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«The industrial - scale deforestation caused by some of the companies that Mr Schwarzenegger profits from accelerates the climate change that he wants to stop.

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These include poisonous methane emissions from cows that accelerate climate change and higher health care costs associated with unhealthy diets, which are ultimately paid for by society.

As the climate changes, Southern Ocean upwelling may increase, which could accelerate ice shelf melting, release more carbon into the atmosphere and limit the ocean's ability to absorb heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

«Carbon loss from soil accelerating climate change.»

Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region

Therefore, there is concern that the emissions of carbon dioxide from streams and rivers may increase due to climate change, accelerating the growth of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Through this Memorandum, both countries will work jointly to accelerate development and deployment of clean energy technologies and to strengthen cooperation on adaptation to climate change, climate science, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests and land use.

The biggest concern: that the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model (CESM).

Researchers have found that the species, which has lost 20 % of its population globally since 1987, faces a growing threat from increasing numbers of torrential rainstorms and sweltering heat waves caused by climate change, which could accelerate the species» decline.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

Carbon pollution from both industries, already a substantial contributor to man - made climate change, is expected to rise sharply as international trade accelerates.

The rate of release from the tundra alone is predicted to reach 1.5 billion tons of carbon per annum before 2030, contributing to accelerated climate change, perhaps resulting in sustained decadal doubling of ice loss causing collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Hansen et al, 2011).

«New observations from many different sources confirm that ice - sheet loss is accelerating,» the United States Global Change Research Program said in its comprehensive special report on climate science.

This invitation - only event will bring together innovators and practitioners from the parks, education, communications, and other related fields to consider ways to accelerate and deepen the connection between parks and public education on climate change.

This seems like particularly important new research: From CNN «Satellite observations show sea levels rising, and climate change is accelerating it».

And their accelerating loss — from logging, farming, mining and burning — is a major cause of climate change, accounting for one - fifth of all carbon - dioxide emissions.

«Positive feedbacks (self - reinforcing cycles) within the climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.»

It is a sweeping and valuable cross-disciplinary description of ways in which climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.»

In New Orleans, geophysical vulnerability is characterized by its below - sea level, bowl - shaped location, its accelerating subsidence, rising sea level, storm surges, and possible increased frequency of larger hurricanes from climate change.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

Each participant from around the Communion reported accelerating impacts from human - induced climate change and environmental degradation in their regions.

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Researchers have repeatedly warned that climate change puts biodiversity at risk, especially in the tropical forests, themselves at risk from global warming that will have consequences that could in turn accelerate forest loss and the biodiversity of life sheltered by those forests, embracing both vegetation and the creatures that depend on the vegetation.

Although this century kicked off with the hottest decade on record, 2010 was the hottest year and in 2011 the Arctic may have broken both the summer and the winter melting record, there has still been heat missing: the rise in global temperatures is smaller than what one would expect from the rise in greenhouse gas concentrations, which — despite UNFCCC attempts to tackle climate change since Kyoto 1997 and Copenhagen 2009 — has even accelerated.

The rate of release from the tundra alone is predicted to reach 1.5 billion tons of carbon per annum before 2030, contributing to accelerated climate change, perhaps resulting in sustained decadal doubling of ice loss causing collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Hansen et al, 2011).

The most recent report (PDF) on climate science from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear that we still don't know how sensitive the climate system is to CO2, nor what disruptive feedbacks may emerge as ecosystems dry out, ice caps disappear and permafrost melts — all of which potentially could accelerate warming beyond human cclimate science from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear that we still don't know how sensitive the climate system is to CO2, nor what disruptive feedbacks may emerge as ecosystems dry out, ice caps disappear and permafrost melts — all of which potentially could accelerate warming beyond human cClimate Change made clear that we still don't know how sensitive the climate system is to CO2, nor what disruptive feedbacks may emerge as ecosystems dry out, ice caps disappear and permafrost melts — all of which potentially could accelerate warming beyond human cclimate system is to CO2, nor what disruptive feedbacks may emerge as ecosystems dry out, ice caps disappear and permafrost melts — all of which potentially could accelerate warming beyond human control.

