Sentences with phrase «era of climate change»

A new study suggests that our current era of climate change won't just exceed the rate of evolution, but will do so by a factor of thousands.

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.

It seems logical that rapid climate change would lead to rapid geological response, as in past eras of climate change as revealed in the fossil record.

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

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

The U.S. Global Change Research Program's draft 10 - year Strategic Plan envisions a greater role for the social sciences in transitioning to a new era of climate change «decision support», sustained assessment, and communications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

«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.

We are addressing something as fundamental as the global political fate of the ocean in the era of climate change,» Hviding notes.

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

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.

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

And so here you have a situation where you've got $ 4 billion of energy and fossil fuel investment on a floodplain in the era of climate change.

... 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.

It was supposed to feature carbon capture and sequestration — a technology to prevent greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere — moving coal into the future and making it competitive with natural gas in the era of climate change.

He is the author of «Keystone and Beyond: Tar Sands and the National Interest 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

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.

Even in the era of climate change, there still appears to be something of a split in the world of architects between those who prioritise sustainability, energy efficiency and occupant health, and those who put design and aesthetics first.

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

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.

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

And the reasons for that are going to be driven by the fact that we are coming out of the era of cheap, portable fossil fuels and into this era of climate change.

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.

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.

REIBC has done a tremendous job illuminating the risks and opportunities for real estate professionals in an era of climate change.