Sentences with phrase «causes of climate change include»

Other potential causes of climate change include the depletion of stratospheric ozone in recent decades, again through human activities, and global changes in the surface reflectivity — or albedo — of the planet, as we modify the patterns of vegetation that cover the land.

They compound the problem by leaving out many major natural creators of weather and therefore causes of climate change including astronomical, solar, and atmospheric changes.

Not exact matches

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Experts said the causes of Cape Town's water shortages include climate change and huge population growth.

Some of you might have read about the lawsuit by a number of municipalities (including San Francisco and Oakland) against the major oil companies for damages (related primarily to sea level rise) caused by anthropogenic climate change.

Seventeen Republican lawmakers, including Elise Stefanik of New York, Carlos Curbelo of Florida, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Mia Love of Utah, Don Bacon of Nebraska, and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania, introduced a resolution on Wednesday that urges the House of Representatives to «address the causes and effects» of climate change, according to a press release sent out by Costello's office.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

He said many of the «causes of public anxiety» in Britain, including cross-border crime, terrorism, climate change and immigration, «can not be tackled effectively without coherent and coordinated action by the European Union itself».

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

The recent declines and disappearances of many frogs, toads, and salamanders have been blamed on a number of causes, including pathogenic infection, pesticides, pollutants, increased UV radiation from ozone depletion, and local drought spurred by climate change.

«Since some of those disease causes may include swings in temperature or precipitation, ultimately which may be related to climate change, we need to focus our efforts on remediating climate change,» he said.

House Bill 368 would encourage teachers to present the «scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses» of issues that «may cause debate and disputation,» including evolution and climate change.

However, in some parts of the ocean, including areas off the east coasts of Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, deoxygenation caused by climate change was not evident even by 2100.

Possible causes of their demise include changes in climate that affected wind speeds over the seas, a change in the availability of preferred foods, or some combination of the two.

But other scientists have pointed to natural causes, including volcanic eruptions, disease, and climate change at the end of last Ice Age, as the key reasons for these species» demise.

Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a substantial and growing amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, including human evolution, the safety of vaccines and whether or not human - caused climate change is real and happening.

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

Those numbers caused a stir, because they were substantially higher than HFC warming forecasts made by other climate models, including those underpinning the massive reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate models, including those underpinning the massive reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

Regardless of whether participants said they accepted that human activity caused climate change, most recognized that scientists expect climate change to create serious environmental dangers, including increased coastal flooding.

Newswise — STONY BROOK, N.Y., April 24, 2017 — Climate change is predicted to cause a series of maladies for world oceans including heating up, acidification, and the loss of oxygen.

I had just been in a discussion of climate change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions about the cause of the global warming here on earth on the basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

It seems that extreme weather including torrential rains and blazing heat is becoming the new norm, and now new research indicates that more than half of hot extremes are caused by climate change.

In addition, through her products, she educates consumers and raises money for a variety of environmental causes including climate change, factory farming and wildlife protection.

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The causes, acceleration, consequences and management of desertification, including land use, conflict and climate change

As for the main threats to wildlife, leading biologists and environmental watchdogs agree: human - led activities — including climate change, habitat destruction, and development — are far and away the number one cause of wildlife depletion.

Also, the brief period I spent scanning abstracts [no time this week to read papers] indicates a difference of opinion suggesting whether there is a correlation between clouds and CRF (including a no by Balling and Cerveny Theoretical and Applied Climatology 75:3 - 4 pp. 225 - 231 — which may be a good indicator as there was a skeptic flurry last year over connecting CRF to climate as another try at natural causes being responsible for recent climate change).

The displacement would be caused «by the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, and droughts associated with shrinking water supplies and changes to the monsoon season,» said Rajan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.

Any useful summary of knowledge on the causes and consequences of climate change and possible responses would have to include a hard look at the substantial (and sobering) body of work on what shapes human behavior: how people absorb or ignore scientific information — including the climate panel's own reports — and what roadblocks in human behavior await the menu of possible policy options for limiting climate - related risks.

He is determined that something mysterious and unknown is causing recent climate change so as part of this he has to deny all prior forms of climate change including aerosols, CO2, solar etc..

In 2001, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced its third set of reports examining the causes and consequences of global warming, it included a fascinating illustration, called the «burning embers» diagram, showing gradients of rising risk with rising temperatures.

Starting from an old equilbrium, a change in radiative forcing results in a radiative imbalance, which results in energy accumulation or depletion, which causes a temperature response that approahes equilibrium when the remaining imbalance approaches zero — thus the equilibrium climatic response, in the global - time average (for a time period long enough to characterize the climatic state, including externally imposed cycles (day, year) and internal variability), causes an opposite change in radiative fluxes (via Planck function)(plus convective fluxes, etc, where they occur) equal in magnitude to the sum of the (externally) imposed forcing plus any «forcings» caused by non-Planck feedbacks (in particular, climate - dependent changes in optical properties, + etc.).)

It is interesting that biology has, in the case, provided a universal theory based on a single simple mechanism (if we include genetic drift and neutral theory, though admittedly not part of Darwin's formally stated understanding), whereas physics has not done so for climate change, given that it is potentially caused by many different mechanisms.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

The climate - change debunkers include Richard S. Lindzen, 67, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who claims that human - caused warming is inconsequential, and Michael Crichton, 64, the novelist and moviemaker.

The Arab Spring surprised many people, including some who had expertise, and while attribution of such an event to a particular cause is probably impossible, there are people (as written up in The Economist, for example) who link at least some of the causation to food prices, and there in turn people who link at least some of the food - price swings to climate change.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

This should include, but not be limited to, the effects due to all of the natural and human caused climate variations and changes.»

Including the idea of carbon removal enables us to explain climate change in as simple a way as possible: climate change is caused by the giant (albeit invisible) mess humans are making in the sky by emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.

Machinations involved in the establishment of the UN agency include the restrictions created by the definition of climate change to «only those changes caused by humans» and the bureaucratic structure designed to prove that human CO2 was the problem.

Hence, the scientific community has devised several mechanisms, including technologies that can track the causes and alleviate the impacts of climate variability and change.

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they... Read more

In a letter published in Science the researchers compare the recent furore around the so - called «climate-gate» stolen emails to the Communist witch hunts of the 50s led by Joseph McCarthy «We urge our policy - makers and the public to move forward immediately to address the causes of climate change, including the un-restrained burning of fossil fuels,» they

In the first instance, the frequency of extreme summers was calculated in climate models where both human - caused (changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and ozone) and natural (solar radiation changes and volcanic) climate factors were included.