Sentences with phrase «created by global climate change»

According to a new research paper, corals on the outer edges of reefs are the ones that spur creative evolutionary patterns that can help a reef adjust to the conditions created by global climate change.
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.

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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.
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»).
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 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.
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.
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.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unClimate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unaChange, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unclimate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unachange models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.
«The significant victories we have gained in technology research and development innovation should further inspire renewed commitments by national governments to strengthen global and regional partnerships in creating better options for resource - poor and climate change - vulnerable rice farmers in the region.»
Lesson created for the new OCR B (9 - 1) Geography GCSE specification, where students explore the social, economic and environmental impacts of climate change global and by continent.
According to this logic, the individual «good - hearted U.S. citizen» — although he or she possesses «vast wealth», and although he or she «helped create» the problems caused by global warming & climate change — is not to be held individually responsible for helping (the people in) poor countries adapt to probems caused by CO2 emissions.
The University of Minnesota's environmental magazine Ensia has posted on the latest effort by a cello - playing undergraduate, Daniel Crawford, and the geographer Scott St. George to create musical compositions reflecting aspects of global climate change.
One is that, for some people, the skeptics» grasping at any story that might support their climate change denial strategies creates needless confusion for people who are unsettled, and even frightened by the threats posed by global warming.
Global Green USA, the American arm of President Gorbachev ¹ s Green Cross International, was founded by Diane Meyer Simon in 1993, and is a national leader in creating smart solutions to climate change.
Global warming will create hundreds of millions of climate change migrants by the end of the century if governments do not act, France's environment minister has warned.
The graph, created by James Hansen, a leading expert on climate change at NASA, makes clear that global warming was a well - established fact that attracted wide public attention as early as 1988.
While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.
Trump, though he does not list specific environment and climate change - related policies on his website, tweeted in the past that «the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to keep U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.»
I would not dispute 100 - 300 year oscillations as a possibility, but my reading of the climate records reveals no evidence for a significant role for such oscillations — or at least, no role substantial enough on a global scale to have created a discernible signal outside of changes occasioned by solar variations, volcanism, and other known entities (changes on a regional scale are a very different matter and may have involved such oscillations).
Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.
Global Green USA is an innovative national environmental organization working to stem global climate change by creating energy - efficient green homes, schools, communities and cGlobal Green USA is an innovative national environmental organization working to stem global climate change by creating energy - efficient green homes, schools, communities and cglobal climate change by creating energy - efficient green homes, schools, communities and cities.
Forest peoples in Brazil send a message to California: reject tropical forest offsets California Governor Jerry Brown has aggressively positioned himself as a global climate leader to fill the vacuum created by the arrival of an ignorant climate change denier in the White House.
Their Secure American Future Program, dedicated to raising public awareness of the threat posed by climate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security pclimate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security pClimate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security pclimate disruption as a U.S. national security problem.
California Governor Jerry Brown has aggressively positioned himself as a global climate leader to fill the vacuum created by the arrival of an ignorant climate change denier in the White House.
Under the guise of preventing «dangerous manmade climate change» and compensating poor countries for alleged «losses and damages» due to climate and weather caused by rich country fossil fuel use, they had planned to control the world's energy supplies and living standards, replace capitalism with a new UN-centered global economic order, and redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who want it.
More importantly, in 2001, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization created by the United Nations to periodically release «assessments» of the state of knowledge on global warming, gave it prominent display.
The FSB is chaired by the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, who in September created waves in the global financial sector with a speech to insurers warning of serious risks to investors from climate change due to, among other factors, a sudden asset write down with «jump - to - distress prices».
Because most heating systems burn fossil fuels, which creates pollution, all the energy saved by a solar water heating eliminates the pollution that would otherwise add to our problems of poor air quality, poor health, smog and global climate change, a problem which requires immediate action.
About Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest people.
