Sentences with phrase «climate changes the rate»

I see no evidence during this election campaign that climate change rates as anything other than a «nuisance».

The climate change record is abused by lying propaganda as a core foundation for the allegation that today's climate change rate is unprecedented, which it clearly is not.

Gregory and Forster 2008 and other papers show how high sensitivities don't really make any difference to current climate change rate, as high sensitivities slow down the system response.

As the climate changes the rate of glacial destruction is compounded.

Not exact matches

At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collClimate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collclimate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collapsing.

If current estimates are correct that the leakage rate is around 3 percent, then we calculated that switching all coal plants to average - efficiency natural gas plants would have little effect on the power sector's contribution to climate change.

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

Other factors that may affect the timing of a sale are availability of bank financing, interest rate trends, changes in tax law, and the general economic climate.

Separately, CDP said French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group Unilever (ul) were the top performers on the global ranking, scoring straight «A» s on a scorecard that rates corporate policies on preventing climate change, ensuring water security and protecting forests.

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Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate - change scientists who base their doomsday forecasts of man - made global warming on extrapolation of historical data.

The ratings consider key ESG - related risks and opportunities by industry, such as climate change, resource scarcity, and demographic shifts.

Rainfall, both the amount and the rate, represents one of the strongest signals of climate change.

Climate change is warming the world's oceans, causing coral to die off at an alarming rate >>

It means giving up on B.C. workers, turning back our climate change commitments, and letting industry call the shots when it comes to setting their tax rate, cutting it in half.

Under the previous government, Canada rated a dismal 58th out of 61 industrialized countries in terms of climate change policy.

Here in the United States, the speculative dangers of climate change need to be weighed against the real and present dangers of stagnant wages and depressed rates of labor participation.

The U.N.'s environmental chief says that climate change is threatening so many species that the world's extinction rate could reach the level attained when dinosaurs were made extinct.

In 2015, the planet reached «alarming» and «unprecedented» rates of climate change, according to the United Nations — and 2016 is set to be another record - breaking year.

Hemp is an environmentally sustainable crop that sequesters carbon from the atmosphere, therefore mitigating the rising rate of CO2 levels that are responsible for climate change.

While the national wine industry has shrunk 1.9 per cent annually from 2009 to 2014, the Tasmanian state industry is growing at a rate of close to 10 per cent per annum, according to the Tasmanian Climate Change Office.

Humans are now changing the Earth's climate at an unprecedented rate.

With sustainable agriculture playing an important role in mitigating climate change and food security, how can adoption rates rise?

Adjust your baby's clothing to the changing climate and have assorted wearable blankets on hand with varying TOG ratings (more on that in a minute).

One of the sections of the book mentioned that at the current rate of climate change and human stupidity, the Himilayan ice cap will have completely melted within a century.

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

Climate change amplifies existing risks to our natural resources, and many species will struggle to keep up with the rate of ecosystem change without continually evolving habitat conservation.

Finally, in so doing, both the EU and China would put further pressure on the US, which, even though it has the highest per / capita emissions rate among the world's largest economies, it is still reticent to commit to fight climate change.

In 2001, the Climate Change Levy was introduced as a tax on energy use: it was intended to be «revenue neutral» for businesses, so the Treasury reduced the rate of employers» NICs by 0.3 per cent - a move arguably inconsistent with the idea of National Insurance as contributory.

Making the city more walkable and accessible to cyclists can help make alternatives to cars and other carbon - dioxide emitting vehicles more appealing, and slow down the rate at which our climate is changing.»

He said no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced by the depletion of the lake due to climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.

Official assessments show the new Department for Energy and Climate Change has the worst possible rating for energy efficiency.

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

Species attempt to remain in their thermometric comfort zone, but climate change is far outpacing the rate at which they can adapt.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Diffenbaugh and Field review the physical conditions that are likely to shape the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, showing that they will face rates of change unprecedented in the past 65 million years.

No time to adapt In terms of adaptation, the rate of climate change might be more important than how much the climate changes, said Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who ran some of the models for the study.

The simulations suggest that, for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates, changes in climate will very likely be larger than the changes already observed during the 20th century.

Climate change may be harming the future of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) by impacting the survival rates of pups, according to one of the first studies on how shifting temperatures are impacting tropical species.

New research published in Nature Climate Change has revealed how strengthening winds on the opposite side of Antarctica, up to 6000kms away, drive the high rate of ice melt along the West Antarctic Peninsula.

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Without action to stave off climate change, some scientists believe that, at that rate, all of the year - round ice in the Arctic could be gone by as early as 2030.

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«It is important to recognize the implications of these climate change effects for public health, including changes in crime rates,» Schinasi said.

«Over the long term, CO2 emissions will determine the rate and severity of climate change,» says NOAA's Ed Dlugokencky.

From overfishing and pollution to coastal development and climate change, fragile coral ecosystems are disappearing at unprecedented rates around the world.

There has been lot of it in the news recently, but the CO2 rates are going up slowly and the climate change is going to be slow and changing the industrial situation of the world is going to be slow.

As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide.

Scientific experiments to measure the rate and effects of climate change on plants aren't matching up to what is happening in nature, a new study finds.