The plan establishes a basic framework within which the agency will work as part of the larger conservation community to help ensure the sustainability of fish, wildlife, plants and habitats in the face
of accelerating climate change.
It's getting tougher for many of us to square these accomplishments, and our national character, with the vision of those who insist, in this age
of accelerating climate change, that it is our destiny to become the world's gas pump — with Keystone XL serving as one of the hoses.
The necessity for the reduction in CO2 emissions has received global attention in the past few years because
of accelerating climate change.
The Great Transition, written by EPI's research team — Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams — focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by policy, economics, and the hard realities
of accelerating climate change.
Until the climate science community explicitly explains why such facts do not invalidate the claims
of accelerating climate change their case will remain weak.
How will we feed, shelter, and educate three billion more people by 2050 in an era
of accelerating climate change, resource scarcity and environmental degradation?
This conference is famous for, among other things, creating the International Panel on Climate Change, whose reports have warned the world
of accelerating climate change.
DELHI - In an effort to slow down the impacts
of accelerated climate change due to human activity, five area women, Janet Tweed, Kathy Mario, Lisa Robinson, Bonnie Seegmiller and Irene Berkowitz, combined their efforts to facilitate a rally to show support for the National People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square in Delhi.
«We can't look into recent history and find this particular cocktail
of accelerated climate change, habitat destruction, and global extinction.
Rate of summer ice melt smashes two previous record lows and prompts warnings
of accelerated climate change
These runs are examined for evidence
of accelerated climate change associated with the removal of sea ice, particularly due to increasing surface albedo feedback.
Not exact matches
Decades
of scientific investigation across multiple lines
of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and
climate change is real, and it's briskly
accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.
Yet as an environmentalist, philanthropist and alternative energy investor, he is trying to halt the
accelerating affects
of climate change and make people understand the connectedness between
climate and financial markets.
In the book, they examine the repercussions on leadership by combined forces
of globalization,
climate change, increased individualism, and
accelerating digitization.
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.
These 15 risks are: Lack
of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss
of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine,
Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by
Climate Change & Cyber Threats.
The will to overlook
accelerated climate change caused by the extraction
of tar sands oil, the destruction
of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning
of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..
At the same time, it enables work with on a bilateral basis to
accelerate the development and deployment
of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions
of drought, flooding and salinity brought on by
climate change.
As international awareness about the environmental costs
of producing and eating meat increases — The United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one - fifth
of the man - made greenhouse gas emissions that are
accelerating climate change worldwide — the work
of RiceBran Technologies is supporting environmental sustainability and combating waste while globally providing a nutritious source
of protein, carbohydrates, healthy oil and dietary fiber as food ingredients.
The main focus
of the summit, with the theme, «
Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.
Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.&
Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and
accelerate our common efforts to fight
climate change.
climate change.&
change.»
In Josh Robin's series, Sandy: Five Years Later, NY1 examines what has been done to better protect the five boroughs, as experts believe dangerous weather events will
accelerate in this era
of climate change and rising seas.
Event attendee Chris Karmosky
of Treadwell, a climatologist who teaches meteorology at SUNY Oneonta, said the
climate is
changing and though many in his profession believe that humans are to blame for
accelerated climate change, the general population does not believe that is the case.
Rebuilding efforts have been slow and little action has been taken either to reduce the impact
of future weather emergencies, or to slow down
accelerating climate change.
Research published in Science found that increased levels
of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause soil microbes to produce more carbon dioxide,
accelerating climate change.
Research published in Science today found that increased levels
of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause soil microbes to produce more carbon dioxide,
accelerating climate change.
Climate change is
accelerating the spread
of disease — and making it much harder to predict outbreaks
«
Climate change may
accelerate infectious disease outbreaks, say researchers: Study
of natural disaster in Ecuador showed 12-fold increase in Zika cases.»
Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence
of several factors: a stream
of new science showing an
accelerating pace
of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national sec
climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secu
change and its impacts; the everyday experience
of people witnessing the
change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secu
change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals
of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports
of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national sec
Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secu
Change; and the shifting stances
of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the
climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national sec
climate on grounds
of stewardship
of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds
of national security).
Melting
of significant portions
of Arctic permafrost could
accelerate climate change into a catastrophe
«As the window
of opportunity to avert dangerous
climate change narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cam
climate change narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Camb
change narrows, we urgently need to take stock
of policy initiatives around the world that aim to
accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor
of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cam
Climate Change Policy at the University of Camb
Change Policy at the University
of Cambridge.
Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace
of climate change accelerates in that region
Glacial collapse is unprecedented in western Tibet, which for decades has resisted the effects
of climate change while glaciers in southern and eastern Tibet have melted at an
accelerating rate.
Therefore, there is concern that the emissions
of carbon dioxide from streams and rivers may increase due to
climate change,
accelerating the growth
of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
«
Of course conditions for humans and other complex life will become impossible much sooner - and this is being
accelerated by anthropogenic
climate change.
Through this Memorandum, both countries will work jointly to
accelerate development and deployment
of clean energy technologies and to strengthen cooperation on adaptation to
climate change,
climate science, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests and land use.
A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to
climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement
of ice over land — and might they somehow
accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?
NASA will launch a scientific instrument into space next month to measure the salt content
of the world's oceans, information that could help confirm scientists» suspicions that
climate change is
accelerating the world's water cycle.
Changes in U.S.
climate policy — and not just in the supply and cost
of fuels — will play a big role in
accelerating or slowing shifts in the U.S. energy mix, Quigley and the authors agree.
The biggest concern: that the
Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model
Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts
of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model
climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model (CESM).
Emerging threats, like pollution and
climate change, may
accelerate the rate
of extinction.
Researchers have found that the species, which has lost 20 %
of its population globally since 1987, faces a growing threat from increasing numbers
of torrential rainstorms and sweltering heat waves caused by
climate change, which could
accelerate the species» decline.
In scientific journals, papers on biodiversity loss and conservation have increased at a steady pace, but publication
of papers on
climate change accelerated markedly around 2006 and overtook them.
But the rate at which species interbreed is
accelerating because
of climate change, researchers say.
As
climate change converges with human encroachment in these mountains, the degradation
of high Andean ecosystems is
accelerating.
Changes come even with lower warming What was most surprising, Diffenbaugh said, is that the
accelerated melting
of the snowpack would occur even if the world were able to limit warming to the target
of a 2 - degree - Celsius increase agreed upon in international
climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Human - caused
climate change is already contributing to severe droughts and food shortages and
accelerating the migration
of people.
And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds
of extremes — years
of deluge and years
of drought — are already becoming more common as
climate change accelerates.
«Records
of past
climate change show that
change starts slowly and then
accelerates,» he said.
The amount
of carbon that could be released to the atmosphere by this savannization process is significantâ equivalent to several years
of worldwide carbon emissions â and could
accelerate climate change processes already in place.
For all countries, it says, there are many ways in which energy - sector actions can still be
accelerated in order to increase the chances
of averting dangerous
climate change in the future.