Sentences with phrase «change to climate disruptions»

It moved from global warming to climate change to climate disruptions.

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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»).

Furthermore, carbon - heavy industries are not immune from disruption, nor are asset prices from regulatory efforts to mitigate climate change risk.

With climate change, the disappearance of forests, and general ecological disruptions, new diseases threaten to be a major factor.

«To avoid the kind of long - term economic disruption we are now facing, Government, engineers and the entire supply chain need to work together to make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate changTo avoid the kind of long - term economic disruption we are now facing, Government, engineers and the entire supply chain need to work together to make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate changto work together to make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate changto make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate changto cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate change.

WHEREAS, there are significant long - term risks to the economy and the environment of the United States from the temperature increases and climatic disruptions that are projected to result from increased greenhouse gas concentrations and the resultant climate change;

A disruption as big as climate change is bound to challenge numerous species.

Just as preserving forests offers a chance to sequester carbon and curb climate change, preventing the disruption of coastal habitats, which are often razed for development or aquaculture, ensures that their deep carbon deposits are not released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

A University of Colorado study published in April assessing the impacts of climate change on the Navajo Reservation in the Southwest said climate change - related sun kinks are a major concern for the Navajo Nation because derailments could lead to the disruption of coal production there.

It is possible that climate change will cause major and widespread disruptions to key planetary life - support services.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.

Asteroid impacts that cause global catastrophe are climate - changing events, and most of the resulting fatalities would be due to that change (which would cause social disruption that is expected to lead to starvation, disease and violence).

I wonder if some of the climate disruption going on in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil may be related to changes in relatively nearby Antarctica.

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.

Launched in February 2017 with start - up support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrClimate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrclimate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrclimate disruption.

In this powerful multi-part exhibition, he takes us one step beyond the devastating effects of climate change, linking our socially destructive attempts to control people's inner lives with the anthropogenic disruptions of the environment.

... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate DisrClimate Disruption.

# 103 (cont)... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate DisrClimate Disruption.

We do, however, have quite a few examples of past societies being thoroughly undone by regional climate change or ecological disruption (often human - induced), so we know to a certainty that that is a possible outcome.

... demand a change in policy and practice sufficient to prevent dangerous disruption of the climate system.

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).»

The bottom line, of course, is the uncomfortable reality that adapting to climate change is and will be a prime priority while mitigating emissions remains, for most countries, a generations - spanning long - term goal — unless and until some epic environmental disruption forces it to the front of the line.

Those investments need be economically, socially and environmentally sustainable, everywhere, but particularly in poor countries because they are most vulnerable to climate change and social disruption.

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(BTW, I just saw a paper in GRL [abstract below] indicating that in addition to the problem of water supply disruption from the lack of a Tibetan glaciers cap, climate change makes the Indian subcontinent vulnerable to flipping into a stable dry state.

For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.

As I wrote in 2006 («Yelling Fire on a Hot Planet «-RRB- problems that get people's attention (and cause them to change) are «soon, salient and certain» and the dangerous aspects of human - forced climate disruption remain none of those things.

However, every comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts points to serious disruptions ahead.

In the coming decades we will most likely be facing deteriorating global macro economic conditions, increasing climate - change induced weather disruptions (floods and droughts), and more volatility in agricultural commodity prices and the price of energy used to produce and transport those commodities.

Here's a link to the study, «Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity,» and click here for maps showing the projected shift in fire patterns and where the 16 models agree and disagree.

The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.

Yes, the simple term «global warming» doesn't convey all the complexities of what can happen as that warming causes air and ocean currents to shift, but climate change / disruption provides even less information.

Yes, much more useful to «frame» the discussion with unequivocal terms such as global warming / climate change / climage disruption / global wierding / extreme climate / extreme weather / climate disruption / climate chaos.

Actually, I prefer «global warming» to «climate change» or «climate disruption».

The U.S. DoD is specifically confronting the issue of regional vulnerabilities and security implications to extreme weather events and climate change, in terms of food, water and energy security, and the impacts of disruptions or longer term decreases in per capita availability.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe,» Obama said.

This well - known target, which supposedly represents the «safe» limit of climate change, has always been a highly political choice that has more to do with minimizing economic disruption than with protecting the greatest number of people.

One of the reasons Bangladesh is suffering is because money that could be going to solve their real problems is being diverted to «global warming / climate change / climate disruption» research and policies.

On May 14th, ASP's CEO BGen Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret) published an op - ed for The Charlotte Observer titled Climate Change is a National Security Threat, Including in the Carolinas, outlining how climate change is a major threat to national security; that responding to disruption brought by climate change isn't tClimate Change is a National Security Threat, Including in the Carolinas, outlining how climate change is a major threat to national security; that responding to disruption brought by climate change isn't thChange is a National Security Threat, Including in the Carolinas, outlining how climate change is a major threat to national security; that responding to disruption brought by climate change isn't tclimate change is a major threat to national security; that responding to disruption brought by climate change isn't thchange is a major threat to national security; that responding to disruption brought by climate change isn't tclimate change isn't thchange isn't the.....

The science is clear: To prevent major disruption, the global community must take steps to address climate changTo prevent major disruption, the global community must take steps to address climate changto address climate change.

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate.

The role of the region's forests as a net absorber of carbon is at risk from disruptions to forest ecosystems, in part due to climate change.

It was irresponsible of the mainstream media to talk about the Texas storm, Harvey, while essentially never mentioning its connection to climate change, let alone the strong connection of population growth to both global warming and environmental disruption in general.

What were once sleepy, perfunctory 15 - minute affairs quickly became the forum where the community of North Omaha demanded change from board members, calling on them to reduce air and water pollution, address climate disruption, and build a cleaner and more equitable utility.

Climate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruClimate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruclimate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruptions.

Dana: «Climate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruClimate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruclimate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruptions.

If the sun is primarily responsible for observed global air temperature changes (even if heavily modulated by ocean behaviour as I contend elsewhere) then we need to know sooner rather than later otherwise a misdiagnosis of the causes of climate change could cause unimaginable disruption and hardship through the imposition of incorrect remedies.

I've never been to a COP before, but I certainly have felt and experienced the effects of climate change: in the drought that people face in my home country Kenya as a result of the disruption in rainfall patterns, and in the flooding that has seen lives lost, crops destroyed and cattle dying.

Yes conservation is important, not least in ensuring that species can migrate to deal with climate changes and other environmental disruptions, but the scale of human activity is such that we are collectively making the future ecological conditions of the planet.

My point is that you've been hearing about global warming, climate change, climate disruption (or whatever you prefer to call it) that «the science is settled» for years.