Sentences with phrase «adverse impacts from climate change»

As the Millennial Generation, they grew up experiencing adverse impacts from climate change and environmental destruction.

Plant from multiple species, seed sources, and climate zones, particularly from locally - adapted sources Manage to maintain genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity Create opportunities for rapid natural selection for species with high predicted potential for adverse impacts from climate change (Sturrock et al. 2011; Erickson et al. 2012; Alfaro et al. 2014; FAO 2014) Plant drought tolerant and native species Retain diversity of species and promote legacy trees Manage or restore mosaic (variable pattern of species and ages) and maintain or improve landscape connectivity Plant in asynchronous rotations and manage for diverse age classes Thin, plant, and use prescribed fire to favor species adapted to disturbance (Millar et al. 2007; Vose et al. 2016; Keane et al. forthcoming)

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Michigan State students note how Willie Soon now refutes research indicating adverse impacts from ocean acidification, a global crisis that is married to climate change (both problems stem from humans burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).

We, heads of state, ministers and representatives of government from Africa, Asia, Caribbean and the Pacific, representing some of the countries most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change:

In light of the adverse impacts still resulting from your corporations activities, we must request that ExxonMobil end any further financial assistance or other support to groups or individuals whose public advocacy has contributed to the small, but unfortunately effective, climate change denial myth.

At least two municipal governments reassured investors that they were «unable to predict whether sea - level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect...»» (emphasis added)

That's disappointing: from Australia's point of view, a cheap, safe method of CCS would have resolved the climate change problem, at least as regards electricity, with no adverse impact on our coal industry.

It is also rampant in studies projecting specific adverse impacts from human induced global warming and climate change.

The call to action was sparked from the fact that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate Climate Change does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate cChange does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate climate changechange.

A 2017 disclosure by San Francisco reads: «The city is unable to predict whether sea level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect on the business operations or financial condition of the city and the local economy.»

Again and again proponents of action on climate change have responded to economic arguments against taking action to reduce the threat of climate change by making counter economic arguments such as climate change policies will produce new jobs or reduce adverse economic impacts that will follow from the failure to reduce the threat of climate change.

A 2012 report from the World Bank called «Turn Down The Heat» stated that climate change impacts will have «adverse implications for efforts to reduce poverty,» including reversing possible improvements made in malnutrition and health services (emphasis added):

Climate change raises questions of both distributive and retributive justice because: (a) Climate change is a problem caused by some people that inflicts harm on others; (b) Some of the poorest people in the world are extremely vulnerable to its impacts and can do little to protect themselves from those impacts; (c) The adverse impacts to some of the world's poorest people are likely to be catastrophic; and (d) Huge reductions from status quo emissions are necessary to prevent catastrophic warming.

Because a high percentage of the arguments made by most proponents of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate impacts that citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds of millions of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware of:

Ironically, adverse impact on agriculture from a wind farm development has been used by at least one wind farm opposition group as justification for its activities, but climate change will have an incomparably greater adverse impact on agriculture than any wind farm.

The current concentration is about 394 parts per million (ppm), and McKibben had considered naming the group «450,» after a concentration goal some researchers say would help protect the planet from climate change's most adverse impacts.

These four strategies all aim at preventing the impacts of climate change from having severely adverse effects on human well - being.