Sentences with phrase «joint effects of climate»

Studies to investigate the joint effects of climate change and irrigation at the global scale are limited.

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Thanks to the historical data (1930 - 2000) shared by the FAO Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS - FAO), a joint INRA / CIRAD team was able to study the climate niche and distribution of the species during recessions, and envisage the effects of possible climate changes between now and 2050 or 2090, in line with two future climate scenarios.

Jaap Nienhuis, a graduate student in the MIT - WHOI Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics, says the effects of climate change, and the human efforts to combat these effects, are already making an impact on river deltas around the world.

A report on the impacts of climate change on human health published by the European Commission Joint Research Council also shows that coastal flooding and high sea - level rise scenarios could have significant negative effects on mental health, in addition to high economic costs.

«When you look at hazards separately, it's bad enough, but when you consider the joint effects of two hazards together, you can get some surprises,» says one of the report's co-authors, Radley Horton, a climate systems researcher at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

It is worth noting that Peter Terium, the 50 - year old Dutchman who has been CEO of the German energy giant since July 2012, was among one of ten CEO's of European energy companies who on 11 October gave a joint press conference in Brussels in which they warned that the EU's energy and climate policy is having a disastrous effect on the power production sector, even leading to the risk of major blackouts.