Sentences with phrase «altered climate while»

Saey said the series is «not just a «woe is me» summary of the bad news on climate change, but a clear - eyed look at how conservationists are preparing for the reality of altered climate while still maintaining biological diversity and saving jobs.»

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While the risk will fall over time also without policy intervention, time is of the essence when it comes to climate change investments, and therefore policy intervention to speed up this process and alter the risk - return ratio for investors is warranted.

While many in the bird world are convinced that climate change is a major culprit for altering flowering times and therefore the relative abundance or lack of food sources, in the somewhat fustier apiarian world, the jury is out.

While it's possible that «climate change has changed the playing field by altering temperatures that now favor the pathogen,» research hasn't proved that, he said.

Co-author and UQ researcher Dr Justine Shaw said, while Antarctic was one of the planet's last wildernesses, research showed — like elsewhere — it has been altered by climate change.

While we have not experienced a climate - altering volcanic eruption for some time, there is little doubt we will again in the future.

For example, changes in Earth's atmospheric composition (especially the concentrations of greenhouse gases) may alter the climate, while climate change itself can change the atmospheric composition (for example by changing the rate at which weathering removes CO2).

Tapping the «Climate» or «D - Mode» button alters the illumination and function of the controls while the LCD flips between climate information, an eco rating, torque, orClimate» or «D - Mode» button alters the illumination and function of the controls while the LCD flips between climate information, an eco rating, torque, orclimate information, an eco rating, torque, or boost.

All manual versions feature Kia's EcoDynamics fuel - saving, CO2 - reducing measures, including Intelligent Stop & Go and aerodynamic drag - reducing measures, while automatics have an Active ECO button which alters the operation of the engine's electronic control unit and the compressor on the climate control system, bringing potential fuel savings of around 9 %.

While proving direct causation is always tricky, there's a strong case to be made that climate change has contributed to fighting in Darfur and demographic changes along the coasts of the U.S.. It's altered the distribution of diseases, the taste of wine and the geopolitics of the north pole.

A clash between North and South and the national divide over race, slavery, and the economy, the war altered American history and, while much more grave, in many ways echoes the current climate and contention in the United States.

The statement continues: «While the understanding of the drivers and consequences of climate change will continue to advance with additional research, the fundamental premise remains sound that human life has altered the atmosphere and is one of the causes of climate change.»

While the study — «The hidden risks of climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the condition that will «magnify these risks as factors such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil conditions.»

While the article still does not recognize that land conversion, particularly in the low latitudes but also in the boreal forest regions continues and, therefore, will add further to how humans are altering the climate, it is an important step for the IPCC to finally make.

Finding ways to convert carbon dioxide from an energy and industrial sector waste product to a useful commodity could spur the development of new technologies, products, and industries while limiting emissions to the atmosphere of climate - altering pollutants.

By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions of all other climate - altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change.

While actual scientists are trying to piece together every little part of an otherwise almost un-piecable long term chaotic and variable system in response now to a massive increase in net lower atmospheric energy absorption and re radiation, Curry is busy — much like most of the comments on this site most of the time — trying to come up with or re-post every possible argument under the sun to all but argue against the basic concept that radically altering the atmosphere on a multi million year basis is going to affect the net energy balance of earth, which over time is going to translate into a very different climate (and ocean level) than the one we've comfortably come to rely on.

It also backs up other research: that human artefacts are now embedded in geological strata, while human action is beginning to alter the biological cycles and atmospheric patterns in dangerous ways and has certainly begun to alter the climate cycle.

While the lives of everyone in the region will be altered by climate change, the impacts of progressive global warming will fall hardest on the poor.

• While the complex biological relationships among fisheries and other aquatic biota and physiological responses to environmental change are not well understood, positive effects such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes may be offset by negative factors such as a changing climate that alters established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships (High Confidence).

Jennifer Francis, a researcher at Rutgers University and the most prominent proponent of the hypothesis that Arctic warming is altering the jet stream around the Northern Hemisphere, told Climate Central that while the cold snap is brief in duration, it fits with patterns observed this year and in other recent years.

While vitally important, this approach has largely ignored the impact climate change has already taken on vulnerable regions around the world, particularly agricultural communities, that urgently need resources to adapt to an altered climate.

To paraphrase David Roberts, while a carbon tax is the best answer to climate change on a blackboard or in a spreadsheet, in the real world, power and special interests matter and anything that alters them in the right direction is desirable.

While the report summary runs a mere 44 pages, the full chapters are far more dense and data - rich, and they amount to a summation of almost everything that scientists have learned about the impacts of manmade changes of the climate system and how such changes may alter human society and the natural world.

While biotic interactions play a fundamental role in defining change to species distribution and communities structure [22 — 24], the degree to which ocean acidification and climate change may alter the way in which species interact with one another is not fully understood.

He expressed the opinion that it would be «arrogant» for anyone now living to suggest that we should make any effort to maintain the Earth's climate within the range of temperatures that have existed throughout all of recorded human history, while apparently not regarding it as «arrogant» for the humans of the past century up through the present to engage in activities which threaten to radically and abruptly alter the Earth's climate and ecosystems upon which not only human civilization, but the survival of the human species, utterly depend.