As the global temperature
increases with changing climate, precipitation rates and patterns are affected through a wide range of physical mechanisms.
Not exact matches
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or
climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages,
increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays
with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
The challenges that we face
with that ever -
increasing population
with regards to
climate change, food and water availability, sustainability — those problems are going to be solved by science, and they're going to be solved by the kids today.
«Events
with severe consequences are becoming more frequent and intense, due to
climate change, and have been the principal contributors to an observed
increase in the frequency and duration of power outages in the United States,» according to the draft.
«Human - induced
climate change likely
increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent,
with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.
Published earlier this year in the journal Nature
Climate Change, it includes sparing healthy food from taxation, as well as selective compensation for income losses associated
with tax - related price
increases.
How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along
with it,
increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's
climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?
The BC NDP platform states that all new money from carbon tax
increases, in line
with the federal mandate, will be used to provide rebate cheques for families, and to investing in
climate change solutions.
Matt DiLallo (Brookfield Renewable Partners):
With climate change worries on the rise, the world is racing to
increase its renewable energy generating capacity.
Finally, there is
increased anxiety concerning
climate change —
with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.
«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and
with the potential to scale — from within the farming community itself, so that they can
increase resilience to
climate change,
increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»
With global demand for tea growing at more than 2 % per year, the pressures on land for cultivating the crop will
increase, all the more intensely because of
climate change.
With increased attention to
climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets, the goal of the project partners is to provide a free, easy - to - use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints of winery and vineyard operations of all sizes.
The combined pressures of
climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined
with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.
Working
with Worms to Fight
Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative i
Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative im
Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are
increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of
climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative i
climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative im
change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris
Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative i
Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.
Loss of essential grassland habitat,
increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a
changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.
With data collected over time, the study will
increase our understanding of the local impacts of
climate change and contribute to the natural history of Great Lakes fish.
«To avoid the kind of long - term economic disruption we are now facing, Government, engineers and the entire supply chain need to work together to make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope
with the anticipated
increase in flooding as result of
climate change.
With EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt determined to use the EPA to
increase fossil fuel use, we need our representative to fight hard against
climate change deniers.
We have
increased our investment in measures to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes which, in addition to making fuel bills cheaper, has also helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from housing, consistent
with our ambitions to combat
climate change.
ADDRESSING
CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major
CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLOODING With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major s
CHANGE AND FLOODING
With Westchester sandwiched between the Hudson River and the Sound shore coastline, we are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of
climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major
climate change — from increased flooding to wind damage from major s
change — from
increased flooding to wind damage from major storms.
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of
climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required,
with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the
increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively
with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports
increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall
climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms
Government needs to be constantly reminded that research has already shown clearly that impacts of
climate change will intensify in northern Ghana
with temperature
increasing by 2OC by the year 2030.
What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing
with the Ghanaian people on the
increasing impacts of
climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country
with huge resources to implement a number of
climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe
climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.
Workshop Goal: Provide Lake Erie / Niagara River region municipal leaders
with training on severe weather and
climate change impacts as well as some of the tools, resources, and programs that can be used to identify and address vulnerabilities and
increase community resiliency to those impacts.
Some researchers expect that as
climate change pushes agriculture and human populations farther north, «people are going to come more in contact
with these mostly pristine landscapes» and disturb them in ways that could
increase fire risk, Page says.
It allows greenhouse gases to
increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets
with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of
climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.
With funding from Maryland Sea Grant, a program funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of Maryland, Kenney has launched a «listening tour» to understand the scientific needs of regional and local decision - makers related to
increasing resilience to
climate change.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develo
Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of
climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develo
change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the
increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of
climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develo
change; (b)
Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of
climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develo
change and foster
climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient devel
climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent
with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and
climate - resilient devel
climate - resilient development.
Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of
climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward
with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global
climate change is going to
increase.
The
climate, of course, continues to vary around the
increased averages, and extremes have
changed consistently
with these averages — frost days and cold days and nights have become less common, while heat waves and warm days and nights have become more common.
«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to
climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as
increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms
with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.
Rainstorms
increased in frequency over the study period, and the authors suggest that this, as well as the synchronization between rainstorms and chick vulnerable periods, is likely to
increase with climate change.
«This work makes us think that
increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated
with global
climate change could lead to
increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of
climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known
with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused
increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
Not only that, but sudden swings in temperature — another phenomenon that could
increase along
with climate change in some regions — were found to be even worse killers, in either winter or summer.
«This paper should alert policy makers and government to the help and support that farmers will need to achieve the scale of agricultural
change that may be necessary to keep up
with the
increase in pollution due to
climate change.»
He noted that the President's proposed 2017 budget calls for a 20 %
increase for clean energy R&D, as a first step toward doubling those investments over five years, in keeping
with an international
climate -
change agreement reached in Paris last December.
has
increased its direct contact
with the wider public through beefed up social media initiatives, a new email newsletter on trending topics on its site, and improved portals to spotlight important areas such as
climate change, marine science, and cancer research.
In Chinook salmon in Alaska's Yukon River, for example, the prevalence and mortality from the parasite Ichthyophonus has recently risen in concert
with climate change, which has
increased river temperatures by an alarming 5 degrees Celsius.
The scientists warn that
climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures
increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns —
with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.
We used data from a field experiment in Northern Sweden, in which
climate change was simulated
with open top chambers to
increase the air and soil temperature, and
with addition of plant litter from willow and birch - shrubs.
Their analysis shows as temperature continues to
increase with climate change, Colorado River flows will continue to decline.
Black carbon aerosols — particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way — are important for understanding
climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow
with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to
increased melting.
«
With the ongoing
climate change and
increasing environmental problems, these new technologies can also be applicable here on Earth,» says Prof. Benedikt Sas from the Centre of Excellence Food2Know.
In every region,
with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution;
increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and
climate change, among others.
They must also deal
with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by
climate change, including warming waters,
increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.
«Global warming and
climate change...
increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen in an earlier paper
with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.
On St. Paul, at least, the more likely suspect is
climate change, though it's also possible that the final straw for mammoths here was habitat loss:
With increasing sea levels, the island may have become too small to sustain its megafauna population.