Sentences with phrase «biggest impacts of global warming»

The biggest impacts of global warming will be from the shifts in the frequency and duration of extreme events, not the slow rise in the average temperature, it concluded.

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As members of society, the way that we act has the ability to impact others in big ways (global warming, racism) and in small ways (person talking on cell phone during a movie, smoker blowing smoke in your face as they pass you on the sidewalk).

One of the biggest lingering issues in the global warming slowdown is the full impact of the natural temperature cycles of Earth's oceans.

El Niño is one of the biggest drivers of year - to - year variability, increasing the likelihood of warm weather in the Pacific Northwest and cooler weather in the Southeast as well as a host of other global impacts.

The big difference, from what I can see, between protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts and acting to counter global change (warming) is that the former is twofold; 1) I know that I can make a difference of significance, and 2) the «problem» can be solved..

I'm no apologist for the failure of the U.S. to adopt meaningful national policies to address global warming, but accidentally the gas revolution in America is having a big impact.

The findings laid out below reinforce the reality that the biggest impacts of greenhouse - driven global warming still lie several generations in the future.

But efforts to tease out the impact of human - driven global warming in the region are complicated by the big influence around the Bering Sea of natural variations in ocean conditions, including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Here's a basic rundown of some big impacts we can expect if global warming continues, via the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (here and here).

However, because global warming is always of one sign, a much bigger impact is from the cumulative effects of these radiative perturbations on the climate.

However, the message was loud and clear, a cyclical global warming trend may be coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and a new cooling cycle could impact the energy markets in a big way.

The money spent on the Flannery ads would have been far better spent on ads dispelling some of the misinformation concerning the safety of nuclear energy, which if adopted in place of fossil - fuel power generation will make a much bigger impact on global warming.

An example of internal variability is El Niño, a warming cycle in the Pacific Ocean which has a big impact on the global climate, resulting from the interaction between atmosphere and ocean in the tropical Pacific.

«Our actions have a big impact on what happens in these coral reef ecosystems, which are already hit hard by other forces like global warming, ocean acidification and overfishing,» said Tissot, lead author and professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at WSU Vancouver.

One of the biggest debates in the climate change research community in recent years has been the projected impact of global warming on hurricanes.

And don't forget «Global warming is going to have catastrophic consequences, so we need to decarbonize the global energy economy» — The big lie of certainty regarding cause, effect, impacts and cost that is repeated by default conservatives everywhere, especiallyGlobal warming is going to have catastrophic consequences, so we need to decarbonize the global energy economy» — The big lie of certainty regarding cause, effect, impacts and cost that is repeated by default conservatives everywhere, especiallyglobal energy economy» — The big lie of certainty regarding cause, effect, impacts and cost that is repeated by default conservatives everywhere, especially here.

Not that I am a big fan of economic impacts, I would suggest looking at Camille vs Katrina, or likewise hurricane landfalls as far as truer comparisons, and of indirect evidence proving Global Warming.

However, The transportation provisions of the bill could be altered to have a bigger impact on fighting global warming.