Sentences with phrase «on drivers of climate change»

The Summary for Policymakers also incorporates, for the first time, information on, inter alia, paleoclimate reconstruction studies, geoengineering, and an emissions - based perspective on drivers of climate change.

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At a media conference on Wednesday Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane was asked why the paper did not discuss climate change as a driver of energy policy.

The physical science assessment focuses on four topics: drivers of climate change, changes observed in the climate system, understanding cause - and - effect relationships, and projection of future changes.

Greenhouse gases from transportation may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate changOn the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate changon mitigation of climate change.

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

It's unclear whether one of these single policies was the actual driver of the reduction in emissions, or an indicator that a state takes climate change mitigation seriously and is attacking the issue on many fronts, Saikawa says.

Rep. Brian Babin (R - Texas), who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and has rejected the mainstream scientific view that humans are the primary driver of climate change, was trapped in his Houston house by Harvey's floodwaters.

Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

«Economic and population growth are drivers for emissions and they have outpaced the improvements of energy efficiency,» said Ottmar Edenhofer, economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Analyses show that climate shocks are important drivers of the expansions and contractions seen here, suggesting a large and previously overlooked negative impact of climate change on food production.

The model also accounted for natural drivers of change, including the direct influence of increased carbon dioxide on ocean - carbon uptake and the indirect effect that a changing climate has on the physical state of the ocean and its relationship to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

«We started from scratch and she wanted to know glacial cycles, rate of deforesting, solar variability — all of the issues that could impact climate and why I think that humans are the main driver of climate change,» he explained afterward at a debriefing with colleagues at a pub on Capitol Hill.

He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

But the vast majority of scientists do not agree that the sun is the main driver of climate change — or that we're on course for a mini ice age.

The Observatory will also set out to explain the current drivers of climate change arising from human activities (including industry and agriculture), and how our future actions will depend on our capacity to understand the pace and direction of change.

He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change.

Prior to joining ECI, she completed her Ph.D. at Oregon State University, where she worked on the weather@home project over western US region, looking at drivers of extreme drought events in the US, future regional climate change projections over the western US, as well as investigating uncertainties due to internal variability and physical parameter perturbations.

A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.

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I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions mitigation because the drivers of that vulnerability are far faster than climate change itself.

All of the models ca 2007 that the IPCC used to forecast climate change predicted a steady increase in temperature (based, as they were, on the assumption that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature) and yet global temperatures have remained essentially flat since then.

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.

The primary drivers of loss of biodiversity on land are well recognized to be habitat conversion / destruction, invasive species and now climate change.

«Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem.»

Given the multiple drivers of migration (Black et al., 2011a and b) and the complex interactions which mediate migratory decision - making by individual or households (Raleigh, 2008; McLeman and Smit, 2006; Kniveton et al., 2011; Black et al., 2011a and b), the projection of the effects of climate change on intra-rural and rural - to - urban migration remains a major challenge.

The official statement on drivers of deforestation agreed to by parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2013 does not specifically address illegal conversion for commercial agriculture.

All, however, have been vocal before Congress, on broadcast news or on the Internet in arguing that human activity is not the primarily driver of climate change.

He is the author of the # 1 New York Times best - sellers «An Inconvenient Truth» and «The Assault on Reason,» and the best - sellers «Earth in the Balance,» «Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis,» «The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,» and most recently, The New York Times best - seller «An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.»

«Without explicit efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the fundamental drivers of emissions growth are expected to persist,» according to the study by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC.

C. DRIVERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: This section was taken up in plenary on Wednesday when a contact group was formed, co-chaired by Arthur Rolle (Bahamas) and Jean - Pascal van Ypersele (Belgium).

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«The additional burden of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities... leads to the current «perturbed» global carbon cycle... These perturbations to the natural carbon cycle are the dominant driver of climate change because of their persistent effect on the atmosphere.»

The newly released Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that «radiative forcing» from human - emitted CO2 is the leading driver of climate Climate Change (IPCC) claims that «radiative forcing» from human - emitted CO2 is the leading driver of climate cChange (IPCC) claims that «radiative forcing» from human - emitted CO2 is the leading driver of climate climate changechange.

Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change.

These experts again found no support for the Pounds» global warming hypothesis.22 So much for Pounds» forceful storytelling and his «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that global warming was the driver of amphibian extinctions.

Furthermore, CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas and climate change isn't strictly relegated to GHG emissions nor are CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere the only climate driver (i.e., there are many drivers of climate which take place on the millions of years time - scale).

While the «driver» of climate change in my book is definitely fictional (or, possibly, not), I do want the book's verbiage on climate to be grounded in facts and current knowledge.

The analogy of skeptics to reckless drivers overtaking on a bend requires a further analogy doesn't it, Vaughan, the analogy that climate change is as to a dangerous, narrow highway bend where collision is very likely just around the corner?

Unfortunately the study needs to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt because it's based on «complex climate models» and emanates from Germany's fanatically warmist Potsdam Institute, which is ideologically committed to «proving» that CO2 is a significant driver of «climate change» even when most real - world evidence suggests it's not.

At the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Lima December 1 through 14, a series of speakers presenting at the «Voices for Climate, Indigenous Pavilion» focused on drivers of deforestation, highlighting the production of palm oil as a rising threat to forests and human rights.

Here's a humble start, on how we may be starting to both change and accelerate change in the key drivers and stabilizers of future climate.

The conclusion that human influences are the primary driver of recent climate change is based on multiple lines of independent evidence.

In their evangelism to prove CO2 as the main climate driver, I have no doubt that the IPCC will continue to minimise the importance of Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) on climate change.

PDRMIP investigates the role of various drivers of climate change for mean and extreme precipitation changes, based on multiple climate model output and energy budget analyses.

A bestselling author, Vice President Gore has published five books on the climate crisis and its solutions, Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis and The Future: Six Drivers of Globalclimate crisis and its solutions, Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis and The Future: Six Drivers of GlobalClimate Crisis and The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change