Sentences with phrase «era of changing climate»

So when I attended the Senate Subcommittee hearing on Green Jobs and the New Economy titled «Farming, Fishing, Forestry, and Hunting in an Era of Changing Climate» on Tuesday June 3, 2014, I was foolishly surprised.

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Through water and soil monitoring software, accompanying hardware, and crop loss insurance, it's helping farmers protect their livelihoods in the era of climate change.

Environmentalists, meanwhile, warn that, in an era of climate change, the costs of relentlessly pursuing GDP growth — transforming trees into lumber, farmland into malls, fossil fuels into CO2 — now outweigh the benefits.

President Donald Trump's infrastructure agenda, unveiled on August 15, centered on rescinding Obama - era plans to require consideration of flood risk and climate change in any federal spending for infrastructure or housing and the like.

With economic growth strengthening around the globe, business leaders are finding it easier to stiff - arm worries over geopolitical conflagrations, cyberattacks, climate change - related events and the rest of the lineup of potentially destabilizing calamities that form part of the Trump era.

Throughout most of the current geological era North America was a sheet of ice, but the global climate changed; mostly due to solar activity.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

The parallels between the slow onset of the Doomsday Era and the phenomenon of global climate change are unmissable.

In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.

The UN Secretary General is quoted in the statement to have said that the summit would chart a new era of sustainable development in which poverty would be eradicated, prosperity would be shared and the core drivers of climate change would be tackled.

The former Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, announced last year that the political climate in Northern Ireland had changed significantly and that an era of «full» — his word and one not difficult to define — transparency should begin.

In Josh Robin's series, Sandy: Five Years Later, NY1 examines what has been done to better protect the five boroughs, as experts believe dangerous weather events will accelerate in this era of climate change and rising seas.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Climate change is likely to usher in an era of more extreme weather, including the heavy rains and flooding that create ideal mosquito breeding grounds.

«The natural climate system has changed since the onset of the anthropogenic era,» he said.

The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

And in the era of climate change, those fleeing sea - level rise will be on the lookout for a place to live on higher ground, which is likely to push people of color and the poor out of neighborhoods that have historically been mostly black or Caribbean.

During the Bush era, however, the CEQ came to play a large role in setting environmental policy, particularly in the area of climate change.

The research concludes that for other changes, such as regional warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region

He also explained that this will allow scientists to study how plant growth adjusts to different environmental conditions, adding that «this is a fascinating field of research in the era of climate change.»

According to the study, the number of these deaths that can be attributed to changes in the climate since the industrial era is, however, relatively small.

The first explanation is based on global climate change: Scientists have shown that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels declined steadily since the beginning of the Cenozoic Era, 66 million years ago.

«We live in an era during which it has become clear that we can not burn all of the fossil fuels without causing dangerous climate change,» the letter, seen by Reuters, said.

Sustainable landscapes, like adaptation and clean energy, were a pillar of the Global Climate Change Initiative, an informal Obama - era construct that came to cover a host of projects and programs.

Stronger, stiffer and more durable than most metals and at a fraction of the weight, carbon fiber enables a suite of energy - efficient and clean technologies from wind turbines to cars in an era of turbulent energy prices and a changing climate.

But burning natural gas results in half the greenhouse gas pollution than coal, making it appealing as fuel in an era of combating climate change.

«The future of these dolphins would appear to be as secure as any population of any species can be in this era of climate change,» says the study's lead author, Mike Bossley of Whale and Dolphin Conservation Australasia in Port Adelaide, who has studied the area's dolphins for 25 years.

A group of prominent Republicans released a «conservative» plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions today, arguing that replacing Obama - era policies with a carbon - tax - and - dividend system would be a politically feasible way to fight off the worst effects of climate change.

Unsustainable, inefficient, often violent, and marked by stark inequalities of wealth and opportunity, cities are increasingly vulnerable to social and economic crises, natural disasters, climate change, and other challenges of the coming era.

The poor climate may been one of many factors contributing to societal changes of the era, including widespread crop failures and famines in Central Asia that may have triggered migrations from the area to China and Eastern Europe, thus helping spread an episode of plague (depicted in this 15th century painting) that originated there.

In the hunt for the beginning of the much - debated «Anthropocene» — a supposed new geologic era defined by human influence of the planet — the new research suggests a need to look back farther in time than the arrival of human - caused climate change, atomic weapons, urbanization or the industrial revolution.

So far in the Trump presidency, DOD has served as a balance to the more political inclinations of the rest of the administration on the issue of climate change, even if it is sometimes less prominent than in the Obama - era Pentagon.

Science is resilient — even when seemingly threatened today by fake news, climate change denial and the celebration of a post-factual era.

Scientists are trying to predict this new, warmer state by looking into the record of past eras of climate change.

A framework for debate of assisted migration in an era of climate change.

It's another development in our understanding of extreme weather events, in an era of human - induced climate change.

In the era of climate change, the contribution of marine aerosols is still poorly understood.

In the current era in which the problems of global warming can lead to planetary catastrophe, every city has to have a plan for adapting to climate change, especially thosesubject toextreme events.

This shift in orientation occurred for diverse reasons, including growing public concern about the level of violence and disorder in public schools, the changed political climate following the end of the Vietnam era, and a pattern of increasingly conservative judicial appointments during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations.

Schulman - Janiger said that this sighting and the 2010 sighting could be a sign of the times in this era of climate change, and that if gray whales can make it into the Atlantic, other species in the Atlantic can make it into the Pacific.

As the journey begins, a silky female voiceover explains the core tenets of the New Protocol — the need to elaborate a new «spiritual relationship with the universe of pattern, matter and energy we call home» in an era where «religious extremism has turned into apocalyptic death cults» and belief in the afterlife means it is pointless to worry about climate change and endangered ecosystems.

HK: The sky - roof, the dome, the history of the building and the neighbourhood were definite sources of inspiration for our exhibition making and conceptual framework, which links to issues of climate change, nature and the Anthropocene era.

It is a fact of life for attribution studies that the climate changes associated with the end of the Little Ice Age overlap with the beginning of the era of industrial warming.

On the one hand, climate change is perhaps the single largest environmental of our time, and in fact of the grandest scientific challenges of the modern era.

... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate DisrClimate Disruption.

Furthermore the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era in the past with possible exception of unhappy events like the Great Permian Extinction.

# 103 (cont)... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate DisrClimate Disruption.

How will we feed, shelter, and educate three billion more people by 2050 in an era of accelerating climate change, resource scarcity and environmental degradation?

What this tells us is that «climate - change — driven acceleration» has been assumed ahead of time, and since the raw data failed to confirm the existence of such an acceleration («In stark contrast to this expectation however, current altimeter products show the rate of sea level rise to have decreased from the first to second decades of the altimeter era.»