Sentences with phrase «other climate change impacts at»

available peer - reviewed, science - based evidence to model the implications of their proposals for atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, global mean surface temperature, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts at the global scale.

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Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

Because the brown cloud appears to be at least as important, eliminating it could buy time to implement more far - reaching solutions before catastrophic glacial melt and other climate change impacts occur, Ramanathan argues.

This lake is the Great Lake most impacted by summer hypoxia — the loss of oxygen at the bottom that affects fish and other living communities — and, according to Dr. Twiss, is a good sentinel for climate change.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

«The UMI highlights the need for new imaging and omics technologies, such as those currently being developed at PNNL, to understand how microbes function and interact in complex environments and how they are impacted by climate change and other perturbations,» said Jansson, who also leads the Microbiomes in Transition initiative at PNNL.

Other ongoing or planned research involves looking at the nature and diversity of bear genomics at Brooks Camp and elsewhere in the park, and monitoring climate change impacts.

To overcome these drawbacks, researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change propose an alternative method that only a handful of other groups are now pursuing: a self - consistent modeling framework to assess climate impacts across multiple regions and sectors.

Conscious that while our nations lie at the climate frontline and will disproportionately feel the impacts of global warming, in the end climate change will threaten the sustainable development and, ultimately, the survival of all states and peoples — the fate of the most vulnerable will be the fate of the world; and convinced that our acute vulnerability not only allows us to perceive the threat of climate change more clearly than others, but also provides us with the clarity of vision to understand the steps that must be taken to protect the Earth's climate system and the determination to see the job done;

Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common PoClimate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common PosChange in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Poclimate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Poschange as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

But by looking at other metrics, Trenberth says climate change worsened the drought and its impacts.

The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate climate change.

At least two municipal governments reassured investors that they were «unable to predict whether sea - level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur, when they may occur, and if any such events occur, whether they will have a material adverse effect...»» (emphasis added)

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiClimate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capiclimate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

In a new paper released today by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, Fall 2012 fellow Matthew C. Nisbet examines writer - turned - activist Bill McKibben's career and impact on the debate over climate change, drawing comparisons to other journalists and public intellectuals writing on the topic.

The Trump administration's further elimination of climate change consideration in environmental impact statements has attracted additional criticism of the process (for the opposite reason)-- placing the United States at odds with the other two countries.

«There is an incoherence at best between oil companies on the one hand positioning themselves as being on the side of the world's developing countries and while on the other actively pursuing strategies which will entail catastrophic climate change which we already know is having a significant impact on the global south,» she said.

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

We won't change their minds, and their numbers aren't large enough to impact policy in a major way; at least in the U.S. such individuals don't count climate change as very high on the agenda of things they care about (I understand that in several other countries, this is a more salient issue).

and, (d) Whether those causing climate change have obligations to act now because if the world waits to act until all uncertainties are resolved it will likely be too late to prevent catastrophic impacts to others and to stabilize greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations at safe levels?

Private and public sector organizations face significant obstacles to adaptation: uncertainty regarding future climate change at regional and local scales; uncertainty regarding the future frequency of extreme weather events; and uncertainty regarding the ecological, economic and other impacts of climate change.

Nevertheless, since these social cost of carbon figures are used by other federal agencies, they provide a glimpse at one way the Interior Department could consider the impacts of climate change when managing coal on behalf of the American people.

Scenic Hudson at www.scenichudson.org/climatechange offers scientific and other climate change resources, including its Sea Level Rise Mapper — a free, online tool that helps communities visualize the impact of rising water levels at specific locations along the river and begin to plan for the «new normal.»

In a paper released by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, Fall 2012 fellow Matthew C. Nisbet examines writer - turned - activist Bill McKibben's career and impact on the debate over climate change, drawing comparisons to other journalists and public intellectuals writing on the topic.

In the letter, Clement also expressed deep concern for other victims of climate change impacts, such as the recent set of devastating hurricanes, more frequent and severe flooding, marine life die - offs as a result of warmer ocean temperatures, forests at risk from invasive insects, and so on.

Besser, who met with the president yesterday at Howard University's Health Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health problems.

Given that ignorance, «the IPCC and other scientific bodies should no longer report attempts at calculating the net economic impacts of mitigating climate change to the public in their reports.»

The reason that it may appear, at times, to have slowed (or even reversed) it's progress is that an increase in average global temperatures over time isn't the only impact of global warming, or other associated climate change phenomena.

According to the WWF, top climate scientists have looked at the information and found that the effects of the melting ice on climate is going to more severely impact temperatures worldwide than other projections put forward so far, including even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 asseclimate scientists have looked at the information and found that the effects of the melting ice on climate is going to more severely impact temperatures worldwide than other projections put forward so far, including even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 asseclimate is going to more severely impact temperatures worldwide than other projections put forward so far, including even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 asseClimate Change's 2007 assessment.

Should the climate negotiations try to cap CO2 pollution in the atmosphere at 550 parts per million (ppm), 450 ppm, or some other (hopefully lower) figure Or should we take an entirely different approach and try to cap temperature change itself, rather than CO2 pollution And what must we know about the kinds of impacts and instabilities that can be expected at any given level View Full Text»

On the other hand, if abrupt climate changes don't happen on their own — if they only happen due to extraterrestrial causes — then one would want to see evidence of impacts for at least a few more of them, not just one.

The Copenhagen Accord thus leaves a 1.5 °C gap of climate change unaccounted for — in other words, between the 1.5 °C of change that we'll have adapted to and the 3 °C we'll experience, there will be unavoided impacts, writes Martin Parry of the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London over on Nature Reports Climate climate change unaccounted for — in other words, between the 1.5 °C of change that we'll have adapted to and the 3 °C we'll experience, there will be unavoided impacts, writes Martin Parry of the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London over on Nature Reports Climate Cchange unaccounted for — in other words, between the 1.5 °C of change that we'll have adapted to and the 3 °C we'll experience, there will be unavoided impacts, writes Martin Parry of the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London over on Nature Reports Climate Cchange that we'll have adapted to and the 3 °C we'll experience, there will be unavoided impacts, writes Martin Parry of the Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London over on Nature Reports Climate Climate ChangeChange.

Even with decisions on loss and damage deferred, COP 23 was a moment when Pacific islands and other small island states put the brutal, front - line impacts of climate change at the centre of the discussion.

When considering global warming's impacts on species, it is essential to look at how entire ecosystems are affected as species interact and climate change interacts with other human - induced stresses.

BARRY BROOK: Looking hard at renewable energy, there are a lot of limitations, especially in terms of energy storage and energy back up that make it extraordinarily implausible, according to my view and that of many others, that it could supply most of our power needs in the future, which, for someone who's really concerned about climate change impacts is a pretty disappointing conclusion.