Sentences with phrase «about urban climates»

Every community should create a department of flora and fauna and establish development strategies that use knowledge about urban climates.

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«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

There is a need for a massive re-think about how we build community, rural and urban communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self - reliance in the face of climate change.

In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.

Martha Stewart and David McCann with Clinton Climate Initiative talk about urban energy efficiency.

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Despite their status as invasive or dangerous, these plants have immense value and can teach us about climate change adaptation and how to survive NYC's harsh urban conditions.

Why is it that climate sceptics have been going on about the Urban Heat Island * being the cause of the observed temperaure increase found in the global averages, if, as you say, there is no increase in the global averages?

In this editorial, Steve E. Koonin, Undersecretary for Science in the Department of Energy during President Barack Obama's first term and current director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, argued that while there is agreement that the climate is changing, there is no scientific agreement about the implications of climate change.

ZCO2 and UN CC: Learn have partnered to increase awareness about climate change sensitive issues in the urban context of Rio de Janeiro's low - income communities.

Those who follow our series will probably recall his name — thus far we've already discussed 6 of Urban's publications about climate and extinction risk.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

I see you wrote 6 paragraphs about your supposed climate «skepticism» arising from the urban heat island effect, but I see not a single word of explanation about why the UHI effect would turn a non-warming trend into a warming trend.

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This data could even be used to educate the community about the urban heat island effect, weather, and climate.

That we have a serious and much greater effect on our «local» urban climate was something Emperor Nero knew about.

Such changes might depend on a social movement for climate stabilization that supports long - term changes in social norms (e.g. about family size), greater availability of mass transit, climate - friendly urban design, or other actions that are impractical on the short term but on a longer time scale increase the plasticity of potentially high - impact behaviors.

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The incorporation of climate change adaptation into each urban centre's development planning, infrastructure investments and land - use management is well served by an iterative process within each locality of learning about changing risks and uncertainties that informs an assessment of policy options and decisions.

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In a new video, municipal officials, urban experts and local residents from around the world talk about urban challenges, solutions for climate - friendly cities and future needs for low - carbon urban development.

As the latest IPCC report noted, «Poor people living in urban informal settlements, of which there are [already] about one billion worldwide, are particularly vulnerable to weather and climate effects.»

I'd give it better than 50 - 50 that talking about surface temperature without at least a footnote to UHI — the Urban Heat Island effect — says a lot more about the lack of integrity of modern climate research that anything else.

How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of cclimate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of cClimate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of cclimate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climateclimate?

In January 2012, climate researcher Trevor Prowse put questions to the Bureau of Meteorology about the results charted above, making the point that as the 14 tidal stations are mostly free of urban heat effect, all are at sea level and are well scattered around Australia, they may be more accurate than any other land - based data.

«I Just Want To Feed My Family» Speaking about urban gardening in the region, Neveen Metwally, a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Agriculture Climate in Cairo, emphasized the importance of focusing on the needs of regular people:» «I can say to someone, «A rooftop garden will help the environment,» and they'll say, «No, thank you — I just want to feed my family.»

There are some examples in my book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, about the needs and wants of diverse groups looking for different types of housing, and how a good number of us want a walkable urban environment.

Research the causes that are important you, be it climate change, urban development, food systems or early childhood education, and learn more about how you can be of use.

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There is no question about that, and there are a lot of things contributing to it: climate change, a century of fire exclusion, and a growing wildland urban interface (WUI).

His specialty is explaining scientific studies for lay audiences, including recent stories about riverless urban areas in the Great Lakes Basin, the impact of climate change on rare plants and the use of sex pheromones to combat the invasive sea lamprey.

Journalism major Colleen Otte has covered a wide range of environmental topics for Great Lakes Echo, including stories about the impact of climate change on Isle Royale National Park, the use of satellite imagery to study lake trout spawning areas, solar energy incentives and the expanding wild - and - urban interfaces in the Great Lakes Basin.

Cities can update their climate projections and urban climate change action plans as scientific understanding improves and city leaders learn more about resiliency, but there is no reason to delay climate action planning.

Australia About Blog The 10th Making Cities Liveable Conference is a platform for government, academic and industry professionals to discuss public health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change, urban design, biosecurity and more.

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While the impact of climate change on health was not explicitly raised in the session summaries, Mark Butler talked about the «often enormous synergies» between good health policy and climate change / urban planning policies when he co-chaired the session on health inequalities and whole of government challenges.