Sentences with phrase «simply adapt to climate change»

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Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Many species couldn't adapt to the speedy change in climate and simply died off.

If this assumption were correct, it would indeed be most cost - effective to wait and simply adapt to the consequences of climate change.

To adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years agTo adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years agto a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years ago.

Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the conservation group that launched legal action to get Pacific walruses listed in 2008, told Earther that the agency's claim that walruses will adapt to climate change «is baseless, and simply doesn't match the science showing that walruses are being harmed by the devastating loss of their sea ice habitat.»

Anna Taylor, of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Oxford has no PhD at all, her research focuses on «stakeholder engagement in adapting to multiple stresses, including climate variability and change, water scarcity, food insecurity and health concerns» — not climate science, and has simply not been alive long enough to join the ranks of the specialists of specialisms that Dessler demands of sceptics.

If we can simply «adapt (ing) our defences to the changing climate,» I say bring on RCP 8.5.