Sentences with phrase «warmer countries such»

In warmer countries such as Mexico, it is possible that infection is much more widespread, but «no - one is looking at bees there,» he says.
Infections are common during trips to warm countries such as India.

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The majority of them come from countries, such as the Philippines, India or China, which are warmer, poorer, and more densely populated than is Canada - and where the typical person produces far fewer CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.
It is the per capita consumption in industrialized countries that causes the greatest environmental problems, such as exhaustion of resources and global warming.
At the same time, nation states are slowly recognizing their interdependence and that great issues, such as global warming, poverty, drug abuse and international terrorism can not be dealt with by one country on its own.
Studies by the ICO suggest that prices may stabilize in the future and that production in some countries, such as Ethiopia and Vietnam may increase as warming temperatures make more ground available for coffee cultivation, but much will depend on factors outside the coffee industry.
The country's warmer regions such as Coonawarra and Margaret River are established Cabernet sites.
From Hunter Valley to cooler region such as Adelaide Hills, Yarra Valley and Tasmania to warmer regions in Margaret River, the country provides a contrast of styles between the leaner, crisp style found in Adelaide Hills and riper, richer style in Margaret River.
Since Kyoto, however, Brazil and other countries with large forest reserves, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are warming to the idea of REDD.
The hourlong documentary examines how Arctic warming may be increasing storms» intensity and altering their paths, and how countries such as the Netherlands are creating climate - adaptive cities to respond to changing conditions
It is the first such gathering since nearly 200 countries agreed in the French capital in December to curb global warming through nationally determined plans to limit emissions.
Breaking the gridlock on global warming, which will make it easier for these countries to do even more in the future, will require less intrusive approaches, such as flexible commitments and peer review.
The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.
Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.
Since I am living in Swiss, not a very warm country, being in such a hot place where it is almost 40 degree is pretty unusual for me.
The surface of the hands and feet are white to ensure the animal stays warm in colder climates in countries such as Mongolia.
In countries such as the UK and USA many charities have good facilities and resources and keep cats in individual units with a warm sleeping place and a run where they can stretch their legs a bit or see what's going on.
The new rule will also apply to large commercial breeders of other warm - blooded pets such as kittens and small mammals and will improve the welfare of thousands of animals across the country, including those in your own backyard.»
Belize is one of the world's premier scuba diving destinations, with its warm water, incredible visibility (150 feet is average), and countless variety of fish and corals which live within the barrier reef that runs along the entire coast of the country, and the outer atolls such as Turneffe and Lighthouse Reef (where the famous Blue Hole is located).
Surprisingly in this magnificent country many high school teachers I interviewed are skeptical about global warming, even when presented with fact laden articles from publications such as Science.
In a few countries and jurisdictions — such as Europe, California, and Vermont — people will invest lots of their own money to control emissions in an effort to slow global warming.
The Associated Press has put out an interesting interactive mapof climate change data, including the emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs of the various indicators of global warming such as glacier melts and global temperatures, and the pledges that different countries have made when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.
That may soon be of bigger concern than global warming especially in underdeveloped countries, where germs in such wastes get spread haphazardly and may lead to major health problems.
In short to blame Global Warming, (even it is caused by man) for starvation and death is to ignore the deliberate state policies that either destroyed their countries economies such as Zimbawe, North Korea, or the criminal actions such as the Sudanese government and its campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
Such forecasts need to be improved because significant warming is unavoidable for decades to come even if countries begin to trim greenhouse - gas emissions, according to the climate panel's latest studies.
The target, which represents the reduction that industrialized countries such as the United States will have to achieve to keep global average warming from reaching catastrophic levels, has been criticized as being unachievable without ruining the nation's economy.
But the draft agreement out of Lima doesn't yet answer big questions about how the world will address global warming, such as who will pay for emissions reductions and how much each individual country will cut back.
A global median of 54 % say that rich countries such as the U.S., Japan and Germany should do more than developing countries to address global warming, because they have produced most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions so far.
One complaint of developing nations is a lack of clarity on how much money richer countries will provide to help them cut emissions and adapt to the effects of warmer temperatures such as rising sea levels and melting glaciers.
DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.
Such higher levels of warming would make it much more difficult for countries to keep the global temperature rise to below 2C, as they agreed to do at the landmark Paris climate summit last year, to avoid dangerous extreme weather and negative effects on food security.
Such a benchmark would allow them to make a push at the Paris talks for «loss and damages» — compensation for poorer countries impacted by global warming from the larger greenhouse - gas emitting nations.
Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.
Even as Europeans adapt to hotter summers, rising numbers of heat - related deaths are likely.33, 34 The 2003 heat wave shows that even high - income countries such as the Netherlands are not currently positioned to cope with extreme weather19 — a troubling prospect, as research suggests that by as early as the 2040s, if we continue on the current high emissions path, about half the summers in southern Europe are likely to be as warm as the record - breaking heat wave of 2003.26,35
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The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.
I remember reading many contrarian arguments that some tree rings were not equal all over the world suggesting that their usage is inadequate, or some country couldn't have vineyard during a certain period, but it was quite warm elsewhere therefore there is no such thing as Global Warming.
Poor countries have demanded that the developed world give them $ 100 billion annually by 2020 to prepare for the impacts of global warming, such as heat waves and droughts.
Climate hard - liners in developing countries have long argued that keeping global temperatures to a 2 degree C rise over pre-industrial levels was simply too hot, and would risk unleashing many of the worst destabilizing impacts of global warming — including perhaps the triggering of cascading effects and warming amplifications within nature, such as the melting of Arctic permafrost, that could release more greenhouse gases and push temperatures even higher.
The UK is the first G7 country to commit to such an analysis, which would seek to align the country's emissions trajectory to the Paris agreement's more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C.
They provide scientific evidence to support the call by vulnerable countries, such as the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, that a 1.5 C warming limit would substantially reduce the impacts of climate changcountries, such as the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, that a 1.5 C warming limit would substantially reduce the impacts of climate changCountries and Small Island Developing States, that a 1.5 C warming limit would substantially reduce the impacts of climate change.»
What we should do is identify the most ambitious mitigation scenario in AR5 and, based on this, agree a global budget to 2050, as well as agreed levels of emissions for 2020, 2025 and 2030, all consistent with a reasonable chance of keeping warming below 1.5 C. Subsequently, we should identify a methodology based on historical responsibilities and respective capabilities, and which is adjusted for development needs, to define developed countries» commitments on key issues such as mitigation and finance for 2020, 2025 and 2030.
The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.
Emission metrics such as Global Warming Potential (GWP) and Global Temperature change Potential (GTP) can be used to quantify and communicate the relative and absolute contributions to climate change of emissions of different substances, and of emissions from regions / countries or sources / sectors.
And, coincidentally or not, it concludes with conditions which are identical to those of President George W. Bush — that any effort to combat global warming include developing countries (specifically India and China), that all sources of CO2 be included in any such plan and that it must not be permitted to damage the US economy.
... «There is significant concern in countries on the margin of the tropical areas where dengue is mainly found, that with global warming dengue and other mosquito - borne viruses such as Zika will encroach and become common,» Dr Harley said.
The memo notes that such an effort has strong allies in Washington in the form of will receive help from people like Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK), who has called global warming «the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people» and Rep. Joe Barton (R - TX) who has been leading a witch hunt against Dr. Michael Mann, one of the country's pre-eminent climate scientists.
With the criminal emissions of large countries such as the US and China, the warming looks set to go on.
Inside are over 150 projects from more than 23 different countries related to the environment; either by the way they are made (materials, etc.) or by the message they give, such as awareness raising about global warming.
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