow it somewhere warm).

Regardless of what we think about D - O events, I am in complete agreement with Stefan that there is no evidence of any kind at present that the present climate suffers any kind of initial - condition sensitivity that would compromise the value of projections of response of statistical quantities to increases in GHG's.

And I second what Glenn Landers (# 10) wrote: «I'm all in favor of these kinds of efforts because they educate the public about the dire need to deal with climate change, but to get to where we need to be will require a whole lot more.»

The idea is to work the math in terms of world geography — areas where there is a reasonably moderate climate, and relatively sustainable resources, where we can choose what kind of technology we deploy, balanced against local population.

In the climate arena, I think for too long, people have used numbers like «two degrees» or «350» to give a kind of mechanistic determinant to what needs to be done, when, in fact, when you look behind those numbers, it really is much more about choices.

Here it's stated as a «what if» kind of assessment — there is no attempt to get «objective probabilities for future events out of a climate model» as it is stated above.

By contrast, climate «skeptics» are usually of the «I do nt like the policy options, therefore climate science is wrong» or «not what my tribe believes» kind.

We can at least check to see what kinds of trends climate models produce.

But I had been focused on climate and humans since 1984, when I began reporting what would end up being a long cover story for Science Digest magazine assessing nuclear winter, kind of the inverse potential human impact on climate (global cooling from a pall of smoke rising from incinerated cities).

In light of what it considers a national security risk posed by climate change, the government of Nicaragua has formed the Ecological Battalion, a first - of - its - kind team of soldiers dedicated to combating against environmental threats.

(I'm moderating a discussion of climate policy between Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations and Joe Romm, the Climateprogress blogger, and I gave an opening talk on communicating what I see as the story of our time — the human transition through a kind of species - scale, puberty - style growth spurt to whatever comes next.)

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

I really don't understand what kind of point Roger Pielke Jr. was trying to make, but it appears to be a subtle attempt to slander coverage of climate change.