Sentences with phrase «role in the climate»

The land sector already plays an increasingly important role in climate action.

In this program, students define climate, discover carbon's role in climate change by becoming a carbon molecule, explore the possible outcomes of climate change, and brainstorm ways to positively impact their environment.

Well, as La Marguerite so aptly puts it, «Moms need to have a bigger role in the climate discourse.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

The forum comes amid comments by top state Republicans questioning humanity's role in climate change.

The analysis, released as the latest round of U.N. climate talks began in Doha, Qatar, recommends that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change undertake a special report on permafrost and its role in climate change.

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

But he faces a high bar: Mann has played a key role in climate science for decades, and the law generally requires a much higher burden of proof from public figures, said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman.

«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.

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.

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

«Selectively logged Amazon forests play important role in climate.»

The authors conclude that «the data strongly support the view that human emissions play an important role in climate change and represent a key test for climate change theory.»

Winds obviously play a major role in climate.

«I would argue that there's zero evidence for that,» says Gerald Dickens, a leading expert on seafloor hydrates and their role in climate change.

That led him to suspect that contrails could play a role in climate and suggest to MacKenzie that they look at aviation records from the time.

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.

Brazil is likely to use the results to seek a bigger role in climate negotiations, especially as regards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).

Submicron atmospheric aerosols, although they are not so visible, play a pivotal role in the climate system.

The continental ice sheets play a central role in climate.

Atmospheric aerosols play important roles in climate and atmospheric chemistry: They scatter sunlight, provide condensation nuclei for cloud droplets, and participate in heterogeneous chemical reactions.

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any 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.

Critics seized on the correspondence as evidence scientists, including Mann, were cooking their books to emphasize society's role in climate disruption.

She also emphasises the importance of the study to current debates about a human role in climate warming: «Cumulative archaeological data clearly demonstrates that humans are more than capable of reshaping and dramatically transforming ecosystems.

That suggests scientists may have overestimated the sun's role in climate change.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We should assume global warming plays a role in every climate event, then ask whether that role is a significant one.

Both senators asked Perry about remarks he made this past Monday on a CNBC news program casting doubt on carbon dioxide's role in climate change.

One manager at Exxon Research, Harold N. Weinberg, shared his «grandiose thoughts» about Exxon's potential role in climate research in a March 1978 internal company memorandum that read: «This may be the kind of opportunity that we are looking for to have Exxon technology, management and leadership resources put into the context of a project aimed at benefitting mankind.»

Oceans cover 71 percent of the earth's surface and have a huge capacity to store heat, playing a critical role in the climate system.

As can be observed in some comments at WUWT, those that are not convinced that GHGs play any role in climate change will simple see Trenberth's speech as CAGW propaganda.

Believe it or not, they are slowly finding out that the oceans play a role in climate.

Chemistry and climate: Atmospheric composition plays an integral role in the climate system, with feedbacks on both dynamical and radiative processes throughout the atmosphere.

Why it matters: Aerosols play a large role in our climate system.

Under the auspices of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) the sub-program SPARC (Stratospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate) initiated the STTA Group.

Study of upper ocean dynamics and air - sea interaction; investigation of the ocean's role in climate; sustained climate - quality observations in and at the surface of the ocean; innovative ocean observations.

In the past, researchers have described that the tilt of a planet's axis plays a key role in the climate cycles of a planet, assuring it's not too hot or too cold at any one time.

What we will learn from OCO - 2 will improve our understanding of carbon dioxide and its role in climate studies.

The SAGE III on ISS Education and Public Outreach program shares the excitement of the SAGE III on ISS mission (planned launch 2014) highlighting its pathfinder qualities, its legacy and role in climate study continuity, and its partnerships with the ISS, other NASA centers, and international collaborators.

Just as there is consensus about the human role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the Human Age.

Her passion for the environment and our role in climate change is apparent in every paragraph.

This spring, two exhibitions — «Second Nature: Artists Respond to Our Changing Environment,» on view at Barbara Archer Gallery at the Goat Farm Arts Center through May 17 and «One Word: Plastics» at Sandler Hudson Gallery through May 31 — encourage viewers to consider humankind's role in climate change and become more thoughtful stewards of the environment.

Drs Leonard Smith and Nicholas Stern wrote poignantly about how policy is nearly always set in the context of uncertainty, and that even incomplete scientific assessments can be of great value («Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy», http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2011/460/presentations/Smith.pdf).

Thus the speech is oddly silent about how Indonesia really can get its act together and play the most helpful role in climate diplomacy.