Sentences with phrase «years the climate modellers»

For 15 years the prediction of warming resulting from a doubling of CO2 has varied by 300 % from 1.5 to 4.5 K. For 15 years the climate modellers have been claiming it will take them 15 years to get the clouds and aerosols right.

Not exact matches

The most detailed record of the Earth's climate over the past 250 000 years is making modern climate modellers think again about the implications of a greenhouse world

Charles Lansdale wonders why we should believe predictions about climate change 50 years into the future when computer modellers sometimes...

The wind pushes them out to the open sea, where they ultimately break up into smaller pieces and melt in the course of two to three years,» explains Thomas Rackow, a climate modeller at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven / Germany and first author of the new study.

Real scientists (as opposed to climate modellers) have long maintained that the decline in Arctic ice is caused not by warmer air — in the past year or two Arctic air temperatures have actually been falling — but by shifts in major ocean currents, pushing warmer water up into the Arctic Circle.

Stainforth explained how climate modellers are told policymakers need local and regional scale predictions for 40 years ahead to enable them to plan mitigation and adaptation.

Uncertainty... whether a blip in the Five Year Plan or fifteen year projections in weather, even predictions of April's showers by climate modellers in cloud towYear Plan or fifteen year projections in weather, even predictions of April's showers by climate modellers in cloud towyear projections in weather, even predictions of April's showers by climate modellers in cloud towers.

But now, according to Dr Cai and an international team of scientists and climate modellers from China, Australia, Hawaii and New Jersey in the US, Peru, Paris and Exeter in the UK, such a double whammy could occur every 13 years.

Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new «pathways» that examine how global society, demographics and economics might change over the next century.

Jim Hansen of NASA, George Bush's top climate modeller, predicts sea - level rise will be 10 times faster within a few years, as Greenland destabilises.

But winter ice remains important, and Arctic governments and communities — and climate modellers and meteorologists — still need reliable, year - on - year information to allow them to see a few years, or even a few decades ahead.

Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new «pathways»... Read More

The thing that the climate modellers are trying to achieve is a prediction of the effect of adding billions of tons of CO2 to our atmosphere over the next hundred years — that is a human timescale of two or three generations.

As climate modellers will be well aware, a few weeks ago a group of German scientists reported that a weakening in the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) over the next ten years due to natural internal variability could cool climate around the North Atlantic enough to temporarily offset the effects of global warming.

«climate modellers have sharply raised their estimates of future warming in just the last couple of years.»