Sentences with phrase «climate change regime because»

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• Cap and trade regimes keep high - cost emitters in the political game because they can reduce their emissions at low cost and thereby help minimize political opposition for climate change legislation.

Because climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions, any proposed climate change regime must be examined through an ethical lens.

While many aspects of the response of the climate system to greenhouse gas forcing appear to be linear, regime or mode transitions can not be quantified by a simple number because responses do not scale with the amplitude of the forcing: small perturbations can induce large changes in certain variables of the climate system.

One review of 300 migrant bird species found that 84 % face some threat from climate change, almost half because of changes in water regime (lowered watertables and drought), and this was equal to the summed threats due to all other anthropogenic causes (Robinson et al., 2005).