Sentences with phrase «what effects climate»

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

Imagine, then, what effect climate change policies are having in the developing world — the HMDCs.

Not exact matches

«What we've seen is that the economic climate has had a huge effect on people being willing to take vacations,» says Karen Sumberg, vice president and director of projects and communications at the Center for Work Life Policy.

AnViL, when you say «highly likely to have effected the global climate» — are you really meaning «affected» or what you wrote?

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Republicans on a congressional science committee are asking state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to fork over a number of records related to his probe of climate change and what Exxon Mobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

AG Eric Schneiderman has shot down a request from Republican members of a congressional committee that he turn over a number of records related to an investigation into climate change and what ExxonMobil may have known about its effects on the environment.

He now has enough financial backing to travel all over the world gathering footage for his work - in - progress — title as yet unannounced — documenting the effects of climate change, from Africa to Iceland to the Amazon, and what people are doing about it at the grassroots level.

As the effects of climate change rapidly alter communities, economies and natural systems, the need to advance new solutions to what may be the most pressing biological challenge of our time has never been more urgent.

«Our study asked what will be the effect of climate change on groundwater recharge in the Western U.S. in the near future, 2021 - 2050, and the far future, 2070 - 2100,» said first author Rewati Niraula.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

Global climate models need to account for what Meehl calls «slowly varying systems» — how warmer air gradually heats the ocean, for example, and what effect this warming ocean then has on the air.

The researchers note that the study provides historical context for what is happening today and what may happen in the future and demonstrates that there is need for further investigation into the effects of climate change on modern societies worldwide.

Scientific experiments to measure the rate and effects of climate change on plants aren't matching up to what is happening in nature, a new study finds.

«There are a lot of regional effects competing with large worldwide changes that make it very hard to predict what climate change will bring to the southeastern United States,» said Barros.

However, scientists can't predict precisely what effect the carbon dioxide currently being pulled into the ocean from the atmosphere will have on climate.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

We have reason to improve what we are already doing about devastation from nature's nastiness, so that many responses will be «no regrets» actions — actions that would make sense even if there were no climate change effects — such as «rebuilding smartly» (Dan Schrag's phrase).

Globally, we need to better understand what actions we all can take to combat the effects of climate change.»

But on the ground, the effects of climate change sometimes appear in pulses, or what scientists term «disturbance events.»

Regardless of the original intent of the study, Lee keeps coming back to what his results say about potential effects of climate change on perennial plants.

The disastrous health effects they experience from pollution are a preview of what will happen everywhere as climate change becomes a routine fact of life, and as the planet gets hotter, carbon levels continue to climb and air quality progressively worsens.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»

«A review of the literature exploring the effects of climate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queeclimate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of QueeClimate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.

What's more, according to Tim Bates of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), «there's a very wide range of sizes [for aerosol particles], and the effect that the particle is going to have on climate is going to be very dependent on its size, which makes it trickier.»

«It is in effect a climate disruption tax, equivalent to a 2.7 percentage point increase in what Americans paid in sales taxes last year.»

«We need pristine reefs to see what we've lost elsewhere, to better manage damaged reefs and to isolate the effects of climate change.»

This finding is important for our understanding of what may happen to the Earth if we do not tackle the effects of climate change.»

Eberle and Kim said the early - middle Eocene greenhouse period from 53 to 38 million years ago is used as a deep - time analog by climate scientists for what could happen on Earth if CO2 and other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere continue to rise, and what a «runaway» greenhouse effect potentially could look like.

«A lot of what NOAA and Nasa do right now is focused on measuring the Earth's climate and atmospheric effects of climate change,» he tells Chemistry World.

«We have seriously underestimated the effects of climate change on the most well - known groups, which means those other groups, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, the story is going to be much, much worse in terms of what we think the threat is from climate change already,» he said.

