Sentences with phrase «impact on global warming as»

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change released a study presenting the human impact on global warming as greatly exaggerated.

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The rising cost of oil, its impact on global warming, the geopolitical risks associated with oil dependency (especially as fuel for automobiles), followed more recently by the rise of cost effective alternatives presents a «change the world» opportunity for Apple.

As if all that wasn't enough, there were discussions on #BlackLivesMatter, the impact of global warming on the poorest in our world and the refugee crisis — giving voices to the Silent Stars around the world.

As members of society, the way that we act has the ability to impact others in big ways (global warming, racism) and in small ways (person talking on cell phone during a movie, smoker blowing smoke in your face as they pass you on the sidewalkAs members of society, the way that we act has the ability to impact others in big ways (global warming, racism) and in small ways (person talking on cell phone during a movie, smoker blowing smoke in your face as they pass you on the sidewalkas they pass you on the sidewalk).

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

Pokorny's work, coupled with a controversial new theory called the «biotic pump,» suggests that transforming landscapes from forest to field has at least as big an impact on regional climate as greenhouse gas — induced global warming.

7It is particularly ironic that Lomborg would offer such a ridiculously precise estimate of the cost of the impacts of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, inasmuch as the entire thrust of his books chapter on «global warming» is that practically nothing about the effects of greenhouse gases is known with certainty.

Such findings indicate that few places on Earth will be immune to global warming and that the tropics will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as increased tropical storm intensity.»

From a US political standpoint, though, I find it troubling that for the US to «do» something about global warming, such as joining the Kyoto Protocol, would require potentially serious negative economic impacts on the US economy.

An international team led by CSIRO researcher Mark Hemer has begun studying how global warming will influence the generation of swells and what impact that may have on sandy coastlines such as Australia's.

CO 2 equivalents: The GWP value (Global Warming Potential) of a gas is defined as the cumulative impact on the greenhouse effect of 1 tonne of the gas compared with that of 1 tonne of CO 2 over a specified period of time.

The story can be used as a stimulus on issues such as environmental impact, climate change and global warming.

Considering the impact of greenhouse gases on the warming of the planet - which has been forecasted to detrimentally affect global environments and make the Earth less inhabitable — the U.S. and China have come together to address and mitigate their emissions as the major contributors.

Almost as if on cue, representatives from NOAA's National Weather Service have been dispatched to tell us that the event e.g. «has absolutely nothing to do with global warming», but instead is entirely due to the impact of the current El Nino 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.

Longtime readers will recall how I've cited the Talking Heads lyric «same as it ever was» quite often over the years in assessing negotiations aimed at forging a new global agreement on slowing global warming and limiting its impacts.

But just as the species has been recovering from that threat, global warming is creating new pressures through the loss of summer sea ice and other impacts on the bears» preferred maritime habitat.

As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human - driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms.

Environmental groups are already bracing themselves for delays or disappointment on action to tackle global warming which, they say, will inevitably be seen as having an impact on American jobs.

The report on global warming as a source of conflict sees climate change amplifying discord in parts of Africa and Asia, but not enough to destabilize governments — and even as its impacts through 2020 in rich countries remain small.

No, Roddy wants to make a movie about the impact of climate change and global warming in the distant future, and he wants the Hollywood production to serve as a wake up call for humankind — to take action on climate change problems now!

But seen the environmental global CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisglobal CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisGLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisoning.

13 Human Impact on Climate Changes Global Warming As a result of increases in CO2 as well as other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have incrGlobal Warming As a result of increases in CO2 as well as other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have increaseAs a result of increases in CO2 as well as other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have increaseas well as other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have increaseas other greenhouse gases, global temperatures have incrglobal temperatures have increased.

With Al Gore as the new environmental poster boy and global warming on everyone's mind, with Katrina's impact still fresh and forecasts for more of the same and worse, here's a sampling of international opinion.

C13 also counted as «reject AGW» abstracts that: «Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly, e.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming».

According to Christy, «The actions being considered to «stop global warming» will have an imperceptible impact on whatever the climate will do, while making energy more expensive, and thus have a negative impact on the economy as a whole».»

She has been working through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and on December 7, 2005, she filed a climate change - related petition with to the Commission as an urgent message from the Inuit «sentinels» to the rest of the world on global warming's already dangerous impacts.

It was therefore easily rebutted when I wrote your «totally unsuitable» is contradicted by three papers: Arrhenius's 1896 paper proposing a logarithmic dependence of surface temperature on CO2, Hansen et al's 1985 paper pointing out that the time needed to warm the oceanic mixed layer would delay the impact of global warming, and Hofmann et al's 2009 paper modeling the dependence of CO2 on time as a raised exponential.

I should also have given a more complete list of the problems with your objections: in this case your «totally unsuitable» is contradicted by three papers: Arrhenius's 1896 paper proposing a logarithmic dependence of surface temperature on CO2, Hansen et al's 1985 paper pointing out that the time needed to warm the oceanic mixed layer would delay the impact of global warming, and Hofmann et al's 2009 paper modeling the dependence of CO2 on time as a raised exponential.

The document also provides short synopses of the status of the climate in different regions, and describes the impacts of continuing and increasing global warming on the regions, including increased incidences of extreme weather events, as well as the loss of lives and livelihoods caused by these events.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

Such a report must refrain from ignoring basic scientific practices, as the SPM authors blatantly do when claiming to be able to quantify with high precision their confidence in the impact of anthropogenic C02 emissions on global warming.

Researchers argue that tropical reservoirs in Brazil are a «methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and returning it as methane, with a much greater impact on global warming.»

I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims of human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.

At most, as plaintiffs have stated before and will state again at the risk of redundancy, the only relevant issue in this case with respect to global warming is the much narrower issue of what impact, if any, the A.B. 1493 Regulations will have on global warming.

Perhaps Mr. Steele's strongest point is that the obsession with Global Warming will have an unfair impact on funding for local environmental projects as these efforts have had a significant and direct impact on the survival of plant and animal species.

Global warming's greater than anticipated impact on permafrost will release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide as the soil thaws.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

As a result, significant, non-CO2 impacts on global warming are either ignored or trivialized by the IPCC.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

Based on international standards (ISO 14025), EPDs have worldwide applicability and include information about product environmental impacts such as resources, energy use and efficiency, global warming potential, emissions to air, soil and water, and waste generation.

«The CCR - II report correctly explains that most of the reports on global warming and its impacts on sea - level rise, ice melts, glacial retreats, impact on crop production, extreme weather events, rainfall changes, etc. have not properly considered factors such as physical impacts of human activities, natural variability in climate, lopsided models used in the prediction of production estimates, etc..

26 July: EgyptianStreets: For most Egyptians, global warming and climate change are seemingly foreign concepts - ones that are confined in occurrence and consequences to faraway lands... Because they are virtually non-existent concepts in the public consciousness, most Egyptians are unaware of the immense harm that can befall their country as a result of climate change and its potentially devastating impacts on Egypt... http://egyptianstreets.com/2015/07/26/egypt-to-witness-grave-consequences-within-10-years-if-global-warming-endures/

As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction»as a «weapon of mass destruction».

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

I would probably generally state it as «human CO2 activity has a measurable warming impact on global average temperature that can be readily discerned from the background of natural climate change and other human effects that may cause cooling, and this warming impact will be, in general, neutral in impact for humanity and the biosphere».

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

Instead of fats and carbohydrates, EPDs list environmental impacts such as the global warming impact (the carbon footprint), impact on ozone depletion, acidification potential, and more.

Reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s, mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs, have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a first - of - its - kind study — which Berkeley Lab participated in — examining the impact of black carbon on California's climate.