Sentences with phrase «marked by changing climate»

Earlier, Hessl had told me that the two periods were, in broad ways, «mirror images of one another» — each marked by changing climate, urbanization and societal reorganization.

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Not to mention praise the climate change plan has received from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and a little known political figure by the name of Barack Obama.

Demonstrators, led by filmmaker Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro and Sally Field, crowded in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower to speak about a variety of issues including health care, labor rights, climate change and protection for immigrants, lesbians and gays.

And yet all of us sat to hear Sir Mark Walport, the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, when he came last month and explained to the Government that the recent IPCC report - which made clear the threats posed by man - made climate change - was the most exhaustive, authoritative, peer reviewed report on climate change ever published.

Seventeen Republican lawmakers, including Elise Stefanik of New York, Carlos Curbelo of Florida, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Mia Love of Utah, Don Bacon of Nebraska, and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania, introduced a resolution on Wednesday that urges the House of Representatives to «address the causes and effects» of climate change, according to a press release sent out by Costello's office.

The cost of environmental damage, which is based on Sir Nicholas Stern's review on the economic costs of climate change, will continue to rise every year until it reaches a mark of # 59.60 a tonne by 2050.

Mark Dunlea says Cuomo has positioned New York as a national leader on climate change, but «his goals are weaker in several ways than those adopted seven years ago» by former Gov. David Paterson.

«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a period marked by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.

It's time to stop pretending otherwise, to stop pretending that we haven't already entered the Anthropocene, a new geological age marked by massive species loss (already achieved) and climate change (in progress).

Unsustainable, inefficient, often violent, and marked by stark inequalities of wealth and opportunity, cities are increasingly vulnerable to social and economic crises, natural disasters, climate change, and other challenges of the coming era.

It marks the world's acceptance that climate change, driven by humans» greenhouse gas emissions, is about as close to a certainty as science can ever get — and that conclusion can not be covered up or waved away.

Seeding research funding into carbon removal options now will pay dividends in the coming decades: Photo credit: Jamie McCaffrey / Foter / CC BY By Guy Lomax and Peju Adeosun Last month, we published a Commentary in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Professor Tim Lenton and Dr. Mark Workman, calling on policymakers -LSB-..BY By Guy Lomax and Peju Adeosun Last month, we published a Commentary in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Professor Tim Lenton and Dr. Mark Workman, calling on policymakers -LSB-..By Guy Lomax and Peju Adeosun Last month, we published a Commentary in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, co-authored with Professor Tim Lenton and Dr. Mark Workman, calling on policymakers -LSB-...]

Given the rancor which has previously marked public exchanges about climate change in the United States, that's remarkable progress all by itself.

In 1965, it was announced that «By the year 2000 the increase in atmospheric CO2... may be sufficient to produce measurable and perhaps marked changes in climate.»

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (who last collaborated on Fisher Stevens» climate change documentary Before the Flood) will be providing the score for Patriots Day, the Boston Marathon bombing drama directed by Deepwater Horizon and Lone Survivor helmer, which will again reteam the filmmaker with star Mark Wahlberg.

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Updated in 2015 for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, EXIT is an impressive multidisciplinary team effort created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a New York - based studio of artists and architects, in collaboration with Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Stewart Smith, and a team of scientists and geographers.

While everything from climate change to techno - scientific developments is marked by acceleration and exponential growth, our current moment in time is increasingly hard to grasp.

When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.

They're not necessarily the kinds of marks that you want to be remembered by: extinctions, climate change, ocean acidification.

The actor, who recently committed a faux pas by mistakenly attributing the common Canadian Chinook wind weather pattern to climate change, told the magazine that 2015 marked a «massive tipping point in the climate change struggle.»

One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway climate change» by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.

That same day, Environment Canada scientist Mark Tushingham, who had penned a novel set in the near future about how climate change could affect Canada, was forbidden by Rona Ambrose's office to speak at his own book launch.

Trees «shield vulnerable species from climate change» 1 November 2013Last updated at 23:05 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News Allowing forest canopies to grow over could help some flora species cope with rising temperatures Forests with dense canopies create a microclimate that protects a variety of cold - adapted plant species from warming air temperatures, a study has shown.

These are particularly problematic in the context of climate change, where speaking up, from whatever perspective and position, can lead to being shouted down, but where speaking up is increasingly demanded of scientists in particular by people in high office, such as the UK's Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Mark Walport.

