Sentences with phrase «even know climate»

40 % of people on earth don't even know climate change is a problem let alone how to repair it.

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That's because today, even the most profit - minded companies know climate change is a huge limitation on economic growth.
I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.
«I don't know if they've even spent half of it,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.
Even without the threat of climate change, we've long known that hurricanes are dangerous.
But even in this wayward climate, a welcome chill in the evening breeze is starring to make itself known.
In fact, we now know the urgency is even more acute, as climate change wreaks havoc all over the globe.
It is no doubt appropriate that, since the golf cart has been slowly coming into its own — and even creeping inexorably into the hardier climates of the North — it should attain full flower in Palm Springs, that burgeoning California desert resort area that refers to itself as The Winter Golf Capital of the World.
Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!
Mass Audubon works to fight climate change, but we know we can do even more.
Some climates can really affect the integrity of the fabric and not knowing where a carrier I bought was stored makes it even more important to test the carrier.
Whilst these blogs are popular - in terms of unique visitor numbers (and before Unity has a go at me, I know there are weaknesses in those numbers)- they tend to be written by people who write about a large number of issues and climate change is not their principle topic (or even one that they discuss very often).
Even though we do not know the climate variations in detail so far back, we know that there were abrupt climate shifts in the warm climate back then,» points out Peter Ditlevsen.
If you live in a humid climate, you know that humidity makes warm temperatures even worse so this is a really awesome feature.
Lead - author Assistant professor Anna - Sofie Stensgaard from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, explains, «Today, we know less about where disease - causing organisms occur, than the global distribution of most mammals, birds and even ants.
Citing as an example an urban infrastructure improvement project in a municipality of China, WRI researcher Milap Patel said, «without even a risk screening, we didn't know whether this project was vulnerable to climate change.»
Yet that is the quandary facing many nations, which still don't know how climate change will affect them — even though it is already happening.
Even less is known of how it will shift as the climate changes.
Even a decade ago, many scientists argued that research could not confidently tie any specific weather events to climate change, which the committee reports today is no longer true today.
The book deftly explores how we arrived at the point where climate change is no longer preventable and will continue even if we all adopt sustainable alternatives the day after tomorrow.
Science also tells us things that are hard to hear and that we don't know how to fix: Climate change is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and, new research shows, even affecting the ecosystems in our beloved lakes.
Now that climate change poses an even more urgent threat to the endangered tortoise, biologists have a controversial plan to safeguard its future — by moving it to new sites outside of its known historical range.
First, even with aggressive climate action, extreme climate events are likely to increase throughout much of the world — and human societies should brace themselves for that future, no matter what.
«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing methane emissions can bring great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air quality, and that many of the sources can be controlled at low or even negative cost, we still need better data on emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.
If you can, talk to someone who knows a bit about recruitment, even if you aren't planning to return to their company — they will be able to give you an honest perspective on the current hiring climate.
The IPCC wishes to destroy the world economy and starve the world of energy and food at a cost of $ 76 trillion over the next 40 year's (UN estimate), to keep global temps below 2C, when even their wildly pessimistic and disconfirmed projections (formally known as predictions) now suggest that climate sensitivity could be as low as 1.5 C, without spending a dime.
Even if we could determine a «safe» level of interference in the climate system, the sensitivity of global mean temperature to increasing atmospheric CO2 is known perhaps only to a factor of three or less.
If temperatures do not increase, even more so should they fall, we will know that the case for AGW has been very much over hyped and that Climate Sensitivity is even lower than even the latest papers are suggesting such that the need to take any action is unlikely.
Thus, to get an accurate picture of what the climate might be like in coming years, scientists will have to continue back even farther in history to a period known as the Eocene.
I'm not even an amateur climate scientist, but my logic tells me that if clouds have a stronger negative feedback in the Arctic, and I know (from news) the Arctic is warming faster than other areas, then it seems «forcing GHGs» (CO2, etc) may have a strong sensitivity than suggested, but this is suppressed by the cloud effect.
Re: # 9 Unfortunately, since e.g. even the sign of cloud effects is not known, this is one of the major aspects of the climate system that still needs to be sorted out.
It's ridiculous enough politicians are blaming the refugee crises on man - made climate change, even though everyone knows they are really caused by foreign policy ineptitude and debacles.
Due to the nature of their work, climate scientists know more than the rest of us — but even they don't always agree about the ways in which climate change will affect weather in specific places.
It was so prolific of species, the time was called «The Cambrian Explosion» I suppose it's comforting to know that so far life systems can recover from climate catastrophes, even if most of the known species die off (likely including us in the worst case scenario).
All insects have different survival strategies and climate tolerances, and even the mountain pine beetle, about which much is known, has a very complex life history (Bentz and Mullins 1999).
Who knew the industry I worked for in the later 70s was causing these climate and weather mood swings — even then, long before carbon dioxide levels hit the cataclysmic 400 ppm mark?
Much is known regarding how forest ecosystems will respond to climate change, even amid the uncertainties.
Even scientists have grown bored with question of habitat loss, tweaking their grant proposals to emphasize the climate angle no matter how tenuous the connection.
He says scientists «now don't know if they have global warming» when there is absolutely zero doubt, even among scientists who are unconvinced climate change poses a major threat, that the planet is warming up.
If climate scientists are still flying to conferences (except for Britain's Kevin Anderson), — and if I can't stop using fossil fuels, even knowing what I know, what hope is there?
By now, biodiversity is a well known term even in the broader public, as it is used in many media reports about species extinction, natural resources or climate change.
Given that clouds are known to be the primary source of uncertainty in climate sensitivity, how much confidence can you place in a study based on a model that doesn't even attempt to simulate clouds?
Even more curious, Carlin appears to be a big fan of geo - engineering, but how this squares with his apparent belief that we know nothing about what drives climate, is puzzling.
What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»
Now they finally run a major story on the devastating drought sweeping the nation, one they compare to «the Dust Bowl of the 1930's,» but again, no mention of global warming — even though increased risk of drought is a well - known prediction from climate scientists.
In an op - ed for the New York Times, Stanford professor Noah S. Diffenbaug writes that even though we don't yet know the exact role climate change played in Texas, we would be remiss in discounting it entirely.
Filipinos are well - known for their youthful appearance and soft skin, even though they live in a climate that exposes them to the sun's rays year round.
You know you live in a cold climate when even the thought of bare ankles is literally giving you the chills.
Even a child watching this might wonder how a bird indigenous to Arctic climates might survive in a New York City apartment (no matter how fabulous the decor) and why the birds seem to be wacky on cue?
If you spend time talking with high school students about the school climate, you know how much they register even the subtlest political workings of the school administration.
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