Sentences with phrase «climate system impacts»
If these trends continue, increased wildfire potential may have pronounced global socio - economic, ecological and climate system impacts.
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Among these questions, she includes, «What impacts do changes in the Arctic have on the large - scale climate and weather systems?»
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Although the international market does not currently differentiate climate - smart cocoa at a wide scale, the Rainforest Alliance will introduce a wider choice of traceability systems in 2017, which are expected to have a positive impact on demand.
Even addressing climate change — Project Drawdown analyzed more than 100 different climate change - reversing solutions, and it turns out that eight of the top 20 solutions with the greatest impact can be found in the food system.
Then Graham pointed out that the impacts of climate change, peak oil and geopolitical instability mean that «the whole food system needs rethinking and massive effort needs to go into rebuilding the skills of our agricultural producers such that the nation can remain domestically food - secure».
His main fields of scientific interest include food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural, food system analysis, regional and urban food systems, sustainable transitions, ecosystem services, climate change impacts, and climate change adaptation.
It states, in part, «Creating a sustainable regional food system that meets [the $ 1 billion] demand and offers equal access to nutritious food will improve public health, bolster the city's «good food» economy, build resilience in the wake of extreme weather events and reduce the city's «foodprint» as a way to mitigate the impacts of climate change.»
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.
«If CO2 leaked from storage and reached the seafloor, then the environmental impact will be measurable, but very restricted in area and not catastrophic,» said Jerry Blackford, a marine system modeler at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and author of the paper, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.
This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.
Our limited knowledge of the response of both natural systems and human society to the growing impacts of climate change compounds our uncertainty.
The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.
Risky Business based its findings on data from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, as well as peer - reviewed literature on extreme weather impacts on crops, labor productivity and energy system performance.
In September 2014, Koonin wrote an editorial where he acknowledged human - caused climate change was happening but wrote that the «impact today of human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the climate system itself.»
Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).
«The Amazon rainforest is one of the tipping elements in the Earth system,» says lead - author Delphine Clara Zemp who conducted the study at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.
By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.
Predicting our climate change future, and particularly impacts on the natural systems responsible for making this planet a habitable environment for mankind, is clearly one of the most challenging problems of our time.
James Balog, who founded Extreme Ice Survey that uses photography and videography to document the impact of climate change on glaciers — work that was the basis of his 2012 documentary «Chasing Ice» — said his work shows how human activities are transforming Earth's systems.
«He has pushed forward the frontier of our knowledge of Earth's climate system and of the impacts that humanity is having on Earth's climate,» Nicholas E. White, director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at Goddard, said in a statement.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.
According to the findings, the extent of Arctic sea ice and its seasonal distribution clearly have broad impacts on Arctic climate that extend beyond the Arctic Ocean itself and have important implications for the future of the Arctic system.
Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a new method of carbon footprinting for pasture - based cattle production systems that can assess the impacts of individual animals.
Scientists, engineers and economists from the following institutions contributed to the research: the JGCRI, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland, BAEconomics, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, and Resources for the Future.
It's undoubtedly attractive to picture an «e-science» future, where the impacts of scientific research such as environmental climate change and genomic bioresearch are shared globally with spectrally efficient 100 Gbps transmissions systems.
«As a result, some atmospheric circulations systems can not be resolved by these models, and this clearly impacts the accuracy of climate change predictions as shown in our study.»
«If human activities are starting to impact this system, it is a worrying sign that the scale of human impacts on the climate system may be reaching a critical point.»
Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents.
Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.
Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long - lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of widespread and profound impacts affecting all levels of society and the natural world, the report finds.
Research funding: The Conservative's manifesto vaguely promises «a stable investment climate for Research Councils» and also pledges to «delay the implementation of the new funding system for universities — the Research Excellence Framework — and work with academics to ensure that there is a robust and acceptable way of measuring the impact of all research.»
«For the present - day climate, internal heat provides only 0.02 percent of the energy input to the climate system,» says Georg Feulner of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Reclimate, internal heat provides only 0.02 percent of the energy input to the climate system,» says Georg Feulner of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Reclimate system,» says Georg Feulner of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ReClimate Impact Research.
The biggest concern: that the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model (CESM).
With climate change, food security and sustainability for a growing population is one of the most critical challenges facing the planet, Keoleian said, and an area where changes to the food system can have quantifiable emissions impacts.
A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.
A new integrated computational climate model developed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions marks the first successful attempt to bridge Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.
To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.
«The iceberg surges push the rain belts, or the tropical climate system, to the south and the impact on climate can be rather significant.»
In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research on tea as a model system for understanding how a warming climate is putting stress on specialty crops and the impact of those changes on farmers.
In a separate study published Wednesday, researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan, said aerosols in the Arctic have a «profound» impact on the global climate system.
«These world - first results will have significant impact on the development of climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science aclimate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science aClimate Systems Science at UNSW.
«The results clearly showed that modest amounts of climate change can have a big impact on yields of several crops in Europe,» said Stanford doctoral student Frances Moore, who conducted the research with David Lobell, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science.
Revkin is among those credited with developing the idea that humans, through growing impacts on Earth's climate and other critical systems, had created a «geological age of our own making,» known increasingly as the Anthropocene.
We lay the foundation for understanding how methane release impacts the marine environment and climate system.
Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.
In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton, note that so - called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of «alarmism» and «overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system.»
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