Sentences with phrase «impacts of a changing climate»

This course will provide an overview of research on current and projected future hydro - ecological impacts of a changing climate at local to global scales.

To give coral reefs and other global ecosystems time to adapt, we need to identify areas that will escape the worst impacts of a changing climate.

For example, climate modeling research helps the country predict the possible impacts of the changing climate.

On balance, most research suggests that the negative impacts of a changing climate far outweigh the positive impacts.

The ecological impacts of a changing climate are evident, from terrestrial polar regions to tropical marine environments.

«Although our results highlight the potential of adverse impacts of changing climate on wheat, similar risks apply to other crops as well, for their growing times and sensitive periods partially overlap with wheat,» adds Reimund Rötter.

If women and girls bear the greatest burdens from floods, food scarcity and other climate extremes globally, can they also be empowered to strengthen their families and communities to cope with impacts of a changing climate?

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

«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.

«We need comprehensive and sustained observations of what's going on in the ocean to compare with what we're learning from our models and to understand the full impact of a changing climate,» Long said.

Even as Hurricane Harvey continues to devastate Texas and Louisiana, experts and policymakers are drawing lessons to better prepare for the costly impacts of a changing climate.

Kinney, P., J. Rosenthal, C. Rosenzweig, C. Hogrefe, W. Solecki, K. Knowlton, C. Small, B. Lynn, K. Civerolo, J. Ku, R. Goldberg, and C. Oliveri, 2006: Assessing potential public health impacts of changing climate and land uses: The New York Climate and Health Project.

The BIG U proposal was developed to protect Lower Manhattan from floodwater, storms, and other impacts of a changing climate.

As of press time, EPA's climate change website remained in place, featuring data about last year being the warmest on record, the health impacts of climate change and interactive maps that allow users to see the local impacts of a changing climate.

The Risky Business Project focused on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

The project grew out of concerns by the Co-Chairs that the U.S. was not developing sound risk assessments to respond to the impacts of a changing climate.

The Risky Business Project focuses on quantifying and publicizing the economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.

«We seeing the impact of a changing climate as a result of those emissions on the very poorest people.»

The researchers assessed how holding multiple belief systems influences the ability of these communities to produce food and adapt to the impact of changing climates.

The researchers also cautioned that the impacts of a changing climate on crop yields remain uncertain.

«By doing this, we can better understand and predict the future of HABs and water safety in the Lake Erie community with the impact of changing climate and environmental factors.»

In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.

«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.

Despite the consternation, the Colorado River Basin is already feeling the impacts of a changing climate, and many states are preparing for a future with less water.

Researchers operating from the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER site brave hostile conditions to better understand questions about biodiversity, the impact of a changing climate, and the structure and function of the Dry Valleys ecosystem.

As a densely populated, highly urbanized coastal state, New Jersey is especially vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate.

In this study, we apply an empirical growth and yield model for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) to the southeastern United States in an effort to predict the impacts of changing climate

Indicators: Artists on Climate Change includes over a dozen artists whose works explore the impacts of the changing climate.

Indicators: Artists on Climate Change will include over a dozen artists whose works explore the impacts of the changing climate.

Even as we take new steps to cut carbon pollution, we must also prepare for the impacts of a changing climate that are already being felt across the country.

Here are the main bullet points from the summary on impacts of the changing climate that have already been detected (it's important to note that the panel stresses it is not, in this section, assessing how much of the change is human - driven or the result of natural variability):

The Act, which has passed both houses of the state legislature, requires that major permits and projects funded through various state programs consider the impacts of our changing climate — sea level rise, storm surge and flooding — in the planning process.

Due to lack of climate data in the coastal areas, there is not enough understanding on the impact of changing climate on coastal ecosystems.

Now they must also suffer the impacts of a changing climate, impacts they had relatively little hand in producing.

The report discusses the impacts of a changing climate on ecosystems and human infrastructure in regions with significant presence of permafrost, as well as the impacts of thawing permafrost on global climate.

A fuller description of the monsoon and the impact of changing climate on South Asia can be found in Turner & Annamalai (2012; Climate Change and the South Asian Monsoon, Nature Climate Change 2: 587 - 595, doi: 10.1038 / nclimate1495).

This transition can deliver very significant economic gains, particularly for regional areas which will feel acutely the impacts of a changing climate.

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.

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

«These changes would therefore amplify the inequality associated with the impacts of a changing climate.»

Although Curtatone ties systems thinking to I - 93 and childhood obesity in Somerville, the same long - term thought process of actions and consequences must be utilized by city and regional leaders today as we increasingly feel the impacts of a changing climate.

In the CC21 meeting, one person suggested that during the COP22 civil society should mobilise in locations that are worst effected by the impacts of a changing climate instead of the the location of the COP.