Sentences with phrase «looming over climate»

It's especially unclear given the huge uncertainties looming over climate models and the accuracy of the global temperature record.

Not exact matches

Looming over these new demands for the Ogallala's finite water supply is climate change.

A shadow looms over this year's United Nations climate change meeting.

The study, published online today in the Journal of Climate, describes what future rain will look like in a typical year, but doesn't comment on how often drought might loom over southern California.

There are plenty of other issues looming if and when money does start to flow, including potential fights among countries exposed to various kinds of climate - linked hazards, from rising seas to protracted droughts, over who deserves help first and most.

Prof Adam Scaife, Head of Long Range Prediction at the Met Office and member of the RMetS» Climate Science Communication Group, commented: «These predictions show that 1.5 °C events are now looming over the horizon, but the global pattern of heat would be different to a more sustained exceeding of the Paris 1.5 °C threshold.

The current role of methane looms large, he says, contributing over 40 percent of current radiative forcing from all greenhouse gases, based on the latest science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

That's been the question looming over the the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru, the last two weeks, as negotiators from 195 countries have tried to hammer out a draft climate change agreement.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

Negotiators working on a deal to fight climate change had agreed on just a single paragraph of text as the deadline loomed large, casting a shadow over the prospects for a strong outcome in Lima.

See: Geologist Declares «global warming is over» — Warns U.S. Climate Conference of «Looming Threat of Global Cooling»

As the controversy over the proposed rules continues to unfold, two important questions loom: What is the likelihood that these new regulations will actually be put into effect, and how big an impact would they have on the fight to slow climate change?

The other is climate change, which the scientists say «looms over all [continue reading...]

I'd planned to also mention how our pro-global warming friends must view skeptic scientists and skeptic organizations as a very annoying irritation, but they probably fear the general public the most, over the looming potential of the public losing faith in talking points about «settled science» and «corrupt skeptic climate scientists» that become too preposterous to accept.

As the US airline industry faces a host of challenges — steep international competition, rapidly increasing consumer demand, flight delays and congestion, the ever - pressing need for safety, controversy over federal vs. private insurance against terrorist acts, and so on — climate change looms as a sleeping giant.

«Debt and doubt loom large over Durban climate talks.»

In the current climate that seems likely, and although it merits more than a passing mention, the impact of Brexit looms over all of us: the title of this article is a deliberate reference to both the deeply embedded inter-relationship between EU and domestic family law, and the ongoing challenges faced where reforms so often seem to be undermined by a lack of appropriate resource so as to truly implement change.