Sentences with phrase «faster than climate change»

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told reporters at the event that Mr. Bloomberg was ideal for the role, noting that he «has made an enormous difference, and makes us believe that we will soon be running faster than climate change, that we will soon be starting to defeat climate change, that the Paris Agreement can be fully implemented but with an enhanced ambition».

I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions mitigation because the drivers of that vulnerability are far faster than climate change itself.

Scientists also gave us the «A Bomb» and the «H Bomb» either of which could wipe out mankind faster than Climate Change will.

Not exact matches

Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

That long - term data shows that modern climate change is faster and more acute than anything else in Earth's history.

A recent report showed humans are causing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces.

Climate change is occurring 10 to 100 times faster than in the past and ecosystems will find it hard to adjust

The climate is changing faster than many species can adapt, forcing them to move to new habitats and drastically altering their range, according to new research.

What we human beings have done is to superimpose a set of forces that are now bringing about climate change much faster than has been the case in the past.

«When the climate changes faster than biological systems can respond, entire forests are wiped out,» Holt said.

The Big Picture RT The impacts of human - caused climate change are happening faster than scientists previously assumed, the AAAS CEO said on 6 July, during an appearance on The Hartmann Report, a radio and television talk show.

«As remarkable as it is that climate can change that quickly naturally, what is even more remarkable is that some of the rates of change we're experiencing today — increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide for example — are faster than anything we've been able to find in the past several million years of geologic history.

Laaksonen and his colleagues did not try to predict how Finland's temperatures will change in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st cechange in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st ceChange's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st century.

For instance, amphibians, the «tortoises» in this tortoise - and - a-hare race against climate change, seemed to die off much more than fast - moving animals, the hares, such as many birds.

It might seem counterintuitive, but nowhere is global climate change more pronounced than above the Arctic Circle, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as on the planet as a whole.

He and colleagues want to figure out whether the dark tinge on the ice from those microbial residents helps explain why the ice sheet is melting faster than expected from climate change alone.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

We found that where temperature and precipitation are increasing together, climates are changing faster than the temperature trend alone would suggest.»

Of particular interest to the researchers is a projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

Extreme El Niños are predicted to occur twice as frequently because climate change is warming waters near Peru faster than those near Indonesia, mimicking El Niño itself.

Forests will continue to change in the future, likely faster than ever — but ecologists may still be able to protect especially valuable forests from climate change and other threats.

«In contrast to long - term climate change,» he said at the meeting, «everybody agrees that El Niño makes the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere go up faster than usual.»

Sea - levels are rising 60 per cent faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) central projections, new research suggests.

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

The delays in action created by the lies, distortions and muzzling done by Exxon and the Bush administration have already put the world into a percarious position given that climate changes are happening all over at far faster rates than ever considered possible just a year ago.

«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»

In the last 100 years, ocean pH today has already fallen by.1 unit — 10 times faster than during that extinction period — and could drop another.3 units by the end of the century if predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are correct.

NEWS: Scientists say many glaciers are melting faster than ever − and many will continue to do so even if climate change can be stabilised

According to a new study co-authored by Allen and published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, the eventual peak level of warming that the planet will see from greenhouse gas emissions is going up at 2 percent per year, much faster than actual temperatures are increasing.

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

Here on the plateau, at the source of the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong Rivers, changes in climate occur at a faster rate than almost anywhere on earth, save the North and South Poles.

«Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.

No wonder the carbon sinks are saturating faster than we thought (see here)-- unmodeled impacts of climate change are destroying them:

An extremely fast rate of climate change puts more pressure on an ecosystem than a slower one, a short search will find that general conclusion.

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

I can clearly understand that sea - level rise would result in a loss of real - estate (including many major cities); I can also understand that a faster than «normal» climate change might force a larger number of species into extinction.

«Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.

Climate change is quite possibly the most important thing humans have ever done — I mean, we're altering our planet's atmosphere perhaps at a faster rate than at any point in Earth's entire history.

There is no denying that the arctic is melting at a record - setting pace and that this is related to global warming and climate change, but Box is pursuing a theory that soot from wildfires and burning coal in power plants is making Greenland's glaciers melt even faster than they would because of global warming alone.

(a) We are radiatively forcing climate change at a rate over 100 - times faster than any time in over 100 million years (see the second image from SciAm);

Some years back, we hypothesized that changes to climate variability, rather than changes to mean climate, might tip the balance towards the chytrid fungus because all pathogens are smaller and have faster metabolisms than their hosts, and thus might acclimate more quickly following short - term temperature shifts [link].

Effects of climate change are, in some cases, appearing sooner and moving faster than the IPCC's projections.

None of us want climate to change as fast as it's happening; rather than grasping at straws, we inspect them — really closely — lest we be fooled by false hope and fake assurance from business - as - usual PR guys.

The explanation is global warming and climate changes are now occurring 200 times faster than during the much slower, Pleistocene interglacial warming events.

Here's my uneducated question — while I respect Gavin's comments about not abusing the science, it seems to me that many measurable indicators of climate change are (to the extent I can tell) occurring / progressing / worsening faster than predicted by most models, whether we're talking about atmospheric CO2 levels, arctic ice melting, glacial retreat, etc..

«Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings» ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains.»