Sentences with phrase «climate warming problem»

Now if you respond, that seems ridiculous: the true premise underlying the climate warming problem needs no defense.

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One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

Given the warm climate and primitive sanitary conditions he probably had worse digestive problems than most of us have today.

And the problem isn't likely to go away: The number of Lyme cases might go up as the climate changes and ticks have more warm, woodsy places to live.

This feature is great as it solves a common problem among guitars living in warmer and humid climates.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

However, they suggest sustainable management of the Lake Tanganyika fishery requires taking into account the overarching problem that as the climate warms, the algae — the basis for the lake's food web — will decrease.

It's the perfect place to investigate the thorniest problem in all of climate science: how haze and clouds interact to boost or moderate global warming.

As such, the ongoing climate change poses the following problem for marine animals: the warmer the water gets, the less oxygen it can absorb and store.

It's the perfect place to investigate the thorniest problem in all of climate science: how haze and clouds interact to influence global warming, either boosting or moderating it.

«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.

Climate scientists, however, are only too aware of the problems (see Climate myths: It was warmer during the Medieval period), and the uncertainties were both highlighted by Mann's original paper and by others at the time it was published.

Although the amendments may elicit politically tantalizing information about lawmakers» views on climate science, they don't address the underlying questions about the pipeline: Will the project contribute greatly to the warming problem?

However, a paper published in Nature Communications this month shows that wetter summers may bring other problems in a warming climate.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

«That's the way we deal with global warming, climate change or any of those problems,» Christie said in the prime - time debate on CNBC.

They were Jorge Sarmiento, an oceanographer at Princeton University who constructs ocean - circulation models that calculate how much atmospheric carbon dioxide eventually goes into the world's oceans; Eileen Claussen, executive director of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change in Washington, D.C.; and David Keith, a physicist with the University of Calgary in Alberta who designs technological solutions to the global warming problem.

Current climate - warming trends may intensify the problem, the research team noted.

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.»

For years, we at Greenpeace have been working to make public the secret paper trails that show what everyone already knows: climate science deniers - #Fakexperts - are few and far between, and most of them are paid by companies most responsible for global warming to downplay the problem.

We have to find ways to generate inexpensive renewable energy and solve the problem of increasing carbon emissions, which are correlated to climate warming.

Yet U.N. climate negotiations have largely ignored the acidification problem, focusing instead on the goal of curbing global warming to less than 2 °C (3.6 °F).

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [1], [19] summarized broad - based assessments with a «burning embers» diagram, which indicated that major problems begin with global warming of 2 — 3 °C.

Global Climate Coalition dissolves as many corporations grapple with threat of warming, but oil lobby convinces US administration to deny problem.

In the current era in which the problems of global warming can lead to planetary catastrophe, every city has to have a plan for adapting to climate change, especially thosesubject toextreme events.

(It's not a temperature issue as far as I can tell; we live in a warm climate and I've had the same problem often when starting during the weekend at midday.)

To avoid the problem just don't run less than a quarter tank of gas, never run less than 5 minutes, use only flex fuel (if u can find it), move to a warmer climate.

Austin's warm and humid climate also makes it the perfect breeding ground for fleas and ticks, outdoor parasites which can cause a host of problems for our pets, and for us.

It is most common in warm and wet climates and least common in the Southwest, but can cause problems anywhere.

They grow in warm and humid climates, so depending on the climate of your area, they can constitute a seasonal or permanent problem.

Pollen can be present year - round in warmer climates, while seasonal areas face the toughest problems during the spring and fall.

«'' More time and energy needs to be spent on addressing skin problems in warmer climates, in part because of fleas,»» Dr. DeBoer says.

Heartworm disease is a year - round problem in Oklahoma because heartworms are transmitted by mosquitoes, which are alive and well all year due to our warm and humid climate.

Hot / warm and humid areas have the perfect climate for fleas to survive year - round, so the common practice of stopping flea treatment over winter can lead to problems over summer.

Dogs that were bred for cold climates such as Huskies, Akita's have been transplanted by people to warm climates this is not natural and one can expect behavioural and health problems.

Fleas prefer warm, humid conditions, which means they are seasonal in cold climates but are a problem all year round in the Southeast and Southwest.

In warm climates where fleas are active year - round, they are a year - round problem, intensifying during summer.

Dr. Schmidt's tweets will be much appreciated by climate scientists and others who are already well - informed and already convinced that global warming is a problem.

And I'd rather deal with the problem of farming in a warmer climate than farming under attack by Martian death rays — which is as relevent as the possibility of a new ice age for the next 150 + years.

2000 The Global Climate Coalition dissolves as many corporations grapple with the threat of warming, but the oil lobby convinces the U.S. administration to deny a problem exists.

I would go as far to say that the majority of the educated American public knows that the people who suffer the most from climate change and global warming at not those who contribute the most to the problem (i.e. the United States).

According to this logic, the individual «good - hearted U.S. citizen» — although he or she possesses «vast wealth», and although he or she «helped create» the problems caused by global warming & climate change — is not to be held individually responsible for helping (the people in) poor countries adapt to probems caused by CO2 emissions.

On the overarching question of «solving» the climate problem, I'm sure Joe would agree that global warming is inevitably going to be, at best, managed — not «fixed» — given the trajectories for emissions in a world inexorably headed toward roughly nine billion people seeking energy - enabled lives and with substantial warming already in the pipeline, according to a heap of research.

It's a good PR gimmick for the Guardian, and I mean that is a positive way: the story will get lots of ink and will be picked up by the international wire services like AP and Reuters, spreading the word far and wide, and the blogosphere will pick it up as well, and the news of the Guardian's picks will be useful in helping to make more and more people aware of the very real problems of climate change and global warming.

Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stressed the persistent uncertainty in the range of warming expected from a buildup of greenhouse gases as cutting against the idea of specific thresholds: «Our biggest science problem is that we do not know how strong the climate feedbacks are, or even whether we know all of the ones that are important on decadal and longer time scales,» he said in an e-mail.

This pretty much reflects where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change left the issue in 2007, despite ongoing efforts to tie global warming to health problems.

P.S., In fresh article published in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem...

I'd rather deal with the problems of farming in a warmer climate — including bugs and water shortages — than I would with the problems of farming under ice.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

The whole problem of how much warming will occur convolves lots of questions involving how the climate reacts to greenhouse gases, the carbon cycle, and our future path as societies in terms of our energy use (and other emissions).