Sentences with phrase «climate impacts of global warming»

We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data.

We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data.

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With a long history of personal interest in sustainable food, Paul recently called upon the Doha climate conference to take into account the impact of the livestock sector on global warming.

However, the recent period of cooling does suggest that either manmade global warming may be smaller or that the impact of other factors may be greater than climate models have so far assumed.

Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance of action on climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the impact of global warming.

The legally binding international Agreement on climate change, among others, addresses issues of global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.

With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impacts.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

Checking 20 years worth of projections shows that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has consistently underestimated the pace and impacts of global warming

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

«White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and impacts of global warming, controlled media access to government climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions of climate change.»

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity.

This work is particularly timely given the work this year of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to develop a Special Report on the Impacts of global warming of 1.5 oC above pre-industrial levels.

During a Friday morning session titled «Fire and Climate,» Meg Krawchuk, a UC Berkeley «pyrogeographer,» described her efforts to model the impacts of global warming on fire patterns across the world.

The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire impacts of a warming global climate, which many scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.

The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

«Ice age vertebrates had mixed responses to climate change: New study contradicts idea of uniform population change, has significance for understanding global warming impact.»

The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.

«Reductions of methane and black carbon (soot) would likely have only a modest impact on near - term global climate warming,» the authors at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wrote.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

«But this flying fox may be the best example of a mammal species likely to be negatively impacted by warming global climates.

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

«There are characteristic patterns of increase and decrease, for example, in response to an El Nino event,» which is a cyclical climate event marked by warming waters in the western Pacific Ocean that has global impacts, Zwiers says.

However, scientists say it is important to study the PETM because it is perhaps the best past event by which to understand the potential impacts of global climate warming seen today.

It can be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the world:

Now researchers are studying the impacts of deliberately injecting SO2 into the stratosphere to contract the effects of global warming, known as climate intervention.

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

«To see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be substantial impacts from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.

Cities are at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of global warming, so CityLab posed the question: Are they are also the best places to begin combating the pollution that causes climate change?

He says the Bush administration is trying to silence him because he is sounding alarm bells about the impact of climate change, global warming.

Also, for those interested, on page 41 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Synthesis Report, is found a description of their Key Finding # 2 which includes the statement «Climate models indicate that the local warming over Greenland is likely to be one to three times the global average.»

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

A group of experts all around the globe has come up with a climate change report that aims to highlight the importance of risk assessment and the impacts of global warming to the society.

Projected impacts of global warming and ocean acidification motivated this action, but as marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson eloquently writes in a New York Times op - ed: «climate change really is only half the story.»

As global methane levels have increased, the impact has been felt twice as much in the Arctic, about a half a degree Celsius more of Arctic warming, according to climate models.

We then examine climate impacts during the past few decades of global warming and in paleoclimate records including the Eemian period, concluding that there are already clear indications of undesirable impacts at the current level of warming and that 2 °C warming would have major deleterious consequences.

Climate impacts accompanying global warming of 2 °C or more would be highly deleterious.

In a recently published interview, Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, and Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a global coalition of researchers, scientists, and economists that models the impacts of global warming, made a spot - on observation about the pitfalls of seeking a simple, single solution to climate change.

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«Because they harbor so much of the world's biodiversity, mountain regions are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of tourism, climate change, and global warming,» says Linda McMillan, UIAA Mountain Protection Commission president and Deputy Vice-Chairman, IUCN - WCPA Mountains Biome.

Projects of particular interest are those that apply a systemic lens to the root causes of global warming; enroll the leadership of frontline communities most vulnerable to the impact of climate change; push for broad - based civic engagement and community action; and wherever possible leverage the value artists and culture bearers bring to processes for devising and deploying practical solutions to this global crisis.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).