Sentences with phrase «scale climate change around»

That bodes well for forecasting decade - scale climate change around the North Atlantic.

Not exact matches

A groundbreaking 2016 paper, one of the first to conduct a large - scale analysis of shrinking mountain glaciers around the globe, concluded that all but one of the 37 studied sites were «very likely» retreating because of climate change — and at 21 of those sites, the influence of climate change was just about certain.

These particular freshwater Microcystis blooms (and toxins) are increasing in estuaries and coastal waters around the world and are expected to expand in scale and intensity with global climate change.

But there, challenges also arise, as models that simulate changing climate at a global scale do so at relatively coarse resolution, of around hundreds of kilometers, while hurricanes require resolutions of a few kilometers.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

First, Artists Need to Create at the Same Scale that Society has the Capacity to Destroy will be shown in the 50,000 square feet Glass Gallery and surrounding outdoor area featuring works centered around human rights and equality, and the environment and climate change.

One can tell by how climate change policies are being debated around much of the world that few people, including many very educated people, understand the scale and urgency of the problem now [continue reading...]

The Taskforce is comprised of eminent scientists, business leaders, policy advisers and political leaders drawn from around the world.5 Its purpose is to recommend to all governments a framework for managing climate change responses that is truly global, provides long - term direction, and is genuinely responsive to the scale of the problem.

Uncertainty and risks around carbon removal should not paralyze us, but rather galvanize us to address uncertainties and mitigate risks so these solutions are available at the appropriate scale needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

While this has been useful, there are other ways to perturb the climate (e.g., different initial conditions or forcing persistent changes in particular phenomena) that may help to reveal the global - scale coupled feedbacks that can cause the climate to change abruptly around the globe.»

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

Strategic partnership based around a shared vision to catalyse action on climate change and sustainable development at scale

Gradual, insolation - driven millennial - scale temperature trends in the study area were punctuated by several abrupt climate changes, including a major transient event recorded in all five lakes between 4.3 and 3.2 ka, which overlaps in timing with abrupt climate changes previously documented around the North Atlantic region and farther afield at w4.2 ka.

NEON is designed to enable the research community to ask and address their own questions on a regional to continental scale around the environmental challenges identified as relevant to understanding the effects of climate change, land - use change and invasive species patterns on the biosphere.

«Our integrated Climate + Care programmes are designed to tackle poverty, improve health, create jobs and protect the environment, but they also help to create viable new markets with the potential to scale around the world and deliver lasting change.»

It is genuinely difficult to wrap your head around the scale of action needed to avoid catastrophic changes in the climate.

A typical modern, utility - scale, wind turbine will generate about as much clean electricity as 2000 average roof - top solar installations (around 2012, see here), so you would think that people who want action on climate change would support wind power.

The ensuing discussion was a simple proxy of some of the issues I was beginning to see raised in the discussions surrounding climate engineering proposals: controversy around the legality of intentionally changing the atmosphere (on any scale), suspicion of private interest in the name of the public good, confusion regarding the science behind it, unpredictability of the outcomes, or questionable logic of nature conservancy rules, to name a few.

Rich, I'm inclined to agree with you re the anti-war protest in 2003 — the sheer scale of this event put the numbers attending climate change rallies (even at their height, towards the end of the last decade — I think «The Wave» in London in 2009 drew around 50,000 people) into the shade.

Zahn believes that a large - scale salt monitoring system should be established to regularly measure the waters around South Africa and New Zealand, two key areas that could alert scientists to future climate change incidents.