Sentences with phrase «overall impact on the climate»

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.

These measures can significantly reduce the overall impact on the climate, and improve the quality and value of a company's products.

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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?

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.»

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.

«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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

You fret about «a totally wrong paper [with marginal impact on the ongoing overall climate debate] getting published».

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.

Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.) Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.

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.

Housing's dampening effect on the overall economy is impacting commercial property price appreciation and creating a slightly less favorable commercial credit climate.