Sentences with phrase «presented by the climate»

Founded by co-chairs Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Thomas F. Steyer, the Risky Business Project examined the economic risks presented by climate change and opportunities to reduce them.

There are nine verticals of action to help fight climate change, presented by the Climate Collaborative.

Scottish and UK governments must work together to tackle the challenges presented by climate change and population growth, and to ensure there are enough people with the right skills to deliver our infrastructure.

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

The impacts on human development are presented by climate change models as uncertain.

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

I'm not trying to defend complex arguments that have been presented by climate scientists in many papers, like the review paper of Knutti and Hegerl.

The argument continually presented by the climate scientists there is high risk it will be catastrophic and is «it's worse than we thought».

At the Copenhagen conference in December 2009 the Director of the U.S. Navy Task Force on Climate Change, Rear Admiral David Titley gave a somber assessment of the risks presented by climate change, including the likely need for greater humanitarian and disaster relief missions, and the dangers posed by such «wild cards» as ocean acidification and rising sea levels.

IEA welcomes Task Force recommendations to disclose climate change risks with scenario analysis The IEA welcomes the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures that aim to help businesses disclose the risks and opportunities presented by climate change 15 December 2016

It stresses that investors are concerned with the risks presented by climate change to regional and global economies and to individual assets.

The Economic Case for U.S. Climate Action: Views from Congress and the Private Sector Friday, November 10th 15:00 - 16:00 Fiji Dome Many leading U.S. companies, recognizing both the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change, see a strong business case for climate action and are investing in a low - carbon future.

My study on CAGW initially focused on a very specific aspect — data presentation bias / fraud in the climate data as presented by climate scientists to the public, the media and the policy makers.

... Why face the difficult truth presented by the climate science?

This apparent relationship contradicts the opinion presented by some climate studies that ENSO is only noise, that ENSO is only responsible for the major year - to - year wiggles in the global SST anomaly curve.

Rogoff says the state and the nation have an ideal opportunity now to respond to international challenges presented by climate change because the U.S. representative to the Arctic Council, retired Coast Guard Admiral Joseph Papp, is about to assume chairmanship of the council.

As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change says in Article 6, education contributes to the solutions being developed to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change.

Former Sen. John WarnerMore senators and citizens might support a climate bill if it emphasized the national security challenges presented by climate change, former Virginia Sen. John Warner (R) argued on Tuesday.

As more and more people understand what's at stake, they become a part of the solution, and share both in the challenges and opportunities presented by the climate crisis.»

The International Energy Agency welcomes the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures that aim to help businesses disclose the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

In contrast, the issues presented by climate change can not be solved by tweaks to facilities; it requires an energy revolution through investments in building clean - energy facilities.

Not exact matches

By Joachim Marc Christensen, Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network The COP21 in Paris is coming up and we are all hoping for an early Christmas present in the shape of an ambitious global climate deal.

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

The Fossil of the Day awards were first presented at the climate talks in 1999 in Bonn, initiated by the German NGO Forum.

After years of inaction by the old Progressive Conservative government, it is refreshing to have a government that believes in climate change and has actually presented a policy to address it.

Turning to present conditions, as of last week the Market Climate for stocks remained characterized by unusually unfavorable valuations but favorable market action.

As long as Christians seek to present a strong and vital testimony of their faith, they must know that the world of which they are a part is influenced by an atheistic climate.

One of the chief problems with Childs's approach — not usually discussed by scholars — is pedagogical and has to do with the present climate of Old Testament teaching.

Headed by the Rt Hon Greg Barker MP and Mary and Stella McCartney, the campaign encouraged people to pledge their support for a weekly meat free day, so that Greg Barker could present the results at the UN Climate Summit to show the magnitude of support — in just two weeks, tens of thousands of pledges.

Coffee Professionals Festival 2017 (arranged by Nestlé Professional) September 28, 2017 - Stockholm, Sweden Marcus Schaefer of the Rainforest Alliance's Markets Transformation and Communications team in Sweden, will host a booth and will be presenting a session on climate change, coffee and climate smart agriculture.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

The tone was set by speakers such as Sue Cohen of the Single Parent Action Network who condemned the government for «riding on a climate of bigotry towards lone parents created by the last Tory government», and Marion Davis of One Plus, the major one parent organisation in Scotland, who pointed out that «the present government is looking towards the US» and asked «Do we really want to live in a society where lone mothers have to queue up at soup kitchens as they do in the US?»

President Buhari expressed his administration's readiness to embrace several opportunities presented by the challenges posed by climate change.

The United States» top independent science experts have blessed a draft Obama administration climate science report — left behind for the Trump administration to finish — that presents a strong contrast to inaccurate scientific claims by the current president's top environmental official.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in NClimate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nclimate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

Janeway said without significant intervention to curb global warming, climate scientists report that by 2100, the Adirondack Park's climate will resemble present - day Richmond, Virginia.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

In his latest book, New York 2140 (Orbit Books, 2017), the acclaimed novelist Kim Stanley Robinson presents a dark - but - hopeful vision for humanity a dozen decades from now, on an Earth radically altered by climate change.

Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

«By understanding past climate transitions, we can better understand the present, and predict impacts for the future.»

In half of the articles, participants were presented a negative message that read, in part: «However, most conservative leaders and Republican politicians believe that so - called climate change is vastly exaggerated by environmentalists, liberal scientists seeking government funding for their research and Democratic politicians who want to regulate business.»

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

Researchers accounted for human influence on climate by estimating the present - day chances of Harvey's rainfall totals and then comparing them with 1950s greenhouse gas levels.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

Fred Pearce's review of Windfall by McKenzie Funk presents us with selfish businesses looking forward to climate change so long...

By understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats changBy understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats changby understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats change.

Given that we now have several years more data, we can essentially «test» the IPCC predictions and we arrive at the conclusion (i.e., message 1) that the climate system is tracking the «worst case scenario» (or worse in the case of ice melt and sea - level rise) presented by the IPCC.

These results have been presented in Nature Communications by an international collaboration led by the US Geological Survey and members from seven countries, including Scott Wilson at the Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC) at Umeå University in Sweden.