Sentences with phrase «than climate change impacts»

This is not meant to pre-judge whether those risks are worse than climate change impacts under plausible emission scenarios and is not meant to claim that all geoengineering strategies are dangerous or risky.

2) An aggressive mitigation plan is likely to be a greater threat to growth than climate change impacts.

Not exact matches

And he wants more than anything for one — or several — of those hits to make a real impact on climate change.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Being one of the most liberal areas in the U.S. — there were more than a few cars sporting «Bernie Sanders 2016 ″ bumper stickers — the discussion revolved around climate change and the environmental impact of the tarsands.

Even addressing climate change — Project Drawdown analyzed more than 100 different climate change - reversing solutions, and it turns out that eight of the top 20 solutions with the greatest impact can be found in the food system.

Variability is not new to food and agribusiness, however climate change, geopolitical instability, and technological advances are now impacting the sector more than ever before.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

The UN's environment panel has warned that climate change will have global impacts much greater than had previously been anticipated.

However, none of the arguments above for expanding Heathrow, rather than Gatwick, is to say that the climate change and other environmental impacts including air quality, CO2 emissions and noise can be ignored.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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?

«Our results suggest, however, that climate change may constrain reproduction of early - flowering plants mostly through the direct impacts of extreme environmental conditions rather than disrupted plant - pollinator interactions.»

And for us that was a much more powerful example of climate change impacting wildlife than anything which we have seen previously and gave us an image of climate change that the receding glaciers didn't.

Do these natural phenomena have a greater impact on climate change than humans and industrialization?

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

In today's context of global change leading to extreme climate events impacting habitats, this message is more important than ever.

The latest research by the University of Exeter reveals that less than 4 % of climate - change studies have tested the impact of ocean acidification on males and females separately.

In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously sClimate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously sclimate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.

The Big Picture RT The impacts of human - caused climate change are happening faster than scientists previously assumed, the AAAS CEO said on 6 July, during an appearance on The Hartmann Report, a radio and television talk show.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Unexpectedly, this more detailed approach suggests changes in Antarctic coastal winds due to climate change and their impact on coastal currents could be even more important on melting of the ice shelves than the broader warming of the ocean.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

As long ago as 2005, Allen told New Scientist that the legal route would have more impact on climate change than governments: «Just the possibility of legal action would have a big effect... in boardrooms.»

While previous studies had examined the impact of climate change - induced weather patterns on violence and the increased danger of violence in weak or failing states, this is the first study to demonstrate that the combination of the two risk factors is even more dangerous than they would be separately.

Therefore, climate change may have a more negative effect on the biological diversity of animals than previously assumed,» says Schleuning, and he adds, «A consideration of biotic interactions between animals and plants is therefore important for predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.»

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

But the discovery suggests impacts from climate change will be worse, and that they will get worse more quickly than earth models had previously indicated.

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, finds that the federal government spent three times more than the private insurance industry on climate change impacts last year.

When scientists talk about the consequences of climate change, it can mean more than how we human beings will be impacted by higher temperatures, rising seas and serious storms.

«An incremental approach has fewer social and environmental impacts than building huge structures in one phase — if you can keep up with [climate - induced] changes,» Kirshen said.

The impacts of climate change on poison ivy have more to do with the cause behind rising temperatures than the warming itself.

Some people feel that any more than that and we'll really start to see the most threatening impacts of climate change.

«Secretary Zinke is giving Trump truly awful advice,» asserts John Hocevar, director of oceans campaigns at Greenpeace in Washington, D.C. «The science is clearer than ever that climate change is killing our coral reefs and that industrial fishing has had a huge impact on marine ecosystems that extends far beyond the fish they target.»

Among the most serious threats to ocean wildlife is climate change, which according to the scientists is degrading marine wildlife habitats and has a greater impact on these animals than it does on terrestrial fauna.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceclimate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenchange on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceClimate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenChange (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) sceclimate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenchange, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

In fact, the expected annual fatality rate due to climate change is estimated to be far higher than that due to an asteroid or comet impact — 150,000 versus 91, per the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alan Harris of the Space Science Institute, respectively.

Nevertheless, they wrote, «The asteroid - threat community has been much more successful than the climate change community in characterizing the dominant worst - case scenarios and communicating them to policymakers, the media and the public — even though the climate change threat is more than a thousand times greater..., [therefore] quantitative comparison of climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both threats into perspective.»

And certain invasive species and diseases may have a stronger negative impact on the southern sugar maples than our more northern populations, exacerbated by climate change.

Such near - term benefits provide the basis for a no - regrets GHG - reduction policy, in which substantial advantages accrue even if the impact of human - induced climate change turns out to be less than current projections show.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this subpart and every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior shall undertake a climate change and ocean acidification impact survey that --

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

At first glance, the impacts of climate change in the United States might seem less dramatic than melting icebergs in the Arctic.

A study published earlier this year suggested that rainforests worldwide might be able to withstand the impacts of climate change more successfully than thought.

Healthy and productive soil captures more carbon than it releases, and can contribute significantly to mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change.

He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate change.

Oregon and Washington are the number one and two softwood - producing states in the nation, respectively; 20 these two states plus Idaho produce more than $ 11 billion in primary wood product sales.21 Our review of existing research suggests the Northwest's forests will experience significant potential impacts from climate change, in particular from wildfire — due to both increased drought and to wood damage from pests surviving warmer winters.

I'm one of the directors of the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate climate change.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

They may have crossed a tipping point due to increasing ocean acidification, raising the alarm that climate change impacts in the ocean are continuing to happen at a much quicker pace than scientists previously suspected.