Sentences with phrase «impacts of a warming world»

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.

Peter, being an alarmist is a responsible role for any who see, experience, suffer from, research or educate themselves about the direct impacts of a warming world.

A further potential climate change connection, which Kevin overlooks, is the impact of a warmer world on the strength of the prevailing winds, and their increase in strength with height.

In this as in many aspects of the climate - change problem, the distribution of possible impacts of a warming world is skewed, with a long tail on the costly side.

Adapting to changes already underway: As the Climate Hot Map demonstrates, the impacts of a warming world are already being felt by people around the globe.

How would you suggest that they measure whether or not their sacrifices have been successful when you do not even know what the actual negative impacts of a warmer world will be?

From extreme heat and powerful storms to related public health and food security concerns, this world leader is far from invulnerable to the impacts of our warming world.

It's about time that the climate movement recognized the connections between the impacts of a warming world, populations being forced from their homes and immigration policies.

t's about time that the climate movement recognized the connections between the impacts of a warming world, populations being forced from their homes and immigration policies.

No surprise, Shell examines the physical, financial, and political impacts of a warming world to its own business.

Climate finance is essential for enabling developing countries to both reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of a warming world.

For poorer nations, that means money to finance the costly shift to renewable energy technologies and help deal with ongoing impacts of a warming world, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires, extreme weather, rising sea level, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss.

The IPCC is set to release the second and third installments of its report over the next month, providing a deeper look at the current and projected impacts of a warmer world, as well as mitigation strategies we can implement to limit future warming.

The disastrous impact of a warming world....

Southeast Asia depends on climate adaptation finance to lessen the impact of a warming world on its people and economies.

Part 4 discussed why adaptation through innovation is central to preparing for the impacts of a warmer world.

Not exact matches

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.

The reality is though, that we can't ignore the ever - increasing depletion of our world's forests and its negative impact through greenhouse gases causing global warming.

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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.

World regions that will bear the brunt of global warming's impact on food include India, Mexico and southern Africa

To date, concerns about climate change's impact on agriculture have focused on drought — another likely outcome of warming world.

«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.

It's an odd scenario — death by freezing in a warming world — but one that could have profound impacts on one of the most culturally and economically important trees in Alaska as it dies out and other, less valuable trees take its place.

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 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.

Researchers carried out the first in - depth audit of its kind for a region in the UK to see how biodiversity might be impacted in Norfolk as the world warms.

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.

«The results thus predict an interesting two-fold negative impact on the potential world - wide distribution of the miconia plant resulting from global warming since a decrease in potentially affected areas in overrun territories would be minimum,» says González - Muñoz.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

It can be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the wWorld (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the worldworld:

«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.

Professor Grant Bigg, from the University's Department of Geography, said: «Many people may associate warmer seas with the pleasant weather conditions they're used to experiencing while on holiday, but the fact of the matter is that an increase in sea temperatures is having a huge impact on the world's weather.

The European Union in the draft reaffirmed its commitment to the joint developed - world pledge to mobilize at least $ 100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries cope with the impacts of global warming.

Clearly these are issues that physical scientists can impact by careful presentation of data and interpretations concerning changes to the physical environment in a warming world.

That's weakening coral reefs around the world, making them more vulnerable to impacts of ocean warming and water pollution.

Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

Because locations throughout the inhabited world are expected to warm 2σ to 4σ by 2050, amplified rates of human conflict could represent a large and critical impact of anthropogenic climate change.

Following on a decade from when former American Vice President, Al Gore alerted the world about the threats of Global Warming and their impacts on our planet and our lives, it seems all too real now that another one of these films didn't really need to be made.

«We know that many billions are required over the next few years to fill the gap in climate finance, but the money pledged today is vital to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet cope with the immediate impacts of our rapidly warming world,» Ishii continued.

This october why not head to the wilds of far north queensland to discover the impact of climate change on this world heritage listed ecosystem and see how endemic animals of the area are adapting to a warming environment.

«Because they harbor so much of the world's biodiversity, mountain regions are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of tourism, climate change, and global warming,» says Linda McMillan, UIAA Mountain Protection Commission president and Deputy Vice-Chairman, IUCN - WCPA Mountains Biome.

... it is not enough to simply say «we know that increasing CO2 levels will make the world warmer and that is a bad thing», you need to be able to specify how much warmer and quantify the impacts with some level of precision.

In other words, it is not enough to simply say «we know that increasing CO2 levels will make the world warmer and that is a bad thing», you need to be able to specify how much warmer and quantify the impacts with some level of precision.

However your original statement that a warming world increases the impacts of el nino and la nina is pertinent and enough of a problem for humanity to contend with.

«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.

Andy, yes it is true that you have been criticized for writing that the only firm impact of climate change is more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas.

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