Sentences with phrase «dramatic climate changes»

At 11,000 square feet of space, it is the first container building of its scale to be truly mobile, designed to respond to all of the architectural challenges of a building of its kind, including international building code, dramatic climate changes, plug - in electrical and HVAC systems and ease of assembly and operations.»

The flood of fresh water into the ocean also caused dramatic climate changes.

Archer shows how just a few centuries of fossil - fuel use will cause not only a climate storm that will last a few hundred years, but dramatic climate changes that will last thousands.

In retrospect, given the dramatic climate changes that had led to the ice ages, this was a curious stance to take.

Plants might mitigate the effects of Global Warming but, will the extent of flora's contribution be sufficient to prevent dramatic climate changes?

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.

We are in the midst of a highly kinetic system, and in the past, dramatic climate changes have taken place in only a few decades.»

Which is fantastic since my city has unexpected and dramatic climate changes this time of year from morning till evening.

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

But at the end of the Triassic, dramatic climate change played a role in another mass extinction.

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.

«Cooperation and resilient social networks were really key in helping people ride out dramatic climate change in the past,» said Riel - Salvatore

Since most of the atmosphere was lost as part of a dramatic climate change, MAVEN will make definitive scientific measurement of present - day atmospheric loss that will offer insight into the Red Planet's history.

«rbG: b» confronts head - on the question of collective responsibility and environmental justice in a time of dramatic climate change.

Sorry for lowering a bit the level of the discussion but 30 years into the most dramatic climate change that the Earth has experienced in the past millennium (perhaps since the beginning of the Holocene), I was wondering if this tremendous global warming should not have already become a bit more noticeable for the average person.

Some people maintain that even if a dramatic climate change does occur, we'll adapt without too much fuss.

These are events that appear again and even more intensively in the middle of the troubled climate of the greenhouse effect, an extreme event like this is one instance where a dramatic climate change can seem real».

More pertinently, it worries me that climate scientists have spent so much time ensuring that their predictions are defensible that they may have minimized the risk of dramatic climate change.

They survived dramatic climate change, habitat change and rising seas.

In January, New York City went to court to claim compensation from the five largest oil companies for dramatic climate change impacts, including Shell.

«Cooperation and resilient social networks were really key in helping people ride out dramatic climate change in the past,» said Riel - Salvatore

«It's so very disempowering to see such dramatic climate change within my lifetime and the lack of recognition and action from our government.»

In a section of the report that discusses the role the insurance sector would play should we need to adapt to dramatic climate change, a newspaper from the Bahamas is cited:

The dramatic climate change disasters that NASA and Hansen predicted?

This is what everybody needs to realize before they say that our «planet is undergoing a dramatic climate change».

What annoys me the most is not the frivolous back and forth debating, but the fact that no matter who's right, we can all at least agree that the planet is undergoing a dramatic climate change.

If you do in fact believe that the planet is undergoing a dramatic climate change, then you must also realize that humans are not capable of adapting to such an extreme change, so quickly.

Today, he is 84, still working at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and has given up hope that emissions reduction alone could avert dramatic climate change.

While the administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is an inexcusable step backward in confronting the challenge of dramatic climate change it is not a particularly dramatic departure from the status quo approach to climate change that we have seen from both major political parties in the United States.

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.

(26) In a 1974 followup, they spoke more boldly of stable periods interrupted by catastrophic «discontinuities,» when «dramatic climate change occurred in a century or two at most.»

Since the climate science is predicting such dramatic climate change that will require major changes in virtually everyones lives to mitigae, the same type of oversight for climate change science may be demanded by the public and hence politicians.

«Traditionally species have been resilient and capable of going through dramatic climate change, but with humans changing the face of the landscape, we've created lots of prisons for species, and that's the major problem they face,» he said.

This is the heart of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative's (CMI) Stabilization Wedges concept, a simple framework for understanding both the carbon emissions cuts needed to avoid dramatic climate change and the tools already available to do so.

Such a dramatic climate change would not take place in five days, but rather several years, said Joyce.

To get on track to avoiding dramatic climate change, the world must avoid emitting about 200 billion tons of carbon, or eight 25 billion ton wedges, over the next 50 years.

The alternative view he advances sees a less dramatic climate change that would allow the world to adapt without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Improving our environmental approach will help, no matter how dramatic climate change actually is.

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.

After pulling a dramatic all - nighter, delegates at the U.N. conference on climate change left beautiful, lush Bali for the real world with an agreed text on their laptops.

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

Among the most visible and dramatic effects of climate change in Massachusetts is sea level rise and ocean acidification.

As individuals, by working in our communities, and by supporting climate policy, we can effect dramatic positive change at the community level.

«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.

«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.

The Third National Climate Assessment predicts dramatic changes in coastal states like New York.

Climate change is having a dramatic impact on Earth's biodiversity, by causing rapid fluctuations in temperature and precipitation that alter species» environments.

Waldbusser has called these changing daily CO2 conditions «carbonate weather» because changes in the chemistry are so dramatic depending on the time of the day — much like the difference and interaction between weather and climate.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

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