Sentences with phrase «caused by climate change»

«You can never say one hurricane is caused by climate change, but you have to ask, how often will storms like Sandy occur in the future?»

Author Emily Gerrard explores this challenging dichotomy as well as possible legal redress for damage and loss caused by climate change.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) anticipates that changes to land cover and biodiversity caused by climate change, could force Indigenous people to «alter their traditional ecosystem management systems» and, in the extreme, «eventually lead to a loss of their traditional habitats and along with it their cultural heritage».

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They are caused by climate change.

Extreme weather events caused by climate change increase the risk of power outages.

So that means, taking the WHO's word for it, the 148,000 deaths caused by climate change amounted to one death in every 18,866 people living in HMDCs.

«The people in Bangladesh are being forced to shoulder huge economic and social costs caused by climate change.

The WHO's and GHF's method was to estimate the increased prevalence of malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition caused by climate change.

If the IPCC can be criticized here, it is that in condensing these results for its Synthesis Report, important nuance and qualification were lost — especially the point that the risk of drought (defined as a 50 % downturn in rainfall) «could be exacerbated by climate change», as chapter 9.4 wrote — rather than being outright caused by climate change.

A recent rise in deadly, debilitating, and expensive heatwaves was caused by climate change, argues a new statistical analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Given their findings, the researchers also argue it is safe to say that recent heatwaves — like last year's drought in Texas and Oklahoma, Russia's heatwave and wildfires in 2010, and the European heatwave of 2003 — were caused by climate change.

Even when the scary things are not caused by Climate change, like Hurricane Katrina.

As for the causes of this summer's flooding, water and environmental engineer Tariq Yousafzai says one third was probably caused by climate change, with the rest attributed to the intersection of deforestation, poor infrastructure development, and engineering problems.»

Such a policy would help solve current urgent problems facing humanity while preparing it to face future problems that might be caused by climate change.

Governor Schwarzenegger today issued an executive order (S -13-08) requiring state agencies to assess and plan for rising sea levels caused by climate change....

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What is not known is the details and degree of disturbance that will be caused by climate change.

A well - organized and vocal group of residents has taken a keen interest in municipal preparations for sea - level rise caused by climate change, often shouting their opposition, sometimes while planners and politicians are talking.

... But Sea Level Rise Will Still Take It Away It's too bad though that, according to the lead author of the IPCC climate change report, Dr Atiq Rahman, this new land will still be inundated by rising sea levels caused by climate change.

«Well, we can't conclusively say that any one weather event is caused by climate change, but events like this are what we're likely to see more frequently in a warming world.»

The United States military must entirely get off oil by 2040 if it wants to reduce operational vulnerabilities, reduce costs, stop new security risks caused by climate change and avoid the coming peak oil supply

That makes that country the culpable party for the current round of crop losses caused by climate change.

For those species where climate change has been invoked as a causal factor in extinction (such as for the case of Central American amphibians), there is low agreement among investigators concerning the importance of climate variation in driving extinction and even less agreement that extinctions were caused by climate change (Pounds et al., 2006; Kiesecker, 2011).

Remember that both gradual warming and more volatile and extreme weather are both caused by climate change.

Critics say that some aspects of the projected effects are «alarmist», such as the impact on conflict and migration caused by climate change.

While tropical storms and hurricanes start in the atmosphere, ocean temperatures can dictate their intensity, and rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change can make the storms more deadly.

Duncan Green is head of research at Oxfam GB and has written an article exploring the question of whether the drought in the Horn of Africa is caused by climate change.

A study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research also predicts that warmer oceanic and atmospheric temperature caused by climate change will produce even fiercer hurricanes in the future.

This analytical document identifies allocation provisions and institutional mechanisms that can mitigate potential conflicts between basin States in the face of increasing water variability caused by climate change.

New research suggests stony corals may fare better under the acidic ocean conditions caused by climate change than once thought.

This educational cartoon strip aims to educate young people in an entertaining and attractive way about environmental degradation caused by climate change and global warming, and the actions that can be undertaken by them and their families to attenuate these negative impacts.

After some adventures, Tore becomes aware of the problems caused by climate change and promotes the use of renewable energy in his village.

Wood said warmer temperatures caused by climate change have fueled an increase in Lyme disease, which rose from 247 cases in 2005 to 1,169 cases last year, Wood said citing data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While it is true that not all disasters are caused by climate change, extreme weather and slow - onset events can be clearly attributed to climate change, he says.

In fact, all but the one that killed the dinosaurs were caused by climate change produced by greenhouse gas.

Dust storms will become more common in the Southwest region of the United States of America as drier conditions caused by climate change kill off plant cover, raising a dust bowl specter say government scientists.

In a discussion scheduled for Friday, small island states will push to include research on the damages caused by climate change.

[For details see my previous pieces on the subject: «No, Prince Charles, Climate Change Is Not Responsible For Syria or ISIS «and «For The Last Time, No, The Syrian Crisis Was Not Caused By Climate Change» and «No, Charlotte Church, the Syrian War Was Not Caused By Climate Change».]

They actually have information and a video on their site about how to respond to floods caused by climate change.

Meanwhile, at the COP - 21 in Paris in December, developing countries will open their appeals for support and commitment from first world countries to eradicate poverty caused by climate change.

«A lot of ecologists like me are starting to think all these agents, like insects and fires, are just the proximate cause, and the real culprit is water stress caused by climate change,» said Robert L. Crabtree, head of a center studying the Yellowstone region.

The government will set aside 500 million Australian dollars to help the global treasure after years of damage from warming waters caused by climate change.

The International Policy Network, funded by among others ExxonMobil, will publish its long - awaited study, claiming that the science warning of an environmental disaster caused by climate change is «fatally flawed».

Basically, there's the natural climate variability, and then there's the variability caused by climate change.

But, look, these researchers aren't as interested in the 98 % of malaria cases which aren't»cause d' by climate change as the 2 % that they assume is caused by climate change.

Brian Anderson, a glaciologist at Wellington's Victoria University, said that the glacial retreat was undoubtedly caused by climate change.

Aside from hunger, chronic cold is the worst misery, caused by climate change fanatics like this President.

If the WHO are right, and 2.4 % of deaths from diarrhoea are caused by climate change (ie, ~ 54,000 deaths out of 2,213,000), then, in 2004, there were nearly 11,000 fewer deaths from climate change induced diarrhoea than in 2000.

Similarly, the GHF's claim that climate change causes 4.5 % of malaria cases reveals that nearly 10,000 fewer people from malaria caused by climate change in 2008 than in 2000.