Sentences with phrase «climate change and ocean acidification»

Global climate change and ocean acidification may alter many of these «services».

In a world where reducing energy consumption is desperately important because of climate change and ocean acidification why don't we make more use of in - ground building?

The burning of fossil fuels is also one of the main causes of disastrous climate change and ocean acidification.

By keeping reefs healthy, they are better able to cope with the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

(1) provide technical assistance to Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and interested private landowners in their efforts to assess and address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources;

If there was no leakage of methane and the other potential problems were fully controlled the exploitation of coal - seam gas would be less harmfull, environmentally, than using coal (because burning methane produces roughly twice the useable energy per tonne of CO2 released than burning coal), but burning any fossil fuels must be stopped if we are to limit the damage caused by climate change and ocean acidification.

There is also a growing recognition of ecological, and related sociological and economic impacts from climate change and ocean acidification in the region.

The former alternative means that Australia fails to do its share in slowing climate change and ocean acidification.

«The information will be especially useful as climate change and ocean acidification continue to alter our environment in unpredictable ways.»

A sessile animal, coral has now become a symbol for accelerated climate change and ocean acidification.

Dr. Earle has dedicated her life to protecting and preserving our oceans against human impacts like climate change and ocean acidification, as well as overfishing and pollution.

Address climate change and ocean acidification.

Even more importantly on the global scale, Ms Laurie slowed the critically important fight to limit climate change and ocean acidification.

As is near universal with wind power opponents, Senator Boswell seems either to deny climate science or to not care about climate change and ocean acidification.

Our collective future and that of much of the rest of life on Earth depends in part on confronting climate change and ocean acidification.

After all, don't climate change and ocean acidification sound eerily familiar?

The threats of climate change and ocean acidification loom increasingly ominously for the future, but local stressors including an explosion in tourism, overfishing, and the resulting increase in macroalgae have been the major drivers of the catastrophic decline of Caribbean corals up until today.

He and 21 young people between the ages of 8 and 19 are currently suing the federal government for promoting «the use of fossil fuels, thus increasing the concentration of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere to unsafe levels and creating the dangerous climate change and ocean acidification that we face today.»

The scientific outcomes from this workshop will be used first and foremost to strengthen the case for greater action to reduce anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide related to climate change and ocean acidification while also reducing other stressors.

Coal, however, is much more plentiful; the man - made greenhouse effect will probably seriously damage the biosphere by climate change and ocean acidification before we run out of coal.

Perhaps they care about the environment, climate change and ocean acidification more than mainlanders do?

The Senator does not mention what we should do to combat climate change and ocean acidification if we were to drop wind power, nor does he mention that wind power in Australia has been very effective in reducing carbon dioxide emissions intensity (see the graph on the right above).

A bonus to local people who value their environment, want to see climate change and ocean acidification limited and want their grandchildren to have a future, is that they can see these graceful giants working toward that any time the wind blows.

The writers of sWINDle and most of the remainder of the anti-wind power lobby are motivated by selfishness; they don't want wind turbines near them (NIMBY) and don't much care about what climate change and ocean acidification will do to the planet if we fail to adopt renewable energy.

This has done enormous harm through climate change and ocean acidification as well as air pollution that kills millions of people world wide each year so we must kick the fossil fuel addiction as quickly as possible.

There is, therefore, much current interest in how coccolithophore calcification might be affected by climate change and ocean acidification, both of which occur as atmospheric carbon dioxide increases.

You might think that as a member of the Australian parliament, at a time when changing from fossil fuels to renewables is top priority if the damage from climate change and ocean acidification are to be limited, Mr Ramsey would be singing the praises of this wonderful local achievement, but no, all he can manage is negativity.

Her international research programme focuses on the impacts of global climate change and ocean acidification on coastal marine biodiversity and the consequences for ecosystem structure and functioning, and spans the UK, Europe, USA and NZ.

If you want to help slow climate change and ocean acidification and reduce the number of illnesses and deaths due to air pollution you could do several things, including:

Island Institute (Ocean Acidification) A Climate of Change Workshop Ocean Acidification Island and coastal communities are on the front line of environmental changes associated with climate change and ocean acidification.

These floating menaces are taking over the world's oceans thanks to climate change and ocean acidification, the thinking goes, and soon waters will be filled with little more than the animals» pulsating goo.

These floating menaces are taking over the world's oceans thanks to climate change and ocean acidification, the thinking goes, and soon waters...

«The idea is that we can quantify materials in a sample of water that will give us a base line of how the ocean responds to climate change and ocean acidification,» Gallager said.

Until now, however, climate change and ocean acidification have been widely considered as uncoupled consequences of the anthropogenic CO2 perturbation2.

Yet just as scientists are beginning to understand the richness of South Georgia's flora and fauna, they are warning that it is threatened by climate change and ocean acidification.

-- To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with applicable law, every natural resource management decision made by the department or agency shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on those natural resources.

(2) conduct and sponsor research and provide Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and interested private landowners with research products, decision and monitoring tools and information, to develop strategies for assisting natural resources to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification; and

It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.