Sentences with phrase «big effect on climate change»

Not exact matches

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

«We should be thinking of ways to reduce our negative effects on the natural environment and these results show that if we do basic conservation and management, it can make a big difference in terms of how ecosystems will weather climate change,» Harley said.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

But fossil fuels development and loss of vegetation does have a big effect on how a region responds and adapts to a changing climate because of the water stress it creates where drilling is occurring.

As long ago as 2005, Allen told New Scientist that the legal route would have more impact on climate change than governments: «Just the possibility of legal action would have a big effect... in boardrooms.»

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Pacific Division will convene later this month on the Big Island of Hawaii to highlight research on subjects such as the effects of climate change on coral reefs and Hawaiian mountains under the banner of «Pacific Science.»

And the new number has little effect on the big picture of climate change.

Some links on planetary motion and climate — this stuff isn't big news; the effects are extremely small and change very slowly, compared to the rate of CO2 increase from fossil fuel use.

Please don't lose the bigger perspective and the undoubted effects of high sea surface temperatures, of which a component is human induced climate change, on these events.

The continent's policies most likely have the biggest effect on aerosol - related climate change.

Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet and we are already seeing the effects on our oceans and marine life across the globe.

The biggest problem with «writing off solar effects on climate as insignificant», at the same time attributing most of the recent changes to AGW, is that it does not appear to stand up over the longer term.

In effect, we're exporting our dirty work offshore, making minor tweaks to business as usual here in BC, and giving ourselves a big pat on the back for being at the cutting edge of the fight to stop climate change.

As the controversy over the proposed rules continues to unfold, two important questions loom: What is the likelihood that these new regulations will actually be put into effect, and how big an impact would they have on the fight to slow climate change?

Incidentally, in the current issue of the Aussie mag Quadrant, Matt Ridley calls Climate Change: The Facts «a fascinating new book» and uses it for a marvelous tour de force on Big Climate's corrupting effect on science.

And although «weather improvement» is not quite the same thing as «solving» climate change — here we get to a big parallel with the more globally ambitious forms of geoengineering, especially the SRM techniques that seek to create a compensating cooling effect on a planetary scale: they are (likely) much cheaper than emissions reductions.

Add to that the role of the moon and big planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the effects on the geomagnetic field and galactic cosmic radiation and little is needed — indeed little room is left — for postulating a human causation as an additional factor let alone a rational explanation for all or even most of observed climate change.

The main thing to note is that she is claiming that changes to atmospheric CO2 levels have big warming effects on the climate and will cause a global catastrophe.

Or is the future shape of the risk still so vague and uncertain that we are stuck having the whole country underwrite it until the effects of climate change on big storms come into clearer focus?

So far it appears the effect of climate change on science might be bigger than the effect of science on climate change.

Climate change is having a bigger effect than previously thought on bird species.

But an «insensitive» climate means that changes in the incoming solar radiation, greenhouse gases, and so on, aren't going to have a big effect.

If relatively small changes in CO2 levels have big effects — meaning that we live in a more sensitive climate system — the planet could warm by as much as 6 degrees Celsius on average with attendant results such as changed weather patterns and sea - level rise.

Other big stories on the horizon include climate change's effects on oceans, food, water, and biodiversity around the world.

These previous mass extinction events (also known as the «Big Five») are hypothesised to have been caused by combinations of key events such as unusual climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, and abnormally high stress on the ecosystem (except in the case of the Cretaceous, which was caused by an asteroid impact and subsequent effects).

The primary consensus with regard to the «biggest problem with climate change» is the effects it will have on the biogeosphere.

It's only tangentially related to climate change discussions, but a microclimate in Death Valley, California has given rise to some interesting physical effects and much controversy regarding the ways big heavy rocks can be seen to have moved around on the bottom of a playa lake, untouched by external, unnatural forces.

Verges stated that the biggest impact of climate change is not the direct effect of the temperature on a particular species but the way species respond to each other.