Sentences with phrase «for signs of climate change»

And if people weren't looking at every last thing for signs of climate change, they wouldn't be obvious.

A report from Climate Central's World Weather Attribution team analyzed the current cold air outbreak for signs of a climate change signal, indicating:

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Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

«They didn't sign up for budget deficits... They didn't sign up for science being pushed out of the way by ideology... They didn't sign up for the denial of climate change... They didn't sign up for North Korea getting nuclear weapons...»

Eldridge notes Gibson's signing of a pledge to vote against any climate change legislation that would raise taxes, his support for a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and his support for fracking as evidence of his true political colors.

Lenoir notes, for instance, that even though tree species did not show much sign of movement over the past century, that climate change may affect the next generation.

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

Bradley says, «With the signing of the Paris Agreement to try and limit greenhouse gas emissions, many people have been lulled into a false sense of security, thinking that the 2 - degrees C target is somehow a «safe» limit for climate change.

Peter Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, DClimate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Dclimate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Trump signed into law last month a surprisingly strong allocation of $ 139.5 million for the Global Environment Facility, which supports programs to alleviate a host of environmental ills, including climate change, biodiversity and desertification.

This announcement comes in response to a petition signed by over 150,000 people calling for Heartland's corporate funders to drop support of the organization, which recently ran a billboard campaign in Chicago comparing those that advocate for solutions to climate change to «murderers, tyrants, and madmen.»

In the meantime, the signing of a new five - year funding agreement awarding $ 1.5 million per year from the U.S. Department of Agricul - ture Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Anal - ysis (FIA) program to UNLV means good news for forests across the United States, which help reduce the effects of climate change.

Given that we're in a rate climate that hasn't exactly been favorable for savers (it's been a low interest environment for a while now, with no signs of a change in the trends), the «raise your rate» feature may offer a bit of insurance.

Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that climate change will take on a life of its own independently of what we do in the future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).

At the bottom of this post, you can read an excerpt from the final draft of «Climate Change and the Common Good — a Statement of the Problem and the Demand for Transformative Solutions,» a declaration that is scheduled to be issued at the meeting, signed by a dozen participants, mostly members of the pontifical academies.

Secondly, US politics is already showing small signs of change - for example, the McCain - Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act almost passed in the Senate, and California and some eastern states are moving forward with state policies for energy efficiency and cap - and - trade schemes.

Signs of the totoaba slaughter began showing up in the upper Gulf of California around 2011, says Lorenzo Rojas - Bracho, head of marine mammal conservation and research for the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC) in Mexico.

The Wall Street Journal is under scrutiny for publishing an op - ed attacking climate science last Friday, while turning down another op - ed explaining climate change and signed by 255 researchers with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which was eventually published in the journal Science.

At the conclusion of the event, Brown joined the other politicians in signing a declaration stating that «human - induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.»

The National Council for Climate Change and the Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) of the Dominican Republic and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) signed a collaboration agreement in order to develop initiatives for education, training and public participation related to climate Climate Change and the Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) of the Dominican Republic and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) signed a collaboration agreement in order to develop initiatives for education, training and public participation related to climate cChange and the Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) of the Dominican Republic and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) signed a collaboration agreement in order to develop initiatives for education, training and public participation related to climate climate changechange.

States are not equal in the international system and international law is frequently used by the North to discipline the South — in the specific case of the UNFCCC it's pretty easy to imagine that «non compliance» by a Southern country would lead to them being excluded from the finance and technology transfer that the North owes them for their climate debt... so why should those who have not caused climate change sign up to a scheme where the polluters always get off scot - free but they may have to pay a price?

Several hundreds of companies have already taken action and made public announcements; 159 companies have signed the Trillion Tonne Communiqué calling for global policies and actions to tackle climate change.

Signs of hope, however, appeared last week from sources at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, quoted in the October 26 edition of The Independent newspaper in London saying, «The UK is pushing hard for the strongest possible deal to stop deforestation and that includes wanting specific language in the UN text on the protection of natural forests.»

Having examined — over the last 16 years — large amounts of data (time series) for signs of abrupt changes I have no difficulty at all in accepting BEST's hypothesis that climate data appear to be suffused with abrupt changes.

«Kudos to President Obama for taking some necessary steps on climate change and energy, but we still have a lot to do,» said Gene Karpinski, head of the League of Conservation Voters, who signed the letter.

Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Guy Shrubsole said the record rainfall and repeated flooding in December were a sign of changing climate and highlighted the need for greater action by the government.

India on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to «protecting the interests of the poor» at the Lima Climate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out of a list of priorities for developing countries in a new climate pact to be signed next year inClimate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out of a list of priorities for developing countries in a new climate pact to be signed next year inclimate pact to be signed next year in Paris.

