Sentences with phrase «larger impact on climate change»

«The science emphatically proves that black carbon has a larger impact on climate change than was previously understood and we can't escape reality.

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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?»

Pinpointing the impacts of climate change is hard to do, Mowry added, but four of the 10 largest fire seasons in the state have occurred since 2004, an «indication there is something going on.»

«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.

First, they help determine the resilience of ecosystems on land and at sea, which in turn impact whether larger boundaries, such as climate change, are transgressed.

Smoke from wildfires, which are becoming more frequent and intense in the U.S. West as the climate changes, contains large amounts of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which can have profound impacts on human health.

Given the large number of water users, the growing demand for water resources, the variety of stakeholders involved and the increasing intensity of climate change impacts, collective action and shared solutions are needed to alleviate the pressure on the environment, business and communities.

Analyses show that climate shocks are important drivers of the expansions and contractions seen here, suggesting a large and previously overlooked negative impact of climate change on food production.

Published today in the journal Climatic Change and just ahead of Earth Hour, the world's largest environmental event, researchers examined the impact of climate change on nearly 80,000 plant and animal species in 35 of the world's most diverse and naturally wildlife - rich Change and just ahead of Earth Hour, the world's largest environmental event, researchers examined the impact of climate change on nearly 80,000 plant and animal species in 35 of the world's most diverse and naturally wildlife - rich change on nearly 80,000 plant and animal species in 35 of the world's most diverse and naturally wildlife - rich areas.

(It's part of a larger package on the impact of climate change on the Arctic.)

«Lake Baikal: Protection of a unique ecosystem: Researchers are investigating how climate change and environmental toxins are impacting on the world's largest and oldest freshwater lake.»

Eakin, who's involved with efforts to document the impact of climate change on corals, said he was particularly concerned by the study's finding that large corals exhibit the greatest disease risk on coming in contact with plastic.

«The impact of astronomical cycles on climate can be quite large,» explains Meyers, noting as an example the pacing of the Earth's ice ages, which have been reliably matched to periodic changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, and the tilt of our planet on its axis.

Climate change may be perceived most through the impacts of extremes, although these are to a large degree dependent on the system under consideration, including its vulnerability, resiliency and capacity for adaptation and mitigation; see the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

However, the indirect effects of climate change on forests, such as changing wildfire and beetle outbreak severity, are already having a large impact on the health of Montana's forests and in some instances these impacts are easier to predict.

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.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate climate change.

Climate change is having a large impact on agriculture.

Most recently, human - caused factors such as air, noise, light, and water pollution, climate change, and the introduction of invasive species are having a large impact on natural resources here.

The new exhibit, which will run for two months until 6 December 2017, aims to improve understanding of the impacts of climate change on the globes» most treasured coral reefs among the public at large.

Although the direct heat increase is not enough to cause much climate change, the indirect influence of solar activity on cloud cover, wind and rain patterns may be large enough to have an important impact.

Effects of harvest and climate change on polar marine ecosystems: case studies from the Antarctic Peninsula and Hudson Bay C Hoover — 2012 — circle.ubc.ca... Future simulations of the Antarctic Peninsula identify large reductions in ecosystem biomass of all species due changes in environmental conditions and an overall reduction in krill, with minimal ecosystem impacts from harvest.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

Large changes to the climate will have large impacts on human society and agriculture and the risks are lLarge changes to the climate will have large impacts on human society and agriculture and the risks are llarge impacts on human society and agriculture and the risks are largelarge.

Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty.

In a recent interview, Nordhaus - whose models project a smaller economic impact than most - said that regardless of whether the models showing larger or smaller economic impacts from climate change are correct, «We've got to get together as a community of nations and impose restraints on greenhouse gas emissions and raise carbon prices.

The overall level of consistency between attribution results derived from different models (as shown in Figure 9.9), and the ability of climate models to simulate large - scale temperature changes during the 20th century (Figures 9.5 and 9.6), indicate that such model differences are likely to have a relatively small impact on attribution results of large - scale temperature change at the surface.

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiClimate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.

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.

Since 2009, large insurers have filed a climate change and risk disclosure survey created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), which states that «disclosure of climate risk is important because of the potential impact climate change can have on insurer solvency and the availability and affordability of insurance across all major categories.»

Maurer, E., H. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. Dettinger, and D. Cayan, 2010: The utility of daily large - scale climate data in the assessment of climate change impacts on daily streamflow in California.

In a yet - unpublished study, (Dell et al., 2008) find that climate (change) has no effect on economic growth in countries with an income above the global median ($ PPP, 20003170) but a large impact on countries below the median.

«Because Americans are high resource consumers in a country with a large, rapidly growing population base, the U.S. has a much bigger «per - person» impact on global climate change than any other nation.»

I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims of human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.

Also included in this larger figure is $ 86 million to support clean energy regulatory actions that focus on energy efficiency; $ 48 million to develop transportation sector regulations and next - generation clean transportation initiatives; $ 58 million for projects that improve our understanding of climate change impacts; and $ 25 million to advance Canada's engagement in international negotiations and support the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue.

We won't change their minds, and their numbers aren't large enough to impact policy in a major way; at least in the U.S. such individuals don't count climate change as very high on the agenda of things they care about (I understand that in several other countries, this is a more salient issue).

A recent study from the Swedish Ministry of Sustainable Development argues that males have a disproportionately larger impact on global warming («women cause considerably fewer carbon dioxide emissions than men and thus considerably less climate change»).

The world's largest oil companies are increasingly faced with public pressure to do something about their impact on climate change.

tonyb, Black carbon, regular ash and wind erosion along with other hydro - logical changes from decimating beavers to draining wet lands to fight malaria likely have and will continue to have large impacts on climate, but who is to say that most of that hasn't been a good thing in terms of mankind?

We've discussed how the appetite for producing «interesting» results — which in the case of climate change means results that indicate the human impact on weather events / climate is large, unequivocal, and negative — leads to climate alarm becoming «a self promulgating collective belief.»

Indeed, federal research finds that human - induced climate change «will have the largest health impact on vulnerable populations including... some communities of color, limited English proficiency and immigrant groups, Indigenous peoples,» and others.

Abstract Increased land use by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) due to climate - change - induced reduction of their sea - ice habitat illustrates the impact of climate change on species distributions and the difficulty of conserving a large, highly specialized carnivore in the face of this global threat.

For example, our results corroborate with others by showing that high impact journals typically report large effects based on small sample sizes (Fraley and Vazire 2014), and high impact journals have shown publication bias in climate change research (Michaels 2008, and further discussed in Radetzki 2010).

The simulated ocean acidification led to unexpectedly large changes in the production activity of the plankton with considerable impacts on the release of climate - relevant gases and in turnover rates of important elements in the seawater.

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.

However, this potential can only be realised by also addressing problems associated with the large - scale production of biofuels, such as poverty, impacts on biodiversity and climate change, and water scarcity.

Throughout 2017, IRIN has been exploring the impact climate change has had on a large group of people who are extremely vulnerable to its effects and yet play a negligible role in causing it: smallholder farmers in Africa.

And because those forests contain some of the largest forest stores of carbon on the planet, sending them up in smoke will only increase the impacts of climate change.

The AMOC has a considerable influence over European climate from the northward heat transport by the Gulf Stream and a slowdown or halt of the AMOC could have a large impact on climate and even induce abrupt climate changes (Alley et al, 2002; Alley, 2007).