Sentences with phrase «most aspects of climate change»

In that context, most aspects of the climate change resulting from CO2 emissions are irreversible, due to the long residence time of the CO2 perturbation in the atmosphere and the resulting warming (Solomon et al., 2009).

The text also states that cumulative CO2 emissions largely determine global mean surface warming by the late 21st century and beyond, and that most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if CO2 emissions stop.

Not exact matches

This area of the ocean is projected to be the most severely impacted by aspects of climate change.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

«Climate change is one of the most neglected aspects of human history,» says Brian Fagan, an anthropologist who has written multiple books on the topic.

This assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on Montana agriculture is a starting point to identify and prioritize the aspects of agriculture that might be most impacted.

«We don't really give it much thought,» says Peter Neill, «but [ocean acidification] may be one of the most important aspects of what's going on [with climate change].

In a special report called «The Copenhagen Diagnosis», the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations of only a few years ago.

Either most of the actual drying was not caused by warming per se, or the models are all significantly underestimating a key aspect of climate change (see section 7) even though many of them are getting the spatial gradients in today's climate about right.»

As I've been saying for a long time now, the aspects of human - driven climate change that matter most to society — the pace and extent of warming and sea - level rise, for instance — are surrounded by durable and (un-manufactured) uncertainty.

One big reason is that while the basics of greenhouse theory have been clear for decades, the most consequential aspects of human - driven climate change remain the least certain.

There are other video makers who have deconstructed aspects of climate change in novel ways, most notably Greg Craven, the teacher from Oregon who became a YouTube sensation for his deconstruction of global warming (and now has a book out as well).

The most certain aspects of global climate change are the radiative forcings due to the greenhouse gas increases.

An update from the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the third National Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued sChange Research Program, the third National Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued Climate Assessment is a detailed, 1,300 - page compendium, compiled by over 240 authors, of how climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued climate change is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued schange is impacting the United States, broken down by region and touching upon nearly every aspect of our society: White House senior counselor John Podesta called it the «most authoritative and comprehensive» report of its kind issued so far.

The fuss about his environmental and economic analysis has — in my view — obscured the most significant aspect of this encyclical: his observation that climate change has already created human victims, and his insistence that we all have a moral obligation to help these vulnerable people.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populClimate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populaChange states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populclimate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populachange» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

You acknowledge that there is no consensus on the most important aspects of the issue of potential climate change when you write:

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

«Another unusual aspect of recent climate change is its cause: past climate changes were natural in origin, whereas most of the warming of the past 50 years is attributable to human activities.»

This was seen by many as the most controversial aspect of Heartland's attempt to «influence» the debate on climate change, because it is one thing to confuse political leaders (they almost seem to enjoy it), but quite another to spread misinformation to students.

One of the most troubling aspects of the leaked Heartland Institute documents was the revelation that they were planning to create a school curriculum for K - 12 students that «that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain — two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science» indicates that there is scientific controversy on the core issues of anthropogenic climate change (*).

The current geography of the Earth is such that the changes in energy to the Northern Hemisphere are the most significant aspect to understanding the Earth's climate.

The scientific uncertainties associated with climate prediction are the basis of most of the arguments about the significance of climate change (25), and as well are the basis of much of the polarized public opinion on the political aspects of the matter.

In particular, it seeks to illustrate how climate change may impact on every aspect of the most vulnerable children's lives and how children themselves can be central to the response.

In my view, this means we were tasked to report on the most important aspects of climate change.

«The People Who'll be Most Hurt by Climate Swings Did the Least to Cause Them, Study Says» (Chris Mooney, Washington Post) «There has been a lot of debate about how rich countries can help poor countries to adapt, but they have overlooked this aspect — that the impacts of climate variability change might be worse in the poorer countries,» said Sebastian Bathiany, a climate change researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who led the research published in Science Advances....Climate Swings Did the Least to Cause Them, Study Says» (Chris Mooney, Washington Post) «There has been a lot of debate about how rich countries can help poor countries to adapt, but they have overlooked this aspect — that the impacts of climate variability change might be worse in the poorer countries,» said Sebastian Bathiany, a climate change researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who led the research published in Science Advances....climate variability change might be worse in the poorer countries,» said Sebastian Bathiany, a climate change researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who led the research published in Science Advances....climate change researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who led the research published in Science Advances....»

One of the most vexing aspects of predicting climate change, of course, is that future outcomes are highly uncertain.

Dr Curry Detection and attribution — surely the 2 most important aspects of climate change.

Most books about climate change focus on some aspect of the science of the issue; some deal with issues of mitigation — that is, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — or adaptation — that is, actions to adjust human behavior or infrastructure to the consequences of the warming that Earth will experience over the coming decades.

The impact of aerosols on the atmosphere is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant and uncertain aspects of climate change projections.

Whatever aspect of geography it is that you start with threatens to segue into a discussion on the most polarising topic there is: climate change.