Sentences with phrase «role in climate change»

I've observed previously that the public relations community plays a disturbing role in the climate change debate.

His findings indicate that burning biomass is playing a much bigger role in climate change and human health issues than previously thought.

In doing so, they believe the potential of city - level policy to play a leading role in climate change mitigation has also been overlooked.

Land use plays a minor role in climate change, although carbon sequestration may help to mitigate.

It holds carbon dioxide - processing microbes that play a key role in climate change dynamics.

Clearly CO2 has not been proven to have the primary role in climate change.

I wanted to be able to play a more active role in climate change conversations and bring firsthand account to the discussion.

The water cycle plays a critical role in climate change.

Currently, I am developing a cloud scale model that can be used to study aerosol - cloud interactions which have a major role in the climate change.

In reality, the correlation between global mean temperature and carbon dioxide over the 20th century forms an important, but very small part of the evidence for a human role in climate change.

This discovery suggests that the potent greenhouse gas plays a bigger role in climate change that we previously imagined.

«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.

«She has played a particularly pernicious role in the climate change denial campaign, laundering standard denier talking points but appearing to grant them greater authority courtesy of the academic positions she has held and the meager but nonetheless legitimate scientific work that she has published in the past,» he said.

When managed sustainably, soils can play an important role in climate change adaptation and mitigation and enhance the provision of ecosystem services by storing carbon and decreasing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere.

The water budget of the troposphere, the bottom layer of Earth's atmosphere, determines the weather and plays a central role in climate change.

«Trace Gas Trends and Their Potential Role in Climate Change.»

Energy Policies of IEA Countries: France 2016 The IEA praised France's leadership role in climate change mitigation and green finance around the world and at home.

The aforementioned jerk Michael Mann applauded Curry's retirement, saying she played a «pernicious role in the climate change denial campaign, laundering standard denier talking points... and boilerplate climate change denial drivel.»

Soft - pedaling such threats can take the form of the National Park Service denying the human role in climate change by aggressively editing out all references to that role in its report on sea level rise and storm surge.

Watch Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz — part scientist, part politician — as he deftly answers a question about mankind's role in climate change without stepping on political landmines.

The EPA has also prepared a draft of a report on whether human health is harmed by industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that plays a substantial role in climate change.

Now, it appears that beavers play a complex role in climate change, too.

New Agreement Casts Spotlight on Efforts to Inventory Black Carbon Scientists agree that black carbon plays an important but so far poorly understood role in climate change and air pollution.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is known as a greenhouse gas and plays an essential role in climate change; it is no wonder scientists have been looking for solutions to prevent its release in the environment.

Those with high levels of biospheric concern also were most likely to engage in pro-environmental day - to - day behaviors, such as recycling or energy savings measures, and were the most likely to engage in coping mechanisms to deal with environmental stress, ranging from denying one's individual role in climate change to seeking more information on the issue and how to help mitigate it.

These are the implications of a new study, which found that the world's forests play an unexpectedly large role in climate change, vacuuming up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) and storing the carbon in wood, according to research published online Thursday by the journal Science.

His study found population growth will likely play a small role in climate change, because the areas with the highest growth — like Africa — have a small carbon footprint.

Critics of the CO 2 role in climate change point out that water vapours are a far more potent factor in creating the greenhouse effect as their concentration in the atmosphere is five to 10 times higher than that of CO 2.

This fact alone questions the primary role in climate change attributed to CO2 by the IPCC, environmental groups, and others.

Shortly thereafter, Cooney began to play a more visible role in Climate Change Science Program governance as the CEQ liaison to the interagency principals committee, and in intervening to manage and edit Climate Change Science Program communications.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on behalf of Paty Romero - Lankao Cities play key and diverse roles in the climate change arena.

In addition, some ozone - depleting gases (and, indeed, ozone itself) are also heat - absorbing «greenhouse gases,» so they play a dual role in climate change and ozone depletion.

«Rep. Ed Markey Takes to the House Floor to Talk Extreme Weather, Climate Disruption Main Tar Sands Panel Stresses Youth's Role in Climate Change Movement»

Icebergs breaking off Antarctica are unexpected hotspots of biological productivity and have a surprising role in climate change, reports a new study published in the journal Science.

«Greenland ice takes on a new role in the climate change story, not just indicating change and contributing to sea level rise, but possibly playing an important role in destabilizing regional if not global ocean circulation that naturally exchanges heat north - south,» said Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, and a study co-author, in an email to Mashable.

China could play a pivotal role in the demand for «low - carbon» commodities and disrupt demand in the seaborne bulks as it adopts a leadership role in climate change regulation.

On account of its ability to absorb and transport enormous amounts of heat, the ocean also plays an outsized role in climate change and is an important factor in the explaining the asymmetric response of the north and south poles to the changing climate.