Sentences with phrase «responding to climate change will»

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.

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As the Global Corruption Report explores at length, the efforts to prevent and respond to climate change will have an enormous price tag.

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Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian «s Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation: There may be ways of fixing [the current....

Lawmakers on the Senate Democratic Policy Group today will hold a forum on climate change in order to assess how the state can respond to the issue.

«We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,» Obama said to cheers.

Understanding the importance of these indirect effects, in comparison to the direct effects, will improve our understanding of how ecosystems respond to climate change.

He predicts climate change advocacy campaigns will continue to navigate changes to the digital media landscape and will most likely continue utilizing heavily visual media to promote their advocacy efforts supporting polices to respond to climate change.

This would provide valuable data that could be used to more accurately model how Australia's more than 11,000 beaches are changing, and predict how they will respond as climate change sets in.

These insights can be useful, he said, for understanding how marine life will respond to climate change and for predicting the movements of species for which tracking data are lacking.

To understand how global carbon in soils will respond to climate change, the authors stress, more data are needed from under - and nonrepresented regions, especially the Arctic and the tropicTo understand how global carbon in soils will respond to climate change, the authors stress, more data are needed from under - and nonrepresented regions, especially the Arctic and the tropicto climate change, the authors stress, more data are needed from under - and nonrepresented regions, especially the Arctic and the tropics.

From a practical point of view, this means we will be unable to predict how species will respond to projected climate changes over next century.

Their findings could help scientists understand how tropical forests will respond to global climate change.

Species have begun to respond to current climate warming, but it remains unclear whether such changes will lead to persistence or decline.

Dr Ellis says the impact on different sexes should be properly assessed in all aquatic animals to accurately predict how populations will respond to climate change.

«This has important implications for how rainforests will respond to climate change, which is often predicted to reduce overall rainfall making it harder for fungi to spread.

Understanding that species can evolve rapidly to local climates is important for predicting how invasive species spread and how native and non-native species alike will respond to climate change.»

«The idea is that we can quantify materials in a sample of water that will give us a base line of how the ocean responds to climate change and ocean acidification,» Gallager said.

We need to take into account not only the direct impact of climate change, but also how people will respond to such change — the impact of adaptation.

Climate change is predicted to threaten many species with extinction, but determining how species will respond in the future is difficult.

Climate change is expected to increase the intensity of winds over the Southern Ocean throughout the next century, and the new findings show that Totten Glacier will probably respond to the changing winds.

The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material.

The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how plants and animals will respond to global climate change and highlight the need to slow and prevent further warming.

Over time, Richardson hopes the resulting trove of color data will help scientists understand — and better predict — how ecosystems like the Harvard Forest respond to changes in the climate.

However, our Review (1) considers abundant evidence that corals do and will respond evolutionarily to climate change, because they are living things.

And for another, the previous studies estimate that Earth's climate will rapidly respond to the changes.

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.

«Because symbioses are so common, understanding how symbiotic species interact and how they evolve will tell us a lot about ecosystems and how they will respond to climate change.»

These findings emerge from collaboration between researchers across Europe working to forecast how European wildlife will respond to climate change, as part of the BiodivERsA network.

A new study suggests some of Antarctica's ice sheet grows from the bottom up, adding a new wrinkle to efforts to predict how the continent's glaciers will respond to climate change.

«The new work improves our understanding of history, allowing better model tests and allowing better assessment of how the ice responded to climate changes in the past,» Alley said, «and this will help in making better and more - reliable projections for the future.»

«Now we need to improve predictions of how methane - producing microbial communities will respond to climate change.

By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».

Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate - driven extinction, or to predict its consequences for ecosystems.

Getting the basic data should help scientists to better understand how Antarctic clouds will respond to a changing climate, Russell says.

But our results show that we need to take into account the evolutionary dynamics of a species if we want to predict how it will respond to climate change.»

The topographic complexity of Central Appalachia supports some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world and creates many microclimates that will respond to global climate change in very local ways.

Studying how ecosystems respond and adapt to changes can help us understand what will happen in the face of species extinction due to human encroachment and climate change.

New research by the University of Montana and its partner institutions gives insight into how forests globally will respond to long - term climate change.

Despite considerable interest, we still have a lot to learn about BC salmon — factors that determine juvenile survival during migration, susceptibility to disease, as well as how the six salmon species will respond to climate change stressors.

If we can understand how reptiles responded to climate change in the past, we can better predict how climate change will affect reptiles now.

It will help researchers collaborate in studies of how to respond to climate change,» said Dr. Allison Thomson, PNNL scientist and the lead research author.

This data will prompt NASA and scientists in the community to conduct field experiments to predict how carbon - absorbing systems respond to climate change.

It also illustrates how the diverse ecosystem services rendered by the coasts are being subjected to increasing pressure, and profiles measures that will be necessary in the future to respond effectively to the threats from both climate change and natural disasters.

We also do not understand how monsoon rainfall will respond to changes in emissions of pollutants or to climate change.

The paper is one of the outputs from the Ice2Sea programme, an international venture managed by the British Antarctic Survey to improve understanding of how land - based ice will respond to climate change.

Much is known regarding how forest ecosystems will respond to climate change, even amid the uncertainties.

Markus Rex summarizes the global importance of the research: «To understand how the monsoon will respond to human emissions of pollutants and to climate change is obviously of crucial importance for the countries directly affected by iTo understand how the monsoon will respond to human emissions of pollutants and to climate change is obviously of crucial importance for the countries directly affected by ito human emissions of pollutants and to climate change is obviously of crucial importance for the countries directly affected by ito climate change is obviously of crucial importance for the countries directly affected by it.

The new findings stem from an analysis that links a widely - used framework for projecting how sea level around the world will respond to climate change to a model that accounts for recently identified processes contributing to Antarctic ice loss.

That's partly because different plants and animals will respond differently to threats like disease, pests, or climate change, but also because if one plant or animal falls victim to such challenges, others will be there to fill the hole left behind, helping to prevent the entire system from collapsing.