Sentences with phrase «whether climate change affected»

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Massachusetts became the latest state investigating whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about how climate change may affect its business.

«With the unpredictability of the changing climate, farmers have no means of telling whether or not their farms will be affected.

But they are already worrying about how extra ultraviolet light might affect humans and ecosystems below and wondering whether climate change will make such Arctic holes more common or severe.

Predicting future biodiversity in these pools will help researchers understand whether unique fauna will be lost from the park due to climate change and contribute to global research attempting to understand how climate change will affect whole ecosystems.

Scientists want to use NEPTUNE Canada to study how different systems interact, answering questions such as whether earthquakes trigger methane release, and how climate change is affecting the ocean.

But despite ENSO's massive influence, until recently there was no consensus on whether climate change would affect it.

Whether climate change is affecting the country rapidly, gradually or both, low - income areas are already suffering because of their underlying economic, geographic and architectural conditions.

The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species affect responses to climate change.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cClimate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cclimate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

Moreover, both government and the private sector are making investment decisions today — whether in property, long - term infrastructure or regional and national supply chains — that will be directly affected by climate change in decades to come.

The danger of uncontrollable and irreversible consequences necessarily raises the question of whether it is feasible to extract CO2 from the atmosphere on a large enough scale to affect climate change.

Whether there is an equity problem in Australia is like asking is there a climate change problem in affecting Australia.

The question, then, is whether it is realistic to think that this well - documented change can affect planetary climate.

There has been an ongoing debate, both in and outside the scientific community, whether rapid climate change in the Arctic might affect circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes, and thereby possibly the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events.

The discussions about the past millennium are not discussions about whether humans are changing climate; neither do they affect our projections for the future.

Whether the Earth circles the sun is largely an academic question in comparison to climate change that will likely affect the lives of people very directly — so it intuitively seems that people would be more engaged one way or the other with the issue.

I agree that whether we refer to AGW as «climate change» or «global warming» does not affect the physics.

There are divergent views on whether the recent droughts affecting the tornado states were caused by climate change — although climate models do predict more droughts in central North America, which is often a vast playpen of deadly twisters.

Clearly in the case of anthropogenic climate change, the judgment as to whether it is wiser to assume we are significantly affecting the climate adversely, or that we are not, involves political as well as scientific assessments.

The Aqua satellite is a large spacecraft with sensors designed to follow the cycle of the earth's water in its many forms to determine whether it is being affected by climate change.

It's obvious that the biosphere affects climate and vica versa so the correct question to ask via null hypothesis is whether human influence is capable of overriding the natural order, i.e. human influence by itself is able to make (adverse) changes.

The debate is — or ought to be — whether climate change is affected or exarcebated by human activity.

Among the general public, perceptions of whether and how much climate change is affecting their local community are tied to political party and ideology.

I ask the reader to think, when next he or she sees a bird, what choices does that bird have in whether something is done to slow the climate change that will severely affect that bird's habitat?

There is disagreement whether climate change would affect the process of climate change, with some studies suggesting that more people may be trapped in poverty and fewer people enjoying exponential growth.

Even as negotiators meet in Marrakech, Morocco to take the next steps to avert dangerous human - caused climate change — and, even as the U.S. decides whether or not to elect a president who is skeptical it is happening — a new study has highlighted the sharp stakes involved, particularly when it comes to the ongoing rise in global sea level and the dramatic but uneven way in which it could affect the world's coastlines.

The project looks at whether and to what extent climate change is already affecting the magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events on the continent.

Physicists and climate scientists have long argued over whether changes to the Sun affect the Earth's climate?

a reporter asked Scott whether man - made climate change «is significantly affecting the weather, the climate.»

To figure out whether climate change will cause more intense and frequent tornadoes requires asking lots of smaller questions about the atmospheric conditions necessary to produce tornadoes and to determine how climate change will affect each of these various atmospheric conditions that combine to propagate tornadoes.

Given that mainstream climate change scientific view holds that the Earth could experience rapid non-linear climate change impacts which outstrip the ability of some people and nations to adapt, should this fact affect whether nations which emit high levels of ghgs should be able to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for non-action on climate change?

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Back to the broader issue of whether climate models have been disproved, though: the questions I've just written about are all about how climate change affects hurricanes, and not about the basic fact of human - induced climate change itself.

Very similar ideological divisions occur when the French are asked whether climate change is harming people now: Those on the right are significantly less likely to say climate change is currently affecting people.

The danger of uncontrollable and irreversible consequences necessarily raises the question of whether it is feasible to extract CO2 from the atmosphere on a large enough scale to affect climate change.

I also mentioned previously the possibility of cosmic ray modulation, via velocity induced changes in the Lorentz force which deflects them, affecting the Earth's climate (though, I still haven't made any calculations to see whether that idea holds any water).

The science is, purportedly, too uncertain to take steps to stabilize emissions as there are opposing theories as to why the climate is changing, differences in opinion as to how atmospheric concentrations of GHGs will affect the climate and various viewpoints on whether changes will be good or bad; beneficial or dangerous.

Regardless of whether early land use significantly affected global climate, understanding the global role of land use in determining the onset and magnitude of anthropogenic climate change is critical for gauging the climatic impact of current and future modifications of the terrestrial biosphere, including efforts to offset fossil fuel emissions by reducing deforestation (114).

Whether or not climate scientists «predicted» «extreme weather events», the flooding that affected her house was neither extreme, nor unprecedented, nor attributable to climate change.

The findings are limited to tornadoes, and don't delve into whether climate change could be affecting other weather extremes such as heat waves, floods or droughts.

«This got us wondering whether climate change was causing large regional shifts in this cattle disease and how those changes may affect lion - cattle conflict in the future.»

Whether we bike or drive to work will affect carbon emissions, climate change, and food security.