Sentences with phrase «potential effect on climate change»

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«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the effects of climate change on the release of carbon from soils of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the potential for a positive feedback of permafrost carbon release on climate warming.

This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

Regardless of the original intent of the study, Lee keeps coming back to what his results say about potential effects of climate change on perennial plants.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

Even so, future disclosures will include information detailing the risk the company faces from «potential laws and regulations relating to climate change or coal, which could result in materially adverse effects on its markets or [the] company,» it said.

The potential effects of climate change on the spread of insect - borne diseases is a major public health concern, but this study found little evidence that mosquito populations in these areas were responding to changes in temperature or precipitation.

Furthermore, only recently have researchers been able to consider both the ecological relationships among krill predators (e.g., niche overlap) and the potential effects of climate change on those relationships, specifically as they relate to the availability of their krill prey [14].

But in general terms how would you compare the potential effects of these industries on climate change?

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

The interplay between these mechanisms complicates efforts to forecast the potential effects of climate change on pathogens and insects.

In the past decades, scientists have increasingly focused on studying the potential effects of climate change on all aspects of life, including agriculture.

While climate change in recent decades has been found to negatively affect crop yields in many regions, a new study led by Carnegie's Julia Pongratz is the first to examine the potential effect of geoengineering on food security.

He was part of a team that has studied the potential effects of climate change on nutrition.

In addition, we do not detail potential responses of individual tree species to climate shifts in this assessment; instead, we focus on the direct and indirect effects of climate change on forests.

The ERS was the first professional medical association to adopt a position on climate change, highlighting the potential effects on respiratory health [17].

Their teacher Andy McFadden has described the Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.»

With an international transition to a lower - carbon economy underway, many teams at Wellington are focused on helping clients understand the potential effects of climate change on their inves...

But in general terms how would you compare the potential effects of these industries on climate change?

In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.

Written for a general audience, it deals with a number of current, and potential future, effects of global change — with an emphasis on climate change — on various health - related issues.

Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues (one being that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerabClimate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerabclimate vulnerability).

As the new Ceres report notes: «ExxonMobil does not analyze or quantify the effect on the company and on shareholder value of any plausible greenhouse gas regulatory scenarios; in fact, the company states that «it is impossible today to assess the potential implications for shareholder value from initiatives to address climate change,» in part because no governments have established definitive regulations for the 2008 - 2012 Kyoto period or for post-2012.

In the first major study to examine the effects of climate change on ocean fisheries, a team of researchers from UBC and Princeton University discovered that catch potential will fall 40 percent in the tropics and may increase 30 to 70 percent in high latitude regions, affecting ocean food supply throughout the world by 2055.

Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Effects of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture.

A recent meta - analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on cropClimate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on cropclimate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on cropclimate change and adaptation on crop change and adaptation on crop yield.

Public health impact of global heating due to climate change: Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

Tagaris, E., K. J. Liao, A. J. DeLucia, L. Deck, P. Amar, and A. G. Russell, 2009: Potential impact of climate change on air pollution - related human health effects.

A documentary on the threat that climate change poses to the Earth - it's causes, effects and history and potential solutions to it.

Once these processes have been identified, their potential effect on future climate change needs to be taken into account.»

Kjellstrom, T., A. J. Butler, R. M. lucas, and R. Bonita, 2010: Public health impact of global heating due to climate change: Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

The federal auditors found that the federal government has not undertaken strategic government - wide planning to manage climate risks by using information on the potential economic effects of climate change to identify significant risks and craft appropriate federal responses.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.

For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador's mountainous capital have been studying the effects of global warming on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways of dealing with potential water shortages and even organizing conferences on climate change for leaders of other Latin American cities.

So even if the State comments had properly considered the real effect of climate change on extreme weather events instead of the inappropriate total cost of a storm, there are a legitimate range of potential outcomes --(15 % more intense to 3 % more intense).

Favourite plays include hyper - focus on one, extremely speculative study (T&S 09); misrepresenting the potential for abrupt cooling in the C21st, dismissing the dominance of the centennial forced trend, misrepresenting deglacial abrupt climate change; grossly over-stating the accuracy and utility of pre-CERES TOA reconstructions (especially the synthetic, non-observational ISCCP - FD reconstruction); hyper - focus on interannual OHC variability; confusion of cause and effect with long - term trends in OHC (CO2 forcing denial) and general inability to see that natural variability from now on will be riding up a forced trend which will increasingly dominate climate behaviour.

Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneClimate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal beneclimate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11

Research in primary care and the study of environmental influences on health, including the potential effects of climate change and the health co-benefits of the low carbon economy.

While the GCC distributed a «backgrounder» to politicians and media in the early 1990s claiming «The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» a 1995 GCC internal memo drafted by Mobil Oil (which merged with Exxon in 1998) stated that: «The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and can not be denied.»

The SEC is alerting registrants to the increasing importance of climate change - related regulation and the potential effects of that regulation on companies» operations and financial performance.

On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate changOn the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate changon our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.

Uncertainty in these projections due to potential future climate change effects on the ocean carbon cycle (mainly through changes in temperature, ocean stratification and marine biological production and re-mineralization; see Box 7.3) are small compared to the direct effect of rising atmospheric CO2 from anthropogenic emissions.

FIGURE 2.10 Potential effects of changes in temperature distribution on extremes: a) effects of a simple shift of the entire distribution toward a warmer climate; b) effects of an increased temperature variability with no shift of the mean; and c) effects of an altered shape of the distribution, in this example an increased asymmetry toward the hotter part of the distribution.

Justin Gillis is taking reader questions on the potential effects of climate change on the global food supply and will respond this week on the Green blog.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health has launched a research program that will examine the potential effects of climate change on health.

Final results from the first phase of PCIC's Hydrologic Impacts research program with BC Hydro have been published, the culmination of four years of collaborative work aimed at better understanding the potential effects of climate variability and change on BC water resources.