Sentences with phrase «climate change in mass»

Most of the discussion of climate change in the mass media has focused on the T - factor, i.e., how bad the fossil fuel industry is and the related fossil - fuel driven technologies (cars, airplanes, machinery, power plants, etc.).

Original Meeting Source: R. Gammariello et al. «The role of climate change in mass extinctions: Using stromatolites to constrain temperatures during times of biotic crisis.»

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Scientists have told an Australian government committee that the current strategy to protect the reef — the Reef 2050 Long - Term Sustainability Plan — is unachievable in light of recent mass bleaching events, especially since the plan doesn't include steps to counter climate change.

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

And so we see this is what we have precisely done by reading the news; now facing the 6th mass extinction event in the planets history and accelerating climate change which we severely underestimated.

Anticipated changes in the environment due to climate change may lead to mass migrations of people on a scale never before seen.

Although current drought worries have been focused in the West — Western states have experienced insect outbreaks; mass tree die - offs; loss of water and carbon; bigger and more costly wildfires; and economic impacts to timber stands due to severe, multiyear drought — in the wake of a changing climate, the report notes that «all U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought.»

Recent research in Environmental Communication examines the powerful influence of mass media portrayal of climate change and subsequent public identification with the issue.

According to some predictions, climate change caused by human activity could cause mass extinction in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies.

Several of these are expected to «go dark» in the next two years, robbing scientists of critical data needed for monitoring climate change and verifying international agreements, just as a critical mass of global players is agreeing that such agreements are essential to the future health of the world's people and economies.

Instead the team used data from a satellite called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), which measures changes in Earth's gravitational field that are caused by changes in mass.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

But at the end of the Triassic, dramatic climate change played a role in another mass extinction.

One blamed climate change, although similar change at other times had not resulted in mass extinction.

Satellite measurements and a model of how efficiently maize converts that light to mass, reveal that solar brightening, an increase in the sunlight penetrating the atmosphere and reaching Earth, accounted for 27 % of the yield increase U.S. Corn Belt farmers have observed between 1984 and 2013, researchers report today in Nature Climate Change.

This new IISS report finds that climate change is unlikely to spark interstate wars between major military powers in the next three or four decades, but it simultaneously cautions that climate change will boost the chances of scrambles for limited resources, mass migrations and civil conflict.

One of the predicted consequences of climate change is a shift in body mass distributions within animal populations.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

Even with abundant carbon and nitrogen to consume, the size of the plant and its limited access to fresh water make it almost inconceivable that it could even survive in the Arctic, let alone muster up enough power and mass to change the Earth's entire climate, saving our planet, perhaps, from a Venus - like, overheated oblivion.

It hints at rebirth in an era otherwise dominated by headlines about climate change and mass extinction.

When the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites began measuring gravity signals around the world in 2002, scientists knew they would have to separate mass flow beneath the earth's crust from changes in the mass of the overlying ice sheet.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

Many physiological responses in present - day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual mass bleaching events, carbonate dissolution, and insufficient time for substantial evolutionary responses.

The researchers used data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to map monthly changes in mass within the watershed from 2003 to 2012.

«The duration of foraging trips has decreased, breeding success has improved and birds have increased in mass by more than 1 kilogram,» wrote the study's authors, who called their findings «positive consequences of climate change.»

Pesticides still abound, we're in the midst of a human - made mass extinction and decades of warnings about irreversible climate change appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

Driven by climate change and enhanced by a powerful El Niño, the ongoing mass bleaching event hasn't just impacted the Great Barrier Reef, but every major reef region in the world.

Abstract: Models investigating the effects of climate change and human - led land - use change on biodiversity have arrived at alarming conclusions, with the worst case scenarios suggesting extinction rates at such a level as to constitute a sixth mass extinction event in the earth's history.

Because much of Earth's land mass is covered by plants, there is a large source of these biogenic aerosol particles that need to be accounted for in climate change prediction.

... The finding indicates that the primary driver of climate like the south - westerlies that brings monsoon into the country from South Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO events.

This spring, NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences are scheduled to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow - On (GRACE - FO) mission, twin satellites that will continue the original GRACE mission's legacy of tracking fluctuations in Earth's gravity field in order to detect changes in mass, including the mass of ice sheets and aquifers.

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the satellites tasked with measuring the mass changes in Greenland and

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the satellites tasked with measuring the mass changes in Greenland and other icy landscapes around the world, has a hard time time seeing the difference between rising land and ice.

For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate change.

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«I have incorporated the impact of climate change into the Geologic Time Scale and exploring past mass extinctions in coordination with the 6th grade Massachusetts Science standards.»

We're going to have to address great crises globally in the 21st century — catastrophic climate change, mass extinction, nuclear proliferation, income inequality.

, moved to caring about the fate of certain insects and thinking about many things: climate change, poverty, the decline of craftsmanship in the face of mass production, the cost of research, the disposable society and the increasing waste of goods.

In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Clemente's transitory experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and indeed consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a particularly rich range of references and meaning.

Celebrating art as activism, artwork in the show tackled controversial subjects such as immigration rights, reproductive rights, climate change, transgender rights, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

In «Encampment» — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaninIn «Encampment» — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaninin MASS MoCA's largest gallery — Francesco Clemente's experience of changing geographies, diverse cultural climates, and consciousness itself infuses his imagery and art with a rich range of references and meaning.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «Uprise / Angry Women,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition One Year Of Resistance features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

Atop a pleather stool cushion, a round painting of leucaena leucocephala, the first tree species to be deployed en mass to combat climate change, is stickered with certified receipts of the voluntary carbon offsets purchased by Assiff to cover his footprint in creating the show.

(1) It's important to pick a topic in which a critical mass of people are interested, and climate change appears to be one of those topics.

Ultimately science blogs may make a fundamental difference in our response to climate change — as they help create the critical democratic mass to counter the «corporatocratic» tendency to business as usual present in most developed countries.

If I may suggest — the message, as it were, is greatly tarnished when leading climate change «activists» prescribe a reduced carbon footprint for the masses while they own strings of palatial vacation homes and hop - scotch between them in private aircraft and titanic yachts.

To the degree to which sheer system complexity can not cause conservation of mass and energy to be violated, climate change is inevitable and there is, to me, a strong sense in which Professor Trenberth's case that if physics is true, that climate change must be so, and that must be here is just being consistent.

• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained nuclear exchanges.

It's a shame to have to hold these discussions out in public, but the failed mass communication of climate change now necessitates it.