Sentences with phrase «central role in climate change»

The water budget of the troposphere, the bottom layer of Earth's atmosphere, determines the weather and plays a central role in climate change.

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«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

This is an important advance because nutrient uptake is a central property of ocean biogeochemistry, and in many regions controls carbon dioxide fixation, which ultimately can play a role in mitigating climate change.

The United Nations has played a central role in forging international discussions and commitments on climate since the Earth Summit in 1992 produced the Framework Convention on Climate climate since the Earth Summit in 1992 produced the Framework Convention on Climate Climate Change.

The surface temperature data set plays a central role in the political debate over climate change.

I have do have an additional tangential interest in this subject as I am writing a series of books (agentofgaia.com) in which global climate change will play a large role (but, not the central role).

It was immensely newsworthy because Jones is not just the director of the Climatic Research Unit (the home of the explosive leaked / hacked Climategate e-mails), he has played a central role in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consensus process.

By David Rose The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

Climate change may have already contributed to the extinction of a small number of species, such as frogs and toads in Central America, but the role of climate change in these recent extinctions is the subject of considerable Climate change may have already contributed to the extinction of a small number of species, such as frogs and toads in Central America, but the role of climate change in these recent extinctions is the subject of considerable climate change in these recent extinctions is the subject of considerable debate.

Abstract: Over the last two decades, detection and attribution (D&A) of climate changes played a central role in assessing the human influence on climate.

James A. Screen & Ian Simmonds of the Universities of Melbourne and Exeter publish their results in Nature - Climate Change as - The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification.

It defines the central role of ecosystem management in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) and assesses the challenges for enhanced ecosystem management for climate change adaptation and DRR.