Sentences with phrase «about slowing climate change»

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Meat Free Monday is about eating less meat in order to slow climate change, help the environment and live a healthier life!

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

The governor has been slow to embrace some environmental causes — he was notably careful in his rhetoric about climate change and he delayed a decision on fracking in the state for years.

«We should not be complacent about continued subsidies from nature in slowing climate change.»

But two groups with the power to do something about slowing down climate change — the politicians and the industrialists — do not yet recognise the urgency of the situation.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

One thing that struck me, however, was that although the evidence of climate change is overwhelming in «Chasing Ice,» there's very little about slowing or stopping the planet from warming.

Model studies for climate change between the Holocene and the Pliocene, when Earth was about 3 °C warmer, find that slow feedbacks due to changes of ice sheets and vegetation cover amplified the fast feedback climate response by 30 — 50 % [216].

I wrote about that consensus last year in covering the reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but also wrote about scientists» frustrations over trying to convey the importance of a slow - motion disaster.

The data show that the sun's variations have been small over the times we care about, the climate responds to variations in sunshine caused by orbital changes, but these are slow.

Those concerned about global warming (including at least one study author) are stressing that a longer evolutionary timeline implies the bears» adaptation to climate change in the past was a slow process (meaning the speed of change now poses new threats).

When introducing his first entry on this blog a few weeks ago, Mr Revkin spoke about «slow drips», how changes in the climate take place so slowly over time that they are like slow drips (I think that is what he meant).

Nature is kicking back on us because we're just slow learners about hurricane infrastructure preparations as well as not paying enough attention to the real world consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

If it tells you anything more generally about GCMs, it tells you that in order to get the present day climate right, they have made compromises that tend to make them slower to change than nature is.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

Learn more about black carbon by watching Stop Soot: The Easiest Way to Slow Climate Change, an animated video.

In addition to raising doubts about climate science and about the need to slow climate change by reducing emissions, the company site omits any discussion of the costly consequences of climate change, choosing instead to focus exclusively on high - end estimates of the costs of reducing emissions.

You can not talk credibly about lowering emissions globally if, for example, you are slow to acknowledge climate change; if you undermine calls for an effective carbon price; and if you always descend into the «jobs versus environment» argument in the public debate.

Robert I Ellison: Dynamical complexity explains both persistence and abrupt shifts in climate data — and demands that we change our expectations about future behaviour from slow and gradual to abrupt and potentially large.

After talking with dozens of climatologists and related researchers, David Wallace - Wells writes about what will happen to the Earth and human civilization without taking «aggressive action» on slowing climate change.

Dynamical complexity explains both persistence and abrupt shifts in climate data — and demands that we change our expectations about future behaviour from slow and gradual to abrupt and potentially large.

Learn more about seven species that may be the most affecting ambassadors for fast, strong action to slow down climate change.

Most often if you have uncertainty about the effects of what you are doing, you slow down until you know more about it, yet neither advocate slowing down except as a by - product of looking for energy efficiency and reduced emissions that they suggest would happen anyway without the motivation of their unknown climate change effects.

The report is framed around communicating about climate change effectively — but read more closely and you'll quickly see that the reason we need help here to begin with is that humans have some pesky attributes, ones that render us pretty poor at grappling with slow - moving, long - range, collective problems like climate change.

«If we don't do something» about slowing the impact of climate change, he said, «we give up any ability to stave off ocean acidification and sea level rise.»

Point above being that one could write a long list of reasonable initiatives without mentioning anything about greenhouse gases or climate change, which could arguably be good in general, but possibly also slow the change, should it happen in the first place of course.

It's an appropriate name for a group that's attempting to slow some of the runaway misinformation about climate change, by doing what scientists do with their published work: review it.

Model studies for climate change between the Holocene and the Pliocene, when Earth was about 3 °C warmer, find that slow feedbacks due to changes of ice sheets and vegetation cover amplified the fast feedback climate response by 30 — 50 % [216].

All of this is bad news for anyone who cares about reducing pollution, whether to slow climate change or simply clean the air.

With a general slow - down in global economic activity, plus the rise of more rightwing, inward - looking political parties in many developed countries, there are doubts about how quickly funds will be mobilised for the developing world to fight climate change.

When I wrote about Dr. Lomborg's proposal to focus less on climate change and more on problems like malnutrition and disease, he told me: «I don't think our descendants will thank us for leaving them poorer and less healthy just so we could do a little bit to slow global warming.

In an email to the Guardian he says: «Climate change is no longer something we can aim to do something about in a few decades» time, and that we must not only urgently reduce CO2 emissions but must urgently examine other ways of slowing global warming, such as the various geoengineering ideas that have been put forward.»

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In one of its occasional assessments, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the cowinner with Al Gore of the Nobel Peace Prize — posited a scenario in which the global economy would grow at about 2 percent a year for the next 100 years (it's growing at more than twice that pace currently) with «fragmented» and «slow» per capita economic growth and technological cChange — the cowinner with Al Gore of the Nobel Peace Prize — posited a scenario in which the global economy would grow at about 2 percent a year for the next 100 years (it's growing at more than twice that pace currently) with «fragmented» and «slow» per capita economic growth and technological changechange.