Sentences with phrase «climate change in the future»

So it seems much is at stake over the role of climate change in the future of the polar bear.

Come hear what senior policy advisors from both major political parties view as areas for bipartisan cooperation on climate change in the future.

The likely value of climate sensitivity has large relevance for consideration of the likely magnitude of impacts from climate change in the future.

Understanding exactly how such a social transformation occurred in the past may prove key to understanding how individuals might alter their behavior to help combat climate change in the future.

Despite being a trace gas, there is nothing trivial about the importance of CO2 for today, nor its role in shaping climate change in the future.

We must also take steps to minimize the risks of climate change in the future by taking immediate action to reduce the carbon emissions that are driving up the planet's temperature.

Yet, disclosure rules regarding environmental or sustainability issues may become more rigorous in the future as Peabody Energy, the world's largest private - sector coal company, agreed (PDF) in November to provide more information about its risks associated with climate change in future SEC filings.

This makes it all but impossible to prepare rationally for very real effects we will experience due to anthropogenically caused climate change in the future.

Many of the surface eddies in this region of the Pacific are generated by winds spilling westward off the coast of Central America, and those winds vary with the seasons and may become stronger or more frequent as climate changes in the future.

Given also that there has been no general increase in extreme weather or the rate of sea level rise, the primary rationale for actions to restrict CO2 emissions boils down to the possibility of dangerous climate change in the future.»

The potential for abrupt climate change in our future was explored by a National Research Council committee and published in a very readable book called Abrupt Climate Change, Inevitable Surprises (2002), published by the National Academy Press.

Doing so, he fails to recognize how committed the world is to further emissions of greenhouse gases that will force much more extensive climate change in the future if very strong reductions in emissions are not enacted.

Targets for better education, improved technology, early - warning systems and tougher infrastructure will, therefore, strike a pre-emptive blow at the disasters that could be caused by climate change in the future.

The analysis by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego used responses to natural variation in temperature, oxygen, and pH to reveal that deep - sea biodiversity from Baja California to San Francisco may be highly susceptible to projected climate changes in the future.

«When you add up what [humans] have done, and what impact that is likely to have, we end up with scenarios for climate change in the future that put our planet in a position it hasn't been in for, maybe, million of years.»

The researchers recommend that the National Climate Assessment incorporate the timing of spring ice retreat and fall ice advance as measures of climate change in future reports.

Hydrogen is «a highly flexible energy vector and energy carrier capable of serving as a weapon against climate change in a future, integrated multi-sector energy system,» said Mary - Rose de Valladares, manager of the International Energy Administration Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, which is developing a comprehensive road map on the production and utilization of hydrogen due for release early next year.

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.

Note how many of the world's populations live along coastlines susceptible to hurricanes / cyclones today as well as flooding from global climate change in the future.

But here's a hypothetical for you though: Imagine for an instant that mainstream climate science is basically correct, and that the costs of climate change in future decades are large and dramatic.

So while CDR solutions might be ineffective today, CDR solutions could prove to be an absolutely critical option to preventing climate change in the future.

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

Changes in deep ocean currents may have caused natural climate fluctuations in the past, and their role in storing or releasing «excess» carbon could interact with man - made climate change in the future.

MEPs today called for more financial support to tackle climate change in future EU spending.

The first step recommended in the study is for the national intelligence community to include comprehensive assessments of climate change in future security plans, just as agencies now take into account traditional but uncertain threats.

The standard economic approach to carbon dioxide emissions treats them as a «negative externality» because they reputedly will lead to harmful climate change in the future.

This new national - level data provides an important starting point for developing countries considering reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation — something that will be crucial in combating climate change in the future.

«Our findings do not contradict the main conclusions of the IPCC on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability related to climate change... The negative impacts under unmitigated climate change in the future pose substantial risks to most parts of the world, with risks increasing at higher global average temperatures.»

The grays» ability to survive major ecological shifts in the past suggests they will be able to cope with climate change in future.

For more on climate change in the future, check out our recent special report and our climatology topic page.

For all countries, it says, there are many ways in which energy - sector actions can still be accelerated in order to increase the chances of averting dangerous climate change in the future.

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

Lead author Anna Pintor said if we want to understand impacts of climate change in the future, we need to know how species» current distributions come about it the first place.

It's difficult to ascertain the impact of rising temperatures on those connected events, but climate change in the future is expected to have its fingerprints on dueling droughts and floods.

The Willard's horseshoe bat, a newly described species from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and another species predicted to possibly go extinct due to climate change in the future.

Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living — for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species» range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

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

We find that without dramatic increases in the area of forests, without substantially positive changes in land - use practices, without large net positive effects of CO2 or climate change in the future, or without some other new significant carbon storage mechanism, the U.S. carbon sink itself will decrease substantially over the 21st century.

Past greenhouse gas emissions have already committed us to more climate change in the future.

The study shows that satellite observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are a useful tool toward understanding how semiarid ecosystems will respond to climate change in the future.