Sentences with phrase «time focusing on climate change»

Most middle school science teachers reported spending a short time focusing on climate change — one to two hours on average.

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She officially took MacArthur's helm last year after over a decade as a top exec there, and has moved with bold decisiveness to streamline the foundation and focus its resources on some of the biggest challenges of our time, including climate change and mass incarceration.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

«A lot of times we focus on sea - level rise and fires in the West» as illustrations of climate change, Williams said.

Hamilton noted that the commission's report is not the first time The Lancet has taken a stab at climate change, but previous reports focused on the worst - case scenarios of global warming and their devastating health consequences, whereas the current report highlights the benefits of addressing climate change and touts «no regrets» actions that benefit the environment and health.

This is the first time that over 20 years of the monitoring data has been analyzed for long - term trends and patterns, in particular with a focus on climate change.

This new report, scheduled for completion by July 2012, will for the first time focus on understanding demand because of the effects of climate change.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.

It is a sign of the times that the public debate among major players over Oregon's coal - free future saw little contention regarding the reality of climate change and focused mostly on the best way to address it.

A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.

October 25, 2012 • In sharp contrast to his 2008 campaign, President Obama hasn't mentioned climate change on the campaign trail this time around, instead choosing to focus on the economic side of clean energy rather than the climate change side.

Bring the climate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeclimate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepenchange discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeClimate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepenChange Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeclimate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepenchange, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdependence.

Many of these teachers - in - training are career - changers like Shapiro, who was working at a policy foundation in San Francisco focused on climate change this time last year.

In something as volatile and ever changing as the real estate market, a realtor would continue doing their job despite changing climates but would focus on rentals perhaps, instead of residential purchases, or would even engage in commercial real estate during times where conventional clients are hard to come by.

• A preview of Marfa Dialogues / NY from the July 15, 2013 New York Times: «Cultural Programs to Focus on Climate Change» by Allan Kozinn

«Danger to The System» focuses on events highlighting artists of color, queer, and other marginalized intersections of artists whose work deals with time, space, histories, new media, cultural diaspora, erasure, patriarchy, white supremacy, the internet, recorded and performed sound works, live performance, and the intersectionality of histories, cultural trauma, healing strategies and the ever changing radical climate in America, 2016, as well as specifically Oakland, CA.

At a time when mass migration due to the effects of climate change has become a critical concern, artist, and designer Andres L. Hernandez, and artist and dancer Zachary Fabri guide workshop participants through exercises focusing on drawing as an interpretative act of movement.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Which is one reason for my focus on the 20 - 30 year time scale, which is essentially a matter of climate science and committed change.

At a time when melting polar sea ice is causing so many to focus on which political power will place its flag over the Arctic, controlling the Northwest Passage shipping lanes and the petroleum resources beneath the sea ice, Miami artist Xavier Cortada has developed a project that engages people across the world below to plant a green flag and native tree to help address global climate change.

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

Between 1 and 2 p.m. eastern time this afternoon I discussed extreme weather and climate change on the The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU with Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University focused on the impact of Arctic conditions, and Matthew Nisbet, a communications researcher at American University.

Many seasoned observers of climate science and policy feel it's hard to see how they will, given the pressures on political figures to focus on the here and now, and the variegated interests arrayed at the ranks of tables — from shrinking island states to oil monarchies to established and emerging powers sitting on mountains of coal — and the tough time our species has recognizing slow but consequential changes.

In turn, it is time to focus on the main problem: The I.P.C.C. reports have underestimated the pace of climate change while overestimating societies» abilities to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

It turned out things were far more nuanced (as he later said, «The Earth system may be less responsive in the warm times than it was in the cold times»), but in a field that had long mainly foreseen smooth curves for planetary change with rising greenhouse gas levels, the result was a vital focus on the risks of abrupt climate change.

The piece spends quite a bit of time, appropriately on the fascinating work of Dan Kahan, the Yale law professor who is a leader of the ongoing «Cultural Cognition» research project and was the focus of my piece on how one can choose a Nobel Prize winner in physics to suit just about any view on human - driven climate change.

While most policy discussions around climate change focus on energy wonks, the Times says that military analysts are increasingly of the view that «climate - induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions».

Yesterday, the New York Times launched the first in a series of stories focusing on the challenges of adapting to climate change.

Time for policymakers to abandon the control - knob myth and instead focus on adaption preparation for all types of climate change.

This flyer stresses that the threats of climate change can have a negative effect on human health and welfare but at the same time can constitute an opportunity to leverage positive social transformations with a particular focus on the needs of the most vulnerable within a comprehensive sustainable development framework.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

The platform will complement existing GMES / Copernicus pre-operational components, but will focus on datasets which provide information on climate variability on decadal to centennial time scales from observed and projected climate change impacts in Europe, and will provide a toolbox to generate, compare and rank key indicators.

Also, he should define what he means by «climate change» in terms of time and space scales, and of what specific societally and environmentally relevant metrics (such as hydrologic drought; agricultural drought; large basin river floods, etc) he is focusing on.

That's the underlying calculus of focusing on «climate change» at this time by Obama crew.

They can either ignore the failings of their downscaling approach when applied to multi-decadal regional climate change impact studies and continue to mislead those communities, or they can reassess and focus on the quantification of the predictability of regional climate statistics and their changes on different time and space scales.

If things continue to worsen as climate change brings more evaporation and less rain over time, other issues will come into focus for the seven states and part of Mexico that rely on the Colorado River.

This webinar introduces the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM) Demonstrator designed to assess how well different energy supply mixes in Europe will meet demand over different time horizons focusing on the role of cClimate Change Service (C3S) European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM) Demonstrator designed to assess how well different energy supply mixes in Europe will meet demand over different time horizons focusing on the role of climateclimate.

Over time, our work continued to expand — including increased focus on the urgent need to address human - caused climate change.

The former secretary of state's clean energy pitch comes at a time where many Democrats are focused on climate change, particularly the need to decrease the use of fossil fuels.

Statistics is also at the very heart of climate science, in large part because of the discipline's focus on the statistical properties of weather, including extremes, and how they change over time.

Peter Pfleiderer, Data Analyst and Programmer A PhD researcher for the EmBARK project, focussing on questions of attributable climate change and the time scales of emergence of attributable climate signals.

A the same time, how to deal with non-economic losses caused by climate change presents a perennial problem, says Harriet Thew, a postgraduate at the University of Leeds focusing on loss and damage.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

Two scientists who believe we are on the wrong track argue in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are going to deal with its consequences..»

Again, that doesn't mean humans aren't to blame for climate change, but it explains how a group that is meant to focus on more real - time events that are just starting to be accepted as human - caused could lag behind.

The Wall Street Journal editors focus on an overestimation of surface warming in the past 15 years, neglecting to discuss other impacts and time periods where models significantly underestimated the effects of climate change.

At the same time, Singh said issues of financing mitigation actions to tackle climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cchange have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Climate ChangeChange.