Sentences with phrase «climate change taking place»

This is just some commentary on the discussions about climate change taking place at the G8 summit.
The nature of the climate back then offers insight into the history of climate change taking place in the region, and yields clues to future trends, the researchers say.
That is a call for action from the stumbling international climate change negotiations - and the next round of the Convention on Climate Change taking place in Durban this year.
Morocco will hand the presidency over to Fiji at the Conference of Parties (COP23) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Bonn, Germany.
The President made this known on Tuesday in his statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, at the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Marrakech, Morocco.
The group wants the United States to public commit to transition to a 100 % clean, renewable energy economy by 2030 when the UN meeting on climate change takes place in NYC in September.
As discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.
Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.
In her analysis of conversations, she illustrates how collective denial of climate change takes place through conversations.
Can you explain a single on of the climate changes taking place?
The video argues that ethics is the crucial missing element in the climate change debate and if an ethical framing of most climate change policy issues were taken seriously it would transform how the public debate on climate change takes place.

Not exact matches

Since taking office, President Trump has pulled the country out of the Paris climate change accord, proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 26 percent, and placed tariffs on solar panels imported from countries like China and South Korea.
Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.
The conference took place around this time last year and aimed to strengthen the global response to climate changes.
-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.
On 17 — 21 October, the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome.During the first day, FAO launched its flagship publication on The State of Food and Agriculture, which focused on climate change this year.
The UN Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate climate change.
Take it from Woody Allen: A big family meal is no place for challenging your in - law who doesn't believe in climate change or rehashing the juicy details of your hot date last Saturday.
Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!
Mass Audubon sanctuaries are beautiful places where visitors can come to understand the local impacts of climate change and how to take action.
Alternatively (and given the rapid changes that seem to be possible in this new climate) could minor parties or even new parties rise up to take their place?
A four - day Socialist Convergence — initiated by the Philly Socialists and organized by a coalition of radical and socialist organizations ranging from the Kentucky Workers League to the System Change Not Climate Change coalition — will take place alongside the corporate - sponsored DNC.
The researchers fear that, if climate scenarios are proven right, a permanent change in the western Amazon may start to take place within 10 years.
Rather than placing ourselves in a «fight» against climate change, or lament a lost Eden, we should take the chance to rethink how we live, says Mike Hulme
Fears that climate change will erode progress McCarty is an organizer of a climate change conference taking place in Washington, D.C., this week that has brought together coastal American Indians and indigenous groups from the United States and its Pacific Island protectorates and territories.
The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.
«We used to get it,» said Holt, noting that the first official climate - change warning to a U.S. president took place 50 years ago, on 5 November 1965.
By looking at the climate changes that took place thousands of years ago, we can improve predictions for future climate.
A leaked summary document accompanying the report focuses on the fact that climate change is not an event scheduled to take place at some later date.
The conference took place just after sea - level rise and climate change happened to surface on the national stage.
Holt said that climate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emiclimate change was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emischange was selected as the inaugural training topic, under the Leshner Leadership Institute, because «the problem is both pressing and timely» - coinciding this year with the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emiClimate Change Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emisChange Conference set to take place in Paris; the 50th anniversary of the first climate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emiclimate - change statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emischange statement by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; and President Barack Obama's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientists still do not fully know the precise reasons for the extinction of many species; it probably took place due to a combination of climate change and hunting by humans.
As climate change and population place further pressure on tight water resources, the researchers found that policymakers and water managers need to take a regional and global perspective on local decisions.
The meeting, one of nine ministerial gatherings scheduled ahead of the main summit, was due to take place at the end of June to provide input on issues such as climate change and renewable energy sources.
It aims to give a more complete picture of the changes taking place in polar regions because of climate change.
To find out how climate change will affect the overall survival of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes), a team of researchers placed mosquito larvae taken from ponds in western Greenland into chambers with temperatures ranging from 4 °C to 19 °C, simulating temperatures measured in the ponds during mosquito development, and then timed how long it took for the adults to emerge.
But the climate change still had a deep impact on anthropoid evolution, because habitat fragmentation and an increased level of allopatric speciation took place as a result.
All weather events are influenced by climate change as they now take place in a world more than 1 °C warmer than a century ago.
New research methods and technologies are able to shed light on climate patterns that took place thousands of years ago, giving us a new perspective on how cultures of the time coped with variable and changing environments.
As Hartmut Hellmer explains, «When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat can not be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place.
Those thoughts kept going through my head during our recent town hall meeting about climate change, which took place at Yale University this past January (see page 38).
Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»
Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lawyer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said that although it is unlikely that the loss of the Clean Power Plan would affect many states» emissions cutting goals, there will be little encouragement for states reluctant to take action on climate change to create emissions goals without the plan in place.
There are no viable methods of cleaning up oil from ice and, in addition to weather conditions, much of the area where drilling would take place is incredibly remote, said Rear Adm. Jonathan White, the former chief oceanographer of the Navy and head of its climate change task force.
This is taking place at an alarming rate, making it more important than ever that we understand how climate change will affect our natural world.
That's what search giant Google calls its Google Earth Engine, unveiled to coincide with COP16, the International Climate Change Conference taking place in Cancún, Mexico.
Brown wants drop in fuel use Cap and trade's expansion to include motor fuels takes place as Brown made clear that he supports further action to address climate change.
310,000 people gathered on the streets of New York on Sunday, just one of 2808 events supporting action on climate change that took place in 166 countries.
The second event took place millions of year later, after Martian climate had changed so significantly that the oceans were composed primarily of frozen water.
This phenomenon also has some people calling for more study on the connection between climate change and activity taking place outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
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