Sentences with phrase «for modern climate change»

The Arctic is clearly a bellwether for modern climate change.

These extremes even took place eons «Before Exxon» (BE), the fossil fuel giant that Democrats routinely blame for modern climate change and global warming.

Not exact matches

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

The modern, domesticated chickpea has an extreme lack of genetic diversity, leaving it vulnerable to climate change, prompting scientists to seek out wild varieties for crossbreeding programmes.

Dr. Huybers» research involves the causes of glacial cycles, evaluation of modern climate extremes, and the implications of climate change for food production.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

Of course, modern culture is responsible for climate change thanks to our insatiable hunger to burn fossil fuels.

To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation.

Before we can understand what past climate change meant for more animals — «there needs to be a lot more work on modern animals,» Secord says.

The researchers note that the study provides historical context for what is happening today and what may happen in the future and demonstrates that there is need for further investigation into the effects of climate change on modern societies worldwide.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

Few modern Republican politicians favor such environmental effort, or even believe climate change is happening or that humanity could be primarily responsible for it.

Many physiological responses in present - day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual mass bleaching events, carbonate dissolution, and insufficient time for substantial evolutionary responses.

For the near future, we don't see large computing power successfully responding to the simple questions facing modern societies with complex answers: For instance, how do you motivate Asian governments to take action on climate change?

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

The recent hacking of e-mails at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia Center — one of the world's foremost institutions for the study of climate change — offers a disconcerting view of how modern science is done.

While the Scarisoara ice core has given scientists a window into the Holocene past, its applications for the future have been limited by a very modern problem: climate change.

Explicit recognition of citizen science in published papers could promote the communication linkages necessary for broader impacts by helping shift public discourse associated with modern climate change from controversy to acceptance.

The rate of change for modern warming is consistent with climate variability.

For my Modern World History class, I adapted an argumentative writing task about climate change to ask students «How is climate change affecting people around the world?».

Exhibitions and Productions Bow Arts (2017), «Rhino», London (solo show) Bow Arts (2016), «Desire Caught by the Tail», London (solo show) Wimbledon Space (2016), «The Golden Face Lift» (solo show) Dyson Gallery (2016), «Act Natural», London (exhibiting artist) Riverlight Gallery (2015), duo exhibition, London (exhibiting artist) The Rag Factory (2014), «Love Kills», London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) The Chelsea Theatre (2014), «Love Kills», London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Floating Island Gallery (2014), group show, (exhibiting artist) Spill Festival (2013), «PORN», Ipswich (exhibiting artist) Departure Foundation (2013), group show, «Unperforming» (exhibiting artist) Testbed Gallery (2013), group show, «acts of 2», (exhibiting artist and curator) Testbed Gallery (2012), group show, «acts of», (exhibiting artist and curator) Freud Museum (2011), group show, Objects of Desire, London (exhibiting artist) Battersea Arts Centre (2010), Accidental Festival, London (exhibiting artist) Blue Print (2010), group show, In Time, London (exhibiting artist) perFORM (2009), group show, Triangle Space, London (exhibiting artist) Live Art Lectures (2009), group show, London (exhibiting artist) Disconnected (2009), web - based group show, created and uploaded in London (exhibiting artist) Tate Modern (2008), The Living Currency, London (live performance) Home Sweet Home (2008), various locales, London (co-founder and exhibiting artist, group show) Blackout (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Press Play (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Climate of Change (2007), group show, Southwark Art (exhibiting artist) Heiner Müller Programme (2001), Access Theatre, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea: Armageddon, Cupcakes & the Poisonous Love of Heiner Müller's «Quartet», «Heartpiece» & «Medeamaterial» (2005) Theatro Technis, London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) EH JOE (1998), The Kraine, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Meditation JoJo (1996), Mabou Mines Suite, New York (director and solo performer for video) Dixon Place Funereal (1995),» Funereal», New York, (director and performer) Mabou Mines / Suite (1994), «Funereal», New York (director and performer) H.E.R.E. (1994), «HOME», New York (director and performer) Glendale Studio (1993), «HOME», Arizona (director and performer)

In June the group occupied Tate Modern's Turbine Hall for 25 hours and scrawled words of warning about climate change across the floor in charcoal.