Figuring out just how long the continent has been a barren, cold desert of ice can give clues as to how Antarctica responded to the effects of past climates and can perhaps also indicate what to expect there in the future as Earth's atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide grows.

Roe and his U.W. co-author, atmospheric physicist Marcia Baker, argue in Science that, because of this inherent climate effect, certainty is a near impossibility, no matter what kind of improvements are made in understanding physical processes or the timescale of observations.

By using climate models to simulate what air pollution was like in 1850 and 2000, Jason West at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues have estimated its effect on current death rates.

The whole CAGW — GHG scare is based on the obvious fallacy of putting the effect before the cause.As a simple (not exact) analogy controlling CO2 levels to control temperature is like trying to lower the temperature of an electric hot plate under a boiling pan of water by capturing and sequestering the steam coming off the top.A corollory to this idea is that the whole idea of a simple climate sensitivity to CO2 is nonsense and the sensitivity equation has no physical meaning unless you already know what the natural controls on energy inputs are already ie the extent of the natural variability.

Olson, R., et al. «What is the effect of unresolved internal climate variability on climate sensitivity estimates?.»

In addition, a wide range of forcing schemes designed to span the approximate range of uncertainties associated with anthropogenic climate forcing estimates were generated and implemented in order to assess what differences in effects exist between the «best guess» counter-anthropogenic geoengineering forcing scheme and other plausible schemes.

When I, with some colleagues at NASA, attempted to determine how clouds behave under varying temperatures, we discovered what we called an «Iris Effect,» wherein upper - level cirrus clouds contracted with increased temperature, providing a very strong negative climate feedback sufficient to greatly reduce the response to increasing CO2.

Venus is like a greenhouse effect on steroids; by studying what happened to the planet's climate in the past, scientists hope to better understand climate change on Earth.

Thus it is very important to know what the real impact of historical solar changes is, as 0.1 K in the past, results in climate sensitivity for anthropogenic at the high end, while 0.9 K results in a very low effect of anthropogenic, if the instrumental temperature trend of the last 1.5 century is used as reference.

It's not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated what a huge effect this ~ 2ºC uncertainty in ECS estimates has on scenarios that attempt to predict the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts (e.g. the AR5 RCPs).

As we move into an age where automation and machine intelligence are likely to spell an end to the very possibility of full employment, where our effects on climate are becoming undeniable, what we are going to teach our children should be steering our politics.

Also students will research the effects of global warming and climate change and evaluate whether this is the biggest threat we face as humans Students will research destruction of natural resources — with an example of deforestation — and evaluate whether humans have the right to do what they want to the planet Students will then summarise our learning from this lesson and will answer some questions to demonstrate learning from this lesson

What effect does it have on the school climate?

Like most of the folks on the trip that were new to New Zealand schools, I wondered just what «morning tea» might look like and what its effect was on school climate and culture.

** CLIMATE CHANGE LESSON ** Included in the lesson package is: The teacher version of the PowerPoint The student version of the PowerPoint Three videos embedded in the PowerPoint Student lesson handout In order, the lesson covers: Weather vs. Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the CLIMATE CHANGE LESSON ** Included in the lesson package is: The teacher version of the PowerPoint The student version of the PowerPoint Three videos embedded in the PowerPoint Student lesson handout In order, the lesson covers: Weather vs. Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the CLIMATE CHANGE LESSON ** Included in the lesson package is: The teacher version of the PowerPoint The student version of the PowerPoint Three videos embedded in the PowerPoint Student lesson handout In order, the lesson covers: Weather vs. Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the lesson.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

Laudato Si, in short, is Pope Francis» appeal to the faithful to take a closer look at how we are shaping the future of our planet, the effect of humanity on global issues such as climate change and poverty, and the protection and care for what Francis calls «our common home.»

What is the incremental effect of providing intensive coaching to school principals who are engaged in, or have completed, EDP training, on their leadership practices, school climate and culture, and student academic and behavioral outcomes in schools?