Sentences with phrase «caused climate change in the future»

This makes it all but impossible to prepare rationally for very real effects we will experience due to anthropogenically caused climate change in the future.

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She hopes to pursue a higher degree in Food Science and Technology in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic causes of climate change, poor human health, and animal cruelty by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.

The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of climate change, changes observed in the climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future changes.

Understanding these unique areas is important because there are many examples of naturally occurring hybrid zones, and new hybrid zones will form in the future as climate change and human impacts cause species distributions to shift and come into contact.

Wing added: «Because climate change may cause so - called «100 - year» floods to occur more frequently, even more people may be exposed to flooding in the future.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

In view of the ongoing destruction caused by rampant deforestation, the introduction of alien species and climate change — to name but a few of the forces we are unleashing on the planet — the idea that we might deny future generations the opportunity to perform a small act of creation through cloning seems woefully short - sighted.

Future climate change, similar to the changes during the hiatus in coral growth, could cause coral reefs to behave similarly, the study authors suggest, leading to another shutdown in reef development in the tropical eastern Pacific.

The study suggests that future changes in climate similar to those in the study could cause coral reefs to collapse in the future.

«Overall, climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.&change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.&Change on Selected Causes of Death.»

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

'' [S] ea - ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next decades could substantially impact California's precipitation, thus highlighting another mechanism by which human - caused climate change could exacerbate future California droughts,» the study says.

Without a clear understanding of what caused past changes in ENSO variability, predicting the climate phenomenon's future is a difficult task.

Climate Change 2007 The Physical Science Basis, the report of Working Group I, «assesses the current scientific knowledge of the natural and human drivers of climate change, observed changes in climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.Climate Change 2007 The Physical Science Basis, the report of Working Group I, «assesses the current scientific knowledge of the natural and human drivers of climate change, observed changes in climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.&Change 2007 The Physical Science Basis, the report of Working Group I, «assesses the current scientific knowledge of the natural and human drivers of climate change, observed changes in climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.climate change, observed changes in climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.&change, observed changes in climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.climate, the ability of science to attribute changes to different causes, and projections for future climate change.climate change.&change.»

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

If there's one area that often seems to catch the imagination of many who call themselves «climate skeptics», it's the idea that CO2 at its low levels of concentration in the atmosphere can't possibly cause the changes in temperature that have already occurred — and that are projected to occur in the future.

-LSB-...] Part One of the series started with this statement: If there's one area that often seems to catch the imagination of many who call themselves «climate skeptics», it's the idea that CO2 at its low levels of concentration in the atmosphere can't possibly cause the changes in temperature that have already occurred — and that are projected to occur in the future.

They could foretell historically unprecedented strings of storms in the Atlantic basin's climate - changed future, some of which would make Hurricane Sandy, which killed 72 people and caused an estimated $ 50 billion damage in the U.S. alone, seem like a storm in a teacup.

It's set in a near future where overpopulation and global climate change has been catastrophic for the food supply and the culture has become hostile to science, as if it's the cause of the problems rather than the only hope to solve them.

This resource will help you to teach an understanding of the concept of sustainable development, an appreciation of how choices in the present have consequences both now and in the future and an understanding of the causes of climate change.

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»

But the burning of fossil fuels has caused a 41 percent increase in the heat - trapping gas since the Industrial Revolution, a mere geological instant, and scientists say the climate is beginning to react, though they expect far larger changes in the future.

``... estimates of future rises remain hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack of data on what ice sheets did in the past to predict how they will react to warming, insufficient long - term satellite data to unpick the effects of natural climate change from that caused by man and a spottiness in the degree to which places such as Antarctica have warmed....

So as you can see, what you and the US are currently experiencing would absolutely be caused by Climate Change forcing... no climate models yet or in the near future are accurate enough to put a percentile figure on the Climate Change forcing... no climate models yet or in the near future are accurate enough to put a percentile figure on the climate models yet or in the near future are accurate enough to put a percentile figure on the extent.

2) That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.

That bold statement may seem like hyperbole, but there is now a very clear pattern in the scientific evidence documenting that the earth is warming, that warming is due largely to human activity, that warming is causing important changes in climate, and that rapid and potentially catastrophic changes in the near future are very possible.

The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane clathrate deposits in runaway climate change could be a cause of past, future, and present climate changes.

If, for example, scientists had somehow underestimated the climate change between Medieval times and the Little Ice Age, or other natural climate changes, without corresponding errors in the estimated size of the causes of the changes, that would suggest stronger amplifying feedbacks and larger future warming from rising greenhouse gases than originally estimated.

Um, because global climate change mitigation causes real harm now to prevent imagined harm in the future.

Most likely we are already committed to at least some of these climate changes, and even if the models are wrong and these increased numbers of intense hurricanes fail to emerge in the future, Knutson and his colleagues believe that society still needs to work harder at minimizing the damage hurricanes cause.

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

This is what it said, â $ œThe responsiveness of species to recent and past climate change raises the possibility that anthropogenic climate change could act as major cause of extinctions in the near futureâ $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Here we use projections of the future distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species to provide â $ ˜first - passâ $ ™ estimates of extinction probabilitiesâ $ ¦ â $ ¦.

The authors hope that the radiocarbon approach used in the study could help hone in on the intricacies of the carbon cycle for future research, in particular, how the natural carbon cycle responds to human - caused climate change.

The Royal Society report includes references to Clark et al, 2016 in Nature Climate Change, suggesting the final sea level rise on millennia timescale caused by anthropogenic climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 Climate Change, suggesting the final sea level rise on millennia timescale caused by anthropogenic climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 mChange, suggesting the final sea level rise on millennia timescale caused by anthropogenic climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 mchange (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 metres.

One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway climate change» by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.

For example, the skill in simulating the climate of the last century when accounting for all known forcings demonstrates the causes of recent climate change (Chapter 9) and this information can be used to constrain the likelihood of future regional climate change (Stott et al., 2006; see also Section 11.10.2).

A new commentary by Edward Maibach, Teresa Myers and Anthony Leiserowitz in Earth's Future notes that most people don't know there is a scientific consensus about human - caused climate change, which undermines public engagement on the subject.

But Tolstoy knew better: Put simply: I think that climate change was one of many causes contributing to the rise of IS in Iraq and Syria, and that if we permit climate change to continue unchecked we will see more such instances in the future.

At the same time, we must work to minimize these risks in the future by reducing the carbon emissions that are causing climate change and its accompanying impacts.

I think an addition or subtraction of say 100 watts per square meter would cause a slow change in climate and global temperature, and humans could easily mitigate the long term effects fairly easier, or steps could taken to change our world in some manner if that was seen as needed in the future.

Notwithstanding these insights, numerous discussions of contemporary geopolitics and scenarios for future conflicts in part caused by climate change still assume a remarkably stable geography as the appropriate context for planning and strategy.

NCSE isn't composed of scientists or science teachers; it's an activist group devoted, in part, to expounding global warming alarmists» dogma: Humans are causing climate change; the results will be catastrophic; and governments must force people to use less energy and live simpler to prevent future disasters.

Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

In the paper I examine the relative role of human - caused climate change and development for future damages under a wide range of scenarios.

Those of us involved in that research are motivated entirely by concern over the suffering of humans and non-humans alike due to climate change, and we think there is sufficient cause for alarm about the future to do the research into the idea of putting something like sulfate (not a significant part of aircraft exhaust) into the stratosphere (higher than the airplanes you see making contrails).

«There are lots of estimates as to what we can expect to see in the near future, but the best known (and controversial) figure comes from Professor Norman Myers, who argues that climate change could cause 200 million people to be displaced by 2050.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.