Sentences with phrase «come with a changing climate»

As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countries.

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Alison Redford came to Washington D.C. with exactly the right idea: she needed to talk up Alberta's record on climate change.

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

With climate change set to bring about profound changes to global food production, Canada may come to find itself in something of an unforeseen sweet spot.

Rae Kwon Chung, principal advisor on climate change of the United Nations Secretary - General, came up with the figures during

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

Heyman noted that he and New Democrat Leader John Horgan met with members of the Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming Climate Leadership Team, and respect their thoughtful and balanced approach to both the economic and environmental issues involved in a climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change plan, and said New Democrats will put forward a real plan to address climate change in the coming climate change in the coming months.

Because of the links between drought, land degradation, desertification and climate change, withdrawal from the Desertification Convention comes with potentially significant costs.

Many industries were already coming to terms with the reality that climate change regulations are getting more stringent.

Most Canadians believe action should be taken on climate change, and of all the options available, carbon pricing comes with the lowest economic costs

David had also come across a speech by former BP chief executive, Lord Browne, in which he spoke of the warnings company scientists had sounded about climate change, and how their arguments convinced him that it was wrong to side with climate denial.

Growth is good, everything is pretty good with a big jolt of stimulation coming from changes in tax laws,» Dalio said, referring to the health of the U.S. market as well as what he sees as an improving global economic climate.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

The UN Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate Climate Summit took place yesterday with global leaders coming together in New York to act on climate climate change.

Writing letters to editors or attending rallies to urge lawmakers to pass climate - friendly policies can not only fend off the anxiety and depression that comes with feeling helpless, but also effect real change.

It came from a civil servant in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Labour had a knack of creating government departments with ugly, stilted names and this was one of them).

De Blasio has sought to position New York City as a leader in the fight against climate change, but even as he has committed to quickly come up with an aggressive plan to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the agency that is supposed to lead that effort is in flux.

Its concerns about energy security have noticeably risen and it has come to relate its desire to achieve greater energy efficiency with its climate change diplomacy at the international level.

Change comes to those with the courage to will it; 20 years from now let people say this great generation created a decade not of austerity, but shared prosperity, not of conflict, but of peace, not of inequality and climate chaos, but of sustainable development in the interests of all.

«Greens have already come out against the referendum, lining up with Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers» Alliance, and other right - wing climate change - denying loons.»

With the effect of climate change, the irrigation dam comes in handy to enable citizens who are predominantly farmers to cultivate crops all year round without depending on the unregularly rain pattern.

Michigan House District 11 Candidate Nancy Skinner is making climate change a centerpiece of her campaign, going into next month's primary, and has come out swinging with the piece you see above.

«My Pope came out with a document some few years ago titled «Care for our Common Home»... He talked about sanitation, climate change and a whole lot of challenges.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

The shadow energy and climate change secretary made the comment in an interview with Liberal Conspiracy in which he came close to endorsing gay marriage and branded himself a feminst.

«Like every advanced industrial country we are coming to terms with the issues surrounding climate change,» he said, in a monthly press conference dominated by the recent floods.

Ed Miliband came close to resigning as energy and climate change secretary when Gordon Brown insisted on pressing ahead with a third runway.

Carbon pollution coming from traditional fuel sources such as coal and gas directly contributes to climate change and is associated with asthma and other lung conditions.

With little progress on an international climate change agreement, state and municipal governments worldwide are coming together to address the issue.

They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.

Environmental Advocates of New York, and all New Yorkers, stand ready to work hand - in - hand with Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg to fight climate change, decrease our state's contribution to this global problem, and keep our communities safe when the next super storm event comes knocking.»

Things started out quietly, with Katko actually getting some props from the audience for his support of climate change and the rights of refugees to come to this country.

Some researchers expect that as climate change pushes agriculture and human populations farther north, «people are going to come more in contact with these mostly pristine landscapes» and disturb them in ways that could increase fire risk, Page says.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

But with shortened normals comes a risk of underplaying recorded changes to the climate.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

Still, Steer said, while the institution has come a long way on social issues, «it is still, quite frankly, getting on the right path with climate change.»

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

Over the past 20 years, evidence that humans are affecting the climate has accumulated inexorably, and with it has come ever greater certainty across the scientific community in the reality of recent climate change and the potential for much greater change in the future.

REP. BOEHNER: When it comes to the issue of climate change, George, it's pretty clear that if we don't work with other industrialized nations around the world, what's going to happen is that we're going to ship millions of American jobs overseas.

With plans for a new floating dock at McMurdo Sound and robotic transportation to the South Pole, there's a kind of change in climate coming to the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP).

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

As society comes to terms with the scientific consensus on climate change, climate scientists are being called on to go beyond a mere understanding of the phenomenon, says climatologist Gregg Garfin, deputy director for science translation and outreach at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Another possible issue with attribution science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger when it comes to studies that find no link to human activities.

Three different groups that studied the California drought, however, did not come up with a clear picture of how long - term climate change might have driven that event.

«Climate change is an intellectually stimulating sector, very complex, with many possibilities for how this will come together,» says Heather Kaplan Coleman, senior policy adviser on climate change for Oxfam AClimate change is an intellectually stimulating sector, very complex, with many possibilities for how this will come together,» says Heather Kaplan Coleman, senior policy adviser on climate change for Oxfam Aclimate change for Oxfam America.

To safeguard against that outcome, the report authors recommend that countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide more eco-friendly methods to farmers and workers, and come up with plans to make sure those most vulnerable to climate change — especially the poor — will retain rights and security.

With a global population that is expected to blossom in the coming years, and risks to food yields from climate change, it will be essential to shore up food infrastructure and keep global food markets open in food - exporting nations, he said.

Climate change combined with building on floodplains has set Europe on the path to more flood damage in the coming decades