Sentences with phrase «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.

Until this study, with few exceptions, studies of potential effects of climate change in the Amazon have focused on forests and other organisms on land,» says Kirk Winemiller, a professor in the wildlife and fisheries sciences department of Texas A&M University in the US, and one of the authors.

Potential effects of climate change on human health include higher rates of respiratory and heat - related illness, increased prevalence...

New research predicts California droughts will worsen: Future droughts in California are likely to bite deeper and last longer than the one now gripping the state, according to new research into the potential effects of climate change...

McKibben, whose 1989 book The End of Nature detailed the potential effects of climate change and remains one of the most influential environmental books of all time, believes that 350 ppm is attainable.

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.

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.

The proposed increases also reflect the Obama administration's shift toward trying to take a more active role in mitigating the potential effects of climate change, said Lexi Shultz, public affairs director at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C. «We're facing a somewhat unprecedented threat because we, as a nation, don't have a handle on everything we need to do to protect ourselves from the effects of climate change.

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].

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.

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

The review revealed that climate change considerations have not yet been included in a majority of cases in the transportation planning process, especially with regard to adapting transportation systems to the potential effects of climate change.

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...

In others, potential effects of climate change are thoroughly mixed with effects of land use change, economic development, changes in technology, or other processes.

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 crop yield.

When Gregory turned the discussion to the potential effects of climate change and ways to combat them, Blackburn insisted that all potential remedies must be subject to short - term cost - benefit analysis.

Another potential effect of climate change is related to energy transport from surface waters to the seafloor [261], [262].

Coastal areas, floodplains, and water systems will all be affected by the changing climate, and it is vital that we understand the potential effects of climate change so businesses, farmers, ranchers, and the entire Nation can prepare for them now.

University of Arizona will host one of eight regional climate - science centers to help the federal government study the potential effects of climate change on natural resources and the environment.

Potential effects of this climate change are likely to include more variable weather.

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.

Before then, water planning in Victoria had been done with little consideration of the potential effects of climate change.

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.

There is plenty of debate surrounding the potential effects of climate change, but a new study published in the journal Ecology offers a glimpse into the future of meadow ecosystems in the face of global warming.

This Hub is part of a larger series devoted to Mark Lynas's 2008 classic on the potential effects of climate change, Six Degrees.

Compiling data from multiple sources results in a better grasp on the potential effects of climate change.