Sentences with phrase «expected in a changed climate»

The study uses climate modelling to predict three possible futures - the low, medium and high impact scenarios, which describe the severity of outcomes that could be expected in a changed climate.

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In time, climate change is expected to spur a slow, global northern migration as temperatures become more hospitable closer to the Arctic.

Wildfires have gotten worse in recent years because of climate change, and that trend is expected to continue as Earth's average temperature rises.

Funding was returned to health care, education and human services, two panels studying climate change and natural resource royalties were struck, corporate taxes were increased, a 3 - year minimum wage increase was implemented, and a provincial budget is expected to be tabled in the fall.

The goals were crafted to engage all member countries — which are expected to integrate the SDGs into their policies for the next decade and a half — in addressing the root causes of global poverty, gender inequality and climate change.

Russia is expected to express reservations over western demands that countries like China curb their carbon emissions in a bid to tackle climate change.

Clearly there is a balance to strike between doom - ridden messages and «bright - side» opportunities, and uncertainties around the science and the expected effects of climate change must be factored in too.

The panel is expected to discuss topics ranging from the impact of climate change on New Yorkers» health, the increase in extreme weather such as heightened flood risk, and recent efforts by the state to respond.

Hawkins and the Green Party are helping to organize the People's Climate March and Climate Convergence in New York City next weekend which is expected to be the largest climate change protest in hClimate March and Climate Convergence in New York City next weekend which is expected to be the largest climate change protest in hClimate Convergence in New York City next weekend which is expected to be the largest climate change protest in hclimate change protest in history.

Ed Miliband, energy and climate change secretary, and the rest of the UK ministerial delegation are expected to arrive in Poland on December 10th.

When the Tory leader returned to the dispatch box for his second set of questions, he focused on the climate change bill, which his party has been championing and which the government is expected to introduce in the Queen's speech next month.

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

The former energy and climate change secretary is expected to announce his intention to succeed Gordon Brown in a move that will pit him against his older brother David, the former foreign secretary.

Thanks to Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo's firm commitment to action on climate change in his «Cleaner, Greener NY» environmental agenda, we fully expect that these recommendations will be aggressively pursued.»

That means that future changes to the Gulf's salinity and temperature could be expected to influence the climate in other ways.

Some researchers expect that as climate change pushes agriculture and human populations farther north, «people are going to come more in contact with these mostly pristine landscapes» and disturb them in ways that could increase fire risk, Page says.

We expect to see a beautiful record of climate change in our cores.

This new characteristic of the climate will make it easier for climate researchers to differentiate between natural and human - induced climate changes, because it can be expected that the human - induced climate changes will not behave in the same way as the natural fluctuations.

Droegemeier does not expect Bridenstine to support slashing the agency's budget, especially given that much of NASA's mission can be framed in terms of collecting data that are as applicable to understanding weather patterns as to understanding climate change.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

Although no single fire, no matter how severe, can be concretely linked to global climate change, the climatic conditions seen in Colorado this year fit the kind of pattern scientists expect to see in the future.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

When the researchers simulated a second effect of climate change in addition to warming, namely drought, the results were even the opposite as expected: The soil animals ate less, and also the microorganisms living in the soil showed a decline in respiration — an indication that they also consumed less food.

While they saw changes in meteorological quantities that are consistent with these upward trends, the meteorological trends were not the ones expected under climate change.

It's difficult to ascertain the impact of rising temperatures on those connected events, but climate change in the future is expected to have its fingerprints on dueling droughts and floods.

Several of these are expected to «go dark» in the next two years, robbing scientists of critical data needed for monitoring climate change and verifying international agreements, just as a critical mass of global players is agreeing that such agreements are essential to the future health of the world's people and economies.

If climate changes proceed as expected, one in six species could face extinction.

Climate change adaptation is expected to be a key feature of the forthcoming «COP21» Global Climate Change conference this November in Paris, making these results particularly tchange adaptation is expected to be a key feature of the forthcoming «COP21» Global Climate Change conference this November in Paris, making these results particularly tChange conference this November in Paris, making these results particularly timely.

But as global populations grow and climate change kicks in, one thing is certain: we can no longer count on the water to be where we expect to find it.

But the droughts and fires of 2011 may only be a preview of things to come; climate change is expected to raise temperatures and could also reduce rainfall in Texas, according to climate models.

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

As expected, study authors found a partisan gap between Democrats and Republicans in their stated opinions on climate change, with Democrats expressing the highest level of concern and scientific agreement.

In the Baltic Sea, climate change is expected to reduce its distribution, whereas in the Arctic its distribution is expected to remain virtually unchangeIn the Baltic Sea, climate change is expected to reduce its distribution, whereas in the Arctic its distribution is expected to remain virtually unchangein the Arctic its distribution is expected to remain virtually unchanged.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

Left unabated, they can be expected to contribute very significantly to climate change in the next decades.

But in this world of changing climate, extreme summer ice loss has become almost expected.

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a...

Toward the end of this century (project here for the years 2068 to 2098) the possibility of storm surges of eight to 11 meters (26 to 36 feet) increases significantly in cities not usually expected to be vulnerable to tropical storms, according to recent research in the journal Nature Climate Change.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Bush highlighted this expert - certified uncertainty when he addressed global climate change in the Rose Garden today, shortly before he left for a 6 - day trip to Europe, where his stance on global warming is expected to be sharply criticized.

Thanks to climate change even heavier downpours that originate higher in the sky are expected in the future.

With a global population that is expected to blossom in the coming years, and risks to food yields from climate change, it will be essential to shore up food infrastructure and keep global food markets open in food - exporting nations, he said.

Higher electricity bills and property losses are among the costs that climate change is expected to exact in the U.S. in the next 25 years, according to a bipartisan report

Dry places are expected to get drier with climate change, while wet places are expected to get wetter, but Crouch said that the particular precipitation pattern seen in June isn't what is expected in a warming world, according to the National Climate Assessment that was released climate change, while wet places are expected to get wetter, but Crouch said that the particular precipitation pattern seen in June isn't what is expected in a warming world, according to the National Climate Assessment that was released Climate Assessment that was released in May.

Climate change is expected to increase the number of Wisconsin lakes dominated by largemouth bass and decrease those in which walleye — a more popular recreational fishing species — thrive.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

Victor Smetacek, the German oceanographer who led the expedition along with Victor Wajih Naqvi, an Indian geochemist, says that result means that iron fertilization has a much lower sequestration potential for atmospheric CO2 and, thus, will play a smaller role in fighting climate change than previously expected.

Looking forward, research published in late July showed that expected climate change over the next 20 years substantially raises the risk that rising food production will fail to keep up with increasing demand.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles.