Sentences with phrase «substantial impact on climate»

The other reason that livestock production has such a substantial impact on climate change is that livestock are among the main sources of the world's methane emissions.

Not exact matches

«Overall, climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.climate change is projected to have substantial adverse impacts on future mortality, even considering only a subset of the expected health effects,» the agency said in its latest «Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.Climate Change on Selected Causes of Death.»

«Aerosols have quite a substantial impact on Arctic climate.»

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

From the Physical Science Basis: «Shindell et al. (2009) estimated the impact of reactive species emissions on both gaseous and aerosol forcing species and found that ozone precursors, including methane, had an additional substantial climate effect because they increased or decreased the rate of oxidation of SO2 to sulphate aerosol.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.

June 16, 12:36 p.m. Updated Douglas Biesecker, a scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the leader of an international effort to chart and forecast trends in sunspots, has offered a detailed new critique of three lines of analysis predicting a long and deep lull in sunspot activity, with substantial potential impacts on Earth's climate (and climate policy).

«Climate change is likely to have a substantial negative impact on future mortality, even under optimistic scenarios,» Dr Springmann continued.

For example, his earlier decision to cut funding to United Nations programs related to the climate agreement (not to mention funding for population programs) is going to have substantial adverse impacts on its own.

Abstract: An analysis of the climate impact of various forms of beef production is carried out, with a particular eye to the comparison between systems relying primarily on grasses grown in pasture («grass - fed» or «pastured» beef) and systems involving substantial use of manufactured feed requiring significant external inputs in the form of synthetic fertilizer and mechanized agriculture («feedlot» beef).

The review did not recommend approval of the pipeline, but raised no major objections, concluding that the project was «unlikely to have a substantial impact» on the climate or oil sands production.

A small side note: Blur can happily ignore the pretty horrific environmental impacts of uranium mining, the substantial CO2 emissions associated with which will conveniently go on somebody else's climate treaty tab.

The case for substantial cloud impact on temperature and climate, both in the short and long terms, is growing as Dr. Spencer continues his research of data being gathered by NOAA satellites.

Additionally primary responsibility for climate catastrophe falls on those who bear substantial responsibility by dint of economic positioning, scientific obfuscation, political patronage, political influence or political position as to the direction of our political - economic system, where that system effects our society's energy and land use and therefore climate impacts.

The point is that decisions taken prior to submitting a planning application — location, layout and design, to paraphrase 10 (2)(n)- which are variously completely or partially ignored under the Building Control Act, have a substantial impact on all three elements of section 10 (2)(n)-- energy demand, carbon emissions and climate change adaptation.

Substantial ideological differences on the threat and impact of climate change, which frequently mirror partisan divisions on the topic, also exist in Italy, the UK and Spain.

The announcement to control emissions of byproduct HFC - 23, however, represents a new commitment by China that could have a substantial impact on the global climate.

«Climate change is likely to have a substantial negative impact on future mortality, even under optimistic scenarios,» Dr Springmann says.

Like the last such report, it found that approving a 800,000 barrel - a-day fuse to one of the planet's biggest carbon bombs was «unlikely to have a substantial impact» on the tar sands or the climate.

It presently is not possible to place exact probabilities on the added contribution of climate change to extinction, but the observations noted above indicate substantial risk that impacts from climate change could, within just a few decades, drop the populations in many species below sustainable levels, which in turn would commit the species to extinction.

Climategate had a substantial impact on public opinion, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

And I think they go to the heart of the matter in our discussion here of «black swans» (unknown unknowns of substantial impact) and their impact on climate science and policy.

While a great deal of attention is paid to the impacts of the energy sector on climate, there is a substantial potential for impacts going the other way as well.

«Our findings do not contradict the main conclusions of the IPCC on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability related to climate change... The negative impacts under unmitigated climate change in the future pose substantial risks to most parts of the world, with risks increasing at higher global average temperatures.»

And before we know that, we will have to know whether or not our climate has changed primarily due to anthropogenic forcing (as assumed by the IPCC models) or by natural factors (as some others have concluded), whether or not the net impact of potential future human forcing of our climate (i.e. the 2xCO2 climate sensitivity) will be positive or negative and inconsequential or substantial and whether or not the specific mitigation actions we propose will have any perceptible impact on our climate.

There is a substantial case for linking anthropogenic impacts of Antarctic stratospheric ozone depletion (due to CFCs) and greenhouse warming on the southern hemisphere atmospheric circulations and Australian climate.

«Recent climate changes in this region may have had substantial impact on the carbon balance of Canadian boreal forests as a result of increased fire frequency, an unprecedented expansion of insect outbreaks, and widespread drought - induced tree mortality,» the authors write, but focused their study on drought.

This reflects the large impact of PM2.5 on near - term human health via air quality and the substantial impact of BC on climate.