Sentences with phrase «seen climate change effects»

Through her travels, she has seen climate change effects first hand and taken up the cause.

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Over the past three decades we have seen an increase in insured damages, and it is up to all of us — the insurance industry, governments and citizens — to do our part in responding to the effects of climate change.»

In British Columbia, we see the effects of climate change in the growing number of powerful storms that pummel our coast, record wildfires that destroy our forests, and water shortages that harm our agricultural sector.

«I see the effects climate change is having on the poorest people in the world every day.

«We've seen the effects of climate change in the past few months.

Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.

«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.»

Professor David Schultz, one of the authors of the guest editorial, said: «One of the long - term effects of climate change is often predicted to be an increase in the intensity and frequency of many high - impact weather events, so reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen to be the response to the problem.

Panel speakers James McCarthy, a Harvard University professor and former AAAS president, and Richard Cizik, a former evangelical preacher, traveled to Alaska together in 2006 to see firsthand the effects of climate change.

And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»

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.

Queensland could face devastating floods rivalling those seen in 2010 - 11 in just a year's time, as the effects of climate change and an impending La Niña weather event combine.

«We need pristine reefs to see what we've lost elsewhere, to better manage damaged reefs and to isolate the effects of climate change.»

«Climate change has evident physical and mental health effects if you look at certain outcomes, such as the hurricanes we had last year, but we also need to pay very close attention to the mental health of people in everyday life, as we can see this, potentially, as a creeping development,» Helm said.

This is expected to rise in many regions over the coming decades and could reduce or even negate the beneficial effects of higher CO2 (see Climate change warning over food production).

«Although many of these effects are already seen, their progression in the absence of climate change mitigation will greatly amplify existing global health challenges and inequalities,» they warn.

Kilpatrick explained that the effects of climate change are expected to be seen at the edges of species» geographic ranges, as species adapted to warm climates move further north and cold - adapted species retreat from the southern parts of their ranges.

With these monumental changes in the shielding effect of the Earth's magnetic field, you'd expect to see fairly massive climate consequences if the GCR crowd are right.

I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.

The results of this analysis on the indirect effects of climate change on Montana's forests produced several key messages, some of which are shown below (for a complete list of key messages, see the Forests chapter):

The results of this analysis on the direct effects of climate change on Montana's forests produced several key messages, some of which are shown below (for a complete list of key messages, see the Forests chapter):

Since the quality and taste of a vintage is so heavily dependent on the weather in which the grapes were grown, you can think of wine as one of the first places we'll see the effects of climate change.

As part of the Programme, with support from PRBB Foundation, the Green Belt Movement developed a specialised Training of Community Trainers project which sees local women taught about climate change adaptation strategies that can be used to provide practical solutions to effects of climate change at a local level.

China seems to see the overall effect of Arctic climate change as more of a beckoning economic opportunity than a looming environmental crisis.

I was looking back at some historical Climatological Data reports for Ohio from the NCDC archives and you can certainly see the effects of climate change.

In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.

But I can't see how if we reduce our effect on the climate (as any strategy to mitigate climate change would) it is another form of climate control.

Through paleo - climate simulations for the last millennium with climate models, a number of alternate forcing histories for volcanic and solar changes have been proposed to see their effect on past climate variations.

I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.

One can see a number of basic flaws here; the complete lack of appreciation of the importance of natural variability on short time scales, the common but erroneous belief that any attribution of past climate change to solar or other forcing means that CO2 has no radiative effect, and a hopeless lack of familiarity of the basic science of detection and attribution.

The thrust of the present discussion, and most discussions I have seen related to climate change, is the effect of climate on weather.

At present the public are not going to demand action until they can see that climate change is taking effect.

Climate warming is not under control and I do not see the management changes coming to effect the needed changes in climate change emissions.Climate warming is not under control and I do not see the management changes coming to effect the needed changes in climate change emissions.climate change emissions.»

It is a sweeping and valuable cross-disciplinary description of ways in which climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.»

On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).

Today, when both the observational and theoretical evidence for man made climate changes with negative effects are stronger, Dr. Wetzel wants to wait and see.

In the project submissions we have seen over the past few years, projects devoted to the effects of climate change (on people, wildlife, commerce, and communities) have featured heavily.

«We are seeing the effects of climate change.

Efforts by any one country benefit those far beyond its borders, so we can all be thankful that the Chinese government is willing to listen to its people — people who have suffered and have seen the effects of air pollution and climate change firsthand.

ChE — I've seen substantial data on the effects of anthropogenic climate change on agricultural productivity — it's a subject that has been addressed in detail by the IPCC and many other organizations concerned with agriculture, as well as by the climate science literature.

... the Heartland Institute's climate - change summit was forged around a cadre of professional climatologists, atmospheric physicists, and economists who see the effects of a global - warming «hoax» as the death knell for scientific inquiry and the capitalist system of free enterprise.

In an interview with the Herald, the head of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Luis Samaniego said the region is already seeing many effects of climate change and faces an average GDP drop of one percentage point because of it.

In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agrclimate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate AgrClimate Agreement.

Central America is no exception, including the southern part, and as we've seen in part 16 of our series, at least in the case of the rainforests of Costa Rica climate change and agriculture seem to have a synergistic effect on the decline of rainforest biodiversity.

You can find out how the climate is changing; the effects of climate change on extreme weather, human health, water supply, the oceans; and the impact we already see.

I think an addition or subtraction of say 100 watts per square meter would cause a slow change in climate and global temperature, and humans could easily mitigate the long term effects fairly easier, or steps could taken to change our world in some manner if that was seen as needed in the future.

These reactions may be short - lived or, in some cases, long - lasting.117, 118,119 For example, research demonstrated high levels of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among people affected by Hurricane Katrina, 120,121 and similar observations have followed floods122, 123 and heat waves.124 Some evidence suggests wildfires have similar effects.125 All of these events are increasingly fueled by climate change (see Ch.

As Yohe sees it, a prudent risk - management strategy dictates significant cuts in greenhouse gases and immediate planning to adapt to rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

We see the long - term effect of climate change on society, and it really frightens us.»

Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet and we are already seeing the effects on our oceans and marine life across the globe.