Sentences with phrase «induced by climate change»

A critical consideration is that the biotic pressures induced by climate change will interact with other well - known anthropogenic drivers of extinction to amplify what are already elevated extinction rates.

Changes induced by climate change are also likely to result in species range shifts, as well as in changes in tree productivity, adding further stress to forest ecosystems (UNEP, 2004).

In winter, the increased magnitude induced by climate change is found to be greater than in summer.

Rural - urban migration is becoming one of the most obvious factors induced by climate change, which is profoundly changing the society as whole in Pakistan.

The extreme events induced by climate change will have drastic consequences on forest functions and services and may bring about important drought - induced die - off events.

«Humus depletion induced by climate change?

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«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.

It is surprising to me that it is often the activists who speak up in support of the scientific consensus around climate change (i.e. that there is overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is induced by humans and is happening), who are the same activists who don't accept the scientific consensus and evidence that shows that GM crops can be safe.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

Climate change is not driven just by increased greenhouse gas concentrations; other mechanisms — both natural and human - induced — also play a part.

The White House also discounted warnings of global climate change induced by greenhouse gases, contending — contrary to near - unanimous findings by U.S. research agencies and international scientific bodies — that climate change was an unproven hypothesis.

This does not mean, of course, that individual extreme events (such as the 2003 European heat wave) can be said to be simply «caused» by human - induced climate change — usually such events are complex, with many causes.

For example, the International Panel on Climate Change, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» hClimate Change, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» heChange, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» hclimate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» hechange, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» he said.

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An obscure rat - sized rodent made headlines in June as the first mammal killed off by human - induced climate change.

The earthquake hazard is not going to be enhanced or diminished by climate change (ignoring induced seismicity associated with the energy system and some mitigation strategies).

Authored by a nine - member panel, the report consists of seven questions and answers laying out the evidence for human - induced climate change.

On the other hand, climate change scenarios estimate that the soil loss rates may increase by 10 - 15 % by 2050 due to an analogous increase of rainfall - induced erosion in Europe.

According to the researchers, not only are changes in the AMOC difficult to measure, it's also difficult to separate natural climatic variation from climate changes induced by human activity.

The new study finds human - induced climate change likely increased Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented rainfall by at least 19 percent and potentially as much as 38 percent.

What's more this pattern could not be explained by natural climate fluctuations, suggesting that human - induced climate change is the culprit behind an increase in downpours and blizzards in the last 50 years of the 20th century — at least in the Northern Hemisphere.

«Thanks to forests that sequester some of the carbon we are emitting by burning fossil fuels, human - induced climate change is happening more slowly than it otherwise would,» says Saleska.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

«It will never be possible to say that any specific flood was caused by human - induced climate change.

Studying the severe drought in São Paulo, the largest city in South America with a population of about 20 million, a team led by Friederike Otto found that human - induced climate change was not a major influence.

To understand the role of human - induced climate change in these new records they compare simulations of the Earth's climate from nine different state - of - the - art climate models and the very large ensemble of climate simulations provided by CPDN volunteers for the weather@home ANZ experiments for the world with and without human - induced climate change.

It will never be possible to say that any specific flood was caused by human - induced climate change alone, in the sense that, without climate change, that flood would not have happened.

Marine scientists who met in Monaco in October 2008 released a strong statement on January 30, 2009 about ocean acidification accelerating due to increasing carbon emissions caused by human - induced climate change.

Changing living conditions caused by climate change or ocean acidification — the decrease of ocean pH due to the uptake of human - induced carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — pose serious threats to marine organisms.

Climate - change - induced temperature increases are likely to reduce wheat production in developing countries by 20 - 30 percent.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

Manabe, S., and R.J. Stouffer, 1995: Simulation of abrupt climate change induced by fresh water input to the North Atlantic Ocean.

Other research is looking into questions about how seamount populations change in response to climate - induced shifts in ocean circulation and whether habitats disturbed by human activity can recover.

Earth's measured energy imbalance has been used to infer the climate forcing by aerosols, with two independent analyses yielding a forcing in the past decade of about − 1.5 W / m2 [64], [72], including the direct aerosol forcing and indirect effects via induced cloud changes.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.

Overall, ecosystem - driven changes in chemistry induced climate feedbacks that increased global mean annual land surface temperatures by 1.4 and 2.7 K for the 2 × and 4 × CO2 Eocene simulations, respectively, and 2.2 K for the Cretaceous (Fig. 3 E and F).

We do, however, have quite a few examples of past societies being thoroughly undone by regional climate change or ecological disruption (often human - induced), so we know to a certainty that that is a possible outcome.

In contrast, the warming during the most recent period, often used as evidence of human induced climate change, is characterized by temperature moderation — the pattern of temperature rise exhibits a strong, preferential warming of the coldest days of the year.

Regarding climate change effects in the WHO results, according to the UK's Hadley Center climate model (HadCM2 — IS92a scenario) climate - change induced disease risks could double by the year 2030 — all other factors held constant.

Our own study on the Texas heat wave and drought, submitted this week to the Journal of Climate, likewise shows that that event was not caused by human - induced climate Climate, likewise shows that that event was not caused by human - induced climate climate change.

Thus, the title of the USF press release, «Frogs Getting Sick from Climate Change,» is accurate in suggesting that climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate Climate Change,» is accurate in suggesting that climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate cChange,» is accurate in suggesting that climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate cchange caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate cchange» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate climate changechange.

The science behind human - induced global warming is far stronger, as documented by the latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It's easy to feel a bit scared for her to grow up in a time when our planet's climate seems to be majorly changing, and when social stresses are significantly impacted by negative environmental changes that are human - induced.

In the meantime the study was quickly seized upon by those seeking to sow doubt in the validity behind the scientific consensus concerning the evidence for human - induced climate change (see news articles in the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal).

In a Letter to the Editor in this morning Herald Times Dr. Brasswell is quoted, «The presence of my name on the list, both then and now, is perhaps symptomatic of the falsehoods perpetuated by those who deny human - induced climate change.

At the same time it will help mitigate and solve catastrophic consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

If you have not heard, IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human - induced climate change.»