Sentences with phrase «relationships impacting climate»

Not exact matches

Another area where today's business investments have a direct relationship to tomorrow's climate impacts is in long - term capital expenditures, which will live well into the middle of the century and beyond.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.

Snakes are ectotherms, so their relationship to climate is a lot more direct than, say, mammals, so we know [the climate impacts] in a much more straightforward way,» said Polly.

«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 results so far show only a correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered from the study is allowing scientists to improve climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its impacts on drought.

According to the NASA article, early studies on the impact humans had on global climate referred to the relationship as «inadvertent climate modification.»

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.

This booklet contains activities, statistics and information to explore the relationship between climate change and sustainability, the impact of single use plastics and the impact of our lifestyles of the lives of others around the world.

Researchers wanted to gauge how teachers» career attitudes were impacted by «administrative climate,» defined as the routine beliefs and actions associated with administrator - teacher relationships.

Delegates and other attendees heard from the World Health Organization about the powerful relationship between climate and health and the International Labor Organization on the need to consider impacts of climate (and climate policies) on workers.

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.

See Stowasser & Hamilton, Relationship between Shortwave Cloud Radiative Forcing and Local Meteorological Variables Compared in Observations and Several Global Climate Models, Journal of Climate 2006; Lauer et al., The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific — A Regional Model Study, Journal of Climate 2010.

We would argue that global climatic disruption will make these relationships even more crucial as the ever - escalating climate change impacts permeate issues of economic security, national and international security, national energy policy, environmental and natural resource management and protection, and so on.

Other priorities will be finance (especially funding to help developing countries to meet the cost of adapting to the impacts of climate change), and building closer relationships between them and the developed world.

Understanding the climate impact of natural atmospheric particles An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, has quantified the relationship between natural sources of particles in the atmosphere and climate change.

Lobell, D. B., and C. B. Field, 2007: Global scale climate - crop yield relationships and the impacts of recent warming.

This brochure underscores the relationship between the vision for global food security of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and climate change impacts.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

While the statistics of 30 - year (or longer) NAO trends and associated surface climate impacts can not be reliably determined from the short observational record, we have made use of a simple relationship between the statistics of trends of any length and the statistics of the interannual variability, provided the time series is Gaussian (Thompson et al. 2015).

The climate science is indisputable... the known physics requires that each tonne of new CO2 emissions will have a smaller impact than the previous tonne... there is no escaping the actual logarithmic relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global warming...

Over at wottsupwiththatblog Richard Tol says «There is no known relationship between climate (change) and violent conflict, so that the best impact estimate is zero.»

The main issues under discussion were the link between climate change and a eucalypped forest that produced the catastrophic fires of 2017, the threat of underwater mining in the Azores region, the impact of the new mechanisms of international trade (Multilateral Investment Court) in climatic injustice, the necessary relationship between combating climate change and promoting public transport, threats to the exploitation of fossil fuels in Portugal, alternative sources of energy and the migration process linked to climate change.

Here's a list of cause and effect relationships, showing that most climate change impacts will confer few or no benefits, but may do great harm at considerable cost.

The exhibit illustrates various aspects of the global plastic pollution problem, including impacts on both land and sea, humans and animals, as well as the relationship between plastic, the petrochemical industry, fossil fuels, and climate change.

Want to change your relationship with energy, making your own, renewable, local power while doing your part to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lessening the impacts of climate change?

Our concerns have been centered on one factor, our of many, of the total set of relationships that impact climate: greenhouse gases.

Moreover, as their task is to understand the impact of climate change on human society, we have argued that this process requires political and subjective precepts which assume a relationship between society and the climate / environment.

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

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 average person instinctively understands that cause - and - effect relationships exist but they don't think through the fact that most of the news stories about climate change impacts place the effect (disaster, potential disaster) before the cause (it has to get warmer first).

This policy document explores the relationship between climate change and poverty by examining the impact of climate change on 1) poor people's livelihoods and wellbeing, 2) the risk for non-poor people to fall into poverty and 3) the ability of poor people to escape poverty.

The badge looks at how our daily lives impact the Earth's climate and provides ideas on how individuals can take action to help make this close relationship more sustainable.

But given that such pieces have been written for decades, including by me, with little evident impact, there may be more value in examining our species» haltingly evolving relationship with the atmosphere and climate.

More than 170 leading artists and figures in Britain's art world have also written an open letter protesting the relationship, calling the BP logo «a stain on the Tate's international reputation» and corporate sponsorship a means by which companies can gain «social legitimacy» to distract the public «from their impacts on human rights, the environment and the global climate.»

In this sense, relationships between climate - change impacts and sustainable development (IPCC Working Group II) are linked with discussions of climate - change mitigation approaches (IPCC Working Group III).

Bangladesh's tumultuous relationship with the ocean looks set to continue in the future as climate change accelerates and widespread impacts begin to be felt.

Virtually all principals believe a stepped - up focus on SEL would: positively impact school climate, build citizenship, improve relationships between students and teachers, and decrease bullying.

We examined the impact of family emotional climate and sibling relationship quality on behavioral problems and adaptation in preschool - aged children.