Sentences with phrase «climate change with time»

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However, in a recent interview with the New York Times, Trump said he was keeping an «open mind» on the topic of confronting climate change.

But ultimately this cost will be paid by future generations, who will have to cope with the harmful effects of a changing climate that we compound every time we eat meat ---- unless we act today.

Clark: With that in mind, do you think that this show comes at the perfect time with everything going on on the national stage in regards to immigration and climate chaWith that in mind, do you think that this show comes at the perfect time with everything going on on the national stage in regards to immigration and climate chawith everything going on on the national stage in regards to immigration and climate change?

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

These two firms showed the most growth since 2014 in the total times that they've met with companies to voice their concerns on issues ranging from executive pay to climate change.

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

It's time for real action on climate change to ensure that we leave our children a province, and a planet, as bountiful and healthy as the one we were entrusted with.

Emphasizing her government's record on refugees and climate - change policy, and stressing Canada's shared values with Europe, she was interrupted multiple times by applause.

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

In addition to suggesting Trump was out of touch «with many of his own people», Bishop Nicholas said: «Climate change is one of the great challenges of our times.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

Launched last week, the project is part of the Wellcome Trust's # 5 million Our Planet, Our Health programme, which aims to improve human health while at the same time protecting a world struggling to cope with the effects of climate change.

At the same time, it enables work with on a bilateral basis to accelerate the development and deployment of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding and salinity brought on by climate change.

In his time with IRRI, Dr. Morell has been instrumental in shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientists.

, Lacazettes barely met let alone worked with the squad, on the back of being in Oz the previous week, huge changes in climate, playing in extremely humid stadium... how does this compare to anything that's likely to occur in 2/3 weeks time back in the uk??

With data collected over time, the study will increase our understanding of the local impacts of climate change and contribute to the natural history of Great Lakes fish.

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

But green groups haven't hesitated to take aim at Trump online, with the Natural Resources Defense Council criticizing his recent move to rescind climate standards for federal infrastructure and the League of Conservation Voters praising Miami's Republican mayor, Tomás Regalado, for saying it is time to talk about climate change.

There was a time about six years ago when public concern with climate change was at an all - time high.

Yeo stood down from his position as chair of the energy and climate change committee after a Sunday Times sting caught him offering to put an energy firm in touch with influential figures, including those within government, in return for cash.

All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.

The Amanyanabo of Twon Brass Bayelsa State, King Alfred Diete - Spiff, who was part of the first delegation led the second delegation to the meeting with Osinbajo at a time Buhari was attending the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change also known as COP - 22, in Marrakech, Morocco.

We will build an outward looking Britain that cooperates with other nations to tackle the great challenges of our time like mass migration, modern slavery and climate change.

«It's time to turn this debate around, drive out the politics of despair and offer a vision for Britain and Europe, one where we protect workers» rights, tackle tax avoidance, get to grips with climate change and protect our industries like steel,» he said.

So it is with exquisite timing that The Telegraph's Steven Swinford has obtained a private WhatsApp message from recently - promoted climate change minister Claire Perry.

Today in between accusing Cameron of speaking «total nonsense» and of appointing «climate change deniers», the Labour leader briefly took the time to agree with Cameron's support for taking action on climate change.

The Liberal Democrat warned that there was no time to lose in dealing with the problem if the world was to avoid the potentially disastrous effects of climate change.

«With climate change gone from Hilary Benn's [environment, food and rural affairs secretary] in - tray, his department must spend more time banging heads together across Whitehall to really make thorough «rural proofing» of government policy a reality,» he said.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

Since these set of ocean currents are known to influence global climate, the researchers were interested to see if it correlated with rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and how such a correlation could change over time.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

As the timing and intensity of storms change with the climate, Juniper says connections like these could trigger unexpected changes in the ocean's ecosystems.

With the future of our country, and indeed our entire planet, possibly at stake, now is time to turn our collective concerns about climate change into concerted action.

These include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and foods grown with pesticides, the use of animals in research, whether climate change is mostly due to human activity, and whether humans have evolved over time.

«We are the canary in the coal mine with climate change,» said Hallandale Commissioner Keith London, a ponytailed, athletic politician who attends hydrology work groups in his spare time.

«During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average: Amplification of warming at poles consistent with today's climate change models.»

At the same time, rising sea levels due to climate change increasingly threaten low - lying coastal communities with inundation and beach erosion — and stressed corals may not be able to grow vertically fast enough to match the pace of sea level rise.

How can we feed a growing population while at the same time coping with the impacts of climate change on agriculture?

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

When comparing the history of hydrological changes in the region with artifacts from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt climate change» as seen in the marine core, the study states.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to continue to rely on coal as a source of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., thinclimate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., thinclimate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., thinkchange policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., thinClimate Change, an Arlington, Va., thinkChange, an Arlington, Va., think tank.

The researchers hope their work will help resource managers and scientists keep a close eye on species that are moving north with climate change over time, and predict their impact on other species so they can concentrate conservation efforts and future research accordingly.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.