Sentences with phrase «climate risks much»

It also places climate risks much more firmly than before among a host of other problems faced by society, especially by the poor.

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And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

For a petro - economy such as Canada's, the financial risks associated with the pending battle against climate change are much greater than any cyclical downturn in oil prices.

He also questions whether the signing of the French striker who could not even get into the Euro 2016 squad would be of much use to the Gunners, but he also advised Wenger to do it anyway as it would be an even bigger risk to not bring in another forward in the current climate of frustration.

If you live in northern climates or other places where there is not much sunlight, or if you tend to spend most of your day indoors, you and your baby may not be getting enough Vitamin D. Babies with darker skin are also at risk as they need more time in the sun to get the same benefits.

The loss of the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) nameplate sends entirely the wrong signal, however much Greg Clark, the new secretary of state in charge understands climatClimate Change (DECC) nameplate sends entirely the wrong signal, however much Greg Clark, the new secretary of state in charge understands climateclimate risk.

In today's political climate, it's important for New Yorkers to get a sense of how much funding is at stake and what programs might be at risk.»

By comparison, phenacosaur anoles living in cloud forests have had very little exposure to temperature variability for over 10 million years and are very much at risk from climate change, he said.

I don't believe that [the FAA's involvement should be so limited]-- the problem is that spacelines will be much more at risk from a lethal liability climate than if they did have FAA approval on their spacecraft safety.

Much of USDA's climate change communication focuses on risk management practices that improve production and reduce costs, said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief Ecoclimate change communication focuses on risk management practices that improve production and reduce costs, said William Hohenstein, director of the Climate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief EcoClimate Change Program Office at USDA's Office of the Chief Economist.

Overall, farmers were much less concerned about climate change risks — like fewer winter chill hours for trees, more heat waves and increased flooding.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

Yet regardless of how much sea - level rise climate change brings, the researchers say careful long - term strategic planning can ensure that development in high - risk flood zones is appropriately designed or avoided.

«In this exciting question of what's next for climate, assessment has a huge amount to contribute, ranging from revealing risks and options through to pinpointing the ways that it's a challenge of values, and whose values count and how much,» Mach said.

Unfortunately for coral reefs (and for us), they face a serious risk from climate change; experts estimate that as much as RELATED TAGS: OCEAN, IMAX

What is interesting to most people who read newspapers is not the narrowing of the range (still pretty much Arrheniuslike) of probability for climate sensitivity, but the distribution and the associated risks for themselves.

The climate models aren't really good enough in their representation of present - day circulation to give you much confidence in the specifics of their predictions [so that you could use them to do a cost - benefit analysis for example], but the risk of widespread change is still there.

As many as 65 percent of people in some countries haven't even heard of climate change, and perceptions of risk often depend on local temperatures as much as beliefs about humans» role in the changing environment, a new study finds.

As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for action to be taken to reduce disaster risk and to help communities adapt to changing and more unpredictable weather patterns, without which much more displacement will occur in the future.

They also administered three questionnaires to teachers asking them to rate: 1) their perceptions of students» imagination, risk - taking, expression, and cooperative learning; 2) their school climate in terms of affiliation, student support, professional interest, achievement orientation, formalization, centralization, innovativeness, and resource adequacy; and 3) how much they integrate the arts, collaborate with arts specialists, and use the arts as a tool to teach other subjects.

While risk - taking is essential to generate long - term returns, it is important to understand that market risk is typically rewarded much better in some Market Climates than in others.

When the price / earnings ratio has approached 20, stocks have typically returned less than Treasury bills for as much as a decade or more.While it is not possible to avoid every downturn in the market, it is essential to defend capital when the Market Climate suggests a poor tradeoff of expected return to risk.

Predation by free - roaming cats only adds to the much more significant risks that birds face due to habitat destruction and climate change.

Health Risks In Nevada's dry climate, parasites are not as much of a problem as in other parts of the country.

