Sentences with phrase «what global effects»

The problem is that we do not know what kind of change will occur, what global effects it will have and what we will need to do to address any threats to the US by these changes.

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It will also reveal how worried policymakers are about the global slowdown and what effect it could have on the U.S..
What will happen over the next few months leading up to the election will have far - reaching effects, not just for American public policy but for global leaders, business executives and foreign policy throughout the world.
The world has to take a look at itself and consider what it is going to do about the increasing effect of global warming.
The latest issue of StraightTalk ® looks at four scenarios of how the current growth improvement may evolve in the next few months and what the effects may be on the global economy's potential in the medium - term Our latest survey of C - Suite executives» challenges reveal their responses to the current business environment.
AnViL, when you say «highly likely to have effected the global climate» — are you really meaning «affected» or what you wrote?
Pollutants that form minute droplets in the atmosphere have horrendously complex effects — so it's far from certain what they mean for global warming
«I would be most interested in seeing into the future to determine what effects global warming, weather change, overpopulation and scarcity of clean drinking water [have] in store for humanity,» Bennett wrote.
They'll answer your questions on a variety of topics, including whether the human lifespan will continue to increase, what impact antiaging research could have on global demographics, and what the latest research says about what you can do to combat the ill effects of growing older
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.
Adds Anderson: «What we are seeing is consistent with the effects of global warming.»
They offer what is in effect private space - age espionage: the company analyses satellite imagery in great detail and sells what they find to global investors.
Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and began what it called scientific whaling in 1987, a year after an international moratorium came into effect, despite growing global outrage, including from key allies such as the United States.
Of course, the key question --- what's causing the shift, including the possibility of effects from global warming — remains unanswered, but ripe for further study.
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.»
What effect — if any — such an impact may have had on this period of global environmental change 55 to 56 million years ago remains unclear.
Kröpelin says that the new findings will help climatologists fine - tune their computer models — which he says were wrong about what happened to the Sahara — to more accurately predict the effect of global warming.
It is not whether UHI is discounted or not; the question is what effect that has on the the Global mean temp, and regardless of what McKitrick says, it is not a practical amount.
Re the Chaiten eruption, from what I've read, a volcano needs to emit at least 1 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to have an effect on global temperature.
What is alarming is that the volume of water and the extent and rapidity of its movement is suprisingly much greater than previously believed, and that a possible, perhaps likely, effect of this on ice sheet dynamics is to make the ice sheets less stable and more likely to respond more quickly to global warming than previously expected.
What's more, the haze has masked the effects of global warming across large parts of China, particularly in the central and eastern regions, where daily high temperatures have actually been decreasing.
Are we ready to assume all resposibility for mankind who seems to be more concerned about whats causing global warming then the ultimate effects of sustained ignorance will lead us.
Even what look small changes in global temperature may have an enormous effect on life on Earth.
This is uncompromising, forcing us to truly process what we're seeing, going beyond the man who has become a simple target to see the effects of our actions on not just a global stage, but a personal and individual stage as well.
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
** 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 lesson.
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.»
How many American cities, coping with the dangerous opportunities of a global economy and its effects on a formerly hardy manufacturing base, are truly immune from what Detroit is enduring?
As the auto industry in US is crawling back up after the effects of the global downturn, Los Angeles organised an Auto Show which gave the world a look at what future cars have to offer in terms of design, durability as well as in terms of being environment - friendly.
In effect, the global market portfolio reflects what all other investors collectively own, so arguably it's the ultimate in diversification — and hence the logical starting point as you design a portfolio.
But what remains is the idea of global effects like weather and rampaging monsters.
Rather than zeroing in on a specific region, Gregory tried to create what she called «a global version of cause and effect
Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).
What that paper does is estimate the effect of El Nino, volcanic aerosols, and solar variations on global temperature.
Some effects of human - caused global warm - ing are now unavoidable, but is it inevitable that sea level rise of many meters is locked in, and, if so, on what timescale?
What we mean by premature is that there is no evidence in the literature to support a claim that global warming has resulted in demonstrable effects on hurricane impacts, whether they are measured in terms of economics or otherwise.
If potentially pernicious effects such as global warming are human - driven, then it is reasonable and sensible to ask what is fueling the recent skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers that, in turn, are destabilizing Earth's global ecosystems and dissipating Earth's limited resources in our time.
What causes doubt and confusion is that the effects of global warming are not uniform around the globe and there are always weather fluctuations (that may even increase in scale and predictability) as global warming progresses.
AC at 78 wrote: «If there are bubbles of methane here and there boosting the local CH4 concentration spectacularly but which on the global level amount to less than 3 % of the effect of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, what does it matter really?»
In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.
And what the global reaction will be when the ASIE totally disappears in Sept / Oct... and the world's reaction to the insane «weather» that will be the effect of that «state change».
If there are bubbles of methane here and there boosting the local CH4 concentration spectacularly but which on the global level amount to less than 3 % of the effect of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, what does it matter really?
Re the Chaiten eruption, from what I've read, a volcano needs to emit at least 1 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to have an effect on global temperature.
Bob B said (# 2): «So Andy, what effect will this initiative have on the global temperature?
No one knows how rapidly this might happen, or what its effect might be on global temperatures, but this scientific uncertainty is surely cause for concern and not complacency.
You can forecast what the average effect of such would be, but if it is big enough to show up on the global picture, you will see a deviation while it is in effect away from its average effect and later a deviation the other way.
What surprised me was that such a significant effect was unrecognized in all the years that the pan evaporation rate had been measured, even though it has been affecting global temperatures.
But what seems the most pressing to me, are the effects, of even a 2C rise in global temperatures.
Algore: So what I was saying is you need to sign the Kyoto Protocol and assert US leadership in resolving the devastating effects of global warming.
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