Sentences with phrase «while climate impacts»

The CVF seem to be sensing that parties are sleeping on their laurels while climate impacts ravage their countries, threaten their very existence and cause serious and costly damage and loss of livelihood.

While climate impacts vary significantly geographically, communities around the world face common and significant water - related risks.

While the climate impact of the tar sands and Northwest coal exports are both undeniably grim, it is the more visceral concerns about groundwater pollution that have energized both liberal environmentalists and conservative representatives (eg Nebraska's governor) to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

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So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

Imagine your business making a big impact solving problems like hunger, poverty, war, violence, and catastrophic climate change while making a healthy profit.

«While there are small marginal groups within evangelical Christianity who are often quoted in the press in opposition to climate change action, almost all major global evangelical bodies including the Lausanne Movement have declared their commitment to care for God's creation and to serve the poor affected by climate change impacts.»

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iclimate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

During the summer months, while exercising, or even spending time in a warm and dry climate may also impact the amount of fluids each individual woman needs.

While the climate change impacts of aviation still give me huge cause for concern, as a West Londoner I think we would be mad to give up the economic advantage that Heathrow offers, particularly given the changes Heathrow have now made to their proposals.

«Given that the leading cause of power outages is extreme weather — which is exacerbated by climate change — the Trump administration's head - in - the - sand approach would actually undermine grid resiliency and reliability while promoting climate change and its catastrophic impacts,» he said.

«NYSTA's knowledge of highway use and regulation and traffic impacts, while important, is highly limited within the context of a complex environmental review covering surface and groundwater, soils, bedrock and geology, storm water, air quality, habitat, and climate, among other areas of specialized knowledge and expertise,» they wrote.

Several new laws effective Jan. 1 will impact family budgets while trying to improve New York State's business climate.

While the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for theWhile the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for thewhile promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for the 1 %.

While many other bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have produced consensus reports on climate change scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break tClimate Change, have produced consensus reports on climate change scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break tclimate change scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break through.

The simulations showed that while dingoes had some impact, growth and development in human populations, possibly intensified by climate change, was the most likely extinction driver.

While natural atmospheric variation was largely to blame, climatologists caution that rising greenhouse gas levels could exacerbate the impact of such natural climate anomalies.

How can we feed a growing population while at the same time coping with the impacts of climate change on agriculture?

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Writing in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, the University of Manchester researchers argue that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial to reducing humanity's longer - term impact on the planet, will not eliminate violent storms, tornadoes or flooding and the damage they cause.

One of these trips happened in 2014 while Lee and Rice colleagues also were studying how a flare - up of Cretaceous - era arc volcanoes along the U.S. Pacific rim had impacted Earth's climate through enhanced volcanic production of carbon dioxide.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds that climate change is unequivocal and that humans influence climate, while the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate Climate Change (IPCC) holds that climate change is unequivocal and that humans influence climate, while the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate climate change is unequivocal and that humans influence climate, while the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate climate, while the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate Climate Change (NIPCC) is skeptical of the human impact on climate climate change.

Scientific American spoke with Rosenzweig, head of the climate impacts group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, while she prepared her Tarrytown home — threatened by trees listing in the wake of Sandy — for yet another northeaster storm.

The study found that a rapidly warming climate would cause many species to expand into new regions, which would impact on native species, while others with restricted ranges, particularly those around the tropics, are more likely to face extinction.

Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.

While Yahtse Glacier may be ignoring climate signals for now, Larsen and his colleagues aren't about to discount the impact of recent warming trends entirely.

While previous studies had examined the impact of climate change - induced weather patterns on violence and the increased danger of violence in weak or failing states, this is the first study to demonstrate that the combination of the two risk factors is even more dangerous than they would be separately.

While the African Union concentrates on strategies to mitigate the devastating financial effects climate change is having on Africans, I worry instead about its impact on our bodies.

While climate researchers struggle to refine their projections of the changing global climate and to anticipate the social impact of those shifts, a growing number of scientists are realizing that the past may contain valuable lessons about our future.

I oppose «cap and trade» and other big government schemes because they will destroy jobs while likely having minimal impact on the climate.»

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

«While it is impossible to detect the impact from a specific letter, just like we can't attribute a specific storm to climate change, we can hope that repeated blasts will get their attention,» Green says.

While it is still a subject of research how the Arctic under climate change impacts the rest of the world, this study lends further support that a changing Arctic impacts the weather across large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere population centers.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

«While the climate pledges lay the foundation for a faster transition to a low - carbon economy worldwide, more is needed to bolster the commitment to the below 2 degrees goal,» explains Elmar Kriegler of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Reclimate pledges lay the foundation for a faster transition to a low - carbon economy worldwide, more is needed to bolster the commitment to the below 2 degrees goal,» explains Elmar Kriegler of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ReClimate Impact Research.

The climate impact of methane differs from that of CO2 in that methane is a transient gas, while CO2 accumulates.

In addition, while the death of small trees may affect the dominance of trees in a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate's health, especially due to the important role that trees play in the carbon cycle.

While El Niño is a cyclical climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean — marked by warmer ocean temperatures in the tropics and a weakening of the usual easterly trade winds — it can impact weather around the globe.

Thus it is very important to know what the real impact of historical solar changes is, as 0.1 K in the past, results in climate sensitivity for anthropogenic at the high end, while 0.9 K results in a very low effect of anthropogenic, if the instrumental temperature trend of the last 1.5 century is used as reference.

While there is certainty that future climate change will impact cotton production systems; there will be opportunities to adapt.

While Pollard's research focuses on understanding the microbiome through bioinformatics and modeling, other projects study human disorders such as diabetes and asthma, the impact of the ocean and soil on climate change, and the influence of plants, animals, and water on food production.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

My second Sidney Byers Scholarship will allow me to continue with my PhD studies and to work on my dissertation, which will be about understanding perceptions of local mountain herders towards climate change, while investigating its impact on their daily life, routines and livelihoods.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

And while Arctic warming may be clearest in the winter, the biggest difference in the pole - to - equator temperature gradient is seen in the summer, study author Dim Coumou of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change bClimate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change bclimate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change bclimate change by 2050.

While climate models all predict permafrost thaw as high northern regions warm, they differ on how severe the impacts are likely to be, the paper explains.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

So, while we discovered an abundance of research emphasizing the impact of a positive school climate, the challenge for our group was to listen to each other - and to the broader community of educators and stakeholders - and identify recommendations that would create meaningful change in our district.

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While the growing popularity of e-books is definitely good for business, it's certainly having its impact on our budgets, especially in the current climate of fiscal constraint that so many public libraries are struggling with.