Sentences with phrase «future impacts from climate change»

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President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement puts future generations at risk and leaves the nation without a plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on June...

«I think some of the key take - aways from this report, especially compared to the last report, are the impacts of climate change are not just something that we can look towards the future for but they are already occurring today,» said Forbes Tompkins, a research analyst at the World Resources Institute who has been tracking the report.

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).

«In order to secure America's energy future and protect our children from the impacts of climate change, the Budget invests in clean energy, improving energy security, and enhancing preparedness and resilience to climate change,» the fact sheet states.

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

The motivation for the MCA arose from citizens and organizations in Montana who have expressed interest in receiving timely and pertinent information about climate change, including information about historical variability, past trends, and projections of future impacts as they relate to topics of economic concern.

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced in coming years, BECCS and other negative emissions technologies are looked to as a means of avoiding dangerous future climate scenarios by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

«Message from the future» — Good Energy calls on pupils to imagine their future and the impact of climate change on it

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.

The magnitude of future climate change and its impacts from the middle of the century onwards depend on the effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.

The first - of - its - kind modeling study was led by Dr Marco Springmann from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, and assessed the impact of climate change on diet composition and bodyweight.

The first is climate inertia — on very many levels, from fossil lock - in emissions (decades), ocean - atmospheric temperature inertia (yet more decades), Earth system temperature inertia (centuries to millennia) to ecological climate impact inertia (impacts becoming worse over time under a constant stress)-- all this to illustrate anthropogenic climate change, although already manifesting itself, is still very much an escalating problem for the future.

This makes the U.S. population more vulnerable.276, 293 Without careful consideration of how to prevent future impacts, similar patterns could emerge regarding the health impacts from climate change.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

While this was important to inject momentum — and not just be a talking shop — it sets a precedent for work in 2018 to increase climate ambition, speed up the shift of financial flows away from fossil fuels, and build more resilient economies to the current and future impacts of climate change.

All of us have a moral obligation to protect the children of today, and future generations, from the dangerous impacts of climate change.

Taking such feedbacks into account, 1,000 GtC would likely result in a temperature rise of at least 3 degrees Celsius, the authors say, and the impacts from climate change would be «locked in» (impossible to reverse) for the future after 2100.

It was increasingly important to Laemmle that the Climate Ride include participants from communities that are most likely to be impacted by future climate change, and who represent the racial and ethnic diversity of Los AClimate Ride include participants from communities that are most likely to be impacted by future climate change, and who represent the racial and ethnic diversity of Los Aclimate change, and who represent the racial and ethnic diversity of Los Angeles.

Public comments on the draft fourth «National Assessment» of present and future climate change impacts on the U.S. are due at 11:59 PM tonight and will be embargoed from public release until after then.

«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»

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 letter emphasizes, «Effective disclosure of the market risks from climate change would focus on how low - carbon scenarios would impact commodity demand and price and include the knock - on effects of those shifts on future capital expenditure plans, liquidity and reserves valuations, if any.»

We have repeatedly lost thousands of lives, communities and livelihoods and we are still left with little means to build resilience and adapt to present and future impacts of climate change, much less to rebuild and recover from massive unavoidable losses and damages.

As climate change has evolved from a future threat to a present reality, climate resilience planning has become a core focus for cities, businesses, and states experiencing the impacts.

Indeed, uncertainties in predicting the regional details of future climate change that would arise from following these pathways, and the even greater uncertainties that attend any assessment of the impacts of such climate changes, preclude any credible assessment of the relative benefits.

Yet the possible impact of climate change on the days» events and planning for the future was excluded from the subsequent royal commission's terms of reference.

Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other iClimate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other imChange to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other iclimate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other imchange, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.

The authors say a better understanding of the climate impact of fire will enable scientists develop models to more accurately forecast future future change — important given the rising economic toll from uncontrolled burning.

We have the opportunity right now to make choices for the future that will avoid the worst climate change impacts from occurring.

«Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence - based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth's systems result in changes in climate.»

We'll find out what lessons are to be learnt from past climate change as well as better understand how climate models predict future climate impacts.

What is striking though, is that amidst all the criticism nobody has challenged our core finding: blogs on which man - made climate change and its impacts are downplayed are far removed from the scientific literature, at least regarding the topic of shrinking Arctic sea ice and the resulting future threat to polar bears.

Similar to the dialogue between pupils from St. Gallen and Lilongwe, the discussion lead to the realization of the Swiss students that climate change is not an abstract notion of the future, but is already impacting the lives of their peers across the globe.

In their study, Dim Coumou, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Alexander Robinson, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, used state - of - the - art climate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st cClimate Impact Research, and Alexander Robinson, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, used state - of - the - art climate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st cclimate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st century.

The Farm Bureau does not share the scientific opinion on climate change, with its official position being that «there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment of the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming or how they will affect future climate changes.»

Ecosystem responses to past rainfall variability in the Sahel are potentially useful as an analogue of future climate change impacts, in the light of projections that extreme drought - affected terrestrial areas will increase from 1 % to about 30 % globally by the 2090s (Burke et al., 2006).

The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- released last night — reveals several findings that decision - makers can keep in mind — both in order to understand current and future climate impacts, as well as develop strategies to help societies become more resilient tClimate Change (IPCC)-- released last night — reveals several findings that decision - makers can keep in mind — both in order to understand current and future climate impacts, as well as develop strategies to help societies become more resilient tclimate impacts, as well as develop strategies to help societies become more resilient to them.

Since the negative impacts from global warming / climate change scale with the magnitude of the temperature rise, lower projections of future warming should lead to lower projections of future damages.

A number of students from universities in Colorado spoke with emotional fervor in favor of regulating carbon dioxide, noting their love of the outdoors, fear of climate change's impact on their future and a robust distaste for Administrator Scott Pruitt's leadership of the EPA.

Poor to Bear Brunt of Climate Change Oxfam says that the greatest impact on humanity in the near future from climate change is likely to be hunger, with of course those areas already struggling to feed their people worClimate Change Oxfam says that the greatest impact on humanity in the near future from climate change is likely to be hunger, with of course those areas already struggling to feed their people worsChange Oxfam says that the greatest impact on humanity in the near future from climate change is likely to be hunger, with of course those areas already struggling to feed their people worclimate change is likely to be hunger, with of course those areas already struggling to feed their people worschange is likely to be hunger, with of course those areas already struggling to feed their people worst hit.

The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Sunday night, is both sweeping in scope and staggering for its unprecedented details on the impacts of global climate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural sClimate Change, released on Sunday night, is both sweeping in scope and staggering for its unprecedented details on the impacts of global climate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural syChange, released on Sunday night, is both sweeping in scope and staggering for its unprecedented details on the impacts of global climate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural sclimate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural sychange to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural systems.

From this perspective, providing paid professional opportunities in the environmental sector is a double win — we can help tackle the intractable inequities that still plague our nation, while at the same time equip the young people who are most likely to be impacted by challenges like climate change with the skills and networks to lead the solutions necessary to sustain the environmental movement into the future.

It seems clear to me that the sentence is about responses to a shift from one climate regime, the recent past and present day, to another, with less precipitation, in the future (it is the IPCC climate change impacts report after all, and they do say `... not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation»).

Grizwald57 - From the IPCC AR5 Summary for Policymakers, section 2.3, Future risks and impacts caused by a changing climate:

And, according to author and environmental activist Amy Larkin, the environmental impact of climate change is an actual financial issue: «Would you rather federal, state, and local governments spend our money on preventing extreme weather in the future or on recovering from extreme weather?