Sentences with phrase «dramatic changes to climate»

From devastating hurricanes to near daily headlines of dramatic changes to the climate, the threat of super hurricanes, mega-droughts, and sea levels rising 20 to 80 feet is looming larger than ever.

Changes in the ocean can cause dramatic changes to climate and weather patterns on a global scale.

There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014 said, «I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

Regardless, CO2 human emissions levels are not going to fall (for decades at least), and even if they did, there would not be any dramatic change to the climate.

Not exact matches

On Oct. 28, post-budget, it's not hard to imagine her waking up and looking at her to - do list: (1) Fulfill life and campaign pledges to rein in growth in energy industry and take dramatic action on climate change.

Under some scenarios, climate change could lead to dramatic drops in global wheat production as well as reductions in maize.

«Part of the challenge Syracuse faces is directly related to climate change, with colder winters, warmer summers, and more dramatic freeze - thaw events happening both earlier and later in the season,» she said.

Climate change could reduce oxygen levels in the oceans by 40 per cent over the next 8000 years, leading to dramatic changes in marine life

Reporting this week in the journal Nature Climate Change Dr Hogg and Dr Gudmundsson, examine the events leading up to this dramatic natural phenomenon and discuss how calving of huge icebergs affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves.

«Alaska really is both the poster child for the impact of climate change and a warning for the dramatic changes that are coming to the rest of the United States and the planet,» said Whit Sheard, director of the Ocean Conservancy's International Arctic Program.

The impact of climate on terrestrial ecosystems probably will be dramatic due to the rapid pace of climate change.

Even if drastic measures are taken to reduce carbon emissions, climate change will have a dramatic impact on the GBR, predicts Hoegh - Guldberg.

The American public is eager for dramatic change in U.S. energy policy, but Democratic efforts to sell their agenda on energy and climate change aren't reaching voters, a prominent Democratic Party polling firm is warning.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

«Agathis is a very dramatic example of survival via huge range shifts, from the far south to the tropics, in response to climate change and land movement over millions of years,» said Wilf.

Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»

The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change is unlikely to lead to more severe winter weather across Northern Europe, new research has shown.

Scientists are still only just beginning to understand the myriad mechanisms that control the seemingly dramatic melting observed in regions of West Antarctica, and how climate change is affecting all the moving parts.

Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the destruction of supercontinents and dramatic changes in climate and ecosystems.

Both studies conclude that even dramatic changes in climate won't stop the retreat, because the glaciers are shrinking back into deep valleys with no ridges or mountains to halt their rapid pace.

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

Changes in our climate may be as subtle as incremental increases in night temperatures in the summer, or as dramatic as crop failure due to flood or drought.

But prior to human arrival, the whales faced dramatic changes in its feeding grounds due to climate change.

The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.

It makes me wonder, if we can't even argee what the global temperature is now whether we will even be able to agree in 50 years if there has been warming or not (assuming no dramatic change in the climate system).

Throughout this time, the geologic record reveals that dramatic changes have occurred to Earth's oceans, atmosphere, climate, and land forms, which match major biological transitions.

In recent papers, Bill described dramatic and abrupt ecosystem changes in response to climate variability.

The researchers looked at more than 800 U.S. cases involving climate change or coal - fired power plants between 1990 and 2016, and found a dramatic rise in both the number of climate cases and the proportion that relied on scientific evidence, according to first author Sabrina McCormick, a sociologist at George Washington University in Washington.

Climate change is expected to contribute to a dramatic increase in forest fire damage in Europe, but better forest management could mitigate the problem, according to new research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

The effects can be dramatic and dangerous: landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, yellow sandstorms blowing in from China and extreme weather due to climate change.

And yet I was nonetheless somewhat taken aback at how blithely apolitical most of 2017's dramatic movies were (as opposed to such documentaries as the climate change treatises «Chasing Coral» and «An Inconvenient Sequel,» or John Ridley's voluminous and evenhanded «Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992,» which chronicled civil unrest in Los Angeles leading up to the Rodney King verdict).

If proxy data can confirm that sea ice was indeed the major player in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive sea - ice cover will not be present.

Ongoing assessments of penguins and other life along the peninsula have not turned up any clear link between population changes and tourism so far, and the main source of change appears — so far — to be the dramatic warming of the regional climate, Ron Naveen told me in a recent e-mail.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

The first paragraph of the article in the Independent read on June 27 at 15:25 GMT when I took a zotero snapshot — «Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.»

For the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate policy.

Personally, I expect climate change to have a dramatic impact in MY lifetime.

As climate change leads to dramatic changes in the day to day weather patterns, with hurricanes and floods frequently headlining the news around the world, it makes you wonder why people are still turning a blind eye to this ginormous issue.

The big question for this meeting is whether China, Japan, Korea and the European Union will attend and cooperate on a precautionary agreement to prevent overfishing given the dramatic impact of climate change in the Arctic.

For example, the area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security: rising sea levels, to severe droughts, to the melting of the polar caps, to more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

We now know that to be false — not because of the natural long - term variations in climate (to which you refer and which water planners could safely ignore), but to new, short - term dramatic changes that result from human - induced climate change.

Climate change is only one of many types of environmental change effecting Earth's life support systems — in fact, there is now a serious risk that the dramatic gains to public health made since the 1950s could plateau or even reverse as a result of human degradation of a myriad of natural systems.

-- reasonably well - informed people are actually LESS interested in dramatic interventionism to combat «climate change»...

There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, a National Research Council committee concluded in a two - volume evaluation of proposed climate - intervention techniques.

When we refer to «climate change» as the problem, we are talking about its dramatic changes on a planet warmed by excessive greenhouse gas emissions in a very short period of geologic time.

And when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are compared to one another, the dramatic accumulation of carbon from human sources is by far the largest climate change driver over the past half century.

I suspect those messages will feature many safety pins, as the bureaucratic environment within the EPA is about the only thing that is going to undergo a dramatic, rapid, and real climate change.

«there is no substitute for dramatic reductions in the emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, and concurrently to reduce ocean acidification.»

According to new climate modeling data, the Northern hemisphere's wind farms could see a dramatic downturn in productivity over the next hundred years, as climate change disrupts some of the key drivers that shape the world's wind patterns.