The ratification of the Paris Agreement, less than a year after it was approved by 197 countries under the French Presidency at COP21 last December, marks an unprecedented milestone in the global effort to combat climate change.

July has been marked by an abundance of new evidence and arguments that point to the adverse effect of man - made climate change.

[Translate] By Mark Sumner DAILYKOS.COM Good news is a rare thing in climate change stories.

U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier sought the probe last year to determine whether the oil giant violated federal laws by «failing to disclose truthful information» about climate change.

Mark Eakin, NOAA's Coral Reef Watch coordinator, said: «The coral bleaching and disease brought on by climate change, and coupled with events like the current El Niño, are the largest and most pervasive threats to coral reefs around the world.

But how has anything changed in the understanding of Ethiopian climate since the 2001 paper by Mike Hulme, Ruth Doherty, Todd Ngara, Mark New, David Lister called «African climate change: 1900 — 2100»?

The Fraser Institute has published material skeptical of climate change science since at least 2001, which marks the publication of Global Warming: A Guide to the Science by Willie Soon and Sallie L. Baliunas The abstract states: «There is no clear evidence, nor unique attribution, of the global effects of anthropogenic CO2 on climate.

14) «Climate Change (A Fundamental Analysis of the Greenhouse Effect)» 1/06/2008, by John Nicol, PhD Professor Emeritus of Physics, James Cook University, Australia 15) «Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet» by Mark Lynas 16) «Cool It», by Bjorn Lomborg, an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School 17) «The Greenhouse Delusion» by Dr. Vincent Gray.

But while it is uncharitable to describe building pipelines to fight climate change as a «crock of shit» or «Orwellian logic» — as David Suzuki and economist Mark Jaccard, respectively, have done — it's by no means certain that it will achieve a national climate consensus, which has eluded governments since that of Brian Mulroney.

is uncharitable to describe building pipelines to fight climate change as a «crock of shit» or «Orwellian logic» — as David Suzuki and economist Mark Jaccard, respectively, have done — it's by no means certain that it will achieve a national climate consensus, which has eluded governments since that of Brian Mulroney.

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Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, hit back against climate denier Lord Nigel Lawson's accusation that the Bank had its priorities wrong by researching the impact of climate change in the insurance industry.

Past rapid rapid climate change events are marked by mass extinctions such as the End Permian.

Opposition climate spokesman Mark Butler said the «unprecedented decision by the Coalition sends a very strong message to the world that the Australian government doesn't care about climate change».

Footnotes in the testimony attribute the two statements in quotation marks within the second passage to the US Climate Change Science Program's 2008 report on extremes in North America and a 2012 paper by Sheffield et al. in the journal Nature, respectively.

The FSB is chaired by the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, who in September created waves in the global financial sector with a speech to insurers warning of serious risks to investors from climate change due to, among other factors, a sudden asset write down with «jump - to - distress prices».

(Gothenburg, Sweden, 7 May, 2015): WWF's flag ship business programme Climate Savers is marking 15 years of corporate leadership in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by introducing a new measuring standard, reflecting the global shift in the role of business in fighting climate Climate Savers is marking 15 years of corporate leadership in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by introducing a new measuring standard, reflecting the global shift in the role of business in fighting climate climate change.

The past few years have been marked by unusually severe extreme weather characteristic of climate change.

Climate shifts are marked by changes in the state of the Pacific Ocean and in the trajectory of atmospheric temperature.

It has become something of a sport, played by those that might be called free - market environmentalists, to blame the environment movement for the lack of action on climate change (Mark Lynas in the UK and Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus in the US come to mind), and even to hold them responsible for climate change itself.

In a similar vein, the ancient Norse — drawing, perhaps, on some racial memory of climate change in the prehistoric past — insisted in their eschatology that the end of the world (Ragnarok, marked by warring among gods and men and great natural disasters) would be preceded by three great winters or «fimbulwinters.»

In 2015 Carbon Tracker presented the stranded assets / unburnable carbon idea to a full meeting of central banks and regulators at the Financial Stability Board meeting on climate change hosted by Mark Carney, effectively contributing to the creation of the Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures climate change hosted by Mark Carney, effectively contributing to the creation of the Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures Climate - related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

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On October 14, 2015, two California congressmen, Democrats Rep. Ted Lieu and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking the Department of Justice whether Exxon Mobil violated the RICO law by «failing to disclose truthful information» regarding climate change, as reported in the Los Angeles Times.

Subsistence fishermen face an uncertain future, marked by climate change and ocean acidification and global overfishing, and they suspect things are only going to get worse.