In their prediction of future climate, many IPCC models did not consider the expected ozone recovery and
its potential impacts on climate change.
Its authors state the case explicitly — «Agriculture, through meat production, is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gases and thus has
a potential impact on climate change» — and anticipate that it will take «a long campaign... and incentives to meat producers and consumers» to change what and how we eat.
If any of the research results looked to have
a potential impact on climate change policy (where perhaps trillions of dollars could ultimately be at stake), I would have expedited the CDR process.
SEC definitely needs to modernize financial disclosures to include
potential impact on climate change.
Not exact matches
The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups
on ongoing or
potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the
impact their business had
on climate change.
«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks
on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the
climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and
potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.
In this article, we investigate trends in global coffee distributions and cultivation practices, and we review the
potential impacts of these geographic and management changes
on biodiversity, ecosystem services, resilience to
climate change, and sustainable livelihoods.
Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower
impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive
impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is
potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of
climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.
David Cameron betrayed anxiety about the coincidence — and its
impact on potential Ukip supporters opposed to overseas aid or sceptical of
climate change — by refusing to say how much Britain is likely to offer and stressing the funding would come from existing government funds.
She is also CEO of ATMOS Research, a scientific consulting firm that assesses the
potential future
impacts of
climate change
on ecosystems and human welfare.
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.
Nadeau also studies the
potential impacts of
climate change
on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative
impacts of
climate change
on animal populations.
Although the draft decision expresses «its utmost concern» regarding the
impacts of
climate change
on the World Heritage reefs, any action is delayed by a call «to further study the current and
potential impacts of
climate change» for possible action when the committee meets in 2018.
The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research
on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track
climate change and to assess
potential impacts.
«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the
potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the
impacts of
climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report
on global warming this year.
Climate Interactive, meanwhile, wants to enable people to follow INDCs — and their
potential impact on warming — in near real - time.
«The
potential impacts of
climate change
on the biodiversity of Norfolk Species» is published in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists» Society.
Stories
on the
potential impact of
climate change in two localities and
on the secret lives of scientists and engineers are among the winners of the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.
The
impact of these events
on historical societal development emphasizes the
potential economic and social consequences of a future rise in sea levels due to global
climate change, the researchers write in the study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global
Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.
Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge
on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.
climate change, sea - level rise and is
potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing
on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both
climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.
climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»
The new evidence has the
potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater
impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from
climate history studies of ice cores suggests.
Failure to adapt to
climate change came fifth
on the WEF report's list of risks ranked by their
potential impact on humankind.
The pact, announced
on 30 November, will give scientists time to understand the region's marine ecology — and the
potential impacts of
climate change — before fishing becomes widespread.
I'm not saying that greenhouse gases isn't a player, but I'd like the IPCC and the
climate community to work towards understanding the other
potential causes of warming, before jumping to conclusions
on the
impact of greenhouse gases.
Potential impacts of a warming
climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.
This assessment of the
potential impacts of
climate change
on Montana agriculture is a starting point to identify and prioritize the aspects of agriculture that might be most
impacted.
• Lead Author, «Technological and Economic
Potential of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, «Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Scenarios and Implications,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Member, IPCC Task Group
on Scenarios and Data for
Impacts and
Climate Analysis (1998 - present).
Regional analysis of the
impacts of
climate change
on cheatgrass invasion shows
potential risk and opportunity.
She was lead author for the chapter
on mitigation in the Third National
Climate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning dec
Climate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing
potential impacts of
climate change and informing long - term planning dec
climate change and informing long - term planning decisions.
This is due to the fact that it has the strongest
potential to warm the globe in the long - run based
on its long lifetime in the atmosphere (ranging from decades to centuries, and a tail end that extends to millennia, and with many
climate impacts occurring over these slow timescales).
AmazonFACE is particularly interesting to me due to my involvement in modelling studies, which suggested the
potential for very severe
impacts of
climate change
on the Amazon forests, even with CO2 fertilisation taken into account.
Bioclimatic -(or niche --RRB- based modelling has been widely used in the last ten years to predict the
potential impacts of
climate change
on species distributions all over the world [33].
The Agriculture chapter examines
potential impacts of projected
climate change
on commodity crops, livestock, pollinators, disease, pests, and weeds.
Forest conditions in Montana are varied, and
potential impacts from
climate change will overlay
on existing stresses to forests.
Future
impacts of
climate change
on marine fisheries have the
potential to negatively influence a wide range of socio - economic factors, including food security, livelihoods and public health, -LSB-...]
With support from the National Science Foundation, the
Climate Impact Lab is working to keep the projections framework up - to - date, building upon the latest science
on potential mechanisms that may destabilize large portions of the Antarctic ice sheet.
It includes information
on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, analytic methods and tools, GHG reduction strategies,
potential impacts of
climate change
on transportation infrastructure, and approaches for integrating
climate change considerations into transportation decision making.
The report provides transportation professionals with an overview of the scientific consensus
on current and future
climate changes of particular relevance to U.S. transportation, including the limitations of present scientific understanding as to their precise timing, magnitude, and geographic location; identifies
potential impacts on U.S. transportation and adaptation options; and, offers recommendations for both research and actions that can be taken to prepare for
climate change.
This paper assesses the
potential impact of
climate change
on the system - wide performance of transportation networks using the Boston Metro Area as a case study.
This paper will get a lot of attention, because it follows by a few months a paper from last summer, Whiteman et al (2013), which claimed a strong (and expensive)
potential impact from Arctic methane
on near - term
climate evolution.
The article provides a solid review of the recent developments in the science focusing
on potential climate change
impacts on tropical cyclones.
The
potential impacts of
climate change
on the Amazon forest must be a call to action to conserve the Amazon, not a reason to retreat in despair.
A scientific review article cited by both IPCC and Stern is T.P. Barnett, J.C. Adam and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005:
Potential impacts of a warming
climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.
Here we use a risk assessment framework to examine the
potential impact of El Nino events and natural variability
on rice agriculture in 2050 under conditions of
climate change, with a focus
on two main rice - producing areas: Java and Bali.
A simple top - down analysis, based
on global scale changes in carbon dioxide and methane, provides some insight into the
potential impact of U.S. shale gas production and displacement of coal
on global
climate.
The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the
potential for a human
impact on climate is based
on well - established scientific fact, and should not be denied.
Consequently, the department must complete a comprehensive assessment of all installations to assess the
potential impacts of
climate change
on its missions and adapt as required.
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.
June 16, 12:36 p.m. Updated Douglas Biesecker, a scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the leader of an international effort to chart and forecast trends in sunspots, has offered a detailed new critique of three lines of analysis predicting a long and deep lull in sunspot activity, with substantial
potential impacts on Earth's
climate (and
climate policy).
This line from the 2007 report's chapter
on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between
climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the
potential impact of
climate change
on malaria at local and global scales.»