Sentences with phrase «dealing with a changing climate more»

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A coherent deal with the United States in would be much more important for the goal (prevent dangerous climate change) than one without them.

As the need to deal with the threat of climate change becomes ever more urgent, they're also a vital source of diversity and renewables in our energy mix.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

«It means it's more difficult to deal with cross border threats like climate change.

«Our kids are likely going to spend a good part of their adulthood, maybe all of it, just dealing with the climate implications of our profligacy and now our leaders are telling them the way out is offshore drilling for more climate - changing fossil fuels.

Strategies to adapt to climate change will dovetail with the current policies and practices that deal with variability and will be understood as more of the same, rather than something alien.

«What I fear is the command - and - control notion of dealing with climate change, because that will reduce productivity and create more poverty.

This doesn't mean that humanity would not have to deal with CO2 emissions — and would not be storing up future trouble by continuing to emit at our present pace — but it would buy time and, perhaps even more importantly, significantly reduce the chances of catastrophic climate change.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

«Understanding underlying mechanisms like the CVH is one way to do that, but we need to do a lot more before we can tell exactly how species will be impacted and how to best help them deal with climate change.»

Remaining issues include mechanisms for transparency that would ensure nations live up to their commitments, how much money will be available to help struggling nations adapt to climate change or deal with loss and damage from extreme weather, and whether commitments will be revisited and made more ambitious in the future.

Those with high levels of biospheric concern also were most likely to engage in pro-environmental day - to - day behaviors, such as recycling or energy savings measures, and were the most likely to engage in coping mechanisms to deal with environmental stress, ranging from denying one's individual role in climate change to seeking more information on the issue and how to help mitigate it.

As for the long - running political controversy about climate change, especially about the degree to which human activity causes it, the scientists said it tends to become relevant mainly when they are dealing with long time frames — say 30 years or more — and mostly at the top echelons of the political hierarchy.

At the Green Belt Movement (GBM), we believe that dealing with the root causes of climate change and social conflict will ultimately be more successful than responding to symptoms.

Sebastian began in the traditional mode of nudes and portraits, and moved onto more personal work that deals with themes of income inequality and climate change, using an idiosyncratic visual language he has been slowly developing for the past five years.

The gathered nations, as had been anticipated, agreed on little more than a pledge to enter «full negotiating mode» to complete a new climate treaty within a year and a legal structure for a new global fund to help poor countries deal with the effects of changing climate patterns.

More unusually, the article also takes an introspective look at the role of scientists in communicating societally - relevant science to the public, and provides a critical review of how the science dealing with climate change impacts on tropical cyclones and hurricanes has been reported in the media, and how that reporting has occasionally deepened the polarisation on the issue.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

I'm all in favor of these kinds of efforts because they educate the public about the dire need to deal with climate change, but to get to where we need to be will require a whole lot more.

Who knows, maybe in another 10 years or so, the WSJ editorial page will be claiming that they were never really against actions to deal with climate change but they just felt the science needed to be more certain first.

And I second what Glenn Landers (# 10) wrote: «I'm all in favor of these kinds of efforts because they educate the public about the dire need to deal with climate change, but to get to where we need to be will require a whole lot more.»

The first deals with his portrayal of the sea - level conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.): Read more...

Grist had played an important role in elevating the issue during the ensuing years, and we're glad more of our media peers are asking questions about what climate change really looks like — and how we're going to deal with it.

A better way of thinking about deadlines in dealing with climate change is along the lines of: everyday we delay makes the problem more difficult to solve.

«This makes it crystal clear that climate change is a huge problem that needs to be dealt with much more effectively, and that states can no longer afford inaction,» she said.

As has been pointed out already, a more accurate estimate is that we need to direct around $ 450b a year toward dealing with climate change!)

What will prove to be more pressing at the Cancun climate change talks, therefore, will not be agreeing on an end goal, but on coming to a consensus on how to move forward at all, with ensuring nations make some sort of deal on cutting emissions from airplanes and shipping among the top priorities in the days ahead.

New Delhi will possibly highlights its own works to deal with climate change more proactively while seeking rich nations to work more.

This is to say that the «consensus» has political, rather than practical utility: it is more useful to the task of mobilising towards «action on climate change» than it is informing the debate about what kind of problem climate change is, and what the options for dealing with it are.

Underserved communities are the least equipped to deal with more intense superstorms, severe weather and extreme temperatures fueled by climate change.

Certainly the population growth is by far the most important problem we have to deal with, much more important than climate change.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

I think that graph is the best part of the segment, even more than the bit dealing with climate change, which also has some fun with my pal Neil Tyson as well.

Heritage, which has a staff of nearly 300, lists five experts on climate change, including one specialist and four more who also deal with other issues such as agriculture and government regulation.

[Doha — Qatar]-- December 6, 2012 — The Qatari Presidency of the UN climate talks needs to show leadership now and help ministers finalise a deal in Doha that sees countries reduce their carbon emissions more quickly and provides adequate finance to help poorer countries deal with climate change in the next few years.

Now, with more than 800 records, the «Dealing with Climate Change» project is one of the most extensive sources of policy information on the subject and this three - year record offers an increasingly accurate picture of what is being done.

And scientific societies are starting to do more to help their members deal with the poisonous political environment around climate change.

More significant perhaps is the legacy of nuclear power for future generations, particularly if the worst case scenarios of anthropogenic climate change play out, where society will be vulnerable and incohesive and possibly less able to cope with the technical challenge of maintaining or decomissioning elderly nuclear power stations or dealing with the build up of waste.

Once such an IPCC exposition of the assumptions, complications and uncertainties of climate models was constructed and made public, it would immediately have to lead, in my view, to more questions from the informed public such as what does calculating a mean global temperature change mean to individuals who have to deal with local conditions and not a global average and what are the assumptions, complications and uncertainties that the models contain when it comes to determining the detrimental and beneficial effects of a «global» warming in localized areas of the globe.

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Yet who despite lack of relevant expertise, do not welcome the appraisal of experts — and on this topic the experts are those scientists in directly related fields who professionally study this issue — but often, at least with the more general anti climate change efforts that have massively skewed the «discussion,» in fact often expend a great deal of effort to find any possible fault, real or imagined with anything they assert, then erroneously turn that into a refutation of the broader issue, along with, often, denigrating climate science efforts, and often climate scientists.

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For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador's mountainous capital have been studying the effects of global warming on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways of dealing with potential water shortages and even organizing conferences on climate change for leaders of other Latin American cities.

The one significant book on the subject I've come across (and I haven't looked exhaustively, so please enlighten me if there is more out there) The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy aChange: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy achange advocacy fails to capture the policy agenda.

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We should spend less time worrying about El Niño or La Niña weather patterns and more time dealing with the fact that climate change will be the biggest force in the state's water future, writes scientist Juliet Christian - Smith.

I do think that forecasting how the climate might change on decadal timescales in the face of increased CO2 concentrations is a much more constrained problem than those that GCMs typically are set to deal with.

It's much more sensible to deal with climate changes, be they natural or man made, as they arise, with our ever increasing knowledge, improving technology and increasing resources.

That more time is available to deal with the slowly occurring climate change is only very partiallyh true, due the stronjg inertia in the energy system, in the carbon cycle and in the climate system.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gases on the table at the UN's climate change conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: the time to take climate action is now!