Sentences with phrase «to change climate patterns»

This is not a doom and gloom book, but one that encourages a balanced view of what is actually happening on our planet in terms of changing climate patterns.

«What this study tells us is that the same mathematical theories used to predict tipping points in phenomena such as changing climate patterns can also be used to help predict tipping points in public health,» said Chris Bauch, a professor of applied mathematics at Waterloo.

While much of the developed world continues to debate the most effective ways of tackling global carbon emissions in closed - door summits and international forums, some countries hardest hit from changing climate patterns are beginning to take a more direct approach.

Instead of pouring tax money into automobile industry bailouts, the government should invest in a new infrastructure to deal with changing climate patterns, said Paul Ehrlich, professor of ecology.

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

Critically, they had to move fast before the majority of voters started to not only notice the changing climate patterns, but really started to worry about them.

The first is to emphasize your point that degassing of CO2 from the oceans is not simply a matter of warmer water reducing CO2 solubility, and that important additional factors include changes in wind patterns, reduction in sea ice cover to reveal a larger surface for gas escape, and upwelling of CO2 from depths consequent to the changing climate patterns.

The gathered nations, as had been anticipated, agreed on little more than a pledge to enter «full negotiating mode» to complete a new climate treaty within a year and a legal structure for a new global fund to help poor countries deal with the effects of changing climate patterns.

So here we are, still facing a clear long - term picture (more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas + lots of changing climate patterns), but sufficient murk in the short run to fuel the «green noise» and «destructive interference» in climate discourse.

The formula holds: more CO2 = warming world = less ice + higher seas + lots of changing climate patterns.

To some extent, today's session is just part of the broader North - South tussle over how to share benefits (derived from biological resources) and burdens (from constraining greenhouse gases and adapting to changing climate patterns).

As the consequences for missing emission reduction targets become evident through extreme weather and changing climate patterns, we realize this is not hypothetical, it is happening now and people are dying.

NRDC: I found it quite interesting that an Indian city should have a proper «action plan'to tackle the effects of changing climate patterns that have resulted in some severe summer temperatures in the last decade.

The loss of sea ice also has the potential to accelerate global warming trends and to change climate patterns.

From our well - being to our wallets, we're seeing the effects of a world transformed by rising temperatures and changing climate patterns, and the outlook is about as far from a relaxing seaside escape as it gets.

The torrent from the glacial lake would have thundered into the North Atlantic, adding a vast freshwater «lid» on the ocean surface that could have rearranged ocean circulation and changed climate patterns, said Donnelly, who is a fellow of both the Ocean and Climate Change Institute and the Coastal Ocean Institute at WHOI.

EO: Is there anything to say about how these fires fit into longer term trends and / or changing climate patterns?