Sentences with phrase «overall climate impact»

Regionally however, it is well established that the magnitude of the individual effects varies significantly giving forests an overall climate impact that is very much location dependent.

Our study does not address how the magnitude of the source types that we present translate into an overall climate impact for natural gas vs. other fuel types, nor does it address implications for natural gas as a bridge fuel.

The impact of tree harvesting is counted under a separate national regime to the impact of burning the fuel, making it hard to reliably keep track of the overall climate impact.

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Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

Food loss and waste in the United States accounts for approximately 31 percent — or 133 billion pounds — of the overall food supply available to retailers and consumers and has far - reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change.

I'm concerned about the «spilling over» effect of this political climate and its overall impact in our society — on our children.

What do you see as the impact on our overall health as a result of the changes going on in the climate?

The report calls community resilience to hazards, including the impacts associated with climate change «an element of overall national security.»

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Though the overall impact of tourism on climate change is difficult to assess, the United Nation's World Tourism Organization says our vacations contribute about 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, which reached 8.47 billion metric tons in 2007.

«Overall, climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.»

Cornerstone Evaluation Associates LLC is the external research firm charged with carrying out the evaluation activities necessary to determine the effectiveness and impact of MAVEN's Education and Public Outreach (E / PO) effort and its success in achieving its overall goal to «engage multiple audiences in the quest to understand Mars» long - term atmospheric losses, giving insight into the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.»

Overall, studies are inconclusive as to net impacts of changing atmospheric chemistry and climate on seedling establishment and growth.

To quantify the impact of human - induced climate change on Harvey and to estimate whether it indeed exacerbated the rainfall thus requires taking into account the atmospheric circulation as well as the overall warming.

The overall goal of this sympsoium is to bring together experts from around the world to better understand climate impacts on ocean ecosystems — and how to respond.

Although the strength of this feedback varies somewhat among models, its overall impact on the spread of model climate sensitivities is reduced by lapse rate feedback, which tends to be anti-correlated.

Each choice has an impact on overall air and water pollution, toxic waste accumulation, and global climate change.

Today's report captures the overall impact of national climate plans covering 146 countries as of 1 October 2015.

«The Flippen Group's easy to follow step - by - step approach to Capturing Kids» Hearts has enabled my staff to effectively create positive choices for challenging and disruptive students, and has made a positive impact on our school's overall climate that is measured not only in the progress seen on our school's New York City Progress Reports, but also in the very feeling of our building when you enter it.

Although minute in comparison to the overall measurable loss, I can't help but see his paintings as a glaring antithesis to the poster didactics, charts, and statistics in the educational portion of Vanishing Ice, calling on world citizens to do their part to help reverse, impact or halt climate change, no matter how small their act of conservation.

At World Climate Report, we believe, that instead of having an equal likelihood of occurrence, that the temperature rise during the next 50 to 100 years will lie closer to the low end of the IPCC projected range than to the high end of the range and thus the overall impacts will tend towards the modest rather than the extreme.

Effects of harvest and climate change on polar marine ecosystems: case studies from the Antarctic Peninsula and Hudson Bay C Hoover — 2012 — circle.ubc.ca... Future simulations of the Antarctic Peninsula identify large reductions in ecosystem biomass of all species due changes in environmental conditions and an overall reduction in krill, with minimal ecosystem impacts from harvest.

This is relevant to policy discussions, because the view on Arctic tundra fits — as with so many other parts of the climate question — the overall conclusion that rising temperatures result in rising impacts on systems and resources that matter to people.

He is properly trying to CLARIFY these differences and pointing out that Climate Change is NOT a Forcing that has any physical impacts on either «weather» overall and «extreme events» in particular.

The report on impacts of climate change — one of three main sections of each of the panel's periodic assessments — has long been seen by some climate scientists, including some participants in the I.P.C.C. process, as a relatively weak element in the overall effort, in part because it has less scientific literature to draw on.

