Much adaptation takes place in relation to short-term climate variability, however this may cause maladaptation to longer-term climatic trends.

Desertification may intensify a general climatic trend toward greater aridity, or it may initiate a change in local climate.

By looking at the difference time series, the year to year variability of the climate is removed, as well as regional climatic trends.

Ground-water levels are usually governed by climatic trends.

The figures we have "represent only a fraction of human experience with weather," but may be used as a "yardstick" to determine climatic trends.

They note that years and decades of comprehensive data on ice thickness are needed to make trustworthy analyses of climatic trends.

Following the warming climatic trends since the 1920s, Paamiut developed a booming cod industry between the 1950s and 1989, when the stock dwindled.

We all know what impact this has on climatic trends and the desertification process.

Many scientists believe that the greenhouse effect caused by these gases affects many climatic trends, not just how hot the planet becomes.

The critics also cite data on past climatic trends, and they say the theory of greenhouse warming has not yet been fully explored.