Nicola Stuber, first author of the study, to be published in tomorrow's edition of the journal Nature, suggests that contrails»
overall impact on climate change is similar in scope to that of aircrafts» carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over a hundred - year period.
Not exact matches
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.
What do you see as the
impact on our
overall health as a result of the
changes going
on in the
climate?
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.&
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.&
Change on Selected Causes of Death.»
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.
Each choice has an
impact on overall air and water pollution, toxic waste accumulation, and global
climate change.
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.
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.
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 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.
Combined, we therefore have
overall medium confidence in the
impact of
climate change on waterborne and food - borne disease.
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.
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 effects of global
climate change on mental health and well - being are integral parts of the
overall climate - related human health
impacts.
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
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.
• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial
overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic
impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of
climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias
on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.
The
overall objective of the research was to produce a comprehensive study about the frequency, intensity, spatial and temporal variation and the
impacts of the extreme weather and sea level events that are relevant from the point of safety of nuclear power plants, as well as clarify the influence of
climate change on these.
It's crucial to note that while
overall precipitation is predicted to go up in Canada, that precipitation will come in winter, not in summer during the growing season, says geographer David Sauchyn, a professor at the University of Regina, who recently led a federal government study
on the
impacts of
climate change on the prairies.
Oil and gas production and
climate change have large
impacts on social, economic and environmental systems that affect young people's mental health and
overall wellbeing.