Scientists holding this view say the world should move assertively to curtail emissions of heat - trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases, but mainly to limit the worst outcomes decades down the road — not so much because such actions could reduce today's climate - related risks.

What is interesting to most people who read newspapers is not the narrowing of the range (still pretty much Arrheniuslike) of probability for climate sensitivity, but the distribution and the associated risks for themselves.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

And most of the issues related to sustainable development are mainly about limiting vulnerability of the portion of humanity (mostly the poorest portion) exposed to the greatest environmental risks — both those dying young right now by breathing toxic smoke from 2 billion unvented cooking fires and those who could face raised odds of flooding or famine in coming decades if climate is disrupted too much.

Much of the debate about limiting climate risks and fostering a smooth path for humanity as its growth spurt crests revolves around metrics like gigatons of carbon dioxide and billions of dollars.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

Permit me to challenge two things; your simplistic description of the risk perception psychology that explains why the public doesn't seem to care about such a huge threat, and more profoundly, the naive belief that public concern about climate change can make much difference.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

More pertinently, it worries me that climate scientists have spent so much time ensuring that their predictions are defensible that they may have minimized the risk of dramatic climate change.

Then there's that economic factor called the discount rate, which has been front and center in the debate over how much to invest now to limit future climate - related risk.

I also hope that tussles at the edges of understanding, where data are scant or uncertainty is high, don't distract the public too much from the basics of climate science, which are boringly undisputed yet still speak of a rising risk that sorely needs addressing.

COPENHAGEN — As climate treaty negotiators continued to tussle over how much rich countries should pay to help poor ones deal with climate risks, preserve forests and adopt non-polluting energy technology, the financier George Soros appeared on the sidelines Thursday to identify a new pot of $ 100 billion that could help pay the bills.

But does this security issue relate to the main provisions of the climate bill, or more to how much the Pentagon and State Department spend on preemptive risk reduction as opposed to war - fighting, on the scope and focus of American foreign aid, on building prosperity and resilience in Africa and South Asia?

The impacts from climate change also pose risks to the United States, but policymakers are responding to these risks with much less seriousness than the response to terrorism.

KevinM, who has mistakenly equated climate scientists with fund managers, needs to read; a good start would be Chu - Carroll, here, who points out among much else cherrypicking numbers and ignoring risk as foolish financial moves.

In 2009, climate scientists met to try and figure out a system of voluntary standards to guide geoengineering research, much as molecular biologists met in 1975 to assess the potential risks of biotechnology.

I'd argue that much of the work to date has been focused on catastrophic climate change and has not dealt with this risk in proper balance with other risks we face.

Based on this argument I think that the fraction of additional CO2 that remains in atmosphere for very long time doesn't bring anything worthwhile to the discussion of risks of climate change, it's just another distraction that makes reasoned discussion only more difficult as long as our understanding of climate change and it's consequences is not very much better than it's now.

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

-- but ultimately, companies don't think twice about passing the costs of climate change on to you, or if you become too much of a risk, dropping you altogether.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

A major part of the present climate research would not be there without the «political reasons», i.e. the willingness of politically controlled organizations to fund such research much more than it would be funded in absence of the widely accepted view that AGW is a very serious and possibly the most important risk to humanity.

These days, Abbott is more careful with his language but his appointments to cabinet and his policy positions say much about the extent of his concern for the risks of human caused climate change.

However, the question is whether the large time and human resources that are used to create these climate model runs could be more effectively used for other scenario methodologies [which would be much less costly] and, even more importantly, in developing responses to climate (and other environmental threats) so as to reduce the risks we face.

Researchers» meta - analysis of 60 studies suggest that, consistent with links between conflict and climate shifts in the past, the risk of intergroup conflict around much of the planet would be amplified by 50 % in 2050.

What bothers me is, the standards for «doing something about climate change» seem to be so much higher than the standards we use for risk management in other parts of our lives.