Sentences with phrase «early signs of climate change»

«In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change - induced shifts in soil.»

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(12/12/2011) Early Sunday morning over 190 of the world's countries signed on to a new climate agreement at the 17th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South climate agreement at the 17th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa.

The monsoon floods have come early to Bangladesh, with thousands of people losing their homes and crops to river erosion, in what specialists say is a clear sign of climate change.

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

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The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.

Attacking the basic presumption of change (let alone now reasonably corroborated by ongoing increasing if early signs of climate shift) is not a case.

Nevertheless, progress is being made exploring the potential existence of early warning signs for abrupt climate change (see e.g., Dakos et al., 2008; Scheffer et al., 2009).

In a similar vein, an Observer poll published earlier this month found that people from London were most likely to agree that increasing frequency of extreme weather was a sign of climate change, while those living in the North West were least likely to agree.

2007/04/17: CanWest: Darfur war, climate change linked A violent conflict that has claimed more than 300,000 lives in Darfur is one of the early signs of threats to global security prompted by climate change, a senior representative of the British government warned yesterday on the eve of a special United Nations debate.