Sentences with phrase «change of climate forcings»

It informs us about the global temperature change «in the pipeline» without further change of climate forcings and it defines how much greenhouse gases must be reduced to restore Earth's energy balance, which, at least to a good approximation, must be the requirement for stabilizing global climate.

The detailed temporal and geographical response of the climate system to the rapid human - made change of climate forcings is not well - constrained by empirical data, because there is no faithful paleoclimate analog.

It informs us about the global temperature change «in the pipeline» without further change of climate forcings and it defines how much greenhouse gases must be reduced to restore Earth's energy balance, which, at least to a good approximation, must be the requirement for stabilizing global climate.

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Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

In the book, they examine the repercussions on leadership by combined forces of globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

«Growing concern about climate change — from society in general, and from long - term shareholders in particular — has forced oil companies to think about the implications of a transition to a low - carbon economy.

There are few signs at the local or federal level that policymakers are taking the risks of climate change and extreme weather seriously, and some forces are even exacerbating the risk.

«Without forcing the parallels, because climate change is in many respects sui generis, a similar suite of allegations could readily be brought against a company for its responses to this new challenge,» they write.

The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, recently announced the appointment of experts in responsible investment, sustainable finance, risk management and climate change to head its new task force on climate - change - related disclosures.

Together, they chair the Canadian Council of Chief Executives» Task Force on Energy, the Environment and Climate Change.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

That effort has subsided, and though climate change remains on the overstretched agenda of the council's talented Ecojustice Task Force, much of the heavy lifting is being done in avery few states like Oregon and Maine.

Our best plan of action now would be to focus on how to deal with climate change once it arrives in force, instead of the current futile attempts to stop it from happening.

«With more innovators joining forces under POIG, we move closer to achieving POIG's vision: a responsible supply chain that has broken the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change,» concluded co-chair Matthias.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

It's like debating gun control or climate change, there is no way to win an abstract debate without the force of power because these ideas aren't rooted in a self evident righteousness.

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

«We will offer a way to meet our legally binding climate change objectives in a more affordable pro-business way that allows us to meet the dangers of manmade climate change without making us more uncompetitive or forcing up energy bills,» he said.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

Cutting energy bills by scrapping outright social and green levies punishes the fuel poor and punishes the future generations who will confront the full force of climate change.

A freshman New York state senator from the Dutchess County is chair of a task force concerning Lyme disease while the Assembly has formed a group on climate change.

The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce committee, Texas Rep. Joe Barton, has been threatening to force the committee clerk to read the 900 - plus page bill as a way to drag out the markup of the Democrats» climate change legislation.

He said, «Men, women and children are forced by civil conflicts, prosecutions, wars, natural disasters and even climate change to move from their homes to places of refuge, safety and succour.

Water quality in the Schoharie Valley and the Catskill Watershed has captured the attention of environmentalists and government officials who have joined forces to develop procedures and policies for dealing with «the new normal» climate change seems to have cast across upstate New York.

Still, it is undeniable that a variety of 21st - century forces — a new generation in the military, a change in climate at the top levels of the Pentagon, pressure on the president from a critical interest group, even Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand's anticipated Democratic primary battle in New York — converged to begin repeal of a 1993 law that has led to the discharge of more than 13,000 gay men and lesbians, including desperately needed Arabic translators.

Earlier studies on the sensitivity of tropical cyclones to past climates have only analyzed the effect of changes in the solar radiation from orbital forcing on the formation of tropical cyclones, without considering the feedbacks associated to the consequent greening of the Sahara.

In their conclusion, the authors state that it is important for conservationists to see climate change not as one of numerous independent variables acting on species survival in mountain landscapes, but as an exacerbating force over the many direct human alterations to these areas.

What we human beings have done is to superimpose a set of forces that are now bringing about climate change much faster than has been the case in the past.

Climate change, on the other hand, is a complicated, diffuse, slow - moving set of forces.

If entire populations are forced to relocate by rising seas as a result of climate change, do they remain citizens of a vanished country?

Even the force of human - induced climate change, so evident across the planet, does not meet these requirements.

In fact, climate change may mean migration — and the loss of a sense of place for folks as disparate as Pacific islanders whose homelands drown, to herders forced to abandon their pastoral ways in the Sahel.

This approach is characteristic of many technocratic natural - science framings of climate - change mitigation which ignore historical, social and economic forces behind the emergence of unsustainable practices.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

Flooded farmland has already forced thousands of Bangladeshis to higher ground, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of the numbers of people who will need to move because of climate change in the coming decade, according to a report released by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the United Nations University and CARE International today.

A weaker sun might slow human - induced climate change slightly but when the sun eventually recovers force, global warming would heat up with even more of a vengeance.

Climate change will deliver a triple curse on agriculture, forcing crops to deal with rising temperatures, droughts and the rising salinity of water in parts of the world.

«If we don't address the problem of coal, it's game over for climate change,» says John Thompson, director of the coal transition project for the Clean Air Task Force.

Rohling: Yeah, so what we see is that for a current level of forcing, so 1.6 watts per meter square net forcing, if we look in the relationship that we now recognize between sea - level change and climate forcing, we're are, more or less, looking at in the equilibrium state, natural equilibriumstate, where the planet would like to be that is similar to where we were 3.5 million years ago and that's where we're looking at sea level, you know, at least 15 meters, maybe 25 meters above the present.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

«It would be especially unfortunate if this took the next step and became law, as it might give momentum to antievolution forces and forces that seek to deny the reality of climate change.»

[Drew T. Shindell, Inhomogeneous forcing and transient climate sensitivity] That means climate change with an increase of more than a degree Celsius compared with the last century is very likely already.

The research may force a re-examination of the role of acidity in atmospheric chemistry, especially where it affects key processes in climate change models.

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.

In another move to address the impact of climate change, President Barack Obama ordered a bipartisan task force on Friday to help U.S.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.