Sentences with phrase «sees climate change creating»

``... sees climate change creating an entirely new business stratum, he said (Blood), similar to that surrounding the so - called Internet economy --»

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I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

These corals didn't seem to mind the fluctuations in local acidity that they created, which were much bigger than those we expect to see from climate change.

You would be very hard - pushed to find a large number of geologists who would argue that humans are creating modern climate change because in geology we've seen massive climate changes, we've seen sea levels go up and down like a yoyo.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Her concern has seen her create compelling work that explores industrial damage, nuclear testing and climate change through her images of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, dust storms and toxic fires.

McIntyre, so the story goes, is looking for answers from only the purest motives but uncovers a web of deceit designed to affirm foregone conclusions whether they're so or not — that humankind is creating dangerous climate change, the likes of which hasn't been seen for at least a thousand or two years.

Seeing world - wide companies work together to create better tools for global climate change is encouraging.

Change Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions provides a fun, social, practical and effective pathway toward the positive change we'd like tChange Is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions provides a fun, social, practical and effective pathway toward the positive change we'd like tchange we'd like to see.

The Committee recognizes that a research program in CDR faces difficult challenges to create viable, scalable, and affordable techniques, but the Committee argues that the situation with human - induced climate change is critical enough (see Chapter 1) that these CDR techniques need to be explored to assess their potential viability and potential breakthrough technologies need to nurtured as they arise.»

Guardian: National Intelligence Council also sees water and food shortages and suggests world is at a «critical juncture in human history» A US intelligence portrait of the world in 2030 predicts that China will be the largest economic power, climate change will create instability by contributing to water and food shortages, and there will be [continue reading...]

«Let's see some really meaningful action by the government to address environmental issues created by man - made climate change instead of repeatedly lying to us that they've got it all under control and could do even better if our pensioners, sick and unemployed would stop squeezing the public purse.»

When focused on what you (TF) fashionably (not scientifically) label «climate change», we see politically swayable gov» t sponsored structures (IPCC / NAS / EPA / NASA GISS / NOAA / MET / etc / etc / etc) have created a type of process that isn't science and which has replaced objective climate related science.

(Jaques et al, 2008) As we shall see, these think tanks developed the ideas, communications and media strategies, literature and press releases that have been widely deployed in rhetorical strategies to defend conservative interests by creating doubt about mainstream climate change scientific claims.

Go see Opasnet at en.opasnet.org and find out how to participate by: en.opasnet.org Reading Opasnet content Commenting Opasnet content Participating in polls Editing and creating Opasnet content Providing data to the Opasnet base Peer - reviewing Opasnet content Moderating parts of Opasnet You can also check out and contribute to the on - going assessments on e.g.: Impacts of emission trading on city - level Impacts of heating in small municipalities Climate change, air quality and housing Costs and benefits of composite traffic Benefits and risks of eating fish

For the optimists the agreement made at the 17th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban South Africa was surprisingly good: the Kyoto Protocol lives on; for the first time, 100 percent of the world's emissions will come under a later agreement in 2020; attendants created a process to address current emissions gap; and the conference saw final approval of the Green Fund to bring billions of dollars in climate aid to the developingClimate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban South Africa was surprisingly good: the Kyoto Protocol lives on; for the first time, 100 percent of the world's emissions will come under a later agreement in 2020; attendants created a process to address current emissions gap; and the conference saw final approval of the Green Fund to bring billions of dollars in climate aid to the developingclimate aid to the developing world.

Francis also said it is necessary to create «a social debate» in which of those involved in any way can explain their problems and «have access to adequate and reliable information in order to make decisions for the common good,» something rarely seen in contemporary discussions of climate change that tend to exclude climate change skeptics.

As such, ocean acidification could represent an abrupt climate impact when thresholds are crossed below which organisms lose the ability to create their shells by calcification, or pH changes affect survival rates (see the Extinctions section below for more discussion of these issues).

There is another group - 350.org - created by environmental author Bill McKibben, with the goal of inspiring people to take climate change seriously and to see the urgency of the issue.

As science begins to understand more clearly how global warming creates local environmental effects, so we may begin to see the growth of direct climate change litigation.