Sentences with phrase «potential climate change»

As research leaders in developing and using models to provide scientific insights into weather and climate change, Qian and others are striving to understand uncertainty in systems and modeling to improve projections and help prepare vulnerable regions for potential climate change impact.

To better understand potential climate change impacts on transportation infrastructure and identify adaptation strategies, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) is conducting a comprehensive, multi-phase study of climate change impacts in the Central Gulf Coast region.

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed committees to examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.

«Scientists have paid a lot of attention to potential climate change signals in forests — like them growing faster than expected due to an overabundance of carbon dioxide, or slower due to climate change - induced extreme temperatures.

Communities must rely on the accuracy of climate models to prepare for and adapt to potential climate change scenarios.

Remind students that drought and flooding are just two potential climate change related impacts.

A further potential climate change connection, which Kevin overlooks, is the impact of a warmer world on the strength of the prevailing winds, and their increase in strength with height.

In addition, the IEA is exploring the establishment of an ad hoc working group to develop stronger policies to enhance the resilience of energy systems to climatic events and to prepare for potential climate change induced impact on energy demand and supply.

Studies of potential climate change effects (e.g., changes in temperature, circulation, or the abundance of other chemicals) allow for much less ambiguity in accurately attributing any observed changes in the ozone layer to their appropriate cause.

Watch how the U.S. military is preparing for potential climate change conflicts»

Whereas Working Group I lays out our current best understanding of the physical science basis of climate science and Working Group II details potential climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, Working Group III presents a comprehensive, objective and policy - neutral discussion of climate change mitigation.

And now for a bit of editorializing: It's often difficult to visualize what climate change - related disasters might look like, but the images pouring out of Japan are visually reminiscent of storm surges supercharged by more powerful weather and rising seas, and of course potential climate change - caused tsunamis.

He said «India's development imperatives can not be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future,» India's power minister, Piyush Goyal, said at a recent conference in New Delhi in response to a question.

Climate indicators (global and regional climate projections and seasonal forecasting activities) will support policy makers in taking appropriate actions to understand potential climate change and devise adaptation strategies to reduce the socio - economic and environmental risks on coastal areas.

The paper points out the ramifications of a basic fact about the structure of earth's temperature for potential climate change - induced migrations of species, including humans.

Impacts of potential climate change on global and regional food production and vulnerability.

The article provides a solid review of the recent developments in the science focusing on potential climate change impacts on tropical cyclones.

The potential climate change impacts from increased oilsands production should also be factored into any calculus, said Greenpeace's Keith Stewart, in an email.

Results: The complex models scientists rely on to determine weather and potential climate changes have a hidden flaw.

Climate models form a reliable guide to potential climate change.

Until now, the IPCC and Thomas et al. studies have been the only global - scale assessments of potential climate change impacts on species that cover multiple taxonomic groups.

Ultimately, forest managers will need to consider specific adaptation actions in response to current and potential climate changes.

B) Exert legitimate means to persuade governments to put moral imperatives above political expediency on issues of environmental destruction and potential climate change;

It's just that in a world of potential climate change and war, famine and fundamentalism, what he makes and asks us to consider is so very slight.

Cato Institute scientist Chip Knappenberger testified last year before the House Science Committee on the potential climate change impacts of the KXL.

We look at the general climate of Brazil and some of the potential climate change impacts there ahead of the Rio Olympics.

CDC will help states and cities partner with local and national climate scientists to understand the potential climate changes in their areas.

Climate models form a reliable guide to potential climate change.