Sentences with phrase «resulting from climate»

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Insurer Does Not Have To Defend Claims For Damages Resulting From Climate Change.

Abstract The recent devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy along a vast swath of the East Coast of the United States made clear just how vulnerable coastal communities are to sea - level rise resulting from climate impacts.

To respond to the challenge of understanding climate and climate variability, the NSF's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is providing the nation and the world with the science - based knowledge to predict change, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities resulting from climate change and climate variability.

Damage resulting from climate change cuts across almost every aspect of life: public health, extreme weather, the economy and so much else.

For example, in the IEA report that Chevron cites frequently, stranded assets are «capital investment in fossil - fuel infrastructure that ends up failing to be recovered over the operating lifetime of the asset because of reduced demand or lower prices resulting from climate policy» [3].

In a separate but related case before a federal judge in Massachusetts, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) argued that ExxonMobil had failed to prepare one of its facilities for rising sea levels resulting from climate change.

Bishops from South America are to discuss ways of tackling the «ever - growing environmental challenges resulting from climate change».

Dams are hardly the only way to meet demand for water, whether it's new demand due to population growth or to adjust to altered precipitation or runoff patterns resulting from climate change.

Being able to better rule out low probability / high climate sensitivities can change assessments of the potential economic damages resulting from climate change.

Resilient design is the intentional design of buildings, landscapes, communities, and regions in order to respond to natural and manmade disasters and disturbances — as well as long - term changes resulting from climate change — including sea level rise, increased frequency of heat waves, and regional drought.

The lower estimates of sea level rise resulting from climate change was seen as a major failing of the 2007 report.

Climate assessments have not typically characterized or analyzed specific societal risks resulting from climate change, including the socio - environmental determinants of vulnerability through which exposure to climate - related hazards creates risk.

No poverty: Economic benefits resulting from climate protection projects can be manifold.

Impacts: Soil degradation, erosion and deforestation resulting from climate change are huge problems for food and water security, as well as human health and shelter.

Quezon City, The Philippines - Fossil fuel companies are today under the spotlight as hearings begin in the Philippines into their contribution to human rights harms resulting from climate change.

Significant impacts resulting from climate change are already evident, and they pose increasing risks for many vulnerable populations and regions.

So while coastal erosion is consistent with models of sea - level rise resulting from climate change, determining just how much of this erosion might have been caused by climate change impacts is difficult.

Forest loss is progressing globally from deforestation associated with land use change [1,2] and tree mortality resulting from climate change [3,4].

The local governments want the industries to pay for damage and adaptation costs resulting from climate change, including sea - level rise and more extreme storms.

Bell, M., D. Davis, L. Cifuentes, A. Krupnick, R. Morgenstern, and G. Thurston, 2008: Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation.

MRD Journal: Abstract: Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns across the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region resulting from climate change have an influence on water resource availability and food security for the downstream population.

Empirical examples of species» range shifts resulting from climate change have been recorded for numerous taxa [4]--[5].

Pakistan is facing large number of impacts resulting from climate change.

A team of scientists projects that many of the low - lying atoll islands will be uninhabitable by mid-21st century due to rising of sea levels resulting from climate change.

Although the simulation conditions in the MMD 20th - century simulations were not identical to those in the CMIP1 & 2 control runs, the differences do not alter the conclusions summarised below because the large - scale climatological features dominate, not the relatively small perturbations resulting from climate change.

[2011 paper 157 cites] Exploring high - end scenarios for local sea level rise to develop flood protection strategies for a low - lying delta — the Netherlands as an example Sea level rise, especially combined with possible changes in storm surges and increased river discharge resulting from climate change, poses a major threat in low - lying river deltas.

Burkle and Runyon (2016) examine possible mechanisms underlying changes in pollinator behavior resulting from climate change and report that volatile organic compounds emitted by flowering plants are a primary pollinator attractant.

Indeed, many climate scientists caution that extreme weather events resulting from climate change is the new normal for farmers in North America and elsewhere, requiring novel agricultural strategies to prevent crop losses.

There will be gainers and losers resulting from any climate change, natural or anthropogenic.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

It is the most vulnerable populations that are most affected by more - violent and less - predictable natural disasters resulting from climate change.

While recognizing that some damage resulting from climate change will be irreversible, McKibben is optimistic that humanity can still adapt and avoid the worst possible outcomes.

And he thinks he might be able to harness that ability to create a reef of hardy coral with a chance of surviving the hot seas that are expected to result from climate change.

For these reasons, the results likely underestimate how many hospitalizations from allergies will result from climate change.

Results from climate models driven by estimated radiative forcings for the 20th century (Chapter 9) suggest that there was little change prior to about 1915, and that a substantial fraction of the early 20th - century change was contributed by naturally occurring influences including solar radiation changes, volcanism and natural variability.

Dr. Ben Kravitz, atmospheric postdoctoral researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, co-authored «Robust Results from Climate Model Simulations of Geoengineering» published in the August 13 edition of EOS.

The figure below shows the lower stratospheric temperature results from climate models using both all forcings and natural forcings only from 1880 to 2012.

The recent emergence of a statistically significant positive trend in risk of great floods is consistent with results from the climate model, and the model suggests that the trend will continue....»

«It is now widely known that the water vapor feedback in general circulation models (GCMs) is close to that which would result from a climate ‐ invariant distribution of relative humidity [Soden and Held, 2006], as long anticipated before the advent of such models [e.g., Arrhenius, 1896; Manabe and Wetherald, 1967].»

I don; t believe you can answer with any real impactful results from climate skeptics, but I can point to direct $ $ results from rampant CAGW.

So to, are the more intense rainfall events likely to result from climate change — and note that these can occur in the same places as droughts.

We judge that the most significant impact for the United States will be indirect and result from climate - driven effects on many other countries and their potential to seriously affect US national security interests.

This briefing will explain the IPCC's assessment process, the latest results from the climate science literature and what these findings mean for British Columbia.

Results from the climate change scenarios indicate that, if the current trend in the NAO continues, there is the potential for a continued advance to the start of the growing season by as much as 13 days in some areas.

This document presents results from the Climate & Clean Air Coalition's Cooling & Refrigeration (HFC) Initiative reported between July 2016 and June 2017.

This document presents results from the Climate & Clean Air Coalition's Diesel Initiative reported between July 2016 and June 2017.

Kevin: I've heard you say that the drought that results from climate change, like we've had in the past three years in the prairies, should come as no surprise, and that it was entirely predictable.

The whole climategate thing resulted from the climate scientists failure to understand this concept of extended peer community, and assumed that McIntyre et al. were merchants of doubt with sinister motives.

Second, results from climate model simulations are not evidence of anything but the biases, beliefs, and mistakes of the programmers.

First, other than the «results from climate model simulations», NONE of that even purports to be evidence either for or against AGW.