Sentences with phrase «which means climate»

Variations in 20th century trends which do not correlate to c02 are routinely dismissed as either aerosols or heat going into the oceans, when it is very clear these are related to PDO cycles, which means climate sensitivity to c02 must be overstated.

In contrast to the steamy humid rainforests that much of South America is known for, Machu Picchu's altitude is at almost 2445 meters (8000 feet) above sea level, which means its climate is a lot more temperate, and is shrouded year - round in mist for much of each morning.

Internal climate variability, by which we mean climate variability not forced by external agents, occurs on all time - scales from weeks to centuries and millennia.

Not exact matches

That meant a first section with a broad pledge to fight climate change in general; a separate paragraph carved out that acknowledged the U.S. did not support the Paris deal; and a third paragraph in which the other 19 members reaffirmed their support for the deal.

We know that the current climate has historically been associated with very high risk, which sometimes means very very powerful rallies, and sometimes means crashes.

The ideological climate is beginning to change and it is possible to make oneself heard through other means and to claim the first victories as in the case of the MAT, a victory which is yet to be confirmed.

Forty - five years later, with so many mainstream Protestants apathetic or uncertain about the meaning of «foreign missions,» it is hard to re-create a climate in which missionary thought played such a vivid role.

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

The interviewer asks if this wouldn't make us less than human, which was the question we would have asked, and Vatinno answers: «Becoming less human is not necessarily a negative thing, because it could mean we are less subject to the whims of nature, such as illness or climate extremes.»

Heidi — so jealous of your SF climate which means not only your access to more local fresh veggies in season but also the ability to turn on your oven in July!

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

That being said, in this latitude, in this climate we don't see a whole lot of, I mean, I've never seen Rickets but, in terms of deficiency, may be it will be something which has more often which, actually this guideline talks about testing pregnant women which I know my OB / GYN hasn't tested me but, that's interesting to me.

This proved he was «the most anti-European Tory leader they have ever had - much more so than Margaret Thatcher», the Normanton MP continued, which in turn meant he would never be able to agree to deals the world needs to tackle climate change.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

(I take your point that failure to achieve this might legitimate peaceful civil disobedience; I wouldn't see that it could legitimate prioritising climate change over democratic means, which has been argued eg by Mayer Hillman).

If you can then show that humans don't cause climate change, then only # 2 (and possibly # 4, which has the same conclusion) is left, and it means that we have no obligation to try and do anything about it.

A phrase which here means «statement from the secretary of state for energy and climate change».

The most popular speculation about Slowdown is that it was caused by the break - up of Antarctic ice — which means it might give an indication of climate change.

In 1997, 95 senators voted for a resolution condemning the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, which the Copenhagen meeting was meant to broker a replacement for, in part because of the lack of participation by developing countries.

«If the Senate bill in its final form does not allow companies to use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.

The result means some forests in the eastern U.S. are already starting to look different, but more important, it means the ability of those forests to soak up carbon is being altered as well, which could in turn bring about further climate change.

And climate models predict wet regions will become wetter and dry regions drier, which means more rain for all of the UK, not just the coasts.

A new study takes aim at the mysterious relationship between clouds and climate, and it finds that a warmer planet could mean fewer clouds, which would mean an even more sultry future for the planet

«They have to weigh mitigation of climate change against food security,» he says, which means exploring technical solutions that can optimize food production and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.

«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).

Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that understanding how plants respond to elevated temperatures is crucial for protecting our environment and food supply.

The problem is made greater by climate change, which means the best way for us to help wildlife survive is probably to maintain corridors of habitat so species can migrate.

The climate system is non-linear, which means its response to a forcing (such as our CO2 emissions) is a complex process involving a whole suite of components.

Kadribasic: That's basically [what] I tried to do, to see if there has been any change, if there has been any change in these factors, which could mean that there is a change in climate, which could then finally mean that there has been a change in tornado numbers.

If you don't do anything about those, then you are in trouble in all the others: more people, means more greenhouse gases, which means more rapid climate change.»

Other researchers have used computer models to estimate what an event similar to a Maunder Minimum, if it were to occur in coming decades, might mean for our current climate, which is now rapidly warming.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

A Cold Welcome is organized largely by colonial power, which means findings on climate are repeated in each chapter.

Which means that climate change is going to be bad for electricity supplies.

It explores a number of different climate change futures — from a no - emissions - cuts case in which global mean temperatures rise by 4.5 °C, to a 2 °C rise, the upper limit for temperature in the Paris Agreement.

What it means: «Land use, land - use change and forestry,» which is often abbreviated to just «land use,» is responsible for about a quarter of the climate - changing pollution that's escaping into the atmosphere every year.

There are about 30 climate models available today, and each has slightly different physics, which means their forecasts do not always match.

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.

The result is that when water vapour processes are correctly represented, the sensitivity of the climate to a doubling of carbon dioxide — which will occur in the next 50 years — means we can expect a temperature increase of at least 4 °C by 2100.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

«We have seriously underestimated the effects of climate change on the most well - known groups, which means those other groups, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, the story is going to be much, much worse in terms of what we think the threat is from climate change already,» he said.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

One possibility is «assisted colonisation ``, which means deliberately introducing them into areas where the climate is more suitable.

It may be that many of the changes have limited predictability, which means that we should be prepared for a range of climate outcomes associated with global warming,» said Clement.

And what does Brexit mean for Britain's access to the single market and for its climate policy, which is now a mixture of domestic law and international engagement that is likely to take years to untangle as Britain departs?

Concerns over climate change have encouraged governments and consumers to demand that electricity is decarbonised — which means no more burning of coal and gas wherever possible.

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.

Now, if by impacts, he means the impacts to ecosystems, etc., it seems unlikely that climate scientists jockeying for funding would be trying to change the topic of interest from climate science to these other fields (which I guess gets back to your point that funding self - interest would dictate continuing to emphasize uncertainty).

He took the average from two climate models (2ºC from Suki Manabe at GFDL, 4ºC from Jim Hansen at GISS) to get a mean of 3ºC, added half a degree on either side for the error and produced the canonical 1.5 - 4.5 ºC range which survived unscathed even up to the IPCC TAR (2001) report.

More clouds means higher albedo, which in turn might mean a cooler climate.