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The agency will use this value «until an improved estimate of the impacts of climate change in the U.S. can be developed based on the best available science and economics,» an EPA spokesperson said in an email.

Policymakers tend to think about climate change in «very confined areas» without considering the ripple effects, King said, so it's important to demonstrate the links between things like climate change, droughts and conflicts.

They paint a more optimistic picture for the lynx's survival, but the models clearly show that release programs also need to account for future climate change in order to achieve the best possible result.

Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists — a finding that could provide critical insights into which ecosystems must be managed with extra care because they are vulnerable to biodiversity loss and which ecosystems are more resilient to widespread tree removal.

Stark findings were published online in Nature Climate Change in October, relying on data from the global flotilla of thousands of Argo floats.

THE STUDY «A 45,000 - Year - Record of Adélie Penguins and Climate Change in the Ross Sea, Antarctica» by Steven Emslie, Larry Coats, and Kathy Licht in the January 2007 issue of Geology.

About 80 percent of threatened birds, 75 percent of threatened amphibians, and 19 percent of threatened corals are considered «susceptible» to climate change in the future owing to their specialized habitat needs, physiological limitations, or other factors.

«We want to know if species will be able to adapt to climate change quickly enough based on how they adapted to climate change in the past,» says evolutionary ecologist John Wiens, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new study.

Pope Francis squarely blames the burning of fossil fuels for climate change in the leaked draft of his long - awaited environmental encyclical posted online by an Italian magazine.

I traveled through the Bakken in late fall last year with environmental scientist Joan Rothlein, for our ongoing series about energy and climate change in the West.

I suspect that over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way.

«It's one that can be immediately applied in the U.K., and it can help inform how people think about similar species and land management and climate change in other areas.»

The legislation rebukes a recommendation by the state Coastal Resources Commission, which stirred economic development concerns and skepticism about climate change in 2010 with a report warning of future threats along the state's coastline.

The researchers reported their findings in «A 17 million - year - old whale constrains onset of uplift and climate change in East Africa» online at the PNAS web site.

The conservatism in adopting the pope's line on climate change in some parts of the country may have more to do with the parishioners than the priests.

«Britain has been very influential in taking Europe along that process, and it has been, I think, the greatest force for change on climate change in the world,» said King.

The first, Schatz's amendment, cites scientific bodies like the National Research Council and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in asking whether it's the «sense of Congress» that «climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.»

«Climate change in Antarctica — the cold and ice — killed them there, and a change to seasonal dryness in southern South America put an end to them in Patagonia.»

«Agroforestry can ensure food security, mitigate effects of climate change in Africa.»

In order to analyse this climate change in the Pyrenees, a team from Rovira i Virgili University's Centre for Climate Change (Spain) collected hundreds of climate series from meteorological observatories on the southern side of the Central Pyrenees and analysed the most complete and representative series from the area for the period 1910 - 2013.

With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt with similar environmental circumstances.

That message was resonating with voters, says environmental engineering professor Daniel Cohan at Rice University in Houston, who moderated a candidates» forum on climate change in January.

The science has given us now probability distributions of various different kinds of outcomes in terms of temperature and climate change in relation to given stocks of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The spectacular ice cave at Scărișoara fills a crucial piece of the puzzle of past climate change in recording what happens during winter.»

The impact of climate change in the Central Pyrenees has been greater since 1970, particularly in the spring and summer months.

«Our previous research used field studies to understand the history of climate change in the Western US,» said study coauthor Kate Maher, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University.»

The study of the effects of climate change in this area and historical variation of chemical elements in trees can highly contribute to discover the potential effects that could stand many of the coniferous forests in the 21st century, according to the authors.

The Senate, true to form, sustained its 18th year of inaction on global warming since ratifying the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

A 2011 study implicated climate change in pushing up food prices in Egypt, fueling revolution there.

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

And it was in large part due to the efforts of China and the U.S. that the nations of the world agreed to combat climate change in Paris in 2015.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

«The findings have clear implications on how we need to accommodate climate change in our strategies to reduce nitrogen pollution.»

Solar by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese) Physicist Michael Beard, a Nobel laureate past his prime, struggles to save the world from climate change in this new novel.

These corals could survive the next 100 years of climate change in the tropics, and kick - start the region's adaptation and evolution, thereby providing genetic material selected for heat resistance over 6 ky..

«The findings we have made here may be relevant to climate change in the future, resulting in more or fewer birds.

In an office in London or New York it is less of a big deal — and the invisibility of climate change in developed countries is a barrier to communicating the risks.

Furthermore, Läderach's research on the effects of climate change in Ghana and Ivory Coast predicts that the ideal cacao - growing areas will shift to higher altitudes to compensate for rising temperatures.

Dr Singer added: «We see this model as a useful tool to simulate climate change in regions and cases where traditional models and methods don't capture the trends.»

Most notable is the discussion of the human impact on climate change in Forecast Earth: The Story of Climate Scientist Inez Fung.

We need more empirical studies to truly understand who will be most affected by climate change in the future.»

Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World.

He is conducting research with the NGO Panos Eastern Africa on the communication of climate change in Uganda

Some of the methods used to predict at risk species are trend - based — an indicator of what happens gradually over time — while others are trait based, which uses signs of climate change in the current environment.

Stories on the potential impact of climate change in two localities and on the secret lives of scientists and engineers are among the winners of the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

The world needs to drop its global warming pollution by 6 percent annually to avoid «dangerous» climate change in the estimation of Hansen and his co-authors in a recent paper in PLoS One.

«A better understanding of the controls on reef development in the past will allow us to make better predictions about which reefs may be most vulnerable to climate change in the future.»

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term interval.

There is a great post at the Council on Foreign Relations blog where by Michael Levi boils down global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent of damage by an accumulation of greenhouse gases, and (2) an uncertainty around which policies, or set of policies, will succeed in reducing emissions.