Sentences with phrase «fewer impacts on our climate»

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The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Dr. Martin added: «These are just few of the human responses to climate change that, if left unchallenged, may leave us worse off in the future due to their impacts on nature.

The biggest impact a U.S. citizen can have on global environment problems, such as climate change, is having fewer children.

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

But most models have focused on short - term timescales, decades or a few centuries at most, says Anders Levermann, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the newclimate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the newClimate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the new paper.

Such findings indicate that few places on Earth will be immune to global warming and that the tropics will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as increased tropical storm intensity.»

A new study by statistics professors at Oregon State University finds that the biggest impact a U.S. citizen can have on this climate change problem is perhaps not so much surprising as difficult to accept: have fewer children.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

As the world has warmed over the past few decades, climate scientists have increasingly sounded the alarm over the potentially catastrophic impacts that warming could have on the world's weather.

Sure, there might be a few papers that take climate sensitivity as a given and somehow try to draw conclusions about the impact on the climate from that... But, I hardly think that these are swamping the number of papers trying to determine what the climate sensitivity is, studying if the water vapor feedback is working as expected, etc., etc..

«We know that many billions are required over the next few years to fill the gap in climate finance, but the money pledged today is vital to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet cope with the immediate impacts of our rapidly warming world,» Ishii continued.

This paper will get a lot of attention, because it follows by a few months a paper from last summer, Whiteman et al (2013), which claimed a strong (and expensive) potential impact from Arctic methane on near - term climate evolution.

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

Either Outcome A; our exponentially growing rate of technological change will quickly lead us to exert such devastating impact on our planet that we'll be extinct within a few generations (apologies to the guy who thought his kids would live 10,000 years), or Outcome B; our exponentially growing rate of technological change will quickly lead us to effective measures to control the global climate.

Compare the SST before and after along the coastline [1 - 3 °C cooling]... some of this is the freshwater run - off from Mississippi River which will increase over the next few days... thus, we see the footprint of the «land - phoon» on the Gulf of Mexico and its climate impacts.

This report, «Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populationsImpacts Over Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populationsimpacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populations crest.

There are far fewer assessments of possible climate - change impacts on tropical regions outside Amazonia.

A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate.

Hurricanes are likely to become fewer in number, but fiercer in nature according to two recent studies assessing the impact of climate change on hurricane formation.

During the 1970s, only a few people speculated that it might be wise to impose serious changes on industry and agriculture for the special purpose of reducing their impact on climate.

Those are the kind of results the UN climate negotiators see as the future of farming — growing more food with fewer impacts on the land and climate.

Here are just a few... British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Energy Saving Trust (EST) Environmental Change Institute (ECI) European Space Agency (ESA) The Geological Society (GS) Grantham Institute for Climate Change (GICC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Met Office (MO) National Academy of Sciences (NAS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Oceanography Centre (NOC) The Royal Society (RS) Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (TCCCR) UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

But even with these measures, few organizations will have addressed their entire impact on the climate — especially those in the value chain, for which they are not directly responsible.

Air pollution, ozone depletion, acid precipitation, global warming, desertification, smog production, and deforestation are but a few of the human impacts on the climate system that arise from the alteration of the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere.

A recent study from the Swedish Ministry of Sustainable Development argues that males have a disproportionately larger impact on global warming («women cause considerably fewer carbon dioxide emissions than men and thus considerably less climate change»).

The relative magnitudes of the climate impacts induced by the naturally - occurring NAO and by anthropogenic factors will depend on the time horizon (e.g., next few decades vs. end of the twenty - first century), time - scale (interannual vs. multi-decadal), and parameter (temperature vs. precipitation) of interest (e.g., Deser et al. 2012).

Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet... In fact, as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme storms in all seasons, capable of causing greater impacts on society... If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it's too warm for it to snow heavily.

Today, many fossil fuel companies already acknowledge that action on climate change presents a material risk, but few offer disclosures that adequately assess the financial impact.

However, on a time scale of a few years to a few decades ahead, future regional changes in weather patterns and climate, and the corresponding impacts, will also be strongly influenced by natural unforced climate variations.

Today I sat in on one of the few (if not only) COP22 side events on the impacts of animal agriculture in driving climate change.

«Today, we have to assume that the risks of negative impacts of climate change on humans and nature are larger than just a few years ago,» says Hans - Martin Füssel from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Researcclimate change on humans and nature are larger than just a few years ago,» says Hans - Martin Füssel from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact ResearcClimate Impact Research (PIK)

Today, we have to assume that the risks of negative impacts of climate change on humans and nature are larger than just a few years ago

The abrupt impact of climate change on causing extinctions of key concern, therefore, is its potential to deplete population sizes below viable thresholds within just the next few decades, whether or not the last individual of a species actually dies.

It presently is not possible to place exact probabilities on the added contribution of climate change to extinction, but the observations noted above indicate substantial risk that impacts from climate change could, within just a few decades, drop the populations in many species below sustainable levels, which in turn would commit the species to extinction.

This long - term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond.

«Because our understanding of climate change and the impacts on the world around us has advanced significantly in the last few years, it was vitally important that the AGU update its Statement.»

Attempts to significantly influence climate impacts based on just controlling CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases emissions is an inadequate and incomplete policy for this purpose.The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways (with minimal cost and maximum benefit) to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human - caused and natural risks including those from climate, but also from all other environmental and social threats.

Hydropower has some well - known environmental impacts, especially on rivers and aquatic ecosystems, but it produces few or no air contaminants, whereas burning natural gas emits many pollutants, including climate - changing greenhouse gases.

Because our understanding of climate change and its impacts on the world around us has advanced so significantly in the last few years

Imagine then the impact of discovering a few years later (via Climate Audit and Bishop Hill) that the hockey stick graph was methodologically flawed and based on poor data.

Both these countries experienced an upsurge in extreme climate events in the past few years, and one would think that would have serious impact on peoples» attitudes.

Nevertheless, as I have said, the impact of the reductions in Arctic sea ice extent, which we have seen in the last few years on our winter climate, is only one of a number of factors, and certainly last year was probably not the dominant factor.

On the other hand, if abrupt climate changes don't happen on their own — if they only happen due to extraterrestrial causes — then one would want to see evidence of impacts for at least a few more of them, not just onOn the other hand, if abrupt climate changes don't happen on their own — if they only happen due to extraterrestrial causes — then one would want to see evidence of impacts for at least a few more of them, not just onon their own — if they only happen due to extraterrestrial causes — then one would want to see evidence of impacts for at least a few more of them, not just one.

For many years important events in human evolution have been attributed to climate change and as part of a recent study, scientists have been considering the precise impact that climate change has had on human evolution during the last few hundred thousand years.

All of the ocean oscillations (ENSO, AMO, PDO, etc) have a big impact on climate over timescales that range from a year to a few decades.