Sentences with phrase «predicted future impacts of climate change»

During that time, he once described the predicted future impacts of climate change as «catastrophic» for most people on Earth.

Sea level rose faster in the 20th century than in any other century of the last 3,000 years, new methods for estimating future sea level rise and heat waves, consumers to blame for their carbon footprint, and new virtual forests predict future impacts of climate change.

Not exact matches

During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

«By doing this, we can better understand and predict the future of HABs and water safety in the Lake Erie community with the impact of changing climate and environmental factors.»

«To predict how climate change will impact the future, it's important to know what has happened in the past,» said Joshua Feinberg, a University of Minnesota associate professor of Earth Sciences and associate director of the Institute for Rock Magnetism, who supervised the research.

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

«The only way we can really predict how future climate change is going to impact different groups of animals is by looking at historical fossil records revealed to us.»

The study uses climate modelling to predict three possible futures - the low, medium and high impact scenarios, which describe the severity of outcomes that could be expected in a changed climate.

With climate change already impacting various parts of the world, scientists have started looking into Earth's past in order to better predict how it will affect our future.

You would think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided research with an analysis of the natural causes of climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.

Based on the estimated coefficients of mean temperatures in four regimes, we separate 78 cities into five areas with latitudes below 30 °, 31 ° -40 °, 41 ° -50 °, and 61 ° -70 °, and predict the impacts of future climate change on mortality for 2021 - 2040, 2041 - 2060, and 2061 - 2100.

Gaps in our understanding of climate response in the tropics and polar regions limit our ability to predict future climate change impacts in all areas.

These activities can be grouped under the following areas: improve our knowledge of Earth's past and present climate variability and change; improve our understanding of natural and human forces of climate change; improve our capability to model and predict future conditions and impacts; assess the Nation's vulnerability to current and anticipated impacts of climate change; and improve the Nation's ability to respond to climate change by providing climate information and decision support tools that are useful to policy makers and the general public.»

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?

While the body of scientific knowledge about climate change and its impacts has grown tremendously, future conditions can not be predicted with absolute certainty.

Indeed, uncertainties in predicting the regional details of future climate change that would arise from following these pathways, and the even greater uncertainties that attend any assessment of the impacts of such climate changes, preclude any credible assessment of the relative benefits.

The impact on our «understanding and attributing climate change» is major, of course: if up to 50 % of past warming can be attributed to solar forcing (as many solar studies have concluded) then the whole model - predicted (2xCO2) climate sensitivity estimates are in serious question and, with these, all the projections for future climate change caused by AGW.

The latest report by the IPCC, the international organization tasked with assessing the science of climate change and its impacts, predicts that in order to keep the increase in average global surface temperature under 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), total future CO2 emissions can not exceed 1 trillion tons.

This is a great challenge for Australia, if we are to predict future climate change impacts with any degree of confidence and be in a reasonable position to build resilience into natural and human systems.