Sentences with phrase «accelerate climate change with»

A growing body of evidence has linked accelerating climate change with observed changes in fish and wildlife, their populations, and their habitats in the United States.

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These include poisonous methane emissions from cows that accelerate climate change and higher health care costs associated with unhealthy diets, which are ultimately paid for by society.

At the same time, it enables work with on a bilateral basis to accelerate the development and deployment of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding and salinity brought on by climate change.

The main focus of the summit, with the theme, «Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.&Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.climate change.&change.»

Combined with a decrease in atmospheric water vapor and a weaker sun due to the most recent solar cycle, the aerosol finding may explain why climate change has not been accelerating as fast as it did in the 1990s.

As climate change converges with human encroachment in these mountains, the degradation of high Andean ecosystems is accelerating.

Changes come even with lower warming What was most surprising, Diffenbaugh said, is that the accelerated melting of the snowpack would occur even if the world were able to limit warming to the target of a 2 - degree - Celsius increase agreed upon in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.

DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate climate systems and climate climate change.

It will seek to: (i) crowd in finance with the objective of reaching $ 2bn to tackle coastal erosion, flooding and climate change adaptation and pollution; (ii) foster political dialogue within and among countries; and (iii) accelerate knowledge transfer on coastal management to and among West African countries.

Founder and President at GEC; UNEP Reform Project Leader at Tema at Linkoping University; SCO Project Leader at Vermont University; My mission is to contribute myself in global environmental and sustainable development governance and act to accelerate transitioning the society to green economy with sustainable development, and to join together with world visionary leaders to fight and combat the climate change that threaten life of all.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

(1) Lowman had already created hurricane radar paintings once before with Hurricane Katrina, and with climate change expected to accelerate the frequency and intensity of tropical storms, he has created perhaps his most cynical body of work yet.

The Paramagnetic Oxygen Transport Thesis explains the failure of Brewer - Dobson equatorial ozone formation, the Ozone Hole in 1983, continued Antarctic cold temps concurrent with Arctic warming, mid-latitude ozone formation which accelerates jet streams and elongates Rossby wave loops, and wandering magnetic poles which control extreme weather and climate change.

GHG - reducing technologies with carbon trading and carbon taxes can accelerate decarbonisation, reduce the risks of dangerous climate change, and contribute to economic development and human well being.

So there is a significant issue there, and it is currently being debated under the framework convention on climate change and how to manage it there, but it is also here is the opportunity under the Montreal Protocol to begin to deal with the issue by accelerating the phase - out of HCFCs in developing countries....

China and other globalizing countries with little or no environmental regulation expand coal fired power and automobile usage accelerating GHG emissions and thus accelerating global climate change.

So it felt like a fresh spring breeze to see constructive discussion sparked by «Fighting Climate Change With Innovation,» a Foreign Affairs essay proposing a public - private mix of clean - energy investments, policies and incentives aimed at overcoming technological hurdles and accelerating deployment.

«But with the rapidly accelerating rates at which the ice is melting, and in the light of all the other, well - publicized lines of evidence, most scientists would be hard pressed to find mechanisms that do not include human - made climate change,» he added.

I, along with an increasing number of climate experts, agree with you that cleaning up carbon dioxide that has accumulated in the atmosphere will prove critical for curtailing climate change, and that it is essential to accelerate the development of carbon removal solutions today.

Although this century kicked off with the hottest decade on record, 2010 was the hottest year and in 2011 the Arctic may have broken both the summer and the winter melting record, there has still been heat missing: the rise in global temperatures is smaller than what one would expect from the rise in greenhouse gas concentrations, which — despite UNFCCC attempts to tackle climate change since Kyoto 1997 and Copenhagen 2009 — has even accelerated.

A — Mark: «One of the big surprises for me was that extinction risk accelerates with climate change.

I realize I was trespassing with anecdote in a discussion about science and climate, which requires more than a decade to begin to show trends, but it seems to me that as recent incidents display to some extent climate change under way, it is unwise to ignore the future, which might just accelerate rather than boinging back to neutral.

Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas with the potential to accelerate climate change if emissions substantially increase.

