Sentences with phrase «major problem of climate change»

Indeed, Caroline Slomp of the University of Utrecht told reporters that low oxygen is the third major problem of climate change - runner up behind temperature rise and acidification.

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In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

In New Westminster's proclamation, explaining the decision to adopt a Meatless Monday, mayor Jonathan Coté wrote: «Overconsumption of meat, dairy and eggs is associated with many major environmental problems, including climate change, worsened human health outcomes and animal welfare concerns.»

Also at 7 p.m., EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck will address climate change, the scope of the problem, major steps that EPA is taking to fight climate change and tips on how people can help, The College of St. Rose, Thelma P. Lally School of Education, Touhey Forum, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany.

One of the major problems, as Latif explained, is that there are just very few long - term oceanic measurements, thereby complicating the analysis and interpretation of climate change signals.

Severe climate change throughout the Late Pleistocene, going back at least 125,000 years, was «perfectly capable of causing major problems,» he says.

«We are not saying climate change isn't a problem for bumblebees — it is a major problem,» said Candace Galen, a professor of biological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science.

«By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem,» President Bush told representatives of 17 nations attending the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change held in Washington, D.C., this week.

The environmental effects of climate change in our modern world are increasingly convincing, and global leaders will gather soon in a major Summit to try to address the problem.

Among the responses to the growing consensus that climate change is an enormous problem that must be seriously addressed, the nuclear industry and some politicians are saying that nuclear power is a major part of the solution internationally and in the United States.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [1], [19] summarized broad - based assessments with a «burning embers» diagram, which indicated that major problems begin with global warming of 2 — 3 °C.

Most citizens do not see their added value, and feel that it is a waste of economic and political resources, but in this age of globalization, and given the internationalization of major situations and problems, such as water, energy, migration, trade, employment, professionalization of careers, pollution / climate change, and sustainability in particular, such bodies are important and must fulfill their charge the sooner the better.

This could present a major problem for public understanding of climate change.

The fatal flaw of the climate change narrative is that, uniquely among our major problems, it has no clear enemy at all.

Of course, this is being lead by his favorite bag of munchies, Roger Pielke Jr. who insists, insists Eli tells you, that right now there is nothing we can do (well until paragraph 23) and blames the reporter for listening to him, gets the science all wrong on a paper in Nature to conclude that it's gonna get cold man, blames learning his science from newspapers, and generally has been trying to discredit anyone who thinks that climate change may be a major probleOf course, this is being lead by his favorite bag of munchies, Roger Pielke Jr. who insists, insists Eli tells you, that right now there is nothing we can do (well until paragraph 23) and blames the reporter for listening to him, gets the science all wrong on a paper in Nature to conclude that it's gonna get cold man, blames learning his science from newspapers, and generally has been trying to discredit anyone who thinks that climate change may be a major probleof munchies, Roger Pielke Jr. who insists, insists Eli tells you, that right now there is nothing we can do (well until paragraph 23) and blames the reporter for listening to him, gets the science all wrong on a paper in Nature to conclude that it's gonna get cold man, blames learning his science from newspapers, and generally has been trying to discredit anyone who thinks that climate change may be a major problem.

Yet in the global warming issue, we see instances where a major organization promoted the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and another organization similarly promoting a prominent IPCC scientist as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and the long - term promotion of book author Ross Gelbspan as a Pulitzer winner when he is not, a problem first revealed long ago by Steve Milloy and expanded upon at this blog.

The attribution of climate change between natural and anthropogenic is one of the major, unsolved problems of this science.

According to a 2014 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, majorities of most major American religious group — including 82 percent of Jewish Americans, 76 percent of black Protestants, and 69 percent of Hispanic Catholics — agree that dealing with climate change now will help prevent future economic problems.

«The authors write that «the notorious tropical bias problem in climate simulations of global coupled general circulation models manifests itself particularly strongly in the tropical Atlantic,»... they state that «the climate bias problem is still so severe that one of the most basic features of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean — the eastward shoaling thermocline — can not be reproduced by most of the IPCC assessment report models,... as they describe it, «show that the bias in the eastern equatorial Atlantic has a major effect on sea - surface temperature (SST) response to a rapid change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).»

According to Barbut, climate change's effects on land are becoming more and more of a global problem, with major social and political consequences.

