Sentences with phrase «whatever impacts the climate»

They are planting several varieties of rice with different traits and characteristics as insurance on whatever impacts the climate may bring them.

Not exact matches

Whatever its origins, 2 °C has proved to be useful when considering the subjective issue of dangerous climate impacts.

But whatever state leaders think of climate change, local officials find they can't ignore increasingly apparent street - level impacts.

Working together as a class with their teachers, their task is to explain to their 2017 selves what impact climate change has had on their local area, in whatever format they like — a 3 minute video, a quick story or letter, or an image.

Scientists look «forward» at how various forcings are likely impact the climate in various ways, but would it be possible to work «backwards» like forensic scientists and «deconstruct» one particular climate event, such as Katrina, with whatever we do know — sort of «peel away» the most likely various factors that created Katrina.

On Twitter, I argued that this would have been the wrong venue for such a debate question because the most consequential impacts from climate extremes (whatever mix of forces triggered them) and the vast majority of growth in greenhouse - gas emissions are outside United States borders.

Likewise if a number of species fail to adapt to the rapidly changing climate, the loss associated with this reduction in biodiversity goes beyond whatever small economic impact is modeled in these studies.

According to Christy, «The actions being considered to «stop global warming» will have an imperceptible impact on whatever the climate will do, while making energy more expensive, and thus have a negative impact on the economy as a whole».»

Now for your catch 22, if it was obvious that whatever sensitivity might be that is was now having an indisputable impact on climate and extreme weather, there would be no reason to that a no / low regrets pathway.

The Keystone XL pipeline proposal was dealt yet another blow this week when the world's most influential newspaper decried the project as dangerous and not in keeping with U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to doing whatever he can to limit the impacts of climate change.

Is it possible that volcano activity might for whatever reason have no net climate effect, merely weather impact that collapses into a constant in the model?

With climate models, we can have just as much damage to the economy, which severely impacts people's lives and the misallocation of resources leaves families struggling and unable to buy what should be affordable medical care or whatever.

The scientists could get on with the science, go to conferences, argue over climate sensitivity or the impact of CO2 on the oceans or whatever.

Whatever the results of current and future climate research, however convincing — they will have zero impact on the denialists.

A more sober reality, though, is that whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure — a point made in a study just published by Swiss researchers in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews (November 2005).

Other data sets such as ocean heat content, sea ice extent, whatever, are not sufficiently mature or long - range... Further, the surface temperature is most relevant to climate change impacts, since humans and land ecosystems live on the surface.»

Seems to me many people who have little knowledge of climate science or substantive knowledge of actual impacts of warming (like the medical doctors worried about asthma) adopt as a default position to «do no harm»... IOW no matter the plausibility of the claimed harm, better to take whatever steps are suggested than to be possibly responsible for harm.

But for ecosystems, many climate impacts simply can not be avoided whatever the scale of funding available.