Sentences with phrase «about climate change on planet»

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

The Earth's climate is changing and there is concern about the potentially adverse effects of these changes on life on the planet.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

«I have concerns about the ecological impact that climate change has on our planet, especially as it relates to rising sea - levels,» Curbelo said in a statement to ClimateWire.

Helm and her colleagues found that psychological responses to climate change seem to vary based on what type of concern people show for the environment, with those highly concerned about the planet's animals and plants experiencing the most stress.

In the comparatively brief time that methane is in the atmosphere, it warms the planet about 86 times as much as the same amount of CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The bottom line, according to a group of experts not involved in any of these studies: Scientists don't know much about how sunlight interacts with our planet, and until they understand it, they can't accurately predict any possible effects of human activity on climate change.

Their teacher Andy McFadden has described the Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.»

[I] f you care about the environment and seek action on issues like greenhouse - driven climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do well to focus hard right now on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.

Question: before talking about simulating climate CHANGE, how long does the climate science community expect it to take before GCM's can reproduce the real world climate PRIOR to human induced CO2 perturbation in terms of: — «equilibrium point», i.e. without artificial flux adjustment to avoid climatic drift, — «natural variability», in terms of, for instance, the Hurst coefficient at different locations on the planet?

When we refer to «climate change» as the problem, we are talking about its dramatic changes on a planet warmed by excessive greenhouse gas emissions in a very short period of geologic time.

Climate and environmental scientists have frequently invoked the term Anthropocene to highlight the impact of humans on the planet, and even started to think about how and when to date the most significant evidence of change.

Then, in 2009, the exposure of emails between the «scientists» responsible for the data the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was putting out to scare the pants off of everyone about «global warming» — since dubbed Climategate — revealed they were not only rigging the computer models, but were increasingly worried that the planet had entered a new, perfectly natural, cooling cycle.

He also wants to have deniers debate scientists about climate change, which is like having astronauts debate flat earthers on if the planet is really a sphere.

Hear from young people around the world — India, China, New Zealand, and the United States — on how they're feeling about climate change, and what they think we can do to better care for each other and our fragile planet.

When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the oclimate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the oclimate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the oClimate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the outcome.

As you might guess, skeptics of warming were in full attack mode as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gathered in Sweden this week to approve its latest findings about our warming planet.

This is about every living person and creature on the planet, our lives and our safety being threatened by the greatest issue of our time: climate change.»

A single species that has changed the climate, become the greatest earth - moving force on the planet, and ushered in a new geological era, may also be about to become more aware of its physiological limitations.

We envision a world where our private and public leaders prioritize the protection of our planet; where solutions to remedy climate change are equitable, lift up those that are most impacted, and are rooted in racial and economic justice; and where facts win out over fiction and there is universal agreement about the impacts of climate change on the earth and all of its inhabitants.

Previewing the plan on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, Sanders emphasized the urgency of tackling climate change, saying, «I am frightened about the planet we're going to leave our kids if we don't act.»

It goes deeper, and provides more information on the fact that modern day meat consumption is the leading cause of environmental destruction and human induced climate change on our planet, yet we never hear about it.

Posted in Glaciers, Information and Communication Comments Off on This Fastest Moving Glacier On The Planet Is Telling Us A Whole Lot About Climate Chanon This Fastest Moving Glacier On The Planet Is Telling Us A Whole Lot About Climate ChanOn The Planet Is Telling Us A Whole Lot About Climate Change

There's a good deal of talk about changes to the Earth's atmosphere and it's effect on the climate of our planet.

«I believe 99.99 % of people on this planet already have the values they need to care about climate change in their heart.

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If you want to figure out how to create a discourse with those who are not dyed - in - the - wool true believers, who are sceptical of of environmentalists, aren't particularly interested in sacrificing their lifestyles and aspirations in the name of the planet, then we have to create a discourse that speaks to people's optimism, that we can innovate and invent our way through this problem and also get them focused on the reality that whatever the cause, be it man or nature, the climate is in fact changing, and that we have to do something about this.

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