Sentences with phrase «significant effect on climate change»

And scientists see that deforestation has a significant effect on climate change, or global warming.

GCMs fail because the IPCC and the model - makers refuse to admit that changes in solar activity have a significant effect on climate change.

It seems to me that the notion that man - made CO2 has a significant effect on climate change is being disproven with more certainty, as day by day more hard scientific evidence is showing that this hypothesis is a delusion.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

«While laboratory studies of the effect of temperature on the physiology and behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the lab to further develop climate change models,» he said.

It shows that changes in Earth's climate and sea level are closely linked, with only small amounts of warming needed to have a significant effect on seal levels.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

This expertise is needed to deal with climate issues in the North Central US, where changes in temperature and precipitation could have significant effects on streams, forests, agricultural lands, and mountain ecosystems, in addition to the fish, wildlife, and human communities supported by these environments.

Climate change's effect on the size of waves in the world's oceans could be more significant than sea - level rise, scientists warn.

In a complex climate of challenging pupil behaviour, emotional difficulties and ongoing policy changes, the effect on health and wellbeing is significant.

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

Thanks for publishing this, there are folks who denigrated the work of scientists that claimed a solar - climate (temperature) link because the variability in solar energy output just wasn't enough to explain the temperature swings, and perhaps they now realize that there could be another mechanism - similar to a transistor where small changes in gate voltage can affect large changes in power transmission - whereby solar activity can create significant effects on temperature.

Last January Rubio (and Cruz) voted «No» on a Senate amendment that acknowledged the «significant» effect human activity has had on climate change.

Anyway, the point I was making seems to have been missed in post # 28, namely (and simply) that significant climate changes can have adverse effects on human populations.

The summary has already contributed to current policy documents and like the NAS report on global climate change, will have significant effects on policy documents if not actual policy and dedisionmaking.

It is possible, therefore, that the effects of recent accelerations in climate change have not yet started to have a significant contribution to or impact on current sea levels; but based on international scientific opinion, it is more a case of when, rather than if.

The Greenhouse Effect does not cause the changes to the climate to take place, but the Greenhouse Effect is always changing (significant measurable changes on a monthly basis) and what causes the GHE is critical to these climate changes.

However, even a smaller figure (I had calculated about 0.17 W / m ^ 2 based on your inflated figure for total planetary albedo, but you can check it out) is still significant when compared with the total flux imbalance, which I think is a more informative comparison than an arbitrarily selected change in cloud cover, because it compares the sea ice reduction with the effects of all climate variations that have been operating in recent years..

But the ACF says the Government announcement of «a target of reducing Australia's emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 in the context of a Copenhagen agreement that has the effect of stabilising emissions at 450ppm or lower» is a «significant step forward on climate change».

Additionally, climate change is having significant effects on plant diversity.

McCollam also acknowledged that climate change «could have significant effects on agriculture, rainfall, sea level, storm events, demography, and human health.»

It illustrates the significant contribution of urban areas to climate change while at the same time highlighting the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations.

A report on the impacts of climate change on human health published by the European Commission Joint Research Council also shows that coastal flooding and high sea - level rise scenarios could have significant negative effects on mental health, in addition to high economic costs.

The federal auditors found that the federal government has not undertaken strategic government - wide planning to manage climate risks by using information on the potential economic effects of climate change to identify significant risks and craft appropriate federal responses.

This result sheds new light on the effect of long - term fertilization by iron and macronutrients on carbon sequestration, suggesting that changes in iron supply from belowâ as invoked in some palaeoclimatic and future climate change scenarios11â may have a more significant effect on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations than previously thought.

Businesses already suffer significant costs from the effects of climate change, including rising health care costs, more stress on the energy grid, and disruptions of transportation infrastructure.

Tuvalu's highest point is only 4.5 meters above sea - level, as such, climate change will have significant effects on the inhabitants of the island.

Therefore, ending their financing for fossil fuel projects would have a significant effect on mitigating climate change — an important piece of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius and honoring the commitments made as part of the Paris agreement last year.

For tree growth and recruitment, all nine tree species showed significant correlations with stand - level competition, whereas the effects of climate change on tree growth were weak for most tree species (SI Appendix, Fig.

Climate modelling studies with orographic changes confirm significant effects on monsoons and on Eurasian temperature [35].

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»

The ALJ first concluded that «the FSCC underestimates the negative effects that increased warming will have on human health» and that the FSCC models «do not account for a significant number of important environmental impacts which will occur as a result of climate change.»

The «highly conservative» U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found, in its most recent report, that we're already feeling the effects of climate change, and that, barring significant action to reduce emissions, they're only going to getClimate Change found, in its most recent report, that we're already feeling the effects of climate change, and that, barring significant action to reduce emissions, they're only going to get Change found, in its most recent report, that we're already feeling the effects of climate change, and that, barring significant action to reduce emissions, they're only going to getclimate change, and that, barring significant action to reduce emissions, they're only going to get change, and that, barring significant action to reduce emissions, they're only going to get worse.

One of the recent findings in the economics of climate change is that emissions control plays a significant role in the reduction of the tail - effect of fat - tailed uncertainty on welfare.

Your entire climate overview to the effect that there has been no significant solar effect on the climate is down to your belief in the anthropogenic nature of the growth of the ozone hole which allows you to attribute the observed changes in the temperature of the stratosphere to internal variability (albeit anthropogenic).

A significant uncertainty in future projections of sea level is associated with dynamical changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and a key aspect of this uncertainty is the role of ice shelves, how they might respond to climate change, and the effect this could have on the ice sheets.

Climate change's effect on the size of waves in the world's oceans could be more significant than sea - level rise, scientists warn.

Such changes in the climate of the Earth could be caused only by lasting and significant changes in the Sun, because there was absolutely no industrial effect on nature in those times.

Emotional Denial: «I don't feel uneasy about climate change»; Personal Denial: «My daily actions are not part of the climate change problem»; Practical Denial: «There is nothing I can do personally that will have any significant effect on limiting climate change»

At a country level, Scotland appears to be the least sceptical of man - made climate change, with only 12 % of people saying they agree human activity does not have a significant effect on the climate.

This sea ice retreat has significant effects on high - latitude ecosystems and on the evolution of climate change itself, through the change of Earth surface's reflectivity.

Climate change is likely to have significant effects on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.