Sentences with phrase «direct impact on global warming»

Moreover, purists ignore the fact that a more radical program in Washington, even if approved, would have no direct impact on global warming.

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«Since the microbial community is a critical part of a food web, global warming will have direct impacts on organisms feeding on plankton... What exactly and how large this impact will be will require more data to understand.»

Exxon's Kearl Module Transportation Project (KMTP) and TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline will have direct impacts on Montana and drastic impacts on global warming and the environment.

Perhaps Mr. Steele's strongest point is that the obsession with Global Warming will have an unfair impact on funding for local environmental projects as these efforts have had a significant and direct impact on the survival of plant and animal species.

On her diving trips she experiences the direct impacts of global warming and increasing acidification on coral reefs and fragile underwater ecosystemOn her diving trips she experiences the direct impacts of global warming and increasing acidification on coral reefs and fragile underwater ecosystemon coral reefs and fragile underwater ecosystems.

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

The direct radiative forcing calculation is based on an empiric al equation derived from well - established atmospheric radiative energy transfer models and serves as a first - order proxy for global warming impact.»

It's also one of the reasons that I linked to Hoffman et al at Bart's in the first place... None of this changes the fact that global warming is going to be a huge hit on planetary biodiversity further into this century, and over coming centuries, both through direct effects and through exacerbation of other non-climate-change impacts.

Therefore mitigating global warming will address both the synergistic harm that it wreaks in concert with the non-climate damage to the environment, and it will address the direct effect that it will have on species and ecosystem - an effect that, if warming is not properly addressed for a few more decades, will make all other human impacts pale by comparison.

From direct observation we already know that the extreme predictions of CO2's impact on global temperature are highly unlikely given that about one - third of all our CO2 emissions have been discharged during the past 18 years and there has been no statistically significant warming.