Sentences with phrase «term problems of climate change»

This flurry of research and review is of course timed to help world leaders at Davos concentrate on the longer - term problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and food security, in addition to immediate problems of economic stagnation, poverty, conflict and so on.

Not exact matches

Kuntzsch was not sure if it was proof of long term climate change, but said it was a problem for the country's seafood industry.

This is especially true, given that many of the problems we face have a longer - term dimension: climate change, pensions and social care, and international economic development are just some of the more obvious examples.

The format of the initiatives meant that they not only learnt about the science of environmental problems such as climate change, but were also engaged in considering solutions and how to bring them about, both in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.

«The portions of the West that are already stretched in terms of water resources — Arizona, New Mexico, the High Plains of Texas, the southern Central Valley — for those places that are already having problems, climate change is going to tighten the screws,» Meixner said.

One of the major problems, as Latif explained, is that there are just very few long - term oceanic measurements, thereby complicating the analysis and interpretation of climate change signals.

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.

More precisely monitoring dolphins with seafloor recordings could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long - term effects of climate change.

A host of problems, including overfishing, practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing that cause long - term reef damage, coastal development, and climate change are all taking their toll on the ecosystem and its biodiversity.

Highlights of the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry were: the importance of developing environmental friendly technologies, working with green chemistry and facing the climate change problem as well as to link society to science, in terms of divulgation and pertinence of the research.

Generation and storage of biochar in soil may offer a long - term soil - based solution to the global climate change problem.

It faces the problems of the future of the planet in terms of climate change.»

P.S., In fresh article published in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem...

We provided them with statements from actual advocates using a variety of «frames» to describe climate change — as a national security problem, as a business opportunity, as a secular moral issue, as a Christian moral issue, and in terms of the environmental impact.

The working hypothesis is that even if the climate system may have the possibility of long - term chaos, it is nonetheless more like William's example of what happens when you change a parameter of the Lorentz model, than it is like the problem of predicting a single day's weather a year ahead.

However, I see zero difference between the two groups in terms of the actions they are taking to help alleviate the climate change problem.

Part of the problem is semantic: «Abrupt» and «catastrophic» are inavoidably subjective terms, although the former is a bit more prone to definition (e.g., any change of climate state involving a rapid transition from one state to another, although of course we then have to further define «rapid» and «climate state»).

Basically, the problem that the SGCR faced was that there does not seem to be an agency with the mission and expertise to be pushing for and guiding advancement of social sciences dealing with sustainability and long - term climate change.

In my opinion, a possible global climate change - induced increase of a percent or two here or there in the number of tornadoes / hurricanes / * enter your favorite hazard here * is orders of magnitude smaller (in terms of a problem) in comparison to vulnerability issues.

Again, the problem is seizing on any short - term variations in weather as evidence of climate change.

But in Issues, analysts have identified a more fundamental problem — the social cost of carbon dioxide is the wrong guide to follow — and they proposed an alternative method that better reflects what is known about long - term effects of climate change and how these effects should be valued by today's decision - makers.

The Taskforce is comprised of eminent scientists, business leaders, policy advisers and political leaders drawn from around the world.5 Its purpose is to recommend to all governments a framework for managing climate change responses that is truly global, provides long - term direction, and is genuinely responsive to the scale of the problem.

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.

Yet in the global warming issue, we see instances where a major organization promoted the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and another organization similarly promoting a prominent IPCC scientist as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and the long - term promotion of book author Ross Gelbspan as a Pulitzer winner when he is not, a problem first revealed long ago by Steve Milloy and expanded upon at this blog.

After five years of referring to climate change as a long - term climate and humanitarian problem, President Obama is trying a new strategy.

«But if doing these things has the tradeoff of dampening the incentives for longer - term innovation, there can be a real problem, particularly when dramatic levels of technological change are needed, such as in the case of stabilizing the global climate.»

«In the INDCs [Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or what countries will do to cut carbon emissions] they have submitted, more than 140 countries have said that land was part of their solution or their problem in terms of climate change,» she points out.

From the administration that brought you «man - caused disaster» and «overseas contingency operation,» another terminology change is in the pipeline.The White House wants the public to start using the term «global climate disruption» in place of «global warming» — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

In comparison to messages that defined climate change in terms of either the environment or national security, talking about climate change as a public health problem generated greater feelings of hope among subjects.

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Essentially, solving the longer term energy problem — i.e. let's quit relying on buying fossil fuels from places that don't like us and extort money — also solves any CO2 emission problem (if it exists) by default, meaning that climate change is a secondary beneficiary and not a primary reason to do any of these things.

To understand why natural gas combustion in the electricity sector is not likely be an adequate solution to climate change in the long - term, it is necessary to understand the scale of the problem facing the world.

Yet action to address the risk is complicated because of what Wagner and Weitzman call the Big Four problems: Any one country's effort to prevent climate change alone would be ineffective; political systems struggle to address long - term challenges; by the time humanity decides to act aggressively, it may be too late; and the risks are highly uncertain, which makes them easy to dismiss.

If climate change fanatics are allowed to implement their policies, global population will continue to increase and overpopulation may become a real problem — another example of how the global warming hysterics are actually harming the long term environment of the earth by preventing overpopulated countries from developing and naturally lowering their birth levels.

It is like when Judith focuses on the lack of money for stabilizing and modernizing our capacity for longer - term weather prediction — by pointing to the money spent on studying climate change — as if that were the problem.

In terms of advocates, and I don't think it's a problem because climate change is complicated.

Ultimately, he said, this becomes a problem when the rate of climate change velocity (how fast a region changes put into a spatial term) is faster than the rate that many organisms can migrate.

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The authors point out that this may partly reflect a greater likelihood of putting terms like «climate change» in the titles of papers that dealt with narrow problems.

In September, Blair announced that he had given up on climate change treaties because, «The truth is, no country is going to cut its growth or consumption substantially in light of a long - term environmental problem.»

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Whether you (or Edim) personally want to worry about these things is up to you, my point is that there are plenty of potential effects of climate change which would not fall into the «abrupt and irreversible» category but could still cause big problems if they occur, so just because the particular outcomes the IPCC classifies as such may not happen this century it doesn't logically mean we won't suffer serious impacts in the shorter term.

Hopefully it comes as no great surprise to you that deforestation is a major problem in many areas of the world, both it terms of preserving biodiversity and preventing climate change — some countries are chopping down their forests at astonishing rates.

This suggests that the public view climate change as more of a long - term problem than one to worry about now, Capstick says.

A: Things are happening fast enough now, in terms of new opportunities, new technologies, new success stories, new problems developing, new understandings of climate change, and so forth.

Most Americans see climate change as a distant problem — distant from them in space (not here), in time (not yet) and in terms of species (not us).

So while it may be theoretically possible to predict long - scale climate changes, it may still be impossible to discern the true drivers of these climate systems amidst the chaos, making the long - term prediction problem moot.