Sentences with phrase «become leading climate change»

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Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.

Since stepping down as Labour leader in 2015, Miliband has become one of parliament's leading voices on climate change — and his stock appears to be soaring.

Ms Beckett led a UN Security Council debate on climate change, insisting that it has become a security threat.

Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.

«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.

One of two leading theories states that the large animals became extinct as a result of climate change.

CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, is one of the world's leading collectors and disseminators of business sector data on greenhouse gas emissions, and its annual «Global 500 Climate Change Report» has become one of the leading indicators of how corporations are responding to climate Climate Change Report» has become one of the leading indicators of how corporations are responding to climate cChange Report» has become one of the leading indicators of how corporations are responding to climate climate changechange.

But the toxic algae bloom that led to the ban is still floating around Lake Erie and ones like it could become more common as the climate continues to change in a warming world.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

New research led by ecologists at the University of York shows that certain species of moths and butterflies are becoming more common, and others rarer, as species differ in how they respond to climate change.

«Understanding water use is becoming increasingly important, given that climate change is likely to have a profound impact on the availability of water supplies,» says Sankar Arumugam, lead author of a paper on the work.

«Climate change will lead to spatial shifts in the suitability of malaria transmission, with the total area in Africa becoming unsuitable for malaria matching or even exceeding the total area where malaria will become more suitable,» he said.

The path we are on will lead to a deepening of our fire - related problems worldwide, which will only become worse as the climate changes.»

«Indigenous people are telling us rainfall and river levels have changed; the fires they're dealing with are different now; and the climate systems they used to depend on for growing crops have become unpredictable,» said Steve Schwartzman, lead author of the study and director of tropical forest policy at Environmental Defense Fund.

During the fall and spring term of CCRI the research team will consist of NASA Principal Investigators whom will lead graduate level interns and high school educators to become immersed in a NASA science research area of study related to climate change.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

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What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

I think this is a welcome development as it indicates that climate change is becoming more accepted within the international community leading to action.

As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

The man at the center of the series is M. Sanjayan, a globe - trotting conservation biologist who has become a frequent television presence, reporting environmental features for CBS News and leading a segment of last year's Showtime series on climate change, «Years of Living Dangerously.»

This can lead to a lack of political concern over this issue, and thus a lack of political action until the possibility of human control over the process of climate change becomes impossible.

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.

With climate change leading to a rise in temperatures and rapid concretisation exacerbating urban heat island effect, it has become important to develop both mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce and combat heat stress... Read More

As I wrote in a blog post a while back: «in intractable conflicts, which I believe climate change has become, introducing nuance, shades of gray, and multiple perspectives is what leads to change.»

Scientists say the state's coral reef habitats are increasingly threatened by climate change as rising water temperatures lead to more coral bleaching, which occurs when the coral becomes stressed by changes in the environment.

The paper — with its inconvenient truth about the consequences of fossil fuels — made him a target for climate deniers, but Dr. Mann refused to be silenced and has become one of America's leading public voices for a scientific and rational approach to climate change.

«There is clear scientific evidence that climate change has led to sea levels rising and that extreme weather events will become more frequent and more intense,» Mr Davey said....

Climate Week NYC, marking its 5th anniversary in 2013, is the global summit that has become a key event on the international climate change calendar; it is a meeting point for leading governments, investors, businesses, innovators and opinion fClimate Week NYC, marking its 5th anniversary in 2013, is the global summit that has become a key event on the international climate change calendar; it is a meeting point for leading governments, investors, businesses, innovators and opinion fclimate change calendar; it is a meeting point for leading governments, investors, businesses, innovators and opinion formers.

The worsening quality of air around the world is set to become the leading cause illness and death of over half of the world's population by end of the century, a study published in Nature Climate Change said.

The Heartland Institute — the right - wing think tank that, after years of defending big tobacco through the lens of «smokers» rights,» has become a leading proponent of climate change denial — included Manuel on a spreadsheet of 205 scientists and economists submitted to the EPA in May for a planned red team - blue team exercise to debate the threat posed by climate change.

We've discussed how the appetite for producing «interesting» results — which in the case of climate change means results that indicate the human impact on weather events / climate is large, unequivocal, and negative — leads to climate alarm becoming «a self promulgating collective belief.»

«For years Heartland was a minor think tank that defended the tobacco industry by fighting for «smoker's rights» but then moved into climate change and has gradually become arguably the leading denial organization,» Riley Dunlap, a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who monitors climate deniers, told HuffPost.

The institute's early study of the Earth and planetary atmospheres using data collected by satellites, space probes, and space probes eventually led to GISS becoming a leading center of atmospheric modeling and of climate change.

The impacts of climate change are becoming more frequent and devastating [1], and the world's leading scientists have issued stark warnings about the scale of the planetary emergency.

Torok / CSIRO: -LSB-...] idea of looking at the implications of climate change for what he termed «global icons» -LSB-...] One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef -LSB-...] It also became apparent that there was always a local «reason» for the destruction — cyclones, starfish, fertilizers -LSB-...] A perception of an «unchanging» environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral loss based on transient phenomena, while not acknowledging the possibility of systematic damage from long - term climatic / environmental change -LSB-...] Such a project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate change

He sums it up this way: «The climate science establishment is so focused on the fight to reduce CO2 emissions that it has ignored the bigger picture: that the Earth System is hurtling towards a new climate regime for the planet, led by abrupt changes in the Arctic as it becomes seasonally free of sea ice.

«Now, it's become so warm thanks to climate change, grape growers don't need drought to get these very warm temperatures,» said lead author Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

As a result of a nomination process that began in January, 2010, Dr. Weaver became a Lead Author for Chapter 12: «Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility» of the Working Group I contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC.»

Eventually, Raymond would rise to become chairman and chief executive, and to lead a public campaign discrediting the scientific consensus on climate change and fighting measures to control greenhouse gas emissions.

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She has become a leading advocate in addressing climate change and the health of our oceans.

«It's become so warm thanks to climate change, grape growers don't need drought to get these very warm temperatures,» said Benjamin Cook, the lead author and a climate scientist from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

It revealed that starvation and predation were the most common and consistent chick killers over the years, but that hypothermia was the leading cause of death during years with heavy rainstorms, which became more prevalent throughout the study period — a trend that is consistent with climate models projecting the effects of climate change in the region.

Before the Heartland Institute became famous for its leading role in climate change denial, the group spent many years working to defend the tobacco industry.

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page 10's Conclusion: The student's «climate change misinformation campaign is a multi-faceted scheme» statement is technically true, but regarding the assertion about «almost everything leads back to the fossil fuel industry,» this student's paper inadvertently becomes a case study of how scrutiny of every angle of such accusations does not actually reveal the appearance of a disinformation campaign created by the fossil fuel industry, but instead one apparently created and promulgated by enviro - activists, supported in a major way to this very day by character assassination accusations from a single source — Ross Gelbspan and the clique of enviro - activists surrounding him.

So, for me in the context of the absurdities often associated with the meme, I'm good with «almost» used as a tool to emphasize how climate change has become / lead to availability cascade.