Sentences with phrase «transformed by climate change»

Right on the heels of Brisbane, Snowpocalypse, and Australia's record dust storms, we have yet another reminder of what an Earth transformed by climate change could look like, even though those transformations will play out in ways that are distinct from Friday's tragedy.

Opening this weekend at Corey Helford Gallery; Stranger Than Earth, is a solo exhibition by Redd Walitzki, is a requiem to an Earth transformed by climate change.

The British Isles have been transformed by climate change into a desert archipelago.

Teachers around the world are currently faced with the task of preparing students for a world transformed by climate change.

The warning comes as Congress prepares to open up more drilling in a region quickly being transformed by climate change.

Not exact matches

The landscape of Massachusetts has been transformed by rapid residential and commercial development while the climate has been changing in parallel.

While the effects of climate change have already transformed parts of New York City — particularly its waterfronts, as documented by Camera Obscura columnist Nathan Kensinger in the years since Hurricane Sandy — things will likely only get worse in the years to come.

Some parts of the Arctic are more accessible to energy extraction because the region has already been transformed into a new state by climate change, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics and a changing climate have transformed East Africa from a relatively flat, forested region to a mountainous fragmented landscape dominated by the rapid appearance and disappearance of huge, deep - water lakes.

By improving the understanding of how cloud properties affect climate change, Dr. McFarlane is advancing an important PNNL mission contribution: transforming the nation's ability to predict climate change and its impacts.»

In conversation with the migration of tree species due to climate change, Mattingly's work offers a visible demonstration of the reverberations of climate change within Storm King's environment by transforming the landscape.

«With Carbon 13 and the Marfa Dialogues, Ballroom Marfa continues its mission of presenting art as a transforming media capable of addressing the most pressing issues of our time: The exhibition consists of newly commissioned work by eight international artists who have focused the lens of their creativity to interrogate the reality of climate change.

This guidance document aims to explain UNECE's work on climate change in the pan-European region, by transforming global goals into practical norms, standards and conventions.

Through these tours people have the chance to see firsthand all our production process and learn that they can help prevent deforestation, curb climate change, protect wildlife, alleviate poverty and transform business practices by being Smart Sustainable Shoppers.

Hillary Clinton, courting young voters and the broader Democratic base, has promised to one - up President Obama on climate change, vowing to produce a third of the nation's electricity from renewable sources by 2027, three years faster than Mr. Obama, while spending billions of dollars to transform the energy economy....

However, if climate change is understood as essentially a moral and ethical problem it will eventually transform how climate change is debated because the successful framing by the opponents of climate change policies that have limited recent debate to these three arguments, namely cost, scientific uncertainty, and unfairness of reducing ghg emissions until China does so can be shown to be deeply ethically and morally problematic.

As the toll from global climate change becomes apparent for all to see − with whole populations displaced by rising seas, millions dying from famines due to crop failures attributable to climate change, and millions more struck down by diseases associated with a transformed climate − these 11 men and one woman will be accountable for Australia failing to play its part and for slowing down international efforts.

The World Bank has transformed itself from an international financial institution into a prophet of climate fallout, predicting in a new report that more than 143 million people will be forced to migrate by 2050 thanks to climate change.

Ice masses have been set on a melting course that seems unstoppable; the acidity of the oceans has soared by some 30 % and still rises; even the Earth's crust is being transformed by global changes in the climate.

ALBANY — ... Climate change will radically transform New York State by 2080 in ways unimaginable today, affecting everything from the kinds of birds flying overhead to the crops farmers will be able to grow, according to a report released Wednesday.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) board, which aims to assist developing nations adapt to the changing climate and transform into low carbon economies, said it seeks to raise as much as $ 15 billion by the end of this year and to soon start disbursing money for climate - related prClimate Fund (GCF) board, which aims to assist developing nations adapt to the changing climate and transform into low carbon economies, said it seeks to raise as much as $ 15 billion by the end of this year and to soon start disbursing money for climate - related prclimate and transform into low carbon economies, said it seeks to raise as much as $ 15 billion by the end of this year and to soon start disbursing money for climate - related prclimate - related projects.

Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers, is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central Region by transforming existing climate information into usable knowledge for the agricultural comClimate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers, is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central Region by transforming existing climate information into usable knowledge for the agricultural comclimate information into usable knowledge for the agricultural community.

As a result, the very different land - use histories produced by different models of Holocene land - use change (Figs. 1 and 2) have major implications in understanding the emergence of humans as a global - scale force transforming climate — a key indicator of Earth system transformation and the emergence of the Anthropocene (9 ⇓ — 11).

Hansen began his career studying Venus, which was once a very Earth - like planet with plenty of life - supporting water before runaway climate change rapidly transformed it into an arid and uninhabitable sphere enveloped in an unbreathable gas; he switched to studying our planet by 30, wondering why he should be squinting across the solar system to explore rapid environmental change when he could see it all around him on the planet he was standing on.

This recent paper in Nature Climate Change by Sander Veraverbeke and others discusses how changes in climate and fire regimes are transforming boreal fClimate Change by Sander Veraverbeke and others discusses how changes in climate and fire regimes are transforming boreal fclimate and fire regimes are transforming boreal forests.

This guidance document is expected to transform Zimbabwe's agriculture sector into a sustainable production system by maximising the climate opportunities and reducing climate change related risks on the agriculture sector.

This book shines a fascinating light on this process by revealing how climate change has been transformed from a physical phenomenon, measurable and observable by scientists, into a social, cultural and political one... This book is so important because Mike Hulme can not be dismissed as a skeptic yet he is calling for a radical change in the way we discuss climate change.

Although one of the ES components mentioned above, the global economy, is about to inadvertently transform that face through massive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and the so - induced planetary warming, one other crucial component, the human brain, struggles to advertently preserve it by constructing clumsy institutions like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf).