Sentences with phrase «seriously impacting climate»

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Supply of limited resources is being further constrained by more severe and unpredictable climate events and more potent microbes, pests and diseases — causing food producers to more seriously consider the environmental life cycle impact of food production activities.

And I think it's an indication that this state legislature, Republicans and Democrats, take climate change and the impacts in New York State very seriously.»

Regrettably, this same government in this very month of August is authorizing the cutting down of the same rosewood trees in the part of the country that has livelihoods seriously threatened by the harsh impacts of climate change.

If you take climate change seriously and you understand the cataclysmic impact that it will have on this planet, it is a no - brainer.

«Climate change is a persistent global stressor, but the consequences of it appear to be slowly evolving; they're fairly certain to happen — we know that, now — but the impact on individuals seems to be growing really slowly and needs to be taken very seriously,» said Helm, whose co-authors include UA Norton School researchers Melissa Barnett, Melissa Curran and Zelieann Craig, along with UA alumna Amanda Pollitt.

We judge that the most significant impact for the United States will be indirect and result from climate - driven effects on many other countries and their potential to seriously affect US national security interests.

The realization that CO2 emissions seriously impact global climate ought to transform how we think about energy use.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

It's hard to take Anschutz's papers seriously given their distortions of the benefits oil and gas drilling, their dismissal of the environmental impact of oil and gas extraction, and their failure to acknowledge the dangers of climate change.

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Creating a mechanism without the space for compensation is unfair, and delays necessary urgent action to avoid seriously destructive impacts of climate change.

Bangladesh on Tuesday asked BIMSTEC countries to take a «unified» stand and seriously consider the adverse impact of climate change keeping in mind global assessments that indicate an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters in the region.

An international team of researchers found that a significant portion of species that were threatened to begin with have been seriously impacted by climate change already.

I just think that Passivhaus is the ideal starting point if we are to seriously consider the environmental impact of housing and tackle climate change.

By implication, the policy advice coming out of conventional thin - tailed CBAs of climate change must be treated with skepticism until this low - probability, high - impact aspect is addressed seriously and included empirically in a true fat - tailed CBA.

This administration includes a number of climate deniers who could try to re-negotiate the Paris Agreement, which could profoundly impact its effectiveness; in a worst - case scenario, these officials would simply try to block any action through the arcane, yet important, United Nations (UN) rules of procedure, or attempt to water down the rules and seriously risk the environmental integrity of the post-2020 world.

They then asked six questions reflecting how seriously they take the issue (including «Global warming and climate change will have a noticeably negative impact on the environment in which my family and I live») and three measuring their personal feelings of responsibility (including «My actions to reduce the effects of global warming... will encourage others to reduce the effects of global warming through their own actions»).

Lots of people have genuine concerns about environmental degradation and sustainability and climate change that looks certain to seriously impact both.

Regulators throughout the country, represented by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, are calling for the insurance industry to take climate change more seriously and help businesses prepare for the potential impact of this phenomenon.

Ultimately, if predictions of climate change impacts occur, it poses such great threats to the very existence of the Islands that the government must seriously consider what the impact will be on the Islanders» lives, and provide leadership so that cultural destruction is avoided.