Sentences with phrase «adapting to warming»

But the limit may find itself under pressure in a world that has to start adapting to warming, rather than just seeking to avoid it.

The theme is adaptation, but they are only adapting to warming.

This analysis should be conducted now, before we spend vast sums trying to mitigate global warming (and even then, one can make a very good argument that adapting to warming is cheaper than preventing it, but again that's a different post).

While mitigation climate change is essential adapting to and through centuries of warming is paramount... the stories of animals, plants and people adapting to a warming world express trust in our ability to adjust to changing conditions, even radical ones, and to establish a voice for resilience in uncertain times.

This october why not head to the wilds of far north queensland to discover the impact of climate change on this world heritage listed ecosystem and see how endemic animals of the area are adapting to a warming environment.

Prominent scientists say researchers and policy makers need to focus more on adapting to warming and on controversial geoengineering techniques to limit it

The main reasons the business community should stand on the side of clean energy innovation are that it will, in the long run, save companies money, provide better energy security, reduce healthcare costs, and reduce costs associated with having to adapt to a warmer climate.

Humans could possibly adapt to a warmer climate.

IN HOT WATER Staghorn coral (Acropora millepora) may be able to last 100 - to 250 years thanks to its ability to adapt to warming waters.

If emission reductions exceed pledges made by countries to date under the Paris Agreement, coral reefs would have another 11 years, on average, to adapt to warming seas before they are hit by annual bleaching.

Ants adapted to warm climate were not able to survive in cooler temperatures.

«Since no organisms living in the ocean today would have time to adapt to these warmer conditions, many will either go extinct or migrate away from the western Pacific, leaving this area with much lower biodiversity.»

Richard Shine at the University of Sydney in Australia hopes the animals will adapt to warmer temperatures.

Concern is greatest in the tropics, where most farmers can not afford fungicide and yellow rust has not typically been a problem: until now, the disease has not been adapted to warm temperatures.

Data from remote coral reefs in the central Pacific suggest that, although many corals are harmed by heat, certain kinds can adapt to warmer water

Boston lies in zone 6, but the Arboretum constantly tests species that are adapted to warmer areas, such as some hardy types of camellias.

This has prolonged the growing season and opened up new habitats for species adapted to warmer conditions, Smol says.

Local languages are disappearing, too: The report calls for redoubled efforts to document and study indigenous cultures now, as groups that have depended on the frozen Arctic from Alaska to Scandinavia are adapting to a warmer climate or leaving altogether.

«Atlantic salmon show capacity to adapt to warmer waters.»

«We're saying, «If the future climate were here now, what would need to happen to the grid to adapt to that warmer world?»»

Scientists were also surprised to find that the reef in Tanzania was able to adapt to warmer water temperatures.

He documents the threat to ice posed by climate change but focuses on practical solutions that will help us mitigate the damage and adapt to a warmer world.

One implication of their findings, presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that moving to higher elevations to adapt to a warming climate could drive species into habitats with a whole different set of spatial properties.

As many as 3,331 people annually could die from heat waves by 2080 in New York City alone if no steps are taken to adapt to warming temperatures and reduce emissions, a new study warns.

The latest report blends key points of the group's earlier reviews of climate trends, the possibility of adapting to a warmer climate and strategies for cutting carbon emissions.

Some vineyard managers are finding ways to adapt to the warmer climate.

So if a frog breeds in autumn because the temperature is right, it might adapt to warmer temperatures by breeding in December, January, or February.

It is not yet clear whether populations that currently bask on land during cooler months will adapt to warming sea temperatures and begin to bask exclusively in the water, as do some other populations around the world.

Kilpatrick explained that the effects of climate change are expected to be seen at the edges of species» geographic ranges, as species adapted to warm climates move further north and cold - adapted species retreat from the southern parts of their ranges.

This could make life harder for most living things, unless they can quickly adapt to a warm new world.

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.

A new study revealed that coral reef fish that are unable to adapt to the warming ocean are forced to relocate to cooler parts of the ocean.

Those living in city slums unrecognised by law must not be forgotten as local governments try to adapt to a warmer world

Tropical plants did well during the warming, perhaps because they were already adapted to warm conditions.

Even corals adapted to warmer waters, such as those living along reefs in Kimberly Australia, are particularly vulnerable to climate change and increased rates of bleaching.

In laboratory experiments and some field observations, corals showed some ability to adapt to warmer waters, but there doesn't seem to be a similar capacity to adapt to a long - term drop in the pH of shallow layers of seawater.

Even Pachauri, head of the IPCC, has put his name with others on an Indian government report downplaying the need to adapt to warming.

There is also little scientific knowledge about how species will adapt to warming temperatures.

As the first nation to get adaptation money from the Least Developed Countries Fund, Bhutan is something of a pioneer among developing nations in their quest to adapt to a warmer future, and the struggles at Thorthormi glacier illustrate the enormous obstacles that adaptation efforts still face.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that this effect will do anything but get stronger from here on as the vast «crops» of oceanic bacteria adapt to both warmer ocean waters and increased CO2 and nutrient levels and simply increasingly cool the global atmospheric climate simply by «growing faster»!

We can cross our fingers that we adapt to a warming climate, and that earth's natural systems adapt too.

(5) Given that the celebrated Paris Climate Agreement will have negligible effect on global temperatures even if every country complied, would our limited dollars be better spent on adapting to a warmer climate than on trying to prevent it?

would our limited dollars be better spent on adapting to a warmer climate than on trying to prevent it?

Now they will likely go deeper into debt to adapt to a warming world that they did little to cause.

«Global energy use and the resulting emissions may have to change or we will have to adapt to a warmer world; arguably, it's likely we will need to do both,» S&P notes.

The hard truth is that the people of the world are going to have to adapt to a warmer planet — regardless of the cause of that warming.

For Bender: why the hockey stick matters: 1) it is used to prove the sun does not have a big effect 2) it is used to test / tune GEMs and estimate CO2 sensitivity 3) it is used to argue that temperatures are unprecedented 4) it is used to argue therefore that organisms and man are not able to adapt to this warming 5) it is useful for whacking deniers

However, despite the shocking revelations of how climate change has affected life on Earth, the study says that these responses or distress in nature could be observed and used to create ways on how nature could adapt to the warming climate.

Adapt to warming due to human - caused climate change in the Northeast U.S. by changing over your heating and cooling sources.

Our study shows that if corals can adapt to warming that has occurred over the past 40 to 60 years, some coral reefs may persist through the end of this century,» said study lead author Cheryl Logan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in California State University Monterey Bay's Division of Science and Environmental Policy.