Sentences with phrase «process in changing the climate»

Atmospheric «loss to space was a significant, if not dominant, process in changing the climate,» says MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Meanwhile all G - 7 countries except the U.S. — which was «in the process» of reviewing its Climate Change policies — reiterated their desire to uphold the Paris Agreement.

«At the same time, we will continue to resolutely be a protector and promoter of the global climate system process, proactively participating in the multilateral climate change process,» Hua said.

The First Ministers» Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to develop a national climate strategy.

Climate change: the fossil fuels we consume in our value chain process to operate our facilities, manufacture our products, and transport them to our customers, creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate Climate change: the fossil fuels we consume in our value chain process to operate our facilities, manufacture our products, and transport them to our customers, creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate climate change.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

The impacts of climate change will be countered by greater investment in Research and Development to boost productivity and international food production and processing competitiveness.

Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement on climate change could result in a global leadership void and empower China in the process, the world's largest polluter ahead of the U.S.

His schedule includes stops such as a peace vigil in Saratoga, the Troy farmers market, a discussion on climate change at Cornell University and the picket line outside Mott's apple - processing plant in Wayne County.

«Models are used to predict how soil processes change, for example, in response to climate change,» said Steve Allison, coauthor from the University of California, Irvine.

The new study «demonstrates that climate change can remobilize POPs stored in water, snow, ice and presumably soils — and that this process is already occurring in the Arctic region,» he wrote in an essay accompanying the new study.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

The IMO process differs from the international climate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasclimate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasClimate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case last week.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

We already know that climate change has a hold on Earth's surface processes, such as erosion and fluctuations in sea levels... but do surface processes in turn have an influence on volcanic activity?

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

«These experiments will enable us to further test and refine the underlying processes in the CORPSE model and should lead to improved predictions of the role of plant - soil interactions in global climate change,» Sulman said.

Beyond that, there's a huge economic opportunity in environmental improvement and tackling climate change, by saving money on existing processes and products.

We achieved that by tapping the energy in fossil fuels, in the process turning a carrying capacity problem into a climate change problem.

But to speed up the process, in light of the urgency needed to tackle transportation emissions and mitigate climate change, policy intervention may be required.

Human - induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns, and historically, climate shifts have led to shifts in the geographic ranges of many taxa.

«If we can modulate these processes in the root, we can make roots stronger and better fixed, and therefore more resistant to the challenges of climate change,» says Ana Caño Delgado.

«The evolutionary consequences of climate change are one of our greatest areas of uncertainty because empirical data addressing this issue are extraordinarily rare; this study is a tremendous step forward in our understanding of how climate change can influence evolutionary process and ultimately species biodiversity,» said Ryan Kovach, a University of Montana study co-author.

Now researchers say they have actually found a way to make such a scheme work with forests across the desert — and to slow climate change in the process.

Using carbon dioxide to pump out more fossil fuels — and permanently storing the gas in the process — might sound counterproductive to limiting climate change because those fuels, when burned, put more CO2 into the atmosphere.

In global climate change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann saiIn global climate change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann saiin particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann said.

Although the process is energy - and water - intensive, there is hope it could play a role in reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and minimizing the impact of climate change on the rest of the world.

Photosynthesis — the process green plants use to convert energy from the sun that plants use to grow — from tropical forests, plays a huge role in determining global atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is closely linked the global temperature and rate of climate change.

Our belief that science is the best tool to combat perils such as climate change should not be rooted in a vision of the process as infallible.

«It suggests that similar underlying processes drive how natural systems respond to climate change and provides a glimpse of what could be in store for the future.»

Climate change has moved from being a predominantly physical phenomenon to being a social one, in the process reshaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth.

This process of glacial equilibrium can be sparked by changes in climate but then assume a life of its own.

«The change in flux described by our model happens over extremely long time periods, and it would be a mistake to think that these processes that are bringing about any of the atmospheric changes are occurring due to anthropomorphic climate change,» he said.

The human impact on climate during this era greatly exceeds that due to known changes in natural processes, such as solar changes and volcanic eruptions.»

The research may force a re-examination of the role of acidity in atmospheric chemistry, especially where it affects key processes in climate change models.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

The outcomes of the study reveal the complexity of the processes shaping climate change in the Arctic and point to significant spatial and chronological variances in sea ice cover.

Seminar chair and ThinkForest president Göran Persson sounded a note of caution about the COP21 process, saying that perhaps the United Nations framework is not a practical tool, despite its important and good work in keeping climate change on the agenda.

This information can be used in design, maintenance, and management processes of civil infrastructure considering extreme events and climate change.»

In the process, they seem to have convinced themselves that they are the keepers of the Enlightenment spirit, and that those who disagree with them on issues like climate change are fundamentally irrational.

We want our climate model to be representative of the processes going on, in order to be predictive of how carbon storage responds to global change.»

The finding, detailed in the Jan. 22 issue of the journal Nature, suggests that this process could be important to more accurately modeling how Greenland will respond to climate change and contribute to the already 8 inches of global sea level rise since 1900.

Evaluating Climate Policy The extended, step - by - step process by which governments established the WTO is only just starting in the field of climate Climate Policy The extended, step - by - step process by which governments established the WTO is only just starting in the field of climate climate change.

This is the conclusion of a report that reviews the results obtained from the implementation of the forest simulation model GOTILWA +, a tool to simulate forest growth processes under several environmental conditions and to optimize Mediterranean forests management strategies in the context of climate change.

To this end, the SuMaRiO researchers developed a system that supports decision - making processes by enabling politicians to evaluate the consequences of different farming alternatives based on future changes in climate.

«Britain has been very influential in taking Europe along that process, and it has been, I think, the greatest force for change on climate change in the world,» said King.

To date, Singer and Michaelides have used it to identify real climate change over a broad region, but they are in the process of coupling STORM to a runoff model to explore scenarios of climate change and how they might really affect the magnitude and the frequency of runoff.