Sentences with phrase «slow climate change by»

This powerful achievement will save thousands of lives a year and slow climate change by reducing pollution that accelerates sea ice melt.

Our goal is to slow climate change by protecting arctic ice with eco-friendly materials that reflect away the sun's heat.

-- DQ) Plants slow climate change by forming cloud sunshade, study finds OSLO: Plants help to slow climate change by emitting gases as temperatures rise that lead to -LSB-...]

Women within the community are among those being trained as masons to install biogas digesters in Kereita area, providing households with cheap, clean energy and helping to slow climate change by replacing wood, gas, or kerosene.

According to researchers, the budding space tourism industry may be mooning efforts to slow climate change by blasting extra soot, or black carbon, from rocket engines high into the atmosphere.

In addition to raising doubts about climate science and about the need to slow climate change by reducing emissions, the company site omits any discussion of the costly consequences of climate change, choosing instead to focus exclusively on high - end estimates of the costs of reducing emissions.

This initiative within schools is part of a wider global movement encouraging people to help slow climate change by reducing their meat consumption.

Not exact matches

By reducing our meat intake — any day of the week — we can help slow climate change, protect the environment and live a healthier life.

The companies, co-ops and individuals were nominated by their peers for expanding the boundaries of industry practices in at least one of the nine areas identified by the Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate Climate Collaborative as having the most potential to slow — or reverse — climate climate change.

«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.

The state energy officials argued that the financing arrangement is fair, saying that New Yorkers will benefit by cleaner air overall and hopefully, slower climate change, by extending the life of the nuclear plants.

Clinton's Democratic primary opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, is rolling out a plan to slow the effect of climate change, vowing to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030.

Particles of sulfuric acid — injected by volcanoes or humans — have slowed the pace of climate change in the past decade

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Politicians and industry have been considering the possibility of slowing down climate change by eliminating these SLCF without the need to immediately reduce CO2 emissions.

Ocean acidification expected to accompany climate change may slow development and reduce survival of the larval stages of Dungeness crab, a key component of the Northwest marine ecosystem and the largest fishery by revenue on the West Coast, a new study has found.

Some species will be able to keep up with the changing climate, but others will be too slow, or they will have their path blocked by a valley, a mountain, a city or even a single road.

If the researchers incorrectly estimated a 200,000 - year - old salamander species to be 2 million years old, then their result was off by a factor of 10, making the salamander's rate of evolution 20,000 times slower than climate change instead of 200,000 times slower.

To make mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16 global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Dr. Benestad states: «In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

Now you can be both a greenie and a gas guzzler by investing in projects slowing climate change.

Looking into the future, we found that, if nothing is done to slow climate change, by the time global warming reaches 2 ºC events like this winter would become common at the North Pole, happening every few years.

Model studies for climate change between the Holocene and the Pliocene, when Earth was about 3 °C warmer, find that slow feedbacks due to changes of ice sheets and vegetation cover amplified the fast feedback climate response by 30 — 50 % [216].

By absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, the ocean slows down global climate change.

Guemas et al. (Nature Climate Change 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years can not be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the Climate Change 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years can not be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the mChange 2013) shows that the slower warming of the last ten years can not be explained by a change in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the mchange in the radiative balance of our Earth, but rather by a change in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the mchange in the heat storage of the oceans, and that this can be at least partially reproduced by climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the climate models, if one accounts for the natural fluctuations associated with El Niño in the initialization of the models.

I wrote about that consensus last year in covering the reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but also wrote about scientists» frustrations over trying to convey the importance of a slow - motion disaster.

The presentations, nearly all of which are online, are focused on food, health and energy, but also on the value of slowing climate change and conserving the planet's biological bounty, called by some participants «natural capital.»

The challenges that the world faces in the next decades regarding climate change will likely have to be addressed by changing consumption patterns and technological innovations; changes in population size in the most developed countries, with the possible exception of the United States, is a relatively slow process that occurs over many decades and that will unlikely to have a significant impact on how the world resolves the challenges of climate change and resource constraints.

The data show that the sun's variations have been small over the times we care about, the climate responds to variations in sunshine caused by orbital changes, but these are slow.

We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that's not polluted or damaged, and by taking an all - of - the - above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut carbon pollution, we can protect our kids» health and begin to slow the effects of climate change so we leave a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations.

We're not going to make a lot of headway in slowing climate change and environmental destruction until we stop our silly habit of building houses out of two by fours.

IF I understand the slow thermal inertia of the climate system correctly, the California fires, this hurricane season, and other extreme weather we have seen in the past few years, all those things that have been exacerbated by climate change are the result of GHG put into the air 30 - 50 years ago.

In the GISS «committed climate change» simulations, most of the additional warming has occured by 2050, but there remains a slow increase for decades afterwards.

Once the ice reaches the equator, the equilibrium climate is significantly colder than what would initiate melting at the equator, but if CO2 from geologic emissions build up (they would, but very slowly — geochemical processes provide a negative feedback by changing atmospheric CO2 in response to climate changes, but this is generally very slow, and thus can not prevent faster changes from faster external forcings) enough, it can initiate melting — what happens then is a runaway in the opposite direction (until the ice is completely gone — the extreme warmth and CO2 amount at that point, combined with left - over glacial debris available for chemical weathering, will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, possibly allowing some ice to return).

I am equally concerned by those who allege that we will incur economic catastrophes if we take steps to slow climate change.

Like it or not, our lives will be governed in many ways by the impacts of climate change and by the efforts to slow climate change.

Now it is clear human drive the climate change and human can slow down it by action to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

The Conversation: Climate change is slowing Atlantic currents that help keep Europe warm (by one of the authors of the Thornalley paper)

In a study published in the journal Nature the researchers say analysis of sea surface temperature data shows that the AMOC has slowed down by roughly 15 % since the middle of the 20th century, with human - made climate change a prime suspect.

The real threat, the existential threat, is that climate change will gain so much momentum that humanity loses what remaining power it has to slow or stop it, even by reducing carbon emissions to zero.

Learn more about black carbon by watching Stop Soot: The Easiest Way to Slow Climate Change, an animated video.

Slower - acting components of the climate system, such as the oceans, may delay any climate change by up to several decades.

Climate Change, Deforestation, Biomes and Ocean Currents, Plankton, Endangered Species - Earth Web Site Click for more detail Thermohaline Change Evidence is growing that the thermohaline current may be slowed or stopped by cold fresh water inputs to the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

And it suggested that Americans devote «our limited dollars» to adapting to climate change rather than slowing it by reducing greenhouse - gas emissions.