Sentences with phrase «not effecting climate»

I enjoyed reading your comment, it makes sense, human - kind does not effect climate.

Not exact matches

That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.
Under Paul Martin, we saw a climate plan proposal from Ottawa — but it was federal rather than national, and most of it didn't go into effect.
Again, though, our current position is driven by the Market Climate in effect, not by my personal views or projections.
For example, they staged a walk - out at COP19 at Warsaw when their proposal for a loss and damage mechanism, which would contribute to addressing damages occurring from adverse effects of climate change, did not receive enough traction.
But while the scientific community is in consensus about climate change, its effects on insurance aren't so clear, despite the soaring cost damage.
VICTORIA — Taking meaningful action on climate change to protect British Columbia's environment and the economy from its effects doesn't matter to Christy Clark, says New Democrat environment spokesperson George Heyman.
It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.
So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.
In fact, I was careful not to say that we have no effect on weather and climate.
as for making extraordinary claims — if you weren't ignorant in relation to the data that's available - you'd understand that the claims that man is very highly likely to have effected the global climate aren't at all extraordinary, dummy.
Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)
Not only do the animals suffer from this cruel trade but it also has serious negative effects on the environment, contributing to climate change, pollution and water contamination.
Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.
Organic agriculture not only enables ecosystems to better adjust to the effects of climate change but also offers a major potential to reduce the emissions of agricultural greenhouse gases92.
Writing letters to editors or attending rallies to urge lawmakers to pass climate - friendly policies can not only fend off the anxiety and depression that comes with feeling helpless, but also effect real change.
The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32
Not only do we need healthy soils to grow the food that feeds us, if we treat our soil right it can help us dramatically reduce the effects of climate change, while increasing yields and improving soil health.
A comprehensive look at the projected effects of our changing climate on our nesting birds by 2050.
Or, to give an example that isn't obvious from the Bible's teachings, imagine the Pope came out and said that Climate Change is a key issue for humanity today (I'm 99.9 % sure he has said words to that effect, but can't find a source right now).
There is an overlying awareness when assessing New York's environmentally progressive work - in - progress that the effects climate change and fossil fuel energy industries have on the environment, infrastructure and public health don't stop at state lines.
But these do not affect the key point: the effects of climate change, for example, will cause massive adjustment costs so higher GDP may well not feed through to higher living standards.
Tenney called new Environmental Protection Agency regulations of carbon emissions from power plants «a job killer» that would not have much of an effect on the climate.
«Cuomo's leadership could inspire a domino effect of related pipeline rejections as other states begin to put the protection of water and our climate before flawed energy projects that do not serve the public interest.»
If the effects of climate change weren't included in the model, the trends toward bigger seasonal variations in CO2 at Arctic latitudes disappeared, researchers report online today in Science.
«The State's climate policymaking machinery is not measuring up to the task of achieving GHG reduction goals and preparing the state for the effects of climate change,» the commission wrote in a 2017 report to the Legislature.
But it's not clear which effect predominates in the Arctic, he explained, since different types of clouds have different effects on climate, depending on whether they're made of ice or snow, whether they're thick or thin, and how high they sit in the atmosphere.
«When you are closer to the tropics, the effects of climate change are not as strong as they are closer to the poles.
Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.
While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.
But the impact these gases have on the climate has until now not been as widely studied as the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
«Marginal cuts by the U.S. don't have a long - term overall big effect on the climate,» he said.
«When people switch over to the 1981 - 2010 standards, the effects on climate change aren't going to be as pronounced,» Arguez said.
«We think people should know that these particles not only pollute air locally, but they also have these remote climate effects,» Hwang said.
Because of that, they haven't allowed an accurate assessment of the effects of climate change on carbon in the region.
Could it be true that staving off the severe effects posed by climate change won't impose ruinous costs?
Sarah Reece, a malaria researcher at Edinburgh University, UK, who reviewed the study but was not involved in the work, says that although interest in the effects of climate change on the transmission of malaria is increasing, details about the interactions between parasites and mosquitoes are often overlooked.»
The work aims to imitate the effects of climate change on the environment and the results are not all negative, but show a range of interlinked responses.
The researchers found that on windy nights it wasn't possible to measure the cooling effects of the green spaces beyond their boundaries as there was too much turbulent mixing of the air; but on calm warm nights they estimate that a network of green spaces of around 3 - 5 hectares each situated 100 - 150 m apart would provide comprehensive cooling for a city with a climate and characteristics similar to London.
«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.
While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.
According to McFadden, not only does this analysis demonstrate that wintertime climate can be important for northern cities, it also shows the effects in terms of flood risks.
A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.
Recent independent studies suggest cosmic rays can affect cloudiness, but not in the way Svensmark claims, and that their effect on climate is insignificant.
«We were not out to specifically counter the effects of climate change,» said Moursi, explaining the development of these crops.
This «greenhouse effect» was only one of many speculations about climate change, however, and not the most plausible.
That means existing climate change models predicting the effects of rising temperatures and heat stress on maize may be counting on yield boosts that aren't coming, and overestimating how much our corn fields will yield in the future.
«We can't save them all, but we intervene to help some adjust,» says Ary Hoffmann, who studies the effects of climate change on biodiversity at the University of Melbourne.
He points out, however, that «most data on the effects of climate change on penguins are not derived from banded studies.»
«Climate change has already imposed a significant effect in a wide range of plant species not restricted to sensitive ecosystems.»
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