Sentences with phrase «gas as a consequence of climate change»

Because warm water holds less oxygen than cold water, oceans are expected to lose some of the dissolved gas as a consequence of climate change.

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With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

(i) assessing the scientific information that is related to the various components of the climate change issue, such as emissions of major greenhouse gases and modification of the Earth's radiation balance resulting therefrom, and that needed to enable the environmental and socio - economic consequences of climate change to be evaluated,

Schmidt & Shindell, 2003, Atmospheric composition, radiative forcing, and climate change as a consequence of a massive methane release from gas hydrates.

In two papers in the journal Earth Interactions, researchers have taken a closer look at the reality of this historic divide and the changing nature of the U.S. landscape as a consequence of climate change driven by ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in response to ever - more profligate human use of fossil fuels.

Clear decrease in average rainfall over Central America as a consequence of 21st century climate change, depending on the height of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions.

The global holiday business is growing at between 3 % and 5 % a year and is now contributing significantly to global warming and climate change, precisely as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions.

It has taken decades to transition away from the former two myths - we can not afford to allow the contrarian obfuscation regarding the consequences of climate change to be as efffective in delaying action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Both disclosures are consistent with what scientists had expected from climate change, driven by global warming as a consequence of the profligate combustion of fossil fuels that dump ever greater levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the climate is once again on the threshold of a new regime, with dire consequences for reef ecosystems unless we get control of climate change,» said coauthor Richard Aronson, a biology professor at Florida Institute of Technology.

The backcloth to California's climate — the overall annual precipitation — may not change greatly as the world, and the US with it, warms as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion on a global scale.

As part of its five specific recommendations for action, the Military Advisory Board stated that «the path to mitigating the worst security consequences of climate change involves reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.»

The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.

Now, new research in Nature Climate Change [1] not only reinforces the reality of this trend — which is already provoking debate about the overall climate consequences of a warming Arctic — but statistically attributes it to human causes, which largely means greenhouse gas emissions (albeit with a mix of other elements aClimate Change [1] not only reinforces the reality of this trend — which is already provoking debate about the overall climate consequences of a warming Arctic — but statistically attributes it to human causes, which largely means greenhouse gas emissions (albeit with a mix of other elements aclimate consequences of a warming Arctic — but statistically attributes it to human causes, which largely means greenhouse gas emissions (albeit with a mix of other elements as well)

Extremes of drought and heat present one kind of threat, and long - term climate change − driven by rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, as a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels − is another.

The backcloth to California's climate — the overall annual precipitation — may not change greatly as the world, and the U.S. with it, warms as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion on a global scale.

Given this, the challenge we face as a species is to roughly double global energy production by mid-century while simultaneously cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half worldwide (and about 80 percent in the United States), so that we can avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

For climate which is changing as a consequence of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations or other forcing changes, T = T0 + Tf + T» where Tf is the deterministic climate change caused by the changing forcing, and T» is the natural variability under these changing conditions.

Schmidt, G.A., and D.T. Shindell, 2003: Atmospheric composition, radiative forcing, and climate change as a consequence of a massive methane release from gas hydrates.