Sentences with phrase «unabated climate change»

The study concludes SRM geoengineering is unlikely to negatively impact agricultural food productivity, especially since it compensates part of the damaging effects of unabated climate change to this food production.

The U.S. economy faces significant risks from unabated climate change.

So indeed there is also good reason to assume precipitation changes are what could really affect agriculture under unabated climate change — and any factor stabilising both temperature and rainfall would likely do good work maintaining the ecological status quo that also the global food supply would benefit from most.

A.G. Schneiderman: New Yorkers Have Experienced First - Hand The Devastation That Will Only Worsen With Unabated Climate Change — We Deserve Better

And just as a teenager resists calls from elders to grow up, societies — only naturally — have been initially resistant to scientists» warnings of irreversible damage to the planet's biological patrimony, risks attending unabated climate change and long - distance impacts of consumptive resource appetites.

It's not even about the Amazon specifically, but rather the entire world, titled «Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change», but it's this study that led to headlines, shortly before the big UN climate conference in Copenhagen that same year, of how unabated climate change could wipe out most of the world's largest remaining rainforest.

For example, if unabated climate change results in a famine in Kenya, or the Maldives is lost to rising sea levels, the loss of life and culture won't have much impact on the global economy, but I think we can all agree that there is a significant non-economic loss associated with these types of events.

[10] While many companies appear to believe that climate targets will not be met, we are unaware of any company (save Statoil) that endeavors to incorporate the physical and economic impacts of largely unabated climate change on the macroeconomic forecasts that drive their modeling, though that flows, ipso facto, from the suggestion that the world is likely to use far more fossil fuels than could safely be combusted whilst still achieving those targets.

There is another aspect of uncertainty that is not altogether comforting: greater uncertainty inescapably means that the damages from unabated climate change are likely to increase.

They do so at the expense of the overall economy and society, which will be increasingly suffering the negative impacts of unabated climate change.»

«Unabated climate change will probably further weaken summer circulation patterns which could thus aggravate the risk of heat waves,» says co-author Jascha Lehmann «Remarkably, climate simulations for the next decades, the CMIP5, show the same link that we found in observations.

In what sense might a geoengineered world be better than one of unabated climate change — by reducing economic damages, increasing overall human welfare, distributing harms and benefits more justly?

As the slightest of albedo changes can have quite a temperature impact, how do all these agricultural changes — either under unabated climate change or in a stratospheric SRM world — in turn affect the atmosphere?

Unabated climate change (top) seen on average negatively affecting crop yield, even including some CO2 fertilisation.

The report recognizes that unabated climate change could bring an increased frequency of extreme storms, additional drought and flooding, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and the rapid spread of life - threatening disease.

, he already reproduces the most sticky frames: that unabated climate change is a huge (even catastrophic) problem; that political approaches to resolving the challenge have largely failed (and can not now be expected to work); and that novel technological responses are the most likely possibilities now — as ways to ameliorate climate impacts without deep changes in society.

«Unabated climate change will make it much harder to eradicate poverty and beyond a certain threshold will make it impossible,» said John Ashton of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006) estimates that the international costs of unabated climate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of impacts.

The U.S. economy faces significant risks from unabated climate change.