Sentences with phrase «term climate impacts»

The class of chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, used in refrigeration, have a greenhouse potency more than 1,000 times greater than carbon dioxide per molecule — but dissipate quickly in the atmosphere once emitted, so reducing them now can help avoid near - term climate impacts more effectively.

``... computer simulations that help people visualize the long - term climate impacts of decisions being undertaken today....

HFCs are also considered short - lived climate pollutants, so mitigating emissions of HFC is important for limiting near - term climate impacts.

(c) it is still possible to restore a safe climate and prevent most of the anticipated long - term climate impacts — but only if societies across the world adopt an emergency mode of action that can enable the restructuring of the physical economy at the necessary scale and speed;

The report aims to raise awareness on the need to design and implement information and communication technologies (ICT) strategies to prepare for, respond and adjust to short and long - term climate impacts.

But to be in compliance with the Paris Agreement, all EFSI projects have to be assessed against their long - term climate impacts.»

C - ROADS C - ROADS is an award - winning computer simulation that helps people understand the long - term climate impacts of policy scenarios to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

David Bresch, Head Sustainability & Political Risk Management at Swiss Re, concluded: «Efforts to manage soil subsidence risks are most effective when they form part of a broader climate adaptation strategy that takes long - term climate impacts into account and engages multiple actors in finding the right solutions.

Methane is an attractive target from the standpoint of stemming climate change, as it has the potential for short - term climate impacts and its anthropogenic sources are easier to control than CO2.

However, saying CO2 is the only thing that matters implies that the near - term climate impacts I've just outlined have no value at all, which I don't agree with.

Researchers have found that new measurements of the size, age and composition of organic matter in the Pacific Ocean affects short - term and long - term climate impacts.

«It is imperative that both the near - and long - term climate impacts of policies be transparent to a decisionmaker,» said lead author Ilissa B. Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund.

The argument certainly can be made that the biggest near - term climate impact would be to reduce these pollutants (especially in developing countries).

Using methane's 20 - year GWP — a measure of the short - term climate impact of different GHGs — increases the share of oil and gas methane to over 8 % of global GHG (with emissions of 5,650 Mt CO2e), the equivalent of about 40 % of total CO2 emissions from global coal combustion in 2012.

Due to methane's short - term climate impact, reduction of methane leakage today can deliver immediate climate benefits while nations pursue longer - term strategies to reduce CO2.

Not exact matches

The long - term impact of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord will wash over everything from agriculture to economics to housing.

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

«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).

Another area where today's business investments have a direct relationship to tomorrow's climate impacts is in long - term capital expenditures, which will live well into the middle of the century and beyond.

«The decisions you make about what you put in the center of your plate are far more important than the decisions you make regarding what type of lightbulb you put in your house or what type of car you drive in terms of impact on climate,» Mr. Brown said.

A concerted effort to eradicate invasive plants, or to remove a dam in a surface waterway are both examples of how our staff and volunteers can boost the resilience of a given landscape — helping the creatures that live there sustain long - term, despite the impacts of climate change.

In particular it might help to frame the story in terms not so much of potentially devastating consequences in distant parts of the world, but in terms of more local impacts of the climate changing and what people are doing about it.

Experts from around the world will be gathering at the Met Office's Hadley Centre this week to assess the long - term impact of climate change.

That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?

Short - and long - term impacts The American economy is already beginning to feel the effects of climate change, the report says, and «these impacts will likely grow materially over the next 5 to 25 years and affect the future performance of today's business and investment decisions.»

The team warns that if the Middle East becomes more arid in the long term due to climate change, extreme dust storms may become more common, and their impact unavoidable.

«The crane fly link was made as part of several longer - term studies — funded by The Natural Environment Research Council and Defra — investigating blanket bog ecosystems across several UK upland sites, including the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.Dr Heinemeyer, who is currently leading a # 1m Defra - funded SEI project to further study the impacts of climate change and management on blanket bogs, said it wasn't only rare birds that were at risk from climate change.

Professor David Schultz, one of the authors of the guest editorial, said: «One of the long - term effects of climate change is often predicted to be an increase in the intensity and frequency of many high - impact weather events, so reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen to be the response to the problem.

Schultz, a professor of synoptic meteorology, and co-author Dr Vladimir Janković, a science historian specialising in weather and climate, say the short - term, large variability from year to year in high - impact weather makes it difficult, if not impossible, to draw conclusions about the correlation to longer - term climate change.

The paper, «Intact ecosystems provide the best defense against climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long - term.

«These textbooks discuss the impact of climate change on the Earth in hypothetical terms, in complete contradiction to scientific research findings,» he said.

Writing in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, the University of Manchester researchers argue that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial to reducing humanity's longer - term impact on the planet, will not eliminate violent storms, tornadoes or flooding and the damage they cause.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

The results are extremely important in terms of discerning how changes in the North Atlantic Ocean may impact the climate and the weather across the Northern Hemisphere in the future.

For example, when examining hurricanes and typhoons, the lack of a high - quality, long - term historical record, uncertainty regarding the impact of climate change on storm frequency and inability to accurately simulate these storms in most global climate models raises significant challenges when attributing assessing the impact of climate change on any single storm.

Climate change is a long - term process and science allows us to anticipate its impact on both the environment and society.

In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earth's climate.

«Reductions of methane and black carbon (soot) would likely have only a modest impact on near - term global climate warming,» the authors at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wrote.

«To understand the impacts of deforestation and climate change, we need reliable long - term data on the fauna from around the world,» explained Dr. Aide.

However, shifts in the average climate of the tropical oceans could change the relative amounts of expansion in these two adjoining oceans, and ultimately modulate the long - term change in the IPWP impact on regional rainfall amounts.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

One key question in terms of the health impact of expanded mosquito territory is whether the new climates they venture into will be as welcoming to the pathogens they can carry.

«Such long - term insights are crucial in helping with current conservation efforts, laying a foundation for future research on impacts of island formation, climate change and human occupation on animals and their habitats.»

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

«If climate change caused this year's water flow decreases, which I think it did, and then its impact [on rivers] will be a long term.

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.

But most models have focused on short - term timescales, decades or a few centuries at most, says Anders Levermann, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the newclimate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the newClimate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the new paper.

Finally, a broader analysis of the environmental variables in the aggregation sites can inform the long - term impacts of climate change in the movement of the whale sharks.

The scientists also acknowledged that long - term adaptation to climate change can greatly reduce impacts, but further research and evaluation is required to realise the potential of adaptation.

The faltering federal controls on methane followed a growing recognition of the gas's impact on the climate that translated into regulations on methane emissions for landfills and the oil and gas industry toward the end of Obama's second term.