Sentences with phrase «types of climate change»

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

Singer and his co-author, Katerina Michaelides, addressed the problem by creating a model that enables researchers to investigate different types of climate change.

«This type of climate change denying conservatism is wilfully ignorant, head - in - the - sand, nimbyist conservatism.»

And in fact many of the food shortages we are starting to see, in Africa especially, are caused by the type of climate changes that Al Gore is speaking out about.

The latter is a politico -(pseudo) scientific construct, developed since the late - 1980s, in which the human emission of «greenhouse gases», such as carbon dioxide and methane, is unquestioningly taken as the prime - driver of a new and dramatic type of climate change that will inexorably result in a significant warming during the next 100 years and which will inevitably lead to catastrophe for both humanity and the Earth.

So, yes, some regions need to prepare for this regional type of climate change which is part of the trend.

This type of climate change extremism isn't likely to win any moderate followers.

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.

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If a climate coalition reduces its emissions, world prices change and nonparticipants typically emit more; they may also extract the dirtiest type of fossil fuel and invest too little in green technology.

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

IRRI uses the International Rice Genebank - the most comprehensive collection of rice genetic diversity in the world with around 110,000 different types of rice - as a source of rice genes associated with traits that help rice cope with climate change.

«Divesting from fossil fuel stocks doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a huge message that government and its citizens should not be investing in the type of fuel that we know increase the problems we face rather than decrease and reverse the outcome of climate change.»

said the rankings would help consumers make an informed choice about the type of car to buy, encouraging them to minimise fuel consumption, save money and tackle climate change.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

Some types of deliberative climate intervention may someday be one of a portfolio of tools used in managing climate change.

Although the study does not directly identify a link between this type of variation and current climate change vulnerability, these precipitation - linked variables could be a source of vulnerability in the future, Bay and her colleagues noted.

The new guidance also calls on agencies to address concerns voiced in public comments concerning climate change, which will likely «prompt many agencies to adopt more detailed, agency - specific guidance that is tailored to the types of projects that they frequently review.»

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

Stanford professor's calculations indicate that wildfires and other types of fires involving plant matter play a much bigger role in climate change and human health than previously thought.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

There were multiple types of trees in the forest and a clear progression as climate change is killing off yellow cedars.

«Our results highlight the importance of the interactive effects of vegetation type, temperature and moisture in determining of the response of soil decomposition to climate change,» says lead author Julia Bradley - Cook, who conducted the study as part of her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth and who is now a Congressional Science Fellow.

Co-author Marianne Nyegaard, an ichthyologist at Australia's Murdoch University, says this type of clarification is vital in biology and «important in understanding, for example, the ecological consequences of climate change.»

Dr. Kit Macleod, catchment scientist at the James Hutton Institute and one of the authors of the paper, said: «Hybrid grasses of this type show potential for reducing the likelihood of flood generation, whilst providing pasture for food production under conditions of changing climate.

According to a poll conducted by researchers at Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, four out of five Americans reported personally experiencing one or more types of extreme weather or a natural disaster in 2011, while more than a third were personally harmed either a great deal or a moderate amount by one or more of these events.

Some genetic types of algae are more tolerant of climate change's increasing temperatures.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Collects data on salinity, temperature, and pressure — fundamental data on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate variations.

In addition, they also counted the numbers of various types of single - celled organisms called testate amoebae, whose population changes depending on the amount of water in the bog, giving an indication of how wet or dry the climate was during different periods.

The list of species potentially imperiled by climate change is long, from polar bears to certain types of pine trees.

The study released yesterday is exactly the type of research that could inform future negotiations, said Andrew Light, a distinguished fellow at the World Resources Institute and a former senior climate change adviser in the Obama administration.

This type of modeling of variation in genetic makeup represents an important advance in understanding how climate change may impact biodiversity.

Climate change could put a type of oceanic bacteria into evolutionary overdrive in a way that could pose a threat to its long - term survivability and its important role in the food chain

The authors say reefs located in northern Mozambique and the Quirimbas Islands supports two types of refuges and a gradient of environments that create the potential for corals to adapt to climate change.

The paradox is that this season stands in such stark contrast to the past 11 years of drought, highlighting the types of variability that climate change can wreak on the hydrological cycle.

Along with data from the few studies like Yokelson's, Wiedinmyer used guidelines for calculating trash burning emissions produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to determine how much waste was being generated and burned, what exactly was in that waste, and what types of chemicals were likely generated.

«Consistent with the urgings of the state and its supporters, the court declines to view the auction as either a tax or as traditional regulatory fee of the type set forth in the landmark Sinclair Paint case,» said Cara Horowitz, co-director of UCLA's Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Served raw and sliced thin, with a squeeze of lime juice, a sprinkling of seven different types of crushed peppers, roasted seaweed flakes, toasted sesame seeds and sea salt from Kiribati, a Pacific island nation that will soon be engulfed by the ocean because of climate change.

«It looks like predators in many types of ecosystems can play a big role in global climate change,» says Trisha Atwood of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who led the study.

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.

Climate change could have different impacts on the many types of terrain that stretch across L.A. «It's hard to make local policy when you don't have a clear picture of how various neighborhoods could be hit.»

Both types of abrupt climate change events are prominently featured in a previously - published stalagmite climate record from China — which is only slightly north of Borneo.

However, the city needs to be planning for those types of huge barriers more as part of a longer - term plan, and as preparation for the possibility that climate change and sea - level rise may be worse than expected, warns the analysis, published last week in Science.

Although some research has indeed shown that factors such as «scientific literacy» are not always associated with, say, more concern for climate change, we have investigated a different, social type of fact: «expert consensus.»

the type and effectiveness of local political leadership and input in larger decision - making questions — northern institutions often lack the time, mandate and funding to address climate change impacts — though emerging leaders in Canada and Alaska are proving to be an exception to this pattern;

Helm and her colleagues found that psychological responses to climate change seem to vary based on what type of concern people show for the environment, with those highly concerned about the planet's animals and plants experiencing the most stress.