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But mentioning that in the context of Hurricane Sandy is an attempt (or at least has the effect) to minimize the concern about the documented changes to the climate we have already made and the predicted catastrophic consequences of staying on the fossil emissions path we are on.

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The same experts found that widespread vegetarianism could cut environmental costs by $ 35 billion, as meat's role in exacerbating climate change, as well as its contribution to soil erosion, water pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss, is well documented.

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When UCLA's Smith travelled to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change, locals would «sigh and oblige me, but then say, «There's also this oil plant going up behind me,» or, «All these Filipino immigrants are pouring in.

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

Wilkinson's published dissertation, Between God and Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.Climate Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.&Change (Oxford University Press), outlines the history of the climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.climate change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.&change discussion within evangelicalism, centering around the Evangelical Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.Climate Initiative's 2006 document, «Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.&Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.»

Francis's encyclical joins a number of documents, including the 2006 Evangelical Climate Initiative, a 2011 National Association of Evangelicals report, and a 2013 letter from 200 evangelical scientists to Congress, that «all state in clear and unmistakable terms that caring about climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine Climate Initiative, a 2011 National Association of Evangelicals report, and a 2013 letter from 200 evangelical scientists to Congress, that «all state in clear and unmistakable terms that caring about climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine climate change is caring for «the least of these,»» wrote evangelical climate scientist Katharine climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.

This requires a large amount of effort on the part of the farm, documenting all energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions and more, and documenting that Aquiares do not contribute to climate change.

Environment spokesman Chris Huhne said the measures outlined in the document are the only realistic approach to averting climate change, and are designed to target emissions across all areas of the economy.

While the effects of climate change have already transformed parts of New York City — particularly its waterfronts, as documented by Camera Obscura columnist Nathan Kensinger in the years since Hurricane Sandy — things will likely only get worse in the years to come.

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He now has enough financial backing to travel all over the world gathering footage for his work - in - progress — title as yet unannounced — documenting the effects of climate change, from Africa to Iceland to the Amazon, and what people are doing about it at the grassroots level.

The unanimous decision from a panel of judges on Thursday supported two previous losses in the same case for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in which the free - market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute sought documents related to a multi-state effort to investigate energy companies for allegedly profiting by «creating misperceptions» about climate change.

This blog appears in the In - Depth Report Science at the Sochi Olympics Climate change poses a well - documented threat to ecosystems and human populations worldwide.

Although the document is light on legal clout, it will go far to get federal agencies on the same page when it comes to climate change impacts and federal reviews.

The documents emerged from negotiations with several activist shareholder groups that had pressed Exxon Mobil to disclose to investors the risks it faces from climate change and steps the company was taking to reduce such risks.

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed committees to examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.

Officials said the agreement furthers the objectives of the league's 2014 sustainability report, which documented and disclosed the NHL's carbon footprint, and «NHL Green» — a comprehensive sustainability initiative created by the league in 2010 to address the effects of climate change and freshwater scarcity upon ice hockey as a sport.

On 4 November, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a subpoena for documents, including financial records and emails, from the multinational relating to climate change research and advocacy.

For years, the central objectives of climate change science were to document the phenomenon, understand the basic physical processes involved, and determine the degree to which human activity is at fault.

A landmark review of over 1000 papers documenting ecological change in the United States has found that a shifting climate is affecting agriculture, biodiversity, and land and water resources from the mountains of Alaska to the sands of Death Valley.

Kerry will speak at the conference and author a summary document capturing its «key outcomes,» according to Karen Florini, deputy special envoy for climate change at the U.S. State Department.

A leaked summary document accompanying the report focuses on the fact that climate change is not an event scheduled to take place at some later date.

Decades of scientific studies document the fraying of ecosystems and a grim tally of species extinctions due to destroyed habitat, pollution, climate change, invasives and overharvesting.

For example, scientists have documented hybrid zones between introduced and native species, and climate change has already been linked to hybridization among flying squirrels in eastern North America.

