Sentences with phrase «discusses climate change effects»

A book that discusses climate change effects on human history is «Climate History and the Modern World» by Hubert Lamb.

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Over the last two weeks, the world's politicians, businessmen, scientists and environmentalists have gathered in Paris to discuss one thing: how to save the world from the catastrophic effects of climate change.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

As discussed throughout this assessment, the interplay of many variables complicates differentiation of the effects of climate change from other driving factors.

Where «dT» is the change in the Earth's average surface temperature, «λ» is the climate sensitivity, usually with units in Kelvin or degrees Celsius per Watts per square meter (°C / [W m - 2]-RRB-, and «dF» is the radiative forcing, which is discussed in further detail in the Advanced rebuttal to the «CO2 effect is weak» argument.

These four worksheets help students to understand climate change, greenhouse gases and the effect they have on our mountains and planet as well as discuss the possible solutions to the continuing problem.

Wangari Maathai discusses the value of recognition as a part of the peace «puzzle», the real effects of climate change in Africa (7:55), the importance of recapturing her childhood memories (12:56), the evolution of Green Belt from a pilot project to a movement (18:03), the custodial role of governments (20:54), and her new book, The Challenge for Africa (27:50).

Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that climate change will take on a life of its own independently of what we do in the future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).

Thanks Pete and Gavin for your response in # 116 that the estimates for future temperature change being discussed in the climate sensitivity studies (discussed in this thread) do not generally take into account the effect of increased temperature on initiating further natural carbon release.

Get Involved in th e Geoengineering Debate A lingering but critical policy question for DOD is what its role should be in discussions concerning geoengineering, i.e. the intentional manipulation of the climate, which is often discussed as a means to counter the effects of the climate change generated by human activity.

Discussing the health effects of climate change has been found to be one of the most effective and least polarizing approaches for conveying the message about climate change.

This annual event will gather coffee supply chain actors across the industry to discuss the future of sustainable coffee farming, and the effects of climate change on coffee growing regions.

Though not obvious, this claim is central to the tenet of the paper, and is an example of the cause - versus - effect issue I repeatedly refer to in the past when discussing some of the most fundamental errors made in the scientific «consensus» on climate change.

An obsession with radiative theory when discussing climate change is as unhelpful as would have been obsessing about the theory of gravity and ignoring the lift effect of an aerofoil before heavier - than - air flight was proved to be practical.

[The aim of this article is to discuss the effects of climate variability and change on food production, risk of malnutrition, and incidence of weeds, insects, and diseases.

We predicted that an otherwise identical question would (i) elicit lower levels of existence beliefs when worded in terms of «global warming» rather than «climate change,» and that (ii) this effect would be more pronounced for respondents who self - identify as Republicans (as opposed to Democrats or Independents) for the reasons discussed above.

For example, our results corroborate with others by showing that high impact journals typically report large effects based on small sample sizes (Fraley and Vazire 2014), and high impact journals have shown publication bias in climate change research (Michaels 2008, and further discussed in Radetzki 2010).

On a subject as vast and complex as climate change, even climate scientists are subject to this effect, we have discussed this previously on the «hidden knowledge» thread https://judithcurry.com/2011/04/20/hidden-knowledge/

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The effect of climate change on CH4 is discussed in Section 7.4.1.

http://nypost.com/2017/02/13/humans-are-changing-the-climate-170-times-faster-than-nature-study/ Seems to me that when discussing the effects of catastrophic climate change, nothing less than 3 degrees and generally over four has been the standard.

The Wall Street Journal editors focus on an overestimation of surface warming in the past 15 years, neglecting to discuss other impacts and time periods where models significantly underestimated the effects of climate change.

We're discussing catastrophic anthropogenic climate change (CACC)-- forecasts by some scientists that the climate will change in ways unfavorable to humanity, in magnitudes that will cause large - scale adverse effects, at rates such that sufficient adaptation and mitigation will be difficult or impractical.

Folland's erroneous adjustment had been originally criticized at CA in 2005 here and further discussed at length in March 2007 at CA here, a post in which I observed that no climate scientist had made any attempt to validate Folland's bizarre adjustment and that correcting Folland's error (through a more gradual and later changeover to engine inlets than the worldwide overnight change that Folland had postulated after Pearl Harbour) would have the effect of increasing SST in the 1950s, in turn, potentially eliminating or substantially mitigating the downturn in the 1950s that was problematic for modelers.

The so called «spillover effects» are now more discussed as potential consequences of policies to address climate change.

This policy brief discusses the potential negative effects of climate change mitigation programmes on biodiversity.

At public hearings on the environmental impacts of proposed oil pipelines, Canadians are no longer allowed to discuss climate change: any testimonials concerning how the oil was produced («upstream effects») and what will happen when it is burned («downstream effects») are considered inadmissible.

A change in stratospheric water vapour because of the increase in methane over the industrial period would be a forcing of the climate (and is one of the indirect effects of methane we discussed last year), but a change in the tropopause flux is a response to other factors in the climate system.

By J. Brady Howell At an all - day White House conference on «environmental justice,» Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings -LSB-...]