Sentences with phrase «responding to climate»

The team brings evidence that the sinks are responding to climate change and variability.

«It was a surprise that life had been invisibly responding to climate change for more than a decade below one of the most obviously visible impacts of climate change: the «blueing» poles,» Barnes said in a news release.

Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan said, «The Hudson Valley is well poised to be a model in responding to climate change.

Staudt, A., N. Huddleston, and I. Kraucunas, Understanding and Responding to Climate Change 2008, The National Academy of Sciences USA: Washington, D.C.

As these are «humanitarian challenges,» I wonder how responding to climate change differs from responding to the other issues on the list.»

Although environmentalists argue that they are responding to climate change, it is transparently the case that catastrophe is the premise of climate politics, and more significantly, it is the premise of any scientific research which posits a necessary relationship between climate change and the social - effects of climate change.

by Sophie Yeo, www.rtcc.org (Responding to Climate change.org), September 25, 2013.

IceBridge is a six - year campaign to survey and monitor areas of Earth's polar ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice and how they are responding to climate change.

Well, we can all agree that adaptation is a Good Thing, and is likely a good way of responding to climate change.

The failure of nations to consider act on what equity and justice requires of them to reduce the threat of climate change has been at the very center of the most contentious disputes in international climate negotiations (See, Brown, 2013, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity).

Thus, each of these glaciers is definitively responding to the climate of the last 30 years.

Decision makers in both public and private sectors can benefit from an iterative risk management framework for responding to climate change, in which decisions and policies can be revised in light of new information and experience.

As we have seen, in the first two entries in this series, the new book edited by sociologists Dunlap and Brulle includes information on how participants in the denial countermovement have prevented governments from responding to climate change by undermining the scientific basis on which claims about the urgent need to take action.

(See On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.)

In the second article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Turkey's rising emissions and its... Read More

(see On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.)

Responding to Climate Change in New York State: The ClimAID Integrated Assessment for Effective Climate Change Adaptation in New York State, C. Rosenzweig, W. Solecki, A. DeGaetano, M. O'Grady, S. Hassol, and P. Grabhorn, Eds., New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), 225 - 298.

Responding to Climate Change in New York State: The ClimAID Integrated Assessment for Effective Climate Change Adaptation in New York State, C. Rosenzweig, W. Solecki, A. DeGaetano, M. O'Grady, S. Hassol, and P. Grabhorn, Eds., Blackwell Publishing, 649.

Several local and national organizations responding to climate disruption are found within blocks of Climate One, sharing ideas and collaborating on solutions with innovation, optimism, and determination.

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

With much of Western Palmer Land's ice mass lying well below sea level it is important to monitor how remote areas such as this, are responding to climate change.

And then there's the article authored by a third UN bureaucrat over at the activist Responding to Climate Change website, headlined:

Her butterfly study got her a spot on the UN climate panel, where she got «a quick and hard lesson on the politics» when policy makers killed the words «high confidence» in the crucial passage that said scientists had high confidence species were responding to climate change.

But if most of your trees are not responding to climate, the whole enterprise is undermined.

Responding to climate change requires that we break every rule in the free - market playbook and that we do so with great urgency.

• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research

(viii) the implications for communities vulnerable to health effects of climate change, as well as strategies for responding to climate change within these communities; and

Indeed, we are firm in our belief that the IPCC is a unique and valuable institution that can continue to break new ground in providing the world with information critical to responding to climate change.

In order to give flora and fauna the best chance of responding to climate change by migration, Moritz, like Colwell, is in favour of protecting areas across elevational gradients to maintain ecological integrity.

America's WETLAND Foundation Restore - Adapt - Mitigate: Responding To Climate Change Through Coastal Habitat Restoration PDF Coastal habitats are being subjected to a range of stresses from climate change; many of these stresses are predicted to increase over the next century The most significant effects are likely to be from sea - level rise, increased storm and wave intensity, temperature increases, carbon dioxide concentration increases, and changes in precipitation that will alter freshwater delivery.....

Until this is done, little progress is possible in many of the major issues in climate science, and no further expenditures should be made responding to climate alarmism until the new methodology has been thoroughly tested and the basic surface temperature data has been reconstituted in a useful form.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

Establishing marine protected areas would allow species to recover from overexploitation; higher numbers would give their populations and gene pools more resilience in responding to climate changes.»

This module focuese on climate change adaptation and mitigation, aiming to assist forest managers in assessing and responding to climate - change challenges and opportunities.

One month after 195 nations came together to sign a UN climate deal, the president led on the increasing isolation of climate change sceptics, and the economic opportunities afforded by responding to climate change.

Over time, the scope of the committee's work expanded to include all aspects of the natural climate system, the scientific underpinnings and varied impacts of forced climate change, and options and strategies for responding to climate change.

CRC members and staff also engaged in a variety of community outreach activities, such as the development of the booklet Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: Highlights of the National Academies Reports, of which over 200,000 copies have been disseminated.

It indicates that 86 % of global businesses surveyed described responding to climate risks or investing in adaptation as a business opportunity, and 83 % of companies stated that climate change impacts pose a risk to their products and service.

How are humans responding to the climate threat?

I would suggest some other dimensions to the problem of interpreting and responding to climate change science.

This article was first published by Responding to Climate Change as part of a week of forest stories.

Engineering will play a crucial role in responding to climate change.

Religion is more complex than any simplistic caricature, as shown in Veldman, Szasz, and Haluza - DeLay's recent book, How Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Scientific Investigations.

«The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World,» by Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha, in Twenty - First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge (Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin eds), Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008

That would reduce the urgency of responding to climate change and reducing CO2 emissions, but it would not diminish the case for policy intervention.

My interpretation of this is that if the security and intelligence communities want to get serious about anticipating and responding to climate - related factors they shouldn't create special divisions that deal with climate.

On a tough issue like clarifying and responding to climate change, there's no single go - to expert.

Because responding to climate change will require long - term investment in infrastructure, research and mitigation, we need an economic environment that is sufficiently consistent to reward such investment.

Responding to climate change provides opportunities to improve human health and well - being across many sectors, including energy, agriculture, and transportation.

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