Sentences with phrase «as global climate warms»

As global climate warms, water temperature is getting more management attention.

As the global climate warms, at - risk communities need to improve governance of wildfire issues, including landscape management, while also strengthening regional and international measures for cooperation, Goldammer tells Pacific Standard.

Not exact matches

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he thinks there is «some connectivity» between human activity and global warming, despite previously describing climate change as a hoax.

European Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters in Brussels he deeply regretted the U.S. pullout from the pact to fight the dangers of global warming, which was signed by more than 190 countries, and said it could not be renegotiated as Trump has suggested [B5N1G8011].

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

Global warming is once again on the agenda as world leaders gather for the Paris climate change summit.

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

The two - week Paris climate change summit last November legally - bound countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, with 1.5 degrees as a preferable target.

Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».

He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.

But the way they apply these worthy ends to «climate change» (formerly known as «global warming») is perverse.

I have always thought that the global warming, or «climate change» debate, was as much about social psychology as science.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

Some of the world's leading authorities on climate change have endorsed meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming, including former US Vice President Al Gore, Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Lord Nicholas Stern and former UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King.

The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.

As for pundits the Merson types are like climate scientists who deny global warming is anthropgenic, not because they really believe it but because it gets them exposure in the media which they wouldn't get if they simply went along with the crowd.

But «Weather to Climate: Our Changing World,» a new exhibit opening at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Saturday, April 2, is taking on the daunting task and making «the talk,» as it relates to global warming, easier on youngsters and their caregivers alike.

The changes to our planet as a result of global warming are apparent for all to see: the receding glaciers in temperate climates, the reduction in rainfall and advancing deserts in Africa and the lakes in the Mideast and Asia that are virtually disappearing.

Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was not enough.

Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the rally, according to organizers, at which many spoke about individual steps that could be taken to help thwart the cyclical event once known as global warming, now re-dubbed climate change.

Climate change has added new impetus to forest conservation efforts as we increasingly appreciate how efficiently forests sequester carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

Researchers found that having a teacher who believed climate change was occurring — as 92 percent of students in the study did — was a «strong, positive predictor» of students» belief in global warming.

Elections sweeping Republicans into the House leadership set climate proposals on a path to nowhere in 2010 and 2011 as partisanship marginalized supporters of any federal bill aimed at cutting global warming pollution.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Climate Change.

One aerosol, black carbon, is of increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change in the far north, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impacts.

That includes the potential for abrupt climate change and the factors amplifying warming in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

As a result, more of human emissions would remain in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect that contributes to global warming and alters Earth's climate.

The research, which got mainstream media attention, projected at what date certain regions would shift to new climates as a result of global warming (ClimateWire, Oct. 10, 2013).

The surveys asked 84,086 respondents to gauge the level of threat they attributed to climate change (some of the surveys used different words to describe the phenomenon, such as global warming and the greenhouse effect).

As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countrieAs the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countrieas it will in developing countries.

The world's largest organization of physicists clarified its position on climate change last week, and it no longer believes, as it did in 2007, that the evidence for global warming is «incontrovertible.»

If global warming causes strong storms to grow even more fierce, as some climate models predict, that could trigger a self - feeding cycle that unleashes still more heat - trapping CO2 into the atmosphere.

However, in light of our substantiation of the effects of «grand solar minima» upon past global climates, it could be speculated that the current pausing of «Global Warming», which is frequently referenced by those sceptical of climate projections by the IPCC, might relate at least in part to a countervailing effect of reduced solar activity, as shown in the recent sunspot cycle.&global climates, it could be speculated that the current pausing of «Global Warming», which is frequently referenced by those sceptical of climate projections by the IPCC, might relate at least in part to a countervailing effect of reduced solar activity, as shown in the recent sunspot cycle.&Global Warming», which is frequently referenced by those sceptical of climate projections by the IPCC, might relate at least in part to a countervailing effect of reduced solar activity, as shown in the recent sunspot cycle.»

But climate scientists worry that global warming will endanger vineyards, as the increase in very hot days takes a toll on delicate grapes.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

«We're really interested in understanding how these systems will change as we experience global warming or climate change,» Medvigy said.

For example, sequestrating short - lived climate pollutants, such as methane and black carbon, yields much faster reductions in global warming compared to reductions in CO2.

Cutting the amount of short - lived, climate - warming emissions such as soot and methane in our skies won't limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, a new analysis shows.

Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change.

Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity can not explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed — the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate - cooling clouds.

It has been suggested that climate engineering could be used to postpone cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while still achieving the objectives of limiting global warming to under 2 degrees, as set in the Paris Climate Agrclimate engineering could be used to postpone cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while still achieving the objectives of limiting global warming to under 2 degrees, as set in the Paris Climate AgrClimate Agreement.

The hot has been long expected as part of global warming theory and appears in many global climate models.

«Using more recent data and better analysis methods we have been able to re-examine the global weather balloon network, known as radiosondes, and have found clear indications of warming in the upper troposphere,» said lead author ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Chief Investigator Prof Steve Sherwood.

The period known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was triggered by massive releases of carbon into the atmosphere and climate researchers have long identified it as a time that could in some ways be analogous to today's global warming.

These models currently predict that as a result of today's global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.