Sentences with phrase «hit by the changing climate»

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Storms like Sandy have been routinely hitting the same area as noted by the historical record which started way before any potential climate changes were observed.

It is really urgent that we tackle climate change for the sake of the poorest people in the world who are being hit by it right now.»

«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.

As no one can really tell when or where the impacts of climate change will hit, aside from identifying climate tolerant varieties farmers are also using nature's strength by relying on diversity.

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.

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.

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

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

Producer and environmental activist Laurie David — wife of comedian Larry David — assumed that NSTA would be all too happy to send its members free copies of An Inconvenient Truth, the climate change tutorial by the former vice president that was a surprise hit at the box office.

After the UK was hit by three storms in quick succession, everyone wants to know if climate change is to blame.

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.

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.

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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.

A huge scientific paper published by James Hansen and a group of international scientists contains dire warnings about how climate change will hit us.

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 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 cChange: 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 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 cChange (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 climate changechange.

In the first episode of Extreme Weather presented by Martine Croxall we take a look at the devastating floods which have hit Thailand, freak snow storms in the US, the coldest places on earth, dust storms in Texas and the likelihood of climate change bringing on more extreme weather.

Megacorporation CREO works to reverse the devastating effects of climate change, but the facility is hit by a mysterious, catastrophic event.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

India would be the hardest hit by climate change in terms of food production, said a study, «The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal Ecologicaclimate change in terms of food production, said a study, «The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal Ecologicalchange in terms of food production, said a study, «The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal EcologicaClimate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal EcologicalChange on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective» released last month by the Universal Ecological Fund.

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

Perhaps the headline will end up being: «Republican Candidates Not Even Asked About Climate Change Because The Van Carrying The Questions Was Hit By a Beautiful Drunken Female Celebrity Driver and The Bag of Questions, Which Fell Out of The Van, Was Carried Away By The Stray Puppy of a Football Star» Page 1 stuff, for sure.

LONDON, 28 September, 2015 − El Niño, that periodic bubble of heat that hits the tropical Pacific every few years, has nothing to do with climate change — but the phenomenon could be made much more devastating by climate change, according to two new studies.

In recent months, new research, in part inspired by last winter's «polar vortex» excursion southward into the eastern United States, and the White House - spurred speculation that it was caused by anthropogenic climate change, has hit the scientific press.

You can check the scientific literature on this topic by going to Google Scholar and typing in «seasonal phenology and climate change» I got a little over 22,000 hits on this topic.

Hurricane Sandy has proven to be a wake - up call about the potential dangers posed by climate change, and it's even possible — though by no means certain — that we won't just hit the snooze button and go back to sleep as the images of destruction in New York and New Jersey begin to fade.

This is weaker than the EU's target of a 40 % reduction in emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, and the US target of a 26 - 28 % reduction in emissions by 2025 on 2005 levels — although Jonathan Grant, head of sustainability and climate change at PwC, suggests Japan does need to decarbonise at a slightly faster rate than the EU and the US to hit its target.

Dr Emily Shuckburgh said that with global temperatures hitting new record highs, communicating the risks posed by climate change was more important than ever.

One of the proofs was that LA was hit with the worst drought in at least 1,200 years in 2014, triggered by high temperatures and reduced rainfall linked to the change of climate and weather patterns.

Tribune: A report commissioned by the government in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund found last year that Pakistan was among the 10 countries likely to be most badly hit by global climate change.

In most models that show the world reducing emissions enough to hit the 2 °C climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

Most people do believe in the climate changing but do not believe in the the bull $ hit about it being catastrophic caused by man.

The farming, pastoralist, fishing and forest communities that provide the bulk of the planet's food are hardest hit by climate change.

If climate change is so wrong, why do these deniers not line every shore that scientists predict will be hit by hurricanes?»

Who will be hardest hit by climate change?

Unfortunately, those who will be hit hardest and first by the impacts of a changing climate are likely to be the poor and vulnerable, especially those in the least developed countries.

We do need to invest in infrastructure in the face of the climate change we've already locked in, and if we don't simultaneously radically lower our emissions, and that by the way has huge implications for the industry that is the dominant industry in precisely the areas that are being hardest hit, the oil and gas industry, which is a major economic engine in Texas and Louisiana, and specifically in some of the areas that are being hardest hit, which is a whole other layer of risk that we have seen very little about.

Savings can also be channelled to building resilience of countries that will be hardest hit by climate change.»

They ask, What if we hit the brakes on climate change by tracking gas emissions from space?

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, hit back against climate denier Lord Nigel Lawson's accusation that the Bank had its priorities wrong by researching the impact of climate change in the insurance industry.

Phoenix, Arizona, for example, could hit 120 °F this weekend, and with dry heat comes wildfires, burning right now across the southwest and stoking climate change further by destroying millions of acres of forests.

Jan Kowalzig, Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The poorest of the poor are hit first and hardest by the impacts of climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the Climate Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The poorest of the poor are hit first and hardest by the impacts of climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the climate change, although they had little or no role in causing the crisis.

«Ethiopia has been hit by a double blow, both from a change to the rainy seasons that have been linked to long - term climate change and now from El Niño, which has potentially led the country to one of the worst droughts in decades,» she said.

If we don't secure investment in our energy infrastructure, we could see the lights going out, consumers hit by spiralling energy prices and dangerous climate change.

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

The world can not hope to hit the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's goal of cutting global emissions in half by 2050 if reductions only come from developed countries.

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