Sentences with phrase «potential climate changes many»

The only concern that arises from growing atmospheric CO2 levels stems from the potential climate changes that may result.

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

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

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

Storms like Sandy have been routinely hitting the same area as noted by the historical record which started way before any potential climate changes were observed.

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.

Although the magnitude of potential climate change may be comparable to variability experienced in the past, the rate of that change is anticipated to be significantly greater (Diffenbaugh and Field 2013), with substantial implications for Montana's forests.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When the Space Act was written, we had little idea of potential climate change issues.

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

Second, some patients with mental illness are especially susceptible to heat.226, 227 Suicide rates vary with weather, 126 rising with high temperatures, 127,128 suggesting potential climate change impacts on depression and other mental illnesses.

«Radiative forcing is a measure of the influence a factor has in altering the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth - atmosphere system and is an index of the importance of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism.

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

This report presents findings from computer modeling of the impacts of potential climate change on hydrology and water availability (changes in runoff, basin yield, and flooding).

Although the point is not universally accepted, the weight of scientific opinion suggests that global warming gases (GWG) produced by human activity form one important component of potential climate change.

CO2 - induced global warming: a skeptic's view of potential climate change.

Indeed, those in favor of «hope and change», even «fundamental» change, are the ones objecting most strongly to any potential climate change from increasing carbon dioxide.

(ii) prioritize critical public health infrastructure projects related to potential climate change impacts that affect public health; and

The evidence suggests a strong statistical relationship for the SO being the primary driver of temperatures and potential climate change.

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

Climate models form a reliable guide to potential climate change.

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.

You acknowledge that there is no consensus on the most important aspects of the issue of potential climate change when you write:

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

Fogarty, M., L. Incze, K. Hayhoe, D. Mountain, and J. Manning, 2008: Potential climate change impacts on Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off the northeastern USA.

Iverson, L., A. Prasad, and S. Matthews, 2008: Modeling potential climate change impacts on the trees of the northeastern United States.

Jefferson, M. (1997), Potential Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1990 - 96, World Energy Council Journal, pp. 76 - 82.

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.

Fifthly, there is now a greater understanding of the range of potential climate change impacts, their regional variation and the possibility of abrupt or irreversible changes.

«The scenarios from the research community form the backbone of our analysis of potential climate change impacts as well as mitigation and adaptation solutions,» said Ottmar Edenhofer at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-chair of Working Group III, which deals with the mitigating climate change.

Potential climate change is the greatest strategic risk currently facing the property / casualty insurance industry, with demographic changes taking priority for the life insurance industry, according to a new study by Ernst & Young.

As to smog being a local issue, all potential climate change is a local issue.

CO2 - induced global warming: a skeptic's view of potential climate change (Climate Research, Vol.

In comparing human - caused and natural «radiative forcing,» (which is defined as «an index of the importance of [a] factor as a potential climate change mechanism»), the IPCC's February 2007 Working Group I Report «The Physical Science Basis» concluded that since 1750, «it is extremely likely [> 95 % probability] that humans have exerted a substantial warming influence on climate.

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Inadequate protections against cyberattacks and potential environmental disasters stemming from climate change.

For at least a decade after receiving in - house research warning of the potential impact of Climate Change, ExxonMobil continued to fund outside groups that disputed it.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Climate change has the potential to seriously affect some regions» water resources, and drought is just one way that can happen.

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a diClimate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a diclimate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Report calls for organizations to routinely disclose potential risks and opportunities climate change poses to their business

Timor - Leste's current minister of commerce, industry, and the environment, Constâncio Pinto, sees Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, as a potential ally based on her past experience as a UN adviser in Timor - Leste.

As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

In a nutshell: the cost of climate change in Canada is already big and growing, with the potential to become enormous.