Sentences with phrase «also see climate change»

Not exact matches

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

But the president has also pledged to «respond to the threat of climate change» in his second term and would rather not be seen as eating his words by approving Keystone.

The two were also agreed that larger national discussions need to be held around climate change, economic development and accommodation of aboriginal rights and title — and that LNG development should be seen as an opportunity to move on these issues.

«I also can't see her getting behind the Keystone pipeline in a serious way given the emphasis on climate change within her party, particularly the more progressive left,» Hagle said.

The labor - backed party also would like to see Cuomo do more on criminal justice reform and to address climate change, though Lipton allowed he has made «significant strides» on those issues.

This phenomenon is also seen for other emotive subjects such as climate change and vaccination, where some people reject the scientific consensus despite the large body of evidence supporting it.

(We may also need to augment renewables with a steady source; see «New Tech Could Make Nuclear the Best Weapon Against Climate Change.»)

They are also the key factors that permit us to tackle some of the vexing, even life - threatening global problems we face — climate change, loss of biodiversity, and the destruction of our marine environment (see Next Wave's recent feature for further information).

«We can see it with our eyes, and we also clearly see the progression of climate change in our data.

«Regional changes are mostly due to natural variability but on top of that we see this pronounced overall weakening in summer storm activity,» says co-author Dim Coumou, «This is also something projected by climate models under future emission scenarios.

Advocates also see in synthetic biology tools for combating climate change and water deficits.

In addition to showing how plants tolerate extreme conditions, which we're likely to see more of as the climate changes, the discovery also holds promise for practical applications involving novel light - reflecting surfaces.

Given the White House's preoccupation with health care and climate change, however, NASA officials and their industry backers see the new policy as welcome proof that Obama also cares about space flight.

Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be seen even at the coarse European scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected from climate change.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

«She also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but again I have not seen clear signs of leadership on energy issues, other than a pattern of consistent votes in favor of fossil fuels and against taking action on climate change,» Squillace said.

But after it became clear it was real, some also became annoyed at what they saw as more of a communications campaign than a commitment to tackling climate change.

«Climate change has evident physical and mental health effects if you look at certain outcomes, such as the hurricanes we had last year, but we also need to pay very close attention to the mental health of people in everyday life, as we can see this, potentially, as a creeping development,» Helm said.

(See also: climate change, diet, smoking.)

It also looks like the UK Government has released a climate change report today stating that we will be at 400 ppm in 10 years and as the EU sees a safe level of 450 ppm we will need to have cut CO2 emissions by 65 % within a decade in order to avoid levels of 450 ppm and over.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

While cryogenic treatment would also see a 25 percent drop in efficiency, and therefore result in electricity costs increasing around a quarter, the researchers believe these would be offset by benefits to society, such as reductions in health - care and climate - change costs.

There are some various proposed mechanisms to explain this that involve the surface energy balance (e.g., less coupling between the ground temperature and lower air temperature over land because of less potential for evaporation), and also lapse rate differences over ocean and land (see Joshi et al 2008, Climate Dynamics), as well as vegetation or cloud changes.

Climate change is also seen as the primary driver of melting ice and rise in sea level that threatens to submerge coastal cities and island nations.

One type of inverse method uses the ranges of climate change fingerprint scaling factors derived from detection and attribution analyses that attempt to separate the climate response to greenhouse gas forcing from the response to aerosol forcing and often from natural forcing as well (Gregory et al., 2002a; Stott et al., 2006c; see also Section 9.4.1.4).

While previous years have also seen large spikes in November - December temperatures, these peaks are occurring on top of a upward trend, says Prof Jennifer Francis, an expert in Arctic climate change at Rutgers University.

Also, areas that are getting hotter because of climate change could see more cases of gestational diabetes, the study authors theorized.

Probably having somewhat to do with the climate change coming from the Northeast but also because I wasn't seeing anyone regularly for the care of my skin.

The scenes of Eleanor and Joe also stand out as the only ones grounded in any sense of contemporary reality; she ribs him about climate change, gun control and religion, though of course their clashing values are no match for the filmmakers» need to see Eleanor settle down.

