Sentences with phrase «including potential climate impacts»

She emphasizes that communities need scientists who are available to answer questions related to science - based problems and solutions, including potential climate impacts.

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The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.

Future impacts of climate change on marine fisheries have the potential to negatively influence a wide range of socio - economic factors, including food security, livelihoods and public health, -LSB-...]

The two available national - scale studies that examine the economic effects of climate change across U.S. sectors, including the Impact Lab team's American Climate Prospectus, suggested that potential economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and rclimate change across U.S. sectors, including the Impact Lab team's American Climate Prospectus, suggested that potential economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and rClimate Prospectus, suggested that potential economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and regions.

It includes information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, analytic methods and tools, GHG reduction strategies, potential impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure, and approaches for integrating climate change considerations into transportation decision making.

The report provides transportation professionals with an overview of the scientific consensus on current and future climate changes of particular relevance to U.S. transportation, including the limitations of present scientific understanding as to their precise timing, magnitude, and geographic location; identifies potential impacts on U.S. transportation and adaptation options; and, offers recommendations for both research and actions that can be taken to prepare for climate change.

I described potential pitfalls, including conflating rising exposure to climate - related hazards as populations in drought and flood zones rise with impacts of climate change from building greenhouse gases.

The department plans to conduct «an in - depth assessment of potential alternative routes,» while also considering «environmental concerns (including climate change), energy security, economic impacts, and foreign policy.»

A group of researchers that includes Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University, the closest thing biochar has to a spiritual father, has attempted to calculate just how much impact the technology could have on climate change if societies all over the world transformed their waste streams into biochar production facilities - «the maximum sustainable technical potential of biochar to mitigate climate change».

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

OPACE 5 also identifies that there is a great potential to improve communication and outreach, through social media, particularly in the areas which deal with uncertainty in climate products, impending climate impacts, including their socio - economic implications; and communication between climate service providers and sectoral users.

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.

There are several potential explanations, including the suggestion that those with higher incomes will be less adversely affected by climate change because they can afford to ameliorate its impacts.

Scenarios represent many of the major driving forces - including processes, impacts (physical, ecological, and socioeconomic), and potential responses that are important for informing climate change policy.

In this report, commissioned by the Department of Energy (DOE) and included in the latest installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), we assess the potential impact of climate change on the US electric power sector.

This activity report includes case studies and discussions of a regional expert workshop entitled» Climate Change, Fishery and Aquaculture in Latin America: Potential Impacts and Challenges for Adaptation» which took place from 5 to 7 October 2011 at the Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

(1) complete an adaptation plan for that department or agency, respectively, implementing the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aClimate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aClimate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aclimate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those actions;

-- The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to complete a study of the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development, including storm intensity, track, and frequency, and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

More recently, researchers have begun to address the potential for minimizing the total climate impact of aircraft operations, including ozone impacts, contrails and nitrogen oxides emissions.

According to the National Climate Assessment and the IPCC Working Group 2 Report: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, potential harm to individuals, communities, and businesses, include threats to:

Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneClimate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneclimate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11

The IPCC's assessments of the potential costs of climate change «is probably an underestimate,» argued Zenghelis, «because it omits consideration of many of the impacts of climate change, including potentially catastrophic risks.»

A detailed report for the Canadian International Council, for example, cited «opportunities to broaden climate change and clean energy discussions,» including «the potential impact of Canadian and American climate change policy on oil sand exporters.

As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or climate - skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit language on the ways in which climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one community, the negative impacts to industry in another.

The Advisory Committee will include members with expertise including climate science, climate impacts and economics, potential response options, science communication, social media engagement, science education, and other issues considered to be contentious in public discourse.

-- A detailed analysis of potential climate impacts, including rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and human migration.

We recognize the critical impacts of climate change and the potential impacts of response measures on countries particularly vulnerable to its adverse effects and stress the need to establish a comprehensive adaptation programme including international support.

Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.) Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.

Stop any new leasing of federal oil, gas, and coal until potential environmental, climate, and public health impacts are fully considered, including:

SEC definitely needs to modernize financial disclosures to include potential impact on climate change.

In order to invoke the imagination, I have also included two case studies which explore first hand the potential impacts of climate change on a number of human rights of the Indigenous peoples, particularly those living on the Torres Strait Islands and the Indigenous nations of the Murray - Darling Basin.

The report also includes two case studies which demonstrate the potential impacts of climate change on the human rights of Torres Strait Islanders and the Indigenous nations of the Murray Darling Basin.