Sentences with phrase «effect on climate change impacts»

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

The major carbon producers data can be applied to climate models to derive the carbon input's effect on climate change impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.

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Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.

This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

As long ago as 2005, Allen told New Scientist that the legal route would have more impact on climate change than governments: «Just the possibility of legal action would have a big effect... in boardrooms.»

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

Therefore, climate change may have a more negative effect on the biological diversity of animals than previously assumed,» says Schleuning, and he adds, «A consideration of biotic interactions between animals and plants is therefore important for predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.»

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

«Overall, climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.&change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.&Change on Selected Causes of Death.»

While the African Union concentrates on strategies to mitigate the devastating financial effects climate change is having on Africans, I worry instead about its impact on our bodies.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

«Therefore it is essential to understand how different climate factors interact and impact food production when reaching decisions on how to adapt to the effects of climate change.»

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Jaap Nienhuis, a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics, says the effects of climate change, and the human efforts to combat these effects, are already making an impact on river deltas around the world.

(1) establish programs for assessing the current and future impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's, respectively, jurisdiction, including cumulative and synergistic effects, and for identifying and monitoring those natural resources that are likely to be adversely affected and that have need for conservation;

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

We focus instead on one major insect pest --- wheat stem sawfly (Cephus cinctus Norton)-- on Montana's dominant crop, wheat, to illustrate the mechanisms and principles involved in assessing climate change effects on agricultural pests and their impacts on crop yield or quality.

-- 4) Improved fire models and projections directly related to Montana's forests; 5) Long - term monitoring of forest insect and pathogen response to recent climate changes and improved projections of likely future impacts; 6) Better understanding of disturbance effects on microclimates and refugia and implications for forest productivity, mortality, and adaptation.

Direct effects of climate change on trees and forests, such as warmer, wetter conditions improving forest productivity or warmer, drier conditions increasing tree mortality, will be secondary to the impacts of altered forest disturbance regimes, such as changes in forest fire behavior and area burned.

However, the indirect effects of climate change on forests, such as changing wildfire and beetle outbreak severity, are already having a large impact on the health of Montana's forests and in some instances these impacts are easier to predict.

The effect of climate change on ENSO is still the subject of research, though some recent studies have suggested its impacts may be intensified.

I am a marine biologist and fish ecologist, with particular interests in bioacoustics (including impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine ecosystems), fish behaviour, effects of climate change on marine fisheries, and innovative management approaches.

The effects of human activity have long been cited as a primary cause of global climate change, but new research from NASA has revealed that our use of technology also appears to be having an impact not just on the planet, but on Earth's near - space environment as well.

It's not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated what a huge effect this ~ 2ºC uncertainty in ECS estimates has on scenarios that attempt to predict the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts (e.g. the AR5 RCPs).

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

Malone was the principal author on a U.S. Agency for International Development report, Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Glacier Melt Impacts, which assessed how USAID programs could respond to the effects of climate change in this region of the world.

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

Based on the above conclusions, they consider that the future integrity of the property is highly at risk, taking into account the possible prospect of offshore oil exploitation, the uncertainty about the impact of invasive species, the already existing threats for which progress on the corrective measures is unclear and the globally increasing effects of climate change to coral reef systems, including the Belize Barrier Reef system.

The urgency and effects of climate change and its impact on cultural identity are evidenced in the work of Magda Biernat, recipient of CENTER's 2016 Director's Choice award, whose exhibition Adrift is on view through July 8 at photo - eye Gallery in Santa Fe.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

It's not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated what a huge effect this ~ 2ºC uncertainty in ECS estimates has on scenarios that attempt to predict the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts (e.g. the AR5 RCPs).

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

Global warming is one kind of climate change caused by an increased greenhouse effect with an impact on both meteorology and the hydrological cycle.

Climate change will, however, have different impacts on people around the world and those effects will vary not only by region but over time, depending on the rate and magnitude of climate Climate change will, however, have different impacts on people around the world and those effects will vary not only by region but over time, depending on the rate and magnitude of climate climate change.

It is possible, therefore, that the effects of recent accelerations in climate change have not yet started to have a significant contribution to or impact on current sea levels; but based on international scientific opinion, it is more a case of when, rather than if.

Impacts - The effects of climate change on natural and human systems.

12 Human Impact on Climate Changes The Greenhouse Effect Cont.

You can find out how the climate is changing; the effects of climate change on extreme weather, human health, water supply, the oceans; and the impact we already see.

The abstract states that «Climate change and its impact on environment, and thus the consequent effects on human, animal and plant life, is a hot topic for discussion at national and international forums both at scientific and political levels.

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

Public health impact of global heating due to climate change: Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases

Climate change impacts on Africa's ecosystems will probably have a negative effect on tourism as, according to one study, between 25 and 40 % of mammal species in national parks in sub-Saharan Africa will become endangered.

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

Tagaris, E., K. J. Liao, A. J. DeLucia, L. Deck, P. Amar, and A. G. Russell, 2009: Potential impact of climate change on air pollution - related human health effects.