Sentences with phrase «created by climate change»

Adaptation strives to change structures and systems in the built environment to address the risks and impacts created by climate change.

But the public has no freedom to do the same with Gummer, nor any member of the CCC, which was created by the Climate Change Act, 2008.

So the people who stand to profit from markets created by climate change legislation are instrumental in creating that legislation.

This paper summarizes the additional uncertainty that is created by climate change, and reviews the tools that are available to project climate change (including downscaling techniques) and to assess and quantify the corresponding uncertainty.

Naval forces will also need to meet growing demands for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in response to a range of predicted crises created by climate change, including floods, droughts, intense storms, and geopolitical unrest.

The new environmental conditions being created by climate change are some of the most serious threats to wildlife worldwide — but for those species that can exploit them, they may be a huge boon.

Each nation has employed its own methodology for maintenance and repairs, but new, daunting challenges created by climate change — extreme heat, extreme cold, and severe flooding — require yet more rigorous solutions.

Simultaneously, the city's freshwater supply is being contaminated by saltwater intrusion — a problem that was not created by climate change, but that is likely being accelerated by it, according to researchers.

The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.

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Trump claimed before taking office that climate change was a «hoax» created by the Chinese to hurt the U.S. economy.

Trump has said that climate change is a hoax, «created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.»

Given recent political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax created by the Chinese, Patagonia decided to take their donations to a new level.

For example, if the government decides that climate change doesn't exist, «then we as entrepreneurs just got to get in there and and fill the gap and and create hundreds of thousands of jobs and make sure that» we're living in a carbon - neutral world by 2050.

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

We are dedicated to increasing awareness about global climate change and the need to develop solutions that reduce the amount of pollutants created, not just by factory farming, but across all industries.

This groundbreaking book explores how to create a thriving business by finding and developing products and services that help solve hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change.

Richard Cizik, who is Vice-President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, has created quite a stir among his constituency by breaking ranks with the NAE's neutrality on issues of climate change (a.k.a. «global warming»).

It does this by creating a climate of acceptance — of feelings and impulses (around which irrational guilt often forms)-- and by confronting the young person with the need to change irresponsible, self - other hurting behavior (the source of appropriate guilt).

How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?

Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global wclimate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global wClimate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

Unveiled late Friday by the state Public Service Commission, a cost analysis of the plan projects it could cost the state more than $ 3.6 billion through 2030 to reach ambitious clean energy goals backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but reductions in climate - changing greenhouse gases would create benefits worth more than $ 8 billion.

By working together we can take on climate change while creating cleaner and more affordable energy for working families and spur economic growth.»

Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has attacked the plans after a climate change amendment - which would have created a statutory requirement to consider climate change when approving major infrastructure projects - was defeated by 15 votes (with 24 Labour MPs rebelling).

Hawkins wants the state to take action to deal with climate change, creating a carbon free economy by 2030.

Monserrate ended by expressing his deep appreciation and respect for his Senate colleagues, who helped create a climate for change.

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White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

The unanimous decision from a panel of judges on Thursday supported two previous losses in the same case for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in which the free - market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute sought documents related to a multi-state effort to investigate energy companies for allegedly profiting by «creating misperceptions» about climate change.

Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to human - caused climate change, she said.

Officials said the agreement furthers the objectives of the league's 2014 sustainability report, which documented and disclosed the NHL's carbon footprint, and «NHL Green» — a comprehensive sustainability initiative created by the league in 2010 to address the effects of climate change and freshwater scarcity upon ice hockey as a sport.

But now the whales also face climate change and noise created by oil exploration and boat traffic.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species» relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creating transient and novel communities dominated by generalist species and interactions.

And because of the looming threats created by global climate change, what he is uncovering in these remote rain forests could have far - reaching consequences.

Based on research led by University of Cincinnati geologist Eva Enkelmann in the St. Elias Mountain Range — located along the Pacific coastal region of North America — the way a mountain range moves and behaves topographically can also change and create its local climate by redirecting wind and precipitation.

Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policyclimate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policyClimate Change creates summaries of their findings for policymakers.

By understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats changBy understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats changby understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats change.

However, knowing that the monsoon climate has changed could help the Indian government create ways to aid farmers who might be hurt by changes in the monsoon, said Singh, who plans to present this research in India over the summer.

However, both of these strategies create a major risk that average temperatures will rise above the 2 °C goal — a target set by international agreement in order to avoid the most dire consequences of climate change.

«This initially suggested that the climate system might be able to create large, sustained changes in temperature all by itself.»

By reexamining the timing and connection between magmatism [the movement of magma], climate change and extinction, we've created a model that explains what triggered the end - Permian mass extinction.»

Time - lapse visualizations of temperature, precipitation, receding sea ice, and collapsing ice shelves create a vivid experience of the natural pulses of the planet and the shifts brought on by climate change.

Created by the Norwegian government and funded by foundation donors, the vault is built to withstand centuries of climate change, natural disasters, and even a nuclear attack.

«There may not be much we can do to mitigate climate change, but steps could be taken to make sure the Earth's largest colony of Magellanic penguins have enough to eat by creating a marine protected reserve, with regulations on fishing, where penguins forage while raising small chicks.»

Newly published research by Rhawn Denniston, professor of geology at Cornell College, and his research team, applied a novel technique to stalagmites from the Australian tropics to create a 2,200 - year - long record of flood events that might also help predict future climate change.

These examples underscore the many options available to alleviate a growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation groups.

Since trends in convective rainfall are not easily detected in daily rainfall records, or well - simulated by global or regional climate models, the researchers created a new tool to assess the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns and trends in dryland areas.

She likens antibiotic resistance to climate change, calling it «an overwhelming threat, created over decades by millions of individual decisions and reinforced by the actions of industries.»

In addition to problems created by sudden climate changes over a few decades or even a few years, the committee points to abruptly developing problems created by a steadily changing climate.