Sentences with phrase «relationship with the climate»

ExxonMobil remains the industry benchmark for everything from profitability to safety standards, but its rocky relationship with climate change remains its Achilles» heel.

The sequencing of the oldest mammalian genome from an ancient polar bear jawbone provides clues about these animals» fraught relationship with climate change

Tillerson refused to answer questions from Kaine about Exxon's past and current relationship with climate change science.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

If society's goal is to build a sustainable relationship with the climate system — meaning a way of living that limits our impact on the climate and its impacts on our systems — we have a very long way to go.

It would be nice to see Laden focus more on topics that might actually help improve humanity's relationship with the climate system (here's one; here's another; here's another) instead of spending so much time attacking others pursuing that goal.

A more realistic view is that we need a new relationship with energy to go with our evolving new relationship with climate.

He's both wrong in how he portrays my views of climate science and, to my mind, failing to recognize there can be more than one approach — in communication, technology, politics and other arenas — aimed at a common goal: in this case improving humanity's intensifying two - way relationship with the climate system.

Ray Ladbury, for a combination of extreme weather events and their relationship with climate, see NOAA's CEI: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cei/cei.html Unfortunately, it is US only, and I know of no explicit attempt to determine its relationship with AGW specifically.

And Bill McKibben, the author and activist who's been exploring humanity's two - way relationship with climate in parallel with me since the 1980s, has different ways of characterizing the climate challenge than I do, and has chosen a different path toward achieving a sustainable human relationship with the climate.

The outcome that emerged in Paris, in contrast, is implicitly a century - long journey, with 195 countries pursuing a safer human relationship with the climate system, but taking varied paths at varied paces to get there.

In theory, the goal of the Paris talks over a new global climate agreement is to create a more sustainable human relationship with the climate system by curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and boosting poor countries» capacity to withstand climate shocks.

In an earlier post, we discussed a review article by Frohlich et al. on solar activity and its relationship with our climate.

I agree with her that there is plenty to debate, both on the science in tough areas like attribution and climate sensitivity and on what mix of incentives, investments, policies, communication efforts and other actions can build a more durable human relationship with the climate system.

Pramod Aggarwal, Regional Programme Leader for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under the Consortium of International Agricultural Centres (CGIAR), then gave a case study of the agriculture sector, presenting its complex two - way relationship with climate change.

One reality is that the agreement was always going to reflect, more than determine, whether the world develops a sustainable relationship with the climate system.

The US CLIVAR ENSO Diversity Working Group was formed to clarify, coordinate and synthesize research to achieve a better understanding of ENSO diversity, including surface and sub-surface characteristics, tropical - extratropical teleconnections, physical mechanisms predictability, and relationship with climate change.

The US CLIVAR ENSO Diversity Working Group was formed in 2012 to clarify, coordinate and synthesize research to achieve a better understanding of ENSO diversity, including surface and sub-surface characteristics, tropical - extratropical teleconnections, physical mechanisms predictability, and relationship with climate change.

Just three months before Shell withdrew from the Global Climate Coalition, Herkströter detailed his company's complex relationship with climate change by acknowledging the need for action while emphasizing fossil fuels as a large part of the solution.

We've flagged up Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband's relationship with climate activists before.

This analytical report aims to raise awareness of the various types of energy subsidies, their size and impact and the direct relationship with climate change and sustainable development.

The same hurricane damage database that is too small a sample to show a correlation with the Atlantic basin, annual total PDI is perfectly able to show a very strong statistical relationship with another climate index, the annual ASO Nino 3.4 temperature anomaly index.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

Not exact matches

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

The Climate Leadership Team will also advise Victoria on how the province can further its relationships with First Nations and local governments to achieve climate leadClimate Leadership Team will also advise Victoria on how the province can further its relationships with First Nations and local governments to achieve climate leadclimate leadership.

«We anticipate that our traditionally strong relationship with the city and state will continue as long as the state maintains an attractive business climate,» he said.

At the time, Alibaba said it was «very disappointed» with the decision and insinuated it was «influenced by the current political climate» following the election of President Donald Trump, who has criticized the current trade relationship between the two nations.

Such events can gradually transform the climate of relationships of an ordinary class or couples group, infusing it with a richer sense of belonging and mutual growth support.

To address supply chain challenges posed by extremely perishable items such as bananas and by extremes in climate and weather, Class Produce maintains relationships with hundreds of growers.

In an article posted on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both food production and food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.

«We feel that the keys to being effective in today's business climate and delivering the results our clients are entitled to are derived when focus, responsiveness and relationships with our customers are coupled with department acumen, manageable workloads and alignment to department needs,» he says.

Read more about the history of chiles in America, and their tenuous relationship with biodiversity and climate change in Chasing Chiles, available at Amazon.

Trump has Appointed a conservative to the Supreme Court Pushed to repeal and replace Obamacare Rolled back onerous regulations that have stifled growth Re-established the broken relationship with Israel Begun the process of building the wall by requesting designs Withdrawn from the odious Paris Climate accords,

His close relationship with Russia, his coolness on Nato, his protectionist trade policies and his dismissal of climate change, all make it incredibly difficult to spot where the British interest in being close to him lies.

He promised an in - out referendum on an uncertain renegotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU that leaves more questions than answers and creates a climate of uncertainty for investors.

«Governor Cuomo's climate and environmental leadership now appears a cynical sham to cover up his administration's relationship with fossil fuel interests like CPV.

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

It was not until 1976 that a paper published in Science by John A. Eddy of Saginaw Valley State University renewed interest in the sun - climate relationship with a comprehensive analysis of many different historical records of solar observation.

Discussions dealing with ocean - climate coupling concentrated on ocean - atmosphere variability in the Atlantic and its relationship to European climate.

Jeremy Hess, an Emory University physician and epidemiologist who has studied the relationship between climate change and health conditions, said in an email that the WHO findings are «a significant step forward in the global estimation of projected disease burden associated with climate change.»

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Fisheries and marine resource economics with variety of topics including bioeconomics, climate change, international trade, trans - boundary conservation, and rights - based management with emphasis in examining the complexities and relationships between the ocean, fish, fishermen, markets and policies.

Previous efforts to link Western wildfires with climate change have hinted at a profound relationship but led to unconvincing results, largely because long lists of factors influence ignition and wildfire properties.

We took a routine forecast of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) for the next six months from our climate model, combined this with observed SSTs from the previous six months, and applied the statistical relationship to give us our forecast.

That is because, as I stated, I disagree with BC17's fundamental assumption that the relationship of future warming to certain aspects of the recent climate that holds in climate models necessarily also applies in the real climate system.

Fellows will work with local government agencies, civil society groups, and universities to discuss regional impacts of climate change and energy policy, and develop relationships for continued multi-lateral cooperation.

Some of the strategies the report suggests include conducting a survey of the school climate, cultivating student leadership to address troubling aspects of the school's climate, building student's capacity for empathy and self - regulation and their commitment to the common good, and ensuring that all students have a positive relationship with an adult mentor.

Building strong relationships with students is definitely key to helping them understand who they are and build resilience in our current climate.

Although Benveniste, Carnoy, and Rothstein provided little information on how the schools were chosen or how data were collected and analyzed, it is clear that they looked at school organization, the learning climate, teaching methods, and relationships with parents.

This is an important decision, as classroom seating arrangements influence classroom climate and students» relationships with each other...,» they note.