Sentences with phrase «just of a changing climate»

The real significance of extreme events is as harbingers, not just of a changing climate but also of a changing world in which human society and the infrastructure that supports it are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters.

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During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

Hemp could help address climate change, since it absorbs four times more carbon dioxide than trees while growing in just a fraction of the time.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeClimate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeclimate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

So what are scientists to make of emerging data showing rapid climate change on earth 55 million years ago that looks just like what's happening today?

Ant Financial's Ant Forest app has lured 450 million users in China to do just that, in fulfillment of parent Alibaba Group's pledge to use financial technology to tackle climate change.

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

For example, if the government decides that climate change doesn't exist, «then we as entrepreneurs just got to get in there and and fill the gap and and create hundreds of thousands of jobs and make sure that» we're living in a carbon - neutral world by 2050.

In just half a year, Trump and his appointees have dismantled many of President Barack Obama's policies to combat climate change and reduce the nation's reliance on fossil fuels.

After spending $ 2.5 million renovating the Arctic Institute of North America's Kluane Research Station, the Harper government just eliminated the funding for the global leader in climate change and boreal mammal research.

We are dedicated to increasing awareness about global climate change and the need to develop solutions that reduce the amount of pollutants created, not just by factory farming, but across all industries.

There are basically two ways to cut carbon emissions, and neither one of them involves global climate change summits like the one just held in Cancún, Mexico.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The administration just reiterated its intent to withdraw from the Paris Accord on climate change after sending mixed signals ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York.

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agrclimate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agrechange, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris AgrClimate Change and reiterated in the Paris AgreChange and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

These are just the latest in many dire predictions about the results of climate change if humanity doesn't start making some major changes to our consumption habits.

But it's not just your health that will benefit, but the planet's, too — going vegan sparks significant change in terms of helping to combat climate change, and the simple act of going vegan could reduce your carbon imprint by a whopping 50 %.

But fortunately, just as poor land - management practices are contributors to climate change, use of good on - farm...

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

This is especially true, given that many of the problems we face have a longer - term dimension: climate change, pensions and social care, and international economic development are just some of the more obvious examples.

Very worrying, the Economist which is hardly green left like me has had some great and worrying material on climate change... however the Economist is the intelligent voice of the free market right, where as as the excellent research above shows the tory bloggers are just a little dumb.

The Committee on Climate Change has its offices in Holbein Place just off Sloane Square and has a budget of # 4.4 million all from the taxpayer (up from # 4.3 million under Labour when Ed Miliband was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.)

Of course, there's not just the congestion - combating part of the plan to consider; as the city and state both move to uphold the Paris climate accord — which seeks to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions — encouraging people to drive less seems an obvious way to get New York closer to achieving that goaOf course, there's not just the congestion - combating part of the plan to consider; as the city and state both move to uphold the Paris climate accord — which seeks to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions — encouraging people to drive less seems an obvious way to get New York closer to achieving that goaof the plan to consider; as the city and state both move to uphold the Paris climate accord — which seeks to combat climate change and lower carbon emissions — encouraging people to drive less seems an obvious way to get New York closer to achieving that goal.

A Media Matters study found that ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News spent just over two hours — combined — discussing the possibility of climate change in 2013.

«And it's not just the climate change deniers and petrochemical companies throwing huge amounts of money into the debate, we've also had a huge economic crash.

Unless... Suppose David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced that they agreed with Ed Miliband's warning over the weekend that Britain is «sleepwalking to a crisis», and that «climate change threatens national security» — and went on to commit themselves to working together on a long - term plan to protect the nation not just from extreme weather conditions but the other consequences of climate change.

The loss in just a few years of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of clean, emission - free power, however, should be no consolation for environmentalists who truly support clean air and climate - change goals but ironically are celebrating the plant's closure.

«David Cameron mentioned the words «security» and «safe» 14 times in his speech, yet climate change, one of the biggest threats humanity is facing, got just one timid nod.

«There is just no case for being sceptical about climate change... I don't quite know why Nigel Lawson, who is an extremely intelligent man, takes the other side of it.»

«At a time when aviation generates just 1.6 per cent of greenhouse gasses, isn't it time that Minister Pearson and other equally foolish politicians actually tackled the real causes of climate change which is road transport and power generation.»

«It is absurd to leave someone in charge of a department whose role is to protect the country from a growing climate crisis who himself believes that «people get very emotional about this subject, and I think we should just accept that the climate has been changing for centuries».

«When it comes to climate change, Ryanair are not just the unacceptable face of capitalism, they are the irresponsible face of capitalism.

On the issue of Republicans and Democrats in New York State hiding behind the old «waiting for the science to come in» line that politicians have used to not answer questions on everything from climate change to Pebble Mine, Hawkins did give the Democrats a bit of a pass... «The Republicans want to repeal the enlightenment — the Democrats just want to repeal the New Deal.»

Those appearances bolster the narrative Cuomo is pushing at the outset of his re-election campaign, that he isn't just running against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive, but rather running against the national Republican party, a group of «extremists» opposed to abortion, same - sex marriage and stubborn on climate change, who are the source of gridlock in Washington.

After just two years on the backbenches she was promoted by the chancellor, before entering the whips» office and then heading to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Just eight years after it was created by then prime minister Gordon Brown, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) is being merged into Mr Clark's new department and losing the «climate change» part of itClimate Change (Decc) is being merged into Mr Clark's new department and losing the «climate change» part of itsChange (Decc) is being merged into Mr Clark's new department and losing the «climate change» part of itclimate change» part of itschange» part of its name.

Just as suffering the effects of climate change is bipartisan, so can solutions be.

Greg Clark, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and David Cameron have just launched the Conservative Party's policy paper on energy.

Despite the party leader's much - vaunted commitment to the environment, just 28 per cent of Tory candidates in winnable seats believe new laws are needed to tackle climate change.

Put that way, batteries become a technology of global importance, and not just to help avert dangerous climate change.

I was just a researcher without money, connections or crowd - pulling charisma, moved to action by the election of Donald Trump, a powerful climate change denier and anti-vaxxer, as US president.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

«As such, we begin to see that the geology, and not just the climate, control the availability of water — the landscape was a catalyst for change in Africa.»

The researchers acknowledge that comparing 2001 predictions with just five years of subsequent data represents a very short timescale relative to climate change.

NOAA's Seidel is the lead author of a perspective paper published yesterday in Nature Climate Change that examines just how difficult it would be to detect these effects.

It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man - made climate change.