Sentences with phrase «climate change agents»

The 2 - 1 majority ducked the central issue, namely, whether the CAA authorizes the EPA to regulate GHGs as climate change agents.

(Top left) Global annual mean radiative influences (W m — 2) of LGM climate change agents, generally feedbacks in glacial - interglacial cycles, but also specified in most Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) simulations for the LGM.

The heights of the rectangular bars denote best estimate values guided by published values of the climate change agents and conversion to radiative perturbations using simplified expressions for the greenhouse gas concentrations and model calculations for the ice sheets, vegetation and mineral dust.

A judgment of each estimate's reliability is given as a level of scientific understanding based on uncertainties in the climate change agents and physical understanding of their radiative effects.

Not exact matches

His team built a model with agents representing 1.4 million households around the globe — roughly 10,000 per country — and looked at how climate change and disasters might affect health, food security, and labor productivity.

Most elements of this storm have indeed been observed in the past without any need for invoking global climate change as a causative agent.

«The AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute empowers the fellows to act as change agents within their institutions; each fellow will make it possible for many more scientists in their professional networks or home institutions to engage public audiences on climate change,» said Jeanne Braha, project director in public engagement at AAAS.

They also recommend the inclusion of humans as agents and as the cause of climate change.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change,» he said in an email.

«Major disturbances such as cyclones, coral bleaching, climate change, Crown of Thorns Starfish and river run - off are thought to be the primary agents of change on the Great Barrier Reef,» says study co-author, Professor Mike Kingsford from the Coral CoE.

It concludes with the following, «The Sun still appears to be the main forcing agent in global climate change».

The team increased one forcing agent (see sidebar) in a climate model, for example carbon dioxide, and decreased another, say methane, so that global mean temperature didn't change.

This basic idea has been taken up by a section of the solar physics community, and a good recent summary of the evidence for the proposition that solar variability is an agent, if not the main agent, of the perceived recent climate change associated with global warming, is given in Hoyt & Schatten (1997).

River waters worldwide are impacted by disease - causing agents including bacteria, protists, flatworms, viruses, and harmful algae that derive from domestic sewage and farm runoff, and / or are emergent due to nutrient pollution and climate change.

«Agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

It's set in a near - future United States decimated by climate change, and follows a government agent (Nicolas Cage) tasked with determining which citizens are productive, and therefore worthy of remaining in the general population.

Rather than be viewed (or viewing themselves) as victims of a disaster, children can be pro-active agents to address the impact of natural disasters, especially in light of climate change.

«Developing a warmer socio - emotional climate in the classroom... requires teachers... to believe that their role is that of a change agent — that all students can learn and progress, that achievement for all is changeable and not fixed, and that demonstrating to all students that they care about their learning is both powerful and effective.»

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

In diverse locations and ever - changing climates, sunlight is consistently active in these paintings, like a sovereign creative agent.

Gerald Marsh offered this opinion in «A Global Warming Primer» (page 4 - excerpt) «Radiative forcing is defined as the change in net downward radiative flux at the tropopause resulting from any process that acts as an external agent to the climate system; it is generally measured in W / m2.

There may be small but interesting time - variations in eruptions, but the record is almost entirely one of «noise» — if volcanoes could get organized they could be very important agents of climate change, but they aren't organized.

The point of Part III was that there are complexities to very large climate changes, wherein the same change in forcing agent will tend to cause the same magnitude of change in forward and reverse if everything is is held constant, but the change will be a different combination of forcing and feedback, with different climate sensitivity.

With climate change of course, we have no such confidence, because of the enormous and rapid increase in GHGs, whose physical basis as a radiative forcing agent is well understand, and quantified.

The close coupling between CO2 and climate led the author to conclude that «geological observations that we now have for the last 20 million years lend strong support to the idea that carbon dioxide is an important agent for driving climate change throughout Earth's history.»

«There is convincing evidence that since the industrial revolution, human activities, resulting in increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents in the atmosphere, have become a major agent of climate change.»

Financial markets will play an important role in helping economic agents and governments in coping with climate change - induced shocks.

«agents doing the dirty bidding of the fossil fuel industry know they can't contest the fundamental science of human - caused climate change.

The performance analyses show that the following matters should be addressed: increases in participation of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as an agent in the projects for the LAC region, enlargement of the scale of co-financing in the IDB - brokered cases as well as in the LAC region, and reinforcement of the linkage between the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative (SECCI) Funds and international climate changeClimate Change Initiative (SECCI) Funds and international climate change Change Initiative (SECCI) Funds and international climate changeclimate change change funds.

To be an effective agent of social change, your team won't need to be experts in climate change science or its solutions, but you will need a genuine, heartfelt story.

