Researchers used a series of computer models to simulate different climate scenarios and their possible effects on hurricanes and storm surges on New York City.
The new early-warning system brings this approach right up to date, by integrating many different climate-forecasting computer models that couple together information about how the atmosphere and the oceans combine to create the weather.
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"Rumsfeld was dealing in a political climate different than the climate today, " Scales said.
For different levels of climate change what are the key impacts, for different regions and sectors, and for the world as a whole?
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The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has shut its doors in response to a different sort of climate change--one producing a cold political Northern that blew into the Windy City from the Great Plains and beyond on Nov. 2.
Imagine how different the financial climate would be today if these borrowers had been educated on their choices by an unbiased advisor and they fully understood how their mortgage broker was paid.
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"It has given them a whole different perspective to what climate change can do, " she said.
The news release has attracted criticism from different sides of the climate debate.
Each land cover has a different effect on carbon and climate cycles.
In one recently published study, six international research teams led by scientists from NOAA and a number of countries investigated seven different 2011 extreme weather and climate events.
And by then both the physical and the political climate may look rather different.
And this brings me to the obvious question: Why is it any different for human-caused global climate change?
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The particularity and high significance of this document lies in an eighteen month long collaboration of two different scientific communities: one on climate change (IPCC) and one on disaster risk reduction (ISDR).
These findings have now been complemented by Dr Knight's project, which made use of climateprediction.net, a network of personal computers on which processing time is volunteered by members of the public, to compile 57, 000 different runs of a global-climate model developed at the Hadley Centre.
The nations gathered in Kyoto are split into several factions, each pushing a different plan to deal with impending climate change, and each -- despite a spate of preconference workshops held during the past few months in an effort to narrow the differences -- sticking to its guns.
In this battle against climate change a number of different technologies have been mooted.
This puts Mars Climate Orbiter into an altogether different (and more embarrassing) class of space mishaps.
My point is a different one: the important question about climate change is of course whether it is happening at all.
The ECA report analyzed a range of climate change impacts in eight different countries (China, the United States, Guyana, Mali, United Kingdom, Samoa, India, and Tanzania) and suggested a series of adaptation measures.
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However, climate modelers operate under very different incentives and value systems than those of the legions of cancer researchers who have spent 40 years fighting the most expensive medical battle in American history, thus far coming up short.
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There are, as you will have noticed, a number of different views around how we go about solving climate change.
But Philip Stott, professor of biogeography at the University of London, UK, a longstanding climate change sceptic, sounded a different note.
With such approach, natural anomalies can be assessed in relation to those caused by mining and related industrial activity, taking into account the geology, topography, climate, vegetation and hydrology in different regions of Africa.
The 28, 000-square foot indoor arena touts regulation-sized basketball court, batting cages, and a clay tennis court with its own irrigation and leveling systems that mean the court can be climate-adjusted to resemble the different playing conditions a tennis pro might encounter in tournaments around the world.
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The research has contributed to an understanding of the impacts of climate change on Sami reindeer herders and different coping strategies available.
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The different groupings have different, sometimes even conflicting, interests in the UN climate negotiations.
Adaptation is recognizing that climate change is coming and is going to cause different sorts of issues for different people in different places.
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