Sentences with phrase «hard by climate change»

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find.

In something as volatile and ever changing as the real estate market, a realtor would continue doing their job despite changing climates but would focus on rentals perhaps, instead of residential purchases, or would even engage in commercial real estate during times where conventional clients are hard to come by.

While everything from climate change to techno - scientific developments is marked by acceleration and exponential growth, our current moment in time is increasingly hard to grasp.

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What I do see, however, is a coming era where every single unusual and / or extreme weather event gets blamed on «climate change» by die hard zealots, who then proceed to attack anyone and everyone who failed to take the extreme measures they insisted on.

On balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stuff.

In light of the hard - won scientific consensus developed by the IPCC, has the time not yet come to «center» our discussion on what we know of climate change, based upon good science, and talk about what we are going to do in order to address the human - driven predicament in which humanity finds itself in these early years of Century XXI?

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

If there is a hard data gap for this period, then Cato has done a positive service (for once) by pointing out that Warming Island might also have been disconnected from the land in this period... thus deflating the landmark's «poster child» status as an indication of unusual climate change.

Earlier this week, Climate Progress posted an interesting essay, «Climate Change is Fracking Society,» written by Auden Schendler, who is vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company and the author of «Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution.»

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I conjecture that three changes in the way in which the climate problem is presented by the experts to the general public would make the conversation go better: acknowledge that climate constraints are unwelcome (thereby establishing empathy with general audiences, as a doctor does when conveying bad news), present the science as unfinished (thereby taking away the surprise factor that accompanies every new wrinkle — cf. the cosmic ray stories of a couple of weeks ago), and admit that no solution is wonderful (something hard for much of our community, which loves some strategy and hates at least one of the others).

122, Bob (Sphaerica): I think that I more or less agree with you, except that I haven't seen the tiniest bit of action taken on climate change in the U.S., so it's hard to worry much about people «demonizing CO2 ″ or «ANY of the efforts made by politicians» because there is nothing to see.

I think that I more or less agree with you, except that I haven't seen the tiniest bit of action taken on climate change in the U.S., so it's hard to worry much about people «demonizing CO2» or «ANY of the efforts made by politicians» because there is nothing to see.

It is well documented that the nations that will be hardest hit by climate change (and are being hit!)

By now, enough of the hard work of measuring and modeling has been done to provide high scientific confidence that while we are and will affect the north Atlantic with climate change, and this will have consequences, it is very unlikely that there will be a huge and abrupt change in the coming decades.

(1) the well is already poisoned, as climate change has already become a wedge issue, and it's hard to believe it could get detoxified by any discrete set of communicative actions;

The Great Transition, written by EPI's research team — Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams — focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by policy, economics, and the hard realities of accelerating climate change.

7 The option of leaving climate change to the UNFCCC and not including it in the post-2015 development agenda is not considered, because the crucial importance of climate change for poverty reduction and sustainable development is so widely recognised, not least by Rio +20, that its omission is now hard to conceive.