Sentences with phrase «impacts of a warming climate»

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.

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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.
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