Sentences with phrase «assess whether climate change»

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To speculate whether that summit will break the climate - change impasse, it helps to assess what, exactly, happened last month in Copenhagen.

Their income, level of education, whether or not they were newcomers to their areas as adults, whether they rented or owned their home, their political party affiliations, their perceptions of the effects of conservation rules on their communities, and their beliefs about climate change were all taken into consideration when their answers were assessed.

«Hybrid» solution with small barriers affordable now Assuming a «middle climate change» scenario of about a foot of sea - level rise by midcentury, the team further assessed the cost - effectiveness of each flood - control strategy by measuring whether its benefits, or avoided risk, would outweigh the investment costs.

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

Since premiums need to be set fairly, there is a need to assess climate change related changes in risk regardless of whether that will be a small factor in overall costs.

We compared the CAIT GHG data and the CVM vulnerability data both in 2010 and 2030 to assess whether the most heavily polluting countries were also those least vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change.

Here, we measure the current pattern of global climate change equity, and assess whether the situation will improve or worsen by 2030, using data on GHG emissions17 and newly available national climate change vulnerability assessments18.

Studies to assess whether extreme events can be attributed to climate change are published, with contributions from weatherathome data.

Now that remarkable headway has been made into understanding the physical science of climate change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestclimate change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest change, there's a feeling among climate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestclimate experts — including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestClimate Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest Change — and among funding agencies of the need to shift the focus of climate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forestclimate research from identifying the cause to assessing the impacts, whether hurricanes, oceanic dead zones or forest fires.

These plans, known in UN jargon as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), must be produced by all countries so that scientists can assess whether their sum total is enough to keep the world from overheating by 2 °C — the limit agreed by politicians to prevent dangerous climate change.

In fact, countries agreed to further assess whether the 2 °C warming limit needs to be replaced by a more stringent 1.5 °C warming limit to avoid dangerous climate change impacts.

Even so, we can still assess whether the issues discussed in the article lead to the conclusion that there is no need to worry about climate change.

She is now trying to assess whether these steps helped to lessen Sandy's impacts, which may offer a preview of the threats expected as climate change intensifies storms and raises sea levels.

Urgent policy issues that climate change research must tackle • Monitoring the trajectory of climate change to assess whether we are heading into a danger - zone and how fast / where.