Sentences with phrase «likely impact of global warming»

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

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«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

As global warming continues to impact the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, with more meltwater streams and water tracks travelling across the landscape, more mineral phosphorus is likely to become available through rock weathering over centuries to millennia.

«Reductions of methane and black carbon (soot) would likely have only a modest impact on near - term global climate warming,» the authors at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wrote.

«But this flying fox may be the best example of a mammal species likely to be negatively impacted by warming global climates.

The Paris Agreement pledges to reduce the expected level of global warming from 4.5 °C to around 3 °C, which reduces the impacts, but we see even greater improvements at 2 °C; and it is likely that limiting temperature rise to 1.5 °C would protect more wildlife.

«The Earth is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis,» Sorte said, «and the Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest - warming areas of the global ocean, so the impacts of ocean warming are likely to happen much sooner there.»

Also, for those interested, on page 41 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Synthesis Report, is found a description of their Key Finding # 2 which includes the statement «Climate models indicate that the local warming over Greenland is likely to be one to three times the global average.»

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

Women are statistically more likely than men to make eco-friendly decisions, but they're also the ones who will be more affected by the impacts of global warming.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Current and likely future impacts of global warming on ecosystems and human activities are also considered, including biodiversity, system buffering and resilience, and regional inequality and vulnerability.

Also, for those interested, on page 41 of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Synthesis Report, is found a description of their Key Finding # 2 which includes the statement «Climate models indicate that the local warming over Greenland is likely to be one to three times the global average.»

Women are significantly more likely than men to be concerned about the impact of global warming and humanity's role in causing it.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.»

Some climate scientists have looked at the potential impact of such an event and concluded that it likely would delay additional global warming — but only until the sun returned to more - normal swings in sun - spot activity.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

Previous research has shown that global warming will cause changes in ocean temperatures, sea ice extent, salinity, and oxygen levels, among other impacts, that are likely to lead to significant shifts in the distribution range and productivity of marine species, the study notes.

Previous research has shown that global warming will cause changes in ocean temperatures, sea ice extent, salinity, and oxygen levels, among other impacts, that are likely to lead to shifts in the range and productivity of marine species.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

CEO Anne - Marie Corboy said HESTA's Investments and Governance Team expects that the push to limit global warming, through a reduction in the burning of carbon, is likely to impact investments in fossil fuel reserves in the long term.

These numbers could suggest that when the issue of global warming is discussed in an environmental / public health framework, people are more likely to access their feelings of concern about potential impacts on public welfare, and may consider the issue outside of a political framework.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

While the bill and likely substitute amendment offered by Senator Boxer would initiate the first step in placing a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions so the United States can do its part to reduce the impacts of global warming,...

Results from an irreducibly simple climate model,» concluded that, once discrepancies in IPCC computer models are taken into account, the impact of CO2 - driven manmade global warming over the next century (and beyond) is likely to be «no more than one - third to one - half of the IPCC's current projections» — that is, just 1 - 2 degrees C (2 - 4 deg F) by 2100!

In a 4 °C global warming scenario, the socio - economic impact of river floods in Europe is likely to triple before the end of the century (Alfieri et al. 2015b).

Although it is important to reduce the remaining climate uncertainties, such as the magnitude of the impacts of short - lived pollutants, it does not change the fact that CO2 is very likely the driving force behind the current global warming, or that if we double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from pre-industrial levels, the planet will likely warm in the range of 2 to 4.5 °C.

With global greenhouse gas emissions at their highest level in history, the impacts of climate change have already been felt «on all continents and across the oceans»; the more we emit, the more the warming will continue, and the likelier we'll all be to experience «severe, pervasive and irreversible» consequences.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its provisional Statement on the State of the Climate this week, estimating that 2017 is likely to be one of the warmest years for global average surface temperature, with many high - impact events including catastrophic hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

These actions would likely derail global efforts to reduce carbon emissions in order to limit the impacts of global warming.

While much of the discussion on global warming here in the US recently has focused on the impact of transportation (which we'll definitely discuss), Treehuggers everywhere know that the power plants that generate our electricity likely represent the largest source of CO2 emissions.

Many of us could experience the harsher impacts of a 2ºC warmer world within our lifetimes — 20 to 30 years from now — and 4ºC is likely by the end of the century without global action.

The reason is that there are many environmental problems worse than the likely impact of man - made global warming that would cost substantially less money to solve.

The upheaval to society will likely surpass even the most extreme visions of global warming impacts.

The panel concludes there is very high confidence that the warming is due to human activities, which are likely to have been at least five times greater than the impact of solar irradiance changes on global warming.

«Respondents exposed to the campaign were more likely to believe that global warming is happening, to accept the scientific consensus, to be more concerned about impacts and more supportive of policy solutions.»

(a) that the economic cost of «business as usual» (as a result of the impacts of global warming) is likely to be far greater in the long term than the cost of achieving emissions reductions at the required scale,

As I have provided clear reasons to not treat the fact that the globally poorest will suffer most from climate change as a reason to not reduce fossil fuel use, we are now only discussing whether or not mentioning the disproportionate impact of global warming on the poor is more or less likely to persuade people to modify their behaviour and reduce emissions.

The potential health implications of this pipeline are enormous and far reaching — from spills poisoning our water and soil, to the public health impacts of a warming global climate — the impacts will likely be devastating.»