James Balog, who founded Extreme Ice Survey that uses photography and videography to document the impact of climate change on glaciers — work that was the basis of his 2012 documentary «Chasing Ice» — said his work shows how human activities are transforming Earth's systems.

Sinervo led a landmark study published in 2010 documenting the widespread extinction of lizard populations around the world due to climate change.

Their research, published in Nature Climate Change on June 29, is the first attempt to examine and document these changes in the air - sea heat exchange in the region — brought about by global warming — and to consider its possible impact on oceanic circulation, including the climatologically important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly — by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds — but directly as a result of drenching rainstorms and, at other times, heat, according to new findings from the University of Washington.

«These documents are breathtaking, and they reveal what many of us have long suspected: That there is a campaign afoot by groups directly funded by the fossil fuel industry and right - wing foundations such as Koch Industries to mislead the public about climate change,» Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann wrote in an email to LiveScience.

Leaked documents from the free - market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.

He documents the threat to ice posed by climate change but focuses on practical solutions that will help us mitigate the damage and adapt to a warmer world.

According to Beard, their paper in the Journal of African Earth Sciences sheds light on a poorly documented interval of our own evolutionary history, and shows climate and environmental change can utterly alter a local ecosystem — from a wet, subtropical forest in the Eocene to a dry desert today.

The findings add to the few documented cases of rapid responses by wildlife to climate change, such as Rosemary and Peter Grant's studies of finches in the Galapagos archipelago for four decades starting in 1973.

The draft document acknowledges climate change and other dangers, including dredging and agricultural run - off, but fails to provide effective solutions to address any of these pressures, the AAS scientists say.

An internationally recognized water and climate change expert admitted yesterday that he lied about his identity to obtain internal funding and strategy documents from the Heartland Institute.

They also enable us to document body - size changes in species over time as a result of climate change, and to track the increase and spread of some species and the decline and disappearance of others (and no, their decline was not precipitated by collecting them for museums).

These are the erroneous predictions ascribed to the most recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- a document reviewed by some 2,500 scientists and other experts as well as vetted by more than 190 countries.

Demands by a House committee chairman for all documents and communications related to research by a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distract from the reality of climate change and can have a chilling effect on scientific discovery, AAAS CEO Rush Holt and Carnegie Institution global ecologist Chris Field wrote in a 16 March op - ed for LiveScience, an online news site.

• Document the carbon footprint of whole grains compared to other dietary choices, in the context of growing world populations and climate change.

Eakin, who's involved with efforts to document the impact of climate change on corals, said he was particularly concerned by the study's finding that large corals exhibit the greatest disease risk on coming in contact with plastic.

Natural factors contributing to past climate change are well documented and include changes in atmospheric chemistry, ocean circulation patterns, solar radiation intensity, snow and ice cover, Earth's orbital cycle around the sun, continental position, and volcanic eruptions.

Following the leak of internal Heartland Institute documents, six universities with faculty listed in Heartland's budget for work relating to denying the science or implications of global climate change received letters from Greenpeace asking for conflict of interest investigations (see the Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage).

Wicker also cited a publication by the Global Warming Petition Project, a document signed by nearly 32,000 American scientists that disputes the international scientific consensus that man - made greenhouse gas emissions are causing the Earth's atmosphere to warm, leading to potentially catastrophic changes in the climate.

Flowering times are well - documented indicators of the ecological effects of climate change and are linked to numerous ecosystem processes and trophic interactions.

The leaked documents also outline Heartland Institute's efforts to attack climate science and undermine the teaching of climate change in public schools.

We used subfossil mosses and peats to document changes in regional climate, cryosphere, and terrestrial ecosystems in the western Antarctic Peninsula at ~ 65S latitude.

Jeff Orlowski's Chasing Coral documents the impact of climate change on coral reefs around the world, a companion to his 2012 environmentally - themed film Chasing Ice.

Add - in the massive 12.3 - inch central screen controlling a seriously strong climate control system and high - level Mark Levinson audio, and it's almost too good to be true... at least until you try to change infotainment menus with that overly - sensitive remote touch control system, the frustrations of which have been well documented in Lexus reviews of the past.

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