Sentences with phrase «adapt to global warming no»

The fund would cover plans to reduce emissions, protect tropical forests, and adapt to global warming.

Lomborg, whose 2001 book suggested the planet should adapt to global warming rather than wasting resources trying to prevent it, has made his name by accusing scientists and others of exaggerating the extent and effects of climate change.

Meanwhile, poorer countries have often asked for financial aid from wealthier countries to adapt to global warming.

Scientists say that millet cultivation needs to be further encouraged to adapt to global warming that leads to losses in crop yields

For example, China has used its climate pledge as leverage to get more international aid from rich countries, like the U.S., to help poorer countries adapt to global warming.

We're working for solutions that will reduce emissions to levels compatible with a healthy planet, preserve forests and help nature adapt to global warming.

Further divisions appeared in the fragile developing - country bloc when the US offered to take part in setting up a $ 30 billion «fast start» fund over the next three years to help developing countries adapt to global warming and grow on a more climate - friendly path.

Excerpt from Rolling Stone (208)------------------------- Katrina should cure us of the happy delusion that we can easily adapt to global warming.

Last week it was time for a new announcement, when the Brazilian government presented the draft for a plan to fight and adapt to global warming.

However, the big unknown remaining is whether corals can adapt to global warming, which is now occurring at an unprecedented rate — at about two orders of magnitude faster than occurred with the ending of the last Ice Age.

REDUCING their body size over the generations is known to help take the heat off animals struggling to adapt to global warming.

The brown anole lizard in the Bahamas is raising questions about whether some cold - blooded species may be able to adapt to global warming.

To many, that finding was illustrative of a lack of commitment from richer countries to help developing ones adapt to the global warming that they have done the most to cause.

In the future this could help breed plants that are adapted to global warming.

As for «adapting to global warming»: First, consider how little we «adapted» in the aftermath of Katrina — just as at risk as before with faulty dikes ready to collapse in the next big hurricane, and this is in OUR country and LOCALIZED.

Not exact matches

IFOAM raised awareness of its campaign messages, high sequestration, low emission, food secure farming which highlights the superior performance of organic agriculture in preventing global warming and adapting to it.

Now that some global warming is a foregone conclusion, the U.S. must develop strategies to adapt argues a new government report

With three billion people living in the affected regions, at least a billion of whom are already malnourished, figuring out how to adapt agriculture to global warming couldn't be more urgent.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

Less genetically diverse populations are less able to adapt to changes, such as disease or the changes to their habitat brought about by global warming.

It gives examples of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and city actions to adapt to heavy rainfall events.

Proponents of demand - side climate action are already talking about a $ 100 billion climate fund to help poorer nations adapt to the results of global warming.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

«They are uniquely adapted to cold temperatures, but these same adaptations make the species vulnerable to global warming.»

«By understanding how plants have adapted to different climates, it will give us a head start in breeding crops able to cope with global warming.»

«In order to respond to global warming, we need to understand how the climates of the future will be different than the familiar, historical climates that we are adapted to.»

While the Antarctic region still provides a sanctuary for micro-organisms, global warming in the Arctic means mammals adapted to the cold are fast running out of places they can live, according to Kleinteich.

By reducing the vulnerability of the developing world to these extreme events, we'll have gone a long way to helping them adapt to the more serious things that might come about from global warming.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that, to have a 50 per cent chance of avoiding 2 °C of global warming, which is probably too dangerous to adapt to, the energy sector can only emit 884 gigatonnes of CO2 between 2013 and 2050 (Redrawing the Climate - Energy Map, 2013).

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

In addition, the effects of global warming and its associated disturbances (including floods, droughts, insects, and fires) will be compounded by pollution, resource exploitation, and habitat fragmentation, adding further challenges to species» ability to adapt.

As greenhouse gases cause global temperatures to rise, however, sharks are once again swimming in oceans that are warmer and more acidic, forcing them to adapt to their new environment.

Recent drought gives a taste of things to come for Kruger National Park, South Africa, as global warming outpaces species» ability to adapt

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

With high metabolic rates and thick fur, pikas are well adapted to the cold temperatures at high elevations, but these same adaptations make them vulnerable to global warming.

Adapted from a 1982 French graphic novel, Snowpiercer drops us in the year 2031, 17 years after a desperate attempt to curb global warming instead resulted in a new ice age.

Snowpiercer is adapted from French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, which finds the Earth plunged into a new ice age after a disastrous attempt to fix global warming.

Snowpiercer, adapted from Benjamin Legrand and Jacques Lob's graphic novel by the director, is set in a world that has been all but destroyed by a catastrophic attempt to curtail global warming.

In the current era in which the problems of global warming can lead to planetary catastrophe, every city has to have a plan for adapting to climate change, especially thosesubject toextreme events.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

Which regions were making the biggest changes to adapt to present or future global warming?

«All governments have to look at the unique situations they have, in the environment of global warming, and make sure they are adapting appropriately.

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According to this logic, the individual «good - hearted U.S. citizen» — although he or she possesses «vast wealth», and although he or she «helped create» the problems caused by global warming & climate change — is not to be held individually responsible for helping (the people in) poor countries adapt to probems caused by CO2 emissions.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

It is in the social sciences and in the humanities where questions are addressed about how governments and corporations might best mitigate and adapt to the causes and consequences of global warming.

Nor is it mentioned that global warming will cause major problems and that if our entire response is via «adaptation», we're going to have to «adapt» A LOT, painfully.