The magnitude of observed declines in snowpack in the Southwest, in the range of 20 %, is similar to the increases in runoff associated with thinning from this study, suggesting that accelerated thinning may at least offset or ameliorate runoff losses due to climate change.

This discovery creates further issues with climate models describing accelerating sea level rise, such as those with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its followers with NOAA anclimate models describing accelerating sea level rise, such as those with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its followers with NOAA anClimate Change (IPCC) and its followers with NOAA and NASA.

It's getting tougher for many of us to square these accomplishments, and our national character, with the vision of those who insist, in this age of accelerating climate change, that it is our destiny to become the world's gas pump — with Keystone XL serving as one of the hoses.

Icebergs have always calved off of glaciers where they hit the sea, but the rate of calving is accelerating with climate change.

The best available scientific evidence suggests that changes in the climate observed over the past few decades are likely to accelerate, with implications for the health and welfare of every community around the world and the performance of every sector of the economy.

Again, this is a new phenomenon and, as with more photosynthesis from plants, has a mutually reinforcing (positive feedback) effect; accelerating the rate of climate change.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

Rapid climate change must be countered with accelerated action.»

It is driving the rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources with a dramatic increase in associated emissions and consequent climate change; it is accelerating the loss of biodiversity and widespread extinction of species; it is intensifying the growing shortage of fresh water to meet human needs.

In their report last year, they have concluded with absolute certainty that humans are not only causing, but accelerating climate change.

The campaign was launched at the «VELOCITY — Accelerating Climate Action» event, which saw The Climate Group partner with Formula E, VICE Impact and Spring Studios to demonstrate the need for faster action, greater impact, and convergence across all sectors in the fight against climate Climate Action» event, which saw The Climate Group partner with Formula E, VICE Impact and Spring Studios to demonstrate the need for faster action, greater impact, and convergence across all sectors in the fight against climate Climate Group partner with Formula E, VICE Impact and Spring Studios to demonstrate the need for faster action, greater impact, and convergence across all sectors in the fight against climate climate change.

It is unknown whether the species that have been exhibiting a range - shift response (Chen et al., 2011; Parmesan, 2006; Parmesan and Yohe, 2003; Poloczanska et al., 2013; Root et al., 2003) will be able to accelerate their dispersal velocities to keep pace with the climate change expected over the next few decades under business - as - usual scenarios.

Recruit others in its industry to shape policies that accelerate markets for low - carbon goods and services: WRI's policy engagement guide, published with the UN and others, highlights how the lighting industry and the information and communications technology industry are advocating strong policies that promote energy efficiency and climate change adaptation.

However, the accelerated retreat of glaciers, combined with greater melting of these ice sheets, suggest that earlier projections of sea - level rise over the next century — such as in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — are conservative.8, 9

Dr. Theodore Landscheidt identified a mechanism that may explain changes in the solar variables that are linked with changes in Earth's climate: Interactions of the Sun with the orbital motions of the four largest planets accelerate and decelerate the Sun in a wobbling and jerky orbit about the center of mass of the solar system.

For instance CAGW didn't work for them when warming was neither accelerating or catastrophic, so it went back to Climate Change, which has nothing to with people.

1998 was near the tail end of a decade that jumped well above the mean average longer term rate of increase (there is a thing called climate variability, it didn't disappear with climate change, and if anything probably only intensified;, and ocean warming and glacial melt both accelerated during this period, taking more energy out of the air — see below).

«Natural Disasters Will Accelerate» With Climate Change: Bill Clinton

Growing Arctic ship traffic will bring with it air pollution that has the potential to accelerate climate change in the world's northern reaches.

Bangladesh's tumultuous relationship with the ocean looks set to continue in the future as climate change accelerates and widespread impacts begin to be felt.

Significant progress in reducing emissions and limiting climate change could be achieved if companies 1) unequivocally communicate to the public, shareholders, and policymakers the climate risks resulting from continued use of their products, and therefore the need for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the 2 °C global temperature target; 2) firmly reject contrary claims by industry trade associations and lobbying groups; and, 3) accelerate their transition to the production of low - carbon energy.

These runs are examined for evidence of accelerated climate change associated with the removal of sea ice, particularly due to increasing surface albedo feedback.

With flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutiWith flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutiwith the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutions.