Sentences with phrase «chapter on climate change impacts»

In a chapter on climate change impacts in Asia, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report (2007) relied on an error - riddled online article when it discussed the likely state of Himalayan glaciers in 2035.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

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«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

This assessment is focused on the analysis of climate change impacts to the sectors of water (Chapter 3), forests (Chapter 4), and agriculture (Chapter 5).

She was lead author for the chapter on mitigation in the Third National Climate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning decClimate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning decclimate change and informing long - term planning decisions.

He is a leader at the renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK; an Adjunct Scientist at Columbia University in New York; the Lead Author of the latest IPCC chapter on Sea Level Change; journal editor, and more.

Discussion of climate change impacts on Montana's water (Chapter 3), forests (Chapter 4), and agriculture (Chapter 5) are presented next.

The Agriculture chapter examines potential impacts of projected climate change on commodity crops, livestock, pollinators, disease, pests, and weeds.

«The 2 °C target was all about warming and didn't involve consideration of ocean acidification in any direct way,» said University of Queensland professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, one of the lead authors of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment chapter dealing with ocean impacts.

The assessment concludes with an analysis of major knowledge gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts on the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

Seven of the investigated 32 conclusions on the regional impacts of climate change contain information that we were unable to sufficiently trace to the underlying chapters in the I.P.C.C. Working Group II Report or to the references therein.

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

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The potential impacts of changes in marine ecosystems or dissolved organic matter on climate are discussed in Section 7.3.4, and the impact of climate on marine ecosystems in Chapter 4 of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Now the impacts of climate change on global biodiversity are addressed on page 28 in a chapter under the above - mentioned title.

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.

Chapter 6 of the Climate Action Report, «Impacts and Adaptation,» drew substantially on the findings of the National Assessment for its discussion of the potential consequences of climate change for the United Climate Action Report, «Impacts and Adaptation,» drew substantially on the findings of the National Assessment for its discussion of the potential consequences of climate change for the United climate change for the United States.

A sentence in Chapter 13 of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability states: «Up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation.»

Finally, James Hansen's 2012 paper, «Public perception of climate change and the new climate dice», was important in highlighting the real - world impacts of climate change, says Prof Andy Challinor, expert in climate change impacts at the University of Leeds and lead author on the food security chapter in the working group two report.

A range of impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems has been suggested under climate change (see, for example, Leemans and Eickhout, 2004), some of which are summarised in Table 9.1 (for further details see Chapter 4; Nkomo et al., 2006; Warren et al., 2006).

The introduction to the first chapter, «Climate models and their limitations» cites the Rosenberg 2010 conclusion on uncertainties related to GCM outputs as bases for projecting climatic change impacts:

Given this focus, the analytic emphasis of this chapter is on people and systems that may be adversely affected by climate change, particularly where impacts could have serious and / or irreversible consequences.

Fairbanks - area environmental activists say they're building on the momentum they generated two weeks ago during the local observance of the global People's Climate March.They're forming a local chapter of the national organization that headed - up the march to help lobby for limits on carbon emissions to reduce the impact of climate Climate March.They're forming a local chapter of the national organization that headed - up the march to help lobby for limits on carbon emissions to reduce the impact of climate climate change.

«Based on all above findings and our compilation (Figure 4.4, Table 4.1 ″) we estimate that on average 20 % to 30 % of species assessed are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts possibly within this century as global mean temperatures exceed 2 °C to 3 °C relative to pre-industrial levels (this chapter).

Possible impacts of climate change on financial institutions and risk financing were the focus of a separate chapter (Chapter 8) in tchapter (Chapter 8) in tChapter 8) in the TAR.

The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.