Driven by factors like the Bush administration's censorship of climate science communication, Al Gore's prominent role in promoting awareness of the science of global warming, and frequent Republican deployment of climate change denial and «skepticism» to oppose greenhouse gas regulation, a destructive dichotomy has been created suggesting that valuing the role of science in public policy is a matter of political partisanship.
We are partnering with Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest people.
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It is this type of ad hominem attack that has supported the climate change fraud and people making these slanderous claims should be held accountable for the part they have played in perpetrating this fraud which has crippled the economy and created global starvation by using basic food staples as feedstock for biofuels.
However, rich countries responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions pledged to create a fund worth $ 100bn per year by 2020 to invest in clean technologies and to help mitigate the effects of climate change in the global south.
Similar works of art will travel from all over the world — created by professional artists, unknown artists and members of developing communities — to be exhibited at the UN conference, representing a unified global movement around climate change and poverty.
AP debunks Obama on climate claims: THE FACTS: «Obama failed to get a global warming bill through Congress when both Houses were controlled by Democrats in 2010» — AP: «With Republicans in control of the House, the chances of a bill to limit the gases blamed for global warming and to create a market for businesses to trade pollution credits are close to zero... And while there are still other ways to address climate change without Congress, it's questionable regulation alone can achieve the reductions needed to start curbing global warming»
- A panel discussion bringing together Claire Perry, Minister for Climate Change and Industry, UK Government, Enrico Viale, Head of Global Generation at Enel Group, Rusty Kruzelock, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at West Virginia Retail Park and others from communities most affected by the decline of polluting industries to focus on how more can be done to ensure action on climate change creates jobs and prosperity Climate Change and Industry, UK Government, Enrico Viale, Head of Global Generation at Enel Group, Rusty Kruzelock, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at West Virginia Retail Park and others from communities most affected by the decline of polluting industries to focus on how more can be done to ensure action on climate change creates jobs and prosperity fChange and Industry, UK Government, Enrico Viale, Head of Global Generation at Enel Group, Rusty Kruzelock, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at West Virginia Retail Park and others from communities most affected by the decline of polluting industries to focus on how more can be done to ensure action on climate change creates jobs and prosperity climate change creates jobs and prosperity fchange creates jobs and prosperity for all
This document focuses on how climate change is affecting workplaces around the world and also looks at the new employment opportunities created by the global, national and grassroots initiatives promoting sustainable development and green jobs.
This issue of the ILO's magazine World of Work focuses on how climate change is affecting workplaces around the world and also looks at the new employment opportunities created by the global, national and grassroots initiatives promoting sustainable development and green jobs.
To create a scenario where global temperatures are «likely» to remain less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (the globally agreed - upon threshold after which «dangerous» climate change is apt to begin), we'd need to have around one - quarter of our energy mix from low - carbon sources by the year 2030.
It has taken so long for the climate change establishment to recognise the relatively strategies advocated by the likes of Lomborg, Pielke and the Breakthrough Institute because their ambition of creating a global political climate institution has been so long in its collapse.
We don't have to create an entire command economy to take a big stick to a company that actively delayed a response to global warming by funding climate change deniers, that continues to fight payment of damages for despoiling the Prince William Sound after 20 years, and has proved again and again it can't be trusted to protect our environment.
The 18 corporate members agree; the group was created «to underline the need for urgent action by the global community and to influence the post-Kyoto process by demanding a global framework supporting a market - based solution to the climate change issue.
A 1990 law has required such assessments every four years by an office — the U.S. Global Change Research Program — created in 1989 by Republican President George H.W. Bush to coordinate research on climate change and other global environmental issues across more than a dozen government ageGlobal Change Research Program — created in 1989 by Republican President George H.W. Bush to coordinate research on climate change and other global environmental issues across more than a dozen government ageChange Research Program — created in 1989 by Republican President George H.W. Bush to coordinate research on climate change and other global environmental issues across more than a dozen government agechange and other global environmental issues across more than a dozen government ageglobal environmental issues across more than a dozen government agencies.
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