The Gulf Stream and its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, for example, warms the atmosphere of the British Isles and north-western Europe and influences weather and climate as far south as the northern Mediterranean.

As a result of Kuroshio Current ( also known as the Japan Current ), which crosses the North Pacific Ocean, coastal British Columbia has a mild, rainy oceanic climate.

The British Virgin Islands enjoy a tropical climate, moderated by trade winds.

The British Virgin Islands enjoy a tropical climate, moderated by trade winds.

Their nationalism was born out of hundreds of years of fighting against imperialism, a continuing struggle for independence battling mainly British expansion into central South Africa, as well as the harsh African climate and a strong sense of nationhood.

As with the rest of the British Isles and South West England, the area experiences a maritime climate with warm summers and mild winters-this is particularly pronounced due to its position near the coast-extremes range from a record low of just in January 1987 up to a record high of during June 1976.

As with the rest of the British Isles, Enniskillen experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Fair Isle experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

Archaeological evidence indicates that what was to become England was colonised by humans long before the rest of the British Isles because of its more hospitable climate between and during the various glacial periods of the distant past.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Southern England, Hastings experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Southern England, Hayling Island experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, " billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable " by the end of the 21st century.

They petitioned the British government for settlement elsewhere due to the climate in Nova Scotia.

He was a frequent contributor to commercial and noncommercial print and broadcast media on climate and environmental issues, e. g., NOVA, Planet Earth, Nightline, Today Show, Tonight Show, Good Morning America, Dateline, Discovery Channel, British, Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations.

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.

The effect of these raids, particularly when coupled with his capture of the Royal Navy's HMS Drake — the first such success in British waters, but not Jones's last — was to force the British government to increase resources for coastal defence, and to create a climate of fear among the British public which was subsequently fed by press reports of his preparations for the 1779 Bonhomme Richard mission.

The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

Paleoclimatology ( in British spelling, palaeoclimatology ) is the study of changes in climate taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth.

Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.

Bacup experiences a temperate maritime climate, like much of the British Isles, with relatively cool summers and mild winters.

Stratford experiences a temperate maritime climate, as is usual for the British Isles, meaning extreme heat, or extreme cold are rare, sunshine is on the low side, and rainfall is spread evenly throughout the year.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Surrey, Guildford experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

The great plain of upper Italy has a winter climate colder than that of the British Isles.

As with the rest of the British Isles and East Anglia, Swaffham experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Kirkwall experiences a maritime climate with cool summers, mild winters, often strong winds, plentiful rainfall, frequently overcast skies and sparse amounts of sunshine.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Fort Augustus experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Oxfordshire, Wallingford experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Dumfries experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

Its climate is temperate, moderated by the sea, and summers are usually warmer than elsewhere in the British Isles.

Like the rest of the United Kingdom, it experiences an oceanic climate but Cambridgeshire is one of the driest counties in the British Isles along with Essex.

Oldham experiences a temperate maritime climate, like much of the British Isles, with relatively cool summers and mild winters.

As the climate warmed it became extinct from most of the British Isles around 5, 500 years ago except in Scotland and at Kielder, Northumberland.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Wales, Holyhead experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters, often high winds, exacerbated by its location by the Irish Sea.

Warwick, along with the rest of the British Isles, experiences a maritime climate, characterised by a narrow temperature range, mild winters and cool summers.

As with the rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Dunoon experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

As with the rest of the British Isles, Huntingdon experiences a strongly temperate maritime based climate, free from temperature extremes, with rainfall fairly evenly spread throughout the year.

It seems likely Knuth left the position and joined the faculty of Stanford University because of his political beliefs and the volatile political climate on the campus at the time.

This move out of Africa seems to have been unsuccessful and by c. 60, 000 BC in Israel / Syria, especially at Amud, classic Neanderthal groups seem to have profited from the worsening climate to have replaced Homo sapiens, who seem to have been confined once more to Africa.

