Sentences with phrase «about by climate change»

Concerns about their potential vulnerabilities to extreme weather events — such as hurricanes, flash floods and sharp temperature abnormalities — brought about by climate change have also pushed these reevaluations to the fore.

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) recently announced $ 1.8 million in new funding for British Columbia - led projects aimed at finding solutions to the environmental, social and economic challenges, and opportunities brought about by climate change.

The researchers found the birds appear to be «well equipped» to cope with seasonal temperature changes brought about by climate change.

Changes in temperature, humidity and UV radiation intensity brought about by climate change could affect ozone significantly.

Adaptive responses to climate change in fisheries could include: management approaches and policies that maximize resilience of the exploited ecosystems, ensuring fishing and aquaculture communities have the opportunity and capacity to respond to new opportunities brought about by climate change, and the use of multi-sector adaptive strategies to reduce the consequence of negative impacts in any particular sector.

Just this week, Kerry introduced a bill that would help communities become more resilient so they can better withstand the weather disasters brought about by climate change.

In the recently convened COP 16 in Cancun, the challenges women face, given they are on the front - lines of the climate crisis, was a major highlight as well as how gender factors in handling the challenges brought about by climate change.

The increased temperatures and precipitation brought about by climate change have made it possible for beech trees to thrive in the northeastern U.S. and Southern Canada, and researchers say this is not a good thing.

Moreover, it must be ready to withstand the threats brought about by climate change.

But outdated maps mean that insurance estimates don't include the increased flooding risk brought about by climate change.

For example, a farm with trees will suffer less to the impacts of climate change because it will absorb some of these impacts so agroforestry is a good response to develop resilience of agrosystems to the challenges brought about by climate change» he says.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

Moreover, it must be ready to withstand the threats brought about by climate change.

Not exact matches

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

In his 2017 book «Climate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opporClimate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opporclimate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opportunity.

If you're worried about climate change, your first concern should be effective policy (by how much will this reduce emissions?)

As Harvey Death Toll Rises, Kellyanne Conway Refused to Talk About Climate Change, by Valentina Zarya

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, also said he was thinking about climate change and American competitiveness and «how much it will cost our companies,» he said, according to a tweet by a Times reporter in the interview.

Meanwhile, the former governor of the Bank of Canada raised a red flag about the «carbon bubble,» Canada's premiers agreed to develop a Canadian energy strategy that would address climate change, and Elon Musk broke ground on his Gigafactory that will slash the costs of electric vehicle batteries and, by extension, the cars themselves.

«According to the studies [the Government Accountability Office] reviewed, climate change may substantially increase losses by 2040 and increase losses from about 50 to 100 percent by 2100,» GAO wrote in a 2014 study.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

We are dedicated to increasing awareness about global climate change and the need to develop solutions that reduce the amount of pollutants created, not just by factory farming, but across all industries.

The Prime Minister seems to believe the recent moves by the US and China to battle pollution are simply a misguided response to fictional claims about climate change.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Peabody Energy has a responsibility to be honest with investors and the public about the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in announcing the settlement with Peabody Monday.

Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

Shaken by shale oil production in the United States, softening demand from China and Europe, and rising global concern about climate change, Canada's tar...

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

From those models, they can make estimates about whether a storm's wind or rain output was influenced by climate change.

David had also come across a speech by former BP chief executive, Lord Browne, in which he spoke of the warnings company scientists had sounded about climate change, and how their arguments convinced him that it was wrong to side with climate denial.

Tomorrow night, you can participate in Earth Hour, a global effort to raise awareness about climate change by turning off nonessential lights for an hour...

«The Sustainability Leaders Forum is all about encouraging businesses to step up their efforts to tackle climate change and preserve natural resources, and edie must lead by example in this regard.

«The Sustainability Leaders Forum is all about encouraging businesses to step up their efforts to tackle climate change and preserve natural resources, and edie must lead by example in this regard,» said Baker.

As he explained to the Financial Times: «[Granata and I] were both very concerned by climate change and we wanted to do something about it, so we started meeting scientists at the Polytechnic University of Milan and started research to develop that technology.»

Why Bother by Crunchy Domestic Goddess â $» CDG discusses a NY Times article by author Michael Pollan about reasons to NOT give up and throw in the towel in fighting climate change.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of climate change by reading our Losing Ground report.

It's being heavily promoted by its producers, TV journalist Katie Couric and Laurie David, the producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's campaign about climate change.

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

Whilst these blogs are popular - in terms of unique visitor numbers (and before Unity has a go at me, I know there are weaknesses in those numbers)- they tend to be written by people who write about a large number of issues and climate change is not their principle topic (or even one that they discuss very often).

Demonstrators, led by filmmaker Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro and Sally Field, crowded in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower to speak about a variety of issues including health care, labor rights, climate change and protection for immigrants, lesbians and gays.

Even climate change, which threatens the living condition of all traditional social orders and civilisations, discloses the scale of calamities brought about by this distinctively novel social sphere.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Met with much enthusiasm by the conference hall, which even managed a laugh at his weak joke about climate change deniers refusing to believe DECC exists (Ed Davey LOVED that.