Sentences with phrase «lived impact on the climate»

That means emissions have an intense but relatively short - lived impact on the climate.

Not exact matches

And it follows that Notley's climate plan and the popular zeitgeist it represents will have significant impacts not just on the hydrocarbon sector but where people choose to live and work and how they get around.

Especially on the impact of these protests and the social climate that everybody has to live in.

Saul Luciano Lliuya, a farmer who lives near Lake Palcacocha in the Peruvian Andes, has sued Rheinisch - Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE), a major German utility company, to pay for the impact of climate change on his community.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

For most of my life I have stood firmly against expansion of Heathrow airport, largely on the grounds of aviation's impact on climate change.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

This is important, as a molecule of ozone lost in this region has a far larger impact on climate than a molecule destroyed at higher altitudes by longer - lived gases.»

With climate change transforming the Arctic, biologists are scrambling to understand the impact on gray whales and other creatures living in the region

Climate change can have a different impact on male and female fish, shellfish and other marine animals, with widespread implications for the future of marine life and the production of seafood.

The positive impact on climate could be swift because of soot's fleeting life span, according to Jacobson.

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

Stories on the potential impact of climate change in two localities and on the secret lives of scientists and engineers are among the winners of the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

To untangle the impacts that these three climate stressors will have on seafloor diversity in the future, the researchers examined existing published data and collected new data on organisms living in deep - sea sediments in upwelling regions along continental margins, where the ocean and continental crusts meet along the seafloor.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

This shows that identifying inconsistent observations is a pre-requisite for studying and interpreting the impact of climate change on the timing of life cycle events.

My second Sidney Byers Scholarship will allow me to continue with my PhD studies and to work on my dissertation, which will be about understanding perceptions of local mountain herders towards climate change, while investigating its impact on their daily life, routines and livelihoods.

Gardening and ayurvedic - based living can create a huge impact on climate change, leaving a precious gift for future generations.

Thus, I will re-focus on what I enjoy to write about: fashion and style, how culture, climate, weather, and location impact outfits, ageless style and fashion, and life in Alaska.

A resource for teachers and facilitators to explore the causes and consequences of climate change on our own environment, as well as to impact on those who live in some of the poorest communities in the world.

Three middle school administrators from Washington who have seen the profound impact of SEL on their school climates, brought SEL into all aspects of school life, and successfully advocated at the district for SEL resources, will discuss SEL leadership and lessons learned.

Every interaction that is backed by the training and guidance of restorative practices can transform school climate and make an impact on the lives of students affected by traditional, punitive discipline policies.

Jane writes and speaks frequently on issues of education justice and access, the impact of poverty on children's life outcomes, the policy and practice implications of concentrated poverty and trauma on children, school climate, student discipline and attendance.

As it gradually dawned on me that the conflict had environmental roots, I was intrigued enough to look into other impacts climate change was having on our lives.

Using an array of strategies, Harrison investigates, exposes and challenges the absurd consequences of our capitalist system: from over-consumption, inequality and alienation, to privatisation and climate change — and explores the impact free - market forces are having on our society, and our individual day - to - day lives.

These largely unsubstantiated claims are polarizing the public discourse on climate change and drawing attention away from climate impacts that are more directly related to global warming and ultimately much more damaging to our planetary life support system.

It's unfortunate that this loss or delay of valuable information that would support solid policy shift on mitigating climate change and reducing impacts including saving human lives, is not given more meaningful coverage in mainstream press.

Further, the surface temperature is most relevant to climate change impacts, since humans and land ecosystems live on the surface.

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

«Weather impacts peoples» lives and the global economy on a daily basis,» says Jay Fein, program director in N.S.F.'s climate dynamics program.

If society's goal is to build a sustainable relationship with the climate system — meaning a way of living that limits our impact on the climate and its impacts on our systems — we have a very long way to go.

This paper reports an analysis that finds, «[Short - lived climate pollutant] emissions in any given decade only have a significant impact on peak temperature under circumstances in which CO2 emissions are falling.

The climate impact of these energy sources pales beside the direct impact on the lives of the people — mainly women and their children — who spend a significant portion of the day gathering the fuels or breathing the smoke.

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

American Catholics should «live our faith confronting the impact of climate change,» especially its impact on the world's poor, Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane said Tuesday.

«The goal is to depict the very real impact that climate change is having on people's lives and to unite thousands of Earth Day events around the world into one call for climate action,» said Franklin Russell, director of Earth Day at Earth Day Network.

For example, we could describe climate change primarily in terms of the physical processes: carbon emissions, the radiative balance of the atmosphere, average temperatures, and impacts on human life and ecosystems.

Either Outcome A; our exponentially growing rate of technological change will quickly lead us to exert such devastating impact on our planet that we'll be extinct within a few generations (apologies to the guy who thought his kids would live 10,000 years), or Outcome B; our exponentially growing rate of technological change will quickly lead us to effective measures to control the global climate.

On This American Life this weekend, Ira Glass tried to jog the climate conversation out of the «mire and muck» with an hourlong discussion of impacts and options related to human - driven global warming.

Climate - related hazards affect poor people's lives directly through impacts on livelihoods, reductions in crop yields, or destruction of homes and indirectly through, for example, increased food prices and food insecurity.

You may not have been able to imagine if climate change would have any impact on my life, but I know for sure that my grandchildren may not be as lucky as I.

All these things have an understood impact on our quality of life today, and would be a far better investment than in climate change, which also has every indication of being a cyclical phenomenon.

aa, So you think we are facing a world wide climate disruption caused by CO2 with grave impacts on life on this planet?

This impacts climate and all life on Earth.

For example, if unabated climate change results in a famine in Kenya, or the Maldives is lost to rising sea levels, the loss of life and culture won't have much impact on the global economy, but I think we can all agree that there is a significant non-economic loss associated with these types of events.

Her work focuses on the impacts of climate variations on animal and plant life, and change on global agriculture and urban areas.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

The abstract states that «Climate change and its impact on environment, and thus the consequent effects on human, animal and plant life, is a hot topic for discussion at national and international forums both at scientific and political levels.