Sentences with phrase «triggered by climate change»

Even the relatively staid IPCC has warned of such a scenario: «The possibility of abrupt climate change and / or abrupt changes in the Earth system triggered by climate change, with potentially catastrophic consequences, can not be ruled out.

Five cities and counties in California that are suing fossil fuel companies for damages triggered by climate change are now at the center of a legal paradox created by conflicting decisions from two federal court judges reviewing nearly identical claims.

Though crossbreeding between Amazonian butterflies was not triggered by climate change, it is an example of hybridization that strengthens the survival abilities of a species.

If the same processes and threshold govern the future, their results suggest that more widespread die - offs of aspen forests triggered by climate change are likely by the 2050s.

The latter may appeal especially to ranch managers whose grassy pastureland is becoming drier and overrun by woody plants, a process triggered by climate change.

Vrba postulates that big evolutionary changes — migrations, extinctions and the creation of new species — are triggered by climate changes.

Not exact matches

The former climate change secretary entered the plea alongside his ex-wife Vicky Price at London's Southwark crown court this morning, shortly before resigning as an MP and triggering a by - election in Eastleigh.

Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore triggering climate change.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

«Weather whiplash» triggered by changing climate will degrade Midwest's drinking water.»

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

The collapse of the mountain which triggered a tsunami that destroyed an Arctic village last month may have been caused by climate change — and more may follow

By reexamining the timing and connection between magmatism [the movement of magma], climate change and extinction, we've created a model that explains what triggered the end - Permian mass extinction.»

The study refutes the notion that climate change will increase the frequency of civil war in Africa as a result of food scarcity triggered by rising temperatures and drought.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

The findings made news: «2013's flood - triggering rains not caused by climate change,» proclaimed Boulder's Daily Camera.

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

The documents released by the EPI showed the Edison Electric Institute industry group was warned at its annual convention in 1968 by a member of then - President Lyndon Johnson's administration that carbon emissions from fossil fuels could change the climate and trigger «catastrophic effects.»

It said its research mirrors reporting conducted by InsideClimate News about Exxon Mobil's early understanding of climate change, which triggered an investigation by New York's Attorney General.

Rapid climate change triggered by intense volcanic activity could well be to blame.

Climate scientists have long suspected that these glacial cycles are triggered by changes in our planet's orbit.

You do seem not quite up to date with current thinking on abrupt climate changes (now I'm referring to your polemic question «Were all of these triggered by Lake Agassiz dam bursts?»

This in turn, over many thousands of years, triggered natural climate change, amplified by CH4 releases characterised by a ∂ 13C deficiency.

Members of the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) are developing a model that links ecosystem changes triggered by ocean acidification and climate change with their economic and societal consequences.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

Visitors will use iPads to overlay visualizations onto a 3D printed coral centerpiece, triggered by real - time hashtags on twitter that represent the views of environmentalists and climate - change deniers alike.

You do seem not quite up to date with current thinking on abrupt climate changes (now I'm referring to your polemic question «Were all of these triggered by Lake Agassiz dam bursts?»

«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.

One of the biggest debates between sceptics and their counterparts is in fact the role played by feedback mechanisms — a response in part to claims by environmentalists such as Mark Lynas in «Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet» that a relatively small increase in CO2 could cause «runaway climate change» by triggering (unknown and possibly non-existent) feedback mechanisms to form.

This negligence led to forest clearing and peatland destruction and helped trigger global warming, «causing material and immaterial losses to all the residents of Riau Province who have been affected by the impacts of climate change,» Suryadi said.

One of the proofs was that LA was hit with the worst drought in at least 1,200 years in 2014, triggered by high temperatures and reduced rainfall linked to the change of climate and weather patterns.

Similarly, times with especially intense high - latitude NH summer insolation, determined by orbital changes, are thought to trigger rapid deglaciations, associated climate change and sea level rise.

Our report in this issue, «Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming» was in production when the IPCC released...

This in turn, over many thousands of years, triggered natural climate change, amplified by CH4 releases characterised by a ˆ «13C deficiency.

I have read the NAS link you provided and I agree with it, especially when it says abrupt climate change is most likely triggered by forcing changes [I said something like that on my first February 10 post here].

Pachauri has admitted to the errors, but said the controversy has been triggered by vested interests who are out to reduce the importance of the climate change debate.

A significant and serious concern among mainstream climate scientists in this regard is the inability of the models to predict climate surprises, that is, rapid non-linear changes in the climate system that have happened in the historical climate record and that may be triggered by current human activities.

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the international team lays out its theory that the mass extinctions in North America were caused by one or more extraterrestrial objects — comets or meteorites — that exploded over the Earth or slammed into it, triggering catastrophic climate change.

For most of the 35 years, proponents of climate change policies have usually responded to these arguments by making counter «factual» claims such as climate policies will increase jobs or trigger economic growth.

Either the climate changed in the past because it is highly sensitive to external forces, in which case we are facing considerable future warming indeed, or its sensitivity to the forces triggered by increasing CO2 concentrations is low, in which case the climate should not have changed in the past.

The alarming pace of destruction — 51 percent higher than the prior year with a loss of 73.4 million acres (29.7 million hectares), according to data from the University of Maryland — was partially due to climate change that has increased the risks and intensity of wildfires by triggering temperature rise and drought in some places, the monitor said.

The scientists stress that more work is needed to determine whether changes in ocean circulation initiated the abrupt climate changes or were an intermediary effect initially triggered by something else.

According to the World Health Organization, climate change is already claiming more than 150,000 lives annually (Patz, Campbell - Lendrum, Holloway, & Foley, 2005), and estimates of future migrations triggered by unmitigated global warming run as high as 187 million refugees (Nicholls et al., 2011).

Reducing global warming by 0.5 °C may not sound like much, but when it comes to climate change, every tenth of a degree matters, and slowing near - term warming is particularly important to avoid triggering feedback loops that could accelerate further warming.

But the future climate of West Antarctica is uncertain, and the physical factors that govern the collapse of outlet glaciers like Thwaites are poorly understood — in particular, a peculiar glacier instability mechanism likely triggered by warming ocean waters in a changing climate.

Defined by the National Academy of Sciences as climate change that «occurs when the climate system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause.

By the mid 1970s, many experts found it plausible that at some indeterminate point a small push could trigger severe climate change.

Previous reviews (6 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 10) have defined «abrupt climate change» as occurring «when the climate system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause» (8), which is a case of bifurcation (i.e., one that focuses on equilibrium properties, implying some degree of irreversibility).

Such abrupt state changes are well - documented for ecosystems at many scales, and can be triggered by a variety of forcing factors — including pollution, resource extraction, deforestation, and other land use changes — with climate change being only one of them (Scheffer et al., 2009; Lenton et al., 2008; Barnosky et al., 2012).

Technically, an abrupt climate change occurs when the climate system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause.