Sentences with phrase «magnitude of climate change»

Peter's work to promote awareness of the threat and magnitude of climate change over the years has been truly noble.

«Scenarios of different rates and magnitudes of climate change provide a basis for assessing the risk of crossing identifiable thresholds in both physical change and impacts on biological and human systems».

But along with emissions - reduction mitigation to reduce the rate and magnitude of climate change as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive risk - management climate policy will necessarily require a strategic and multifaceted effort at preparedness to limit vulnerabilities and increase resilience to impacts that can't be avoided.

The last words from the Swiss scientists are these: «The hiatus has not changed our projections of the overall magnitude of climate change or the emission reductions that are required to address it.»

Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) are scenarios for rates and magnitudes of climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

Broun believes that the «magnitude of climate change is exaggerated» and that there is «no scientific consensus» on the effects of rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

However, the researchers note, it's possible that the magnitude of climate change in those regions substantially affected patterns of human dispersal and that it was this, not climate change itself, that wiped out large mammals.

In this earth system model, human belief systems and corresponding climate governance will drive anthropogenic GHG emissions that force the climate system, while the magnitude of climate change and related extreme events will influence human perception of associated risk.

«Although the future degree and magnitude of climate change on regional scales is uncertain, it's clear that the potential for environmental disasters is on the rise due to the changing nature of the hydrologic cycle and sea level,» said Antonio J. Busalacchi, committee co-chair and director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Investments in mitigation during both the near term and the longer - term do, however, have substantial leverage on the magnitude of climate change in the latter decades of the century, making the second half of the 21st century and beyond an era of climate options.

Climate change will, however, have different impacts on people around the world and those effects will vary not only by region but over time, depending on the rate and magnitude of climate change.

We hold our future in our hands, as the report makes clear: «Choices made today will determine the magnitude of climate change risks beyond the next few decades.»

The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades will depend primarily on the amount of greenhouse (heat - trapping) gases emitted globally and on the remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to those emissions (very high confidence).

The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat - trapping gases that human activities emit globally, now and in the future.

Recent science (e.g., MIT EPPA model results) suggests that AR4 may underestimate the speed and magnitude of climate change.

The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat - trapping gases emitted globally, and how sensitive the Earth's climate is to those emissions.

The mission of the Young Voices for the Planet film series is to limit the magnitude of climate change and its impacts by empowering children and youth, through uplifting and inspiring success stories, to take an essential role in informing their communities — and society at large, challenging decision - makers, and catalyzing change.

This final America's Climate Choices report is the conclusion of a five - report series that included: Advancing the Science of Climate Change Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems.

Advancing the Science of Climate Change Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change A five - video series on the America's Climate Choices project Demand for information to support climate - related decisions has grown as people, organizations, and governments have moved ahead with plans and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

As scientists we do not take advocacy positions lightly, but we believe the magnitude of climate change now presents an unprecedented moral challenge that compels us to speak out.

It is sobering to consider the magnitude of climate change during the past 20,000 years, since the peak of the last major glaciation.

But the only mention of these words in the IPCC report are in the section «Anthropogenic warming could lead to some impacts that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change», which reveals a far less frightening and urgent picture than such accounts suggests:

[T] hey can change their pattern of energy production and usage in order to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and hence the magnitude of climate changes; they can wait for changes to occur and accept the losses, damage and suffering that arise; they can adapt to actual and expected changes as much as possible; or they can seek as yet unproven «geoengineering» solutions to counteract some of the climate changes that would otherwise occur.

My generation can't be expected to solve a problem of the magnitude of climate change if we're never given the opportunity to learn about it.»

The magnitude of climate change impacts is no longer a serious form of debate.

How can we be expected to solve a problem of the magnitude of climate change if we are not provided the opportunity to learn about it?

Yet, the magnitude of the climate change challenge calls for proactive adaptation and technological and social innovation, areas where Canada and the U.S. have abundant capacity.

In coming decades, when the magnitude of the climate change disaster becomes clear and undeniable, these people will quite rightly and understandably be despised.