Sihan joined the CPDN team in Oxford in April 2017 to work on the TNC project, using weather@home simulations to investigate the impacts of recent extreme weather events on the Amazonian biosphere, looking at what
role climate change played in the likelihood of those extreme weather events, as well as how the change in biosphere would affect the local climate.
We speak with world - renowned climatologist Dr. James Hansen on what
role climate change played in unleashing Hurricane Harvey.
In an op - ed for the New York Times, Stanford professor Noah S. Diffenbaug writes that even though we don't yet know the exact
role climate change played in Texas, we would be remiss in discounting it entirely.
Using models to tease out the specific
role climate change played, they found that it made the Ferbuary heat at least three times more likely.
Although experts aren't sure what
role climate change played in the ice sheet's demise, they see it as an opportunity to improve our understanding of how glaciers will disintegrate as the planet warms.
«We can not wait for climatologists to establish exactly what
role climate change played in different events,» says Kees van der Geest, also at UNU.
Not exact matches
Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a
role to
play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from
climate change to sustainable development.
While it may be surprising to some, Canada's mining sector can
play an essential
role in enabling the technologies that will help the world address
climate change.
The joint statement by the Institutional Investors Group on
Climate Change, the Investor Network on
Climate Risk, and the Investors Group on
Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments in oil and gas importing regions to consider
playing a
role in encouraging control of methane emissions.
Climate change is «
playing an increasing
role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.
Or you could take a stake in a firm that
plays a big
role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with
climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.
At a recent meeting of Indian provincial environment and forestry ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that nuclear energy will
play a critical
role in helping the country to meet both its energy security and
climate change mitigation goals.
While it may not be getting much attention at COP21, food loss and waste
plays a huge
role in the global
climate change battle.
He also mentioned the
role organic farming can
play in mitigating
climate change.
Grace Boyle, chair of the student union's Love Veggie society,
played a key
role in Ulster's adoption of MFM by starting a petition to gather support for the move, because of a lack of meat free and vegan options at Ulster, and because the university does not formally acknowledge that the meat and dairy industries are major contributors to
climate change.
Australia's current Conservative - led coalition government is
playing down the
role of
climate change on Australian agriculture.
Climate change, smog, acid rain, dead zones and the ozone hole are real issues affecting the planet, and nitrogen pollution
plays a key
role in each of them.
With sustainable agriculture
playing an important
role in mitigating
climate change and food security, how can adoption rates rise?
Leading European healthy food business Wessanen has launched a new initiative aimed at helping small food entrepreneurs to
play an active
role in tackling
climate change.
Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a
changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all
played a
role in their decline.
Wildlife corridors will
play a particularly important
role in the age of
climate change, where many species will need to shift location to find a more comfortable setting.
To maintain its leadership
role in the fight against poverty, Britain needs to commit to
playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty,
climate change and other issues.
I am proud that the UK has
played a leading
role in the revival of international
climate change talks through the United Nations at Cancun and Durban.
My government will continue to
play a leading
role in world affairs, using its global presence to tackle
climate change and address major international security, economic and humanitarian challenges.
Along with most people who recognise the reality of
climate change, I do not doubt that markets and private property rights have, or can have, an important
role to
play in handling the problem, e.g., through suitably designed emissions trading systems and the like.
Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has
played an increasingly pivotal
role in shaping the
climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.
On the other hand, institutions may reinforce the EU's foreign policy capabilities, allowing it to
play an important
role within those multilateral frameworks tasked to tackle new global challenges such as
climate change.
My Government will continue to
play a leading
role in world affairs, using its global presence to tackle
climate change and address major international security, economy and humanitarian challenges.
Mr Huhne acted as home affairs spokesman when the Lib Dems were in opposition, but was given the energy and
climate change brief after
playing a prominent
role in the coalition negotiations.
«Ministers believe that new nuclear could
play a key
role in keep the lights on and meeting our
climate change targets - but they don't want to own up to supporting it,» committee chair Tim Yeo said.
The «nitty - gritty» of how patents are developed and then protected is a big issue when it comes to the
role technology can
play in the future of energy security and
climate change policy, for example.
Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have
played vital
roles in the collection of scientific data on
climate change.
The chemical sector has a big
role to
play in tackling
climate change and achieving EU energy targets.
And
climate change is
playing a key
role in the new dynamics.
Seeing the vast areas affected by
climate change during this cruise has highlighted for me the importance of the science I
play a small
role in.
«Cities of all sizes
play an important
role in combating the impact of
climate change.
Parsing the exact
role a
changing climate played in the historic burns can be challenging, especially in Western forests overstocked with woody kindling due to decades of fire suppression and a relatively hands - off forest management policy.
Three didymo experts not involved in the study agreed that
climate change possibly is
playing a
role with didymo, although the degree of the link is uncertain.
This discovery suggests that the potent greenhouse gas
plays a bigger
role in
climate change that we previously imagined.
It remains too soon to tell exactly how this
climate system will work under
changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may
play large
roles.
A new report confirms that coal has a large
role to
play in meeting the world's energy demands, but to avoid runaway
climate change, technologies to sequester its carbon need to advance quickly
«It seems that the sun's quiescence was responsible for the most extreme phases of the Little Ice Age, implying that solar variability sometimes
plays a significant
role in
climate change.
Stanford professor's calculations indicate that wildfires and other types of fires involving plant matter
play a much bigger
role in
climate change and human health than previously thought.
«We're providing indigenous leaders and their organizations with hard data with which they can make their own case for the
role that they have to
play on
climate change,» he says.
«The American business community has a critical
role to
play both in preparing itself for
climate change and in informing the policy response,» Lewis said.
Trends might include factors like improved solar energy technology to combat
climate change, she said, while political events such as the recent United Nations
climate meeting in Durban
play a
role as well.
Most important, rewilding can
play a crucial
role in addressing
climate change.
But now, for the first time,
climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether
climate change played a
role.
But the latest techniques are making it possible to examine the
role that
climate change played in shaping the season that has just past — whether it was a scorching summer or a particularly wet winter, for instance.
The ocean
plays a critical
role in
climate and weather, serving as a massive reservoir of heat and water that influences tropical storms, El Nin?o, and
climate change.