Sentences with phrase «associated impacts on global climate»

Taken together, these efforts will enable a better understanding of present - day CH4 budgets and the underlying environmental drivers that will help scientists predict future CH4 release and the associated impacts on global climate.

Not exact matches

Such findings indicate that few places on Earth will be immune to global warming and that the tropics will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as increased tropical storm intensity.»

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

For example, if unabated climate change results in a famine in Kenya, or the Maldives is lost to rising sea levels, the loss of life and culture won't have much impact on the global economy, but I think we can all agree that there is a significant non-economic loss associated with these types of events.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

«Increasing weather volatility or other long - term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients... we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas...» — Chipotle 2013 Annual Report

His research focuses on the representation of clouds and convective storms in the GISS global climate model and their role in cloud feedbacks on climate change, as well as climate impacts associated with storms.

«It also should be recognized that anthropogenic emis - sions of air pollutants of direct health concern are, in many cases, associated with concurrent emission of pol - lutants that have important impacts on global climate (e.g., carbon dioxide, black carbon, sulfur dioxide, and others).»

Arctic sea ice loss can be an example of a tipping point, but it's primarily a tipping point for nothing else than itself (i.e., Arctic sea ice loss, and associated ecological systems, etc)-- but without much impact on the energy budget of the entire planet or on global climate sensitivity.

Climate change is causing widespread thawing and degradation of permafrost, which has associated impacts on infrastructure, ecosystems, and the global carbon cycle.