Sentences with phrase «in slowing climate change»

That may be an obvious statement for regular followers of renewable energy news, and of the green movement in general, but a new study published in Conservation Biology illustrates just how important intact tropical forests are in slowing climate change.

Though you might feel like your lifestyle is insignificant compared to things like vehicles emissions, the choices we make in our day to day life, what we eat, how we live those things play a major role in slowing climate change.

The former alternative means that Australia fails to do its share in slowing climate change and ocean acidification.

We're not going to make a lot of headway in slowing climate change and environmental destruction until we stop our silly habit of building houses out of two by fours.

«We should not be complacent about continued subsidies from nature in slowing climate change.»

Regulating emissions of methane from fracking to free natural gas will have important co-benefits in slowing climate change

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The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate changIn «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate changin the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.

In time, climate change is expected to spur a slow, global northern migration as temperatures become more hospitable closer to the Arctic.

It found the rapid pace of global warming and the slow pace of coral growth meant the reef was unlikely to evolve quickly enough to survive the level of climate change predicted in the next few decades.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

Meat Free Monday is about eating less meat in order to slow climate change, help the environment and live a healthier life!

The companies, co-ops and individuals were nominated by their peers for expanding the boundaries of industry practices in at least one of the nine areas identified by the Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate climate change.

But a new chapter in the international climate change negotiations begins this year — and could be a unique moment in efforts to craft international agreement on how the world will collectively attempt to slow global climate change.

The governor has been slow to embrace some environmental causes — he was notably careful in his rhetoric about climate change and he delayed a decision on fracking in the state for years.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.

DELHI - In an effort to slow down the impacts of accelerated climate change due to human activity, five area women, Janet Tweed, Kathy Mario, Lisa Robinson, Bonnie Seegmiller and Irene Berkowitz, combined their efforts to facilitate a rally to show support for the National People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square in DelhIn an effort to slow down the impacts of accelerated climate change due to human activity, five area women, Janet Tweed, Kathy Mario, Lisa Robinson, Bonnie Seegmiller and Irene Berkowitz, combined their efforts to facilitate a rally to show support for the National People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square inclimate change due to human activity, five area women, Janet Tweed, Kathy Mario, Lisa Robinson, Bonnie Seegmiller and Irene Berkowitz, combined their efforts to facilitate a rally to show support for the National People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square inClimate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square in Delhin Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square in Delhin Delhi.

The connection between volcanism and climate change was slow to be realized in science.

Particles of sulfuric acid — injected by volcanoes or humans — have slowed the pace of climate change in the past decade

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

Now it seems swirling eddies in the ocean are mathematically the same — and could help to slow climate change.

Climate change impacts in the deep ocean are less visible, but the longevity and slow pace of life in the deep makes that ecosystem uniquely sensitive to environmental variability.

In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past few decades suggested that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

National representatives discussed such impacts, stressing the urgency for action to slow them in their remarks to attendees during one of four concurrent sessions on curbing greenhouse emissions, adapting to climate change, technological solutions, and how to pay for such changes.

Lead author Dr Orly Razgour, of the University of Southampton, explained: «Long - lived, slow - reproducing species with smaller population sizes are not likely to be able to adapt to future climate change fast enough through the spread of new mutations arising in the population.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

There has been lot of it in the news recently, but the CO2 rates are going up slowly and the climate change is going to be slow and changing the industrial situation of the world is going to be slow.

Now researchers say they have actually found a way to make such a scheme work with forests across the desert — and to slow climate change in the process.

SAN FRANCISCO — The specter of climate change has prompted radical ideas, such as pumping CO2 into the deep ocean to slow its buildup in the air.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

«I think part of the reason slow feedbacks weren't included [in previous IPCC reports] was that they were assumed to be too slow to be relevant to human - induced climate change,» said Michael Previdi, lead author of the report.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.

But there is some good news: Even seemingly small changes in curbing greenhouse gas emissions not only can reduce harmful pollutants and clear the air, but also help to slow climate change.

A slow - down in global warming is not a sign that climate change is ending, but a natural blip in an otherwise long - term upwards trend, research shows.

A fuel to slow climate change lies 3,000 meters below a new wellhead in China's Sichuan Province.

«There may be a potential upside to using biochar in the temperate zone, like promoting soil carbon storage to slow climate change,» said Dr. Hungate, «but our analysis, summarizing more than 1,000 observations, shows that the yield benefits just aren't there.

Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow - motion race up the mountaintop, and climate change is the starting gun, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

Changes in U.S. climate policy — and not just in the supply and cost of fuels — will play a big role in accelerating or slowing shifts in the U.S. energy mix, Quigley and the authors agree.

The study examined the benefits of global and domestic GHG mitigation on US air quality and human health in 2050, comparing a scenario with no global action to reduce GHGs with an aggressive scenario that significantly slows climate change.

«Air quality and health in U.S. will improve from other nations» actions to slow climate change.»

Another gimp in the G - 8's announced stride towards slowing climate change is the putative date this group offered for achieving its emissions drop — mid-century.

In 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had noted that the temperature data seemed to suggest that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998.

Specifically, in the case of rapid action to slow catastrophic climate change, the best alternatives appear to be: methane and black carbon (otherwise known as soot).

This is due to the slow changes in ocean currents which affect climate parameters such as air temperature and precipitation.

The findings show a slight but notable increase in that average temperature, putting a dent in the idea that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, a trend highlighted in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

«Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay: Rising temperatures due to climate change were found to have less influence on mosquito populations than land use changes and the decay of residual DDT in the environment.»

In fact, he says its slowing could be mainly due to natural variability, rather than a result of climate change.