Sentences with phrase «consequences of climate change»

Some scientists say that to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, that warming needs to stay under 2 °C, or 3.6 °F.

«As a result, policymakers and the public are not being fully informed of the worst potential consequences of climate change,» he wrote last year.

We are seeing increasingly the direct consequences of climate change in the form of more extreme and more regular weather events.

There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in the emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, and concurrently to reduce ocean acidification.

Little coverage has raised public health consequences of climate change such as higher incidence of asthma, allergies, disease and heat stroke amongst many.

Improvement and advancement in that knowledge frontier will help us in defining our understanding economic consequences of climate change.

Other consequences of climate change are generally felt much sooner.

Researchers say the analysis was intended to more precisely gauge the ecological consequences of climate change.

As the planet continues to warm, the adverse consequences of climate change will continue to increase, and thus the costs of adapting to them will continue to rise.

The evidence presented describes the significant consequences of climate change impacts on food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and global food trade.

Humans have emitted so much into the atmosphere that even if compensated, very little can still be emitted to limit serious consequences of climate change.

The growing consequences of climate change are putting many of the country's most iconic and historic sites at risk.

And on the causes and possible consequences of climate change, the scientific truth is there's too much we just don't know.

Some of the most dangerous consequences of climate change are listed here.

The same goes with the future consequences of climate change.

But as governments and scientists issue reports on the dire consequences of climate change with increasing frequency and alarm, some sectors of the news media seems to remain cool to the topic.

This is the principal challenge in avoiding the worst, longer - term consequences of climate change.

While biodiversity is under threat around the globe, the number of extreme weather events is on the rise as a direct consequence of climate change.

At over 2000 pages and five years in the making, the report represents the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment ever produced on the causes and physical consequences of climate change.

We represent states that are already suffering the economic and human consequences of climate change, and that are leaders in working to reduce the emissions that cause it.

The bill would require the state to generate a comprehensive, statewide plan to prepare for extreme storms, weather events, and other unavoidable consequences of climate change.

One of the predicted consequences of climate change is a shift in body mass distributions within animal populations.

Different approaches to social justice can be applied to the evaluation of the equity consequences of climate change policies.

The environmental consequences of climate change are now firmly on the political and public agenda.

The effect of changing seasons on plants and animals is now one of the well - documented consequences of climate change.

Measuring sea level is an increasingly important part of climate research, and a rising mean sea level is one of the most tangible consequences of climate change.

This makes it likely that only the largest and most visible consequences of climate change are currently being detected.

Given that I've covered the causes and consequences of climate change since the 1980s, you might perceive this as me throwing in the towel.

But droughts and reduced food production are not the only consequences of climate change.

The mental health and well - being consequences of climate change related impacts rarely occur in isolation, but often interact with other social and environmental stressors.

We explore the regional differences in the effects of exposure to high temperature variability — an important consequence of climate change — on a particularly vulnerable demographic group: infants.

Many questions were raised from both groups about the main consequences of climate change and how these consequences have become more evident in the latest years.

We need to dramatically curb global warming emissions to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

The economic, environmental and human health consequences of climate change are already being felt.

Also, regarding the economic consequences of climate change, I think there is a fundamental flaw that is pervasive in thinking about the impacts of climate change.

At the same time, the growing consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly evident, with far - reaching implications for how the state manages its water supplies.

High temperatures are to blame for an increase in heat - related deaths and illness, rising seas, increased storm intensity, and many of the other dangerous consequences of climate change.

If we think the future consequences of climate change will be very bad, are we allowed to savor them now?

Learning about topography can deepen student's understanding of consequences of climate change, such as sea level rise.

I certainly acknowledge the problem, and I recognise that where I live in the UK we will probably get off relatively lightly, at least initially, as far as consequences of climate change are concerned.

October 4, 2013 Climate Change journal focuses special issue on Indigenous peoples as they cope with consequences of climate change This week, the Portland, Oregon based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC), a technical support and coordinating agency for fishery management policies of the Columbia River Basin's four treaty tribes, is applauding the publication of the journal Climate Change.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

The bottom line is that it's still possible to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C, thus preventing some of the more disastrous consequences of climate change — but it will require ambitious cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions.

And it doesn't tell us much about the possible positive consequences of climate change (unless you count expansion in the ranges of turtle doves and nuthatches).