We need to solve these problems regardless of
whether climate change results in more frequent and / or intense storms.
Not exact matches
The scientists relied on data from the pair of GRACE satellites — NASA's Gravity Recovery and
Climate Experiment orbiters launched in 2002 — that measure subtle
changes in Earth's gravitational field, which are often the
result of shifting water,
whether on the surface or deep beneath it.
As a
result the air gets worse,
whether you're talking about choking smog, insidious soot or, yes,
climate change.
The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of
climate model projections of future temperature
change and has led to a vigorous debate over
whether this slowdown is the
result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's
climate system.
The crucial question now is
whether the temperature
changes in the Pacific reflect a natural variability in the
climate that might reset itself in a few years or
whether the shift to weaker long rains is a permanent
result of human - induced
climate change.
Then there are the bees: Regardless of
whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a
result of colony collapse disorder,
climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.
Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect c
Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a
result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197
Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect c
climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.
Such mixed
results aren't unusual in attribution science, which seeks to look for the causes,
whether climate change or natural fluctuations, that
change the odds of extreme weather events.
«The question is
whether people are going to be basing their real estate decisions on
climate change futures,» said Hugh Gladwin, professor of anthropology at Florida International University, who says his research suggests higher - standing areas of Miami are becoming increasingly gentrified as a
result of sea level rise.
Scientists aren't certain
whether the now three - year - long drought is a direct
result of
climate change.
We also talk about
whether the record heat waves hitting all around the world are just the
result of El Nino, or is it
climate change, and how would we know?
The assessment based on these
results typically takes into account the number of studies, the extent to which there is consensus among studies on the significance of detection
results, the extent to which there is consensus on the consistency between the observed
change and the
change expected from forcing, the degree of consistency with other types of evidence, the extent to which known uncertainties are accounted for in and between studies, and
whether there might be other physically plausible explanations for the given
climate change.
Whether there is a divide between weather and
climate scientists out in the field, the meteorological society's official 2007 statement on
climate change very clearly accepted that people are jogging the system: «[S] trong observational evidence and
results from modeling studies indicate that, at least over the last 50 years, human activities are a major contributor to
climate change.»
«
Climate Change» refers to the general subject matter of
changes in global or regional
climates that persist overtime,
whether due to natural variability or as a
result of human activity.»
11/19/15 — Political leaders in the United States and Europe seem to differ about
whether any agreement
resulting from the upcoming United Nations meeting on
climate change would be legally binding or simply a statement of what participating countries think they can do.
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and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climatewhether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateClimate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - 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to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climateclimate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - 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For policy - makers, the speed of
climate change over the coming decades matters as much as the total long - term
change, since this rate of
change will determine
whether human societies and natural ecosystems will be able to adapt fast enough to survive.New
results indicate a warming rate of about 2.5 C per century over the coming decades (assuming no attempt is made to reduce GHG emissions).
Loaded dice: The perfect analogy for deciding
whether our weirdly warm winter was the
result of
climate change or luck.
But
whether or not you feel that Boston's weather this month is a
result of
climate change, you may have to admit that a warming planet would make weather like this more likely.
With the renewed public interest in
climate change mitigation after the Paris conference, the question was,
whether or not the COP would generate
results and help to keep momentum in international
climate protection efforts.
More often, models have been tested by hindcasting — they are forced with a known
change starting at a past known
climate state, and asked
whether they can accurately project the output (e.g., a temperature
change resulting from a
change in CO2, solar forcing, etc.)?
China's most senior negotiator on
climate change said today he was keeping an open mind on
whether global warming was man - made or the
result of natural cycles.
More specifically, we (a) examined
whether non-significant
results were omitted disproportionately in the
climate change literature, (b) if there were particular trends of unexpected and abrupt
changes in the number of published studies and reported effects in relation to IPCC 2007 and Climategate, (c)
whether effects presented in the abstracts were significantly larger than those reported in the main body of reports, and (d) how findings from these first three tests related to the impact factor of journals.
Any
change in
climate over time,
whether due to natural variability or as a
result of human activity.
Whereas the detection of
climate change impacts addresses the question only of
whether or not a system has
changed as a
result of
climate change, attribution addresses the magnitude of the contribution of
climate change to such
changes.
Whether the characteristics of tropical cyclones have
changed or will
change in a warming
climate — and if so, how — has been the subject of considerable investigation, often with conflicting
results.
Whether started by lightening, arson, or human error, the conditions making these fires so potent is a direct
result of
climate change.
In fact many scientists believe that the warming limit should be lower than 2 degree C to prevent dangerous
climate change and as a
result the international community has also agreed to study
whether the warming limit should be lowered to 1.5 degree C.
It means they do not explicitly take a stance on
whether the
climate is
changing as a
result of human action or not in the abstract.
«
Climate change in IPCC usage refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human ac
Climate change in IPCC usage refers to any
change in
climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human ac
climate over time,
whether due to natural variability or as a
result of human activity.
So far, no residual trend,
whether as a
result of anthropogenic
climate change or otherwise, has been detected in normalized US tropical cyclone damage.
In a statement, Mr. Boehlert, who is retiring at the end of the year, expressed satisfaction with the
results, saying, «There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global
climate change — which doesn't rest primarily on these temperature issues, in any event — or any doubts about
whether any paper on the temperature records was legitimate scientific work.»
Although ENSO is a natural part of the Earth's
climate, a major question is
whether the intensity or frequency of ENSO events might
change as a
result of global warming.
Dams are hardly the only way to meet demand for water,
whether it's new demand due to population growth or to adjust to altered precipitation or runoff patterns
resulting from
climate change.
When asked
whether climate change is a serious problem, 69 percent of respondents believed in 2014, but the 2015
results showed only 63 percent think the same way in 2015.
It remains to be seen
whether the IATAs interest in
climate change results in significant long - term efforts to reduce emissions, or becomes merely a means to deflect criticism.
These working environments are all subject to
change whether it comes from within the business or as a
result of a
change in the law or economic
climate for example.