Sentences with phrase «response to global warming»

While scientists can not trace specific events to climate change with absolute certainty, new and continued research help scientists understand how the probability of extreme events change in response to global warming.

Nonetheless, the ice - sheet response to global warming remains an area of what risk analysts call «deep uncertainty».

It is especially challenging with regard to the local / regional circulation response to global warming.

This book of research challenges readers to consider the costs and benefits of different responses to global warming.

I have long supported investing in research on this possible response to global warming but questioned its real - world prospects.

My research interests consist in understanding physical mechanisms underlying cloud responses to the global warming.

But which response to global warming will be best for the planet?

You essentially use the past and present climatic and social response to global warming to predict problems the world is likely to encounter in the future.

As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.

Each of these may change in response to global warming and might therefore act either to enhance or to suppress any temperature rise.

This farcical episode was a demonstration that, as far as responses to global warming are concerned, Kyoto is the only game in town.

The column, taking the «By Degrees» name from the paper's 2009 series on responses to global warming, won't capture everything that the closed Green blog covered, but demonstrates the paper's (and of course Justin's) commitment to this super wicked issue.

Humane effective responses to global warming with an ethical and moral foundation require difficult equitable resolutions of conflicting national situations generated by different per - capita emissions (historical, current, and future), economic development, and energy requirements.

The report is directly related to yesterday's post laying out the view of the country's leadership, as articulated by climate strategist Zou Ji, on the need to balance China's response to global warming with its need to sustain economic advancement.

Our Interfaith Power and Light campaign is mobilizing a religious response to global warming in congregations through the promotion of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and conservation.

Just because great climate flips can happen in response to global warming doesn't mean that they are the most probable outcome of our current situation, what one might «forecast» (that's one of the reasons why I've been careful not to «predict» a cooling in the next century).

Climate Change Solutions Fund Deadline: December 22, 2014 The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced today the creation of the Climate Change Solutions Fund to support cross-disciplinary responses to global warming, issuing an open call for grant proposals from organizations whose work matches the Fund's objectives.

The piece begins with Klein's conclusion, reached after she spent time at a conclave on climate sponsored by the libertarian Heartland Institute, that passionate corporate and conservative foes of curbs on greenhouse gases are right in asserting that a meaningful response to global warming would be a fatal blow to free markets and capitalism.

As we also point out, the political response to global warming alarmism generated by the environmental movement has not been based on scientific understanding, but precaution.

In R. Dornbusch and J. M. Poterba (eds), Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses to Global Warming.

National Studies The Climate Change in the American Mind Project The public plays a critical role in the American response to global warming through their energy use at home and on the road, consumer choices, social norms, and political support for climate policies and leaders.

Sagarin hopes that the results, appearing in the 26 October issue of Science, will encourage others to look for environmental responses to global warming in data sets collected informally by individuals or communities, like a bird - watcher's records.

As part of a national contest, teams of high school students argue adaptation is the only viable response to global warming whereas another team calls for geoengineering

Discontented with the federal response to global warming, environmental groups joined forces with three cities, one U.S. territory and a dozen states, led by Massachusetts, to challenge the EPA in court.

Catherine Abreu, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada in Ottawa, said in a statement that carbon pricing alone isn't an adequate Canadian response to global warming.

We provide a century - scale view of small - mammal responses to global warming, without confounding effects of land - use change, by repeating Grinnell's early — 20th century survey across a 3000 - meter - elevation gradient that spans Yosemite National Park, California, USA.

That's certainly what one expects in he majority of local climatologies in a warming world, although of course the local response to global warming will be larger in some areas than other and etc...

«At least based upon this slicing of the data, then, the hurricane response to global warming globally didn't look nearly as predictable as anyone had thought.

It challenges a longstanding model of the Arctic ecological response to global warming.

---- excerpt ---- «The Amery Ice Shelf Ocean Research (AMISOR) project is part of a broad umbrella study of the entire Lambert Glacier Basin, Amery Ice Shelf system (located between Mawson and Davis in East Antarctica), to understand both the climatic history of the region, and its probable response to global warming.

I've spoken quite a bit about how I came late to that body of behavioral science and only slowly disabused myself of the expectation that more or better climate science stories by me might shape public responses to global warming.

Gore admits that the decision to enact these and other proposed responses to global warming can be difficult.

The weakening of the Walker circulation in the tropical Pacific is a robust response to global warming in climate models.

While the subject was regarded as taboo only five years ago, the normalisation of geoengineering as a legitimate response to global warming is now proceeding rapidly.

It's interesting to note that while the result of a muted precipitation response to global warming appears to be theoretically sound and robust across models, satellite observations suggest that precipitation is increasing closer to 7 % per K, instead of 3 % per K (Wentz et al 2007).