Noting that climate variability, rather than climate change, is an ever present regional concern, he said that coping with present day variability would go a long way down the road towards adapting for climate change.

Human activities, in addition to natural climate variability, are producing these changes.

(d) Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating and adapting to climate variability and change

(b) Improving access to high quality data and information on current and future climate variability and extreme events

Our fragile environment has worsened as a result of climate change, sea level rise, climate variability and susceptibility to natural disasters and other global environmental phenomena.

Research needs Parties indicated a need for more research in several areas to allow them to monitor the localized effects of climate variability and climate change.

Tourism is, however, a biodiversity dependent industry and it is itself also affected by climate variability and environmental change.

Adaptation to climate variability will be the only way forward in many destinations that are currently prime holiday spots.

Uganda mentioned that population pressure leads to changes in land use practices that contribute to climate change and climate variability, and projected that impacts of climate change will be severe on densely populated areas.

Mr. Moussa Sanon, Burkina Faso, presented a case study on transfer of technology and capacity building for coping with climate variability.

Climate change and variability, the sea level rise and susceptibility to natural disasters and other global environmental phenomena caused environmental degradation.

Stressing various uncertainties, he suggested that investments in these technologies may begin with present day needs that address climate variability concerns and are further justified by consideration of climate change.

Several WMO departments also contribute to the enhancement of regional climate outlook forum networks that strengthen capacity to anticipate and manage climate variability and change in sensitive regions and sectors.

These include participation in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment, the Climatic Predictability and Variability Initiative, Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate, and the Arctic Climate System Study.

Noting also the contributions made by regional and global climate study organizations and specialized Internet information services, which have led to improved scientific understanding and prediction capabilities in the area of climate variability,

Like many other small island developing States, Barbados faces a high degree of vulnerability occasioned by climate change, climate variability and other phenomena such as the increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters.

Mr. Noble said that although climate change is a minor factor in the Bank's development decision making processes, it is becoming more relevant to project planning, and climate variability is already a major impediment to development.

The threat of the impact of climate change, sea level rise and variability on the entire global environment continues to be a matter of serious security concern to all.

Mr. Klein highlighted some issues outlined in the draft paper, including concepts and definitions of adaptation to climate change implications for developing and transferring technology a proposed conceptual framework for addressing technologies for planned adaptation to climate variability and change and policy issues.

Some of them show greater variability.

Here, used as a proxy, temperature variability.

Bearing in mind the importance of addressing disaster risks related to changing social, economic, environmental conditions and land use, and the impact of hazards associated with geological events, weather, water, climate variability and climate change, in sector development planning and programmes as well as in post disaster situations,

He stressed the importance of adaptation noting that climate change cannot be totally avoided and it may be more rapid and pronounced than currently suggested anticipatory adaptation is more effective and less costly than emergency measures and immediate benefits can be gained from better adaptation to climate variability and extreme events.

Now, we have many ways to study natural variability.

We are way, way outside the normal, natural variability.

You have a huge spread due to movement variability.

But they all tell us what the natural variability is.

It provides the scientific community with the data and information necessary to evaluate the variability of the global environment, distinguish between natural and human induced change, and perform integrated assessments of changes in climate and their societal impacts.

Ethiopia noted that the growth of its economy is highly influenced by climate variability, particularly drought, so one of its agricultural policies is to increase production (both quality and quantity) of food crops to ensure food self sufficiency.

Indeed, the study may actually significantly underestimate the costs for instance, climate change may lead to more weather variability, a possible disappearance or major shift of the Gulf Stream of particular concern to Europe and a flourishing of disease.

And you can see, there's not much variability in these calls.

Genetics has opened the door to the study of human variability.

This study is financed with resources from the World Bank, the European Union, and the Governments of the Netherlands and Brazil Cuba is developing research programmes on climate variability and change, air pollution and atmospheric chemistry, and terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity.

5. Welcomes the establishment of the working group on climate and disasters, and invites the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction and the inter agency secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to ensure functional synergies among the working groups dealing with climate variability, social and economic vulnerability, and the effectiveness of early warning systems

Evidence for Large Decadal Variability in the Tropical Mean Radiative Energy Budget.

All we can be sure of is the variability will be different.

And there is natural variability caused by the Sun, caused by El Ninos.

Before 2006, we had no idea of the genetic variability of basking sharks.

The Heads of State and Government of AOSIS endorsed the Buenos Aires AOSIS Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change of 17 December 2004 and expressed grave concern that the adverse effects of climate change, climate variability, sea level rise and associated phenomena such as the increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, continue to threaten the sustainable development, livelihoods and existence of SIDS.

With the concentration of greenhouse gases projected to rise still further over the next century, a corresponding increase in the global mean surface temperature is likely to trigger increased climate variability and greater incidence and intensity of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts.

He pointed out that with the projected rise in the concentration of greenhouse gases, a corresponding increase in the global mean surface temperature was likely to trigger increased climate variability and greater incidence and intensity of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts.

It is the movement from the search for universals to the understanding of variability.

I'll give you one last illustration of variability, and that is oh, I'm sorry.

Emphasizing that the Caribbean countries have a high degree of vulnerability occasioned by climate change, climate variability and associated phenomena, such as the rise in sea level, the El Niño phenomenon and the increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters caused by hurricanes, floods and droughts, and that they are also subject to natural disasters, such as those caused by volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes,

Emphasizing that the Caribbean countries have a high degree of vulnerability occasioned by climate change and climate variability, associated phenomena, such as the rise in sea level, the El Niño phenomenon and the increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters caused by hurricanes, floods and droughts, and that they are also subject to natural disasters, such as those caused by volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes,