Sentences with phrase «climate change making»

Both surface and ground water resources are likely to be impacted by climate change making resource management in the dry season difficult.

Judith wrote: «Is climate change making us stupid?

Is climate change making us stupid?

Climate Change Making Calendars Run Amok People in Central Asia are recalibrating their system of time to adapt to a changing ecosystem.

For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.

Is climate change making things worse?

With climate change making daily headlines, the biennial is striking for its lack of projects that focus on environmental sustainability.

Neither Ottawa nor Alberta's provincial government has a plan in place to address what happens when the imperatives of confronting climate change make depressed oil prices the norm.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

It's far more reasonable to assume that clothing was invented in regions where climate changes made our low - hair bodies require it for survival.

The challenge may become harder in the future, as man - made climate change makes more extreme storms more likely in the Northeast.

However, the lack of data and the uncertainties of climate change make any estimate feel like a rough guess.

In a 2015 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another team of Columbia researchers made the case that climate change made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and that the drought was a catalyst for Syria's 2011 uprising.

It is too soon to say whether climate change made these events more likely (see «Warmer and wetter?

South Asia, one of the top wheat - producing areas in the world, could lose its advantage as climate change makes conditions more difficult, said Thomas Lumpkin, director - general of CIMMYT.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

For instance, in the case of Superstorm Sandy, which hit the Northeast coast in 2012, Gary Lackmann, a scientist at North Carolina State University, analyzed the question: Given the storm happened, did climate change make it worse?

Climate change made it 175 times more likely that Coral Sea temperatures would reach the high levels in March that triggered extensive bleaching, according to the results of a recent scientific analysis.

In fact, the season was so extreme that it instigated an ongoing debate: Has climate change made hurricanes fiercer and more frequent?

Climate change makes the problem even tougher.

She found climate change made it five times more likely.

THIS is a question facing all wildlife when climate change makes their home territory unsuitable.

Emanuel, an MIT earth scientist, puts hurricanes into historical perspective and tackles the big question of 2005: Does climate change make nastier megastorms?

This is because not only does the higher water - holding capacity lead to increased rainfall, but climate change makes the atmosphere more favourable to low - pressure systems bringing rain from the Atlantic across southern England.»

That could change, however, if climate change makes the region hotter and drier and chokes off the flushing action of fresh water from the river, Sutherland said.

I would be interested in your opinion on the relative contribution to climate change made by: a) carbon emissions from aviation and b) methane emissions from livestock.

As climate change makes the world more combustible, we need a new approach

Scientists working with the World Weather Attribution team revealed that climate change made the warm waters that caused the bleaching last year

Other recent studies by the same group found that climate change made torrential rains unleashed on south Louisiana in August

Climate change made it 175 times more likely that the surface waters of the Coral Sea, which off the Queensland coastline is home to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, would reach the record - breaking temperatures last month that bleached reefs, modeling analysis showed.

Scientists working with the World Weather Attribution team revealed that climate change made the warm waters that caused the bleaching last year up to 175 times more likely.

Your pupils will be able to review their understanding of where our drinking water comes from and how climate change makes it important to save our precious water.

NEW ORLEANS — Climate change made the torrential rains that flooded Houston after Hurricane Harvey last summer much worse, scientists reported Wednesday.

(BTW, I just saw a paper in GRL [abstract below] indicating that in addition to the problem of water supply disruption from the lack of a Tibetan glaciers cap, climate change makes the Indian subcontinent vulnerable to flipping into a stable dry state.

Debuys» main takeaway from his extensive interviews and travels amounts to simple arithmetic involving the above points: (1) climate change makes (2) droughts and (3) growth even more challenging for the Southwest, which is (and always has been) vulnerable to rapid population expansion and resource depletion.

The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change make clear some very inconvenient realities about the growing human influence on climate.

point out the linkage between climate change and extreme weather, the bottom line is this: climate change makes tropical storms more damaging.

He wrote in an email, «As climate change makes temperatures more extreme, people should become less sociable.»

As climate change makes regions hotter and urban areas grow, cities with green roofs will get an array of benefits that will improve quality of life for their citizens.

Will climate change make tropical cyclones — known as hurricanes in the Atlantic basin — more frequent or powerful in the future?

But we also need to make clear that the severe risks of climate change make this transformation essential if we care about sustaining our health, our prosperity and our national security.

These uncertainties are reflected in divergent predictions of climate change made by computer models.

Six years of warmer weather do not a climate change make, not by any climatologist's yardstick.

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

For example, we were told by the IPCC that milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms... After the winters of 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11, we are told the opposite by advocates of the IPCC position, Climate Change Makes Major Snowstorms More Likely... The non-falsifiable hypotheses can be stated this way, whatever happens is consistent with my hypothesis.

The title of Mann's article in the British Guardian newspaper said it all, «It's a Fact: Climate Change Made Hurricane Harvey More Deadly.»

The most recent report (PDF) on climate science from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear that we still don't know how sensitive the climate system is to CO2, nor what disruptive feedbacks may emerge as ecosystems dry out, ice caps disappear and permafrost melts — all of which potentially could accelerate warming beyond human control.

The impacts of climate change make it harder for Caribbean countries to plan their transition toward renewable energy sources.

Finally, climate change made it's appearance.