Not exact matches
Many types of emissions
from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for
climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant
scale.
«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and with the potential to
scale —
from within the farming community itself, so that they can increase resilience to
climate change, increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»
Food - security experts
from all over the world will converge on Belfast
from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as
climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global
scale.
«Landscape -
scale management, natural capital and ecosystem services initiatives are becoming increasingly important in light of increasing pressure on the UK's natural environment
from development, population growth and
climate change.
According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every
scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world
from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of
climate change.
We highlight episodes of
climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time
scales ranging
from years to millennia by
changing species» relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creating transient and novel communities dominated by generalist species and interactions.
«With the rise of ecohydrology as a discipline, we can now work across
scales —
from the individual tree to the mountain stream — to see the actual effects of species
change in relation to
climate.»
Environmentalists have criticized holding such large -
scale military exercises in sensitive areas such as the Great Barrier Reef, which is under threat
from increased commercial shipping,
climate change and an invasive starfish infestation, the United Nations says.
The Review is a super refined weekly web publication curated by subject matter experts
from Yale who summarize important research articles
from leading natural and social science journals with the hope that people can make more informed decisions using latest research results.The Review launched this week and covers a wide range of topics, like this brief about
climate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversit
climate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity
change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in
Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversit
Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity
Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in
climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversit
climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity
change simulations can underestimate the true
scale of biodiversity loss.
This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information
from the wild relatives into wheat on a large
scale creating a step
change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and
climate change and help feed a growing population.
Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be seen even at the coarse European
scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected
from climate change.
It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like
climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples
from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer
scale to understand it.
To solve this problem, Pielke suggested measuring environmental variables
from a regional
scale up to a global
scale as a more inclusive way to assess environmental risks than the top - down approach used by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change.
The history of these observations is quite long (volunteers started to collect this data in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various:
from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of
climate change at continental
scales.
The big takeaway
from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for
changes in the
climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the
climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on
changes that occur on both a large, global
scale and over the long, decadal term.
A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty
from external drivers to actual impacts of
climate change on time -
scales of up to 30 years.
Then, if you
scale the Antarctic temperature
change to a global temperature
change, then the global
climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 becomes 2 - 3 degrees C, perfectly in line with the
climate sensitivity given by IPCC (and known
from Arrhenius's calculations more than 100 years ago).
The danger of uncontrollable and irreversible consequences necessarily raises the question of whether it is feasible to extract CO2
from the atmosphere on a large enough
scale to affect
climate change.
One type of inverse method uses the ranges of
climate change fingerprint
scaling factors derived
from detection and attribution analyses that attempt to separate the
climate response to greenhouse gas forcing
from the response to aerosol forcing and often
from natural forcing as well (Gregory et al., 2002a; Stott et al., 2006c; see also Section 9.4.1.4).
Students then go on to examine the the ways
climate change can be managed at different
scales of governance
from the UN's SDGs to the adaptation of the Nenet indigenous group.
At the Paris meeting, nearly 2,000 participants,
from countries on all continents and at all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all
scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that
changes in the
climate will derail human progress.
These is output
from the large
scale global models used to assess
climate change in the past, and make projections for the future.
There are plenty of records, particularly
from low latitudes that demonstrate rapid (and reasonably large
scale, big enough to cause significant ecosystem responses)
climate changes during the Holocene.
This line
from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between
climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of
climate change on malaria at local and global
scales.»
The strongest internal variability in the
climate system on this time
scale is the
change from El Niño to La Niña — a natural, stochastic «seesaw» in the tropical Pacific called ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation).
Then, if you
scale the Antarctic temperature
change to a global temperature
change, then the global
climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 becomes 2 - 3 degrees C, perfectly in line with the
climate sensitivity given by IPCC (and known
from Arrhenius's calculations more than 100 years ago).
Amid all the progress on this planet — declining losses
from terrible diseases and war, rising literacy and the rest — there remain plenty of planet -
scale risks requiring serious focus,
from pandemic flu to centuries of locked - in
climate change to, yes, collisions with space rocks.
