Sentences with phrase «continue adapting to climate change»

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Investments in New York state's clean energy initiatives and programs that help communities adapt to climate change will continue, according to the order.

As global climate change continues, scientists expect more droughts, heat stress and insect pests — creating need for new varieties of agricultural plants with diverse qualities that will let them cope and adapt to quickly changing conditions.

And beyond a basic understanding, «we need to understand how to adapt to the impacts of climate change,» he continues.

The AAS joins the AGU in calling for continued peer - reviewed climate research to inform climate - related policy decisions, to provide a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global change, and to help communities adapt and become resilient to extreme climatic events.

Human emissions are the majority source of warming in this current climate change and that continued use of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic change too quickly for us to adapt to.

If we have some time to prepare, the combination of lowering all the discussed emissions, utilizing current technology to implement alternative energy sources, and engineering new twists on said technology to both continue lowering emissions and adapting to global climate changes as well, we may be able to guide our response sets to outside, artificial selective pressures in conjunction with natural ones; natural, internal variability and external forcings / feedbacks.

We've adapted our crops for each location over hundreds of years of genetic engineering, and I suspect farmers continue to do this year over year in real time as the climate changes.

In the 21st Century, when multi-billion dollar decisions are being made to mitigate and adapt to climate change, society rightly expects openness and transparency in climate science to enable a greater understanding of how climate has changed and how it will continue to change.

So we will continue to pursue advances in science and engineering, in infrastructure and innovation, in education and environmental protection — especially science - based initiatives to help us minimize and adapt to global threats like climate change.

For example, the range and abundance of economically important marine fish are already changing due to climate change and are projected to continue changing such that some local fisheries are very likely to cease to be viable, whereas others may become more valuable if the fishing community can adapt.

«efforts to address climate change should continue to focus most heavily on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in combination with adapting to the impacts of climate change because these approaches do not present poorly defined and poorly quantified risks and are at a greater state of technological readiness.»

The science is clear to me and to most experts in the various fields associated with climate science: Humans are causing most of the observed global warming in the past several decades and, if we continue emitting GHGs under a «business as usual» scenario, it will become increasingly difficult and costly to adapt to the changes that are likely to occur.

Food prices will more than double and the number of malnourished children spiral if climate change is not checked and developing countries are not helped to adapt their farming, food and water experts warned [continue reading...]

Australia's farmers will need to adapt to cope with a potentially hotter and drier continent as the effects of climate change take hold, scientists [continue reading...]

Meanwhile, established systems are undergoing a process of structural reform, ensuring they continue to play an effective role in reducing greenhouse gases and adapt to changing circumstances and climate targets.

We look forward to continuing our work to ensure that forest systems are managed sustainably and can adapt to the changing climate.»

Humans have adapted to natural climate change events for 10's of thousands of years and we will continue to do so.

A major theme of Climatopolis is that as climate scientists continue to make progress with modelling climate change and as we individually learn about the day - to - day challenges climate change poses for different cities, their residents will take pro-active steps to adapt to changing circumstances.

Sharks might not be able to adapt to acidified ocean water if climate change continues as - is, new research suggests.

Agroforestry is our only alternative to mitigate and adapt to climate change,» Alberto Chinchilla, executive director of the Central American Coordinating Association [continue reading...]

The current rapid rate of temperature change will also continue to have worsening impacts on creatures who are adapted to inhabit specific climate zones.

The risks of continuing «business as usual» are greater than the risks associated with strong efforts to limit and adapt to climate change.

The need for future projections of extremes is growing, particularly as users planning to adapt to climate change continue to experience record - breaking events (Figure 1).

Decision - makers, by contrast, need to understand how climate change may interfere with their plans and compromise their objectives, so they can adapt existing policies and adopt new strategies to stay on track — whether to protect life, health, and well - being, sustain economic growth, preserve natural resources, ensure continued performance of critical infrastructure, or maintain national security.

As countries increasingly focus on adapting to climate change, and more «climate finance» [continue reading...]

And it's not only about emissions; it's about adapting to the negative impacts of climate change that will continue to happen no matter how fast we reduce emissions.

The report warns that continued burning of fossil fuels to increase living standards while expecting humanity to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects through better technologies «fails to appreciate the nature of the threat posed by ice sheet instability and sea level rise.