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I recently spent four days in LA, investigating two of my favourite topics — green real estate and the effects of climate change on real estate.
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The next generations will inherit complex problems like resource scarcity, an education skill gap and the effects of climate change on our planet.
I was publishing my interviews of statesmen and ambassadors about the effects of climate change on their small island states.
Former teacher and founder of two Caribbean - based youth organizations, Andrew Simmons (1994, St. Vincent and the Grenadines) always knew that the effects of climate change on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can not be addressed without the participation of young people:
Judging the effects of climate change on extinction may be easier than previously thought, according to a paper entitled, «Life history and spatial traits predict extinction risk due to climate change,» published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
By J. Brady Howell At an all - day White House conference on «environmental justice,» Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings -LSB-...]
That's an increase from 17.8 % today, in an area likely to see decreasing rainfall in the coming years do to the effects of climate change on precipitation patterns.
ES&T;'s Naomi Lubick brings us word of a new draft report on the effects of climate change on water management, called «National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change,» which provides a valuable insight on its challenges and the potential mitigation strategies we should be considering.
The goal is to increase awareness of the effects of climate change on the world's coldest regions and to inspire changes in behavior that can slow it down.»
They defended their original paper and said the Stirling study showed «uni-dimensional, or reductionist thinking, which is not useful when assessing effects of climate change on complex ecosystems.»
A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture — and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences
An unprecedented union of scientific analysis and stunning photography illustrating the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem.
Graves will be on a pair of committees — Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure — that will provide the chance for him to delve into the effects of climate change on his state and the country.
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The effects of climate change on hurricanes?
The predicted effects of climate change on the winery is also a major concern, particularly when it comes to water resources.
In order to study the effects of climate change on pollinators, NASA has turned to the bees.
Research showing prospective effects of climate change on bird populations demonstrated a need for prevention, one approach being renewable energy.
The primary point of contention stems from Clement's abrupt, involuntary reassignment to an office that collects oil company royalty checks from his post as top policy advisor, where he focused primarily on the deleterious effects of climate change on Alaskan communities.
As medical professionals, many of our members know firsthand the harmful health effects of climate change on patients.
The resolution called for one panel discussion on identifying challenges and ways forward towards the realization of all human rights for all, including the right to development, in particular those in vulnerable situations, as well as the measures and best practices to promote and protect human rights that can be adopted by States in addressing the adverse effects of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and another panel discussion on how climate change has had an adverse impact on States» efforts to progressively realize the right to food, and policies, lessons learned and good practices.
He has seen, first hand, the effects of climate change on the coastlines, the fisheries and the ocean in Alaska.
Growth rings in the ear stones of rockfish and the trunks of trees are giving researchers glimpses of the effects of climate change on biodiversity.
For example, Lise Van Susteren (sister of well - known TV journalist Greta Van Susteren), a psychiatrist with a private practice in the Washington, D.C. area who has a special interest in the psychological effects of climate change on children, also subscribes to the notion that a failure to leave our children and theirs with a livable world amounts to child abuse.
The NPCC was founded in 2008 to study the effects of climate change on New York City's five boroughs and surrounding region.
Disaster risk management plays an increasingly key role in dealing with the effects of climate change on food security.
Therefore, well - established insight into the effects of climate change on water resource components can be considered to be an essential strategy to reduce these effects.
In this video ILO Director - General Juan Somavia and UNEP Director Achim Steiner lead a discussion about the effects of climate change on the nexus between economic growth and environmental sustainability and debate about the fact that the only choice will be to see how they can reinforce each other in the years to come.
The story, based on a Lancet study, made dire forecasts regarding the effects of climate change on agriculture, while failing to note that the study actually predicts much more abundant food availability in 2050 thanks to advances in agricultural productivity.
First, there is scant evidence that the future negative effects of climate change on the U.S. will be markedly different than from the rest of the world.
For that there is need for more regional understandings, collaborations and cooperation for minimizing the negative effects of climate change on South Asian countries.
This publication examines the effects of climate change on children highlighting how climate change has evolved from an «environmental» issue into one that requires collective expertise in sustainable development, energy security, and the health and well - being of children.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has launched a research program that will examine the potential effects of climate change on health.
Justin Gillis is taking reader questions on the potential effects of climate change on the global food supply and will respond this week on the Green blog.
Determining the effects of climate change on infectious diseases is complex because of confounding contributions of economic development and land use, changing ecosystems, international travel, and commerce.38 Currently, climate warming has been identified as contributing to the northern expansion of Lyme disease in North America39 and has been projected to increase the burden of child diarrheal illness, particularly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.40 Concern has also been raised for climate links to emerging infections, including coccidioidomycosis41 and amoebic meningoencephalitis.42 Further investigation into climactic influence on infectious diseases is needed.
While on Heron Island last month talking to coral reef researchers, we also had the privilege of interviewing Sir David Attenborough about a range of issues, including the effects of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef.
Or is the future shape of the risk still so vague and uncertain that we are stuck having the whole country underwrite it until the effects of climate change on big storms come into clearer focus?
Yes we DO study the projected effects of climate change on the planet.
CSW director Rick Piltz was interviewed on July 21 on the new federal scientific assessment of the effects of climate change on human health and welfare in the US, the Bush administration's record, Al Gore's speech on transforming the energy... Continue reading →
However, the CCSP has not completely fulfilled the statutory obligations of the GCRP, because it has failed to produce a comprehensive scientific assessment report detailing the effects of climate change on the United States.
The Met Office, working with other interested parties, is taking the lead in providing the advice and solutions government, veterinary experts and farmers will need to mitigate against the effects of climate change on animal and plant health in the future.
See our earlier posts: July 17: EPA releases report identifying harmful effects of climate change on human health July 17: Media coverage of EPA release of climate change health effects assessment Transcript (with light editing) of CSW director Rick Piltz's comments in a July 18 interview on Free Speech Radio News:
The challenge of this position is to design and implement technical solutions for using that data to interpret the effects of climate change on British Columbia.
Our knowledge base, however, is insufficient to quantify the effects of climate change on many of these metrics because of conceptual challenges posed by climate change to standard assumptions, as well as practical data and methodological hurdles; insufficient understanding of how such metrics capture the way people actually feel; and, for non-monetized values, sometimes resistance to calculating them at all (Sussman et al 2014, Neumann and Strzepek 2014).
The director of membership for INTO said that his organization was a regular attender at COP conferences where it hoped to persuade heads of government «to take more notice of the effects of climate change on cultural sustainability».
Additional runs for 2000 with 1850 climate and for 2030 and 2100 (RCP 8.5) with 2000 emissions are designed to separate the effects of climate change on constituents and for isolating aerosol indirect effects more cleanly using the clear - sky / all - sky flux diagnostics.
For tree growth and recruitment, all nine tree species showed significant correlations with stand - level competition, whereas the effects of climate change on tree growth were weak for most tree species (SI Appendix, Fig.
The placements for the four Bren School students are: Paige Berube is at the Ocean Protection Council, where she will focus on the effects of climate change on ocean conditions, such as sea - level rise, ocean acidification, and El Niño.
Vinny: «They were trying to split out the effects of climate change on crop yields — a worthwhile exercise, no?»
«There are several adaptation options to counter the adverse effects of climate change on global wheat production — and for some regions this will be critical,» they said.