Sentences with phrase «further potential climate change»

A further potential climate change connection, which Kevin overlooks, is the impact of a warmer world on the strength of the prevailing winds, and their increase in strength with height.

Not exact matches

With global climate models projecting further drying over the Amazon in the future, the potential loss of vegetation and the associated loss of carbon storage may speed up global climate change.

New estimates show that frozen Arctic soil contains far more potential greenhouse gas than previously recognized — and could speed climate change as it melts

Although the draft decision expresses «its utmost concern» regarding the impacts of climate change on the World Heritage reefs, any action is delayed by a call «to further study the current and potential impacts of climate change» for possible action when the committee meets in 2018.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

Research in Nature Climate Change reveals that adaptation measures have the potential to generate further pressures and threats for both local and global ecosystems.

The scientists also acknowledged that long - term adaptation to climate change can greatly reduce impacts, but further research and evaluation is required to realise the potential of adaptation.

Schneider and Adalı further draw parallels between the collapse of the Assyrian Empire and some of the potential economic and political consequences of climate change in the same area today.

Explore further: Study reveals potential stability of ocean processes despite climate change

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

These problems, including that of climate change, require efforts to find solutions in all sectors of society and that we engage in diverse and dynamic dialogue about potential solutions, including those that may lie far outside the current mainstream.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

Other recent assessments using the FAO / IIASA Agro-Ecological Zones model (AEZ) in conjunction with IIASA's world food system or Basic Linked System (BSL), as well as climate variables from five different GCMs under four SRES emissions scenarios, show further agricultural impacts such as changes in agricultural potential by the 2080s (Fischer et al., 2005).

Viable avenues to improving the information base are determining which climate models exhibit the best ability to reproduce the historical and potential future change in habitats, and determining how, how fast, and how far various species can move or adapt.

Although expectations have been low for a successful outcome of the UN climate change talks in Durban, there has been cautious optimism about the potential for further agreements at Durban concerning REDD +.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

I've repeatedly made similar comments on how there are far bigger issues needing to be addressed than potential impacts from «climate change» and attempts to focus resources on these suppossed impacts is most likely going to lead us down a dark alley.

The paper also evaluates potential implementation approaches and activities for the functions defined for the climate technology centre and network in the draft United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) technology decision to be further considered at COclimate technology centre and network in the draft United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) technology decision to be further considered at COClimate Change (UNFCCC) technology decision to be further considered at COP - 16.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.

To understand the potential impacts of climate change requires further interactions, with agronomists, economists, demographic specialists, etc..

As far back as the early 1970s, he sounded his first alarm about the potential damage that climate change might bring, but he was ignored.

And with climate change impacts rising, solar's further potential to take some of the edge off the harm that's coming down the pipe makes speeding its adoption a clear no - brainer.

For most of them, costs have declined over the last decades and the authors expect significant technical advancements and further cost reductions in the future, resulting in a greater potential for climate change mitigation.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

As well as advising partners on the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, he has authored Getting to Zero: Defining Corporate Carbon Neutrality, which explores a number of the claims of carbon or climate neutrality that have been made so far and makes a series of recommendations about what should lie behind any such declaration, and Making Sense of the Low Carbon Economy, which provides an accessible overview of the drivers behind the low carbon economy and explores the potential implications for business in the UK.

We are supposed to believe their declaration of a global climate catastrophe based on trivial changes in world temps, while ignoring the evidence that their claims lack actual data and that their cures are far worse than the potential problem.

Although uncertainty and scepticism about the potential impacts of climate change were fairly common, both trend and attribution scepticism were far less prevalent.

News that the Trump administration is poised to ask Congress for deep budget cuts to the Energy Department's renewable energy and energy efficiency programs has thus far generated less outrage than the White House's abandonment of the Paris Climate Treaty, yet has the potential to be far more damaging to efforts to respond to climate Climate Treaty, yet has the potential to be far more damaging to efforts to respond to climate climate change.

Herein lies perhaps the greatest potential threat to the planet, far greater than the threat of «climate change» even if it turns out to be «real.»

Further, efforts to tackle climate change have the potential to entrench our economic marginalisation by exploiting Indigenous traditional lands, waters and natural resources «in the national interest».