So you won't, by definition,
see climate change from one year to the next - or even necessarily from one decade to the next.
Not exact matches
Certain countries susceptible to
climate change have
seen a spike in travel interest over the past year, according to a new report
from travel insurance comparison web site Squaremouth.
Trump may
see some pushback
from the other heads of state, however, for his contrarian views on
climate change and free trade.
He didn't speak on the environment, but the project he worked on showed something missing
from climate change work, at least that I don't
see.
At the same time, Trump has been
seen withdrawing America
from its global leadership role, after exiting both the Paris Agreement on
climate change and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.
Over a year which has
seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest
from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the
Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial c
Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over
climate risk has shot up in financial c
climate risk has shot up in financial circles.
Shareholder resolutions have
seen rising support on key issues ranging
from governance practices to
climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.
Growth is good, everything is pretty good with a big jolt of stimulation coming
from changes in tax laws,» Dalio said, referring to the health of the U.S. market as well as what he
sees as an improving global economic
climate.
I really don't
see what he gains
from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global
climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.
As Andre Leu, the current president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) noted, «Dec. 1, 2015 will be
seen as one of the most important days in history... as the tipping point when the world was saved
from catastrophic
climate change.»
The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway
climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse
from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize
from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to
see the latest Star Wars.
The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway
climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse
from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize
from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to
see the latest
Eminent surgeons and physicians
from across the world have signed a joint letter calling for the government to
see climate change as a priority health issue.
From Provisional list of participants (PDF): 196 signatories of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change) are listed here; 2 Observer States are The Holy
See and Palestine (proof); I could not find the full list of Observer Organizations and Media; Further information: Detailed list of participants — three PDF documents dated 11 Dec...
Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, and for
Climate Change, Barry Gardiner recently told the BBC's Daily Politics «we have to make sure that those people who are in this country illegally are removed
from this country... I'm very happy to
see a target of the number of those people that we want to remove».
He said Lib Dems had
seen off opposition
from Tory Eric Pickles to low carbon homes and Michael Gove wanting to drop
climate change from the national draft curriculum for geography.
«The sites that have been excavated are those that the international community has prioritized, but you could
see Greenlandic scientists targeting other ones, for example sites that are at risk of loss
from climate change.»
To find out how people are experiencing
climate change, Warner, van der Geest and their colleagues went to nine countries in Asia, Africa and Micronesia, surveyed 3269 households, and conducted 100 focus groups and interviews (
see «Voices
from the front lines «-RRB-.
Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts
from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of
climate change to
see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.
In fact, nukes and
climate change are closely linked given that some
see nuclear energy as one way to reduce emissions
from burning fossil fuels.
«It's a way to monitor
climate change by continuing to measure the deviation [of the MPP]
from what we have
seen in the past,» she says.
«With the rise of ecohydrology as a discipline, we can now work across scales —
from the individual tree to the mountain stream — to
see the actual effects of species
change in relation to
climate.»
Public art displays large enough to be
seen from space appeared at 18 locations worldwide in the lead - up to the United Nations
climate change talks in Cancún, Mexico.
Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet
from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.
So it argues that we must learn to cope with diverse
climate shifts (
see «How to survive
climate change,
from the people doing it «-RRB-.
When comparing the history of hydrological
changes in the region with artifacts
from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt
climate change» as
seen in the marine core, the study states.
And those five problems are
climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we
see that
from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.
«We
saw so many people affected by the earthquake that were sleeping outside without any shelter
from mosquitoes, so we were worrying that the region's
changing climate could facilitate the spread of diseases,» she said.
«When you read descriptions
from the 1940s and compare them with the
climate of today, you don't need to be a scientist to
see there's been a
change,» Parzinger says.
Many in the developing world
see the whole idea of geoengineering as a ruse by industrialised nations to excuse them
from making serious cuts in emissions of the gases causing
climate change.
At the heart of man - made
climate change, Greenland's ice sheet is both stunning and fragile when
seen from the air.
Using data collected by thousands of volunteers through «citizen science» schemes, responses to recent
climate change were
seen to vary greatly
from species to species.
It was clear that
climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could
see that it was very difficult to
change the energy industry
from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.
«And I have to say that, with 97 % of scientists stating that
climate change is manmade, I'm encouraged to
see that some of my colleagues
from across the aisle have given voice to the minority 3 %,» Swalwell continued, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
Both tree species have
seen many
climate changes during their time on Earth —
from extremely warm periods to ice ages — and have slowly advanced across the landscape.
You suggest that activists
saw climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the science and caused «pushback»
from the other side.
Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be
seen even at the coarse European scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected
from climate change.
These corals didn't seem to mind the fluctuations in local acidity that they created, which were much bigger than those we expect to
see from climate change.
These molecules control the
climate, so following them allows us to understand the history of Mars over the last four billion years and to track the
change from a warm and wet
climate to the cold, dry
climate we
see today.
Either «we have to
see the coal industry dwindle and disappear or sit back and
see what impacts we get
from climate change, both of which are not good alternatives.»
«To
see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be substantial impacts
from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.
BANGLADESH is one of the countries at most risk
from climate change, as it is low - lying and could be swamped by rising seas — particularly if they rise by several metres (
see «Ice sheets on course for collapse «-RRB-.
Kilpatrick explained that the effects of
climate change are expected to be
seen at the edges of species» geographic ranges, as species adapted to warm
climates move further north and cold - adapted species retreat
from the southern parts of their ranges.
I would like to
see a post
from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic
climate change.
I would like to
see more discussion of the reasons for the increase in probability regarding man induced
climate change and how one goes
from a 60 percent probability to a ninety plus probability.
Following the leak of internal Heartland Institute documents, six universities with faculty listed in Heartland's budget for work relating to denying the science or implications of global
climate change received letters
from Greenpeace asking for conflict of interest investigations (
see the Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage).
The consequences of
climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as
seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer
from climatic shifts.»
In fact, scientists have long recognized the importance of solar variability as one of the factors governing
climate (
see the very scholarly review of the subject by Bard and Frank, available here at EPSL or here as pdf) An understanding of solar variability needs to be (and is) taken into account in attribution of
climate change of the past century, and in attempts to estimate
climate sensitivity
from recent
climate variations.
With regard to health specifically, the state's leaders publicly acknowledge the threats of
climate change and have committed to taking action against them, even in a conservative state that helped elect a federal administration that
sees little, if any, danger
from human - caused
climate change.
Over the next century the world could
see an uptick in the number of deaths related to air pollution because of
climate change, according to a new study
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.