Sentences with phrase «considering societal changes»

This latest study, conducted by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the City University of New York (CUNY), highlights the importance of considering societal changes when trying to determine future climate impacts.

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I think that you're right to identify these challenges as key to driving successful educational change but I think that crucially, we first need to consider the underlying purpose and philosophy of our educational systems and their relationship to wider societal change.

The results are most useful when they are considered in combination with other knowledge about the student population and the educational system, such as trends in instruction, changes in the school - age population, and societal demands and expectations.

Students consider pottery, mosaics, and glassware as evidence of societal change and daily life in ancient times.

In a news release from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Brian O'Neill, an author of the study (and someone who has long focused on the interplay of population and climate change), stressed the importance of considering the interplay of societal patterns and climate patterns in gauging evolving risks:

For example, as law - makers consider how to vote — and consider how seriously to take the problem of climate change — they should do so with an awareness that if they don't face and address climate change via their decisions and votes, then at least some people will likely begin to embrace other approaches to societal change, including NVCD, and justifiably so.

Although he spends much time discussing how societal changes — the moving of persons and property into harm's way — make us increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, he fails to seriously consider the idea that when you add global warming to said societal changes, the result could be a double whammy.

Consider an alternative universe where the scientists provided a range of scenarios to consider and included natural climate variability in the mix, and recommended that suite of policy options be developed to help reduce societal vulnerability to future climate change, both of the natural and anthropogenic Consider an alternative universe where the scientists provided a range of scenarios to consider and included natural climate variability in the mix, and recommended that suite of policy options be developed to help reduce societal vulnerability to future climate change, both of the natural and anthropogenic consider and included natural climate variability in the mix, and recommended that suite of policy options be developed to help reduce societal vulnerability to future climate change, both of the natural and anthropogenic variety.

I wrote the Climate Shift report to inform the decision making of environmental leaders, philanthropists, scientists, scholars and others as they consider next steps in the effort to mobilize societal action on the undeniable, human causes of climate change.

Then you need to look at the costs of minimizing AGW, costs of minimizing these societal changes (which are presumably also economically driven), versus the benefits (which, in the case of minimising AGW, are generally considered to be much more than simply reducing storm - related costs).