Sentences with phrase «climate changes suggest»

Studies of past climate changes suggest the land and oceans start releasing more CO2 than they absorb as the planet warms.

Last year scientists writing in the journal Nature Climate Change suggested cutting methane emissions by pushing up the price of meat through a tax or emissions trading scheme.

But projections spelled out in a new report reviewing the issue by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change suggests that by 2050 the total amount of carbon pollution from these sources could increase tenfold, depending on population, economics, and technology trends.

High - profile figures like Bloomberg, Cuomo and Clinton speaking candidly and practically about climate change suggests a change of pace among public officials.

... While global warming has catastrophic connotations attached to it, climate change suggests a more controllable and less emotional challenge» (p. 142).

Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's national severe storms laboratory, said that models of climate change suggest that over the next 100 years, a warming earth will provide more energy for storms, so «we expect there will be more environments that are favorable for severe thunderstorms.»

But a new study just published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that this link between conservative values and climate «skepticism» holds strongest in the U.S. and Australia, and less so in Canada, where fossil fuel vested interests are high.

With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing hypotheses.

Moreover, the faster - than - predicted change in global climate (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007) and the different available scenarios for climate change suggest an increase in aridity for the semi-arid regions of the globe and the Mediterranean region in the near future.

The average American currently generates 22 tons of CO2 a year, but to limit 21st century warming to 2.5 degrees Celsius, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests cutting the global rise in CO2 to one part per million by 2050.

Today, a new review paper in Nature Climate Change suggests we can expect more of the same in future, with rising temperatures set to almost double the frequency of extreme El Niño events.

[23] An 2015 analysis by US government scientists in the journal Nature and Climate Change suggested that if temporary natural fluctuations were ignored then world was probably now warming at a rate of about 0.2 °C per decade — higher than the IPCC's longer - term average.

But the scientific report in Nature Climate Change suggests that under the «business as usual scenario» − whereby no steps are taken to address climate change, and the expanding the use of coal, oil and natural gas dumps ever greater quantities carbon dioxide in the atmosphere − then such conditions could occur once every decade or so before 2100.

With predictions of climate change suggesting an increase in extreme weather events, a rise in deaths by sudden events like thunderstorms and lightning and crop losses of up to 25 %... Read more

As for 98 %, is this something like the fact that 97 % of peer reviewed articles published on climate change suggest a link between climate change and anthropogenic carbon emissions?

The theory of abrupt climate change suggests that we are adding to instability of the climate system with emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, CFC's and aerosols.

Hansen and his colleagues summarise the challenge as follows: «If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on earth is adapted, palaeoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385ppm [parts per million] to at most 350ppm.»

Their conclusion: «If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [in 2008] to at most 350 ppm.»

Two new surveys regarding Americans» attitudes toward climate change suggest that Americans have yet to make a personal connection to the issue.

The factors identified in this study as predisposing species to high extinction risk due to climate change suggest that conservation actions should focus on species that occupy a small or declining area, have small population size, or have synchronized population fluctuations.

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The climate change denial machine has been up and running since at least 1988, 20 years longer than the story suggests.

This federal policy reversal will be discouraging to many, particularly since conventional wisdom suggests that American action on climate change is a necessary predicate to strong action by China and India.

In an exposé published last September, Inside Climate Change and the Los Angeles Times suggested they had found just that.

Zuckerberg suggested that the Millennial equivalents can be things like addressing climate change and eradicating ever more diseases.

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

That's why experts advise against simply reacting to the overall business climate and instead suggest businesses do some research before making a price change.

The Conservative majority suggests a business - as - usual trajectory for Canada's climate change ambitions: rapid oil sands expansions, soaring greenhouse gas emissions, reductions targets on paper, if nowhere else.

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.

That's not to say that 2006 is destined to remain in this particularly negative Climate, but here and now, there's little to suggest the probability of above average returns until the evidence changes.

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.

The EPA also suggested that the State Department revisit its conclusion that the Keystone XL would not impact climate change because, in the absence of Keystone, oilsands producers would use rail to get their oil to market.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

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.

A new study that looks at climate change over the past 11,300 years — a record length of time for any study — suggests that the current trend of global warming is unprecedented.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

New research suggests that climate change may actually result in extreme cooling of the northern continents.

Left - leaning blogs and sites like ThinkProgress and Huffington Post jumped on Rubio's comments, with the Zack Beauchamp from ThingProgress writing, «To suggest we can't know how old the Earth is, then, is to deny the validity of these scientific methods altogether — a maneuver familiar to Rubio, who also denies the reality of anthropogenic climate change.»

But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of habitats, suggesting other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).

An Op Ed by Mass Audubon's Jack Clarke discussing the importance of conserving critical landscapes in the face of climate change, as the report suggests, has been published in regional papers statewide (July 20, 2014).

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said the 2017 report, in suggesting how climate change may strongly impact the futures of many birds that breed in the Bay State, «represents another example of the conservation organization's leadership and commitment to species protection and biodiversity.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

Whatever you might choose to spend the money on instead, it is hardly treasonous to suggest that Britain's security would be better served by addressing contemporary security threats like cyber warfare, terrorism and climate change, none of which can be met with Cold War weapons of mass destruction.

Wellingborough MP Peter Bone suggested the abolition of Chris Huhne's Department of Energy and Climate Change to a somewhat unconvinced Secretary of State:

Rex Tillerson, Exxon's former CEO - turned - President Donald Trump's secretary of state, once suggested climate change is «an engineering problem.»

Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve of fake news websites.

During a debate on WRVO's Campbell Conversations, DeMarco suggests New York's business climate is poor and it's time for a change.

Lamb also suggested there could be some cooperation on social care, climate change, and health.

«The new generation of Conservative MPs due to take power after the election does not share David Cameron's professed commitment to tackling climate change, a survey being published this week suggests.

Four former environment and climate change secretaries from three parties told the Observer they had concerns about «toothless» plans announced by the government last week, which suggested the new post-Brexit green watchdog would lack the power to take the government to court.