This fact - sheet presents the main results of a mapping of global climate change financial flows involving a diversity of public and private sources (e.g. government budgets and capital markets), agents (e.g. bilateral finance institutions, multilateral finance institutions, development cooperation agencies, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct invesclimate change financial flows involving a diversity of public and private sources (e.g. government budgets and capital markets), agents (e.g. bilateral finance institutions, multilateral finance institutions, development cooperation agencies, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct investchange financial flows involving a diversity of public and private sources (e.g. government budgets and capital markets), agents (e.g. bilateral finance institutions, multilateral finance institutions, development cooperation agencies, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct invesClimate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct investChange (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct invesclimate change, foreign direct investchange, foreign direct investment).

This ABC program subsequently led to the identification of short - lived climate pollutants as potent mitigation agents of climate change, and in recognition, UNEP formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.climate pollutants as potent mitigation agents of climate change, and in recognition, UNEP formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.climate change, and in recognition, UNEP formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.Climate and Clean Air Coalition to deal with these pollutants.»

Indigenous Climate Action is the only Indigenous climate justice organization in Canada and is working to prioritize Indigenous peoples and communities as agents of change for climate change solClimate Action is the only Indigenous climate justice organization in Canada and is working to prioritize Indigenous peoples and communities as agents of change for climate change solclimate justice organization in Canada and is working to prioritize Indigenous peoples and communities as agents of change for climate change solclimate change solutions.

«Russian agents attempted to manipulate Americans» opinions about pipelines, fossil fuels, fracking, and climate change.»

External forcing - External forcing refers to a forcing agent outside the climate system causing a change in the climate system.

Spectral radiance emitted to space consistent with Tyndall gas concentrations (confirms ability to calculate radiative forcing); magnitude of Tyndall gas radiative forcing larger than that of all other known forcing agents; observed temperature changes similar in magnitude to those estimated from forcings (confirms ballpark estimates of climate sensitivity); observed pattern of temperature changes match Tyndall gas pattern better than that of all other known forcing agents.

The two major Republicans in the race, meanwhile, are skeptical that humans are the primary agents of climate change.

the unequivocal attribution of climate change to anthropogenic causes (i.e., the isolation of cause and effect) would require controlled experimentation with the climate system in which the hypothesised agents of change are systematically varied in order to determine the climate's sensitivity to these agents.

«If you plot other data sets, you'll get slightly different results, but the same take - home message: there's nothing in recent global temperatures that disproves the importance of CO2 as an agent for climate change.»

The intensive program is designed to formally train a new group of community, government and business leaders to become Climate Reality Leaders, who then become change agents in their own communities.

Don B asks the analogous question about CO2: is it correct to say that «there's nothing in recent global temperatures that disproves the importance of CO2 as an agent for climate change»?

[Note: Other prominent deniers of natural factors being principal agents in climate change are also starting to see the light.]

Inclusion of short - term forcing agents within a rate - of - change target is a natural extension of this approach, and could provide a framework for including both emissions rates, or «flows», as well as cumulative emissions, or «stocks», into a set of climate targets that are better informed by current climate science than emissions rates in a given year or long - term concentrations.

For the entire group of climate forcing agents identified by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), the climate forcing for the well - mixed GHGs is the most certain (left-most bar, Figclimate forcing agents identified by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), the climate forcing for the well - mixed GHGs is the most certain (left-most bar, FigClimate Change (IPCC), the climate forcing for the well - mixed GHGs is the most certain (left-most bar, Figclimate forcing for the well - mixed GHGs is the most certain (left-most bar, Figure 1).

Without the exaggerated alarm conjured from overly pessimistic climate model projections of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, fossil fuels — coal, oil, gas — would regain their image as the celebrated agents of prosperity that they are, rather than being labeled as pernicious agents of our destruction.

The latest manifestation is Senator Ian Campbell, a real estate agent from Western Australia, given the task of trying to persuade the world that the Howard Government is sincere about climate change.

The main purpose of the first phase (development of the RCPs) is to provide information on possible development trajectories for the main forcing agents of climate change, consistent with current scenario literature allowing subsequent analysis by both Climate models (CMs) and Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs).1 Climate modelers will use the time series of future concentrations and emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and land - use change from the four RCPs in order to conduct new climate model experiments and produce new climate scenarios as part of the parallelclimate change, consistent with current scenario literature allowing subsequent analysis by both Climate models (CMs) and Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs).1 Climate modelers will use the time series of future concentrations and emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and land - use change from the four RCPs in order to conduct new climate model experiments and produce new climate scenarios as part of the parallelClimate models (CMs) and Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs).1 Climate modelers will use the time series of future concentrations and emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and land - use change from the four RCPs in order to conduct new climate model experiments and produce new climate scenarios as part of the parallelClimate modelers will use the time series of future concentrations and emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants and land - use change from the four RCPs in order to conduct new climate model experiments and produce new climate scenarios as part of the parallelclimate model experiments and produce new climate scenarios as part of the parallelclimate scenarios as part of the parallel phase.

Before I really understood that I wanted to be a climate change organizer and lobbyist, I knew I wanted to be an environmental activist and change agent.

All of these «minor» greenhouse agents represent strategic opportunities to tackle climate change right now, with targeted efforts in a few countries and a few industries.