Sentences with phrase «ocean issues such»

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This environmental protection group works with businesses, elected officials and community groups on issues such as global warming, reviving the oceans, clean water and sustainable communities.

Trenberth cites issues from the low - resolution ocean model to the lack of important ocean - climate patterns such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation.

The discovery, reported in the current issue of Nature Communications, logs a number of firsts: the first record of ancient tsunami activity found in a sea cave; the first record for such a long time period in the Indian Ocean; and the most pristine record of tsunamis anywhere in the world.

The conference will address issues such as marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oceans.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

«We are able to go back in time and analyze archived museum earplug samples that were harvested in the 1950s and examine critical issues such as the effects of pollution, use of sonar in the oceans and the introduction of specific chemicals and pesticides in the environment over long periods of time,» Usenko said.

Operating out of a pristine area of the world (and one that depends on it staying as such), we dedicated our philanthropic mission to environmental issues, and particularly to raising awareness about environmental impact reduction and the plight of the world's oceans.

John Akomfrah's environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers dialogues about climate change by foregrounding issues such as global warming, animal extinctions and the plastic ocean.

Oceans brings together the work of over 20 artists who explore the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and rising sea - levels, and reimagining human's relationship to the pOceans brings together the work of over 20 artists who explore the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and rising sea - levels, and reimagining human's relationship to the poceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and rising sea - levels, and reimagining human's relationship to the planet.

The group exhibition «Tidalectics» presents 13 artists whose distinctive works cast oceanic perspectives on the cultural, political and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and sea - level rise, while reimagining human and «more - than - human» relationships.

The group exhibition «Resistance After Nature» tracks the practices of artists who imagine and construct alternative approaches to such entangled ecological, political, and economic issues as Indigenous sovereignty and water rights, the fossil economy, ocean acidification, and deforestation.

Related to all this is of course the issue of how AGW might be affecting the very nature of longer term frequency ocean cycle such as the PDO and AMO.

I take a very simple and basic view on scientific issues, such as: if there are «local» phenomena in the ocean such as El Nino why shouldnt there be local phenomena in the atmosphere even though the time scale for «locality» may be at a different pace.

The new U.S. Directive highlights the possibility of several areas where initiatives may be warranted, such as international agreements or arrangements on issues such as Arctic tourism, fisheries management, and shipping in an ice - diminished Arctic Ocean.

Notably, issues such as why a given hurricane stalled or took a particular track (problems in dynamics) could not reliably be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, unlike intensity (which is clearly related to the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere and oceans).

I really wish you would have focused on serious environmental issues such as strip mining, deforestation, loss of habitat, and depletion of the oceans.

But this is a charged issue for many environmentalists and some scientists (including Jane Lubchenco, the new under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere) who oppose such interventions with nature because they could produce unintended harms, falsely imply that we can engineer our way out of any problem or blunt efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases at the source.

WMO will issue its full Statement on the State of the Climate in 2017 in March which will provide a comprehensive overview of temperature variability and trends, high - impact events, and long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, sea level rise and ocean acidification.

Writing in the October 1 issue of Nature, David Victor and Charles Kennel, both of the University of California, San Diego, argue for pegging climate policy to a new «array of planetary vital signs,» such as changes in the heat content of the oceans.

Compounding these issues is the link between increasing green crab abundance and increasing ocean temperature, which has had severe ecological and socio - economic consequences in areas such as the GOM, where warming is occurring faster than 99 % of the world's oceans.

This get's to the issue of how changing GH gas concentration may actually alter the character of the natural ocean cycles, such as the PDO and AMO, etc..

Indeed, the structure of Callendar (1938) includes a discussion of issues that frequently trouble newcomers to the debate (spectral overlap, CO2 dissolution in the ocean) and, in my opinion, IPCC reports are diminished by not including modern reviews of such topics.

He has also supported ocean health, focusing on issues such as marine debris, wilderness protection, and clean air and water.

The fact this is seemingly not fully recognized — or here integrated — by Curry goes to the same reason Curry does not recognize why the so called «pause» is a fiction, why the «slowing» of the «rate» of increase in average ambient global land and ocean surface air temperatures over a shorter term period from the larger spike beyond the longer term mean of the 90s is also meaningless in terms of the basic issue, and why the average ambient increase in global air temperatures over such a short term is by far the least important empirical indicia of the issue.

Scientific and societal requirements for ocean observing have evolved significantly over the past decade from being primarily focused on climate - related issues to include a much wider set of phenomena such as the degradation of coastal habitats, pollution, ocean acidification, over-exploitation of fisheries, biodiversity decline, de-oxygenation and more.

This is why scientists such as James Hansen refer to global warming as an inter-generational issue, because the heating due to our emissions are only fully felt by the next generation, due to the time lag created by the oceans.

ESM 202 - Environmental Biogeochemistry [4 units] Melack & Holden Biogeochemical processes as applied to the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land, and inland waters, and applications to environmental issues such as eutrophication, toxic pollution, carbon sequestration, and acidification.

As such, ocean acidification could represent an abrupt climate impact when thresholds are crossed below which organisms lose the ability to create their shells by calcification, or pH changes affect survival rates (see the Extinctions section below for more discussion of these issues).

When I started to look at the global warming issue my initial inclination was to look at Ocean data, since it's such a huge heat sink, relatively constant backscatter, and potentially the source one would want to measure with as much accuracy as possible., Also, Seemed to me like it was a «natural» filter of noisy data.

In this one, he outlines (with superb clarity) the issue of ocean acidification and illustrates why it is such a serious threat to -LSB-...]

New issues emerge, such as the pause, or ocean acidification, or climategate, or Himalayagate.

Trenberth cites issues from the low - resolution ocean model to the lack of important ocean - climate patterns such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation.

This is not perfect because it is likely that climate effects such as ocean currents and oscillations, changes in biology, ice extent and volume changes, cloud cover variations, etc... are causing a kind of climactic Brownian Motion, hiding the signal in what, lacking deep understanding of these issues, we can only call noise.

If you have committed a more serious traffic violation, such as leaving the scene of an accident, your citation will state that you are required to appear in local Ocean City Maryland court and the law enforcement officer issuing the citation will also likely inform you of this requirement.

Increasingly I write about environmental issues such as air pollution and ocean protection.

Discuss issues on a deeper level, such as your dream to live near the ocean or your hope to impact your community.

Current projects focus on such issues as early childhood development, including child mental health; climate and ocean change; education, including STEM learning; environmental health; criminal justice; and immigration.

Examines the value - influencing attributes of ocean and lakefront properties, including issues such as view, access, beach quality, docks, and other features.