Sentences with phrase «significant changes in climate»

I hope I am wrong and you are right that significant changes in climate can be taken in stride but just hoping that massive amounts of published and peer - reviewed research on this topic is wrong strikes me as wishful thinking.

«This survey of expert opinion was conducted by the National Defense University, Washington, D.C. to quantify the likelihood of significant changes in climate and their practical consequences.

«Most adaptation actions to date appear to be incremental changes,» the survey notes, «not the transformational changes that may be needed in certain cases to adapt to significant changes in climate.»

What the new data suggests, Werner said, is that the Arctic Ocean will likely be free of sea ice during summer in the next few decades, which may trigger significant changes in climate across the globe.

And we know that changes in solar activity have made significant changes in climate.

Tropical widening is associated with several significant changes in our climate, including shifts in large - scale atmospheric circulation, like storm tracks, and major climate zones.

For example, a mildly eccentric orbit would keep Earth in its so - called habitable zone all year long so that there is little significant change in climate.

State one credible documented instance where any observed statistically significant change in climate could be solely attributed to levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

It might improve the earlier forcings a little, but it's really a small impact on climate — probably not detectable, and certainly will not lead to any significant change in climate modelling.

Any significant change in climate must be attributable to external forces.

Not exact matches

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissionIn the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissionin the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

As noted in The Price of Climate Change, my colleagues and I believe these trends will not only encourage significant growth in clean technologies, energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure, but also greater transparency and reporting on sustainability and the carbon footprints of corporations around the globe.

The CEO of another significant Canadian shareholder, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), recently gave a speech ostensibly about climate change that endorsed the pipeline industry in Canada.

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years.

Organized by the Governments of the Netherlands, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Norway as well as FAO and the World Bank the event is significant given the forthcoming annual decision - making meeting (CoP16) of the UN for Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico in December.

But it's not just your health that will benefit, but the planet's, too — going vegan sparks significant change in terms of helping to combat climate change, and the simple act of going vegan could reduce your carbon imprint by a whopping 50 %.

The food system is in an interesting predicament — it's a significant contributor to one of its own biggest threats — climate change.

Scientists say the amounts of meat now eaten, and the ways livestock are raised, appear to exceed the carrying capacity of the planet, resulting in a significant contribution to climate change, water pollution, deforestation, and other environmental crises.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

The current and projected future impacts of climate change on nature in Massachusetts are very significant, requiring a thoughtful and comprehensive approach and a sustained effort.

Moreover, 2010 in general witnessed a significant decline in coverage of climate change around the world.

«I am worried there is a tendency on the Conservative right wing, a significant part of its parliamentary party, that does not appreciate the importance of being at the table in Brussels when it comes to negotiating the rules for the single market — and does not understand the strength the EU gives us globally in tackling problems like climate change,» the energy and climate change secretary said.

Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

In terms of proving progressive credentials to the Left my guess is that the Conservative leadership would also point to the party's acceptance of homosexual rights, efforts to promote women and ethnic minority candidates and the significant emphasis that the party has placed on civil libertarianism and combating climate change.

From that perch she ushered through some of the most significant, and controversial, legislation in decades, including President Obama's healthcare reform law, the Dodd - Frank Wall Street reform law and a climate change bill that Senate Democrats never took up.

The Unite union's national policy committee overwhelmingly opted for Ed Miliband in a significant boost for the former climate change secretary's campaign.

Voters in the four - county district said they believe that climate change is a significant threat (74 - 20 percent); favor a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (66 - 27 percent), consider themselves 2nd Amendment rather than gun control supporters (54 - 43 percent) and support keeping Obamacare in place (50 - 45 percent).

Trump is poised in the coming days to announce his plans to dismantle the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's climate change legacy, while also gutting several smaller but significant policies aimed at curbing global warming.

County Executive Molinaro said, «During almost a quarter - century of service to Dutchess County, Valerie Sommerville has seen significant change in our national and local economic climate — including the Great Recession and its continued lingering impacts.

The financial cost of imposing the climate change levy is often cited as being a significant factor behind increasing energy costs; however the increase in costs due to CCL is, I believe, 8 %.

Although they may feature historically significant architecture or «exceptional natural beauty», many are in danger of degradation, for example, from the effects of climate change.

A study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change showed that early exposure to high levels of CO2 during the larval stage of development had significant negative effects on the fish's size, metabolism and ability to sense threats in their environment.

«Climate change is probably the most significant impact that the human environment will suffer in our generation.»

«It seems that the sun's quiescence was responsible for the most extreme phases of the Little Ice Age, implying that solar variability sometimes plays a significant role in climate change.

On climate science: «As summarized in the 2013 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there continues to be significant progress in climate sclimate science: «As summarized in the 2013 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there continues to be significant progress in climate sClimate Change (IPCC), there continues to be significant progress in climate sclimate science.

«Using a numerical climate model we found that sulfate reductions over Europe between 1980 and 2005 could explain a significant fraction of the amplified warming in the Arctic region during that period due to changes in long - range transport, atmospheric winds and ocean currents.

Previous studies by the Cardiff team on warming effects in the Rivers Wye and Tywi reveal significant reductions in insect numbers and even an instance of local species extinction due to climate change.

The annual Antarctic ozone hole has caused significant changes in Southern Hemisphere surface climate in the summer.

How critical is this transformation of the grid to getting the amount of renewables we need to be on track to make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the kind of cuts that we need to forestall or minimize global climate change?

«It's a tremendous leap to draw these conclusions — that climate change is linked to violence — and factors such as economics, technology, poverty, group dynamics, cultural nationalism and personalities play significant roles in outbreaks of war,» says William Martel, an international securities expert at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

A significant update in this report from the 2009 version is the stronger link between climate change and severe weather, as the science on that topic has strengthened in the last five years, said a source familiar with the report.

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

If renewable energy is going to be a bigger player and have a significant impact in cutting the greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that are driving climate change, it's going to have to grow quickly.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.