Sentences with phrase «associated with climate»

Part of that officer's brief is to examine niche business opportunities associated with climate change, including alternative energies and reforestation.

Length of the solar cycle: an indicator of solar activity closely associated with climate.

A significant number of palaeolimnological records from lakes in the circumpolar Arctic have shown synchronous changes in biological community composition and sedimentological parameters associated with climate - driven regime shifts in increasing mean annual and summer temperatures and corresponding changes in thermal stratification / stability and ice - cover duration (e.g., Korhola et al., 2002; Ruhland et al., 2003; Pienitz et al., 2004; Smol et al., 2005; Prowse et al., 2006b).

However, we also are reviewing our criteria for acquisition, looking to identify more «upland» properties that will not be submerged by higher tides or damaged by flood surges associated with climate change.

The authors focus on how certain big digital media players have covered issues associated with climate change.

Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas): «Contrary to the claims of those who want to strictly regulate carbon dioxide emissions and increase the cost of energy for all Americans, there is a great amount of uncertainty associated with climate science.»

Extreme weather events associated with climate change pose particular challenges to human settlements, because assets and populations in both developed and developing countries are increasingly located in coastal areas, slopes, ravines and other risk - prone regions (Freeman and Warner, 2001; Bigio, 2003; UN-Habitat, 2003).

Furious volcanic blasts have been historically associated with climate change: an eruption of Mt Tambora in what is now Indonesia in 1815 was followed by Europe's notorious «year without a summer» in 1816, along with widespread harvest failure, famine and outbreaks of disease.

The later onset of climate change - fueled heat waves across the Great Plains is found to be a result of the projected increase of the Great Plain low - level jet and moisture transport, attenuating the surface warming associated with climate change.

In the AMS letter, this suggestion follows an entire litany of «harms» associated with climate change (many of which are not supported by data, but inferred by theory.)

Psychologists have an ethical obligation to take immediate steps to minimize the psychological harm associated with climate change, to help to reduce global disparities in climate impacts, and to continually improve their climate - related interventions...

Hence I set the uncertainty of the damage function to 65 % of the mean uncertainty associated with climate sensitivity.

This comment urges that climate mitigation has no effect on avoiding extreme weather events associated with climate change:

Even though there may be subtle changes from year - to - year in the magnitude of extreme events (although I am not sure that one can demonstrate this statistically) I am sure that expenditures on the shorter term will be more cost effective than planning for the changes associated with climate change.

The old climate framework failed because it would have imposed substantial costs associated with climate mitigation policies on developed nations today in exchange for climate benefits far off in the future — benefits whose attributes, magnitude, timing, and distribution are not knowable with certainty.

In 2005 the UK Government hosted the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference to take an in - depth look at the scientific issues associated with climate change.

To examine the impacts of these changes, particularly those associated with climate research, and ways to mitigate those impacts, NASA and NOAA asked the NRC to add this task to its ongoing «decadal survey,» Earth Science and Applications from Space.

This time they're radically overvaluing the value of coal and oil companies, by failing to put a reasonable price of the risk associated with climate mobilization.

When we see «prosperity» on RC posts associated with climate change amelioration, we can just feel the hand reaching deep into our wallets and removing the contents.

For those who claim that burning coal is safe and harmless, the numbers tell a very different story, even without including the effects associated with climate change.

As Skeptical Science has discussed, the costs associated with climate change impacts are calculated through the «social cost of carbon» (SCC), which is a very difficult value to estimate.

I can't say I read this blog all the time, but I can say quite a bit about time series, and many years ago, was closely associated with climate scientists.

Conceivably this continued temperature excursion above the trend line is not a statistical fluke, but rather is associated with climate forcings and / or feedbacks.

We will have to deal more and more, on a daily basis, with the uncertainties and vulnerabilities associated with climate phenomena and its economic, social, ecological and environmental impacts.

Investigators are using the discovery process to look for evidence that the oil and gas giant has been downplaying and disregarding risks associated with climate change in its communications to shareholders, to the extent the company has committed securities fraud.

Spaceindustrynews: Mid-elevation forests — those between approximately 6,500 to 8,000 feet (1,981 to 2,438 meters) in elevation — are the most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation and snowmelt associated with climate change, finds a new University of Colorado Boulder - led study co-funded by NASA.

This sixth installment of our series covers events occurring throughout 2012 that point to disparities between what was known and knowable by leadership at the Exxon Mobil Corporation, and what the oil giant was communicating to its shareholders regarding the risks to its operations associated with climate change and its impacts.

Lynne cites a study dubbing this «motivated avoidance» and talks about how success stories can act as an antidote to the fear associated with climate disruption.

In other words, Pachauri — who likes to talk about social justice and the moral obligations associated with climate change — is the worst kind of hypocrite.

Our ambition is to be a country prepared for the low carbon economy with more efficient and inclusive options to address the vulnerabilities and risks associated with climate changes and follow the development path.

Thousands of goats whose fine wool is weaved into pashmina have perished in extreme cold being associated with climate change.

This is the fifth installment of our series analyzing how Exxon Mobil Corporation has communicated to its shareholders the risks associated with climate change over the last two and a half decades, using the company's annual 10 - K reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Governments adopted the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts with a focus on developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

As detailed in the most recent installment of our ongoing investigation into how the Exxon Mobil Corporation has characterized risks to its business operations associated with climate change in its annual 10 - K reports to shareholders, year after year, the company has alleged that one of the risks to its operations is the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a public policy to mitigate global climate change, but has failed to list climate change itself as a risk when communicating with its shareholders (See previous segments of our investigation here: Part One (1993 - 2000); Part Two (2000 - 2008); Part Three (A)(2009), Part Three (B)(2010), Part Three (C)(2011), and Part Three (D)(2012)-RRB-.

In particular, it states that reducing vulnerability to current climatic variability can effectively reduce vulnerability to increased hazard risk associated with climate change.

Debates over discounting are longstanding in climate analysis, but as my colleague Jerry Taylor wrote last year, economists who study climate change are inclined to choose lower discount rates because of the inter-generational transfers and long timescales associated with climate change.

The workshop included presentations on climate change, health impacts and future health problems associated with climate change.

«The potential remobilization of wastes that were previously regarded as properly sequestered, or preserved for eternity, is an instance, possibly the first, of a potentially new pathway to political dispute associated with climate change.»

, economists who study climate change are inclined to choose lower discount rates because of the inter-generational transfers and long timescales associated with climate change.

Cook doesn't even pretend to know how many climate scientists believe in «significant risks associated with climate change.»

The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change — specifically: floods, cyclones and droughts — and place them in relation to factors influencing vulnerability.

EcoAct, a global climate strategy consulting agency, helps businesses to factor in the risks associated with climate change in order to increase their competitiveness, while fostering the transition towards a low carbon economy.

In light of all this, we have at least to consider the possibility that the scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the climate problem — or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the climate problem.

«No fewer than 97 % of climate scientists now endorse the scientific consensus on the reality, causes and significant risks associated with climate change.»

The scientific uncertainties associated with climate prediction are the basis of most of the arguments about the significance of climate change (25), and as well are the basis of much of the polarized public opinion on the political aspects of the matter.

The three hazards associated with climate change that affect the marine environment are no strangers to air and land either.

We have at least to consider the possibility that the scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the climate problem — or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the climate problem — in its effort to promote the cause.

Leuliette, E.W., R.S. Nerem, and G.L. Russell, 2002: Detecting time variations in gravity associated with climate change.

Some of these observed circulation changes are associated with climate change.

For example, I've tracked how nearly every major severe weather event has in the media become linked to or associated with climate change.