Using a recently developed hurricane synthesizer driven by large -
scale meteorological variables derived
from global
climate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenar
climate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four
climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenar
climate models and for current
climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenar
climate conditions as well as for the warmer
climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenar
climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenar
Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario A1b.
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.
The
climate change impacts community has long bemoaned the inadequate spatial
scale of
climate scenarios produced
from coarse resolution GCM output (Gates, 1985; Lamb, 1987; Robinson and Finkelstein, 1989; Smith and Tirpak, 1989; Cohen, 1990).
Mbengue, C. O., and T. Schneider, 2013: Storm track shifts under
climate change: what can be learned
from large -
scale dry dynamics.
The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit
climate change - causing carbon emissions
from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions
from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions
from large -
scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.
In conclusion, I suggest moving away
from the framework of carbon removal as a «third way» and instead framing carbon removal as a critical yet largely missing piece of «Plan A» to deploy large -
scale climate change mitigation strategies.
The two former methods are dependent on the large -
scale circulation variables
from GCMs, and their value as a viable means of increasing the spatial resolution of
climate change information thus partially depends on the quality of the GCM simulations.
The field of CDR suffers
from the perception that, because CDR won't be needed at large
scale for several decades, we can focus our efforts on developing and deploying other approaches to preventing
climate change (such as energy efficiency and renewable energy).
Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature
Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global
scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon
from the atmosphere.
While scientists increasingly assume that carbon removal solutions will provide a critical component in the fight against
climate change, they are quick to acknowledge that we aren't researching and building carbon removal projects nearly as fast as needed to ensure we actually can remove carbon
from the atmosphere at the
scale needed.
Other studies of the Amazon
climate tipping point The existence of an Amazonian
climate tipping point is confirmed by other model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic
Change publication
from 2008 — that suggests a large -
scale die - back (70 percent)
from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the basin.
On decadal and longer time
scales, global mean sea level
change results
from two major processes, mostly related to recent
climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic
change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).
«Committed terrestrial ecosystem
changes due to
climate change» When trying to position the Amazon tipping point on the
scale of the global temperature rise, one of the most - often cited studies is one
from the year 2009, performed by a team of researchers of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, led by Chris Jones and published in Nature Geoscience.
Attribution of the observed warming to anthropogenic forcing is easier at larger
scales because averaging over larger regions reduces the natural variability more, making it easier to distinguish between
changes expected
from different external forcings, or between external forcing and
climate variability.
The Paris Agreement is a clear policy signal
from governments that it is time to
scale - up low carbon investment and bold solutions to
climate change.
«Developing the ability to capture climatically important amounts of CO2
from the atmosphere and sequester it reliably and safely on
scales of significance to
climate change requires research into how to make the more promising options more effective, more environmentally friendly, and less costly.
The U.S. military seems interested in
climate variations /
change on timescales
from seasonal to
scales out to about 30 years, a period over which natural
climate variability could very well swamp anthropogenically forced
climate change.
Comparing model predictions of GHG - induced warming with recent natural temperature fluctuations also indicates the potential
scale of man - made
climate change.Early modelling experiments focused on the total long - term
change resulting
from a doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.
The amplitudes of the pre-industrial, decadal -
scale NH temperature
changes from the proxy - based reconstructions (< 1 °C) are broadly consistent with the ice core CO2 record and understanding of the strength of the carbon cycle -
climate feedback.
The overall level of consistency between attribution results derived
from different models (as shown in Figure 9.9), and the ability of
climate models to simulate large -
scale temperature
changes during the 20th century (Figures 9.5 and 9.6), indicate that such model differences are likely to have a relatively small impact on attribution results of large -
scale temperature
change at the surface.
Scientists describe the
scale of the risks
from unmanaged
climate change as potentially immense.
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.
The study predicted large -
scale releases in the multi-gigaton range
from the southern region of the East Coast methane clathrate store due both to
changes in the Gulf Stream circulation and to warming bottom waters — both impacts set off by human - caused
climate change.