Sentences with phrase «global environmental change»

What effect — if any — such an impact may have had on this period of global environmental change 55 to 56 million years ago remains unclear.

An enhanced greenhouse effect is believed to be responsible for global environmental change and global warming.

But we're trying to make predictions about what's going to happen under global environmental change and use that as a basis for protection and developing a sustainable future.

We believe that, as a business, we have the obligation to affect positive global environmental change, so we set out to create a business that services global travelers.

* Assessments of current mechanisms for governing global environmental change show why existing international arrangements are not dealing quickly enough with current global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

... we argue in favor of a structural change in global governance to deal with problems of global environmental change.

A new study by political scientists Constantine Boussalis and Travis Coan in Global Environmental Change examined 16,000 documents published between 1998 and 2013 by 19 conservative and libertarian think tanks in the climate business to find out.

(That paper was titled «Normalizing economic loss from natural disasters: A global analysis» and published in the journal Global Environmental Change in 2011.)

He serves on several scientific committees and boards, e.g., as the vice-chair of the science advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) and he chairs the visioning process on global environmental change of ICSU, the International Council for Science.

Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.

Our call is for fundamental transformation and innovation in all spheres and at all scales in order to stop and reverse global environmental change and move toward fair and lasting prosperity for present and future generations.

Prior to this, he was Deputy Director of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme at the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme in Stockholm, Sweden.

This initiative, today led by an Alliance, including science, donors, sponsors and users, is a unique co-design effort to organize and define the science on global environmental change over the coming decades.

Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.13 Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

A report from the journal Environmental Health Perspectives on the connection between global environmental change, health, and medicine.

January 7, 2016 A study published in the journal Global Environmental Change examined communications from conservative think tanks between 1998 and 2013, and listed the Science and Public Policy Institute as the second - highest (next to the Heartland Institute) in the volume of outpout related to the denial of man - made climate change.

You can thank global warming for those mild winters, or global environmental change as I like to call it because as soon as you say the words global and warming together the claws come out.

VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change.

The study was recently published in the journal article Global Environmental Change.

Demands for scientific knowledge that makes a real difference to real peoples» lives grow as the consequences of global environmental changes become a reality for communities across the world, and societal risk profiles become increasingly complex.

To increase opportunities for research, education and training that strengthen scientific capacities in developing countries to understand, communicate and motivate action on critical global environmental change challenges.

Here, in one of Adam Nieman's experiments in visualizing global environmental change, is what four seconds of worldwide emissions of CO2 would look like if you could track the gas by its volume measured in United Nations towers:

I am proud to be a member of «Generation E» because I know that all E's Mr. Revkin mentioned can and will be improved under the common thread of preventing global environmental change.

(By the way, I encourage you to check out the inaugural Stephen Schneider Global Environmental Change Lecture that Oppenheimer delivered at last week's meeting of the American Geophysical Union.)

As a result, I was a (minor) co-author on a paper in Global Environmental Change earlier this year aiming to illustrate «how science might contribute to the identification of desirable and plausible futures and pave the way for transformations towards them.»

A new study in Global Environmental Change suggests that the loudest voices of dissent can affect the way researchers who have separately and repeatedly confirmed the reality of global climate change then talk about their own research.

Although lacking high - resolution (millimeter level) stratigraphy and Cretaceous - Paleogene event horizons, gradual floral turnover in India, and survival there of normally environmentally sensitive taxa, suggests that Deccan volcanism was unlikely to have caused the short - term trauma so characteristic elsewhere but may have played a role in driving global environmental change and ecosystem sensitivity prior to and after the Cretaceous - Paleogene boundary.

Johanna's interest in global environmental change began as an intern and later consultant with the UNFCCC secretariat (Bonn, Germany).

Global environmental change explains the warming trend over the last decade, but it doesn't explain why the last two winters have set record lows in certain parts of America and Canada.

However, there remains a serious lack of knowledge about fire's fundamental role in Earth system processes, as well as an insufficient appreciation of fire's interaction with anthropogenic global environmental change,» the authors write.

Professor Jim Skea — Research Director at the UK Energy Research Centre and former Director at the Policy Studies Institute and the Economic and Social Research Council Global Environmental Change Programme, and contributor to the Stern Review.

For over a quarter century, EIA has been recognized by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and independent journals, like Global Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmental problems.

Mediterranean, invasive, woody species grow larger than their less - invasive counterparts under potential global environmental change

«Text - mining the signals of climate change doubt,» Global Environmental Change Volume 36, January 2016, Pages 89 — 100.

Governor Thomas Kean speaks at the panel Global Environmental Change hosted by the National Academy of Sciences on April 24, 1989.

I have seen reports of polls by David Slade, 1989; by the «Global Environmental Change Report,» vol.

[U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Wildlife Health Center] Ask Dr. Global Change - Assists researchers, students, educators, decision makers and the general public find information and data relevant to global environmental change [Multiple agencies involved]

Despite global environmental changes, there are still large variations in weight status between children, indicating that there are individual differences in children's susceptibility to the current obesogenic environment [4].

START promotes research - driven capacity building to advance knowledge on global environmental change in Africa and Asia - Pacific.