Dear Nir Shaviv, I would be glad to receive your comment about the recent paper from Andrew C. Overholt et al 2009 ApJ 705 L101 - L103 doi: 10.1088 / 0004 - 637X / 705 / 2 / L101 TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALA Does it mean - the spiral arm mechanism you suggest does nt fit - can some other mechanism explain your measurements and hypothesis - does this have an impact on the cosmic ray climate theory or not If we talk about the paradox of the faint young sun, imho its still an issue that any mechanism solving the problem of the major ice ages occuring each 140 million years in the last billion, does nt work for the first 3 billionCLIMATE CHANGE AND GALA Does it mean - the spiral arm mechanism you suggest does nt fit - can some other mechanism explain your measurements and hypothesis - does this have an impact on the cosmic ray climate theory or not If we talk about the paradox of the faint young sun, imho its still an issue that any mechanism solving the problem of the major ice ages occuring each 140 million years in the last billion, does nt work for the first 3 billionclimate theory or not If we talk about the paradox of the faint young sun, imho its still an issue that any mechanism solving the problem of the major ice ages occuring each 140 million years in the last billion, does nt work for the first 3 billion years.

The Democrats are of the mind that human - caused climate change is one of the major problems facing the country / world today, describing it as «an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.»

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

A panel of top American scientists declared today that global warming was a real problem and was getting worse, a conclusion that may lead President Bush to change his stand on the issue as he heads next week to Europe, where the United States is seen as a major source of the air pollution held responsible for climate change.

This post examines concretely what happened in the recently concluded Durban climate change negotiations with the goal of explicating why the lack of acceptance of duties and responsibilities, that is lack of acceptance that climate change is an ethical problem, continues to be the major barrier to achieving an adequate global approach to reduce the threat of climate change.

President Obama said the new EPA rules were in line with his mandate to address the climate change problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, noted in his State of the Union speech — and in a major policy speech in June.

My opinion, which I tell my students, is that knowing the fundamentals, knowing the basics — whatever area you work in, climate economics or ecological sciences — addressing and studying climate change problems requires an interdisciplinary approach and sooner or later that person who is very much well - versed in the fundamentals of his or her own choice of areas will see the avenue directing to the major issue of climate change or climate science.

«Traditionally species have been resilient and capable of going through dramatic climate change, but with humans changing the face of the landscape, we've created lots of prisons for species, and that's the major problem they face,» he said.

However, the major problem with the conclusions of CHL is that they ignore the perils of the climate - change uncertainties.

This 10 - week course for non-science majors focuses on a single problem: assessing the risk of human - caused climate change.

They compound the problem by leaving out many major natural creators of weather and therefore causes of climate change including astronomical, solar, and atmospheric changes.

Representing 250 airlines, or 94 percent of scheduled international air traffic, the IATA has a huge influence on the aviation sector, and it's great to see this organization at least recognizing climate change as a major problem, though disagreements remain, both within the industry and from outside pressure groups, as to the way forward in tackling this issue.

Hopefully it comes as no great surprise to you that deforestation is a major problem in many areas of the world, both it terms of preserving biodiversity and preventing climate change — some countries are chopping down their forests at astonishing rates.

It is this disconnect between the public message about the simple need to take action on climate change, and in contrast what is understood by academics / professionals in the field regarding the complexity of the problem, that could turn into a major headache.

Despite genuine mishandling of scientific data by some climate researchers, some sloppy writing and citations by the IPCC, and the lot of quasi-scandals taking up headlines in the past month, the underlying evidence still wholeheartedly supports that climate change is a major problem.

A recently published survey finds eight of nine major conservative parties around the world at least admit climate change is a problem.

The answer to this problem, which is a real one, since many reporters are newbies or don't know the science they are reporting on and are just looking for a few good quotes to bolster their reportagel, is this: scientists who understand the issue of global warming and climate change need to write more oped commentaries for major newspapers like the NY Times and the LA Times and the Guardian, with their names attached as author, and get the truth out that way.

The author finalizes the essense of the issue: «One can divide the problem into two parts, finding: (1) evidence that the orbitally controlled insolation changes drive the major climate shifts and, (2) the mechanisms by which that driving occurs.

The company also admitted that its own products were to blame for climate change: It stated: «With fossil fuel production being the major source of CO2 in the atmosphere a forward looking approach by the energy industry is clearly desirable, seeking to play its part with Governments and others in the development of appropriate measures to tackle the problem... The energy industry needs to consider how it should play its part.»

Indigenous Australians» water rights are at severe risk from climate change — and this will simply compound problems created by Australia's long history of water mismanagement, through artificial control of major waterways and over-allocation of water licences.