Sentences with phrase «impacts of warming»

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.

Yet these sacrifices are remarkably small compared to the devastating impacts of a warmer planet.

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in a snow - dominated region.

The double impact of warming atmosphere and warming oceans means that more water will be deposited when the rains do arrive.

Two years later, the call went out for impacts of warming greater than 2 °C.

But we have yet to experience the full impacts of that warming, given that ice sheets and oceans will take decades to respond to rising temperatures.

Even as we work to avoid worse impacts in the future, the public and private sectors must act now to strengthen our resilience to the unavoidable impacts of warming that's already underway.

As the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world endure the increasingly damaging impacts of a warming world, tired excuses and calls to delay action are no longer acceptable.

As for climate policy, one needs to consider the ecological and agricultural impacts of warming and ocean acidification if one expects to be taken seriously.

Many studies have looked at the likely impacts of a warmer climate, and it is very hard to find significant beneficial influences.

Susan was lead author of Impacts of A Warming Arctic, the synthesis report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004, on which she worked for four years with 300 scientists from the Arctic and beyond.

Susan is the lead author of Impacts of a Warming Arctic, the synthesis report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment on which she worked for four years with 300 scientists from the Arctic and beyond.

We will not accept a «Durban mandate» or any outcome that locks in the current low ambition and inaction for many years, and condemns billions of people in Africa and across the world to suffer the worst impacts of a warming world.

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.

Working Group II speculated on the negative 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.

«Direct impact of warming on physiology is a fundamental and direct consequence of warming, but it's really only one foundation stone for the response of the ecosystem,» Deutsch says.

The clearest impact of warming on drought is when higher temperatures cause more evaporation and increase water demand, as has happened with this drought.

The end of the year also saw international negotiators agree to a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions to keep that temperature from rising beyond 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels to limit the adverse impacts of warming, such as melting glaciers, rising sea levels and potentially more extreme weather.

Bill McKibben, whose climate protests this year have been a thorn in the administration's side, said satirically before the debate that it would be nice if the candidates «happened in passing to note» the visible impacts of warming, like record melting of Arctic ice and the drought consuming 60 percent of the United States.

The negative impacts of warmer winters may be less evident in Nordic countries than in places like Alaska, where people and animals like polar bears and seals are more dependent on the presence of sea ice, according to Serreze.

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 state is seeing increased flooding, sharpening risk of drought and other impacts of warming on its agricultural industry.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

The report is distinct from last month's federal review of specific impacts of warming on agriculture, ecosystems, coasts and the like in the United States, focusing instead on how weather patterns will change.

I certainly have seen references to accelerated warming in the press, and I do think what they really have in mind is something like «accelerated impacts of warming,» which would be a fairer description of what has been coming out in the scientific literature.

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.

Some of the least understood impacts of warming are the possible connections to health problems, like patterns of tropical disease and the frequency of smoggy days, as the National Academies of Science concluded in 2001.

Is it possible that the bears are being set up for high mortality, in essence, by that asymmetric impact of warming?

The uneven impact of the warming «could mean a massive restructuring of the global economy,» says Solomon Hsiang, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley, one of the researchers who have painstakingly documented the historical impact of temperature.

Communities throughout the Alaskan Arctic grapple with the physical impacts of the warmest February in recorded history.

Scientists are concerned because impacts of a warming Arctic may be felt elsewhere.

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.

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

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.

It serves as a brake on the pace of glaciers on their journey down to the sea — and the combined impact of warmer atmospheres and warmer seas in the Southern Ocean are rapidly thinning much of the ice shelf.

If we put the low - sensitivity results into economic models the results show that the economic impacts of warming are very low and possible even negative (i.e. a net benefit).

Feeling it: UW Bothell class helps students face emotional impact of a warming planet (Seattle Times, March 13, 2018)

Given the detectable impacts of a warmer planet on society, the presentation will argue as to what level of global warming is dangerous for specific sectors.

Nearly 120 nations, including the U.S., have ratified the 2015 Paris climate agreement and committed to keeping the worst impacts of warming from materializing by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.