Sentences with phrase «current era of climate change»

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Throughout most of the current geological era North America was a sheet of ice, but the global climate changed; mostly due to solar activity.

In the current era in which the problems of global warming can lead to planetary catastrophe, every city has to have a plan for adapting to climate change, especially thosesubject toextreme events.

What this tells us is that «climate - change — driven acceleration» has been assumed ahead of time, and since the raw data failed to confirm the existence of such an acceleration («In stark contrast to this expectation however, current altimeter products show the rate of sea level rise to have decreased from the first to second decades of the altimeter era.»

What geologists can't do is predict current and future consequences of global warming and climate changes through our expert knowledge of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

But lots of signs are pointing to the current extraordinary dry spell, likely exacerbated by heat from human - driven climate change, taking California into conditions unexperienced since long before the state's water - dependent economy exploded during Gov. Jerry Brown's father's terms in office (please read Justin Wm. Moyer's great story on that era in the Washington Post).

She says Indigenous peoples» experience and survival of colonialism also offer crucial insights for climate change and environmental action, seeing the current environment as a new era of colonisation where the rights of transnational corporations transcend those of humans and nature.