Sentences with phrase «threat from a warming climate»

Non-migratory songbirds could be under threat from a warming climate, according to the findings of a 15 - year study.

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Coral reefs, which are already under threat from overfishing and tourism, are especially vulnerable to climate change because they are easily affected by warm water.

Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.

«The polar bear was the first species protected under the Endangered Species Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.

Also students will research the effects of global warming and climate change and evaluate whether this is the biggest threat we face as humans Students will research destruction of natural resources — with an example of deforestation — and evaluate whether humans have the right to do what they want to the planet Students will then summarise our learning from this lesson and will answer some questions to demonstrate learning from this lesson

As I've explained before, there is enormous potential for progress on climate - smart energy steps even in the face of persistent division over the extent of the threat from global warming.

Soot from cooking fires is a health threat and warming the climate.

Some issue advocates have argued that the term climate change is more likely to engage Republicans in the issue, however, the evidence from these studies suggests that in general the terms are synonymous for Republicans — i.e., neither term is more engaging than the other, although in several cases, global warming generates stronger feelings of negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States.

This situation speaks of the opportunity this disaster has created for governments and citizens, from the level of local zoning to that of federal flood insurance, to reexamine norms in light of both the implicit threat posed by extreme weather and the amplified risks coming with a warming climate and rising seas.

My article on «Greenhouse Confusion» drew vigorous comments from those who believe firmly that anthropogenic global warming (or rather climate change) is a real and immediate threat.

Many scarcely distinguished among climate change from greenhouse warming, ozone damage from CFCs, and health threats from automobile tailpipes and power plant smokestacks.

You could add that evidence as to the reality of, and the threat posed by, human - induced global warming has emerged from a well established official expert advisory process, and in particular, within that process, from the series of massive Assessment Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).

The Obama administration considered global warming a national security threat, and top officials often repeated the claim that violence in Syria, and the rise of ISIS, stemmed from climate factors.

The letter cites an ongoing investigative series by InsideClimate News, which has revealed that Exxon scientists conducted rigorous climate research from the late - 1970s to mid-1980s and warned top company executives about how global warming posed a threat to Exxon's core business.

Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human - heated climate, with warming from elevated levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases seen by many climate scientists as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year.

Full implementation of the Safe Climate Act is critical to engage other nations in an international effort to mitigate the threat of and harm from global warming.

Needless to say, global warming from human CO2 emissions is an exceptional yawner, and is in no sense a current legitimate threat when viewed in the context of recent climate history.

People willing to use threats, violence or criminal behaviour to push policy decisions to curb CO2 emissions and oppose sceptics to save the world from global warming disasters or global climate disruptions.

Then again, you didn't have to be a IPCC climate scientist to figure out that global warming / climate change from human influences was not an existential threat to civilization.

The moves comes after a year in which President Trump, who has called global warming a «hoax,» withdrew from the 2015 Paris climate accord and removed climate change from a list of top national security threats.

Despite overwhelming evidence that there is no threat from global warming aka climate change, Obama says he will rule by imperial order and ignore the will of the stupid people and the Constitution.

Last year, the German Government's Advisory Council on Global Change released a report titled Climate Change as a Security Risk which identifies six threats to international stability and security from global warming.

-LSB-...] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate - mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be,» Ridley said in the 2011 Angus Millar speech on «Scientific Heresy,» reposted in its entirety at the skeptical blog Watts Up With That.

Given the civilization challenging nature of climate change, many observers of the failure of governments to respond to the threat of climate change have concluded that creating a strong social movement on climate change is the best hope of preventing catastrophic harm from human - induced warming given the enormity of the challenge facing the world.

In his inaugural speech at the COP21 climate change summit in Paris, President Obama acknowledged the terrorist attacks that occurred in the city earlier this month, but warned his fellow leaders not to be distracted from the supposed looming threat of global warming.

The Royal Society has released a new guide which outlines its retreat from its former vanguard stance on the threat of climate change and man - made global warming.

From a combination of climate models, satellite data, and paleoclimate records the scientists conclude that the West Antarctic ice sheet, Arctic ice cover, and regions providing fresh water sources and species habitat are under threat from continued global warmFrom a combination of climate models, satellite data, and paleoclimate records the scientists conclude that the West Antarctic ice sheet, Arctic ice cover, and regions providing fresh water sources and species habitat are under threat from continued global warmfrom continued global warming.

Following the decision of the panel at its 43rd Session to accept the invitation from the UNFCCC, at its 44th Session, the Panel approved the outline of Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate pWarming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate pwarming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

Whether it's the threat of dramatic sea level rise to coastal areas or current climate change refugees from low - lying islands, the effects of climate change and global warming on the world's oceans are both real and imminent.

One would think that all Americans would be interested in determining whether there is a real threat from anthropogenic global warming (AGW) or climate change.

Global warming has been stuck in neutral for more than a decade and a half, scientists are increasingly suggesting that future climate change projections are overblown, and now, arguably the greatest threat from global warming — a large and rapid sea level rise (SLR)-- has been shown overly lurid (SOL; what did you think I meant?).

Coral reefs, which are already under threat from overfishing and tourism, are especially vulnerable to climate change because they are easily affected by warm water.

The big threat from global warming is the the possibility of an abrupt climate change.

And in the area where currently division runs deepest, protecting the environment and addressing global warming, I find myself agreeing with President Obama that our country must take strong action to reduce pollution from fossil fuels that fouls our air, makes our water impure, and helps to create one of the greatest threats to our children's future, climate change.

«This falling land will exacerbate the flooding that the nation's capital faces from rising ocean waters due to a warming climate and melting ice sheets,» notes a press statement for the study, «accelerating the threat to the region's monuments, roads, wildlife refuges, and military installations.»

A new organization, appropriately named the Green New Deal Group, has picked up on this idea and is laying out an ambitious 100 month agenda that it says is necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, reports the BBC.Tackling the triple crisis of energy prices, the credit crunch and climate change Comprising a number of experts from the fields of finance, energy and the environment, this group has issued a list of proposals that it claims will tackle the threats of high oil prices, climate change and the credit crisis.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

But to fully address the threat of global warming, we must demand action from our elected leaders to support and implement a comprehensive set of climate solutions.

The shift from the threat of global warming to climate change occurred as CO2 continued to increase while temperatures began to decline.