Sentences with phrase «climate change and ocean acidification while»

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.

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Schneider: When you're covering climate change, you don't get somebody from a deep ecology group to tell you we're near the end of the world and then somebody from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who's going to tell you carbon dioxide is a fertilizer while forgetting about ocean acidification.

Human - caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, while other people argue that for political or economic reasons we should allow industrial development to continue without restrictions.

Maybe the problem is that war, while hopelessly tragic, leaves most people behind to try and learn from it, but climate change (and ocean acidification, and, and, and...) probably won't.

It has been suggested that a top - down allocation approach is more appropriate for boundaries where human activities exert a direct impact on the Earth (that is, climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion and chemical pollution), while a multiscale approach is more appropriate for boundaries that are spatially heterogeneous (that is biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land - system change, biodiversity loss and aerosol loading).8 Even with a top - down approach and a single global boundary, however, allocation is fraught with difficult ethical issues.

While biotic interactions play a fundamental role in defining change to species distribution and communities structure [22 — 24], the degree to which ocean acidification and climate change may alter the way in which species interact with one another is not fully understood.