Sentences with phrase «effects of global climate change»

It's plants like these that need to be shut down as soon as possible if we're going to mitigate the worst effects of global climate change.

The potential effects of global climate change on microalgal photosynthesis, growth and ecology

Sub-Saharan Africans voice similar levels of worry about drought — 59 % cite it as the most concerning potential effect of global climate change.

When the dire effects of global climate change have taken their toll half a century...

In Nigeria, extreme heat (38 %) is the most troubling effect of global climate change.

Ultimately, this study also illustrates the benefits of the recent trend in model downscaling, highlighting the regional and local effects of global climate change.

The most recent, rapid, and significant effect of global climate change occurred about 2.5 million years ago in the Quaternary period, when ice sheets expanded and contracted, altering both the environment and available land.

University of California, Irivine, published a news article on Dr. Katherine Mackey's research on ocean acidification and the unrevealed effects of global climate change.

The results, published in the journal Nature, close a long - standing gap in our understanding of the carbon cycling between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere and could be useful in making more accurate models to predict the long - term effects of global climate change.

We present results from detailed interviews with 12 leading climate scientists about the possible effects of global climate change on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

This is one dollar for every man, woman and child in the U.S. — a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency — and curb the dangerous effects of global climate change.

We believe this would be especially important in the developing world, where the disastrous effects of global climate change are likely to have their most immediate and calamitous impacts.

We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the harmful human health effects of global climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.

Scientific research provides a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global climate change through decreased human influences (e.g., slowing greenhouse gas emissions, improving land management practices), technological advancement (e.g., removing carbon from the atmosphere), and finding ways for communities to adapt and become resilient to extreme events.

Despite stating that «the physical facts agree» that large effects of global climate change will be realized in 50 years and that a 2 % decrease in fossil fuel consumption would «considerably ease» the «immediate problem,» the committee still focuses on the «large probable error» of the data.

Reports in recent years that marine protected areas (MPAs) aren't effective in saving coral reefs from the damaging effects of global climate change have led some to argue that such expensive interventions are futile.

Such growth would easily swamp efforts elsewhere in the world to curtail carbon emissions, dooming any chance to head off the dire effects of global climate change.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

Across the nations surveyed, the threat of droughts or water shortages is the most troubling potential effect of global climate change — a median of 44 % say they are most concerned about this possibility.

However, Democrats condemned the rollback as dangerous and a disregard for the effects of global climate change.

«The need for this awareness will increase as the effects of global climate change become more pronounced, bringing more extreme fluctuations of temperature, and risks of flooding not only from rivers and rising sea level, but also from downpours that overwhelm urban storm drains and sewers,» says Professor Michael Hebbert.

Unfortunately they have been in great decline in recent years, much of it due to the effects of global climate change.

We are starting to see some of the effects of global climate change in our area,» said Janet Nye, a NOAA researcher working out of Woods Hole, Mass..

Finally, I plan to examine how effective different local management strategies may be in mitigating the effects of global climate change.

The objective of our research is to evaluate the effects of global climate change processes (changing dust deposition, ocean acidification and sea - surface warming) on phytoplankton growth, biological N2 fixation, biogeochemical cycles, and the controlling role of Fe within these impacts.

Biologists conclude that the animals are flexible enough to resist the effects of global climate change.

+ NASA will be collaborating with photojournalist Justin Guariglia on a new series of three - dimensional photographic prints aimed at showing the effects of global climate change.

This is just one example of how some scientists believe climate engineering could potentially mitigate some of the effects of global climate change.

Capturing and either sequestering these carbon emissions or converting them into valuable chemical products is one way to combat the effects of global climate change.

When it comes to policies aimed at reducing the effects of global climate change, about half of U.S. adults (49 %) believe these policies have net benefits for the environment.

About six - in - ten (62 %) think this would make a difference in reducing the effects of global climate change.

For instance, 79 % of Americans say that restrictions on power plant emissions can make a difference in reducing the effects of global climate change.

Also, two - thirds of U.S. adults (67 %) say the government is not doing enough to reduce the effects of global climate change.

Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with former Vice President Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked - about documentary of the year.

Another 36 % say policies to reduce the effects of global climate change generally make no difference to the U.S. economy.

In a number of the advanced economies that are responsible for much of annual CO2 emissions, it is women, more than men, who believe major changes in the way they live will be necessary to reduce the effects of global climate change.

NORFOLK ---- Regardless of what's being debated in Congress and state capitols across the nation, the U.S. Navy is readying for the effects of global climate change.

The effects of global climate change on mental health and well - being are integral parts of the overall climate - related human health impacts.