Sentences with phrase «of slower climate change»

Their cost estimates don't consider the benefits of slower climate change, such as improved health, and the reduction in impacts of warming.

The presentations, nearly all of which are online, are focused on food, health and energy, but also on the value of slowing climate change and conserving the planet's biological bounty, called by some participants «natural capital.»

If we're going to have any hope of slowing climate change, that coal — and so all that future carbon dioxide — needs to stay in the ground.

Here's where Mary Booth's pessimism concerning the fate of the planet hits home: if the world's largest carbon emitters — the US, UK, EU, and quite possibly China and India — «disappear emissions» through creative accounting loopholes tolerated by the IPCC, what hope is there for the Paris Agreement of slowing climate change with all its horrific consequences?

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It found the rapid pace of global warming and the slow pace of coral growth meant the reef was unlikely to evolve quickly enough to survive the level of climate change predicted in the next few decades.

«Making progress on climate change and clean growth is hard and at times slow work, and we can't ignore the fact that Canada is still digging out from a deficit of previous federal inaction.

Behind each of these, slow - burn crises smoulder: creeping and insidious climate change, growing inequality, chronic hunger and vulnerability, the erosion of our natural resources.

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

This initiative within schools is part of a wider global movement encouraging people to help slow climate change by reducing their meat consumption.

By reducing our meat intake — any day of the week — we can help slow climate change, protect the environment and live a healthier life.

The companies, co-ops and individuals were nominated by their peers for expanding the boundaries of industry practices in at least one of the nine areas identified by the Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate climate change.

The parallels between the slow onset of the Doomsday Era and the phenomenon of global climate change are unmissable.

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

The state energy officials argued that the financing arrangement is fair, saying that New Yorkers will benefit by cleaner air overall and hopefully, slower climate change, by extending the life of the nuclear plants.

Clinton's Democratic primary opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, is rolling out a plan to slow the effect of climate change, vowing to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow 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 inclimate 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 inClimate March in Washington, D.C., on April 29 at Courthouse Square in Delhi.

Crumbling infrastructure, a slow economic recovery, the unambiguous reality that climate change threatens the very way of life, a growing specter of terrorism, homelessness, an ever widening gap between the wealthy and everyone else, political polarization and government gridlock.

And he met with the governors of California and Washington to discuss steps to slow climate change.

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.

Through this UK initiative, MPs from across the House will not only help to slow the tide of climate change but will also show that the Commonwealth is not a relic of our political history.

«It's a slow process, but within two, three years, all of America's going to realize how bad, you know, the consequences of climate change and we're going to start doing something,» Schumer said.

Compared with weather events like floods or cyclones, the droughts are a slow - onset manifestation of changing climate.

Particles of sulfuric acid — injected by volcanoes or humans — have slowed the pace of climate change in the past decade

Regulating emissions of methane from fracking to free natural gas will have important co-benefits in slowing climate change

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

Reducing emissions of black carbon and methane can be done today with existing technologies, and could significantly slow climate change

Climate change, on the other hand, is a complicated, diffuse, slow - moving set of forces.

Climate change impacts in the deep ocean are less visible, but the longevity and slow pace of life in the deep makes that ecosystem uniquely sensitive to environmental variability.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

Taking carbon out of the atmosphere will be crucial if we are to slow the progress of climate change.

The effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching, become slow - motion disasters, with knock - on effects for years

National representatives discussed such impacts, stressing the urgency for action to slow them in their remarks to attendees during one of four concurrent sessions on curbing greenhouse emissions, adapting to climate change, technological solutions, and how to pay for such changes.

Lead author Dr Orly Razgour, of the University of Southampton, explained: «Long - lived, slow - reproducing species with smaller population sizes are not likely to be able to adapt to future climate change fast enough through the spread of new mutations arising in the population.

A weaker sun might slow human - induced climate change slightly but when the sun eventually recovers force, global warming would heat up with even more of a vengeance.

There has been lot of it in the news recently, but the CO2 rates are going up slowly and the climate change is going to be slow and changing the industrial situation of the world is going to be slow.

«The core principle of Canada's approach to climate change is balance,» Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during his remarks to the conference, stressing that action on climate change should not slow economic activity.

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.

Instead, these opportunistic organisms may simply be capitalizing on the slow death of the invertebrates due to pollution, climate change, or other factors.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

«The effect is that abundant natural gas alone will do little to slow climate change,» said lead author Haewon McJeon, an economist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

There's been some hope that slowing climate change could also be one of its benefits, but that turns out not to be the case,» said McJeon.

This one may be a relatively easy target for action that will slow the progress of climate change.

«I think part of the reason slow feedbacks weren't included [in previous IPCC reports] was that they were assumed to be too slow to be relevant to human - induced climate change,» said Michael Previdi, lead author of the report.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.