Sentences with phrase «as a consequence of climate change»

Because warm water holds less oxygen than cold water, oceans are expected to lose some of the dissolved gas as a consequence of climate change.

A surge in major wildfire events in the U.S. West as a consequence of climate change will expose tens of millions of Americans to high levels of air pollution in the coming decades, according to a new Yale - led study conducted with collaborators from Harvard.

Understanding how interactions among species in ecological communities will change as a consequence of climate change is a critical part of predicting the consequences for ecosystem function, and will be a focus of the team's future work.

Small countries, damaged by the excessive pollution of large and rich nations, should not be compelled to cope by themselves with the unemployment, poverty, inequality, disease, dislocation of people and the refugee communities created as consequences of climate change.

I certainly acknowledge the problem, and I recognise that where I live in the UK we will probably get off relatively lightly, at least initially, as far as consequences of climate change are concerned.

As the consequences of climate change become increasingly apparent, I am optimistic that over the coming decades most of the countries of the world will see it in their interest to maximize their efforts.

In two papers in the journal Earth Interactions, researchers have taken a closer look at the reality of this historic divide and the changing nature of the U.S. landscape as a consequence of climate change driven by ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in response to ever - more profligate human use of fossil fuels.

There were not 500 studies cited by the IPCC WGII in relation to migration as a consequence of climate change.

With an increasing number of people living close to the coast, deep ocean swell generation, and its potential modifications as a consequence of climate change, is clearly an issue that needs attention, alongside the more intensively studied topics of changes in mean sea level and storm surges.

«We all have very nasty fears that the flows of the Indus could be severely, severely affected by glacier melt as a consequence of climate change.

Climate scientist Mr. Mitchell said the Mediterranean and Middle East were likely to receive less rainfall as a consequence of climate change, adding to existing tensions over water.

In the Mediterranean biome, as a consequence of climate change, it's taking place a reduction of wetland areas and the length of their hydroperiod.

The vulnerability of the European electricity sector to changes in water resources is set to worsen by 2030 as a consequence of climate change.

But if these conflicts happen they will not be as a consequence of climate change but rather as a result of unilateral attempts by the rich and powerful to engineer futures that might be preferable to their particular parts of humanity.

This international group of prominent scientists from world class research institutions will work together to respond to some of the most pressing issues faced by humankind, as a consequence of climate change, depletion of natural resources, land degradation and water scarcity.