Sentences with phrase «driven by global climate change»

Researchers believe this widespread disaster could take place sometime later this century, driven by global climate change.

«By analysing the potential impact of future carbon constraints driven by global climate change policies, our study shows a deterioration in the financial risk profiles for smaller oil companies that could lead to negative outlooks and downgrades,» said Michael Wilkins, head of environmental finance at Standard & Poor's.

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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.

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.

Jet engine exhaust emits carbon dioxide, which drives climate change by warming the atmosphere, leading to increasing global temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

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

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

This also tends to support the general concept that changes in the tropics (30N - 30S) are the primary drivers of global climate change; processes in the North Atlantic and North Pacific seem to respond to changes in the tropics, not the reverse — i.e. the concept of climate controlled by a global oceanic conveyor belt driven by a North Atlantic gear mechanism can probably be discarded.

What kinds of international agreements could effectively limit risks related to human - driven global warming, either by blunting human contributions to climate change or building resilience to hazards related to changing conditions?

Overall, ecosystem - driven changes in chemistry induced climate feedbacks that increased global mean annual land surface temperatures by 1.4 and 2.7 K for the 2 × and 4 × CO2 Eocene simulations, respectively, and 2.2 K for the Cretaceous (Fig. 3 E and F).

Kerry Emanuel, who's been studying Atlantic Ocean hurricanes in the context of climate change for decades, spoke on the Warm Regards podcast about the mix of subsidized seaside development and rising sea levels driven by global warming.

As the post explains, Broecker's 1975 paper appears to have been the first in the scientific literature to use the term «global warming» to describe climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated carbon dioxide.

These changes are part of the pattern of global climate change, which is primarily driven by human activity.»

«Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal: extinctions driven by the latter processes of habitat loss pose a far greater threat to global biodiversity.

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

There can be no such thing as secure nation - states or a healthy global economy if potentially pernicious effects of human - driven climate change result in the Earth becoming unfit for human habitation by our children and coming generations.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

In the rekognition of the uncertainties, the IPCC Good - Practice - Guidance - Paper on using climate model results offers some wise advice (first bullet point under section 3.5 on p. 10): the local climate change scenarios should be based on (i) historical change, (ii) process change (e.g. changes in the driving circulation), (iii) global climate change projected by GCMs, and (iv) downscaled projected change.

The analysis also follows the advice in the IPCC Good - Practice - Guidance - Paper on using climate model results: the local climate change scenarios should be based on (i) historical change, (ii) process change (e.g. changes in the driving circulation), (iii) global climate change projected by GCMs, and (iv) downscaled projected change.

Using a recently developed hurricane synthesizer driven by large - scale meteorological variables derived from global climate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarClimate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario A1b.

The increasing severity of Australian heat waves are part of a long - term global trend towards more heat waves and hot weather in many regions, a trend that is very likely influenced by human - driven climate change.

The Great Transition, written by EPI's research team — Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams — focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by policy, economics, and the hard realities of accelerating climate change.

In my earlier posting, I tried to make the distinction that global climate change (all that is changing in the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trend.

Compare this with the unequivocal findings of the scientific community regarding ongoing warming: climate change now is global and in all likelihood driven primarily by human activities.

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WASHINGTON / OSLO, March 15 (Reuters)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has bashed international efforts to combat climate change and questioned the scientific consensus that global warming is dangerous and driven by human consumption of fossil fuels.

Therefore, our analysis supports the paradigm that while the Younger Dryas was a period of global climate change, it was not a major global cooling event but rather a manifestation of the bipolar seesaw driven by a reduction in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation strength.

The relationship between resilience in the face of extreme weather events and increases in female education expenditure holds when socioeconomic development continues but the climate does not change, and socioeconomic development continues with weather paths driven by «wet» and «dry» Global Climate climate does not change, and socioeconomic development continues with weather paths driven by «wet» and «dry» Global Climate Climate Models.

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening everClimate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening everclimate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

We are in the midst of the greatest global effort in history to end tropical deforestation, driven largely by the importance of tropical forests for tackling climate change.

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening everClimate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening everclimate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

So Nature published Pounds» more adamant connection to CO2 in «Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming».17 Embodying the forceful storyteller Pounds boldly stated, «we conclude with «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) that large - scale warming is a key factor in the disappearances.

In the study, Monier and his co-authors applied the IGSM framework to assess climate impacts under different climate - change scenarios — «Paris Forever,» a scenario in which Paris Agreement pledges are carried out through 2030, and then maintained at that level through 2100; and «2C,» a scenario with a global carbon tax - driven emissions reduction policy designed to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Both disclosures are consistent with what scientists had expected from climate change, driven by global warming as a consequence of the profligate combustion of fossil fuels that dump ever greater levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

(5) Global warming, the climate change component that is driven by greenhouse gas increases, is the reason for concern because of its increasing impact on ecosystems and polar ice caps / sea level rise.

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

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Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate change, mainly as a consequence of decreases in regional precipitation but also because of increasing evaporation driven by global warming1 — 3.

The fact that Trump has called global warming a «hoax» was mentioned in nearly a quarter of all segments about climate change on the nightly news and Sunday morning programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2017 — and in more than a third of those instances, the networks didn't push back by affirming that human - driven climate change is a reality.

All around the world, we are seeing the impacts of global climate change driven by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

Driven by factors like the Bush administration's censorship of climate science communication, Al Gore's prominent role in promoting awareness of the science of global warming, and frequent Republican deployment of climate change denial and «skepticism» to oppose greenhouse gas regulation, a destructive dichotomy has been created suggesting that valuing the role of science in public policy is a matter of political partisanship.

Clarke et al.'s work is published in Nature Geoscience and uses a regional glaciation model driven by global climate model output to examine possible future changes to glaciers in western Canada.

Greater resilience to climate change impacts will be essential to the technical viability of the energy sector and its ability to cost - effectively meet the rising energy demands driven by global economic and population growth.

Pushing China to peak its greenhouse - gas emissions too soon could damage global efforts to tackle climate change by driving industry to less efficient countries, a Chinese climate economist has argued.

BONN, Germany — The Trump administration made its debut at a United Nations conference on climate change on Monday by giving a full - throated defense of fossil fuels and nuclear energy as answers to driving down global greenhouse gas emissions.

Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result from changes of land use and the combustion of fossil fuels.

What they do — and have done at length in one form since 2009 — is dispute in massive detail how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to make the case that what little global warming we've seen over the last 150 years is primarily driven by human activity.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Washington, D.C. — A survey of North American cities by the ACEEE and the Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) finds that confronting the challenges of extreme weather, adapting to a changing climate, and improving the health and resiliency of urban populations are driving cities to develop and implement strategies to reduce excess urban heat.