Sentences with phrase «uses signs of climate change»

Some of the methods used to predict at risk species are trend - based — an indicator of what happens gradually over time — while others are trait based, which uses signs of climate change in the current environment.

Not exact matches

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

Experts say the conflict is just one sign of rising tensions over water use as supplies of the vital resource dwindle and shift with changes in climate.

We used new satellite records of fire incidence to create fire models which we then drove with a broad range of future climate model scenarios to get a sense of where the climate projections agreed on the sign of the change in fire frequency and where they did not.

States are not equal in the international system and international law is frequently used by the North to discipline the South — in the specific case of the UNFCCC it's pretty easy to imagine that «non compliance» by a Southern country would lead to them being excluded from the finance and technology transfer that the North owes them for their climate debt... so why should those who have not caused climate change sign up to a scheme where the polluters always get off scot - free but they may have to pay a price?

: Gorilla uses sign language to be the «voice of nature» A gorilla who is able to communicate through sign language has starred as the «voice of nature» in a video shown at a recent climate change conference.

The «hack» posting at The Air Vent may have had a special twist, as the subject there was about «An open letter reply to a letter written to government by 18 different scientific organizations concerning climate change legislation» that criticizes the associations about climate terminology: «Dear President or Executive Director, How could it happen that more than a dozen of the most prestigious scientific associations signed and submitted this letter on «climate change» without having ensured that the used terminology is sufficiently defined.

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

The scientific goal is to determine and interpret trends in global stratospheric ozone, the Antarctic ozone hole, and global atmospheric ozone depleting substances; to investigate these trends for signs of recovery of the ozone layer and evaluate implications for climate change; and to study the efficacy of newly proposed substitutes for currently used ozone - depleting substances.

This ruling also jeopardizes the climate change pact that the United States signed last December, because the provisions of the CPP were used by the Obama administration to prove that our country would be taking significant actions in restricting power plant emissions, and the other nations should follow suit in agreeing to limit their emissions.

News of a letter signed by 20 scientists to President Obama (imploring him to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to punish immoral «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change «-RRB- first popped up around mid September.

Also things like; environmentalists fraudulently signing the Oregon Climate Petition strictly to sabotage and discredit it, the changing of the term Global Warming to climate Change and now the new term is «our deteriorating atmosphere», pictures of Polar bears, using the media to report scary stories of bad weather and especially hiring an extremely wealthy investment manager as the primary salesman for AClimate Petition strictly to sabotage and discredit it, the changing of the term Global Warming to climate Change and now the new term is «our deteriorating atmosphere», pictures of Polar bears, using the media to report scary stories of bad weather and especially hiring an extremely wealthy investment manager as the primary salesman for Aclimate Change and now the new term is «our deteriorating atmosphere», pictures of Polar bears, using the media to report scary stories of bad weather and especially hiring an extremely wealthy investment manager as the primary salesman for AGW (ie.

Over 100 countries that have signed the Paris Agreement have committed to pursuing actions in the land - use sector that contribute to the ultimate objective of the Convention, which is to avoid dangerous climate change.

President Obama will use NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, as a way to fulfill his State of the Union pledge to use executive power to address climate change when Congress fails to act.