Sentences with phrase «weather and climate resources»

MetLink is the educational website of the Society launched in early 2010, with weather and climate resources aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, students and the general public.

An extensive list of links to accurate and relevant weather and climate resources elsewhere on the web.

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Because climate change is linked to an increase in severe weather events — like hurricanes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures — poorer countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to handle them leave millions at risk.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

Workshop Goal: Provide Lake Erie / Niagara River region municipal leaders with training on severe weather and climate change impacts as well as some of the tools, resources, and programs that can be used to identify and address vulnerabilities and increase community resiliency to those impacts.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Our native bees are weather - tolerant and inexpensive to keep, meaning we should treat them as an economic and genetic resource as climate change progresses.

Includes climate and intro to Brazilian weather, human geography (in population), physical geography, the problems and the management of favelas, some mapping and sketch work, natural resources, inequality and development.

Sections include Land and Water (7 probes); Water Cycle, Weather, and Climate (8 probes); Earth History, Weathering, Erosion, and Plate Tectonics (12 probes), and Natural Resources, Polluion, and Human Impact (5 probes).

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

As the Migration Policy Institute elaborates in an article examining the complexities of climate change and migration, a weather - related event — whether it's gradual glacial melting or a sudden superstorm like Sandy — can increase pressures on land, food, and water resources.

Economic growth is the key to resourcing responses to weather and climate.

(v) conduct research to improve forecasting, characterization, and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities, including its effects on agricultural production, natural resources, energy supply and demand, recreation, and other sectors of the economy; and

Records have been broken monthly in the continental United States, with the warmest spring and 12 - month period experienced this year and severe fires and drought affecting large swaths of the country.; xNLx;; xNLx; The World Resources Institute put together a timeline of extreme climate and weather events in 2012.

-- The Under Secretary, building upon the resources of the National Weather Service and other weather and climate programs in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall establish a Climate Service Pclimate programs in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall establish a Climate Service PClimate Service Program.

The oceans affect weather and climate by interacting strongly with the atmosphere, and provide immense energy and food resources as well as recreation and transportation benefits to society.

Across America, states, cities, and communities are taking steps to protect themselves from extreme weather and other climate impacts by updating building codes, adjusting the way they manage natural resources, investing in more resilient infrastructure, and planning for rapid recovery from damages that nonetheless occur.

Instead of the cuts of CO2 emissions, the resources available ought to be used for the adaptation to natural climate warming and weather extremes.

Adaptation: Sierra Leone has begun adaptation efforts including sustainable land and natural resource management programs as well as improved technical and institutional capacity development to provide improved access to weather and climate data.

The Government of Uganda (GoU) has always recognized natural resources (including the weather and climate) as a basic factor in the country's national development process.

Yu, G., Z. Schwartz, J. E. Walsh, and W. L. Chapman, 2009: A weather - resolving index for assessing the impact of climate change on tourism related climate resources.

Suppose further that because of resource depletion and technological change including cheap fracked gas, the coal - miner's job is ultimately unsustainable; in contrast, the farmer's job was sustainable if very difficult in the face of natural weather events, but is being made ultimately unsustainable by the additional stress from climate change.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

The energy sector faces multiple threats from climate change, in particular from extreme weather events and increasing stress on water resources.

Water cycle carbon cycle human impacts stores processes climate change weather pollution flooding sustainable water supply water and carbon control at global scale To support teachers with the introduction of the 2016 A Level courses, the Society is providing a new range of online resources and support.

Increases in extreme weather and climate events will contribute to food and water scarcity, which can intensify existing tensions over access to life - sustaining resources.»

The presentation explored ways to help planners, practitioners and policymakers working in agriculture and forestry understand options available for making different landscapes and food systems more climate - smart — important for smallholder farmers and pastoralists in developing countries who are coping with a degraded natural resource base and are being especially hard hit by changes in weather patterns.

Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), a ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday about climate disruption leading to more extreme weather events, and it was a great speech.

NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate - related events and information service delivery for transportation, and by providing environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources.

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

Human society has experienced all manner of climate problems, localised shortages of resources, and over-abundances of weather.

Climate scientists have painted a pretty grim outlook for our planet in the wake of an unabated release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — from rising sea levels and increasing weather disasters, to resource shortages and mass extinctions — but there's one side effect of global warming sure to make you go «aww».

If something like that happened — and, as we know, climate change will increase these severe weather events — they don't have the resources to respond quickly to an emergency like that.

To a relentless assault on a U.S - size region rich in natural resources, but on which the planet's wellbeing depends for carbon sequestration, weather regulation, regional and global climate stability, and an array of plant, animal, bird and insect life found nowhere else.

NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate - related events and providing environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources.

However, with new research methods and better quality data, scientists are increasingly able to connect the dots between extreme weather events and climate change,» says James Bradbury, formerly a researcher with the World Resources Institute in Washington and now with the US department of energy.

Most key vulnerabilities are related to (a) climate phenomena that exceed thresholds for adaptation, i.e., extreme weather events and / or abrupt climate change, often related to the magnitude and rate of climate change (see Box 7.4), and (b) limited access to resources (financial, technical, human, institutional) to cope, rooted in issues of development context.

The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).