Sentences with phrase «large scale climate change»

Decentralised strategies that involve the scientific community are needed to overcome the large scale climate change challenges ahead of us, say experts in disaster risk reduction.

Today we are already in the process to trigger a large scale climate change because of the quantities of CO2 equivalent emissions released and what is projected under business as usual scenarios.

Could the climate forcing itself, such as increasing GHGs, affect parameterizations independently of the larger scale climate changes (for example, by changing thermal damping of various kinds of waves, or by changing the differences of radiative effects between different amounts and kinds of clouds)?

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Among these questions, she includes, «What impacts do changes in the Arctic have on the large - scale climate and weather systems?»

But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

Scientific research increasingly demonstrates that large - scale intensive meat production uses disproportionate amounts of land, water, and feed, adds markedly to climate change and is a factor in water pollution and food contamination.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

A new nationwide project aims to monitor the environment of the U.S. and enable comparisons of large - scale problems and variables such as climate change, pollution and sprawl

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

Moreover, in the light of climate change, the available large - scale forecasts suggest that the southern sub-species is likely to spread.

Such a large - scale release could also fuel climate change.

NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at large scales and try to understand what impacts these changes could have on society.

«Large - scale peatland restoration projects such as the Sustainable Catchment Management Project run by United Utilities and RSPB are crucial in helping to make our blanket bogs resilient to climate change.»

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.

Scientists have long predicted large - scale responses of infectious diseases to climate change, giving rise to a polarizing debate, especially concerning human pathogens for which socioeconomic drivers and control measures can limit the detection of climate - mediated changes.

The research is unique in linking local population changes for multiple bird species to broad - scale climate changes, says Beatrice Van Horne, a wildlife researcher at the U.S. Forest Service in Arlington, Virginia: «Things that happen at a large scale are hard to see because local variance often confuses us.

Tropical widening is associated with several significant changes in our climate, including shifts in large - scale atmospheric circulation, like storm tracks, and major climate zones.

Such biodiversity loss usually occurs on a large scale, and is due to habitat destruction, invasive species, overexploitation and climate change.

Concerns about the permanency of forest carbon stocks, difficulties in quantifying stock changes, and the threat of environmental and socioeconomic impacts of large - scale reforestation programs have limited the uptake of forestry activities in climate policies.

«This long - term view shows that the next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large - scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far,» the team concluded.

A botany researcher at New Zealand's University of Otago and colleagues have developed a new system to map the world's «biomes» — large - scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changes.

Environmentalists have criticized holding such large - scale military exercises in sensitive areas such as the Great Barrier Reef, which is under threat from increased commercial shipping, climate change and an invasive starfish infestation, the United Nations says.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term inClimate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intChange in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term inclimate change during a long - term intchange during a long - term interval.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

It's nothing a person would notice — a reduction barely more than one - tenth of one mile per hour — but on a large scale over an entire region, such a seemingly minor change has a profound effect on climate and air quality.

«With large - scale climate change, the question is: Are these hybrids more well - adapted?»

This is a blow to some supporters of geo - engineering, who have suggested that one way to tackle climate change is large - scale seeding of the oceans with iron to stimulate plankton to absorb more carbon dioxide.

Many large - scale farmers in the U.S. don't care to hear much about climate change.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

These trends suggest that large - scale climate changes, rather than local factors, could be driving increases in fire activity, the scientists report.

Will they support the wellbeing of our own and other species or will they provide a context for further large - scale extinctions and irreversible climate change?»

The surprising finding is evidence that rapid climate change is causing large - scale changes along the Arctic coast, such as diminishing sea ice.

There is relatively little consensus about how climate change will affect the incidence of persistent drought at global and regional scales, in large part due to the uncertainties discussed above.

The report provides scientifically sound practical guidance for selecting SLM practices that help address DLDD, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and for creating an enabling environment for their large - scale implementation considering local realities.

New research published this week in the Journal of Climate reveals that one key measurement — large - scale upper - ocean temperature changes caused by natural cycles of the ocean — is a good indicator of regional coastal sea level changes on these decadal timescales.

As discussed in the Climate chapter, large - scale atmospheric circulation patterns connected to changes in sea - surface temperatures strongly influence natural variations in precipitation and temperature (e.g., Cayan et al. 1999; Mantua and Hare 2002).

A separate, unpublished and preliminary economic analysis carried out by the team estimates that implementing large - scale cryogenic systems into coal - fired plants would see an overall reduction in costs to society of 38 percent through a sharp cut in associated health - care and climate - change costs.

Why it matters: Current global climate models used to predict climate change account for large - scale climate processes, typically at scales greater than 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles.

In the world's first large - scale investigation of how climate affects the composition of coral reefs, an international team of marine scientists concludes that the picture is far more complicated than previously thought — but that total reef losses due to climate change are unlikely.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector by one half by 2050,» says lead author Felix Creutzig, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).

There is considerable confidence that Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) provide credible quantitative estimates of future climate change, particularly at continental and larger scales.

The danger of uncontrollable and irreversible consequences necessarily raises the question of whether it is feasible to extract CO2 from the atmosphere on a large enough scale to affect climate change.

Quantitative integrated assessment of climate change risks is not always possible, but it can play a key role in informing decisions both about local adaptation and about large - scale mitigation policy.

Climate system inertia also means that, if large - scale climate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many cenClimate system inertia also means that, if large - scale climate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many cenclimate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many centuries.