Fire activity is controlled by a number of biophysical factors, including climate, whose relevance varies across regions and landscapes.
The President explained why he cares so much about our national parks, their benefits to climate protection, their relevance to the upcoming climate talks in Paris, and how he intends to make sure they are left intact for Sasha and Malia and their grandchildren to enjoy.
Included are 650 climate-related experts from around the world who gave testimony in a U.S. Senate Minority Report issued by Sen. James Inhofe's Committee on Environment and Public Works, and more than 30,000 who signed a petition challenging the relevance of climate model predictions cited by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
She didn't blame anyone for this state of affairs, but said "given the growing policy relevance of climate data, increasingly higher standards must be applied".
They ignore the relevance of climate, of geographical compulsion and the forces of history, of centuries of national experience and civilization.
And as market-based approaches lose relevance, what climate action continues may come to lean more heavily on the command-and-control techniques they were intended to replace.
Merkel and Obama were evidently talking about a Trumpist agenda that questions the Euro-Atlantic settlement and Nato's relevance, mocks climate change, opposes free trade and treats refugees, Muslims and foreigners in general as potential enemies.
Forveille also noted that Soon's paper examined the behavior of stars and "makes no claim whatsoever of any relevance to climate".
Understanding how tropical trees coordinate fast growth with water consumption and carbon investment is of high relevance because climate warming may expose tropical forests to increasing stress.
Soil moisture (SM) is an essential climate variable of greater relevance in the monsoon scenario, hence validation and understanding of its spatio-temporal variability over the Indian region is of high significance.
