Sentences with phrase «of the changing climate on»

«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said study co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.
A comprehensive look at the projected effects of our changing climate on our nesting birds by 2050.
Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.
The researchers also cautioned that the impacts of a changing climate on crop yields remain uncertain.
In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.
«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said coauthor Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.
I have also worked closely with other social scientists at NCAR [see for instance a book I put together for the Global Change Instruction Program: Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities].
The effect of changing climate on the department's operating environment is evident in the maritime commons of the Arctic.
Due to lack of climate data in the coastal areas, there is not enough understanding on the impact of changing climate on coastal ecosystems.
And his co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, said: «This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation.
The effect of changing climate on the Department's operating environment is evident in the maritime commons of the Arctic.
A major focus of GISS GCM simulations is to study the human impact on the climate as well as the effects of a changing climate on society and the environment.
«Much has been said about the ways in which our energy system is affecting the climate, yet very little has been said about the opposite: the effects of a changing climate on our energy system.

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Methane — a compound made up of one carbon atom bonded to four of hydrogen — is, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
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.
«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.
U.S. officials attended a meeting on Saturday of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the climate change agreement.
The announcement was welcomed by Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
While Derwin thinks that Trump's presidency is «a travesty» on multiple levels, he is particularly outraged by his rollback of climate change regulations.
Almost two thirds of ExxonMobil shareholders voted in favour of a motion asking the company to report on the impacts of climate change.
But these cooler streets also reflect less heat onto buildings, saving on air - conditioning costs and reducing the effects of climate change.
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.
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THE FACTS: The co-founder of the MIT program on climate change says the administration is citing an outdated report, taken out of context.
Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.
The history of climate change denialism since the 1980s has really been the culmination of the attack on environmental science.
«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.
That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.
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
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.
In the book, they examine the repercussions on leadership by combined forces of globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization.
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.
What is not yet clear is whether Trump plans to initiate a formal withdrawal from the Paris accord, which under the terms of the agreement could take three years, or exit the underlying U.N. climate change treaty on which the accord was based.
However, in a recent interview with the New York Times, Trump said he was keeping an «open mind» on the topic of confronting climate change.
As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeClimate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objeclimate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).
The difficulty is that consumers choose foods based on what they like - and this frequently changes but rarely considers the impact of climate change.
High on their list of points of discord are Washington's exit from the Paris agreement on climate change, the intention to scuttle Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, steel and aluminum import tariffs, allegedly tactless and unpredictable American policies, etc., etc..
Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.
So what are scientists to make of emerging data showing rapid climate change on earth 55 million years ago that looks just like what's happening today?
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric said businesses can't depend on the government when it comes to climate change.
One of the tweets had noted the changing language around certain issues, including climate change, on the new White House website.
In recent weeks, we have joined several of the largest US companies to urge President Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement on 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.
Their joint project on the economic risks of climate change is a bold attempt to galvanize business people and investors.
The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.
Badlands National Park posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account Tuesday afternoon, sharing statistics that might contradict the beliefs of President Donald Trump's new administration.
Some mining stocks have risen even more, spurred by U.S. President - elect Donald Trump's pledges to revive coal and pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
'» — Robin Chase, the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, on climate change.
Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.
Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.
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