On the contrary, Rousseau holds that " uncorrupted morals " prevail in the " state of nature " and he especially praised the admirable moderation of the Caribbeans in expressing the sexual urge despite the fact that they live in a hot climate, which " always seems to inflame the passions ".

Body size of different populations seems to be correlated with climate — Bergmann's Rule — and can be explained from the point of view of thermoregulation.

Bermuda has a very humid climate and, as a result, the summer-time heat index can be very high, even when the actual temperature seems moderate.

Lanolin's role in nature is to protect wool and skin against the ravages of climate and the environment ; it also seems to play a role in integumental hygiene.

At the end of the Eocene the climate seems to have become unsuitable.

Given that economic geoscientists had the lowest percentage of all Earth scientists surveyed, critic and author John Cook has claimed that " climate scepticism seems strongest among geologists closely linked to the mining and fossil fuel industries " and that this is due to the influence of their funding.

" Gerster and Cords argue that, " Since progressivism was a ' spirit ' or an ' enthusiasm ' rather than an easily definable force with common goals, it seems more accurate to argue that it produced a climate for reform which lasted well into the 1920s, if not beyond.

The current attempt to re-establish the Sanhedrin is the sixth attempt in recent history, but unlike previous attempts, there seems to be wide consensus among the leading Torah sages living in the Land of Israel of the pressing need for such an institution at this time, due to the moral climate created by actions of the State of Israel which have been perceived by communities around the world both Jewish and Gentile as controversial.

but climate changes ( warming ) in Southern Greenland and Iceland seems to be the reason for the decreasing populations there.

Studies have shown that vegetation seems to have a greater impact on the abundance of this bird than other factors like climate or patch size.

The landscape and climate of the new planet where the ship crashed seems very much like that of harsher climates on Earth, such as the southwestern United States.

Despite his background he seems not to have been entirely comfortable with the prevailing social climate of the Raj.

The failure of the Cray-3 seems to have little to do with the machine itself, however, and everything to do with the changing political and technical climate.

Whatever the precise dates of Ramanuja's lifetime, it seems clear that all three of the great ācāryas lived under the relatively stable and ecumenical climate of the Chola empire, before its decline in the late 12th and 13th centuries.

It seems likely that the valleys on Alba Mons formed as a result of transient erosional processes, possibly related to snow melting during volcanic activity or periods of climate change.

Some might thus even have been migratory, but given the markedly warmer climate of the Mesozoic and the fact that the known Enantiornithes are from regions that were subtropical if not tropical at that time, it seems unlikely that the known diversity of these birds contains long-distance migrants.

Although he seems to have tempered his socialist leanings as editor of the Witness, Potter ’ s interests in matters relating to economics fitted well with the dire economic climate of the Great Depression, which marked much of his time with the paper.

Based on what is known about the group members ( journalists, a physicist, a history professor, and a Securitate colonel, all fully understanding the Romanian situation ) and about the political climate at the time, as well as on recollections of some family members, another scenario also seems likely.

There seems little doubt that, with increasing concern for our environmental future, environmental history will continue along the path of environmental advocacy from which it originated as “ human impact on the living systems of the planet bring us no closer to utopia, but instead to a crisis of survival ” with key themes being population growth, climate change, conflict over environmental policy at different levels of human organization, extinction, biological invasions, the environmental consequences of technology especially biotechnology, the reduced supply of resources-most notably energy, materials and water.

The more adaptable the taxon is to substrate seems to be indication of how specialized the species is within its habitat in the landscape and climate.

The Nordic Bronze Age was characterized by a warm climate ( which is compared to that of the Mediterranean ), which permitted a relatively dense population, but it ended with a climate change consisting of deteriorating, wetter and colder climate ( sometimes believed to have given rise to the legend of the Fimbulwinter ) and it seems very likely that the climate pushed the Germanic tribes southwards into continental Europe.