Sentences with phrase «already warmer countries»

Not exact matches

The exquisite venue, often billed as «The Home of Squash», features some of the warmest and most humid courts in the country, which serve to make the already intense matches that little bit tougher.

As early as 1988, in his first term as a Senator, he was already warning the country of the dangers of global warming and climate change which were then considered non-issues in both national and global context.

The prime goal of this new regime must be to limit global warming to no more than 2 ºC above the pre-industrial temperature, a limit that has already been formally adopted by the European Union and a number of other countries.

Even as the United States and other countries explore ways to cut emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming, some warming is already locked in, the latest big studies have firmly concluded.

As I wrote the other day, it looks like countries are going to remain focused on addressing real - time problems related to energy security (most notably high oil prices) for the time being, even as evidence builds that global warming could fuel turmoil, particularly in already - troubled places like sub-Saharan Africa, in the long run.

Global warming is already having severe impacts on developing countries, like Bangladesh, Vietnam and China, which are producing the majority of apparel for the United States.

While the Earth's climate does not respond quickly to external changes, many scientists believe that global warming already has significant momentum due to 150 years of industrialization in many countries around the world.

In May, the U.S. Global Change Research Program published its third National Climate Assessment, which argues that human - induced warming is already affecting a number of regions in the country and that the effects will only worsen.

Warmer ocean temperatures could also increase the destructive potential of cyclones and storm surges to which the country's coastal areas are already prone.

The kinds of natural disasters that global warming will create more of — droughts, cyclones, forest fires — seem to trigger armed conflict in countries that are already ethnically factionalized, he said.

«Avoiding a two degree warming was already hard when all of the key countries were rowing together,» said Michael Oppenheimer, a climate researcher at Princeton University.

The Sierra Club said the action would give the area over to the oil industry, while ignoring the place's importance to the Gwich «in Nation, create permanent drilling damage to one of the country's last wild places, and cause irreversible climate impacts in a state already warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country.

Dr. Richard Muller's Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST) made headlines when he announced his acceptance of what climate scientists had already been saying for over 15 years — yes, people are responsible for unnatural climate variability that scientists have documented — and surprised the country by becoming an advocate for solutions to global warming.

When mitigating anthropogenic global warming is projected to require greater than 80 % lower fossil energy use, how do we provide the transport fuel and energy for rapid growth by developing countries while sustaining OECD economic growth when the Available Net Exports of crude oil — after China and India's imports — have already declined 13 % since 2005, and Saudi Arabia may need to import oil by 2030?

With Himalayan glaciers receding at a rate of 30 meters to 60 meters per decade alongside decreased snowfall and ice melts, global warming is dramatically altering water resources in this already impoverished mountain country.

For a country that is suffering already from global warming, more needs to be done.

Many cities, in this country and abroad, already have strong local policies and programs in place to reduce global warming pollution, but more action is needed at the local, state, and federal levels to meet the challenge.

«The countries of the world have agreed to try to minimise global warming, and the debate has now moved on to exactly how to achieve this — but we will have to live with some changes that are already unavoidable.»

THE Rudd government is expected to avoid spending $ 600 million in next month's budget to meet its Copenhagen climate commitments by instead rebranding aid dollars it has already pledged to help developing countries tackle global warming.

• Human health — Effects of global warming on humans» health includes exacerbating health problems that already exist, increases in ill - health in many regions and especially in developing countries with low - income, and greater likelihood of injury, disease, and death.

Even though the Dutch government already had a reasonably ambitious GHG emissions reduction plan in place, the court held that it was insufficient given international recognition at COP16 in 2010 that developed countries need to reduce their emissions 25 to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 in order to avoid 2 C of warming.

A much more serious concern is that the 1 degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature that's attributable to global warming could already be threatening tropical biodiversity and reducing crop yields in densely populated countries in Africa and southern Asia.

Note also that increased heat stress due to warming of the past few decades is already enough to affect health and workplace productivity at low latitudes, where the impact falls most heavily on low - and middle - income countries [135].

At the most recent international meeting on global warming, held in Buenos Aires last December, a majority of the delegates supported the establishment of a fund to aid countries already suffering from the early effects of global warming.

Mr. Trump withdrew the US from the global climate agreement which nearly 200 countries signed in December 2015 in an effort to combat global warming and help poorer countries adapt to an already - changed planet.

With the U.N. - affililated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) already warning of declining grain harvests due to extreme weather, a U.S. study released last week suggests that global warming could cause world agricultural systems to face possible collapse by 2080, with countries in the south being the hardest hit.

The Lancet medical journal has had two special editions on the subject during the past year, which show that children, the most vulnerable in any community, are already dying in large numbers in poor countries as a result of a warming world.

HectorK, «The Lancet medical journal has had two special editions on the subject during the past year, which show that children, the most vulnerable in any community, are already dying in large numbers in poor countries as a result of a warming world.»

If Argentina instead focuses on planning for a managed decline of already producing fields, emissions from the country's oil and gas sector could fall largely in line with the rate of reductions needed to keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

Some businesses are already arguing that the US withdrawal puts them at a competitive disadvantage, and these voices will become louder as countries move closer to the net - zero - emission future required to limit warming to 2C.