Sentences with phrase «to respond to a changing climate»

And if their crops fail — because of drought or plant diseases, which also respond to a changing climate — they may be forced to move to the city.

Guliya is thought to be the best record of midlatitude climate during the last ice age, and its ice may well turn out to be a Rosetta Stone for interpreting how Asia responds to a changing climate.

Volcanoes are generally thought to be imperturbable outside drivers of climate; I don't know of any possible feedback that could make volcanic emissions respond to changing climate.

However, our grasp of how dryland ecosystem structure and function will respond to changing climate remains poor5.

Although models do not indicate that AMOC is likely to change abruptly in the coming decades, it is important to monitor the North Atlantic to confirm the understanding of how AMOC responds to a changing climate.

The ongoing warming will increase risks and stresses to human societies, economies, ecosystems, and wildlife through the 21st century and beyond, making it imperative that society respond to a changing climate.

The President pointed out that recent severe weather supplied an urgent impetus for energy innovation and staked the nation's economic future on responding to a changing climate.

The bird favors mature oaks for nesting, and the future of the magpie may depend on how the trees respond to changing climate.

As understanding of global change has evolved over the past decades, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision makers respond to changing climate conditions.

The quest for the world's oldest ice could yield a Rosetta Stone for how Asia responds to a changing climate.

Mass Audubon's conservation and science teams are not only working to protect our natural resources for the present, they're also working to protect our natural resources as they respond to a changing climate in the future.

There is great interest in understanding how species might respond to our changing climate, but predictions have varied greatly.

Better understanding the chemical composition and transport within the chimney, however, could greatly advance our knowledge of the atmosphere and how it may respond to a changing climate.

Getting the basic data should help scientists to better understand how Antarctic clouds will respond to a changing climate, Russell says.

That's why it says it's about ``... how species might respond to our changing climate».

In addition, evaluating these trends can help us better understand a) how Montanans have previously experienced and responded to changing climate, b) if projections of future change reveal a different climate than we have previously experienced, and c) the potential impacts of that projected change.

Scientists used to think that ice sheets could take millennia to respond to changing climates.

«One quarter of CO2 emissions are going to terrestrial ecosystems, but the details of those processes and how they will respond to a changing climate are inadequately understood, particularly for tropical forests,» Chambers said.

Yet this perspective is supposed to inform policy decisions on how to respond to changing climate?

If one is interested in long - term trends in sea ice or how it responds to changing climate forcing, generally, it is best not to use an operational product, but rather one that is consistently produced and retroactively quality controlled.

Absurd because at the same time that science is held to give uncorrupted and incorruptible instructions about how to respond to a changing climate, it is also held — by the very same people — to be vulnerable to «attack» and «distortion» by financial interests.