Sentences with phrase «severity of climate»

«It is historic that so many world figures have come here today and talked about the severity of the climate crisis — but we will wait to be convinced by actions, not words.

The Media are doing us all a disservice by not delivering the severity of the Climate Change problems in all areas of Society, Politics and Industry.

However, I believe that given the severity of climate change and the threat that it poses, our first priority should be that of addressing it in the most effective way possible, and I would prefer to avoid individuals attempting to use the issue of climate change as a vehicle for one version or another of ideologically - motivated syndicalist or socialist «social justice.»

Even worse, the whole «development» project — the only project that has recently managed to lift significant numbers of people out of poverty — is being thrown into crisis by the scale and severity of the climate threat.

When you strip away the rhetoric, the experts know little about the future severity of climate change and even less about the future physical impact in particular countries or regions.

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.

Geoengineering is a highly destructive attempt to mask the true severity of climate implosion from the public for as long as possible while fueling the overall warming in the process.

Considering the range and severity of climate impacts, it's a leadership role desperately called for by the rest of the nation — and by the world.

This attitude towards uncertainty is not atypical: numerous news commentators have cited uncertainty about the severity of climate change in support of their stance against taking any mitigative action.

The InsideClimate News series shows Exxon's own models confirmed a «clear scientific consensus» of the severity of climate change, and warned that by the time the rise in temperatures became unmistakable it might be irreversible.

Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said record heat was «yet another indication of the severity of the climate problem» and should add urgency to government plans to be submitted to the United Nations.

And know that it is gravity «phases» that cause the timing and severity of the climate.

However, science, speaking through the IPCC, can provide guidance by suggesting what degree of severity of climate change is likely to be associated with any specific amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

While solar radiation management aims to reduce the severity of climate impacts, unlike carbon removal, it does not address the source of the problem: increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Today's efforts to reduce emissions will, in due course, determine the severity of climate change, and thus the degree of adaptation required — or even possible — in the future.

The severity of climate change impacts is increasing and is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades.

And indeed, why should we interfere with the global economy when there is uncertainty about the severity of climate change?

According to Tim Ingraham, Co-Owner of Rook Energy Solutions, «electricity is far and away the most costly way to heat your home, therefore location and severity of climate will certainly play into the decision.

But as this is not the case, the conclusions have little bearing on policy debates on the severity of climate change risks from multiple exposure pathways.

That's why, over the long term, it is the atmospheric concentration of CO2 (which, by the way, is now hovering around 400 ppm) that will determine the severity of climate change.

Scientists from 32 powerhouse organizations including the American Public Health Association and the American Chemical Society just penned Congress a letter highlighting a «vast body of peer - reviewed science» that proves the severity of climate change and urging them to take action with legislation that more strictly regulates industrial air pollution.

«The severity of climate change impacts is increasing and is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades.»

The science groups, which represent millions of scientists, sent the letter Tuesday, June 28, 2016, saying the severity of climate change is increasing and will get worse faster in coming decades.

«Over the long term, CO2 emissions will determine the rate and severity of climate change,» says NOAA's Ed Dlugokencky.

As paleoclimatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University said of the New York article, overstating the severity of climate change could feed a «paralyzing narrative of doom and hopelessness.»

Dan Kahan of Yale Law School shared findings from his research on communicating the severity of climate change and sea - level rise in southeast Florida.

Not exact matches

As fears grow that climate change is lengthening the time and severity of Australia's bushfire season, government funding to find a solution to the phenomenon is drying up.

The after effects of climate change will worsen the severity and duration of droughts in years to come, the EEA says.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

The perceived severity of the risks of climate change varies, Walmsley said.

There is a risk that severity of epidemics of some wheat diseases may increase within the next ten to twenty years due to the impacts of climate change according to a study by international researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

It is not yet clear how climate change might change the severity or frequency of hurricanes — and thus affect the terns — but it is something to keep an eye on, Pimm says.

While natural climate variations like El Niño do affect the frequency and severity of heat waves from one year to the next, the study suggests the increases are mainly linked to long - term changes in sea surface temperatures.

Still, computer simulations suggest that about a third of the recent drought's severity could have been caused by elevated temperatures linked to climate change, the researchers found.

But the tree ring data show that the dry spell, while rare in its severity, was not outside the realm of natural climate variability, researchers report online March 14 in Science Advances.

As climate change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.

«The confluence of climate and people in these areas increases the risk of widespread fire activity when the fire season severity is elevated,» said Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who works with Randerson and colleagues on the forecast.

«Do sunny climates reduce the severity or prevalence of ADHD and if so, how?

Basic climate science suggests that, as global greenhouse gas emissions increase, so too will the quantity and severity of natural disasters.

Climate scientists believe that the frequency and severity of extreme - weather events will increase as temperatures continue to rise.

And Wallace Broecker of Columbia University, New York, US, who has warned for two decades that the Atlantic circulation is «the Achilles heel of our climate system», seriously questions both the speed and severity of the changes proposed.

«Rather striking» climate link to Australian heat waves Because temperature extremes are easier to decipher, scientists are fairly confident that global warming increased the severity and likelihood of extreme heat events in 2013 in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China and Europe.

And fire severity is already increasing in many forests due to climate change — what is now thought of as a drought in some locations may be considered average by the end of the next century.

-- In providing assistance under this section, the Administrator of USAID shall give priority to countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, that are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, determined by the likelihood and severity of such impacts and the country's capacity to adapt to such impacts.

But climate change also can impact the number and severity of wildfires.

Although droughts have been a natural part of the year - to - year variations in the Amazon's climate, both the frequency and severity of droughts in the rainforest have been increasing over the last decade because of climate change, Aragão says:

In other words, there is a large role that wildland management can play in limiting the severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests even as the climate warms and conditions become right for larger and potentially more severe fires.

Better understanding of the factors that influence the biomass and health of this ecosystem is needed to be able to predict the severity of threats such as climate change and fishing at all levels.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.