Sentences with phrase «larger climate challenge»

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In fact, Xi has begun to cast China as a defender of economic globalization and inclusivity, as well as a leader in combating global challenges, like climate change.14 Unlike Russia's willingness to take large risks, China's approach is generally cautious, reflecting its desire to safeguard its economic interests.

But «let's try not to make it so» is also a good idea, if those who do want a consensus to address climate change could challenge that trend: David Cameron has done so in making it a high profile issue and taking a clear line - but he has tended to tell us that this proves his party has changed, which means he underestimates how far he seems to be from convincing a rather large chunk of it.

In a political climate increasingly challenging the value of science, scientists and engineers need to summon their scientific knowledge and play a larger role in helping inform public policy with solid evidence, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt during a webinar that explored the outlook for science and technology during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

«One of the contributions of research like this is helping humans understand the challenges large animals face today from climate change,» Groves said.

Basic research lays the groundwork for future scientific and technological development and it often addresses society's largest challenges such as mitigating climate change, curbing antibiotic resistance or preventing terrorism, said Maria Zuber, chair of the National Science Board and the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during a monthly colloquium lecture on Wednesday at AAAS headquarters.

«Our findings suggest that large - brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as climate change and habitat destruction,» said Dr Szekely, who worked with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Pannon University (Hungary) and McGill University (Canada) on the project.

The endeavor becomes more scientifically challenging in light of the large variety of information sources about past climate, including tree rings, coral, glacier ice, and marine and lake sediments, not to mention the complicated array of data that are used to establish the timelines that underlie the paleoclimate records.

To discern the larger contours of the legal climate facing schools, we analyzed all appellate - level federal and state court cases in which school efforts to discipline and control students have been challenged.

U.S. - China Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) The CCWG was established pursuant to the Joint Statement on Climate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already unClimate Change Working Group (CCWG) The CCWG was established pursuant to the Joint Statement on Climate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already unClimate Change issued on April 13, 2013 during Secretary Kerry's first trip to China and is intended to spur large - scale, cooperative efforts to address the climate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already unclimate challenge, including deepening and expanding work already underway.

The largest international science conference before the Paris COP21, with close to 2,000 participants from almost 100 countries, CFCC15 explores current understanding of all dimensions of the climate change challenge plus the full range of mitigation and adaptation options that can lead to sustainable, equitable solutions across all nations and regions.

On the one hand, climate change is perhaps the single largest environmental of our time, and in fact of the grandest scientific challenges of the modern era.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

The world's largest democracy and the world's oldest democracy, both scientific leaders, can and must do more together to confront the climate challenge — and if we get it right, our partnership can be an example for the world.

The challenges of dealing with climate extremes get larger as the extreme gets more extreme.

It occurs to me, looking back, that my approach to my stroke parallels, in a strange way, my approach to another almost incomprehensibly large challenge: that of how we face climate change.

Organizers say that the meeting is larger than last year's, which centered on challenging the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

With a complicated area like climate extremes and climate - related disasters, the challenge of communicating the science in a way that is not only balanced but also understandable is especially large.

Estimating the impacts of climate change is challenging because they span a large number of economic sectors and ecosystems services, and can vary strongly by region.

-- the extent to which technical innovations can keep up both with growing food demand (with more or less the same resource use) and the debilitating effects of climate change (a large set of biological challenges)

More broadly, the research, by Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, reinforces the case that a large part of the climate challenge is not out in the world of eroding glaciers and limited energy choices, but inside the human mind.

Gary Yohe, an environmental economist at Wesleyan University, is one of a large group of veteran students of the climate - energy challenge who say the persistent uncertainties surrounding human - driven warming are the reason to act, to act promptly, and to include a rising price on emissions of greenhouse gases in any policy mix.

Because the scale of the climate challenge is so large, energy innovations must be paired with bold policy initiatives designed to accelerate the deployment of new technology and to reduce its cost.

Which is to say that, as denialism collapses — and it will — the challenge of working out a large and plausible response to the climate crisis will become overwhelmingly important.

And in 2008, prominent leaders in the Southern Baptist Church, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States with 16 million adherents, challenged the denomination's official stance by declaring that «humans must be proactive and take responsibility for our contributions to climate change — big and small.»