A Danish art collective whose work has included creating a huge multicultural park in Copenhagen and flooding a replica McDonald's to explore climate change and capitalism is to be the next commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

The main issue is that for the modern instrumental period the changes in many aspects of climate have not been very large — either compared with what is projected for the 21st Century, or from what we see in the past climate record.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

The papers questioned everything from the relative role of natural mechanisms in changes to the climate system vis - à - vis increased CO2 concentrations, the allegedly «unprecedented» nature of modern climate phenomena such as warming, sea levels, glacier and sea ice retreat, and the efficacy and reliability of computer climate models for projecting future climate states.

What does this mean for modern - day climate change?

Dr Tol, I have enormous respect for you, but much like the climate change subject where appearances cover reality nuclear — modern nuclear — is not nearly as dangerous as it's reputation suggests.

Clearly, the causes of climate change over the last millennium have very little to do with attribution of modern warming, or for future prediction.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

A modern climate model is a remarkable tool, and definitely the best method scientists have for investigating climate change.

For example, the United States Enviornmental Protection Agency regulates several pollutants affecting air quality but does not currently regulate carbon dioxide, the primary driver of modern climate change.

Goreham's session was summarized in the NEPPA conference material as offering «a discussion about energy, electricity and modern society, with common sense about climate change, public policy, and implications for the power industry.»

«Researchers first became intrigued by abrupt climate change when they discovered striking evidence of large, abrupt, and widespread changes preserved in paleoclimatic archives... The chapter concludes with examples of modern climate change and techniques for observing it.

Abrupt climate change in the modern record explains observations that have been a puzzle for decades — notably the Pacific climate shift of 1976/1977.

A spokesman for ExxonMobil said: «ExxonMobil will not respond to Guardian inquiries because of its lack of objectivity on climate change reporting demonstrated by its campaign against companies that provide energy necessary for modern life, including newspapers.»

In part, they attribute this lack of coverage to a modern media environment where very few stories can survive more than a few 24 - hour news cycles, which is «prohibitive for raising awareness about slowly growing threats such as climate change.»

The man in the picture is NASA climatologist James Hansen, best known for bringing the danger of global climate change to the attention of the modern world in the 1980s, and widely considered the planet's leading climatologist.

In contrast, the charts reveal the truly unexceptional, unremarkable long - term trends for any climate / weather attribute previously predicted to worsen from the modern era's CO2 - induced climate change.

The creation of cities was a response to climate change and provided the spark for a take - off for human history, an explosion in culture and civilization, and is thus the reason it is the cornerstone for the creation of our modern world.»

More substantial changes would be along the lines of «Exploring potential impacts of a 2C world using insights from paleo climate records, modern observations and climate modelling» or «Exploring the potential for tipping points in the climate system before 2C».

Now compound this massive propaganda failure by the anti-growth Democrats with this week's latest climate science news from the world's premier science journal and a leading global warming alarmist scientist: natural ocean oscillations are responsible for Earth's modern temperature changes, not human CO2.

The chapter concludes with examples of modern climate change and techniques for observing it.

Beatrice started fruit tree growing after joining the Kwatanisa Womens Group, a local group in Uganda's Hoima district that aims to empower local women with modern farming techniques for environmental conservation and climate change adaptation.

This finding means that researchers will need to look back further in time for an analog to modern day climate change.

And the time constants for paleo are so many orders of magnitude different from modern climate change as to be totally irrelevant to our current circumstances.

-- Observed changes [in global climate] have, indeed, occurred since the modern HadCRUT temperature record started in 1850, but there is no real - world empirical evidence for anthropogenic contributions to these changes.

We humans seem to learn from experience, and thus our modern systems of justice are not well geared for dealing effectively with climate - change deniers.

Progressive politics requires narratives to help communicate big issues such as climate change or the refugee crisis, says the editor of Knock Twice: 25 Modern Folk Tales for Troubling Times