Sentences with phrase «of dramatic climate change»

While the administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is an inexcusable step backward in confronting the challenge of dramatic climate change it is not a particularly dramatic departure from the status quo approach to climate change that we have seen from both major political parties in the United States.

More pertinently, it worries me that climate scientists have spent so much time ensuring that their predictions are defensible that they may have minimized the risk of dramatic climate change.

«rbG: b» confronts head - on the question of collective responsibility and environmental justice in a time of dramatic climate change.

Since most of the atmosphere was lost as part of a dramatic climate change, MAVEN will make definitive scientific measurement of present - day atmospheric loss that will offer insight into the Red Planet's history.

Not exact matches

Among the most visible and dramatic effects of climate change in Massachusetts is sea level rise and ocean acidification.

«Part of the challenge Syracuse faces is directly related to climate change, with colder winters, warmer summers, and more dramatic freeze - thaw events happening both earlier and later in the season,» she said.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

Waldbusser has called these changing daily CO2 conditions «carbonate weather» because changes in the chemistry are so dramatic depending on the time of the day — much like the difference and interaction between weather and climate.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

Reporting this week in the journal Nature Climate Change Dr Hogg and Dr Gudmundsson, examine the events leading up to this dramatic natural phenomenon and discuss how calving of huge icebergs affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves.

But at the end of the Triassic, dramatic climate change played a role in another mass extinction.

«Alaska really is both the poster child for the impact of climate change and a warning for the dramatic changes that are coming to the rest of the United States and the planet,» said Whit Sheard, director of the Ocean Conservancy's International Arctic Program.

The impact of climate on terrestrial ecosystems probably will be dramatic due to the rapid pace of climate change.

The impact of climate on terrestrial ecosystems probably will be dramatic because of the rapid pace of climate change.

Leading Antarctic marine biologist James McClintock gives us an unprecedented first - person account of the dramatic impacts of climate change on the polar environment and its wildlife

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

Dramatic changes in the relationship between water and society will be widespread, as emphasized in the new report from Working Group II of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible based on shifting technologies and changes in human behavior.

«Agathis is a very dramatic example of survival via huge range shifts, from the far south to the tropics, in response to climate change and land movement over millions of years,» said Wilf.

Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»

The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change is unlikely to lead to more severe winter weather across Northern Europe, new research has shown.

Scientists are still only just beginning to understand the myriad mechanisms that control the seemingly dramatic melting observed in regions of West Antarctica, and how climate change is affecting all the moving parts.

This was the dramatic conclusion reached last week at a workshop in Dahlem, Berlin, where top atmospheric scientists got together, including Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin, former chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the destruction of supercontinents and dramatic changes in climate and ecosystems.

At first glance, the impacts of climate change in the United States might seem less dramatic than melting icebergs in the Arctic.

But there are dramatic racial and socioeconomic disparities in the impacts of pollution and climate change, with the poorest and most vulnerable hit hardest.

The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.

The researchers looked at more than 800 U.S. cases involving climate change or coal - fired power plants between 1990 and 2016, and found a dramatic rise in both the number of climate cases and the proportion that relied on scientific evidence, according to first author Sabrina McCormick, a sociologist at George Washington University in Washington.

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.

Which is fantastic since my city has unexpected and dramatic climate changes this time of year from morning till evening.

And yet I was nonetheless somewhat taken aback at how blithely apolitical most of 2017's dramatic movies were (as opposed to such documentaries as the climate change treatises «Chasing Coral» and «An Inconvenient Sequel,» or John Ridley's voluminous and evenhanded «Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992,» which chronicled civil unrest in Los Angeles leading up to the Rodney King verdict).

Beautiful Islands (PG for violence, mild epithets, smoking and brief nudity) Climate change documentary chronicling the dramatic effect of global warming on three isles located at different latitudes: Venice, Italy, Shishmaref, Alaska and Tuvalu, Polynesia.

This aspect of food therapy is even more important in northern climates where the seasonal change is very dramatic.

Further east still and you arrive at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, where you'll witness dramatic changes in cultures, climates, customs and people.

The ideas driving this exhibition are of the dramatic, overarching ilk — world population growth, megacities, climate change, renewable energy generation, healthy living.

The climate is changing, causing a dramatic rise and fall of sea levels and violent storms at alarming rates.

We also now have persuasive observational evidence of dramatic changes already taking place in the climate system, changes that are not in any sense small.

But here's a hypothetical for you though: Imagine for an instant that mainstream climate science is basically correct, and that the costs of climate change in future decades are large and dramatic.

Ongoing assessments of penguins and other life along the peninsula have not turned up any clear link between population changes and tourism so far, and the main source of change appears — so far — to be the dramatic warming of the regional climate, Ron Naveen told me in a recent e-mail.

We are in the midst of a highly kinetic system, and in the past, dramatic climate changes have taken place in only a few decades.»

Sorry for lowering a bit the level of the discussion but 30 years into the most dramatic climate change that the Earth has experienced in the past millennium (perhaps since the beginning of the Holocene), I was wondering if this tremendous global warming should not have already become a bit more noticeable for the average person.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

Ike (7), I agree with you that the dramatic reduction of fossil fuel use is necessary prevent climate change.

If this proved the end of the warming hiatus, then it would be dramatic in the realm of climate - change news.

The first paragraph of the article in the Independent read on June 27 at 15:25 GMT when I took a zotero snapshot — «Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.»

We find that without dramatic increases in the area of forests, without substantially positive changes in land - use practices, without large net positive effects of CO2 or climate change in the future, or without some other new significant carbon storage mechanism, the U.S. carbon sink itself will decrease substantially over the 21st century.

There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014 said, «I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.

For the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate policy.