And as a rapidly warming Arctic encourages more ship traffic through Canada's Northwest Passage and along other polar routes, the sooty emissions from passing freighters will significantly accelerate climate change in the region, according to a new Canadian - American study that, for the first time, predicts the potential impact of engine exhaust particles on the Arctic environment.

«Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level» «Economic impacts of climate change in Europe: sea - level rise» «Future flood losses in major coastal cities» «Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea - level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services» «Coral islands defy sea - level rise over the past century: Records from a central Pacific atoll»

We are a network of South Africans calling for divestment from fossil fuels — and restorative reinvestment in sustainable energy — to stigmatise fossil fuel use, accelerate sustainable system change, help slow climate change, reduce the financial risks of fossil fuel investments, and so help secure our human rights and common future.

J. T. Fasullo, R. S. Nerem & B. Hamlington Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 31245 (2016) doi: 10.1038 / srep31245 Download Citation Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction Received: 13 April 2016 Accepted: 15 July 2016 Published online: 10 August 2016 Erratum: 10 November 2016 Updated online 10 November 2016 Abstract Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase oveClimate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction Received: 13 April 2016 Accepted: 15 July 2016 Published online: 10 August 2016 Erratum: 10 November 2016 Updated online 10 November 2016 Abstract Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase oveclimate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.

Shepherd said Hansen and his colleagues used a relatively short time period — 15 years — to calculate the accelerated loss of ice from Greenland and Antarctica due to climate change, and that he would «exercise caution when interpreting such numbers.»

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Abstract: «Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.

The impacts of climate change require us to take control of our future by accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels to a clean - energy economy.

The magnitude of observed declines in snowpack in the Southwest, in the range of 20 %, is similar to the increases in runoff associated with thinning from this study, suggesting that accelerated thinning may at least offset or ameliorate runoff losses due to climate change.

We use global climate model simulations to estimate the distribution of ecologically - relevant climate changes resulting from forest loss in two hotspot regions: western North America (wNA), which is experiencing accelerated dieoff, and the Amazon basin, which is subject to high rates of deforestation.

NEWS: Emissions from cattle, fertilisers, manure and agriculture mean terrestrial biosphere is actually accelerating climate change

Let's be clear: the actual NOAA empirical evidence, from the global temperature climate instrumental records, does not support the hypothesis that long - term changes in atmospheric CO2 levels produce rapid accelerating, dangerous global temperature changes.

We know from our analysis of climate change, from the accelerating deterioration of the economy's ecological supports, and from our projections of future resource use that the western economic model — the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy — will not last much longer.

The enduring myth of «accelerating» is a leftover from earlier IPCC climate reports and the original AGW hypothesis that speculated greater levels of atmospheric CO2 would generate «runaway» global warming leading to a catastrophic «tipping point» climate change.

(Reuters)-- Sea level rise in the past two decades has accelerated faster than previously thought in a sign of climate change threatening coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, a study said on Wednesday.

Australia is expected to come under growing pressure in the coming year to raise its emissions reduction target from its current level of 5 per cent, as negotiations accelerate to try to achieve a global treaty on climate change that binds all nations by 2015, and meets the science.

So, as a representative from the conservation community, my goal in participating in the DOE's process was to ensure that the Wind Vision addressed the importance of simultaneously protecting and enhancing our nation's conservation legacy while working to reach 20 - percent wind and curb the greenhouse gas pollution accelerating climate change.

Again, this is a new phenomenon and, as with more photosynthesis from plants, has a mutually reinforcing (positive feedback) effect; accelerating the rate of climate change.

The dialogue, which attended by Ministers from 35 countries, is currently taking place 22 and 23 May and is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

However, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy must accelerate if we want to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

States that this feedback can accelerate climate change, but the magnitude and timing of greenhouse gas emission from these regions and their impact on climate change remain uncertain

The complaint alleged that Oakland was already experiencing impacts from accelerated sea level rise due to climate change.

[2] In addition to the risks from spills, the burning of heavy fuel oil by ships emits significant quantities of black carbon, potent in accelerating the already rapid pace of Arctic climate change.

I chose this time period because 1940 is the time when fossil fuel consumption strongly accelerated, and 1977 is the time of the Great Pacific Climate Shift, when the PDO changed from cooling to warming (on average).