Sentences with phrase «substantial impact on climate change»

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.

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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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

«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.

«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.