Sentences with phrase «picture of changing climate»

The crippling drought in the U.S. West, water shortages in Sao Paolo, super-typhoons in the Pacific and massive flooding in India are just a few examples that paint a picture of a changing climate.

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Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

These liberties or lack thereof influenced my worldview and it wasn't until I removed myself from my home that I began to gain a better picture of the complexities that we are confronted with in the face of climate change.

We consult, analyse and research widely, working with academics, businesses and civil society to build a complete picture of how climate change affects the UK.

«Indeed from my vantage point the direction he gave me about wanting me to use the diplomatic channels to pursue issues like climate changes was absolutely clear and is part of a much bigger picture.»

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

This new research provides a broad picture of how climate change may alter groundwater recharge in the future, Meixner said.

But critics like Fugere said that Exxon Mobil may be missing the bigger picture, especially in light of the most recent findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, MarClimate Change, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, MarcChange, which hold that the world is already witnessing the harsh realities of climate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, Marclimate change and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, Marcchange and that conditions will worsen unless steps are taken quickly to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (ClimateWire, March 31).

Piping plovers (adult pictured), a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The IPCC's climate report says that the most extreme scenarios of future warming are looking less likely — but this doesn't change the big picture

Three different groups that studied the California drought, however, did not come up with a clear picture of how long - term climate change might have driven that event.

From tasteless carrots to sunburned apples, a new report by two University of Melbourne researchers paints a challenging picture for Australia's agricultural sector and the impacts of climate change in the decades to come.

«The paired approach creates a more comprehensive picture of the nature of climate change and the effects of various policies to stem its consequences.»

When most people think of the physical effects of climate change, they picture melting glaciers, shrinking sea ice or flooded coastal towns (SN: 4/16/16, p. 22).

The Big Picture RT The impacts of human - caused climate change are happening faster than scientists previously assumed, the AAAS CEO said on 6 July, during an appearance on The Hartmann Report, a radio and television talk show.

No mainstream scientists are advocating using geoengineering techniques right now, but more and more researchers feel that a worsening picture of global climate change warrants studying such interventions in case of a climate emergency in the future.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

«This is an indication of a shift in the convective population, and it gives us a picture of how changes in climate may affect the occurrence of thunderstorms.»

It's undoubtedly attractive to picture an «e-science» future, where the impacts of scientific research such as environmental climate change and genomic bioresearch are shared globally with spectrally efficient 100 Gbps transmissions systems.

There are some parts of the picture which are clear, particularly the way that climate change is causing westerly winds to shift southwards, but there are still huge gaps that we need to fill in order to fully understand how much human activity is changing weather in the region.

A new report paints a gloomy picture and blames intensive farming and climate change for an ongoing devastation of wildlife across the UK

Understanding how climate change might influence flooding has been a tricky endeavor because so many other factors, like urbanization, deforestation or the dredging of rivers, also impact how often floods occur and how big they are, muddying the picture.

«We're gradually building a picture of one of the biggest black boxes in ecosystem interaction with climate change,» says Chris Field of Stanford University in California.

It uses some of the same long - term data as the climate change report and as a «collective statement of both governmental and non-governmental organizations... [it] presents a more accurate picture» of where birds stand, says Mark Eaton, a conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, U.K.

It aims to give a more complete picture of the changes taking place in polar regions because of climate change.

These models can then be mapped against climate forecasts to predict how phenology could shift in the future, painting a picture of landscapes in a world of warmer temperatures, altered precipitation and humidity, and changes in cloud cover.

The data would be accessible to all, allowing scientists to assemble a continental - scale picture of climate change, land - use trends, and the movement of invasive species.

Jeffrey Kargel of the University of Arizona, Tucson, said in a press conference Monday that the role of soot «adds a new wrinkle» to the story of glacier melting, but that in the big picture of climate change the main villains are still gases such as CO2.

Most of that research has focused on adult fish, but that is only giving researchers and fishery managers part of the picture of how stressors like climate change and fishing are affecting different species.

«The strong message here is that as we refine our estimates of carbon emissions we get closer to an accurate picture of what is going on and we can improve our climate projections and better inform policy on climate change.»

The maps could also be useful resources for deciding where to place instruments to monitor ocean oxygen levels in the future to get the best picture of climate change impacts.

Climate change could have different impacts on the many types of terrain that stretch across L.A. «It's hard to make local policy when you don't have a clear picture of how various neighborhoods could be hit.»

And the new number has little effect on the big picture of climate change.

St. Pierre noted that the scientific exploration of Lake Hazen speaks to the big - picture perspective, approaching the questions of climate change from a focus on the whole system rather than examining subsystems in silos.

«For them, the global phenomenon of climate change very clearly affects these bigger picture environmental things, so they have the most pronounced worry, because they already see it everywhere.

We track many indicators of climate change to get the big picture.

The lesson here is that changes observed over very short time intervals do not provide a reliable picture of how the climate is changing.

The picture that emerged Monday of climate change's potential role in condemning California to drought was as murky as muddy water in a nearly parched lakebed.

Not only do the vagaries of weather patterns and ocean currents make it hard to see climate changes, but the variability in what are often termed the Earth System components complicates the picture enormously.

Thus, a revision in our picture of past climate variability does not translate in any direct way into a change in the IPCC forecasts.

In the world's first large - scale investigation of how climate affects the composition of coral reefs, an international team of marine scientists concludes that the picture is far more complicated than previously thought — but that total reef losses due to climate change are unlikely.

That helps them create a bigger picture of how Earth's climate has changed over time.

You can think of this as sharpening the blurry picture of climate change.

The results of the study will hopefully give researchers a clearer picture as to how the Earth's climate changed so rapidly following the asteroid impact.

Thus to provide the clearest picture of the CO2 effect, we approximate the net future change of human - made non-CO2 forcings as zero and we exclude future changes of natural climate forcings, such as solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols.

Putting the «mental» in «environmental,» the not - screened - for - critics «Geostorm» is less a scare picture about ignoring climate change than a cautionary flop about trying to do too much in conjuring a perfect storm of genres: end - of - the - world porn, save - the - world triumphalism, space adventure, political thriller, family drama, and workplace romance.

Participant recently made several high - profile announcements during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, including the co-acquisition of documentary feature RBG with Magnolia Pictures, as well as a distribution deal with Starz for director Steve James» 10 - part docuseries America to Me, and the unveiling of a new four - part virtual reality series titled, This is Climate Change, to be distributed by WITHIN.

Paramount Pictures will debut a sequel to Al Gore's Oscar - winning climate change documentary «An Inconvenient Truth» on the opening night of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

At last semester's presentation, «Reinventing the American High School,» Wild painted a distressing picture of the current high school climate, and detailed why a change is needed.

Summerford, who was one of 1,000 people trained by Al Gore and others to give presentations on climate change, focuses first on the local picture.