Sentences with phrase «influencing changes to the climate»

The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities are influencing changes to the climate — especially at the poles — and believe that the situation requires serious attention.

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Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

There are clearly other factors that could have a major influence on the storyline, including how geopolitical tensions are resolved and how we adjust to climate change.

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These companies have been paying close attention to the variables that influence extreme weather and have long sounded the alarm on climate change and disasters.

These liberties or lack thereof influenced my worldview and it wasn't until I removed myself from my home that I began to gain a better picture of the complexities that we are confronted with in the face of climate change.

Instead, scientists will need months to complete in - depth «attribution studies» to tease out climate change's influence on these storms.

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They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

The formation of the new fringe ECR group in 2010, memorably described by Nick Clegg as «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers,» isolated the Conservatives and dealt a major blow to Britain's influence in Europe.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

Katko replied to Maffei's remarks, saying the extent human activities have influenced climate change is unclear.

Otherwise, much of his speech rehashed his usual talking points: the undue influence of the «billionaire class,» the crisis of climate change, the need to defeat Donald Trump and — of course — the nefarious machinations of the «establishment.»

That means that future changes to the Gulf's salinity and temperature could be expected to influence the climate in other ways.

On the broader implications of the findings and outlook, Dr Hossaini said: «Ozone is an important climate gas and changes to its abundance, including due to the increasing influence of dichloromethane, could be relevant for refining future climate predictions.

Since these set of ocean currents are known to influence global climate, the researchers were interested to see if it correlated with rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and how such a correlation could change over time.

«My vision is to promote research that is responsive to people's needs and to influence individual and collective action and behavior in preparing for climate change.»

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

«The main purpose of this paper is to raise the awareness that climate change actually has an influence on contamination,» she said.

In a related field, property insurers say human development far outweighs the influences of climate change when it comes to rising damage from thunderstorms, flooding and hurricanes.

Understanding a plant's response to climate conditions requires the integration of diverse sciences to examine how changing conditions influence the plant through its life history and that of its offspring.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

Scientists from the Technical University Munich (TUM) suspect that the humus stocks of arable soils are declining due to the influence of climate change.

Looking at shifts in Manley's winter temperatures from year to year, he says, gives a good reading of important natural cycles that influence climate, such as changes in ocean circulation like the North Atlantic Oscillation.

In the spring of 2014, Koonin's drafting committee produced a statement that attributed equal weight to human influences and natural variability as a driver of climate change, according to a source who declined to be named.

Although the ions are originally involved in the development of almost one third of all newly formed particles, the concentration of the large cloud condensation nuclei in the course of the 11 - year cycle changes by only 0.1 percent — not enough to have any sizeable influence on the climate.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

So yes, right now the agricultural lobby is exerting a very strong influence on a lot of things affecting biofuel policy, and actually other parts of policies that are related to climate changes, so it's awkward that way.

Because of the sheer complexity in the way parts of an ecosystem work together, just how places like the forest floor will be influenced by climate change will most likely remain difficult to predict, Lensing says.

Co-author Prof Derk - Jan Dijk said: «Just as mathematical models are used to predict climate change, they can now be used to predict how changing our light environment will influence our biological rhythms.

While the new study looks at long - term trends, some scientists have also begun to evaluate the influence of climate change on individual heat wave events — and they're making some worrying discoveries, as well.

«The climate is changing at a pace and in a pattern that is not explainable by natural influences,» said John P. Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

This has deeply influenced how Hayhoe talks to people about climate change.

The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.

He said scientists need about a century's worth of good data to start making sophisticated predictions about the influence of human - caused climate change on hurricane frequency.

A groundbreaking 2016 paper, one of the first to conduct a large - scale analysis of shrinking mountain glaciers around the globe, concluded that all but one of the 37 studied sites were «very likely» retreating because of climate change — and at 21 of those sites, the influence of climate change was just about certain.

THE idea that changes in the sun's activity can influence the climate is making a comeback, after years of scientific vilification, thanks to major advances in our understanding of the atmosphere.

Now, scientists are increasingly aware that mountain glaciers — like mountain snowpack — are growing more vulnerable to the influence of climate change.

But the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.climate system is clear.»

The research, funded by the National Science Foundation, finds that climate - change advocates are largely failing to influence public opinion.

The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a «climate - smart food system» that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.

Since about 2.5 billion years ago, the mantle has been cooling — a phenomenon that doesn't influence the climate on the surface of the Earth and has nothing to do with the issue of short - term human - made climate change.

Environmental management can potentially devise separate strategies to target key phases in the lifecycle of males and females, respectively, with the aim of minimising the influence of climate change on their development and ultimately the success of the species.»

«Firms with increasingly good or bad performance spend more to influence the outcome of a contested environmental policy issue» like climate change, the authors said.

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.

The study, «Pathways of Influence in Emotional Appeals: Benefits and Tradeoffs of Using Fear or Humor to Promote Climate Change - Related Intentions and Risk Perceptions,» published in the Journal of Communication, was the result of a partnership grant between Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, where Niederdeppe is a faculty fellow, and the Environmental Defense Fund.