Sentences with phrase «only responding to climate change»

In the Internet age, urban «resilience» means not only responding to climate change, but also protecting our ubiquitous networks from both hack and glitch.

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Mass Audubon's conservation and science teams are not only working to protect our natural resources for the present, they're also working to protect our natural resources as they respond to a changing climate in the future.

New York is not only contemplating how to respond to the climate change menace, but it is also trying to move its energy system into the digital age.

Thirty - three states have strategic plans for dealing with climate change, but only five of those currently include a public - health response, according to the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit advocacy group in Washington, D.C. «We only respond after a Katrina - like crisis,» says Jeffrey Levi, the trust's executive director.

We need to take into account not only the direct impact of climate change, but also how people will respond to such change — the impact of adaptation.

Only 52 per cent thought climate change was happening, but 62 per cent said the US should take steps to address the issue — suggesting that even some who are unsure about climate change still think it's worth responding to the potential threat.

«This is a species that has been logged historically and still is, so it certainly is important in terms of thinking about not only how our ecosystems are responding to changes in climate, but also in changes of the economics of forest management, as well,» Restaino said.

In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.

My laymans» viewpoint is that as the Arctic ice has thinned (due to global warming, climate change), it has moved to where it only now responds to the weather (will the North Pole be ice free this year?

In fact, there is broad agreement among climate scientists not only that climate change is real (a survey and a review of the scientific literature published say about 97 percent agree), but that we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.

We have only begun to see the change in temperature and climate caused by the amount of CO2 that we have already added to the atmosphere (+38 %), and it will continue to change until the ocean - atmosphere climate system fully responds to that addition.

In response to # 73, Gavin responded that it is not only CO2 that is necessary to change climate.

The study looks at only three cities and climates — Newport Beach, Chicago and Baltimore — and does so without changing the design of the building to respond to these very different climates.

With the falling carbon prices and very little revenue from CDM shares to fund Adaptation Fund activities, Green Climate Fund, seems to be the only ray of hope for Adaptation Fund to reach its full potential to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change&Climate Fund, seems to be the only ray of hope for Adaptation Fund to reach its full potential to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change&climate change».

«Could turn the climate change world upside down» The rise in skeptical scientists are responding not only to an increase in dire «predictions» of climate change, but also a steady stream of peer - reviewed studies, analyses, real world data, and inconvenient developments have further cast doubts on the claims of man - made global warming fear activists.

The finding adds to growing evidence that temperature isn't the only factor influencing how Earth's life will respond to climate change.»

Assuming that only socioeconomic factors — rather than rising emissions — influence losses may yield ill - founded policy recommendations that focus exclusively on adapting to climate change while dismissing energy policy as a legitimate part of the toolkit for responding.

Five Common Arguments Against Climate Change Policies That Can Only Be Effectively Responded To On Ethical Grounds

Although it is wise to think globally, wildlife only responds to local climate change.

That could allow for up to 87.5 % pro CAGW of the total population had the no shows responded, meaning only 12.5 % of meteorologists might be climate change denying morons.

Aerosol changes between those climate states are appropriately included as a fast feedback, not only because aerosols respond rapidly to changing climate but also because there are multiple aerosol compositions, they have complex radiative properties and they affect clouds in several ways, thus making accurate knowledge of their glacial — interglacial changes inaccessible.

Thousands of questionnaires sent out to scientists and only 77 were returned, and 95 percent of that responded that humans are causing climate change.

The freely available headline statistics not only provide valuable insight to climate change negotiators, they also show how the IEA is responding to the call from the Group of 20 nations acknowledging the importance of public disclosure of market - related information on all energy resources.

Without a functional democracy, there can be no federal role in responding to voter demand, not only for a clean energy economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels, but also for clean air, water, large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust federal climate change science program.