Sentences with phrase «lots of changing climate»

The formula holds: more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas + lots of changing climate patterns.

So here we are, still facing a clear long - term picture (more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas + lots of changing climate patterns), but sufficient murk in the short run to fuel the «green noise» and «destructive interference» in climate discourse.

Of course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patterns).

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But what a lot of people don't realize is that earth science data and earth science in general goes way beyond climate change.

«When it comes to climate change policy, governments make a lot of promises, but all too rarely do they get around to delivering on them.

... It may have been a strong storm, and it may have caused a lot of problems anyway — but [human - caused climate change] amplifies the damage considerably.»

After all, not everyone has family or friends who can loan them money, and banks are currently sitting on a lot of cash — looking for businesses that appear to be a smart bet (although the lending climate can change in a heartbeat).

COMPANIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TAKING ACTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL There's a lot of talk in the C suite about how to reduce waste, boost energy efficiency and embrace renewables, but progress so far has been scattershot.

There are lots of problems to pick apart here, but let's tackle the big one: climate change.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

JPT, Right wing groups spend a lot of money denying a human cause for climate change, isn't that the same?

There are lots of ramifications when we deny climate change.

I feel that way about a lot of sky - is - falling talk on climate change.

«There's a lot of season - to - season adaptation happening right now, because climate change is happening now,» said Yalumba's Camilleri.

«Formula E has done a lot to raise awareness of things like climate change.

It would have been easy to make a lot of changes and Arsenal would probably still have got the job done, but in the current climate, Arsene Wenger wasn't taking any chances.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest Star Wars.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest

Prof Will Stewart from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) said: «Engineering can do a lot to help us cope with flooding, and other effects of climate change.

It's this sort of sloppy thinking that informs a lot of the Climate Change debate unfortunately.

And yet, the WFP's top official says there are a lot of things to celebrate as the year ends, pointing to a growing progressive advocacy movement ranging from climate change to criminal justice reforms.

«My Pope came out with a document some few years ago titled «Care for our Common Home»... He talked about sanitation, climate change and a whole lot of challenges.

We see that in a lot of ways: Families deciding not to have their kids vaccinated; federally - funded R&D was half of what is was 50 years ago; people are denying climate change when the evidence is right in front of them; and so on.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

Now it may not be, you know, the solution to climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.

Research needs still not met Luce said those on the front lines of forest management have a lot to think about, and planning specifically for how climate change will impact drought conditions is «probably at the early stages.»

There's a lot of posturing and that's pretty common for international negotiations on climate change; everybody like [s] to beat their chests and you know stake extreme positions.

«A lot of times we focus on sea - level rise and fires in the West» as illustrations of climate change, Williams said.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

We have a lot of work on climate change.

So yes, right now the agricultural lobby is exerting a very strong influence on a lot of things affecting biofuel policy, and actually other parts of policies that are related to climate changes, so it's awkward that way.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

«Climate change will continue to create a lot of ripple effects, but this experiment provides evidence that the range of forecasting will remain the same,» Lupo said.

«In the next decade there's going to be a lot of renewable energy built, and all that has to go somewhere,» said Jessica Goad, an energy and climate change policy fellow for The Wilderness Society.

The good news is though that I think he does feel that it is still possible to take some kinds of actions to respond to problems of climate change, to do a better job of trying to conserve top soil, to try to address the problems of water scarcity all over the world and so forth; that we can actually head off a lot of these problems.

Obviously, the numbers of people that it is trying to feed; problems of shortages of water, disappearing quantities of top soil on which we have to grow these different crops; and, of course, now climate change, which also is throwing a lot of randomness or bad factors into our attempts to grow enough food for everybody.

Climate change, or some other factor, might have caused an unusual bloom of phytoplankton with lots of carotenoids in 1996 in the north Atlantic, says Ron Kaufmann of the University of San Diego.

The IPO has a profound impact on our climate because it is a powerful natural climate lever with a lot of momentum that changes very slowly over periods of 10 - 30 years.

They accommodated huge amounts of climate change, were able to survive where there were lots of trees and very few trees, and expanded across Africa for millions of years in the face of overwhelming challenges.

There has been lot of it in the news recently, but the CO2 rates are going up slowly and the climate change is going to be slow and changing the industrial situation of the world is going to be slow.

«Once you dramatically change the climate and change water patterns, as is now seen in the Three Gorges region,» he says, «you change a lot of environmental variables.

«There are a lot of regional effects competing with large worldwide changes that make it very hard to predict what climate change will bring to the southeastern United States,» said Barros.

John Rennie: Yeah and they are very serious issues about looking into the future about this and possibly a lot of parts of the Southwestern, Western United States, in particular, could really be faced with some very severe drought conditions if the climate starts to the change the way is sometimes feared.

There is lots of room in the Republican Party for varying opinions within the debate on climate change.»

But we're well on the wrong side of 2010, Krawchuk said, making climate change a lot less theoretical.

«Instead of us spending a lot of time fighting science, let's go with science,» Obama said of climate change.

From sea level changes to the fate of the pika, scientists have given concerned citizens a lot to be concerned about when it comes to climate change.

Also, today a lot of people read about the Arctic as the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.