Sentences with phrase «under changing climate»

Knowlton, K., B. Lynn, R.A. Goldberg, C. Rosenzweig, C. Hogrefe, J.K. Rosenthal, and P.L. Kinney, 2007: Projecting heat - related mortality impacts under a changing climate in the New York City region.

Projecting heat - related mortality impacts under a changing climate in the New York City region.

So as you can figure out easely the statistics have to be rewritten or don't work anymore under the changing climate!!

Shaw, S. & Riha, S. J. Assessing temperature - based PET equations under a changing climate in temperate, deciduous forests.

The index then compares these variables with the productivity of vegetation under changing climate on a global scale.

R Krishnan's group at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune is leading the South Asia component of the World Climate Research Programme's Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) to help develop more - reliable regional climate change models that contribute to the climate research community's understanding of regional climate and monsoon issues under a changing climate, beyond AR5.

Arctic Ecosystems and their Services Under Changing Climate: Predictive - Modeling Assessment [link]

«This study shows that fires are already degrading large areas of forests in Southern Amazonia,» Brando said, «and highlights the need to include interactions between extreme weather events and fire when attempting to predict the future of Amazonian forests under a changing climate.»

Please see links under Changing Climate and NIPCC Reports.

Therefore, identifying strategies for water - resource management under changing climate variability, and not just changes in the mean state, is necessary [14].

Adaptation outcomes focusing on ensuring food security under a changing climate could have the most direct benefits on livelihoods, which have multiple benefits for food security, including: enhancing food production, access to markets and resources, and reduced disaster risk.

Collectively, the three post-2015 agendas for action — the Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction - provide the foundation for sustainable, low - carbon and resilient development under a changing climate.

Just like we can't control the weather, there is no way possible for controlling large fire events given under a changing climate extremes are the new norm.

We work to ensure that green infrastructure becomes the preferred mechanism by which water managers meet a range of water management goals for people and wildlife under changing climate conditions.

We work to ensure that forests in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are managed to optimize carbon and sustain biodiversity under changing climate conditions.

Combined with fuel loads, higher evapotranspiration rates and resulting shifts in water balance may be the best predictor of increased fire risk and fire severity in the future under a changing climate (Littell and Gwozdz 2011; Abatzoglou and Kolden 2013).

Many knowledge gaps still need to be filled to better understand and prepare Montana's forests to survive and thrive under a changing climate.

Estimating the vulnerability of fifteen tree species under changing climate in northwest North America.

Montanans need to fill many gaps in our knowledge if we are to better understand and thrive under a changing climate.

«In particular the United States, southern South America, southern Africa, central and southern Europe, Southeast Asia and southern Australia are vulnerable regions, because declines in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climate.

In the future, irrigated agriculture will face increased water costs driven by competing needs of an increasing human population and probably drier conditions under a changing climate.

Dr Paschalis added: «Understanding the responses of plants to elevated concentrations of CO2 is of major importance with potential implications on the global economy and water and food security under a changing climate.»

The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.

However, with the world's food produced and grown under changing climate conditions, depleting resources, and rising population, improved new varieties need to be developed and released faster.

«This study shows that we are able to look into the metabolic history of trees with much higher resolution, so that we possibly can detect if trees acclimate under changing climates.,» says professor Juergen Schleucher, one of the two directors of the NMR Center in Umeå.

Whether ocean circulation models... neither explicitly accounting for the energy input into the system nor providing for spatial variability in the mixing, have any physical relevance under changed climate conditions is at issue.»

Not exact matches

Nearly 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama's administration, agreed in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change.

What is not yet clear is whether Trump plans to initiate a formal withdrawal from the Paris accord, which under the terms of the agreement could take three years, or exit the underlying U.N. climate change treaty on which the accord was based.

ExxonMobil's reputation has improved under Tillerson, though the company's continued skepticism towards climate change and related governance issues has hurt the company.

For some months, ExxonMobil Inc. (xom) has been under investigation about allegations that it lied to investors about the risks of Climate Change.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.

Policy - makers from around the world are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Such efforts have become more prominent under Xi as the Chinese president vows to take on a leadership role in global affairs from trade to climate change to cyberspace governance.

A transition to a low - carbon economy is now inevitable, but this transition comes at a cost, and many of the countries and companies under the greatest threat from climate change lack the means to pay for it.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on October 3rd, 2013 under SmallerWorldTags: carbon footprint, climate change, Environment, IPCC, oil and gas reserves • 16 Comments

Posted by Jeff Rubin on May 12th, 2015 under SmallerWorldTags: bread basket, climate change, farming, food production, NDP, Rachel Notley, the Prairies • 15 Comments

Posted by Jeff Rubin on November 17th, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: carbon tax, climate change, oil prices, Stranded assets • 3 Comments

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

An article published this week in Nature Climate Change (article via Nature paywall) is making the rounds of the headlines because it makes some pretty bold claims — namely that the US State Department under - estimated the emissions impact of the Keystone XL pipeline by up to a factor of four.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on April 13th, 2015 under SmallerWorldTags: British Columbia, California, Cap - and - trade, carbon tax, climate change, Ontario, Quebec • 5 Comments

Posted by Jeff Rubin on May 21st, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: Big oil, climate change, energy, oil prices, Oil Sands • 1 Comment

Posted by Nick Falvo under Alberta, budgets, carbon pricing, child benefits, climate change, corporate income tax, debt, demographics, energy, environment, federal budget, health care, homeless, housing, HST, income support, income tax, inflation, population aging, poverty, public services, seniors, social policy, taxation.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

Posted by Erin Weir under Blogroll, climate change, investment, Jack Mintz, media.

PSS: British Columbia's «sister province» is ready, able and willing to throw her under the bus... along with billions of other human beings that will be negatively affected by global climate change..

Posted by Jeff Rubin on June 2nd, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: climate change, Environment, Joslyn North, Stephen Harper, Total SA • 11 Comments

Posted by Jeff Rubin on June 11th, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: Barack Obama, climate change, Environment, Stephen Harper, War on Coal • 1 Comment