Sentences with phrase «science on climate change impacts»

The book, in many ways an update to his 2005 version of The Weather Makers, is divided into three sections: the first is an update of recent science on climate change impacts, and the second reviews progress in clean energy.

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I want to know whether Stefanik and Faso believe in science and in climate change science and the devastating impact climate change will have on the environment of our children and grandchildren.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement puts future generations at risk and leaves the nation without a plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on June...

This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.

Yosemite's visitor center includes displays on climate change science and park impacts.

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

DISCOVER recently partnered with NBC Learn, the National Science Foundation, and Arizona State University to convene a town hall discussion that explored the impact of climate change on our freshwater resources.

Charles Godfray, a professor at the Department of Zoology at Oxford University who recently co-authored a paper in the journal Science about the challenges of feeding 9 billion people, said that the impact of climate change on agriculture will be negative.

Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secClimate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuChange; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

Climate change is a long - term process and science allows us to anticipate its impact on both the environment and society.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

For Tom Osborne of Reading University, senior research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science who models the global impacts of climate change on agriculture, farmers have no choice; they have to adapt where they can and change where they can't.

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

Stories on the potential impact of climate change in two localities and on the secret lives of scientists and engineers are among the winners of the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

«Secretary Zinke is giving Trump truly awful advice,» asserts John Hocevar, director of oceans campaigns at Greenpeace in Washington, D.C. «The science is clearer than ever that climate change is killing our coral reefs and that industrial fishing has had a huge impact on marine ecosystems that extends far beyond the fish they target.»

In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research on tea as a model system for understanding how a warming climate is putting stress on specialty crops and the impact of those changes on farmers.

The agency will use this value «until an improved estimate of the impacts of climate change in the U.S. can be developed based on the best available science and economics,» an EPA spokesperson said in an email.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

The scientists had received a National Science Foundation grant to study the possible future impacts of climate change on Mongolian wildfires, and were looking for tree core samples to read what they could of the past record.

«The results clearly showed that modest amounts of climate change can have a big impact on yields of several crops in Europe,» said Stanford doctoral student Frances Moore, who conducted the research with David Lobell, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science.

-- The Secretary of Health and Human Services, within 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, on the basis of the best available science, and in consultation pursuant to paragraph (2), shall publish a strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change on public health in the United States and other nations, particularly developing nations.

In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton, note that so - called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of «alarmism» and «overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system.»

He serves on several scientific committees and boards, e.g., as the vice-chair of the science advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) and he chairs the visioning process on global environmental change of ICSU, the International Council for Sscience advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) and he chairs the visioning process on global environmental change of ICSU, the International Council for ScienceScience.

Michael's research focuses on the natural science and policy aspects of climate change and its impacts, especially sea level rise and its causes and consequences.

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

The role of the Climate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sceClimate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate scenChange Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sceclimate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate scenchange impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate sceclimate scenarios.

Those that ejected at slower speeds had no impact on climate change, says Natalia Artemieva, co-author of the study and a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

This issue of the TWAS Newsletter has a special focus on science diplomacy in the developing world, and describes the impact in health, climate change, astronomy, education and other fields.

Science tells us climate change has not had a discernible impact on global hurricane activity.

The article provides a solid review of the recent developments in the science focusing on potential climate change impacts on tropical cyclones.

When I see an effort for «making climate science useful,» I am reminded of a professor I have for an informal seminar class on Climate Change in Wisconsin, in which he told a story of how a laborer came to him and asked how he would be impacted by climate climate science useful,» I am reminded of a professor I have for an informal seminar class on Climate Change in Wisconsin, in which he told a story of how a laborer came to him and asked how he would be impacted by climate Climate Change in Wisconsin, in which he told a story of how a laborer came to him and asked how he would be impacted by climate cChange in Wisconsin, in which he told a story of how a laborer came to him and asked how he would be impacted by climate climate changechange.

More unusually, the article also takes an introspective look at the role of scientists in communicating societally - relevant science to the public, and provides a critical review of how the science dealing with climate change impacts on tropical cyclones and hurricanes has been reported in the media, and how that reporting has occasionally deepened the polarisation on the issue.

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

To overcome these drawbacks, researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change propose an alternative method that only a handful of other groups are now pursuing: a self - consistent modeling framework to assess climate impacts across multiple regions and sectors.

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«The science emphatically proves that black carbon has a larger impact on climate change than was previously understood and we can't escape reality.

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Potential impacts of climate change on corn, soybeans and barley yields in Atlantic Canada Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 2005 http://www.agrometeorology.org/topics/selected-bibliography/articles/potential-impacts-of-climate-change-on-corn-soybeans-and-barley-yields-in-atlantic-canada

Climate change is typically defined as a global problem as it's flowed from the science, which is stronger on global circulation and averages than localised impacts.

Two major federal climate science reports — one on climate change - induced extreme weather, the other on increasing difficulties in dealing with climate impacts on federal lands — were released last week with two nearly opposite communication strategies.

Unfortunately, despite this real climate science, Democrats will continue to demagogue the climate change issue for their billionaire donor - cronies, based entirely on the quack anti-science position that reducing current U.S. CO2 emissions would actually accomplish anything of climate - impact substance.

The consensus in climate science is that recent climate change is overwhelmingly identified as anthropogenic in cause, and furthermore (as per AAR5 on Impacts) there is a consensus that climate change will have significant impacts that while a value judgement can quite reasonably be described as «dangerous&Impacts) there is a consensus that climate change will have significant impacts that while a value judgement can quite reasonably be described as «dangerous&impacts that while a value judgement can quite reasonably be described as «dangerous».

-- geoengineering could well expected to provoke a skeptical orientation in egalitarian communitarians, not only toward geoengineering but toward climate change science that implies the necessity and feasibility of conscious interventions to offset the impact of carbon emissions on the environment.

More recently, papers published by respected scientists from the same university, differed on a key element of climate change science, but the study conducted by IPCC members suggesting acceleration of a trend that would impact global warming received the most attention.