Sentences with phrase «consequences of climate change since»

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.

Not exact matches

A newly published study published online in the April 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled, «Ocean warming since 1982 has expanded the niche of toxic algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans,» demonstrates that one ocean consequence of climate change that has already occurred is the spread and intensification of toxic algae.

But, having written about the panel ever since it was created in 1988, I can't think of any other effort that serves as a better compass for tracking the trajectory and level of understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change, and options for responding to them.

The report notes that research on the effects of climate change has doubled since the last report in 2007 — and so has understanding about what needs to done to insulate people from more severe consequences.

There is no doubt, that these observations are associated with the climate change which has been shown to occur since several decades, and which, over the last years, has had important consequences for fisheries: decrease of catches, northwards shift of fishing grounds, adaptation to fisheries for different species.

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.»

This is the year in which membership of the Green Party has doubled; the year in which the IPCC made it clearer than ever that we have to completely give up fossil fuels by 2050 or face catastrophic climate consequences; the year in which climate change made itself more than evident as temperatures in Europe hit their highest since the 1500s.