Potential
impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.
Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate - policy - averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from
the impacts of a warming climate.
A scientific review article cited by both IPCC and Stern is T.P. Barnett, J.C. Adam and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Potential
impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.
The Benefits and Vulnerabilities of a Warming Europe Scientists evaluate the economic and environmental
impacts of a warmer climate on European countries, finding a range of effects on tourism, electricity demand, and ecosystem production.
Many studies have looked at the likely
impacts of a warmer climate, and it is very hard to find significant beneficial influences.
Potential
impacts of a warming climate on water availability in a snow - dominated region.
«We have to ask, what is
the impact of a warmer climate?
Impacts of a Warming Climate: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
A new report revealed
the impact of warming climates worldwide on the insurance industry.
Not exact matches
With a long history
of personal interest in sustainable food, Paul recently called upon the Doha
climate conference to take into account the
impact of the livestock sector on global
warming.
During the summer months, while exercising, or even spending time in a
warm and dry
climate may also
impact the amount
of fluids each individual woman needs.
[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations
of Ghana include a
warm, tropical
climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite
impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens
of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.
However, the recent period
of cooling does suggest that either manmade global
warming may be smaller or that the
impact of other factors may be greater than
climate models have so far assumed.
Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance
of action on
climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the
impact of global
warming.
The legally binding international Agreement on
climate change, among others, addresses issues
of global
warming, including its
impact on food security and agriculture.
«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition
of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst
impacts of climate change and reach a goal
of net - zero global
warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer
of the Union
of Concerned Scientists.
In the current context
of global
warming it is important to assess the
impacts that changes in ocean and
climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past
climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the
climate system.
With Arctic temperatures
warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts
of carbon into the atmosphere through the end
of the century with significant
climate impacts.
KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies
climate modeling and the regional
impacts of global
warming.
To date, concerns about
climate change's
impact on agriculture have focused on drought — another likely outcome
of warming world.
Similar conclusions were reached about
impacts of climate change on wheat in the UK, where
climate change models are predicting
warmer, wetter winters for the country.
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.
Koslow has researched the
impact of climate - change - driven
warming on what are known as oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), naturally occurring low - oxygen regions found well below the ocean's surface.
Recent modelling by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm
Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies
of past
climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm
climate, suggest that the planet will soon have
warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become
warm enough.
«This study demonstrates the negative
impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the
warmer and more populated areas
of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions
of the world.
«We found that vegetation change may have a greater
impact on the amount
of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects
of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School
of Environmental Science & Management.
Checking 20 years worth
of projections shows that the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change has consistently underestimated the pace and
impacts of global
warming
A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects
of climate change will severely
impact the Albertine Rift, one
of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global
warming.
«
Climate change has had a notable impact upon the distribution of many wild bees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.
Climate change has had a notable
impact upon the distribution
of many wild bees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the
climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.
climate has started to
warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline
of England's Bees.»
«White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and
impacts of global
warming, controlled media access to government
climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions
of climate change.»
Other changes unrelated to the
climate stand to exacerbate the
impacts of warmer and less predictable weather.
«So far, I believe the benefits (
of Arctic
warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the
impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global
warming this year.
A study published in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology has found that because the newer engines emit higher levels
of the
climate -
warming pollutant black carbon than traditional engines, their
impact on the
climate is uncertain.
New research into the
impact of climate change has found that
warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution
of marine biodiversity.
This work is particularly timely given the work this year
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) to develop a Special Report on the
Impacts of global
warming of 1.5 oC above pre-industrial levels.
During a Friday morning session titled «Fire and
Climate,» Meg Krawchuk, a UC Berkeley «pyrogeographer,» described her efforts to model the
impacts of global
warming on fire patterns across the world.
The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire
impacts of a
warming global
climate, which many scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.
The
impacts of climate change include global
warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.
Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation
of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately
impact the
climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist from the University
of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and his colleagues in Great Britain, Norway and the United States.
«Ice age vertebrates had mixed responses to
climate change: New study contradicts idea
of uniform population change, has significance for understanding global
warming impact.»
Changes to Antarctic winds have already been linked to southern Australia's drying
climate but now it appears they may also have a profound
impact on
warming ocean temperatures under the ice shelves along the coastline
of West and East Antarctic.
While Yahtse Glacier may be ignoring
climate signals for now, Larsen and his colleagues aren't about to discount the
impact of recent
warming trends entirely.
Unexpectedly, this more detailed approach suggests changes in Antarctic coastal winds due to
climate change and their
impact on coastal currents could be even more important on melting
of the ice shelves than the broader
warming of the ocean.
The area boasts the world's
warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes
of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global
climate and air chemistry enough to
impact billions
of people worldwide.
«Reductions
of methane and black carbon (soot) would likely have only a modest
impact on near - term global
climate warming,» the authors at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wrote.
«
Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss
of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much
of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels
of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human
Impacts on
Climate.»
The report from the Commission on Health and
Climate Change lays out the health
impacts of a
warming world and offers policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse.
Continued emissions
of greenhouse gases will cause further
warming and long - lasting changes in all components
of the
climate system, increasing the likelihood
of widespread and profound
impacts affecting all levels
of society and the natural world, the report finds.
Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other
impacts from a changing
climate could boost the number
of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.
Moreover, the
impacts of that
warming, including sea level rise, drought, floods and other extreme weather, could hit earlier and harder than many models project, said study co-author John Fasullo, a
climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.