Due to lack of climate data in the coastal areas, there is not enough understanding on the
impact of changing climate on coastal ecosystems.
This plan will consider the impacts
of the changing climate on natural resources, including land that is significant to local Indigenous people.
The goal of her research is to improve the resilience and sustainability of water resources and aquatic ecosystems in the
face of a changing climate.
This virtual issue provides a unique opportunity to exchange research knowledge, ideas and innovations, and develop an understanding of how primary industries can tackle the
challenge of a changing climate.
Even though debate continues, many experts believe the costs of adapting to the
consequences of a changing climate would be even larger than the costs of taking action to reduce CO2 emissions.
This is not a doom and gloom book, but one that encourages a balanced view of what is actually happening on our planet in terms
of changing climate patterns.
Climate scenarios based on model estimates of future climate can be constructed either by adopting the direct model outputs or by combining model estimates
of the changed climate with observational climate data.
On the green view, this creates a tension between human needs and wants and the need for political leaders to address the urgent
problem of a changing climate.
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing
threat of a changing climate.
Jiacan Yuan is a climatologist who is interested in understanding the fundamental dynamical processes in the atmosphere and improving climate models, which could give us better predictive power and risk
assessment of the changing climate.
Central Appalachian forests have been experiencing the effects
of a changing climate for decades, and effects such as more heavy rainfall events, more drought, and more hot days are likely to continue, according to a new vulnerability assessment for the region by the U.S. Forest Service and many partners.
Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the
result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.
The bill would have required most major agencies in Texas to create a plan that included a «climate change vulnerability assessment» and review their programs and plan for how to complete their missions in
light of changing climate conditions.
«It's counterintuitive to most people, because it means you can have an increase in local ice hazards because
of a changing climate in the high Arctic,» said David Barber, an Arctic climate researcher at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
In an
era of changing climate and sinking economies, Malthusian limits to growth are back — and squeezing us painfully.
In his 1864 book Man and Nature (original title: Man the Disturber of Nature's Harmonies), George Perkins Marsh catalogued numerous
examples of changing climate conditions on losing forests and wrote, «When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold [humus] is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mold has been converted.
So here we are, still facing a clear long - term picture (more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas +
lots of changing climate patterns), but sufficient murk in the short run to fuel the «green noise» and «destructive interference» in climate discourse.
The real significance of extreme events is as harbingers, not
just of a changing climate but also of a changing world in which human society and the infrastructure that supports it are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters.
This finding is consistent with the expected effect of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and with other observed evidence
of a changing climate such as reductions in Arctic sea ice extent, melting permafrost, rising sea levels, and increases in heavy downpours and heat waves.
Any serious
discussion of the changing climate, he said, «must begin by acknowledging not only the scientific certainties but also the uncertainties, especially in projecting the future.
Other factors
capable of changing the climate, like volcanic eruptions and changes in the sun's intensity, can not by themselves explain the changes we've observed in the Earth's climate.
«We set out and started collecting more and more records that we could use to get a more general
picture of changing climate variability for temperature.
Phrases with «of a changing climate»