Sentences with phrase «consequences of climate change policies»

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

Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Policy.

Not exact matches

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the policies of the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.»

«The paired approach creates a more comprehensive picture of the nature of climate change and the effects of various policies to stem its consequences.»

The collision of water, energy and climate change will reverberate through public policy decisions for decades to come, with unintended consequences at each step.

Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate change.

Michael's research focuses on the natural science and policy aspects of climate change and its impacts, especially sea level rise and its causes and consequences.

Each one of these consequences of climate change will require policies to protect our citizens, especially those most vulnerable to violent weather.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

Any useful summary of knowledge on the causes and consequences of climate change and possible responses would have to include a hard look at the substantial (and sobering) body of work on what shapes human behavior: how people absorb or ignore scientific information — including the climate panel's own reports — and what roadblocks in human behavior await the menu of possible policy options for limiting climate - related risks.

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Piconsequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PiConsequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehuchange,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehClimate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehuChange by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

The scientific discussion is misframed in the press, in the public mind and in the policy sector, as being between the consensus position and the «skeptics» who are so confident that nothing of consequence is at stake in anthropogenic climate change that they feel comfortable advocating an essentially trivial policy repsonse to it.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful echange,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful eChange analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans — including their children — would have to live with the consequences of current US climate policy.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

This policy document summarises the outcomes of the AWG - LCA 6th session on protecting the health of vulnerable people from the humanitarian consequences of climate change and climate related events.

Among the list of policy responses to be assessed under a cost / benefit criterion should be «no response», because this acknowledges the possibility, however slight, that it will be advantageous to deal with climate change's consequences rather than prevent it in the first place.

However, Republicans across all generations are largely in agreement over the consequences of policies aimed at reducing climate change.

There are wide political divides over the consequences of policies aimed at climate change that hold even among those who agree that the Earth has been warming.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

Rather, I am reluctant to concede «CAGW» is a problem given the lack of alternative explanations of observations, use of scareware, consequences of «Climate Change» policy, denigration of and retaliation on skeptics, and so on and so forth.

Involving children in the design of policy and designing climate change policies with children's rights in mind are essential to creating policies that do not have unintended negative consequences.

As described in section 1, evaluating climate change impacts on society and the consequences of alternative policy approaches are key goals of the scenario framework.

In turn, disagreements about the consequences of climate change and the proper policy response are also matters of degree.

(6) The consequences of global climate change, including increases in poverty and destabilization of economies and societies, are likely to pose long - term challenges to the national security, foreign policy, and economic interests of the United States.

«(3) an analysis of the status of worldwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts, including implementation of the Safe Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate climate change.

It is essential for the US national security policy community to diagnose the potential consequences of global climate change.

Misunderstandings and willful denial about our changing climate have had real impacts on policy decisions, and the consequences of our inability or unwillingness to act are real.

Adaptive responses to climate change in fisheries could include: management approaches and policies that maximize resilience of the exploited ecosystems, ensuring fishing and aquaculture communities have the opportunity and capacity to respond to new opportunities brought about by climate change, and the use of multi-sector adaptive strategies to reduce the consequence of negative impacts in any particular sector.

Completing the Top 10 is «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change» in Nature Climate climate and sea - level change» in Nature Climate Cchange» in Nature Climate Climate ChangeChange.

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 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 CChange 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 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 Cchange 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 Climate ChangeChange.

It should be obvious that this discussion has important policy consequences since so many politicians are wedded to the idea that CO2 needs to be controlled in order to avoid «dangerous changes of the global climate.»

Its goals are to promote «practices and economic growth that help both vulnerable communities and business adapt to the impacts of climate change; and... public policies that facilitate adaptation efforts to prepare for and respond to the consequences of a changing climate.»

«Given the weakening evidence for severe global warming and the counterproductive consequences of climate policies, surely increased economic growth offers the better bet for adaptation to whatever change in our climate may lie ahead.»

This project: 1) investigates, explains, and tracks public understanding of the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, support for climate policies, and the current barriers to action, and 2) designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions.

DOI: 10.1038 / nclimate2923 Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change

for article Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change.

Clark, P., Shakun, J., Marcott, S., Mix, A., Eby, M., Kulp, S., Levermann, A., Milne, G., Pfister, P., Santer, B.... (2016) Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change.

The so called «spillover effects» are now more discussed as potential consequences of policies to address climate change.

Whether or not Paul Nurse is right that «climate change is happening», and that it has consequences for our way of life, he can not escape the problem that he and his predecessors have sought a greater role for science, and for the Royal Society in public policy.

The Energy Atlas comes at the right moment to enlighten policy - makers on what is at stake: fighting climate change and its disastrous consequences, contributing to the well - being of all European citizens, and ensuring the competitiveness of the EU industrial base.»

However, GCMs are not proof of climate theory, but they are the best we have for predicting what the consequences of various policy options will be - far ahead of examining entrails or assuming nothing will change.

In his reply to challenges from the interviewer, John Humpphys, Gummer made a number of statements about the consequences of climate change, and of critics of climate change policy, all of which struck me as entirely groundless to the point of being little more than Gummer's fantasy.

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.

The basic message of the article is that the globe is not warming, that dissident voices are being suppressed, and that delaying policies to slow climate change for fifty years will have no serious economic or environment consequences.

While scientists should not be saying: «Here is what your government's climate change policy should be» they should definitely be saying: «Here are the plausible consequences of the policy you are pursuing now, and they don't match with the outcomes you say you want to achieve (like avoiding over 2 °C of temperature increase)».

If we move to analysing how GHG emissions effects the probability and consequences of sudden rapid climate changes, then that is a totally different analyses from climate science right through the policy analysis.

Gov. Brown is even mixing religion into his odd scientific brew: See: From The Hill story: California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) says President Trump's stance on climate change demonstrates that he does not appear to fear the «wrath of God» or have any regard for the «existential consequences» of his environmental policies.

There will also be presentations by about two dozen other scientists and economists, including me, on the latest research on the causes, consequences, and policy implications of climate change.