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Blunier, T. and E. J. Brook, 2001: Timing of millennial - scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period.

The Earth system has experienced large - scale climate changes in the past (Chapter 6) that hold important lessons for the understanding of present and future climate change.

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Among these questions, she includes, «What impacts do changes in the Arctic have on the large - scale climate and weather systems?»

But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chaiIn recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chaiin the global agricultural supply chain.

In addition, climate change continues to wreak havoc on small - scale farmers and increase pressures on the global food supply.

«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.»

Scientific research increasingly demonstrates that large - scale intensive meat production uses disproportionate amounts of land, water, and feed, adds markedly to climate change and is a factor in water pollution and food contamination.

This new full - scale - electric feed truck is the next step in Straus» quest to show that his Marin county organic dairy farm can be carbon positive, using agriculture as a solution to reversing climate change.

In 2017, Straus introduced his new full - scale electric feed truck to close the conservation loop on his dairy farm, proving that sustainable organic farming is a critical part of feasible solutions to reversing climate change.

«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

«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.

In the wake of that decision, 247 mayors across the U.S. announced that they would step up their cities» own efforts to combat climate change, and adopt the Paris climate agreement on a local scale.

Natural England commissioned report NECR149 «The role of landscape and site scale characteristics in making species populations resilient to climate change and extreme events» http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5849831096451072 BASC white paper «The role of shooting in landscape - scale land management» http://basc.org.uk/business-intelligence-unit/what-we-do/white-papers/

A new paper published by scientists in the Northeast finds that long - term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately predict and manage the effects of climate change.

Anticipated changes in the environment due to climate change may lead to mass migrations of people on a scale never before seen.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

«Numerous changes in climate have been observed at the scales of continents or ocean basins.

Moreover, in the light of climate change, the available large - scale forecasts suggest that the southern sub-species is likely to spread.

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

On a global scale, vulnerability to climate change tends to be greatest in parts of the world where religion is most important in daily life.

«This paper should alert policy makers and government to the help and support that farmers will need to achieve the scale of agricultural change that may be necessary to keep up with the increase in pollution due to climate change.»

«Large - scale peatland restoration projects such as the Sustainable Catchment Management Project run by United Utilities and RSPB are crucial in helping to make our blanket bogs resilient to climate change.»

«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.»

However, the potential impact is less clear at regional scales, but it is likely that climate variability and change will exacerbate food insecurity in areas currently vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition.

If that turns out to be the case, it's likely that temperature changes on the scale of the Eocene to Oligocene could occur — but in the other direction, toward a much warmer climate that could again fundamentally alter living things on Earth.

The research is unique in linking local population changes for multiple bird species to broad - scale climate changes, says Beatrice Van Horne, a wildlife researcher at the U.S. Forest Service in Arlington, Virginia: «Things that happen at a large scale are hard to see because local variance often confuses us.

Tropical widening is associated with several significant changes in our climate, including shifts in large - scale atmospheric circulation, like storm tracks, and major climate zones.

In a move that previously proved successful in helping to monitor climate change on a global scale, scientists believe that space technology could help track biodiversity across the planeIn a move that previously proved successful in helping to monitor climate change on a global scale, scientists believe that space technology could help track biodiversity across the planein helping to monitor climate change on a global scale, scientists believe that space technology could help track biodiversity across the planet.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

What is a city's role in combating climate change, given its global scale?

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scales.

Concerns about the permanency of forest carbon stocks, difficulties in quantifying stock changes, and the threat of environmental and socioeconomic impacts of large - scale reforestation programs have limited the uptake of forestry activities in climate policies.

This analysis advances a trend in climate science to understand climate change on the level of daily weather and on finer geographic scales.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

A new report by the National Research Council finds that in terms of the scale of GHG emissions reductions required to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, the U.S.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.

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.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

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In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intervaIn their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term inClimate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intChange in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intervain a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term inclimate change during a long - term intchange during a long - term interval.