Sentences with phrase «ongoing climate change»

The risk of crossing critical thresholds or «tipping points» increases strongly with ongoing climate change.

While many factors, including weather and geology, likely played into their rare collapse, the glaciers were also weakened by ongoing climate change, the researchers noted.

Such a feedback loop could result in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

It is especially under ongoing climate change that water management becomes increasingly important to reduce food risks.

His team also found that the higher summer temperatures expected with ongoing climate change would worsen the impacts of this pollution.

The authors note that the rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is one of the most direct indicators of ongoing climate change on our planet.

Thus, there is a clear need for the scientific community to resolve this discrepancy and better understand the sensitivity of CH4 emissions to ongoing climate change in the northern permafrost region.

Ongoing climate change affects hydrogeography, water temperatures, sea level anomalies, and salinity in coastal areas worldwide.

«This research shows that the Arctic appears to be expressing symptoms expected from ongoing climate change,» said Dr. Stephen Vavrus from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

One potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy.

Ongoing climate change caused by human influences will alter the nature of how rain and snow falls; areas that are prone to dry conditions will receive their precipitation in narrower windows of time.

Yet more scientific research highlights ongoing climate change — as the U.S. enjoys the hottest July on record.

If we manage to drill a good sample, it would help place ongoing climate change within a long - term geological framework and provide compelling evidence for past changes in the atmosphere and global ice volume.

«We suspect that in the past, shifts in climate led to adaptation and movement of animals, not extinction» said co-author Payne, «Of course, today ongoing climate change may result in extinction since most megafauna are limited in how far they can move.»

This gives rise to concern, especially in the light of ongoing climate change which is likely to affect not only the distribution of important pollinator species but also the entire functional structure of pollinator assemblages.

Scientists have warned that release of even part of the giant reservoir could significantly exacerbate ongoing climate change.

On the other hand, the climate threat investigation using a combination of atmosphere — ocean modeling, information from paleoclimate data, and observations of ongoing climate change revealed that modeling is an imperfect representation of the climate system, paleo - data consist mainly of proxy climate information usually with substantial ambiguities, and modern observations are limited in scope and accuracy (Hansen et al., 2016).»

Participants reaffirmed that the risks posed by ongoing climate change require a strong commitment to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation to unavoidable climate change, and development of low - carbon energy sources, independent of whether climate intervention methods ultimately prove to be safe and feasible....

The 2011 Report to the Legislature reviews Oregon's ongoing climate change goals.

Here we analyze the temperature data to see if ongoing climate change along with continued tropical warming was sufficient to set a new record for 2016.

In any case, the claim that a «warming pause» disproved ongoing climate change became completely academic when 1998 stopped being the warmest year on record.

Hansen and his colleagues summarise the challenge as follows: «If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on earth is adapted, palaeoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385ppm [parts per million] to at most 350ppm.»

The risk of transgressing critical thresholds («tipping points») increase strongly with ongoing climate change.

Although our study confirms a benefit of ongoing climate change on plant growing conditions at higher latitudes because of fewer freezing days, this considerably underestimates the full extent of consequences of projected climate changes, particularly under business - as - usual projections.

Political leaders of all UN member states have a special responsibility to agree at COP21 to a bold climate agreement that confines global warming to a limit safe for humanity, while protecting the poor and the vulnerable from ongoing climate change that gravely endangers their lives.

One potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy.

The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is one of the most direct indicators of the ongoing climate change on our planet.

Ongoing climate change could be partly to blame: Antarctica is losing about 200 gigatonnes of ice per year, and for Greenland the figure is 300 gigatonnes.

As such, the ongoing climate change poses the following problem for marine animals: the warmer the water gets, the less oxygen it can absorb and store.

«Ongoing climate change has exacerbated that existing vulnerability,» says Stott.

«With ongoing climate change, population growth and ocean acidification, the question is, what's the future going to look like?

«With the ongoing climate change and increasing environmental problems, these new technologies can also be applicable here on Earth,» says Prof. Benedikt Sas from the Centre of Excellence Food2Know.

The loss of snow and ice caused by the ongoing climate change poses a direct threat to the subspecies, and climate change induced changes to the environment may have indirect effects, too.

That means the sun, at least for those three years, played a larger role in ongoing climate change than previously thought.

This behavior can still be observed today and the ongoing climate change drives the bear even closer.

Recently, the effects of ongoing climate change (ocean warming and acidification) on N2 fixation drew much attention, but various studies led to controversial conclusions.

«There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources and human health,» the letter states.

«Such insights into the past may help to separate natural from «man - made» oscillations of rainfall which is particularly important in view of ongoing climate change,» says the lead author of the study, Dr. Eva Niedermeyer, LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F).

Additional support for that target is provided by our analyses of ongoing climate change and paleoclimate, in later parts of our paper.

I believe the ongoing climate change affects the «smoothness» of the weather and I'm not sure which, if any, of the existing indicators measure smoothness.