Sentences with phrase «term effect on climate change»

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Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to climate change.

«We should be thinking of ways to reduce our negative effects on the natural environment and these results show that if we do basic conservation and management, it can make a big difference in terms of how ecosystems will weather climate change,» Harley said.

The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.

But on the ground, the effects of climate change sometimes appear in pulses, or what scientists term «disturbance events.»

«Often, we think of climate change and air toxics in terms of effects on adults,» she said.

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.

«We have seriously underestimated the effects of climate change on the most well - known groups, which means those other groups, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, the story is going to be much, much worse in terms of what we think the threat is from climate change already,» he said.

The researchers suggest that modeling the effects of future climate variations should focus on human response to transient short - term changes in addition to the traditional focus on long - term mean changes in climate.

But in general terms how would you compare the potential effects of these industries on climate change?

-- 4) Improved fire models and projections directly related to Montana's forests; 5) Long - term monitoring of forest insect and pathogen response to recent climate changes and improved projections of likely future impacts; 6) Better understanding of disturbance effects on microclimates and refugia and implications for forest productivity, mortality, and adaptation.

This document provides basic information on projected future climate change effects (changes in temperature, precipitation, storm activity and sea level rise) over the near term, mid-century and end - of - century.

The evening of conversation will include a panel organized around the concept of «Imaging Futures», which will consider macro-scale observations on Earth landscapes, the long - term effects of anthropocentric climate change, and the possibility of inter-planetary migration.

But in general terms how would you compare the potential effects of these industries on climate change?

For is it not true that the IPCC is comprised of a wide range of scientist and they all must agree on the content of their reports, that some of said scientists are either on the payroll of oil - dependent nations or are politically conservative, and that the IPCC predictions have consistently underestimated the effects of climate change in terms of temperature rise, sea level rise, ice cap diminution, etc..?

``... estimates of future rises remain hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack of data on what ice sheets did in the past to predict how they will react to warming, insufficient long - term satellite data to unpick the effects of natural climate change from that caused by man and a spottiness in the degree to which places such as Antarctica have warmed....

If you look at the Frameworks Institute studies on climate messaging from a few years ago, they found that framing the issue in terms of what could be done was far more successful than stressing the disastrous effects of climate change.

Many people also use the term «climate change» to describe this rise in temperatures and the associated effects on the Earth's climate.

May said parliamentarians had not done enough to prepare the public for the effect climate change would have on their lives in terms of efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate changes.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

While Aqua's measurements are geared toward understanding long - term problems like global climate change, the satellite is also likely to have an immediate effect on everyone.

Of course, «the truth,» according to Inhofe, is that climate change is a myth: «The science is still out on what effect CO2 might have in terms of what they call global warming and the science is more on our side than on their side.»

We see the long - term effect of climate change on society, and it really frightens us.»

«Books on climate change tend to focus on what is expected to happen this century, which will certainly be large, but they often neglect the even larger changes expected to take place over many centuries.The Long Thaw looks at climate effects beyond the twenty - first century, and its focus on the long - term carbon cycle, rather than just climate change, is unique.»

Climate change judgements can depend on whether today seems warmer or colder than usual, termed the local warming effect.

The biggest problem with «writing off solar effects on climate as insignificant», at the same time attributing most of the recent changes to AGW, is that it does not appear to stand up over the longer term.

While the science on climate change was limited compared to what we know today, by 1971 electric utilities knew enough to include research into the «effects of CO2» in the industry's long - term research and development goals for through the year 2000.

Initially, PED showed backbone, standing up to political activists pushing the state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards view of climate change, which promotes the false claims that the science on climate change is settled, that we know human activities are driving dangerous climate change, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that's dangerous to human health and the environment, and that we fully understand how to counteract the effects of climate change or control long - term global temperature.

My models allowed me to explore the effects of climate variability and long term change on crop growth and development.

This result sheds new light on the effect of long - term fertilization by iron and macronutrients on carbon sequestration, suggesting that changes in iron supply from belowâ as invoked in some palaeoclimatic and future climate change scenarios11â may have a more significant effect on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations than previously thought.

The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that, despite global side effects and long - term consequences, geoengineering techniques involving solar radiation management (SRM) should be maintained:

Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..

Thus, long - term variations of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause of climate changes since variations of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long - term imbalance between the energy of solar radiation entering the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»

Favourite plays include hyper - focus on one, extremely speculative study (T&S 09); misrepresenting the potential for abrupt cooling in the C21st, dismissing the dominance of the centennial forced trend, misrepresenting deglacial abrupt climate change; grossly over-stating the accuracy and utility of pre-CERES TOA reconstructions (especially the synthetic, non-observational ISCCP - FD reconstruction); hyper - focus on interannual OHC variability; confusion of cause and effect with long - term trends in OHC (CO2 forcing denial) and general inability to see that natural variability from now on will be riding up a forced trend which will increasingly dominate climate behaviour.

«Long - Term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico».

For these reasons alone, it becomes obvious to anyone with a sense of fairness that — to the extent that the international community is to cooperate on addressing the effects of climate change — the terms of cooperation ought to be fair.

But while the full - on embrace of climate skepticism may make political sense for the White House — only 25 percent of Trump voters think climate change is caused by humans — it likely won't resonate with the Texans who must now live through Harvey and its long - term effects.

In terms of effects on nature, climate change so far has overall been net positive, at least where I live (UK).

Prior to joining PCIC, Faron worked as a postdoc at UBC exploring the effects of long - term climate change on alpine glaciers.

Smith, who is the convening lead author of the second working group report on vulnerability to climate change, says: «The new assessment has increased our confidence that the effects for climate change are beginning to be seen, in terms of rise in temperature, sea levels and heavy precipitation events».

This week we are focusing on the long term impacts of palm oil production, including the effects of tropical deforestation on climate change, toxic waste pollution from processing plants, and forced labor at palm oil plantations.

Almost all climate models and reports, including those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focus on the near - term effects of rising greenhouse gas emiclimate models and reports, including those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focus on the near - term effects of rising greenhouse gas emiClimate Change, focus on the near - term effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Thus an understanding of the mechanisms distributing water vapor through the atmosphere and of water vapor's effects on atmospheric radiation and circulation is vital to estimating long - term changes in climate.

Though she has not yet served two full terms in the House, Congresswoman Bonamici has already been elected the Ranking Member of the House Science and Technology's Subcommittee on the Environment, a position she has used to great effect to prioritize ocean and climate change issues.