Sentences with phrase «of radical climate change»

In collaboration with another meteorologist, Wladimir Köppen, Wegener worked through the geological evidence of radical climate change.

«I understand fruits and vegetables and the impact of radical climate change.

Not exact matches

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.»

The Alberta NDP's climate change plan defies supporters of the much - maligned LEAP Manifesto, which was spearheaded by more radical elements of the federal NDP at that party's recent convention in Edmonton.

The truth is that we are undergoing a radical change of climate.

A four - day Socialist Convergence — initiated by the Philly Socialists and organized by a coalition of radical and socialist organizations ranging from the Kentucky Workers League to the System Change Not Climate Change coalition — will take place alongside the corporate - sponsored DNC.

Harstad acknowledged that such an approach would be a «radical departure» from the more popular view, embodied in such agreements as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which places much of its focus on end - of - stack emissions.

«For example, in the future methane levels could increase as a result of increased natural gas and energy use, climate change feedbacks and / or a decrease in the global abundance of the hydroxyl radical, which chemically removes methane from the atmosphere.»

SAN FRANCISCO — The specter of climate change has prompted radical ideas, such as pumping CO2 into the deep ocean to slow its buildup in the air.

Previously, Pompeo has said that scientists think «lots of different things» about climate change and called President Barack Obama's climate policies «radical.»

Zhang, X., Sorteberg, A., Zhang, J., Gerdes, R. & Comiso, J. C. Recent radical shifts of the atmospheric circulations and rapid changes in the Arctic climate system.

«In Southern Europe, adapting to some of the projected changes could only be achieved by a fundamental, and expensive, re-engineering of each city or water resource system, as significant adaptation to climate extremes has already been implemented and radical changes will be needed to achieve more,» the paper notes.

This seems to imply that even with a radical transformation of our economy away from carbon emissions, we are already committed to serious climate change — at least until 2040?

After many centuries of observation, the Sirian experimenters further theorized that the more extreme the climate seasons changes were, the more radical the changes in the emotions of the humans living in those latitudes became.

Nowhere in this list are the known causes of major threats to human life of income disparity, endemic disease, resource depletion, or radical climate change.

B. R. A. C. E., MASS MoCA is Part II of Bifurcated Radical Anarchist Cultural Enterprise, or B. R. A. C. E. a social project intended to change the unjust sociopolitical climate of the United States.

Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence of 1960s conceptualism and radical climate change — the exhibition examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility.

«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.

The natural environment serves as medium and muse for the seven artists in Radical Landscapes who reflect on a range of larger concerns including climate change, surveillance, and identity.

Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence of 1960s Conceptualism and radical climate change, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility.

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell has a great report on why Jason Box's radical approach to climate science is changing our understanding of the unprecedented rate of glacier melt in Greenland.

At the other extreme, understandable economic insecurity and fear of radical change have been exploited by ideologues and vested interests to whip up ill - informed, populist rage, and climate scientists have become the punching bag of shock jocks and tabloid scribes.

Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.

And could temporary stability switch to more radical climate change if these kinds of forcings offset greenhouse gases over the next century?

Consider that combating climate change requires nothing less than a radical restructuring of how the world makes and uses energy, and consider the overwhelming level of public concern it would take to impose such sweeping changes on the vested interests profiting by the status quo (and let's be honest... to impose such changes on a public comfortable with the status quo).

«Arctic sea ice in 2007 was preconditioned to radical changes after years of shrinking and thinning in a warm climate.»

Climate change is not an incremental problem, and it doesn't call for incremental solutions, but instead a radical reformulation of how societies approach the challenge of development.

We have in Canada a Government that calls itself Conservative but is really a radical reactionary diodachi that to the puzzlement of the Canadian scientific community hews loyally to the line of the Bush administration on the matter of climate change.

And second, this framing elevates the idea of solar geoengineering as a viable climate change abatement strategy vastly above the current scientific consensus on this topic, painting carbon removal solutions in a much more radical light than do most climate experts.

But as Hollande was advocating for a radical position to tackle Climate Change, the French presidency of the UNFCCC left the Civil Society without the ability to see and listen to what governments are actually doing, or not doing, about it.

Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat of significant climatic shift in response.

It will take me a bit of time to get my head around it — and perhaps a little longer for a more general recognition of radical paradigm change that is central to the application of chaos theory to weather and climate.

«Egalitarian communitarians,» by the same logic, readily embrace the most dire climate - change forecasts because they perceive exactly the same thing but take delight at the prospect of radical limits on commerce, industry, and markets, which in their eyes are the source of myriad social inequities.

Deep changes in the way climate research (or any research) is funded need to be made which probably means a radical restructuring of government / science which would be dead by the weight of scientists before you could utter the words.

Anderson's argument is not helped by the fact that the Tyndall Centre, where he deputy director and leader of the energy and climate change research programme, recently held a conference on «radical emissions reduction», the content of which seems to be overtly political, to say the least.

Scratch the surface of arguments for «radical» action on climate change, and you find the Neomalthusian's arguments buried only slightly beneath.

While mitigation climate change is essential adapting to and through centuries of warming is paramount... the stories of animals, plants and people adapting to a warming world express trust in our ability to adjust to changing conditions, even radical ones, and to establish a voice for resilience in uncertain times.

«It highlights a really key area where we can test some of the more radical hypotheses about climate change,» said John Kessler, a professor at the University of Rochester, in an interview with the New York Times.

Every strategy was designed for the purpose of keeping truth seekers from finding out how flawed the data is on climate change and global warming — and from discovering just how far these radical green activists will go to push their political agenda.

Nordhaus calls the Stern Review a «radical revision of the economics of climate change» and criticizes it for imposing «exessively large emissions reductions in the short run.»

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The high - handed and dismissive behaviour of the climate change lobby has led to equally intolerant behaviour form the more radical wing of the sceptics.

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

The first question worth debating is whether or not there is a climate crisis that demands trillions of dollars and radical changes in industry.

It took the total collapse of the UK Left before climate change dominated the «radical» agenda.

And that the politics of the climate change debate is even worse; we need a radical decarbonization by 2020.

«Two days after the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the conservative wing of the ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) is demanding a radical change in Germany's climate policy.

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Maruška Mileta, of Young Friends of the Earth Europe, added: «People are building a strong and radical climate justice movement which recognizes that climate change is not a single - issue struggle, and that different injustices, ranging from racism and sexism to xenophobia and Islamophobia are a result of a system that is also fueling climate change.

But the most newsworthy and surprising event came on the summit sidelines, with President Xi Jinping and President Obama warmly shaking hands as they unveiled plans for radical cutbacks in emissions of CO2 − the most potent of the climate - changing greenhouse gases (GHGs).