Sentences with phrase «scale climate changes making»

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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».

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/

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

«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.

«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.»

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 biodiversitclimate 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 biodiversitychange 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 biodiversitClimate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversityChange Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitclimate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitychange simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity loss.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

Although they've made a lot of progress over the last decades, we still do not really know how climate is changing on a local scale.

These is output from the large scale global models used to assess climate change in the past, and make projections for the future.

Compare the year - to - year scale at which humans make policy decisions, reflected in our political frameworks, to the multi-millennial consequences of today's energy choices, as delineated in «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate and sea - level change,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehuchange,» the important recent commentary in Nature Climate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehClimate Change by a host of top climate scientists, including PierrehuChange by a host of top climate scientists, including Pierrehclimate scientists, including Pierrehumbert.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

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 scenarclimate 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 scenarclimate 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 scenarclimate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarclimate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarClimate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario A1b.

Above: the projected emissions gap in 2030 in the UNEP report shows that countries are not planning to make the necessary GHG emissions reductions to avoid overshooting our carbon «budget», meaning that large - scale CDR would be necessary to fill the gap and prevent climate change.

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.

«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.

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.

While the state of the climate clearly involves much more than just global temperature, changes in global temperatures do indicate the scale of different climatic events, both natural and man - made.

Time scale — Y2K is < 5 years in the making (1994 - 2000), Climate change is on - going with > 50 years horizon (1990 - 2040 and beyond...) 2.

To make progress at the scale and pace required to meet the challenge of climate change, we need to take advantage of every pathway we have.

The World Bank Group also made additional exciting commitments, including applying a shadow carbon price in their investment decision - making, calculating and disclosing their greenhouse emissions, ramping up their Climate Change Action Plan's ambition in 2020, and scaling up their green finance.

Yes conservation is important, not least in ensuring that species can migrate to deal with climate changes and other environmental disruptions, but the scale of human activity is such that we are collectively making the future ecological conditions of the planet.

These climate change adaptation decisions need to be made however, and in an effort to produce useful regional scale climate information that embodies the global climate change a number of «downscaling» techniques have been developed.

However, to understand the large scale patterns in climate and their changes and drivers, climate models are not only useful, but increasingly necessary to make skillful predictions for the future.

As British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned the U.N. Security Council, the risk of massive economic disruption and «migration on an unprecedented scale» make climate change a true security threat.

Indeed, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches like fuel efficiency standards or EPA rules, rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions like an economy - wide price on carbon.25

The millennial (500-2000 year) time scale of deep ocean ventilation affects the time scale for natural CO2 change and thus the time scale for paleo global climate, ice sheet, and sea level changes, but this paleo millennial time scale should not be misinterpreted as the time scale for ice sheet response to a rapid large human - made climate forcing.

Second, the very long time scale of climate change makes the discount rate crucial at the same time as it makes it highly controversial (see Section 3.6.2).

Background In a warming world, it is increasingly important for policy development, decision - making and investments at the national and local scale to take into account changing patterns of extreme weather and climate - related events.

From there, a reporter can explain that errors were nonetheless made, which should remind the world of three things: that the exact timing and scale of certain impacts of climate change are subject to a lot of uncertainty; that some scientists will behave defensively, even to the point of negligence, when they feel threatened; and that all quality control - systems sometimes fail.

It's tipping points like these that make climate change such a distinct problem: If we don't act quickly, and on a global scale, then the problem will literally become insoluble.

Indeed, as New York magazine's Jonathon Chait points out, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions such as an economywide price on carbon.

Interannual consists of periods that span years which makes it more on a climate change scale than near - term weather forecasts.

Indeed, our technology and wealth will make people and civilizations much better able to prepare for and adapt to most climate changes, although another Pleistocene - scale ice age would devastate northern cities, decimate agricultural production, and drive human and species migrations.

Decision - makers need to know how climate change will affect specific political jurisdictions, and, more importantly, what types of interventions will make a difference, over what time scales, at what costs, and to whose benefit — and whose detriment.

While the jury is still out on whether climate change is making conditions perfect for large - scale bushfires, scientists agree that bushfire seasons — a regular occurrence on the Australian seasonal calendar — are getting longer and the fires more intense.

I simply suggest that on a scale of hazard and commensurate risk climate change is something of a magnitude requiring more than business as usual when it comes to demands made by society for responsible communications.

It would be interesting to see what has been added to the climate models over time, plotted on a time scale and the result these changes has made to the accuracy of the projections.

Decisions made in relation to Article 2 will determine the level of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere (or the corresponding climate change) that is set as the goal for policy and have fundamental implications for emission reduction pathways as well as the scale of adaptation required.

The need for change is arguably even more important for national assessments, which generally focus on climate change and impacts at national and sub-national scales, the scales of governance with primary decision - making authority for most response actions.

Even if we were to stop emitting carbon - dioxide tomorrow, atmospheric concentrations would remain elevated for centuries — so, on any reasonable time scale, the changes that we're making to the Earth's climate system are irreversible.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

No climate model can predict climate changes at a local level where the effects are felt - predictions are only made for averages collated at a continental spatial scale and over periods of decades.

The groups are particularly concerned that large - scale bioenergy and biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are referred to as «low carbon» in mitigation models, despite concerns raised elsewhere that some of those technologies are risky, unproven and could actually make climate change worse.

These two sets of challenges, those related to time - scale and those related to the global nature of climate change, are not in the classes that have traditionally yielded to the free - market mechanisms and political decision making that historically characterise Canada and the U.S. (see Section 14.5).

(Bernie Fraser, Chairman, Climate Change Authority): «The funding of the kind of scale that would be necessary to deal with the extra emissions reductions that Australia will have to pursue to do its bit to reduce global emissions makes it quite fanciful I think to think that the ERF could be scaled up and funded to the degree that one would think would be necessary»... (John Connor, CEO Climate Institute): «The debate is shifting into even deeper reductions that we need to have beyond 2020 and it shows that the emissions reduction fund is just an inadequate tool to be the primary tool for emission reductions, while the renewable energy target is a critical target that we need to be strengthening, not weakening.

Because no reasonable damage estimates have been incorporated into most IAM results, and because there is tremendous uncertainty inherent in even trying to make monetized estimates of damages that have yet to happen on a global scale, it is very hard to estimate, even roughly, the net benefits of mitigating climate change in the long run.

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We still talk about green lifestyle choices like recycling, making DIY cleaners or riding a bike - and these things are all still worth doing as a way to lessen the impact of our current system - but for the large - scale, world changing shifts we know are needed to adapt to a changing climate, it's going to take much more than reusable shopping bags.

We know this from «downscaling» studies made by using high - resolution regional climate models to add local detail to larger - scale changes derived from coarser - resolution global models.

Not every city may face the same scale of potential loses that a city like New York does, but there's no reason we can not all do more to make wherever we live, be it our homes, neighborhoods or entire regions more resilient in the face of a changing climate.