Sentences with phrase «from changing climate conditions»

This productivity is vulnerable to direct impacts on crops and livestock from changing climate conditions and extreme weather events and indirect impacts through increasing pressures from pests and pathogens.

Many small businesses are not aware of the risks they face from changing climate conditions, and may not have plans in place to respond and recover from weather events.

Assertions that human - induced climate change could have played a significant role in shaping what unfolded last week run headlong into the overwhelming reality that the fast growth of southern populations vastly overwhelms any theorized contribution from changing climate conditions, Ashley said:

But there are also those species that will benefit from the changed climate conditions.

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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»).

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

From fighting deforestation and climate change to building economic opportunities and better working conditions for rural people, the Rainforest Alliance is working to solve urgent environmental and social challenges.

Unless... Suppose David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced that they agreed with Ed Miliband's warning over the weekend that Britain is «sleepwalking to a crisis», and that «climate change threatens national security» — and went on to commit themselves to working together on a long - term plan to protect the nation not just from extreme weather conditions but the other consequences of climate change.

Carbon pollution coming from traditional fuel sources such as coal and gas directly contributes to climate change and is associated with asthma and other lung conditions.

But critics like Fugere said that Exxon Mobil may be missing the bigger picture, especially in light of the most recent findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, MarClimate Change, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, MarcChange, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, Marclimate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, Marcchange and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, March 31).

However, the changes in climatic conditions arising from climate change could represent a far more important factor here: i.e. temperatures that increasingly exceed the optimum level for plant growth, like those experienced this summer, shifts in the vegetation periods, and more frequent droughts.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condiChange, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condichange in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.

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

Scientists looked at modeled predictions of climate change and reproductive data from lesser prairie - chickens from 2001 - 2011 to determine how weather conditions affect reproductive success in the Southern High Plains.

Collects data on salinity, temperature, and pressure — fundamental data on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate variations.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

The World Health Organization predicts that an additional 250,000 people will die annually between 2030 and 2050 from conditions caused or exacerbated by climate change, the Geneva - based agency reported yesterday in an update of climate mortality estimates.

This is the conclusion of a report that reviews the results obtained from the implementation of the forest simulation model GOTILWA +, a tool to simulate forest growth processes under several environmental conditions and to optimize Mediterranean forests management strategies in the context of climate change.

The study, by an international team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge, examined how changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean were related to climate conditions in the northern hemisphere during the last ice age, by examining data from ice cores and fossilised plankton shells.

There are no viable methods of cleaning up oil from ice and, in addition to weather conditions, much of the area where drilling would take place is incredibly remote, said Rear Adm. Jonathan White, the former chief oceanographer of the Navy and head of its climate change task force.

«Most of these trends show strong correlations with drought - related conditions which, to a large degree, agree with what we expect from climate change projections,» said Moritz.

As part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changes.

Changing living conditions caused by climate change or ocean acidification — the decrease of ocean pH due to the uptake of human - induced carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — pose serious threats to marine organisms.

indirect effect A secondary impact to a system from a change that was caused by shifting climate conditions, such as increased fire frequency, which is a result of drier conditions caused by an increase in temperature.

According to research from Purdue University, hotter, drier conditions and increased odds of extreme weather events associated with climate change may prove fatal for walnut trees, bringing economic consequences to areas across the nation.

Because this climate sensitivity is derived from empirical data on how Earth responded to past changes of boundary conditions, including atmospheric composition, our conclusions about limits on fossil fuel emissions can be regarded as largely independent of climate models.

Forest conditions in Montana are varied, and potential impacts from climate change will overlay on existing stresses to forests.

All over the country people are experiencing interesting climate changes from their traditional weather conditions.

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Investing to profit from the evolution in the market as a result of climate change should allow for a portfolio to weather any financial conditions over the long - term.

With climate change upon us, there are companies to invest in for the long - term that will profit from this unyielding global condition along with those to avoid that make «a damn good buggy whip» in a doomed sector.

The A+RC's program will feature application - based, graduate - level workshops and public presentations by leading thinkers and theorists in the humanities and social sciences, exploring themes such as climate change and social justice that impact the conditions from which contemporary art emerges.

The aim of this synthesis is to provide all the people from Palermo the tools to claim back their city and to use Palermo as a kind of blueprint for reflecting, from a southern perspective, on migration, climate change, heritage and the condition of Europe.

Bottom line, you can't estimate sensitivity from the mean conditions today — you need to look at a climate change.

After 20 years of unfulfilled aspirational pledges (the original Framework Convention on Climate Change), seemingly dead - end detours (the Kyoto Protocol) and relentlessly rising greenhouse - gas emissions, the world may be better off shifting from climate - centric diplomacy to a slate of efforts aimed at advancing the human condition in ways that limit climate - relatedClimate Change), seemingly dead - end detours (the Kyoto Protocol) and relentlessly rising greenhouse - gas emissions, the world may be better off shifting from climate - centric diplomacy to a slate of efforts aimed at advancing the human condition in ways that limit climate - relatedclimate - centric diplomacy to a slate of efforts aimed at advancing the human condition in ways that limit climate - relatedclimate - related risks.

< My response is that rapid climate change is happening, evidenced by observed changes in global ice conditions and global tempertures from the late 1970s to present.

Effects of harvest and climate change on polar marine ecosystems: case studies from the Antarctic Peninsula and Hudson Bay C Hoover — 2012 — circle.ubc.ca... Future simulations of the Antarctic Peninsula identify large reductions in ecosystem biomass of all species due changes in environmental conditions and an overall reduction in krill, with minimal ecosystem impacts from harvest.

When the disbelievers attending and participating in these events are finally forced to function under the «real» dire weather related conditions where climate change is happening now and most prevalent, perhaps then we can hope for them to move toward «action» and farther away from their empty «talk».

But lots of signs are pointing to the current extraordinary dry spell, likely exacerbated by heat from human - driven climate change, taking California into conditions unexperienced since long before the state's water - dependent economy exploded during Gov. Jerry Brown's father's terms in office (please read Justin Wm. Moyer's great story on that era in the Washington Post).

Thus for climate conditions that are not too far away from the situation now, multi-meter sea level rise is certainly an eventual possibility (the rates of change at the LIG having not been constrained).

For many kinds of disruption, from crop failure caused by drought to sickness and death from heat waves, the main risks are in the extremes, with changes in average conditions representing a climate with altered timing, intensity, and types of extremes.

Which of these is an example of climate change mitgation Select one or more: a. switching from air conditioning to fans b. adding air conditioning

The take - home message, directly in sync with the core findings of the last two assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can be distilled to a fairly straightforward statement: Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will result in long - lasting warming that will progressively produce more harmful impacts on conditions and systems that influence human wellbeing.

Using a recently developed hurricane synthesizer driven by large - scale meteorological variables derived from global climate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarClimate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario A1b.

Although the simulation conditions in the MMD 20th - century simulations were not identical to those in the CMIP1 & 2 control runs, the differences do not alter the conclusions summarised below because the large - scale climatological features dominate, not the relatively small perturbations resulting from climate change.

«At the same time we constrained the methane emissions from biomass burning (wildfire activity) and showed that those did not change drastically in the past — irrespective of climate conditions.»

We recognize that climate change impacts hit those already suffering from poverty and insecure living conditions «first and worst» and, in a majority of instances, these populations bear little responsibility for contributing the greenhouse gas emissions primarily responsible for climate change.

Because the congeniality of the cultural meaning of information shapes how readily they engage with the content of it, we predicted that the hierarchical individualists in the geoengineering condition would respond much more open - mindedly to the information from the climate change study on carbon dissipation.