Sentences with phrase «unprecedented rate of change»

The Arctic is a principal, global driver of the climate system and is undergoing an unprecedented rate of change with consequences far beyond its boundaries.

Its president, David Grimes, said: «The Arctic is a principal, global driver of the climate system and is undergoing an unprecedented rate of change with consequences far beyond its boundaries.

Atarsinc «And, within the constraints of that methodology, it shows an unprecedented rate of change.

Uniquely and fearlessly AMEG has studied key non-linear trends in the Earth - human System and reached the stunning conclusion that the planet stands at the edge of abrupt and catastrophic climate change as a result of an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic.

Although historical records indicate that atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea surface temperatures have undergone significant oscillations and have exceeded present - day levels in the past [3,4], it is the unprecedented rates of change that are fuelling concerns over whether organisms will retain the capacity to mediate vital ecosystem functions and services [5,6].

But, of course, it will require totally unprecedented rates of change in the globally energy system if it's actually going to be achieved.»

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As crowdfunding accelerates at an unprecedented rate, it's impacting government policy, informing enterprise innovation and changing the role of financial institutions around the world.

In 2015, the planet reached «alarming» and «unprecedented» rates of climate change, according to the United Nations — and 2016 is set to be another record - breaking year.

Diffenbaugh and Field review the physical conditions that are likely to shape the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, showing that they will face rates of change unprecedented in the past 65 million years.

Glacial collapse is unprecedented in western Tibet, which for decades has resisted the effects of climate change while glaciers in southern and eastern Tibet have melted at an accelerating rate.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

Our climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, potentially jeopardizing the web of life processes that keep our planet alive.

The earth and its ecological processes are changing at unprecedented rates due to human activity; the effects of these changes are uncertain.

«The alarming rate of change we are now witnessing in our climate as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is unprecedented in modern records.»

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

This type of turnaround is far from unprecedented — as a similar turnaround occurred in St. Louis earlier this year when the city shelter was only adoption out 300 dogs a year prior to a philosophy change, and then, just overnight, began adopting out 120 per MONTH (so about 5x the save rate as before).

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell has a great report on why Jason Box's radical approach to climate science is changing our understanding of the unprecedented rate of glacier melt in Greenland.

... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disruption.

Furthermore the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era in the past with possible exception of unhappy events like the Great Permian Extinction.

# 103 (cont)... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disruption.

The rate of change is not only unprecedented, it is unprecedented in the earth history.

The worst thing about AGW is the rate of change which is putting unprecedented stress on earths systems to deal with humans CO2 emissions.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

Glaciers in South America's Andes mountain range are receding at unprecedented rates as a result of climate change, according to a recent study published in the science journal Cryosphere.

Since the Paris Agreement was struck at the global climate Summit in Paris (21st Conference of the Parties to the Un Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP21) last year, countries have come together at an unprecedented rate to ensure its early into force.

Or perhaps the science of climate change (which has been the most politically manipulated science in living memory), will finally be based on literature that encompasses all view points, rather than just the «fast and convenient» 97 % junk literature currently being mass produced at an unprecedented rate.

«The alarming rate of change we are now witnessing in our climate as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is unprecedented in modern records,» WMO Secretary - General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.

«The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.

The rate of change of atmospheric CO2 is unprecedented.

Climate change is happening, being driven by the human combustion of fossil fuels at unprecedented rates for more than a century.

With such changes, the CSSR would more fully and correctly describe the data and would not misleadingly alarm the non ‐ expert reader into believing that recent rates of rise are unprecedented.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Given the reluctance, at virtually all levels, to openly engage with the unprecedented scale of both current emissions and their associated growth rates, even an optimistic interpretation of the current framing of climate change implies that stabilization much below 650 ppmv CO2e is improbable....

Nevertheless Hoegh - Guldberg 2014 continues to dismiss coral's ability to rapidly adapt arguing, «current rates of change are unprecedented in the past 65 Ma [million years] if not 300 Ma.»

The grim findings of the IPCC last year reiterated what climatologists have long been telling us: the climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and we're to blame.

The Trump administration inherited a climate change situation from the Obama presidency of an unprecedented 5 - year global warming rate for the period since 1950.

The unprecedented rate and global reach of Arctic change disproportionally affect the people of northern communities, further pressing the need to prepare for and adapt to the new Arctic.

-- dropping — multi year ice will disappear in summer minimum likely within 30 years — rate of change based on current knowledge is that ice loss is unprecedented, at least within the last million years.

«Climate scientists say the magnitude and rate of sea ice loss this century is unprecedented in 1,500 years and issue a warning on the impacts of a changing climate.»

The healthcare landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate and Medical Billing is not spared from the upheaval of change.