Sentences with phrase «climate change in perspective»

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A leadership and business perspective can help a lot in climate change, and I don't mean by promoting technical innovation.

The report, Perspectives on Climate Change Action in Canada, is an extraordinary piece of work.

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

The right ignores scientific study, the left ignores the historical perspective that contradicts attributing every negative weather change to human causes - drastic climate changes and bad storms have happened in pre-industrial times.

NOAA's Seidel is the lead author of a perspective paper published yesterday in Nature Climate Change that examines just how difficult it would be to detect these effects.

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

But from McCright's perspective it was important to find out to what extent the sharp debate over climate change at the elite level had trickled down into the general public in recent decades.

«I knew just from basic physics that there would be a point at which heat and humidity would become intolerable, and it didn't seem that anyone had looked at that from a climate change perspective,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

«Earning a living in a changing climate: The plant perspective.»

«The language style used by climate change skeptics suggests that the arguments put forth by these groups may be less credible in that they are relatively less focused upon the propagation of evidence and more intent on refuting the opposing perspective,» said Pennycook.

Thinking about climate change from a personal perspective produced little to no change in behavior.

The newly recovered descriptions could provide valuable perspective about past conditions and possibly help scientists hone computer models that predict changes in the region's climate.

A recent study by Michael J. E. O'Rourke from the University of Toronto, published in Open Archaeology, provides a new perspective on the severe impacts of escalating climate change on the heritage resources of Canadian Arctic.

The studies, published online this week in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, come as the Obama administration is making a concerted effort to link efforts to tackle climate change with protecting public health.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

St. Pierre noted that the scientific exploration of Lake Hazen speaks to the big - picture perspective, approaching the questions of climate change from a focus on the whole system rather than examining subsystems in silos.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Nevertheless, they wrote, «The asteroid - threat community has been much more successful than the climate change community in characterizing the dominant worst - case scenarios and communicating them to policymakers, the media and the public — even though the climate change threat is more than a thousand times greater..., [therefore] quantitative comparison of climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both threats into perspective.»

«From a regional perspective, the differences in projected future changes are minor when you look at how much each projection says climate will change for the business - as - usual scenario,» said Yueyang Jiang, lead author and a postdoctoral scientist at OSU.

Bedsworth, L., 2009: Preparing for climate change: A perspective from local public health officers in California.

Wallace's perspectives are particularly interesting because he is both a highly respected climate researcher (and National Academy of Sciences member) and, like a number of other long - time researchers in the field, was once a «skeptic» (in the best sense of the word) regarding the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.

Dr. Zimov's perspective illuminates an additional function that must be considered: the mammoth's potential role in providing resilience in the face of climate change.

Title: Climate change record in subsurface temperatures: A global perspective Author (s): Pollack HN, Huang SP, Shen PY Source: SCIENCE 282 (5387): 279 - 281 OCT 9 1998

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

The findings were published online Dec. 2 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, just as world leaders gather in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

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It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisClimate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisclimate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

In my humble opinion, this is a valuable perspective which the view of geological and evolutionary time scale climate changes can provide for us.)

I had been optimistic that, from a climate change perspective, we would be reasonably happy with whatever change takes place in November, but with that performance I've become much less optimistic that McCain «gets it.»

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Although Holocene climate events are relatively minor on a glacial / interglacial perspective, the small Holocene changes in the polar vortex and atmospheric storminess documented by O'Brien et al. (1995) would probably cause widespread disruption to human society if they were to occur in the future (Keigwin and Boyle 2000:1343).»

Postscript, 11:45 a.m. Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University, noted in an email that the paper appears to have been finalized before publication in August of a report by the American Sociological Association Task Force on Climate Change and Sociology: «Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives.»

In section 2.6 of Air pollution, greenhouse gases and climate change: Global and regional perspectives they say:

After all, artists are in the business of reaching people on emotional and visceral levels, and so can offer a unique perspective and skill set for eliciting such responses in the case of climate change.

India would be the hardest hit by climate change in terms of food production, said a study, «The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal Ecologicaclimate change in terms of food production, said a study, «The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal Ecologicalchange in terms of food production, said a study, «The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal EcologicaClimate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal EcologicalChange on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal Ecological Fund.

The are great books about the history of oil, smart treatments of climate change, and encyclopedic tours of energy from a technical perspective, but there is nothing that cuts across all the elements that matter in a serious and careful way.

Still, I was intrigued earlier this month when I heard from Renee Lertzman, a research fellow in humanities and sustainability at Portland State University, that she was speaking on «the myth of apathy,» the subject of a book she's writing, at «Engaging With Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives,» a meeting of psychoanalysts and behavioral researchers in London.

It may be of interest to some that in our «perspective piece» in Science last year (Osborn and Briffa, The real color of climate change?

Wallace's perspectives are particularly interesting because he is both a highly respected climate researcher (and National Academy of Sciences member) and, like a number of other long - time researchers in the field, was once a «skeptic» (in the best sense of the word) regarding the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.

With respect to the all - too - prevalent misunderstandings about what is possible and what is unlikely with methane and the Arctic, and other issues, I thought Richard Alley did a good job presenting the facts at the AGU, putting the different issues in perspective with his invited lecture, «Abrupt Climate Change in the Arctic».

How one sees the answer boils down to an important difference in perspective on how to best deal with climate change: Do we (a) try to influence the course of future human development using carbon pricing as the main policy tool?

Despite the publication of a major report, by the American Sociological Association titled Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives (Oxford 2015), there are apparently no ongoing plans to actively engage sociology in the development of the next assessment report.

Title: Climate change record in subsurface temperatures: A global perspective Author (s): Pollack HN, Huang SP, Shen PY Source: SCIENCE 282 (5387): 279 - 281 OCT 9 1998

From that perspective, I've been arguing that rationality can't be a «silver bullet» in climate change education because «rationality» can (and often is) put into the service of climate change denialism.

C, while corporate and for - profit interests are accused of doing this (sometimes quite rightly so... e.g. climate change), non-profits and environmental and consumer funders do the same thing, financially supporting the people and research that strengthens their perspectives, but these groups aren't criticized in the same way because ostensibly they're on «our» side.

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As I wrote in a blog post a while back: «in intractable conflicts, which I believe climate change has become, introducing nuance, shades of gray, and multiple perspectives is what leads to change.»