Sentences with phrase «climate changes seen»

An eminent atmospheric scientist says that natural cycles may be largely responsible for climate changes seen in recent decades.

A version of this article appears in print on November 2, 2013, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies.

Those who are perturbed by climate change see extinction occurring because the organisms haven't enough generational time to evolve to cope with rapidly changing conditions — so extinction is becoming more likely than transitional evolution.

Global efforts to dramatically reduce super greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change saw a major advance today as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol got the go ahead to crack down on harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Anyone who has followed the politics of climate change sees through the subterfuge, yet it seems that some university administrators don't get it.

For a good sample of how the US media has, at least for the short - term, woken up to climate change see an excellent summary of press coverage of links between Sandy and climate change on the website Residence on Earth at www.anothergreenblogg.wordpress.com,

The report was the lead story on the front page of Saturday's [New York] Times, under the two - column headline «Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies.»

For projected consequences of climate change see the essay on impacts.

G lobal warming For past climate change see Paleoclimatology and Geologic temperature record.

Scientists generally supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings on climate change see this correction of the UAH temperature analyses as a significant vindication of their findings on this issue and, as such, as a major rebuttal to climate contrarians who long had pointed to the differences in surface and upper atmosphere warming trends as supporting their viewpoints.

Google: «oh shit» climate change see about 1,310,000 results (October 11, 2012) I had to post this here and check it later.

Carbon dioxide — CO2, the molecule produced when we burn fossil fuels — traps heat in the atmosphere, causing much of the climate change we see around us.

Not exact matches

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

But he likens that relaxed attitude to ignoring climate change, saying, «If you are enjoying the weather, it is difficult to see it coming.»

Political analysts and experts predict we'll see some changes in what they might entail in along the way - based both on political climate and economic factors.

Certain countries susceptible to climate change have seen a spike in travel interest over the past year, according to a new report from travel insurance comparison web site Squaremouth.

China saw an opportunity to replace the U.S. as a leader of the world's effort to combat climate change.

Trump may see some pushback from the other heads of state, however, for his contrarian views on climate change and free trade.

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

He didn't speak on the environment, but the project he worked on showed something missing from climate change work, at least that I don't see.

The involvement of other jurisdictions, he said, might, «see adequate pressure applied to these companies to inspire action on climate change.»

Both want to see the United States fight climate change, ditch polluting fossil fuels, and ramp up renewables.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

But the president has also pledged to «respond to the threat of climate change» in his second term and would rather not be seen as eating his words by approving Keystone.

The two were also agreed that larger national discussions need to be held around climate change, economic development and accommodation of aboriginal rights and title — and that LNG development should be seen as an opportunity to move on these issues.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

«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.

At the same time, Trump has been seen withdrawing America from its global leadership role, after exiting both the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

«You've seen other examples around the world where transitions weren't necessarily related to the move to tackle climate change, but workers and communities weren't put first.

By Joachim Marc Christensen, Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network Saturday evening December 12th 2015 became a historic night as the world saw its first global climate deal for a coordinated response against climate change.

Timor - Leste's current minister of commerce, industry, and the environment, Constâncio Pinto, sees Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, as a potential ally based on her past experience as a UN adviser in Timor - Leste.

March 08, 2017 - PRESS RELEASE: Post-Election Proxy Season Sees Big Boost in Requests on Diversity and Equal Pay But Climate Change and Corporate Political Transparency Still Top the Agenda

With a climate change denier in the Oval Office, these innovators are poised to clean up in the U.S. market, spurred by a Canadian government determined to see them succeed.

They may enjoy one another's company, but Macron and Trump will never see eye to eye on climate - change policy.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cClimate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial cclimate risk has shot up in financial circles.

This is what we understand about the connections between climate change and the disasters we saw this year.

What's still not known: Did climate change alter the odds of seeing three incredibly strong storms — Harvey, Irma, Maria — in a row this season?

This problem is compounded by the fact that Canada has yet to formulate a credible climate change plan to meet its less than ambitious 2020 targets (see here and here) or the 2030 targets put forward in Canada's current INDC.

InsideClimate News reviewed 25 years» worth of shareholder proposals at the three largest U.S. oil companies — ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips — to see how they responded to investor concerns about climate change.

«I also can't see her getting behind the Keystone pipeline in a serious way given the emphasis on climate change within her party, particularly the more progressive left,» Hagle said.

Looking back at the visit, it stands in stark contrast to Modi's recent meetings with leaders of the United States, Germany and France, where we saw both political focus and media attention on climate change and clean energy.

Over the past three decades we have seen an increase in insured damages, and it is up to all of us — the insurance industry, governments and citizens — to do our part in responding to the effects of climate change.»

The unanimous position among the UCP leadership candidates to repeal the carbon tax without proposing any alternatives to reform or replace it suggests that none of them see climate change as a serious issue.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

The NDP have put forward the most comprehensive plan to fight Climate Change that Alberta has ever seen, something that the Progressive Conservatives were unable to do in the final decade of their 44 years in government and the Wildrose Party has been unable to do in its four years as official opposition.

But here the thing: We don't yet currently know, conclusively, that the storms we saw were made larger and nastier by climate change.

Shareholder resolutions have seen rising support on key issues ranging from governance practices to climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.

In British Columbia, we see the effects of climate change in the growing number of powerful storms that pummel our coast, record wildfires that destroy our forests, and water shortages that harm our agricultural sector.