Large - eddy simulation (LES) of clouds can help resolve one of the most important and challenging question in climate dynamics, namely, how subtropical low clouds respond to global warming.

This is one of the more challenging aspects of modeling of the climate system because precipitation involves not only large - scale processes that are well - resolved by models but also small - scale process, such as convection, that must be parameterized in the current generation of global and regional climate models.

A number of countries in Africa already face semi-arid conditions that make agriculture challenging, and climate change will be likely to reduce the length of growing season as well as force large regions of marginal agriculture out of production.

The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.

Too often the climate «debate» is reported in the media as equal between a few who challenge the science and a much larger number whose research supports current climate theory and predictions linking greenhouse warming with increasing emissions.

From the «Welcome thread»... for educating the public and for enabling large - scale collective intelligence to address the scientific and policy challenges associated with climate change.

The study uses gender, institutional, and climate analyses to document the trends in climate variability men and women farmers are facing and their responses to ensure food security in the context of larger socio - economic and political challenges to their livelihoods and well - being.

If the United States is successful in maintaining the viability of coal as a cost - competitive power source while addressing climate concerns, our leadership position would enable U.S. industries to capture critical export opportunities to the very nations facing the largest challenges from global warming.

Sylvain, one of the main challenges of verifying climate models on a time scale of 1 - 2 decades is that natural forcing (solar and volcanic) is unknown plus the decadal ocean cycles are not deterministic and will not be simulated in a way that matches observations unless a very large ensemble is used.

This book touches on climate as part of a larger set of challenges facing humanity, but provides an optimistic narrative about how our creative intellect can overcome our most immediate one — the climate crisis.

The climate challenge would become insurmountable if oil companies were to extract ever - larger amounts of bitumen.

The 1 % of GDP demanded last month, Qiu says, would cash out at US$ 284 billion — more than twice what the eight largest economies pledged to the climate - challenged developing world at July's G8 summit.

As a part of this special focus Cap Digital & RDA have created a special Challenge designed to connect Climate Change related Data Sets with startups, subject matter experts and larger organizations with practical application for these data.

The State's building stock is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and this Challenge underscores the State's work with these consumers to address climate change and support the Governor's ambitious energy goals.»

Both industry at large and energy providers are currently confronted with serious energy policy challenges in Europe: The EU's climate and energy goals stipulate a 40 % reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030, which poses almost unsolvable problems for energy - intensive industries.

«My engagement in the blogosphere over the past several years have convinced me that the blogosphere has untapped potential for educating the public and for enabling large - scale collective intelligence to address the scientific and policy challenges associated with climate change.»

The same accusation is hurled at skeptic climate scientists, and none of my critics people rise to the challenge of disputing what I say about the baselessness of the larger accusation.

Given the enormity and harshness of impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world from climate change coupled with the fact that United States has a special responsibility for the civilization challenging problem because of the comparatively large levels of the emissions coming from America, the failure of the US media to describe strength the scientific consensus on change is a grave and tragic error.

In contrast, no scientific results based on observations have emerged to challenge the large consensus of the climate science community.

A research initiative that mapped decisions by town managers in Maine to sources of climate information, engineering design, mandated requirements, and calendars identified the complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges of widespread adaptation for even such seemingly simple actions as using larger culverts to carry water from major storms.116 To help towns adapt culverts to expected climate change over their lifetimes, the Sustainability Solutions Initiative is creating decision tools to map culvert locations, schedule maintenance, estimate needed culvert size, and analyze replacement needs and costs.

The mission of the Young Voices for the Planet film series is to limit the magnitude of climate change and its impacts by empowering children and youth, through uplifting and inspiring success stories, to take an essential role in informing their communities — and society at large, challenging decision - makers, and catalyzing change.

Their efforts showcase how institutions both large and small can address today's climate challenges and empower the climate movement's leaders of tomorrow.

The large Washington - based environmental groups are pressing to improve climate and energy bills that are moving through Congress — even though the bills are clearly inadequate to the challenge before us.

If the UK manages to get about 16 new large reactors built by the end of the 2020's (which the Climate Change Committee described as «not challenging»), that combined with on and off shore wind may well see a genuinely low emission electricity supply by 2030.

Leading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of balance.