Sentences with phrase «driven by climate change»

The big drivers in how individuals in more rural or remote areas are situating themselves are driven by climate change and geography, says Lawby.

Nor would all transformations necessarily be driven by climate change — though they would reinforce its negative effects.

When someone says that climate science shows that the latest cold air outbreak was partly driven by climate change, people need to know what's wrong with that statement.

The sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by burning carbon fuels — including harm caused by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.

The increasing normalized trends in the U.S. were evident in convective storms, winter storms, flooding events and high temperature - related losses, and were almost statistically significant for hurricanes at the conventional 95 percent confidence level.3 In view of data like this, it's very hard to accept Pielke's confident assertion that «[n] o matter what President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron say, recent costly disasters are not part of a trend driven by climate change.»

These events typify the on - going trend driven by climate change.

It would take decades to pump all that oil and gas — enough time for the loss of sea ice driven by climate change to make a dent in the economics of Arctic shipping.

The authors similarly surveyed on - line abstracts from which they extracted only papers suggesting ecological changes were driven by climate change.

Australia's food supply chain is highly exposed to disruption from increasing extreme weather events driven by climate change, with farmers already struggling to cope with more frequent and intense droughts and changing weather patterns.

Evidence suggests that the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation was driven in part by warm air (air warmed by the dramatic seasonal loss of Arctic sea ice) 9 as well as by changes in snow cover over Eurasia driven by climate change.10 This event is part of an emerging trend in which a warming climate may paradoxically bring colder, snowier winters to northern Europe and the eastern United States.11

California is experiencing warmer baseline conditions, driven by climate change, that have increased the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California, and increased the chance that low rainfall years will produce drought.

California has recently seen an uptick in extreme heat events and warmer baseline temperatures, driven by climate change.

Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum.

The piece is a close - up view of the global issue of migration driven by climate change.

Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

But in addition to the longer growing seasons, which may be driven by climate change (see Climate chapter), this improved feasibility of corn production in Montana is due in part to new, shorter - season corn varieties.

Driven by climate change and enhanced by a powerful El Niño, the ongoing mass bleaching event hasn't just impacted the Great Barrier Reef, but every major reef region in the world.

«Understanding such processes is especially important today since oxygen in the ocean is decreasing, largely due to the warming of ocean waters driven by climate change,» said the study's lead author Andrew Margolin, a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science and an alumnus of the UM Rosenstiel School.

Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum.

That's because hot temperatures, which are being driven by climate change, are worsening and extending wildfire seasons.

These migration events were driven by climate change connected to variations in Earth's orbit.

Or it could be that methane variations are mostly produced by wetland emission, driven by climate change as well as land use decisions, according to another set of papers.

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OSLO, Jan 8 (Reuters)- Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.

The warmest winter on record — driven by climate change — is also driving down the need for wintertime electricity required for home heating, which drives down the need for more coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster said in the report.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

And the demand for cooling is being driven both by climate change and global population growth.

Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change.

Young says that elements of the recent drought are consistent with what is expected from an event that is driven by climate change.

«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

The payoff will be a clearer sense of the future: whether the methane rise is a long - term trend, driven by climate change, or a blip that could reverse next year.

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The investigation of self - reported sleep patterns and nighttime temperatures across the United States is one of the first studies to provide evidence that rising temperatures, driven by climate change, could affect human sleep.

Or, he says, it may reflect a real shift in polar weather, driven by climate change.

Bielory and Lyons co-authored a paper in Current Allergy and Asthma Reports last month on allergies driven by climate change.

Another research team did find that a winter drought in Spain and Portugal was partially driven by climate change.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

Not exact matches

Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

At Beyond Meat, innovation is driven by four core concerns: human health, animal welfare, use of land, water and energy, and climate change.

The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.

Lower Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap by 30 Percent Between 2020 and 2030 - Cuomo «has called upon RGGI states to join New York in an effort to continue to lead the fight against climate change and drive the nation's transition toward a clean energy economy.»

A first step in the fightback is being taken by Greg Barker, the climate change minister, who writes in a Guardian article that the government will help drive down energy costs by prising open the energy market to challenge the «big six» suppliers.

«He also refused to embrace the scientific view that climate change is now overwhelmingly driven by the burning of fossil fuels and failed to answer legitimate questions about Exxon's support for climate denial groups during his tenure.»

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

By contrast, the research team found little support for the idea that climate change drove size - biased extinctions during the last 66 million years.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

Climate change is not driven just by increased greenhouse gas concentrations; other mechanisms — both natural and human - induced — also play a part.