McDonagh also used his stage time to frame the film within the current political climate: «Our film is a hopeful one in lots of ways, but it's also an angry one, and as we've seen this year, sometimes anger is the only way to get people to listen and to change,» He added, «What I'm most proud of, especially in this Time's Up year, is it is a film about a woman who refuses to take any more shit.»

In addition to the outdoor sculptural works (which apparently remain accessible even in winter) 2016 also saw the start of the Verbier 3 - D Glacier Project, four years of interplay between artists, locals and environmentalists looking at the challenges of climate change and chronicling its impact on the local environment.

I've been discussing climate change with lots of people at campaign stalls recently, and it has opened my eyes as to how far this «balanced» climate sceptic reporting is shaping the thinking of even those people who are concerned and want to see some action («I am aware that flying might make climate change worse, but I'll still do it because the warming may just be part of a natural cycle — I would stop if I was more certain»; «I am worried, but I have also heard that it is just water vapour which makes us warmer, so we just don't kow if this CO2 thing is true, everybody seems to have a different agenda» etc.).

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

A natural coupled mode of climate variability associated with both surface temperature variations tied to El Niño and atmospheric circulation changes across the equatorial Pacific (see also «Southern Oscillation Index»).

Also, I'm not sure I see strong support for this concluding sentence: «Although polar bears have persisted through previous warm phases, multiple human - mediated stressors (e.g., habitat conversion, persecution, and accumulation of toxic substances in the food chain) could magnify the impact of current climate change, posing a novel and likely profound threat to polar bear survival.»

The resilience of people also varies, while many richer nations may be able to weather climate change, many poorer nations are already seeing distress in their water and food supplies.

I have also worked closely with other social scientists at NCAR [see for instance a book I put together for the Global Change Instruction Program: Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities].

I also think that paleoclimate scientists tend to see more possibility of abrupt climate changes than climate modellers do.

Off the coast of Washington we also see shifts in fish species for probably different reasons than the Bering Sea, i.e., warm waters moving north, rather than changes in primary production (but both likely related to anthropogenic climate change).

And crucially, churches in the U.S. have just begun to take up this issue in big numbers, which they see as a moral issue of not just protecting God's Creation, but also not inflicting direct harm on helpless people around the world.A new coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, and churches have been pivotal in changing the momentum for the new «Climate Security Act» co-sponsored by Senator John Warner.

Also, things are the way they are — setting aside the politics (for recieving nations) and psychological costs (for those moving), it would make sense to some extent for people to move toward places set up for efficient wealth generation rather than to spread the wealth among the people whereever they are, so it wouldn't make sense to try to wipe the slate clean of the advantages gained from history let along geography, although the later does bring up the issue of climate change refugees, and some wealth generating capacity is spread out (land), and of course some clean energy resources are rather abundant in the developing world or parts thereof, and energy needs differ geographically even for the same lifestyle — see above... this whole paragraph should reference itself....

See also the Commentary on this article in the same issue: Malaria risk and temperature: Influences from global climate change and local land use practices Jonathan A. Patz *, and Sarah H. Olson.

Obama's hype about the promise of natural gas as a transitional fuel also helped me see that however well - intentioned, parts of his plan are potentially inadequate for the scale of the climate change crisis.

As a climate scientist, I see many changes coming that worry me, but I also try not to confuse my feelings about them with the full complexity of reality, and I do see some rays of hope amid the storm.

I'll also quote some social scientists who specialize in environmental risk and response who see little hope that heat waves will be the element that prompts citizens to support a strong climate bill or change behaviors in ways that cut combustion of fossil fuels.

I expect to see crisis responses to declining ecologies we've quilted and hacked to death with our machetes and also climate changes to occur in my remaining lifetime.

Given that we know there are multiple drivers of climate operating (the sun for sure, but also volcanoes, aerosols, greenhouse gas changes, land use change, etc.) the only way to do attribution properly is calculate the physical fingerprints of each of these drivers across multiple variables and see which combinations provide the best fits.

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

That year also saw the birth of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It will also be very interesting to see how Hurricane Sandy affects attitudes to climate change of both people inside and outside affected areas.