Sentences with phrase «future impacts of climate change»

The current and projected future impacts of climate change on nature in Massachusetts are very significant, requiring a thoughtful and comprehensive approach and a sustained effort.

During that time, he once described the predicted future impacts of climate change as «catastrophic» for most people on Earth.

She is also CEO of ATMOS Research, a scientific consulting firm that assesses the potential future impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human welfare.

In July the EPA put out a substantive report — «SAP 4.6» in government lingo — evaluating future impacts of climate change on human health and communities.

The scientists had received a National Science Foundation grant to study the possible future impacts of climate change on Mongolian wildfires, and were looking for tree core samples to read what they could of the past record.

The state's investment is critical to sustaining the valley's $ 4.5 - billion tourism economy, attracting new solar and other «green» - technology firms, improving the quality of our drinking water and mitigating future impacts of climate change.

But big polluters and wealthy nations refuse to be held liable for compensating climate - vulnerable nations for future impacts of climate change.

Climate projections alone rarely provide sufficient information to estimate future impacts of climate change; model outputs commonly have to be manipulated and combined with observed climate data to be usable, for example, as inputs to impact models.

This week in Geneva at the Conference on Health and Climate, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on national and local policymakers to take action with a focus on preventative measures to lessen future impacts of climate change on health.

PRINCETON, NJ — The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report this week warning of the existing and potentially severe adverse future impact of climate change, yet most Americans continue to express low levels of concern about the phenomenon.

Future impacts of climate change on marine fisheries have the potential to negatively influence a wide range of socio - economic factors, including food security, livelihoods and public health, -LSB-...]

The threat from flooding remains the UK's biggest natural risk and consideration of the future impact of climate change must be part of the decision - making process about new housing.»

Four News stories focus on past and future impacts of climate change and the techniques that researchers are using to study them.

Until this research, a major uncertainty around the future impacts of climate change was whether the eddy field would change with stronger winds or whether it would remain static.

By contrast, Australian zoologist Tim Flannery devotes several chapters in The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change (Atlantic Monthly Press, $ 25) to possible solutions.

«The fact that our research suggests it was El Niño and not anthropogenic climate change shouldn't be any comfort when considering the future impact of climate change,» he says.

Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW's Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate change.

I think a career helping cities and countries anticipate and adapt to the future impacts of climate change will be not only interesting, but an important and effective way to make a difference.

e360: You've written recently about uncertainty over the future impacts of climate change and how that plays a role in discouraging action in reducing greenhouse gases.

The first, on the science behind climate change, was released in September 2013; the second, on the current and future impacts of climate change, was released earlier this month.

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.

The future impacts of climate change depend largely on the choices we make today: whether to curb, maintain, or increase heat - trapping emissions.

Because the future impacts of climate change to these California cities and counties is just now coming into clear focus, Haines told the SEC, none of the municipalities violated disclosure law.

OSLO (Reuters)- Some future impacts of climate change, such as more extremes of heat and sea level rise, are unavoidable even if governments act fast to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said on Sunday.

Nearly all European regions are anticipated to be negatively affected by some future impacts of climate change, and these will pose challenges to many economic sectors.

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.

Temperature trends are therefore important for determining both past and future impacts of climate change on crop yields at sub-continental to global scales.

Is your pension fund or insurance company a leader or laggard when it comes to avoiding risky bets on the future impacts of climate change?

Accurate predictions of the future impacts of climate change on plant diversity are critical to the development of conservation strategies.

Minimizing the future impacts of climate change requires reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) load in the atmosphere.

With his international best seller The Weather Makers: The History & Future Impact of Climate Change (2005), Flannery became the most prominent of Australia's scientists arguing for measures to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions.