Sentences with phrase «dramatically changing climates»

He tells us global warming will disrupt the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.

Evidence of the impact of one or more extraterrestrial objects 13,000 years ago in northern North America has led some scientists to posit that those events dramatically changed the climate, eventually wiping out the species.

«Once you dramatically change the climate and change water patterns, as is now seen in the Three Gorges region,» he says, «you change a lot of environmental variables.

The shoaling on the Isthmus of Panama disrupted surface flow in both Pacific and Atlantic Oceans — creating the potential for feedbacks to dramatically change climate.

Not exact matches

While the current climate surrounding immigration may be similar to 2006 amid President Donald Trump's hard - line approach to the issue, the immigrant rights movement has changed dramatically since then.

Anchored in the premise that climate science is «settled,» the accord seeks to dramatically change humanity's energy supply.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

The climate for buying residential real estate in America changed dramatically during the eight months between August 2012 and May 2013.

In case anyone didn't notice, the context for climate policy and carbon pricing in Canada has just changed dramatically.

And there have been some celebrated deserters from the dominant orthodoxy, like Bjorn Lomborg who favors adaptation over an attempt to change the climate, and most recently James Lovelock, he of the «Gaia» hypothesis, who recanted his past climate pessimism rather dramatically.

There is the possibility of a change in the Gulf Stream that could dramatically alter the climate of Europe, for example.

Not only do we need healthy soils to grow the food that feeds us, if we treat our soil right it can help us dramatically reduce the effects of climate change, while increasing yields and improving soil health.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

The economic crisis has changed the political climate dramatically and that is because Brown has been allowed to get on and govern.»

Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate change's impacts on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.

We are walking into a dramatically shifting climate and that is fundamentally going to change everything.»

Models are predicting that extreme floods will increase dramatically in the coming decades because of climate change.

Over the past decade, research into the impacts of rising CO2 on fish and shellfish species has increased dramatically, helping scientists accurately predict the threat climate change poses ecosystems worldwide.

«Due to climate change and GDP growth, by 2050 a one - in - fifty - years - flood might be one in 30 years so the frequency of such losses increases dramatically - almost doubling,» said co-author Brenden Jongman, researcher at the IVM Institute for Environmental Studies at VU University Amsterdam.

We won't know definitively until 2090, but essentially there's nothing we can do about it at that point in time and it changes the climate system dramatically.»

The data «are bad news,» he says, because they suggest climate change could dramatically affect forests in the next few decades.

Keiluweit, assistant professor in UMass Amherst's School of Earth and Sustainability, says the team's next steps include quantifying the amount of anaerobic microsites in different soil ecosystems and assessing how carbon stabilization in them is affected by variables such as the soil hydrologic regime, which is expected to change dramatically due to climate change.

Also, the new mortality estimates, while dramatically higher than the approximately 150,000 annual deaths attributed to climate change stress in WHO's last assessment in 2004, are not directly comparable to earlier studies, which relied on different models and different underlying scenarios.

«Alberta's boreal forest could be dramatically altered by 2100 due to climate change: Model by UAlberta biologists predicts big changes due to climate change and wildfire.»

In a ruling that came as a surprise to many legal experts, a court in the Netherlands today ordered the Dutch government to dramatically intensify its fight against climate change.

«Climate change is predicted to occur earliest and most dramatically at the polar regions, and that's what the observations seem to be showing,» says Karl A. Erb, director of the National Science Foundation's office of polar programs.

... It is really a matter of time until the climate changes dramatically.»

As sea ice decreases dramatically across polar oceans, some scientists see a silver lining: The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean.

The environmental group cites the recommendations of a 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as a reason for EPA to dramatically shorten the time frame over which it calculates greenhouse gas impact — from 100 years down to 20.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

«If you look at Earth from space, the distribution of continents and oceans will then look much the same, even though life, the climate and sea level may have dramatically changed.

Nevertheless, during these years climate scientific knowledge and analysis have changed dramatically.

The Paleogene is an interesting time to study because global climate changed dramatically during that interval — including an abrupt warming event around 55 million years ago.

Research suggests that emperor penguin colonies will be dramatically affected by climate change, according to British Antarctic Survey biologist Phil Trathan.

That suggests that what is driving the rise — climate change — also has increased dramatically in recent years.

«When I look at the scenarios for future temperature and precipitation, I really see how dramatically our nation's climate could change.»

Joshua Tree National Park is known for its iconic trees, but Joshua tree habitat is expected to shrink dramatically because of climate change.

In his new film, Downsizing, he presents an intriguing solution to climate change and the world's population crisis, imagining an alternate reality where people have the opportunity to literally shrink themselves thus increasing the value of their assets and dramatically reducing their carbon footprint.

The report is one of a series that the Brookings team has conducted on the impact of changes in mainstream news media over the past five years, where general reporting on local and statewide education issues has fallen dramatically as print media has struggled in the current economic climate and changes brought on by the internet.

PARINAZ MOGADASSI — Thinking about London in the late»80s, and about the Young British Artists, do you think the climate of the art world in London changed dramatically?

At this same time the Brooklyn Museum exhibited The Dinner Party for a second time (a prior exhibition was held in 1980) but this time, the critical climate had dramatically changed.

But by the end of the 1980s the social climate changed dramatically.

Rubio has flip - flopped dramatically on climate change over the years.

They note, quite correctly, that the tree - ring response to climate changes much more dramatically between the two time periods than the density response.

The point being that some people are debating climate change, and whether to stop using oil, when in just 100 years or maybe less, we will be forced to stop using oil anyway as supplies dwindle, and prices escalate dramatically.

Just as the initial conditions of a formula or model can change the outcome dramatically, I think it likely that the initial conditions of this climate change are sufficiently different than what exists in the fossil record that the outcome will be quite different.

Eager anticipation of the next American president offering a dramatically different policy on climate change is being tempered by the chill winds of the financial crisis.

Recent research showed that climate change will increase the risk of multidecadal «megadrought» in the West dramatically.

Again more sobering is «Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC / HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins» — a mouthful - titled publication in Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramatclimate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC / HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins» — a mouthful - titled publication in Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramatclimate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins» — a mouthful - titled publication in Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramatClimate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramatclimate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramatically.

«Our budgets are getting squeezed dramatically from climate change,» Finance and Environment Minister J. Michael Miltenberger told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.