Sentences with phrase «strong impact on climate»

British astronomer William Herschel observed in 1801, a direct correlation between the historical record of sunspots and grain prices — indicating that the solar cycles do have a strong impact on climate variability.

Not exact matches

«We will explain how shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and corporate governance matters often raise issues with a direct impact on long - term shareholder value (e.g., effective management of climate change risk or encouraging stronger board oversight and independence).

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.

It says that climate forces on species are stronger than land - use impacts.

The authors emphasize «the LIG record reveals that strong climate forcing is not required to yield major impacts on the ocean and ice caps.»

«The only rationale for this to hold would be for climate change to have such a strong impact on the non-agricultural economy that people would lose purchasing power and thus would be so poor they couldn't afford the food they need to meet the requirements,» Schmidhuber said.

It's important to understand how agricultural activity can have «surprisingly strong» impacts on climate change, he says.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

And certain invasive species and diseases may have a stronger negative impact on the southern sugar maples than our more northern populations, exacerbated by climate change.

«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

This is due to the fact that it has the strongest potential to warm the globe in the long - run based on its long lifetime in the atmosphere (ranging from decades to centuries, and a tail end that extends to millennia, and with many climate impacts occurring over these slow timescales).

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

«There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources and human health,» the letter states.

The strong heating caused by soot on snow and in the atmosphere can change air circulation over the Plateau, leading to a broader impact on climate.»

Plus eminent climate scientist Kevin Trenberth predicts strong El Nino impacts on world weather.

Major scientific studies studies of our 4Rs Program and our Resolving Conflict Creatively Program found that they have a strong positive impact on students» behavior, the classroom climate, and students» academic performance.

The different cultural climate in the USA and the American avant - garde of the period made a strong impact on Afro.

This paper will get a lot of attention, because it follows by a few months a paper from last summer, Whiteman et al (2013), which claimed a strong (and expensive) potential impact from Arctic methane on near - term climate evolution.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years aheaOn the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years aheaon - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years aheaon solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

Given the strong demands from less developed nations at this meeting for hundreds of billions of dollars in long - term energy and climate aid, these programs may not have much impact on talks.

Yes, there is strong evidence of impacts of recent observed climate change on physical, biological, and human systems.

These results, while confirming that anthropogenic - added climate forcing might have progressively played a dominant role in climate change during the last century, also suggested that the solar impact on climate change during the same period is signficantly stronger than what some theoretical models have predicted.»

Climate change is typically defined as a global problem as it's flowed from the science, which is stronger on global circulation and averages than localised impacts.

While carbon dioxide (CO2) usually takes the spotlight among greenhouse gases, the impact of methane on climate change is in fact 20 times stronger than CO2 (over a 100 - year period).

She currently manages UCS's climate impacts analyses, work that helps shed light through new research, analysis and outreach on ongoing climate change impacts, current efforts to cope with these impacts, and the urgency of strong leadership and action.

A new generation of models is needed in all three of climate science, impact and economics with a still stronger focus on lives and livelihoods, including the risks of large - scale migration and conflicts.

Because around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions originate with EU nations, getting those governments to take stronger action, faster, would have a big impact on curbing climate change's worst impacts.

«For property and casualty insurers, climate change represents an important challenge because the rising seas, the increased risk of drought, fire and floods, and the stronger storms that may occur will have a huge impact on the claims of the people insured.»

In both polar regions, there is strong evidence of the ongoing impacts of climate change on terrestrial and freshwater species, communities and ecosystems (very high confidence).

There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

«There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society....

The AMO is a natural climate variability phenomenon having a strong impact on North Atlantic's regional temperatures.

In its latest report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes a strong case for a sharp increase in low - carbon energy production, especially solar and wind, and provides hope that this transformation can occur in time to hold off the worst impacts of global warming.

Despite strong support from both Rousseff and Temer, pre-salt oil extraction remains under debate in Brazil due to its impact on the climate, fears over a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and how it could affect local fisherman.

This question is designed to expose that those who seek to rely on scientific uncertainty as justification for non-action on climate change have a strong ethical duty to produce very credible scientific evidence that supports the conclusion that human activities releasing ghgs are not causing climate change and its impacts.

The UN climate talks opened on Monday in the backdrop of the devastating impacts of Typhoon Haiyan one of the strongest storms ever to hit landfall.

Moreover, there is strong evidence that ongoing climate change will have broad impacts on society, including the global economy and on the environment.

Given the strong dependence in rural areas on natural resources, the impacts of climate change on agriculture, forestry and fishing, and thus on rural livelihoods and incomes, are likely to be especially serious.

In the last two entries we examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (1) the strong scientific position on climate change, and (2) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reduction necessary to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

Scientists say for the first time there's a strong consensus that climate change is now having a noticeable impact on weather events.

Impacts ranged from a strong increase to a severe loss of vegetation carbon (cv), depending on differences in climate projections, as well as the physiological response to rising [CO2].

These results suggest that there is a strong impact of anthropogenic climate change on growing season length.

But if the messages communicated in our outside actions are strong enough, they may be able to impact the greater global dialogue on climate change.

But there is one issue on which the president can, and should, say much more: the strong scientific evidence on human - induced climate change and its impacts on the United States, and the rapidly closing window for action.

«The basic idea is that we have to establish a price level for carbon in China, and I think that is the right step to take,» said Yang, adding: «I think the enormous local impacts of China's energy mix and dependence on coal is becoming a huge push for China to take even stronger climate mitigation action.»

«The president can, and should, say much more [about] the strong scientific evidence on human - induced climate change and its impacts on the United States, and the rapidly closing window for action,» say Harvard Prof. Jim McCarthy and UN Foundation President Tim Wirth, giving voice to what Climate Science Watch has argued repeatedly since before President Obama's inauguclimate change and its impacts on the United States, and the rapidly closing window for action,» say Harvard Prof. Jim McCarthy and UN Foundation President Tim Wirth, giving voice to what Climate Science Watch has argued repeatedly since before President Obama's inauguClimate Science Watch has argued repeatedly since before President Obama's inauguration.

Besides the direct impact a President Trump would have on climate and energy policy (if he keeps his promises), he would also have a very strong, positive effect on public opinion.

This has a strong impact on the model - based 2xCO2 climate sensitivity (p. 633):

Most of the warming in climate models is not from CO2 directly but from feedback effects, and the evidence for strong positive climate feedback on temperature is very weak (to the point of non-existence) as compared to the evidence of greenhouse gas warming (yes, individual effects like ice cover melting are undeniably positive feedback effects, the question is as to the net impact of all such effects).