Sentences with phrase «changing climate now»

«The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now,» James Hansen told the Senate Energy Committee in 1988.

But many more are detrimental, largely because our society and its infrastructure were designed for the climate that we have had, not the rapidly changing climate we now have and can expect in the future.

The story starts with Hansen's congressional testimony back in» 88: «The greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now.»

«The greenhouse effect,» he claimed, «has been detected and is changing our climate now.»

Indy Politics talks to three political insiders to get their take on the state's changing climate now the Governor Mike Pence is the Republican Nominee...

Little known or forgotten crops that provided sustenance for people living long ago could serve as an important food sources for people living in changing climates now.

Not exact matches

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

In an announcement Thursday, climate change think - tank the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) said the tropics now represented «a net source of carbon to the atmosphere,» roughly 425 teragrams each year.

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

«If we don't address those two issues — of climate change and growing inequalities — we will be moving towards a dark 50 years from now,» she said.

«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.

«As I've said before, if we don't do anything about climate change now, in 50 years» time we will be toasted, roasted and grilled,» Christine Lagarde said during a panel discussion Tuesday at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

(That's hardly the only irony: there's also the fact that AEI now supports a government remedy to climate change to begin with, and an acknowledged tax at that.)

Exxon says it had no definitive view about Climate Change at the time, but now believes its threat is clear and warrants action.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.»

Now, thanks to climate change and increasing carbon dioxide levels, each year's pollen season gets worse.

Environmentalists, meanwhile, warn that, in an era of climate change, the costs of relentlessly pursuing GDP growth — transforming trees into lumber, farmland into malls, fossil fuels into CO2 — now outweigh the benefits.

Now DeepMind is turning its attention to applying its algorithms to areas that can benefit humanity, including healthcare and climate change.

Now we have a president who famously described climate change as a hoax advanced by the Chinese to undermine the US economy.

If, for example, it turns out that 30 years from now we enter a period of global cooling, will we then accuse climate - change activists of greed and unethical behaviour?

Now many can talk about climate change.»

Now our oil imports have plummeted, our clean energy industry is booming, and America is a global leader in the fight against climate change.

A transition to a low - carbon economy is now inevitable, but this transition comes at a cost, and many of the countries and companies under the greatest threat from climate change lack the means to pay for it.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailA recent headline in the Globe and Mail summed it up well: «Business risk from climate change now top of mind for Canada's corporate boards.»

Canada has scarcely been threatened, and our primary threat right now is CLIMATE CHANGE.

When even energy - friendly bodies such as the International Energy Agency say the world needs to act now if we're to avoid the worst outcomes of what climate change has to offer the planet, then Canada should realize it can ill afford to stick its head in the sand any longer.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.

Although voluntary, the pressure on companies to begin reporting on these measures will be strong, given the now global focus on climate change from governments and consumers alike.

He discussed the impacts on climate change connected with the expansion of the oil sands and raised last summers» wildfires in BC as an example of how climate change is impacting us now.

That's not to say that 2006 is destined to remain in this particularly negative Climate, but here and now, there's little to suggest the probability of above average returns until the evidence changes.

«Climate change is not a future threat — it's happening now.

Ms. Notley will now take the report and the made - in - Alberta plan to address climate change to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers tomorrow and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris nexclimate change to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers tomorrow and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris nextchange to a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other premiers tomorrow and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris nexClimate Change (COP21) in Paris nextChange (COP21) in Paris next week.

Now the challenge will fall to Ms. Notley, Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig - Boyd to win the policy war on climate change.

Learn about what investors are advising startups to do now that the funding climate has changed.

Equity analysts now consider climate change - related factors in company valuations, translating sustainability into a new value driver distinct from a marketing strategy.

Now, if you told me that getting Isreal to convert would reverse global climate change, I might be interested.

I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

So far Rush has been wrong about everything from womans reproductive rights, endangered species, climate change, how laws and bills are actually passed in congress, drugs, alcohol, gay marriage, marriage (what is he on now his 5th?)

Climate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toClimate change itself has been embarrassingly uneventful, so another rationale for reducing CO2 is now promoted: to stop the hypothetical increase of extreme climate events like hurricanes or toclimate events like hurricanes or tornados.

Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&rchange now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&rChange) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».

Women are now serving as Minister of Justice, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Minister of Trade, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Labour, and even Chief of Staff.

An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, but with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.

But with the rising threat of climate change, there are now calls for both pilgrims and authorities in Mecca to reduce the environmental damage wrought by this yearly influx of travelers.

It is really urgent that we tackle climate change for the sake of the poorest people in the world who are being hit by it right now.»

The sound bite is now climate change because the bias is coming to light.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.