Sentences with phrase «produced by climate change»

Here is an example of an interbedded sand - shale sequence produced by climate change: The Late Glacial and The Younger Dryas - Preboreal boundary.
The rising temperatures produced by climate change are increasingly melting this ice.

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«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.
The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.
The US Global Change Research Program is required by statute to produce the comprehensive National Climate Assessment report on climate change impacts on the United States every four Change Research Program is required by statute to produce the comprehensive National Climate Assessment report on climate change impacts on the United States every fourClimate Assessment report on climate change impacts on the United States every fourclimate change impacts on the United States every four change impacts on the United States every four years.
How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?
Kangaroos emit a fraction of the methane produced by sheep and cows, making them a much better choice for the climate - change conscious, Mr Ampt said.
The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.
Disturbingly, a few mistakes were also recently uncovered in the second of the climate research reports produced in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future eclimate research reports produced in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future eClimate Change; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future efChange; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future eclimate change and forecasts future efchange and forecasts future effects.
Nearly all the power produced around the world depends on steady water supplies, which are imperiled by overuse and a changing climate
The handful of climate - related cables — among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle - blower organization Wikileaks — show the United States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy relationship with the oil - producing giant
Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.
Future permafrost distribution probabilities, based on future climate scenarios produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), were also estimated by the USGS scieclimate scenarios produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), were also estimated by the USGS scieClimate Change (IPCC), were also estimated by the USGS scientists.
The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.
The researchers» predictions of the problems each country would face were based on climate change models produced by Austra - lia's national research organisation, the CSIRO.
The electricity is often produced by burning fossil fuels, and the refrigerant gases also exacerbate climate change.
The Climate Change Vulnerability Index was produced by Maplecroft, a British risk analysis firm.
He points out that globally, companies are also seeking geological structures with good seal, which can store CO2, helping to mitigate climate change and produce more oil by EOR.
The researchers are calling for guidelines produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the world's main authority on species that are at risk of extinction, to be updated to include cautionary messages on some methodologies of climate change risk assessment.
So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.
Along with data from the few studies like Yokelson's, Wiedinmyer used guidelines for calculating trash burning emissions produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine how much waste was being generated and burned, what exactly was in that waste, and what types of chemicals were likely generated.
November 30, 2006, When It Warms, It Pours: Climate Change Produces Fewer but More Extreme Monsoon Rains, by David Biello.
There is a small minority, including people like Gene Koprowski, marketing director at the Heartland Institute, which has consistently produced research challenging the science behind climate change, who have called into question the pope's wisdom in taking up the issue, even suggesting that he was inspired by «pagan remnants.»
Saving the whales has proven a benefit to the marine environment, including helping storage of the greenhouse gases produced by burning oil that are changing the global climate.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unClimate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unaChange, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unclimate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unachange models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.
«(6) based on the findings of the Administrator under this section, as well as assessments produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United States Global Change Research program, and other relevant scientific entities --
To investigate if this would affect social recognition in fish, schools were kept under elevated levels of carbon dioxide, similar to those projected for 2100 by models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
A new report produced by numerous scientists says climate change can set back health standards by up to 50 years.
Or it could be that methane variations are mostly produced by wetland emission, driven by climate change as well as land use decisions, according to another set of papers.
The reconstruction produced by Dr. Mann and his colleagues was just one step in a long process of research, and it is not (as sometimes presented) a clinching argument for anthropogenic global warming, but rather one of many independent lines of research on global climate change.
Using a super-ensemble of regional climate model simulations from the climateprediction.net experiment, we will determine how the carbon produced by these major industrial entities is contributing to the damages from climate change.
The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.
Standard experiments, agreed upon by the climate modelling community to facilitate model intercomparison (see Section 8.1.2.2), have produced archives of model output that make it easier to track historical changes in model performance.
Changes in atmospheric chemistry produced naturally and by humans, behavior of abrupt climate change events in the atmosphere; multiple controls on climate and the unique role of human impact.
IIRC, the authors were perturbed by the fact that small changes in the input - value mix of the model produced large differences in the rate of climate change.
In 1965, it was announced that «By the year 2000 the increase in atmospheric CO2... may be sufficient to produce measurable and perhaps marked changes in climate
Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the cClimate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climateclimate.
In the tradition of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, this Leonardo DiCaprio produced 2016 film attempts once again to sound the alarm about climate change by drawing attention to some areas of the world that are poised to be most affected in the coming years.
Another threat, environmental, is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change that tends to produce serious impact on economic activities and increased social problems of mankind.
Bring the climate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeclimate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepenchange discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeClimate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepenChange Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeclimate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepenchange, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdependence.
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Eufemia worked on Climate Change, a set of recommendations produced by the E4E - New York Teacher Policy Team on School Climate and Student Discipline.
The reports are produced by committees of the nation's top scientists, engineers, and other experts who are convened to address key scientific and technical aspects of climate change and other topics.
As explained on page 42 of The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson, «carbon intensity is a measure of how much fossil fuel it takes to produce a certain amount of economic output.»
Knutson et al project future changes in Atlantic TC behavior by using a regional climate model (RCM) which produces tropical cyclones (though ones that are too weak — see discussion below) to «downscale» climate change impacts.
-- A Guardian article by Greg Harmon from 2014: «Your brain on climate change: why the threat produces apathy, not action.»
In fact, these past climate changes allow us to learn how sensitive the earth's climate system is to the known radiative forcing that we are producing by increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Raising livestock contributes to climate change and environmental degradation in other ways as well: it takes far more grain and land to produce a calorie of food for humans by feeding grains to animals than directly to people.
And talk passionately about the basic facts in public: climate changes (expressed as the wacky and destructive weather that has become so common) are caused by the global warming produced by having too much greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere.
Facts are that the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change is being largely ignored, and more and more so, by the world's leaders and elites, who want us all to just go on producing, buying and consuming ever more and more — as if that was possible.
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