Sentences with phrase «additional climate change»

That means that adaptation to cope with the climate change that is already «built in» to the system and mitigation to reduce additional climate change are both crucial and urgent.

At the press conference announcing this «Virgin Earth Challenge», Branson was joined by Al Gore, and the panel of judges for the competition includes additional climate change celebrities: James Hansen, James Lovelock, Tim Flannery, and Sir Crispin Tickell.

Additional climate change implications include increased rains and severe weather, which could lead to soil inundation and tree falls.

Indeed, S&O admit that there are «countless additional climate change communications from ExxonMobil that could be included in future work» (p. 2), thus undercutting the integrity of their own sampling.»

With warming greater than 2 °C, there is a high risk of abrupt and irreversible changes to ecosystems such as forests, which would lead to «substantial additional climate change» considering that trees sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide.

Whether one believes the IPCC or not, the risk is about 2.5 to 6.5 degrees of additional climate change caused by humans with current fossil fuel intensive behaviour by the end of this century, dwarfing natural cycles, and with continuing consequences for thousands to tens of thousands of years.

Climate feedbacks are processes that change as a result of a change in forcing, and cause additional climate change.

This inertia implies that there is additional climate change «in the pipeline» even without further change of atmospheric composition.

Vegetation changes associated with a biome shift, which is facilitated by intensification of the fire regime, will modify surface energy budgets, and net ecosystem carbon balance, permafrost thawing and methane emissions, with net feedbacks to additional climate change.

Especially because of past emissions of long - lived heat - trapping gases, some additional climate change and related impacts are now unavoidable.

This inertia implies that there is additional climate change «in the pipeline» even without further change of atmospheric composition.