Sentences with phrase «followed by climate change»

Leaf area index, which is also enhanced by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, was the second most important factor, contributing an additional 21.8 percent, followed by climate change (precipitation and air temperature together) and the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation, which accounted for the remaining 18.3 and 14.6 percent increase in NPP, respectively.

Students in both year groups considered pollution as the biggest problem, followed by climate change and unemployment.

Not exact matches

After Trump's announcement in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to withdraw from President Trump's advisory councils, saying «climate change is real» — a sentiment shared by many other CEOs and businesses on social media.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

A placard warning against the dangers of climate change used in the March on Washington stands by an overflowing garbage can January 21st 2017, in Washington, D.C. following a march in response to newly elected President Donald Trump.

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!!!

The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.

The death and devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and the Nor» easter that followed it, has brought the issue of climate change to the forefront.

Green climate change activists called today for New York to speed up its transition to 100 % clean energy by 2030 following the COP 21 agreement in Paris.

US President Barack Obama is being hailed as the first leader to cancel a major infrastructure project because of its impact on climate change, following campaigns by environmentalist groups.

But scientists agree that climate change will up the ante considerably by bringing more extreme weather gyrations — searing drought one year, followed by torrential storms that can wash away cracked soil and destroy crops rather than quench their thirst.

It may soon be followed, however, by yet more flooding in coming years: climate change may increase the likelihood of extreme weather, such as excessive summer rains, that give rise to such natural disasters.

Toward that end, Prime Minister Singh and President Obama agreed to strengthen U.S. - India cooperation on clean energy, climate change, and food security by launching the following initiatives:

The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who called human - driven climate change a hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more climate - change doubters to run the government's environment and energy agencies.

The collapse of the mountain which triggered a tsunami that destroyed an Arctic village last month may have been caused by climate change — and more may follow

It comes following the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw the USA from the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change, which commits its signatories to actively work on reducing their GHG emissions.

There are a lot of people with Ph.D. s in physics or chemistry who become interested in the climate change story, read the literature, and follow the blogs — and they're unconvinced by our arguments.

It can be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the world:

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The new joint Chair of Oceans and Climate Change being launched by the UiB and the University of the South Pacific as a follow - up of the United Nations Ocean Conference 2017 also takes part in the project.

The world cooled by between 0.3 °C and 0.4 °C following the eruption, in line with the upper range of the predictions of climate models for such a change in the atmosphere's heat balance.

One common measure of climate sensitivity is the amount by which global mean surface temperature would change once the system has settled into a new equilibrium following a doubling of the pre-industrial CO2 concentration.

The discussion followed the familiar lines expressed by committee chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX) and others at least since 2013 that 13 federal agencies are involved in climate change / earth science research, while NASA uniquely is responsible for space exploration.

Such are the questions tackled here during a trip to hominid settings in Europe and Africa, followed by an over-the-pole flight that looks down on the probable origins of the abrupt climate changes: great whirlpools in the North Atlantic Ocean near Greenland.

Two additional working groups, which focus on climate change impacts and responses, will release their reports early next year, followed by a synthesis volume.

It's set in a near - future United States decimated by climate change, and follows a government agent (Nicolas Cage) tasked with determining which citizens are productive, and therefore worthy of remaining in the general population.

Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

In September 2010, the NPS released its Climate Change Response Strategy, followed in April 2012 by the Green Parks Plan.

The city's major green focus in the build up to the Soccer World Cup 2010, followed by COP17 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference hosted in Durban in November and December 2011), resulted in a green legacy that has done anything but fade from the city's agenda.

Featuring work by Hayden Dunham, Dominic Samsworth, Lila de Magalhaes, Marian Tubbs and more, the theme of the show follows contemporary anxieties over climate change and capitalist destruction in a short introductory text that follows the mutant realities of imminent human catastrophe:

The issue of Nature which carried the Murphy et al paper included a related article by Thomas Stocker, and a paper in the issue of Science published on the following day (Kerr, «Climate Change: Three Degrees of Consensus», vol.

Isotopious (# 50) argues that the hockey stick (a thousand years of stable temperatures followed by a rapid rise) does not constitute evidence of climate change, that it is in fact «absolutely nothing out of the ordinary».

P.S. Can't resist including the following bit from Chapter Eight of «The Unsettled Science of Climate Change,» by my favorite author, Polar Vortex:

This metric comes follows on from work that Hansen did a decade ago exploring the question of what it would take for people to notice climate changing, since they only directly experience the weather (Hansen et al, 1998)(pdf), and is similar to metrics used by Pall et al and other recent papers on the attribution of extremes.

We promote clean energy, given its importance in tackling climate change and for the enhancement of energy security, by setting national goals and formulating action plans followed by appropriate monitoring.

But moments later, that sense of triumph was followed by half an hour of passionate protests on the floor, after it was announced that separate negotiations had failed to increase sources of funding to support poor countries in their quest to limit impacts from a changing climate.

QUOTE 3 (in that same page range): «The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses» is followed by the conveniently omitted phrase «although some studies did find recent increases in flood losses related in part to changes in intense rainfall events (Fengqing et al., 2005; Chang et al., 2009).»

Found at Tenney Naumer's blog if you want more info: http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2011/03/congressional-hearing-climate-change.html «Congressional hearing: «Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy,» on March 31, 2011, to have real time commentary by leading climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)climate-change.html «Congressional hearing: «Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy,» on March 31, 2011, to have real time commentary by leading climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy,» on March 31, 2011, to have real time commentary by leading climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)climate scientists in order to correct misleading and inaccurate testimony — available to journalists — additionally, a teleconference follows hearing (with Kevin Trenberth, Andrew Dessler, and Gary Yohe)»

Track posts using the conference tag #cop18 or follow some of the Twitter accounts helpfully rounded up by the organization Responding to Climate Change.

As has been hinted at here there is resistance to factual debate on climate change that amounts to intrigue — as Sir David King said, he was «being followed around the world by people in the pay of vested - interest groups that want to cast doubt on the science of climate change».

The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007:

Today we are sharing an excerpt from an article by Bevis Longstreth, who recently wrote the following reflections on what we can do about climate change for the Huffington Post.

An adviser to the Chinese government on climate change was quoted by Reuters as saying the following at a Beijing climate - policy conference on Tuesday:

Partisanship by NOAA administrators on the climate change - hurricane debate followed the partisanship by NOAA National Weather Service on climate change - skeptic debate by 12 years which started just after the Gore book on global warming book came out.

The draft testimony begins by stating that «In the United States, climate change is likely to have a significant impact on health, through links with the following outcomes,» and then lists nine main areas of climate change impacts on health.

One common measure of climate sensitivity is the amount by which global mean surface temperature would change once the system has settled into a new equilibrium following a doubling of the pre-industrial CO2 concentration.

Its conclusions, as I wrote today, largely follow those of other United Nations assessments of the challenges posed by human - caused climate change — particularly the call for prompt, aggressive reductions in greenhouse gases by developed countries, along with a lot more aid for the poor countries most in harm's way.

This discussion would be better following some investigation into the assertions made by Dr Freeman Dyson a couple of weeks ago in which he professes his heretical beliefs regarding CO2 and climate change.

To be fair there are also good things happening (innovations, new determinations followed by effective actions to «do good,» etc), but it seems with all the negative consequences (for humans and other living things), an honest forecast bringining in everything conceivalbe would probably be much much worse than a climate change scenario.....

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