Sentences with phrase «of a changing climate for»

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.

Not exact matches

During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

Unfortunately, travel insurance doesn't cover climate change, said Carolyn Leckie, director of marketing for Squaremouth.

It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

Trump called this claim a «joke» during a January appearance on Fox & Friends after Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out the 2012 tweet but he quickly added that, «this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change.»

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

Asked about President Trump's views on climate change, Gates said, «I hope his administration will decide that funding R&D to invent the next generation of energy (clean, cheap, reliable) is a good deal for the US and for the world.

«For a long time, climate change was pushed by EU diplomacy and the U.S. was largely absent,» said Edward Cameron, managing director of the New York - based Business for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP For a long time, climate change was pushed by EU diplomacy and the U.S. was largely absent,» said Edward Cameron, managing director of the New York - based Business for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP 21.

Beyond climate change, low - cost natural gas has been one of the most important transformations to have occurred for the energy industry in the United States.

For at least a decade after receiving in - house research warning of the potential impact of Climate Change, ExxonMobil continued to fund outside groups that disputed it.

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

For some months, ExxonMobil Inc. (xom) has been under investigation about allegations that it lied to investors about the risks of Climate Change.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

China itself is suppressing its appetite for coal, albeit more for reasons of pollution than climate change.

Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has walked off the job, including chairman John Cooper, after it flagged a change in direction, a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Trump may see some pushback from the other heads of state, however, for his contrarian views on climate change and free trade.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

But HFCs are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound - per - pound basis, making them an obvious target for international efforts to combat climate change.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

This documentary examines the world's diet and points to food choices as the culprits for declining health as well as a major cause of climate change.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Of late, he has embarked on a personal «energy diet,» attempting to curtail what he realized was a hypocritical lifestyle for a climate - change evangelist.

In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh - Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point.

And he wants more than anything for one — or several — of those hits to make a real impact on climate change.

The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth, teems with marine life and will be the focus of Australia's Earth Hour — a global campaign which encourages individuals and organisations to switch off their lights for one hour on April 29 for climate change.

Michael Burger, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told the Post that New York's lawsuit was significant because it brought the legal challenge beyond California.

However, Democrats condemned the rollback as dangerous and a disregard for the effects of global climate change.

«The Trump administration's continued denial of climate change in service of big polluters will have grave consequences for our children and our grandchildren,» Udall added.

Despite this and other authoritative warnings about the dangers of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

You need to pay attention to the climate around you and prepare for changes before you end up running out of something critical with miles left to go.

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

For example, if the government decides that climate change doesn't exist, «then we as entrepreneurs just got to get in there and and fill the gap and and create hundreds of thousands of jobs and make sure that» we're living in a carbon - neutral world by 2050.

For its detractors, it's a symbol of unwillingness to combat climate change or heed the risks of a spill like those Enbridge experienced in the Midwest last summer.

Pointing to «tens of millions» he and his wife have donated to combat climate change, Druckenmiller says his primary responsibility is to deliver returns for the college endowment and its good works.

Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

President Donald Trump's infrastructure agenda, unveiled on August 15, centered on rescinding Obama - era plans to require consideration of flood risk and climate change in any federal spending for infrastructure or housing and the like.

Or think of the price the Canadian economy is expected to pay for the damage wreaked by climate change after years of oil industry lobbyists opposing serious carbon reduction policies.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

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«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.