2007, PNAS) is that changes in shear will act in opposition to changes in stability, making an overall assessment of possible impacts of climate change on severe convection difficult at this time.

He gave a modest thumbs up to Dr. Schmidt but his overall reaction was that the commentators focusing on changing how the climate issue is «framed» were far too detached from the public to have a meaningful idea of how to make an impact.

Overall, the impacts of climate change are projected to result in a net loss of global biodiversity and major shifts in the provision of ecosystem services.

Overall, the report identifies many more negative impacts than positive impacts projected for the future, especially for high magnitudes and rates of climate change.

Overall, the report said, «Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts.»

The overall level of consistency between attribution results derived from different models (as shown in Figure 9.9), and the ability of climate models to simulate large - scale temperature changes during the 20th century (Figures 9.5 and 9.6), indicate that such model differences are likely to have a relatively small impact on attribution results of large - scale temperature change at the surface.

The two most important ones relate to a) the impact of natural climate variability and forcing factors and b) the sign and magnitude of the net overall feedback that could be expected to occur, which could either amplify or moderate the warming expected from a climate forcing.

Combined, we therefore have overall medium confidence in the impact of climate change on waterborne and food - borne disease.

Each of the 22 indicators is individually aggregated from various data sources and models and then combined to determine a country's overall climate vulnerability, measured by impact to share of GDP and mortality (as these impacts are comparable across the wide range of countries).

The overall objective of the consultation was to enable key regional stakeholders to assess and, through consensus, prioritize research needs regarding public health adaptation to social, environmental and climate change impacts on vector - borne diseases in Africa.

One key question Hartmann is keen on better understanding is how the overall warming of the planet might impact the climate cycles that potentially put the divide in place.

Nations with very high populations such as India and China are among the most significant contributors to climate change overall, despite relatively lower impacts from each individual.

The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»

-- the overall change to the global heat balance climate from basic physics bounded by paleo observations (over time increasingly constrained by modern observations)-- the probable overall patterns of regional change at a large scale — the range of impacts.

The effects of global climate change on mental health and well - being are integral parts of the overall climate - related human health impacts.

While the United States has made important climate progress and increased its energy security largely apart from RFS contributions, the RFS itself continues to have difficulties that could impact consumers and the overall economy.

Now what would be nice, is if the different data products were regionally focused instead of Globally, then it would be easy to illustrate how distribution of heat capacity impacts «climate» without requiring an increase in overall heat capacity.

Given the complexities of the climate system, I would say the chance of any single component of that system having a long term warming impact all by itself, in a manner that effectively negates all other components, is highly unlikely — especially when that one component makes up a bare.04 % of just one of the subsystems making up the overall climate system, and further, when human burning of fossil fuels contributes a mere 3 - 4 % of that.04 %.

Getting adolescents to reflect on which of their actions can have great overall impact on the future climate, and on the small impact of many of the most readily imaginable actions, could have considerable value by stimulating serious and better - informed discussion of how they might make a difference in limiting climate change.

Overall, there is low confidence in the projections of specifically how climate change will impact future precipitation on a subregional scale, and thus in projections of how climate change might impact the availability of water resources.

However, the overall impact for nearly all populations and for the world as a whole is expected to be more negative than positive, increasingly so as climate change progresses.

That's a message I wish more impact groups would take on board, but of itself it does not invalidate climate models overall.

Truly only one negative feedback in the planet's overall carbon cycle can act with sufficient speed and strength to avert catastrophic climate impacts: The dominant carbon - based life form on this planet will have to respond to the already painfully clear impacts of our carbon emissions by slashing those emissions sharply and eventually running the planet on carbon - negative power.

However climate change ultimately unfolds, it's reasonable to guesstimate, if not assume, that overall there will be high impact effects on societies regionally as well as globally.

Weather and climate — the overall distribution of weather over time — impact our health, our communities, and our economy.