Sentences with phrase «now leads the climate»

«The trillion - dollar question is: who will now lead the climate battle?

Back in 2012, the environmental activists now leading the climate litigation campaign met in La Jolla, Calif., to strategize how to convince government officials to demonize and ultimately prosecute energy companies for causing global warming.

Not exact matches

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

«Saskatoon now leads the pack of the most investment - friendly climate because of falling property tax costs and because companies in second - place Calgary now face a higher provincial corporate income tax,» according to Dachis.

The Conservatives under Mr Cameron are currently leading the polls as the most trusted party on the environment, although the government has now agreed to Tory and Liberal Democrat demands to introduce a climate change bill in the Queen's speech this month.

Until April this year, London was been taking a lead internationally on how to adapt to, and mitigate the effects of climate change, whereas now we are fl oundering in indecision and a lack of direction.

So, my vote for next chancellor goes to Adair Turner, former head of the Confederation of British Industry, chair of the official Committee on Climate Change and now leading the Financial Services Authoriry.

The lifelong oilman now leads the State Department, which oversees international climate change negotiations, programs to alleviate energy poverty and environmental treaties

For now, however, the latest findings show that olivine can play a significant role in shaping a planet's climate, says Bethany Ehlmann of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who led the Martian orbiter discovery.

It now seems possible, though, that flaws in climate models are leading them to underestimate even shorter - term feedbacks.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

Leading members of Congress have introduced a half dozen bills that would impose some kind of carbon regulation, and even the president now concedes that climate change is important.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

Using a global climate model, a team led by Princeton University researchers measured how severely heat waves interact with urban heat islands, now and in the future, in 50 American cities across three climate zones.

«Our estimates show that the growth in Chinese emissions has slowed a lot in the past two to three years, and is now much lower than at any point since the early 2000s,» said study lead author Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior climate economics researcher at CICERO.

«Our results highlight the importance of the interactive effects of vegetation type, temperature and moisture in determining of the response of soil decomposition to climate change,» says lead author Julia Bradley - Cook, who conducted the study as part of her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth and who is now a Congressional Science Fellow.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

«Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different areas of the world, and now climate change is modifying those sites,» said William Colgan, a climate and glacier scientist at York U and lead author of the new study.

However, under different climate states during the past few millennia the water flux was greater than now; this leads to great uncertainty in estimations of how much of the current water flow is renewable versus fossil.

Lead author Nicholas Pilfold, now a postdoctoral fellow at San Diego Zoo Global, said «the pattern of long - distance swimming by polar bears in the Beaufort Sea shows the fingerprint of climate change.

The lead author of the study is Tiantian Li, an epidemiologist now at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, who did the work while serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Columbia Climate and Health Program at Mailman, which Kinney directs.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Extensive systems of fossilised riverbeds have been discovered on an ancient region of the Martian surface, supporting the idea that the now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and wet climate about 4 billion years ago, according to UCL - led research.

«Indigenous people are telling us rainfall and river levels have changed; the fires they're dealing with are different now; and the climate systems they used to depend on for growing crops have become unpredictable,» said Steve Schwartzman, lead author of the study and director of tropical forest policy at Environmental Defense Fund.

Building on this research, the Union of Concerned Scientists is now collaborating with leading scientists who study climate change consequences at a regional scale and beyond.

With the Agreement now ratified and in force, the next challenge is actually meeting its ambition, says the study's lead author Dr Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO) and project manager of the Global Carbon Project.

Steve Rayner (former Laboratory Fellow, now with Oxford University) • Lead Author, «Sustainable Development and Mitigation,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, «Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001).

«Coral reefs are sometimes regarded as canaries in the global climate coal mine — but it is now very clear than not all reef species will be affected equally,» explains lead author Professor Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

In the journal Nature Climate Change, lead author Dr. Tom Bridge from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University and colleagues point out that global conservation policies have so far failed to prevent the widespread destruction of coral reefs and their fish life, which now threatens the food security of millions of people.

The scientists around the two lead authors Ulrike Kornek and Jan Steckel have now published their results in the study «The climate rent curse: new challenges for burden sharing» in the scientific journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

Until now, models have predicted something for the future... but it was something that seemed very distant,» said Oltmanns, the lead scientist behind the research, which was published this week in Nature Climate Change.

Through evidence - based approaches piloted and now implemented in 30 major districts throughout the country, TDS has played a lead role in helping schools and districts mobilize existing staff and support organizations in ways that are proven to make considerable differences in attendance, climate and overall academic achievement.

Just as there is consensus about the human role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the Human Age.

Interestingly, a lead author was Jonathan Pershing, who now is a senior member of President Obama's climate diplomacy team.

This is presented as a worst - case scenario — what might be expected to happen if a) nothing is done to curb GHG emissions and b) the climate sensitivity is in the higher range Peter Cox and other leading scientists now believe possible.

The Web is now providing an ongoing 24/7 fact - checking process, and that has led to some helpful input on robins and Eskimos from Chip Knappenberger, who works with the climatologist Patrick J. Michaels over at World Climate Report.

Given what the world's leading climate scientists have been telling us for some time now, George Bush and his apologists will not have even such a threadbare excuse as that.

Just as the concept of «differentiation» — the notion that some countries should contribute more money and climate action than others — was enshrined in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over 20 years ago and still haunts some countries today, there's an anxiety now that codifying REDD + in a similar manner will lead to similar implications far down thclimate action than others — was enshrined in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over 20 years ago and still haunts some countries today, there's an anxiety now that codifying REDD + in a similar manner will lead to similar implications far down thClimate Change (UNFCCC) over 20 years ago and still haunts some countries today, there's an anxiety now that codifying REDD + in a similar manner will lead to similar implications far down the road.

Jason Head, the University of Toronto, Mississauga, a paleontologist who led the study of the snake and its climate, warned that while the ancient tropics appeared to be a steamy thriving place, the pace of change projected now from the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to be disruptive.

Now President - elect Barack Obama has a ripe chance to work with Chinese leaders and take the climate lead, according to a variety of people trying to forge new efforts to cut long - term climate risks by curbing emissions.

Now the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific academy, has entered the debate with a new report, «Geoengineering the Climate.»

Here are a couple of voices from the Science and Technology Assessment Committee of the now - defunct Global Climate Coalition, which was the leading voice of industry on climate science and policy through theClimate Coalition, which was the leading voice of industry on climate science and policy through theclimate science and policy through the 1990s.

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

Closed - door negotiations in the lead - up to the Rio +20 environment conference (now six weeks away) have closed, without a consensus being reached on what's going to be agreed to — is that any great shock to anyone, given the way climate negotiations have gone in the past several years.

Now, President Obama must take the reins and lead the nation in reducing pollution, preparing our communities for the consequences of climate change and speeding the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.

The close coupling between CO2 and climate led the author to conclude that «geological observations that we now have for the last 20 million years lend strong support to the idea that carbon dioxide is an important agent for driving climate change throughout Earth's history.»

Kert Davies of Greenpeace said: «Europe is leading the world right now in terms of climate policy.

We should continue to support broadly - authored scientific assessments, also including the U.S. National Climate Assessment now ongoing, as the best vehicle for engaging the leading scientists in a well - structured and systematically reviewed format, with comprehensive references, and so forth.