Sentences with phrase «dominated by climate change»

Fortunately, biologists trying to save the frogs understood the real danger and published elsewhere in journals not dominated by climate change advocacy.

Although it was advertised as a discussion about an «attack on science», the Horizon film was dominated by the climate change debate.

Passing new laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions remains unlikely, with the House of Representatives still controlled by a Republican majority dominated by climate change sceptics.

Not exact matches

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

Negotiations on the future of climate change, if they remain dominated by targets for dates far into the future, risk losing resonance with the individual.

«Like every advanced industrial country we are coming to terms with the issues surrounding climate change,» he said, in a monthly press conference dominated by the recent floods.

... in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state....

And in an election year that has been dominated by environmental issues like fracking, the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy, and what to do about climate change, the Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, is resolutely carrying his message across the state.

Climate change was an issue little discussed by the mainstream media during the election campaign, dominated by questions of economic competence, the NHS and leaders» personalities.

Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species» relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creating transient and novel communities dominated by generalist species and interactions.

Climate change is expected to increase the number of Wisconsin lakes dominated by largemouth bass and decrease those in which walleye — a more popular recreational fishing species — thrive.

It hints at rebirth in an era otherwise dominated by headlines about climate change and mass extinction.

While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt.

The list of speakers this year was dominated by environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth, climate researchers, and self - proclaimed activists, so climate change was inevitably high on the agenda.

The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics and a changing climate have transformed East Africa from a relatively flat, forested region to a mountainous fragmented landscape dominated by the rapid appearance and disappearance of huge, deep - water lakes.

«This is important for regional planning, because it allows policymakers to identify places where climate change dominates the observed sea level rise and places where the climate change signal is masked by shorter - term regional variability caused by natural ocean climate cycles.»

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

Discussions around the climate favor the hypothesis that no real problem of fuel supply will occur, and that climate change will dominate by far all the other issues.

The key issue for climate is whether the net forcing from these gases is likely to continue to grow rapidly and, since this is dominated by the CO2 changes, the likelihood is that it will.

As usual with any Post article that discusses global warming and climate change, the comments are already dominated by sneering, arrogant deniers who ignore the actual content of the article and launch into their scripted, robotic, idiotic diatribes.

The I.P.C.C. continues to be dominated by natural scientists who may be well intentioned but seem not to be aware that there are equal level (i.e., academic, «scientific») studies of communication and that such a discipline, together with other social sciences, can give crucial contributions to understanding the current and future realities of climate change.

Disagreeing that politics is dominated by a green consensus is the Independent «s Andrew Grice, who complains that «nobody is talking about climate change» anymore.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — A tense opening session of the 44th Pacific Islands Forum has been dominated by appeals from Pacific leaders for «real action» against the threat of rising sea levels associated with climate change.

Despite virtual unanimity among scientists that climate change is real, and that it is caused by human activities, people who cast doubt on climate science continue to dominate the debate.

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

He soon became vice president and his conviction that climate change was dominated by man - made emissions went mainstream.

«In responding to those rapid changes in climate, organisms will encounter a highly fragmented landscape that is dominated by a broad range of human influences,» the study said.

Because if the climate system were dominated by negative feedbacks, then it would be insensitive and incapable of responding as observed to what all agree were modest changes in forcing.

Hypothesis 2b: Although the natural causes of climate variations and changes are undoubtedly important, the human influences are significant and are dominated by the emis - sions into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases, the most important of which is CO2.

Beginning to use plant - based products will certainly help the company achieve its sustainability goals, though LEGO is just doing their part in a global economy still dominated by fossil fuels — finite resources that are the primary contributor to human - caused climate change.

With respect to the way we debate / decide these issues, compared to others, there are commonalities between climate change and other issues which are dominated by emotion (not facts).

Long - term climate change since the Little Ice Age has been dominated by a very slow warming, which the chart's «average» and «maximum» temperature trends reveal.

-- «The 2012 report on extreme events by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change examined the evidence for regional changes in soil moisture since 1950, and made the following assessment for western North America: «No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large variability; large drought of the 1930s dominates.»

At the conference where ideas, actions, innovations and resources were brought in the open to design a roadmap to tackle climate change, the discussions were dominated by ending coal, producing renewable energy and making green technologies more accessible.

This article suggests the opposite reason — that, first, the airwaves are dominated by the very message you would probably welcome — that «climate change» is a frightening prospect and we must do «something» about it.

Moreover, using the average emission scenario (IS92a) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we predict that the calcification rate of scleractinian - dominated communities may decrease by 21 % between the pre-industrial period (year 1880) and the time at which pCO2 will double (year 2065).

A recent paper written by economist Martin Weitzman used an expected utility analysis to argue that the fat tail associated with unexpectedly but not impossibly high values of climate sensitivity dominate climate change economics.

Climate change at those higher latitudes is dominated by variations in the transport of surplus tropical heat.

«While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long - term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,» he added.

«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the politically - motivated insistence by climate change deniers and fossil - fueled politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»

We're largely in agreement (except really when has the battle over climate change ever not been firmly dominated by the same hands that dominate it now?)

Tackling this bull by the horns will prevent the next few decades from being dominated by spiraling climate change and conflict.

Thus Holocene climate change is dominated by periodic variability in the millennial band (grey band, figure 49).

Instead, the climate change debate is dominated by negative slogans about needing to change our behaviour, and that we face a difficult, unpredictable and dangerous future.

Which is what they should have done in the first place as much regional climate change is dominated by ocean modes.

The activists who have tried to dominate the discussion of climate change for more than twenty years have insisted that this sensitivity is high, and will amplify the warming caused by CO2 by 3, 4 or even 10 times the 1C of warming provided by a doubling of CO2 alone.

Although projected increases in greenhouse gas concentrations caused by fossil fuel combustion are expected to dominate 21st century climate change, some studies suggest that anthropogenic land use may yet be at least as important and may remain so in the near future (8).

Controversy over climate change, nuclear power, and gun control, among others, are all dominated by these macro science communication dynamics.