Sentences with phrase «hard by climate»

Across the world people are already being hit hard by climate change.

It's hard to see anything shifting these coal trends unless and until other energy choices become as cheap and convenient, or countries are kicked so hard by climate disruption that they realize the value of a global push to limit the human contribution to warming exceeds the economic value of abundant fossil energy.

The finding adds to evidence that lemmings will be hit hard by climate change.

That was made harder by the climate for funding: there might have been a fair amount of funding over our past decade, especially in Silicon Valley, but that wasn't the landscape in 1987.

For example, it is likely that poorer farmers would get hit much harder by a climate change catastrophe — such as a drought or flooding — thereby significantly reducing their income.

«When you change the assumption of who is hit hardest by climate impacts, very different results emerge,» Fleurbaey said.

June 29, 2017 • Scientists and economists predict what parts of the U.S. may get hit hardest by climate change.

This is Climate Change: This is Climate Change (World Premiere)-- USA, Brazil, Greenland, Somalia Project Creator: Danfung Dennis, Eric Strauss Key Collaborators: Diana El - Osta (Producer), Catherine Yrisarri (Producer), Jeff Skoll (Executive Producer), Elise Pearlstein (Executive Producer), Kathy Davidov (Executive Producer), Casey Brown (Executive Producer) In this expansive new four - part virtual reality docu - series from Participant Media and Condition One, journey to the far corners of the earth to discover the people and places being hit hardest by climate change.

The places hit hardest by climate woe might offer hazard pay and other enticements to settlers in order to prop up the tax base.

The full report concludes that Africa, Asian megadeltas, small islands and the Arctic will be hit the hardest by climate change.

We should invest in the communities hit hardest by climate impacts, pollution, and economic insecurity.

Not exact matches

Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

The deflationary economic climate makes it hard to compensate by raising prices.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

It is also the onlyCatholic programme which I've seen which sets out the Church's moral teaching from the Catechism on masturbation and homosexuality, subjects which are frequently ignored by Catholic education programmes as too hard to teach in the current climate.

«The world's poorest, who least deserve it, are hit hard by the life and death impacts of a changing climate, unstable seasons and a natural world out of balance.

I see so many recipes featuring coconut oil that seem to be created by people who live in warm climates, because there's never any mention of rock hard coconut oil.

The only good thing about buying processed almond milk is that it's often fortified with vitamin D and Vitamin B12 which are harder to come by especially on a vegan diet living in a cold climate with little sunshine.

In a region hard hit by climate change, the Rainforest Alliance focuses on advancing community forestry, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and environmental education to defend vulnerable landscapes and support rural communities.

By thinking hard about what gets shared and liked on social media, they are helping to counter the «climate silence» and ensure that the issue remains interesting and relevant, particularly to younger audiences — something the legacy media would do well to take note of.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

The Merseyside police and crime commissioner, Jane Kennedy, said members of the «hard left» were creating a climate that encouraged such attacks and said the building — which also houses other businesses — would be given «special attention» by police.

It seems to me that the notion that man - made CO2 has a significant effect on climate change is being disproven with more certainty, as day by day more hard scientific evidence is showing that this hypothesis is a delusion.

«They weren't going to just support anybody because in this economic climate money's hard to come by both with bodies and money, so they made some calculated decisions about what candidates are viable,» he said.

Still, some Democratic strategists believe Obama has little to gain by addressing climate change three weeks before an election that might pivot on the electoral votes of hard - to - win states like Ohio, Virginia and Colorado.

Alice Thomas, climate displacement manager for Refugees International, said tens of thousands of destitute Malians are pouring into countries already hit hard by starvation, lack of water and crop failures.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

Every year, about 390 million people are infected with dengue virus, which is primarily spread by Aedes mosquitoes, with tropical climates hit hardest.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species factors in climate change, but a species that stays stable as temperatures rise gradually might be hit much harder by an extreme event.

Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

According to a study recently made public, Vermont's $ 600 million snowmobiling industry could be hard hit by climate change.

For the pronghorn and 25 other endangered or threatened species, these are the hardest living conditions in the United States, and they are made worse by livestock grazing, recreational and urban development, hunting and poaching, and the effects of climate change.

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

There was a concerted effort by special interests who are opposed to policies to combat climate change to retrench and fight even harder in their campaign to discredit the science.

The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in Science, could make it harder to hold warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously by other climate scientists, with questions raised over the results of the analysis.

A dynamical systems approach, by contrast, consider climate as a sum of many different parts, each with its own properties, all of them interdependent in ways that are hard to predict.

Shennan tested whether changes in climate hit the farmers hard by comparing the patterns of population growth and decline with regional fluctuations in climate, as reflected in Greenland ice core samples.

It is tough, they say, to sort out whether fish populations are hit harder by human fishing, the sharks» appetite, climate change or some other environmental shift.

The study is among the first to attempt to put hard numbers on questions about «environmental refugees» that may be caused by climate change.

Some of the proposals reviewed by Stephen Battersby for geoengineering a cooler planet will be a hard sell given the polarised debate on climate change (22 September, p 30).

With news hard to come by in Copenhagen, the AP covers Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change head Rajendra Pachauri's vegetarianism, which the scientist says is carbon friendly.»

The Paris agreement will help reduce the chances of dangerous climate change — though by exactly how much is hard to quantify.

Will editorials and social media comments labeling The Silurian Hypothesis as a crackpot paper written by a crackpot climate scientist help or diminish the hard work of all climate scientists and many others?

The internet site, Real Climate, (http://www.realclimate.org) has informative articles written by experienced and well - regarded atmospheric scientists, but can be hard for non-scientists to understand.

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It's not like I grew up in a tropical climate by any means, but I'm having a hard time adjusting.

While there's no doubt that climate change, artificial intelligence, automation, technologies and the need to accommodate an ever - expanding global population will remain key issues, it's hard to foresee what else we'll be dealing with by the time today's school age students enter the workforce.

It's hard to carry out a vision of student success, for example, if the school climate is characterized by student disengagement, or teachers don't know what instructional methods work best for their students, or test data are clumsily analyzed.