Writing in the October 1 issue of Nature, David Victor and Charles Kennel, both of the University of California, San Diego, argue for pegging climate policy to a new «array of planetary vital signs,» such as changes in the heat content of the oceans.

Over 700 businesses have signed the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP)'s Climate Declaration asking federal and state policymakers to take action to seize the economic opportunity of addressing climate Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP)'s Climate Declaration asking federal and state policymakers to take action to seize the economic opportunity of addressing climate Climate Declaration asking federal and state policymakers to take action to seize the economic opportunity of addressing climate climate change.

The open letter calling for the AMNH to keep Mercer on the board was signed by many prominent climate change deniers such as Will Happer of the CO2 Coalition; Richard Lindzen, a fellow at the Cato Institute; and Craig Idso, the chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Cchange deniers such as Will Happer of the CO2 Coalition; Richard Lindzen, a fellow at the Cato Institute; and Craig Idso, the chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global ChangeChange.

Over the past year, the United States has helped draft the rulebook for implementing the Paris climate accord, signed international memoranda calling for global action to fight climate change, boosted funding for overseas clean energy projects, and contributed to global research on the dangers and causes of the Earth's warming.

I signed a partnership with World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Grenada's Prime Minister, and Denmark's Minister for Climate and Energy which recognizes the disproportionate harm of climate change for small island developing states and aims to support island countries to scale up their renewable energy efforts and shift to greater energy effiClimate and Energy which recognizes the disproportionate harm of climate change for small island developing states and aims to support island countries to scale up their renewable energy efforts and shift to greater energy efficlimate change for small island developing states and aims to support island countries to scale up their renewable energy efforts and shift to greater energy efficiency.

Their letter was the latest sign environmental concerns that were once peripheral for many investors have become mainstream, with some of the most traditional shareholder groups demanding fossil fuel companies in general, and Exxon in particular, do more in response to climate change.

But that could be starting to change: as the UN's annual climate change conference prepares for two weeks of work (6 - 17 November) in the German city of Bonn, there are signs of hope for those at risk, who by some estimates could number two billion people by 2100.

Then again, maybe in the world of academia and publishing, signing up to the climate change mantra is now essential for a successful career?

The stolen emails were a call to arms for all those who want to stop action on climate change, a sign, just when they thought they were even being abandoned by some conservative politicians, that the energy industry was still in action and capable of inflicting great damage on those scientists.

«Although this is a natural event, and we're not aware of any link to human - induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position... We're going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable,» Swansea University Glaciologist Dr. Martin O'Leary said.

The scientific goal is to determine and interpret trends in global stratospheric ozone, the Antarctic ozone hole, and global atmospheric ozone depleting substances; to investigate these trends for signs of recovery of the ozone layer and evaluate implications for climate change; and to study the efficacy of newly proposed substitutes for currently used ozone - depleting substances.

Reporting from Washington — The United States, China and dozens of other countries accounting for nearly 80 % of the world's greenhouse gas emissions have signed onto a voluntary agreement to curb climate change.

The growth of the lukewarm argument is not a sign of the climate sceptics changing their argument, it is a sign that the alarmist narrative is unravelling, making room for more perspectives in the climate debate.

Having nearly all parties to the Paris Agreement sign it last Earth Day was a critical move that shows how countries are able to work together to reduce the impact of climate change and achieve a sustainable future for the next generation.

In a sign that India is moving forward, Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Environment and Forests, participated at the Montreal Protocol Meeting of Parties (MOP) last November calling for a «revolution on climate change» at the Paris climate conference in November 2015.

The advantage of recognising a reversed sign for the solar effect high up in the atmosphere is that it enables a scenario whereby the bottom up effects of ocean cycles and the top down effects of solar variability can be seen to be engaged in a complex ever changing dance with the primary climate response being changes in the tropospheric air circulation systems to give us the observed natural climate variability via cyclical latitudinal shifts in all the air circulation systems and notably the jet streams.

I'm thinking of signing up for Prof. David Archer's MOOC over at coursera: «Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change» It's 8 weeks starting Oct. 21.

Corporations from some of the most carbon - intensive industries signed a statement pushing for the Paris climate change conference.

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We'd all signed up for Denial101x, a new, six - week MOOC (that's «massive open online course,» for all you education luddites) aimed at making sense of this whole phenomenon — and at giving us the tools to fight deniers, so that we can all get on with fighting climate change itself.

Marchers carried signs that read «Capitali $ m has no solutions for climate change» and «Stop climate chaos» and many had committed to being arrested in an act of civil disobedience.

Trends in the frequency (or intensity) of various climate extremes (arrow direction denotes the sign of the change) since the middle of the 20th century (except for North Atlantic tropical cyclones where the period covered is from the 1970s).

Leaders from China and the US reached an agreement on climate change at the end of 2014, which paved the way for the signing of the Paris Agreement the next year.