Sentences with phrase «era of climate»

But sanitation experts think that in the era of climate change, when droughts and floods are becoming increasingly common, the West may have something to learn from the little waterless loos piloted in penniless Madagascan neighbourhoods.

«Climate Change Justice and the IBA Report on Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption,» Client Presentation, Houston, May 2016

As Massachusetts residents dig themselves out of the fourth Nor» easter in the past three weeks, policy leaders on Beacon Hill are beginning to dig in to some of the critical questions that will determine the future of the Commonwealth in an era of climate change.

I see the first epidemic in the era of climate change, long in the making, global, and here to stay.

The era of climate inaction is over; the era of climate action has begun.

Whether you are a believer or sceptic depends on which era of climate you look at.

The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia.

Stormwater mitigation is particularly important in this era of climate change because major storms are becoming severe and frequent.

Really, I don't need Mark Steyn's judicial martyrdom, the Pause or the East Anglia emails to know that the hockey stick is a joke and that the «stable» or less «extreme» era of climate has not been named because it has never existed.

It calls for a new era of climate change science where an emphasis is placed on «fundamental, use - inspired» research, which not only improves understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change but also is useful to decision makers at the local, regional, national, and international levels acting to limit and adapt to climate change.

In the era of climate consequences, it's easy to characterize carbon as the problem and forget that it's actually a building block of life.

Now a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change has declared unambiguously «the era of climate science denial is not over».

I sat down with American Rivers» Senior Vice President of Conservation, Chris Williams, to hear why he isn't surprised by the news out of Cape Town, why it's a big deal and how American Rivers is working across the country to make sure our communities are thinking and acting in smart ways when it comes to water in the era of climate change.

His latest book, Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change, was published by the University of California Press in 2017

He is the author of «Keystone and Beyond: Tar Sands and the National Interest in the Era of Climate Change.»

But it will also make history as marking a new era of climate change reality with record high greenhouse gas concentrations,» said WMO Secretary - General Petteri Taalas.

Investments in mitigation during both the near term and the longer - term do, however, have substantial leverage on the magnitude of climate change in the latter decades of the century, making the second half of the 21st century and beyond an era of climate options.

... sanitation experts think that in the era of climate change, when droughts and floods are becoming increasingly common, the West may have something to learn from the little waterless loos piloted in penniless Madagascan neighbourhoods.

The conference was organized «to encourage thinking about the role of liberal arts education in an era of climate change.»

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.

«These INDCs — or national climate action plans — represent a clear and determined down - payment on a new era of climate ambition from the global community of nations.

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

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

Although the United States seems to be entering a new era of climate politicization, the chasm between Republicans and Democrats on climate science might not be as large as it seems, Schuldt said.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

The White House recommended cutting the EPA's budget $ 2.6 billion, or more than 30 percent, along with eliminating dozens of programs, particularly those enforcing Obama - era regulations and climate programs.

The IEA's forecasts overlap largely with the Trump administration's pursuit of what it calls «energy dominance» — a strategy that has been visible in its rollback of various Obama - era policies this year (above all in the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord), and in a big expansion of federal acreage offered for oil and gas prospecting.

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.

When one considers the patriarchal climate of the era in which his thinking developed, Assagioli was remarkably liberated in his attitudes toward women.

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.

«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.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of the nonprofit climate advocacy group 350.org, took particular issue with Exxon Mobil's assertion that it remained confident that the supply - and - demand equation for petroleum would remain in its favor, even in an era of generally tightening carbon regulation.

One day, historians might look back on the current tough climate and see it as prelude to an era of clean prosperity: the renewable energy age.

According to Greg Okin, a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, «Climate models predict that the Southwest should get warmer and drier, and that by 2050 soil moisture could be lower than the US Dust Bowl Era.»

In an era of fake news and climate scepticism, her story has lessons for us all

But the team's measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in the creatures» teeth, a sensitive paleo - thermometer, suggest that the climate where these dinosaurs lived probably averaged about 10 ° Celsius over the course of a year — substantially colder than most of the dinosaur era, and in fact close to that seen in northeastern China today, Xu notes.